Backgrounder: Recent winners of Nobel Prize in chemistry

The following is a list of winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry since 2000:

2009: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz (U.S.), andAda E. Yonath (Israel);

2008: Osamu Shimomura (Japan), Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien (U.S.);

2007: Gerhard Ertl (Germany);

2006: Roger D. Kornberg (U.S.);

2005: Yves Chauvin (France), Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock (U.S.);

2004: Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko (Israel), Irwin Rose ( U.S.);

2003: Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon (U.S.);

2002: John B. Fenn (U.S.), Koichi Tanaka (Japan) and Kurt Wuthrich (Switzerland);

2001: William S. Knowles (U.S.), Ryoji Noyori (Japan) and K. Barry Sharpless (U.S.);

2000: Alan Heeger (U.S.), Alan G. MacDiarmid (U.S. and New Zealand) and Hideki Shirakawa (Japan).

Source: Xinhua