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This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. The prize is awarded every year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Year Name Country Topics
1901
Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff
The Netherlands
“for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions”

1902
Hermann Emil Fischer
Germany
“for his work on sugar and purine syntheses”
1903
Svante August Arrhenius
Sweden
“for his electrolytic theory of dissociation (see ion)”

1904
Sir William Ramsay
United Kingdom
“for his discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air”

1905
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
Germany
“for his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds”

1906
Henri Moissan
France
“for his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the electric furnace named after him” See:Moissan electric furnace

1907
Eduard Buchner
Germany
“for his biochemical research and his discovery of cell-free fermentation”

1908
Sir Ernest Rutherford
United Kingdom and New Zealand
“for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances”

1909
Wilhelm Ostwald
Germany
“his work on catalysis and for his investigations into chemical equilibria and rates of reaction”

1910
Otto Wallach
Germany
“for his work in the field of alicyclic compounds”

1911
Marie Sklodowska Curie
France
“for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her study of radium”
1912
Victor Grignard
France
“for his the discovery of the Grignard reagent”
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1997
Rank Title Studio Total Int’l
Box Office Gross U.S. & Canada
Box Office Gross United Kingdom
Box Office Gross Australia
Box Office Gross
1. Titanic
Paramount Pictures
$1,845,034,188 $600,788,188 £68,532,746 $57,644,334
2. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Universal Pictures
$618,638,999 $229,086,679 £25,799,961 $20,071,203
3. Men in Black
Columbia Pictures
$589,390,539 £250,690,539 £35,820,921 $22,789,539
4. Tomorrow Never Dies
MGM
$339,340,102 $125,304,276 £19,584,504 $12,188,046
5. Air Force One
Columbia Pictures
$315,156,409 $172,956,409 $8,654,814
6. As Good as It Gets
Sony Pictures
$314,178,011 $148,478,011 £9,387,937 $18,744,433
7. Liar Liar
Universal Pictures
$302,710,615 $181,410,615 £11,785,973 $21,117,778
8. My Best Friend’s Wedding
Sony Pictures
$299,288,605 $127,120,029 $17,746,187
9. The Fifth Element
Columbia Pictures
$263,920,180 $63,820,180 $8,117,585
10. The Full Monty
Fox Searchlight Pictures
$257,848,975 $45,948,975 £51,992,765 $23,197,810
International and U.S. & Canada combined box office gross figures are listed in U.S. dollars, British results in pounds sterling and Australian results in Australian dollars.
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