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RBU Journal of library & Information Science, V. 23, 2021
4 2000 Hideki Shirakawa Japan Discovery and development of conductive polymers
5 2001 Ryōji Noyori Japan Works on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions
6 2002 Koichi Tanaka Japan Development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for
determining the three- dimensional structure of biological
macromolecules in solution.
7 2004 Aaron Ciechanover Israel Discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
8 2004 Avram Hershko Israel Discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
9 2008 Osamu Shimomura Japan Discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP
10 2008 Roger Y. Tsien Roger American Discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP
11 2009 Venkatraman Born in India Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
Ramakrishnan
12 2009 Ada Yonath Israel Studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
13 2010 Ei-ichi Negishi Japan Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis
14 2010 Akira Suzuki Japan Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis
15 2011 Dan Shechtman Israel Discovery of quasicrystals
16 2013 Arieh Warshel Israeli- American Development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems
17 2013 Michael Levitt Israeli Citizenship Development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems
18 2015 Aziz Sancar Turkey Mechanistic studies of DNA repair
19 2019 Akira Yoshino Japan Development of lithium-ion batteries
Table 4: List of Asian Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
A chronological list of Nobel Laureates in Chemistry is
shown in Table 4 with their countries and their
notable works. Till 2019 nineteen Asian laureates were
awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry.
Sl.
No
Year
Nobel
Laureates
Country
Notable works
1 1973 Lê Đức Thọ North Vietnam Negotiating the Paris Peace Accords
2 1974 Eisaku Satō Japan Representing the Japanese people's will for peace, and for
signing the nuclear arms Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1970
3 1978 Menachem Begin Israel The signing of a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979
4 1979 Mother Teresa India Founded Missionaries of Charity
5 1989 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th India
Kalachakra teachings and initiations
Dalai Lama
6 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi Myanmar The non-violent struggle for democracy and human
rights
7 1994 Yasser Arafat Palestine Create peace in the Middle East
8 1994 Shimon Peres Israel Create peace in the Middle East
9 1994 Yitzhak Rabin Israel Create peace in the Middle East
10 1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes
Belo
Timor-Leste Works towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in
East Timor.
11 1996 José Ramos-Horta Timor-Leste work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in
East Timor.
12 2000 Kim Dae-Jung South Korea Works for democracy and human rights in South Korea and
East Asia in general, and peace and reconciliation with North
Korea in particular
13 2003 Shirin Ebadi Iran Efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused
especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children
14 2006 Muhammad Yunus Bangladesh Efforts to create economic and social development from
below
15 2007 Jose Ramon Villarin Philippines Works on greenhouse emissions
16 2010 Liu Xiaobo China The long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human
rights in China
17 2011 Tawakkul Karman Yemen The non-violent struggle for the safety of women and women's
rights to full participation in peace-building work.
18 2014 Kailash Satyarthi India Struggle against the suppression of children and young people
and for the right of all children to education
19 2014 Malala Yousafzai Pakistan Struggle against the suppression of children and young people
and for the right of all children to education
20 2018 Nadia Murad Iraq Efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war
and armed conflict
Table 5: List of Asian Nobel Laureates in Peace
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