The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 102 times to 160 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2010. Frederick Sanger is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 and 1980. This means that a total of 159 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Click on the links to get more information.
2010
Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira Suzuki
2009
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, Ada E. Yonath
2008
Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y. Tsien
2007
Gerhard Ertl
2006
Roger D. Kornberg
2005
Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock
2004
Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose
2003
Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon
2002
John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich
2001
William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless
2000
Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa
1999
Ahmed H. Zewail
1998
Walter Kohn, John A. Pople
1997
Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
1996
Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley
1995
Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
1994
George A. Olah
1993
Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith
1992
Rudolph A. Marcus
1991
Richard R. Ernst
1990
Elias James Corey
1989
Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
1988
Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
1987
Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
1986
Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi
1985
Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
1984
Robert Bruce Merrifield
1983
Henry Taube
1982
Aaron Klug
1981
Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann
1980
Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
1979
Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
1978
Peter D. Mitchell
1977
Ilya Prigogine
1976
William N. Lipscomb
1975
John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
1974
Paul J. Flory
1973
Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
1972
Christian B. Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein
1971
Gerhard Herzberg
1970
Luis F. Leloir
1969
Derek H. R. Barton, Odd Hassel
1968
Lars Onsager
1967
Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter
1966
Robert S. Mulliken
1965
Robert Burns Woodward
1964
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1963
Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
1962
Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew
1961
Melvin Calvin
1960
Willard Frank Libby
1959
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
1958
Frederick Sanger
1957
Lord (Alexander R.) Todd
1956
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
1955
Vincent du Vigneaud
1954
Linus Carl Pauling
1953
Hermann Staudinger
1952
Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge
1951
Edwin Mattison McMillan, Glenn Theodore Seaborg
1950
Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder
1949
William Francis Giauque
1948
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
1947
Sir Robert Robinson
1946
James Batcheller Sumner, John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley
1945
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
1944
Otto Hahn
1943
George de Hevesy
1942
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1941
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1940
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1939
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka
1938
Richard Kuhn
1937
Walter Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer
1936
Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
1935
Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie
1934
Harold Clayton Urey
1933
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1932
Irving Langmuir
1931
Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
1930
Hans Fischer
1929
Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
1928
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
1927
Heinrich Otto Wieland
1926
The (Theodor) Svedberg
1925
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
1924
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1923
Fritz Pregl
1922
Francis William Aston
1921
Frederick Soddy
1920
Walther Hermann Nernst
1919
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1918
Fritz Haber
1917
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1916
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1915
Richard Martin Willstätter
1914
Theodore William Richards
1913
Alfred Werner
1912
Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier
1911
Marie Curie, née Sklodowska
1910
Otto Wallach
1909
Wilhelm Ostwald
1908
Ernest Rutherford
1907
Eduard Buchner
1906
Henri Moissan
1905
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
1904
Sir William Ramsay
1903
Svante August Arrhenius
1902
Hermann Emil Fischer
1901
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
