The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter. It is the branch of the natural sciences that deals with the composition of substances, their properties and reactions. Chemistry looks at the processes of life and helps us to understand chemical reaction on molecular basis while also contributing to many of the technological advances we rely upon in the modern world. The first Nobel Prize in this category was awarded to Jacobus H. van't Hoff for the discovering the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions.
South African Laureates:
Aaron Klug, 1982
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982: For his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.
For the full list of all the Nobel Laureates in Chemistry.
