New York, NY, United States, 10/14/2022 / SubmitMyPR /
Karl Barry Sharpless, an American chemist who received the Nobel Prize Chemistry on Wednesday and in 2001 became the fifth person to receive two Nobel Prizes.
Here is the list of people who have received the prestigious award twice for their contributions to humanity:
1. Marie Curie (1903, 1911)
The mother of modern physics was the first woman to receive not one but two Nobel Prizes for her services to physics and chemistry.
Born Maria Sklodowska in Poland, Curie moved to Paris as a student and is famous for isolating the elements polonium and radium and promoting radium to alleviate ailments.
She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel for their work on spontaneous radiation.
In 1911, Curie received a second Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry, for her work on radioactivity.
2.John Bardeen (1956, 1972)
John Bardeen, a US engineer, twice received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
In 1956, he and two Bell Labs colleagues, William Shockley and Walter Brattain, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the transistor, which revolutionized the field of electronics by enabling smaller and cheaper radios, calculators, and computers, among other things.
He received his second Nobel Prize in 1972 for the joint development of the BSC theory of superconductivity with the American physicists Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer.
3. Friedrich Singer (1958, 1980)
Frederick Sanger, the father of genomics, was the first person to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice.
Sanger was the sole recipient of the award in 1958 for his work on the structure of proteins, particularly insulin, and shared it with two others, Paul Berg and Walter Gilbert of the United States, in 1980 for pioneering developments in DNA sequencing still used today.
His work made it possible to quickly sequence long stretches of DNA and…
