and the other half of the prize to:
R
ODERI
C
K
M
A
C
K
INNON
for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels.
2002
The prize is being awardedfor the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromoleculeswith one half jointly to:
J
OHN
B
.
F
ENN
, and
K
OI
C
HI
T
ANAKA
, for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for massspectrometric analyses of biological macromoleculesand the other half to:
K
URT
W
ÜTHRI
C
H
for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution.
2001
The prize is being awarded with one half jointly to:
W
ILLIAM
S
.
K
NOWLES
, and
R
Y
O
J
I
N
O
Y
ORI
, for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactionsand the other half to:
K
.
B
ARR
Y
SHAR
P
LESS
for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions.
2000
The prize is being awarded with one half jointly to:
A
LAN
J
.
H
EEGER
,
A
LAN
G
.
M
A
C
D
IARMID
, and
H
IDEKI
S
HIRAKAWA
for the discovery and development of conductive polymers.
1999
A
HMED
Z
EWAIL
for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy
1998
The prize was awarded for pioneering contributions in developing methods that can be used for theoreticalstudies of the properties of molecules and the chemical processes in which they are involved. The prize wasdivided equally between:
W
ALTER
K
OHN
for his development of the density-functional theoryand
J
OHN
A.
P
O
P
LE
for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry.