<P> The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Swedish: Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry . It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896 . These prizes are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine . As dictated by Nobel's will, the award is administered by the Nobel Foundation and awarded by a committee that consists of five members elected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1901 to Jacobus Henricus van' t Hoff, of the Netherlands . Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years . In 1901, van' t Hoff received 150,782 SEK, which is equal to 7,731,004 SEK in December 2007 . The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death . </P> <P> At least 25 laureates have received the Nobel Prize for contributions in the field of organic chemistry, more than any other field of chemistry . Two Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Germans Richard Kuhn (1938) and Adolf Butenandt (1939), were not allowed by their government to accept the prize . They would later receive a medal and diploma, but not the money . Frederick Sanger is one out of two laureates to be awarded the Nobel prize twice in the same subject, in 1958 and 1980 . John Bardeen is the other and was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956 and 1972 . Two others have won Nobel Prizes twice, one in chemistry and one in another subject: Maria Skłodowska - Curie (physics in 1903, chemistry in 1911) and Linus Pauling (chemistry in 1954, peace in 1962). As of 2017, the prize has been awarded to 177 individuals, including four women: Maria Skłodowska - Curie, Irène Joliot - Curie (1935), Dorothy Hodgkin (1964), and Ada Yonath (2009). There have been eight years in which the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was not awarded . </P>

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