List of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It awards people who have made progress in the scientific area of chemistry, those who have worked hard to learn more and have succeeded.

The Prize is given every year. It is just one of many Nobel Prizes. A famous winner of this prize was Marie Curie. She won the prize in 1911 after she discovered radium with her husband Pierre. She was the first person to win the prize twice; the first time was for physics in 1903.

1901 – 1909

1901 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff for work on chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions.
1902 - Hermann Emil Fischer for work on sugar and purine syntheses.
1903 - Svante Arrhenius for his electrolytic theory of dissociation.
1904 - Sir William Ramsay for discovering inert gases in the air.
1905 - Adolf von Baeyer for work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds.
1906 - Henri Moissan for the discovery of fluorine and the Moissan electric furnace
1907 - Eduard Buchner his discovery of cell-free fermentation
1908 - Ernest Rutherford for his work on radioactive substances
1909 - Wilhelm Ostwald for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and rates of reaction.

1910 – 1919

1910 - Otto Wallach for his work on alicyclic compounds.
1911 - Marie Curie for her discovery of radium and polonium.
1912 - Victor Grignard for his discovery of the Grignard reagent.
1912 - Paul Sabatier for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds.
1913 - Alfred Werner for his work on atoms and molecules.
1914 - Theodore Richards for his work on finding the atomic weight of chemical elements.
1915 - Richard Willstätter for his work on chlorophyll.
1916 - 1917 - No Award
1918 - Fritz Haber for synthesis of ammonia from its elements.
1919 - No award

1920 – 1929

1920 - Walther Nernst for his work on thermochemistry.
1921 - Frederick Soddy for his work on radioactive substances and isotopes.
1922 - Francis Aston for his discovery of isotopes and the mass spectrograph.
1923 - Fritz Pregl for discovering the way to do micro-analysis of organic substances.
1924 - No award
1925 - Richard Zsigmondy for discovering a basic method in colloid chemistry.
1926 - Theodor Svedberg for his work on disperse systems.
1927 - Heinrich Wieland for his work on bile acids.
1928 - Adolf Windaus for his work on sterols and vitamins.
1929 - Arthur Harden and Hans von Euler-Chelpin for their work on fermenting sugar and fermentative enzymes.

1930 – 1939

1930 - Hans Fischer
1931 - Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
1932 - Irving Langmuir
1933 - No award
1934 - Harold C. Urey
1935 - Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie
1936 - Peter Debye
1937 - Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer
1938 - Richard Kuhn
1939 - Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka

1940 – 1949

1940 - 1942 No award
1943 - George de Hevesy
1944 - Otto Hahn
1945 - Artturi Virtanen
1946 - James Sumner, John Northrop, Wendell Stanley
1947 - Sir Robert Robinson
1948 - Arne Tiselius
1949 - William F. Giauque

1950 – 1959

1950 - Otto Diels, Kurt Alder
1951 - Edwin McMillan, Glenn Seaborg
1952 - Archer Martin, Richard Synge
1953 - Hermann Staudinger
1954 - Linus Pauling
1955 - Vincent du Vigneaud
1956 - Cyril Hinshelwood, Nikolay Semenov
1957 - Lord Todd
1958 - Frederick Sanger
1959 - Jaroslav Heyrovsky

1960 – 1969

1960 - Willard Libby
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Max Perutz, John Kendrew
1963 - Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta for Ziegler-Natta catalyst
1964 - Dorothy Hodgkin
1965 - Robert Woodward "for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis"^[2]
1966 - Robert S. Mulliken
1967 - Manfred Eigen, Ronald Norrish, George Porter
1968 - Lars Onsager
1969 - Derek Barton, Odd Hassel

1970 – 1979

1970 - Luis Leloir
1971 - Gerhard Herzberg
1972 - Christian Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William Stein
1973 - Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson for sandwich compounds
1974 - Paul Flory
1975 - John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
1976 - William Lipscomb
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Peter Mitchell
1979 - Herbert Brown, Georg Wittig

1980 – 1989

1980 - Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
1981 - Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann for Isolobal Principle
1982 - Aaron Klug
1983 - Henry Taube
1984 - Bruce Merrifield
1985 - Herbert Hauptman, Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley Herschbach, Yuan Lee, John Polanyi
1987 - Donald Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles Pedersen
1988 - Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
1989 - Sidney Altman, Thomas Cech

1990 – 1999

1990 - Elias James Corey
1991 - Richard R. Ernst
1992 - Rudolph A. Marcus
1993 - Kary Mullis, Michael Smith
1994 - George Olah
1995 - Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
1996 - Robert Curl, Sir Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley
1997 - Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
1998 - Walter Kohn, John Pople
1999 - Ahmed Zewail

2000 – 2009

2000 – Alan Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa for their discovery and development of conductive polymers.^[3]
2001 – William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions.,^[4] K. Barry Sharpless for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions.^[4]
2002 – John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka for their work on mass spectrometry.^[5] Kurt Wüthrich for ways to study biological macromolecules with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).^[5]
2003 – Peter Agre for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes [...] for the discovery of water channels.^[6] Roderick MacKinnon for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes [...] for structural and mechanistic studies of potassium ion channels.^[6]
2004 – Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.^[7]
2005 – Yves Chauvin, Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock for metal-catalyzed alkene metathesis.^[8]
2006 – Roger Kornberg for studying eukaryote transcription.^[9]
2007 – Gerhard Ertl for surface science and for discovering how crystals react to experiments.^[10]
2008 – Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.^[11]
2009 – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz, Ada Yonath for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.^[12]

2010 – 2019

2010 – Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira Suzuki for their work in palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions in organic synthesis.
2011 – Dan Shechtman for the discovery of quasicrystals.^[13]
2012 – Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.^[14]
2013 – Michael Levitt, Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel for the development of multi scale models for complex chemical systems.^[15]
2014 – Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William E. Moerner for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.^[16]
2015 – Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.^[17]
2016 – Jean-Pierre Sauvage / Fraser Stoddart / Ben Feringa for supramolecular chemistry.^[18]
2017 - Jacques Dubochet/ Joachim Frank / Richard Henderson for cryo-election microscopy^[19]
2018 - Frances Arnold / George P. Smith / Greg Winter for directed evolution and bacteriophage.^[20]
2019 - John B. Goodenough / M. Stanley Whittingham / Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion battery

2020 –

2020 - Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing.^[21]
2021 - David MacMillan and Benjamin List for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.^[22]
2022 - Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten P. Meldal and Karl Barry Sharpless for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.^[23]
2023 - Moungi Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexey Ekimov "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots".
2024 - Demis Hassabis, John M. Jumper and David Baker for their protein folding predictions using AlphaFold and computational protein design.^[24]^[25]

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List of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry

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1910 – 1919

1920 – 1929

1930 – 1939

1940 – 1949

1950 – 1959

1960 – 1969

1970 – 1979

1980 – 1989

1990 – 1999

2000 – 2009

2010 – 2019

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