This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to French scientist Henri Kagan and Japanese scientist Genso Soai.
According to Yonhap News Agency, the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on October 7 that the two were jointly recognized for their discovery of nonlinear effects and self-catalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.
Since its inception in 1901, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 118 times. There have been eight instances where no award was given, primarily due to the impacts of World War I and World War II.
The first recipient was Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, who contributed to the discovery of osmotic pressure. To date, there have been 202 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry.
Among them, British biochemist Frederick Sanger and American K. Barry Sharpless have each received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, bringing the actual number of individual laureates to 200.
Only eight women have received the award. Marie Curie became the first female Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry in 1911. Her daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 alongside her husband, Frédéric Joliot.
The oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is John B. Goodenough, who was awarded in 2019 at the age of 97, setting the record for the oldest Nobel laureate overall.
There have been a total of 26 instances where two individuals jointly received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, while 29 instances have seen three recipients share the honor.
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