|- bgcolor="#cccccc" !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" Look at: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 |Marie Sklodowska Curie |"for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her study of radium" |- |rowspan=2|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" |- |rowspan=2|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" |- |rowspan=2|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 and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method" |- |rowspan=2|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 (Ð?иколаÌ?й Ð?иколаÌ?евич 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" |- |rowspan=2|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" |- |rowspan=2|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" |- |rowspan=2|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 (ç¦?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 (æ?Žé? å“²), 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" |- |rowspan=2|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" |- |rowspan=2|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å·?英樹) |"for their discovery and development of conductive polymers" |- |rowspan=2|2001 |William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori (野ä¾?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" |- |2005 |Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock and Yves Chauvin |"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis" |}