Factbox: The Nobel prize for Chemistry

(Reuters) - The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Israeli scientist, Daniel Shechtman, 70, for the discovery of quasicrystals.

Here are details of the last 10 winners of the Chemistry Prize. Frederick Sanger is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 and 1980.

2011

Daniel Shechtman (Israel)

2010

Richard Heck (United States)

Ei-ichi Negishi (Japan)

Akira Suzuki (Japan)

2009

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (United States)

Thomas Steitz (United States)

Ada Yonath (Israel)

2008

Osamu Shimomura (Japan)

Martin Chalfie (United States)

Roger 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 Wuethrich (Switzerland)

(Reporting by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)