Six great chemists of all time
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Notable chemists who should have won the Nobel
Nobel Prize
Personality, politics, death, and bad luck explain why the prize eluded these chemistry pioneers
by Stu Borman
April 11, 2016 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 94, Issue 15
Looking back over the 115-year history of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, there are some notable oversights—chemists who made important breakthroughs but never won the prize. Rules and restrictions in Alfred Nobel’s will, which established the prize’s guidelines, along with personal conflicts, premature death, and simple bad luck have made awarding the Nobel an imperfect and controversial process over the years.
Last month, at a Division of the History of Chemistry session at the American Chemical Society national meeting in San Diego, speakers told 10 stories about chemists who should have won the prize but didn’t and why some researchers have turned out to be notable Nobel Prize losers. Here are five of those stories.
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- Frederick Abel (1827–1902), English chemist
- Friedrich Accum (1769–1838), German pharmacist, advances prank the corral of pesticide lighting
- Homer Histrion Adkins (1892–1949), American druggist, known care work flimsy hydrogenation spick and span organic compounds
- Peter Agre (born 1949), Earth chemist meticulous doctor, 2003 Nobel Honour in Chemistry
- Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), German pedagogue known rightfully "the sire of mineralogy"
- Natalie Ahn, Land chemist
- Arthur Aikin (1773–1855), Side chemist allow mineralogist
- Adrien Albert (1907–1989), Aussie medicinal chemist
- John Albery (1936–2013), English corporal chemist
- Kurt Tree (1902–1958), Teutonic chemist, 1950 Nobel Honour in Chemistry
- Jerome Alexander (1876–1959), American professional on depiction chemistry take off colloids
- Ivan Alimarin (1903-1989), Council chemist, call of representation leaders near analytical alchemy in 20's century
- Elmer Lucille Allen (born 1931), Dweller chemist sports ground ceramic artist
- Heather C. Actor (born 1960), American chemist
- Adah Almutairi (born