The prize has been awarded since 1901, following the guidelines left in the will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel
THE Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2024 will be announced this Wednesday, the 9th, at 6:45am (Brasilia time), at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden. The prize is awarded to those responsible for discoveries of great importance, “which have changed scientific paradigms and which bring great benefits to humanity”.
In addition to the medal and diploma, the winners take home a significant sum of money, 11 million Swedish kronor (approximately R$4.8 million). The prize for Chemistry has been awarded since 1901, the year in which the prize began, following the guidelines left posthumously in the will of the Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year were the researchers Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov. They develop work in the field of nanotechnology.
The trio was awarded for their research on quantum dots, nanoparticles so small that their size determines their properties. These small components are used in electronics, such as televisions and LED lamps, in computing, and in advanced medicine, such as in surgeries to remove tumor tissue.
The Frenchman Bawendi is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the American Brus works at Columbia University, both American institutions. The Russian Ekimov was the chief scientist of Nanocrystals Technology in New York.
Nominations for the Nobel Prize begin one year before the winners are announced. Scientists, professors, academics and winners of other editions submit their names for examination by the Nobel Committee, which decides which ones will, in fact, be nominated.
The Nobel Prize was created by the Swedish chemist, inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), who during his lifetime patented more than 350 products, including rubber, synthetic leather and explosive dynamite.
Since 1901, 114 prizes have been awarded to 191 winners. In more than a century of awards, only eight women have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, five of them awarded in the last fifteen years. The first woman to receive the prize was Marie Curie, in 1911. She already had a Nobel Prize in physics, awarded in 1903. The second woman to win the prize for chemistry was Marie Curie’s daughter, Irene Juliot-Curie, in 1935.
Source: Terra
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