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The SpaceX mission
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FACTBOX: The Nobel prize for Chemistry
(Reuters) - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 101 times to 157 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2009.
Frederick Sanger is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 and 1980.
Here is a list of the previous 10 winners:
2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (United States)
Thomas A. Steitz (United States)
Ada E. Yonath (Israel)
2008 Osamu Shimomura (Japan)
Martin Chalfie (United States)
Roger Y. Tsien (United States)
2007 Gerhard Ertl (Germany)
2006 Roger Kornberg (United States)
2005 Yves Chauvin (France)
Robert Grubbs (United States)
Richard Schrock (United States)
2004 Aaron Ciechanover (Israel)
Avram Hershko (Israel)
Irwin Rose (United States)
2003 Peter Agre (United States)
Roderick MacKinnon (United States)
2002 John Fenn (United States)
Koichi Tanaka (Japan)
Kurt Wuetrich (Switzerland)
2001 William Knowles (United States)
Ryoji Noyori (Japan)
Barry Sharpless (United States)
2000 Alan Heeger (United States)
Alan MacDiarmid (United States)
Hideki Shirakawa (Japan)
1999 Ahmed Zewail (Egypt/United States)
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