CS & RSC Nobel Prize Winners (1932 to 1959)

1932

Irving Langmuir (1881-1957) "for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry"

1934

Harold C Urey (1893-1981) "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"

1935

Frédéric Joliot (1900-1958) and Iréne Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements"

1936

Peter Debye (1884-1966) "for his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases"

1937

Norman Haworth (pictured) (1883-1950) CS President (1944-1946) "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C" and Paul Karrer (1889-1971) "for his investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2"

1938

Richard Kuhn (pictured) (1900-1967) "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins"

1939

Adolf Butenandt (1903-1995) "for his work on sex hormones" and Leopold Ruzicka (1887-1976) "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes"

1943

George de Hevesy (1885-1966) "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"

1946

John H Northrop (1891-1987) and Wendell M Stanley (1904-1971) "for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form"

1947

Sir Robert Robinson (pictured) 1886-1975 CS President (1939-1941) "for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids"

1948

Arne Tiselius (1902-1971) "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins"

1951

Edwin M McMillan (1907-1991) and Glenn T Seaborg (1912-1999) "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"

1952

Archer J P Martin (1910-2002) and Richard L M Synge (1914-1994) "for their invention of partition chromatography"

1953

Hermann Staudinger (1881-1965) "for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"

1954

Linus Pauling (1901-1994) "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances"

1956

Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (pictured) (1897-1967) CS President (1946-1948), FS President (1961-1962) and Nikolay Semenov (1896-1986) "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"

1957

Lord Todd (pictured) (1907-1997) CS President (1960-1962) "for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes"

1958

Frederick Sanger (1918- ) "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin"

1959

Jaroslav Heyrovsky (1890-1967) "for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"