Fluoride Action Network

Nobel Prize Scientists & Water Fluoridation

August 25th, 2012

At least 13 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry and Medicine have either opposed fluoridation or expressed reservations about it. These include:

  • Arvid Carlsson (2000, Medicine/Physiology)
  • Giulio Natta (1963, Chemistry),
  • Nikolai Semenov (Chemistry, 1956),
  • Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (Chemistry, 1956),
  • Hugo Theorell (Medicine, 1955),
  • Walter Rudolf Hess (Medicine, 1949),
  • Sir Robert Robinson (Chemistry, 1947),
  • James B. Sumner (Chemistry, 1946),
  • Artturi Virtanen (Chemistry, 1945),
  • Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939),
  • Corneille Jean-François Heymans (Medicine, 1938),
  • William P. Murphy (Medicine, 1934),
  • Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Chemistry, 1929).