| Year
| Name
| Topics
|
| 1901
| Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
| "for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions"
|
| 1902
| Hermann Emil Fischer
| "for his work on sugar and purine syntheses"
|
| 1903
| Svante August Arrhenius
| "for his electrolytic theory of dissociation (see ion)"
|
| 1904
| Sir William Ramsay
| "for his discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air"
|
| 1905
| Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
| "for his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds"
|
| 1906
| Henri Moissan
| "for his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the electric furnace named after him" See:Moissan electric furnace
|
| 1907
| Eduard Buchner
| "for his biochemical research and his discovery of cell-free fermentation"
|
| 1908
| Sir Ernest Rutherford
| "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances"
|
| 1909
| Wilhelm Ostwald
| "his work on catalysis and for his investigations into chemical equilibria and rates of reaction"
|
| 1910
| Otto Wallach
| "for his work in the field of alicyclic compounds"
|
| 1911
| Maria Skłodowska-Curie
| "for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her study of radium"
|
| 1912
| Victor Grignard,
| "for his the discovery of the Grignard reagent"
|
| Paul Sabatier
| "for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds"
|
| 1913
| Alfred Werner
| "for his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules"
|
| 1914
| Theodore William Richards
| "for his determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of elements"
|
| 1915
| Richard Martin Willstätter
| "for his research on plant pigments"
|
| 1918
| Fritz Haber
| "for his synthesis of ammonia"
|
| 1920
| Walther Hermann Nernst
| "for his work in thermochemistry"
|
| 1921
| Frederick Soddy
| "for his work on the chemistry of radioactive substances and investigations into isotopes"
|
| 1922
| Francis William Aston
| "for his discovery of isotopes in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his whole-number rule"
|
| 1923
| Fritz Pregl
| "for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances"
|
| 1925
| Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
| "for his demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions and the methods used"
|
| 1926
| Theodor Svedberg
| "for his work on disperse systems"
|
| 1927
| Heinrich Otto Wieland
| "for his investigations of the bile acids and related substances"
|
| 1928
| Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
| "for his research into sterols and their connection with vitamins"
|
| 1929
| Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
| "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes"
|
| 1930
| Hans Fischer
| "for his research into haemin and chlorophyll"
|
| 1931
| Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
| "for their contributions to chemical high pressure methods"
|
| 1932
| Irving Langmuir
| "for his work in surface chemistry"
|
| 1934
| Harold Clayton Urey
| "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"
|
| 1935
| Frédéric Joliot, Irene Joliot-Curie
| "for their synthesis of new radioactive elements"
|
| 1936
| Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
| "for his work on molecular structure through investigations on dipole moments and the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases"
|
| 1937
| Walter Norman Haworth
| "for his work on carbohydrates and vitamin C"
|
| Paul Karrer
| "for his work on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2"
|
| 1938
| Richard Kuhn
| "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins"
|
| 1939
| Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt
| "for his work on sex hormones"
|
| Leopold Ruzicka
| "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes"
|
| 1943
| George de Hevesy
| "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers to study chemical processes"
|
| 1944
| Otto Hahn
| "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei"
|
| 1945
| Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
| "for his research in agricultural and nutrition chemistry"
|
| 1946
| James Batcheller Sumner
| "for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized"
|
| John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley
| "for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form"
|
| 1947
| Sir Robert Robinson
| "for his investigations on plant products, especially the alkaloids"
|
| 1948
| Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
| "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis"
|
| 1949
| William Francis Giauque
| "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics"
|
| 1950
| Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder
| "for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis. Diels-Alder reaction."
|
| 1951
| Edwin Mattison McMillan, Glenn Theodore Seaborg
| "for their discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements"
|
| 1952
| Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge
| "for their invention of partition chromatography"
|
| 1953
| Hermann Staudinger
| "for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"
|
| 1954
| Linus Carl Pauling
| "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond"
|
| 1955
| Vincent du Vigneaud
| "for his work on sulphur compounds, especially the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone"
|
| 1956
| Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov (Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов)
| "for their research into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
|
| 1957
| Sir Alexander Todd
| "for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes"
|
| 1958
| Frederick Sanger
| "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially insulin"
|
| 1959
| Jaroslav Heyrovský
| "for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"
|
| 1960
| Willard Frank Libby
| "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination"
|
| 1961
| Melvin Calvin
| "for his research on carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"
|
| 1962
| Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew
| "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
|
| 1963
| Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
| "for their discoveries relating to high polymers"
|
| 1964
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
| "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances"
|
| 1965
| Robert Burns Woodward
| "for his achievements in organic synthesis"
|
| 1966
| Robert Sanderson Mulliken
| "for his work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules"
|
| 1967
| Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter
| "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions"
|
| 1968
| Lars Onsager
| "for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name"
|
| 1969
| Derek Harold Richard Barton, Odd Hassel
| "for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation"
|
| 1970
| Luis F. Leloir
| "for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates"
|
| 1971
| Gerhard Herzberg
| "for his contributions to electronic structure and the geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals"
|
| 1972
| Christian B. Anfinsen
| "for his work on ribonuclease"
|
| Stanford Moore, William H. Stein
| "for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the ribonuclease molecule"
|
| 1973
| Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
| "for their work on the chemistry of organometallic compounds"
|
| 1974
| Paul J. Flory
| "for his fundamental work, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules"
|
| 1975
| John Warcup Cornforth
| "for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions"
|
| Vladimir Prelog
| "for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions"
|
| 1976
| William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
| "for his studies on the structure of Boranes"
|
| 1977
| Ilya Prigogine
| "for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics"
|
| 1978
| Peter D. Mitchell
| "for his formulation of the chemiosmotic theory"
|
| 1979
| Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
| "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into reagents in organic synthesis"
|
| 1980
| Paul Berg
| "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA"
|
| Walter Gilbert,Frederick Sanger
| "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"
|
| 1981
| Kenichi Fukui (福井謙一), Roald Hoffmann
| "for their theories concerning the course of chemical reactions"
|
| 1982
| Aaron Klug
| "for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy"
|
| 1983
| Henry Taube
| "for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions"
|
| 1984
| Robert Bruce Merrifield
| "for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix"
|
| 1985
| Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
| "for their achievements in developing direct methods for the determination of crystal structures"
|
| 1986
| Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee (李遠哲), John C. Polanyi
| "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"
|
| 1987
| Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
| "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"
|
| 1988
| Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
| "for their determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre"
|
| 1989
| Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
| "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
|
| 1990
| Elias James Corey
| "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis"
|
| 1991
| Richard R. Ernst
| "for his contributions to the development of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy"
|
| 1992
| Rudolph A. Marcus
| "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems"
|
| 1993
| Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith
| "for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry"
|
| 1994
| George A. Olah
| "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry"
|
| 1995
| Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
| "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, in particular ozone depletion"
|
| 1996
| Robert Curl, Sir Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley
| "for their discovery of fullerenes"
|
| 1997
| Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker
| "for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate"
|
| Jens C. Skou
| "for his discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+K+-ATPase"
|
| 1998
| Walter Kohn
| "for his development of the density functional theory"
|
| John A. Pople
| "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry"
|
| 1999
| Ahmed H. Zewail
| "for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy"
|
| 2000
| Alan J. Heeger, Alan G MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa (白川英樹)
| "for their discovery and development of conductive polymers"
|
| 2001
| William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori (野依良治)
| "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
|
| K. Barry Sharpless
| "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"
|
| 2002
| Kurt Wüthrich, John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka (田中耕一)
| "for their development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules"
|
| 2003
| Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon
| "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes"
|
| 2004
| Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose
| "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
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