The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry this Wednesday starting at 11:45 a.m. The award is worth 11 million Swedish crowns, about 950,000 euros. After the Medicine and Physics awards, announced on Monday and Tuesday, the round of announcements continues with the Chemistry award, which will culminate on Thursday with the Literature award and on Friday with the Peace award. In 2023, the winners were the Frenchman Moungi Bawendi, the American Louis E. Brus and the Russian Alexei Ekimov, for the discovery of quantum dots.
Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 115 times and has been vacated on eight occasions—the last in 1942. As this award can be shared each year between three laureates, a total of 192 people have received it. Only eight of them are women: the first was Marie Curie, in 1911; and the last, Carolyn Bertozzi, in 2022. And only two scientists have repeated this award: Frederick Sanger (in 1958 and 1980) and Barry Sharpless (in 2001 and 2022).
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