The Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944 was complicated in a number of ways. There was the catastrophic war that was tearing Europe apart, inflicting unspoken suffering on millions of people. There’s also the fact that it wasn’t even awarded that year. Thanks to a stipulation in Alfred Nobel’s will, which mandated that the prize be held until the following year if none of the nominees met all the criteria, German scientist Otto Hahn took it home in 1945.