Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Calvin, Melvin. (University of California, Berkeley, USA). Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1961 for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Libby, Willard Frank. (University of California, Los Angeles, USA). Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1960 for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Heyrovsky, Jaroslav. (Polarographic Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Science Prague, Czechoslovakia). Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1959 for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Sanger, Frederick. (Cambridge University, Cambridge, Great Britain). Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1958 for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Todd, Lord Alexander R.. (Cambridge University, Cambridge, Great Britain). Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1957 for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Semenov, Nikolay Nikolaevich. (Institute for Chemical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Moscow, USSR). Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1956 with Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril Norman. (Oxford University, Oxford, Great Britain). Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1956 with Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: du Vigneaud, Vincent. (Cornell University, New York, USA). Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1955 for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Pauling, Linus Carl. (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA). Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954 for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Staudinger, Hermann. (University of Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany and Staatliches Institut für makromolekulare Chemie, Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany ). Awarded the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1953 for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry