Who Are Some Notable Nobel Prize Winners in Catalysis?
Several Nobel laureates have made seminal contributions to the field of catalysis. For instance, Wilhelm Ostwald was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria, and reaction velocities. Another prominent figure is Gerhard Ertl, who won the prize in 2007 for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces, which are foundational to heterogeneous catalysis.
