Selected Nobel Prizes
related the field of Biochemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003
for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes
Peter Agre for the discovery of water channels
Roderick MacKinnon for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993
for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry
Kary B. Mullis for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method
Michael Smith for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986
Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini “for their discoveries of growth factors
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972
Christian B. Anfinsen for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation
Stanford Moore and William H. Stein for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule”
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959
Severo Ochoa and Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947
Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen
Bernardo Alberto Houssay for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1943
Henrik Carl Peter Dam for his discovery of vitamin K
Edward Adelbert Doisy for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929
Arthur Harden and Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923
Frederick Grant Banting and John James Rickard Macleod for the discovery of insulin