The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced on October 6, 2021.

So far, our readers think an American or European biochemist will win the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. About 18 % of participants think the winner will be a woman. The most-mentioned fields after biochemistry are organic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and materials/polymers. The most suggested Laureates are Shankar Balasubramanian, who works in the field of nucleic acids, and Omar M. Yaghi, known for work on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs). Other notable suggestions are Katalin Karikó, who works on mRNA technology, and David Klenerman, known for his contributions to next-generation DNA sequencing.

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