Description

Mentioned as the second prize category in his will, Chemistry was the most important science for Alfred Nobel’s own work. The development of Nobel’s inventions as well as the industrial processes he employed were based upon chemical knowledge. This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the Nobel laureates, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches for the period 2016–2020. Each Nobel lecture is based on the work for which the laureate was awarded the Nobel Prize.

List of Nobel laureates and their award citations:

(2016) Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”;
(2017) Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”;
(2018) Frances H Arnold “for the directed evolution of enzymes”, George P Smith and Sir Gregory P Winter “for the phage display of peptides and antibodies”;
(2019) John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries”;
(2020) Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”