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crowns ($915,072).The third of the prizes unveiled over six consecutive weekdays, the chemistry Nobel follows those for medicine and physics
announced earlier this week.Past chemistry winners include well-known scientific names such as Marie Curie, who also shared the physics
prize with her husband and whose eldest daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie, won the chemistry award just over two decades after her mother.The
2021 chemistry award was won by German Benjamin List and Scottish-born David MacMillan for their work in creating new tools to build
molecules, aiding in the development of new drugs as well as in areas such as plastics.The prizes for achievements in science, literature
and peace were established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, himself a chemist, and have been awarded
Economics was added later.The prizes have been awarded every year with a few interruptions, primarily for the world wars, and made no break
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