13 Her collaborator, Otto Hahn, received the lone chemistry prize in 1944 for that work; he stayed in Nazi Germany while Meitner, a Jewish woman, fled to Sweden in 1938. (discovermagazine.com)
Joint winner of the 1997 chemistry prize with Paul Boyer and Jens Skou for his «elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).» (sciencemag.org)
That year's chemistry prize recognized three researchers for green fluorescent protein (GFP), now widely used as a cellular tagging tool. (scientificamerican.com)