367NOBEL LAUREATES RELATING TO BIOLOGYChemistry Laureates
1901 Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
“in recognition of the extraordinary
services he has rendered by the discov-
ery of the laws of chemical dynamics
and osmotic pressure in solutions”
1902 Hermann Emil Fischer
“in recognition of the extraordinary ser-
vices he has rendered by his work on
sugar and purine syntheses”
1903 Svante August Arrhenius
“in recognition of the extraordinary ser-
vices he has rendered to the advance-
ment of chemistry by his electrolytic
theory of dissociation”
1907 Eduard Buchner
“for his biochemical researches and his
discovery of cell-free fermentation”
1912 Paul Sabatier
“for his method of hydrogenating
organic compounds in the presence
of finely disintegrated metals whereby
the progress of organic chemistry
has been greatly advanced in recent
years”
1912 Victor Grignard
“for the discovery of the so-called Grig-
nard reagent, which in recent years has
greatly advanced the progress of organ-
ic chemistry”1913 Alfred Werner
“in recognition of his work on the linkage
of atoms in molecules by which he has
thrown new light on earlier investigations
and opened up new fields of research
especially in inorganic chemistry”1915 Richard Martin Willstätter
“for his researches on plant pigments,
especially chlorophyll”1918 Fritz Haber
“for the synthesis of ammonia from its
elements”1921 Frederick Soddy
“for his contributions to our knowledge
of the chemistry of radioactive sub-
stances, and his investigations into the
origin and nature of isotopes”1923 Fritz Pregl
“for his invention of the method of
micro-analysis of organic substances”1925 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
“for his demonstration of the hetero-