Table 2.

Researchers in the field of free radicals and antioxidants awarded with the Nobel Prize.

Fritz Haber	1918 Chemistry	For the ammonia synthesis process
Albert Szent-Györgyi	1937 Medicine	For his discoveries on biological combustion processes, with particular reference to vitamin C and fumaric acid catalysis
Linus C. Pauling	1954 Chemistry	For his researches in the field of the molecular attraction and its applications for the explanation of the structure of complex substances
Nikolaj N. Semënov	1956 Chemistry	For his researches on mechanisms of chemical reactions
Cyril N Hinshelwood	1956 Chemistry	For his researches on mechanisms of chemical reactions
Gerhard Herzberg	1971 Chemistry	For his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and the geometry of molecules, in particular free radicals
Louis J Ignarro	1998 Medicine	For the discovery of NO· as signal molecule
Ferid Murad	1998 Medicine	For the discovery of NO· as signal molecule
Robert F. Furchgott	1998 Medicine	For the discovery of NO· as signal molecule