Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. The prize is awarded every year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Year Name Country Topics
1901 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff The Netherlands "for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions"
1902 Hermann Emil Fischer Germany "for his work on sugar and purine syntheses"
1903 Svante August Arrhenius Sweden "for his electrolytic theory of dissociation (see ion)"
1904 Sir William Ramsay United Kingdom "for his discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air"
1905 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer Germany "for his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds"
1906 Henri Moissan France "for his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the electric furnace named after him" See:Moissan electric furnace
1907 Eduard Buchner Germany "for his biochemical research and his discovery of cell-free fermentation"
1908 Sir Ernest Rutherford United Kingdom and New Zealand "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances"
1909 Wilhelm Ostwald Germany "his work on catalysis and for his investigations into chemical equilibria and rates of reaction"
1910 Otto Wallach Germany "for his work in the field of alicyclic compounds"
1911 Marie Sklodowska Curie Poland "for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her study of radium"
1912 Victor Grignard France "for his the discovery of the Grignard reagent"
Paul Sabatier France "for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds"
1913 Alfred Werner Switzerland "for his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules"
1914 Theodore William Richards USA "for his determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of elements"
1915 Richard Martin Willstätter Germany "for his research on plant pigments"
1918 Fritz Haber Germany "for his synthesis of ammonia"
1920 Walther Hermann Nernst Germany "for his work in thermochemistry"
1921 Frederick Soddy United Kingdom "for his work on the chemistry of radioactive substances and investigations into isotopes"
1922 Francis William Aston United Kingdom "for his discovery of isotopes in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his whole-number rule"
1923 Fritz Pregl Austria "for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances"
1925 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy Germany "for his demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions and the methods used"
1926 Theodor Svedberg Sweden "for his work on disperse systems"
1927 Heinrich Otto Wieland Germany "for his investigations of the bile acids and related substances"
1928 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus Germany "for his research into sterols and their connection with vitamins"
1929 Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin United Kingdom, Germany "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes"
1930 Hans Fischer Germany "for his research into haemin and chlorophyll"
1931 Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius Germany, Germany "for their contributions to chemical high pressure methods"
1932 Irving Langmuir USA "for his work in surface chemistry"
1934 Harold Clayton Urey USA "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"
1935 Frédéric Joliot, Irene Joliot-Curie France, France "for their synthesis of new radioactive elements"
1936 Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye The Netherlands "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 United Kingdom "for his work on carbohydrates and vitamin C"
Paul Karrer Switzerland "for his work on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2"
1938 Richard Kuhn Germany "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins"
1939 Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt Germany "for his work on sex hormones"
Lavoslav Ružička Switzerland "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes"
1943 George de Hevesy Hungary "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers to study chemical processes"
1944 Otto Hahn Germany "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei"
1945 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Finland "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method"
1946 James Batcheller Sumner USA "for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized"
John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley USA, USA "for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form"
1947 Sir Robert Robinson United Kingdom "for his investigations on plant products, especially the alkaloids"
1948 Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius Sweden "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis"
1949 William Francis Giauque USA "for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics"
1950 Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder Germany, Germany "for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis. Diels-Alder reaction."
1951 Edwin Mattison McMillan, Glenn Theodore Seaborg USA, USA "for their discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements"
1952 Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge United Kingdom, United Kingdom "for their invention of partition chromatography"
1953 Hermann Staudinger Germany "for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"
1954 Linus Carl Pauling USA "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond"
1955 Vincent du Vigneaud USA "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) United Kingdom, USSR "for their research into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
1957 Sir Alexander Todd United Kingdom "for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes"
1958 Frederick Sanger United Kingdom "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially insulin"
1959 Jaroslav Heyrovský Czechoslovakia "for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"
1960 Willard Frank Libby USA "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination"
1961 Melvin Calvin USA "for his research on carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"
1962 Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew United Kingdom "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
1963 Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta Germany, Italy "for their discoveries relating to high polymers"
1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin United Kingdom "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances"
1965 Robert Burns Woodward USA "for his achievements in organic synthesis"
1966 Robert Sanderson Mulliken USA "for his work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules"
1967 Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter Germany, United Kingdom, United Kingdom "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions"
1968 Lars Onsager USA "for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name"
1969 Derek Harold Richard Barton, Odd Hassel United Kingdom, Norway "for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation"
1970 Luis F. Leloir Argentina "for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates"
1971 Gerhard Herzberg Canada "for his contributions to electronic structure and the geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals"
1972 Christian B. Anfinsen USA "for his work on ribonuclease"
Stanford Moore, William H. Stein USA, USA "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 Germany, United Kingdom "for their work on the chemistry of organometallic compounds"
1974 Paul J. Flory USA "for his fundamental work, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules"
1975 John Warcup Cornforth United Kingdom and Australia "for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions"
Vladimir Prelog Switzerland "for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions"
1976 William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. USA "for his studies on the structure of Boranes"
1977 Ilya Prigogine Belgium "for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics"
1978 Peter D. Mitchell United Kingdom "for his formulation of the chemiosmotic theory"
1979 Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig United Kingdom, Germany "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into reagents in organic synthesis"
1980 Paul Berg USA "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA"
Walter Gilbert,Frederick Sanger USA, United Kingdom "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"
1981 Kenichi Fukui (福井謙一), Roald Hoffmann Japan, USA "for their theories concerning the course of chemical reactions"
1982 Aaron Klug United Kingdom "for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy"
1983 Henry Taube USA "for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions"
1984 Robert Bruce Merrifield USA "for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix"
1985 Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle USA, USA "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 USA, USA, Canada "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"
1987 Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen USA, France, USA "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"
1988 Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel Germany, Germany, Germany "for their determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre"
1989 Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech Canada and USA, USA "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
1990 Elias James Corey USA "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis"
1991 Richard R. Ernst Switzerland "for his contributions to the development of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy"
1992 Rudolph A. Marcus USA "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems"
1993 Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith USA, Canada "for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry"
1994 George A. Olah USA "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry"
1995 Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland The Netherlands, Mexico, USA "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, in particular ozone depletion"
1996 Robert Curl, Sir Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley USA, United Kingdom, USA "for their discovery of fullerenes"
1997 Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker USA, United Kingdom "for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate"
Jens C. Skou Denmark "for his discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+K+-ATPase"
1998 Walter Kohn USA "for his development of the density functional theory"
John A. Pople United Kingdom "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry"
1999 Ahmed H. Zewail Egypt and USA "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) USA, USA and New Zealand, Japan "for their discovery and development of conductive polymers"
2001 William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori (野依良治) USA, Japan "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
K. Barry Sharpless USA "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"
2002 Kurt Wüthrich, John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka (田中耕一) Switzerland, USA, Japan "for their development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules"
2003 Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon USA, USA "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes"
2004 Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose Israel, Israel, USA "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
2005 Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock and Yves Chauvin USA, USA, France "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"

Year	Name	Country	Topics
1901	Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff	The Netherlands	"for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions"
1902	Hermann Emil Fischer	Germany	"for his work on sugar and purine syntheses"
1903	Svante August Arrhenius	Sweden	"for his electrolytic theory of dissociation (see ion)"
1904	Sir William Ramsay	United Kingdom	"for his discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air"
1905	Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer	Germany	"for his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds"
1906	Henri Moissan	France	"for his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the electric furnace named after him" See:Moissan electric furnace
1907	Eduard Buchner	Germany	"for his biochemical research and his discovery of cell-free fermentation"
1908	Sir Ernest Rutherford	United Kingdom and New Zealand	"for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances"
1909	Wilhelm Ostwald	Germany	"his work on catalysis and for his investigations into chemical equilibria and rates of reaction"
1910	Otto Wallach	Germany	"for his work in the field of alicyclic compounds"
1911	Marie Sklodowska Curie	Poland	"for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her study of radium"
1912	Victor Grignard	France	"for his the discovery of the Grignard reagent"
Paul Sabatier	France	"for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds"
1913	Alfred Werner	Switzerland	"for his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules"
1914	Theodore William Richards	USA	"for his determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of elements"
1915	Richard Martin Willstätter	Germany	"for his research on plant pigments"
1918	Fritz Haber	Germany	"for his synthesis of ammonia"
1920	Walther Hermann Nernst	Germany	"for his work in thermochemistry"
1921	Frederick Soddy	United Kingdom	"for his work on the chemistry of radioactive substances and investigations into isotopes"
1922	Francis William Aston	United Kingdom	"for his discovery of isotopes in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his whole-number rule"
1923	Fritz Pregl	Austria	"for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances"
1925	Richard Adolf Zsigmondy	Germany	"for his demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions and the methods used"
1926	Theodor Svedberg	Sweden	"for his work on disperse systems"
1927	Heinrich Otto Wieland	Germany	"for his investigations of the bile acids and related substances"
1928	Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus	Germany	"for his research into sterols and their connection with vitamins"
1929	Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin	United Kingdom, Germany	"for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes"
1930	Hans Fischer	Germany	"for his research into haemin and chlorophyll"
1931	Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius	Germany, Germany	"for their contributions to chemical high pressure methods"
1932	Irving Langmuir	USA	"for his work in surface chemistry"
1934	Harold Clayton Urey	USA	"for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"
1935	Frédéric Joliot, Irene Joliot-Curie	France, France	"for their synthesis of new radioactive elements"
1936	Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye	The Netherlands	"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	United Kingdom	"for his work on carbohydrates and vitamin C"
Paul Karrer	Switzerland	"for his work on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2"
1938	Richard Kuhn	Germany	"for his work on carotenoids and vitamins"
1939	Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt	Germany	"for his work on sex hormones"
Lavoslav Ružička	Switzerland	"for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes"
1943	George de Hevesy	Hungary	"for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers to study chemical processes"
1944	Otto Hahn	Germany	"for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei"
1945	Artturi Ilmari Virtanen	Finland	"for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method"
1946	James Batcheller Sumner	USA	"for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized"
John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley	USA, USA	"for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form"
1947	Sir Robert Robinson	United Kingdom	"for his investigations on plant products, especially the alkaloids"
1948	Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius	Sweden	"for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis"
1949	William Francis Giauque	USA	"for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics"
1950	Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder	Germany, Germany	"for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis. Diels-Alder reaction."
1951	Edwin Mattison McMillan, Glenn Theodore Seaborg	USA, USA	"for their discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements"
1952	Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge	United Kingdom, United Kingdom	"for their invention of partition chromatography"
1953	Hermann Staudinger	Germany	"for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"
1954	Linus Carl Pauling	USA	"for his research into the nature of the chemical bond"
1955	Vincent du Vigneaud	USA	"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)	United Kingdom, USSR	"for their research into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
1957	Sir Alexander Todd	United Kingdom	"for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes"
1958	Frederick Sanger	United Kingdom	"for his work on the structure of proteins, especially insulin"
1959	Jaroslav Heyrovský	Czechoslovakia	"for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"
1960	Willard Frank Libby	USA	"for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination"
1961	Melvin Calvin	USA	"for his research on carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"
1962	Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew	United Kingdom	"for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
1963	Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta	Germany, Italy	"for their discoveries relating to high polymers"
1964	Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	United Kingdom	"for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances"
1965	Robert Burns Woodward	USA	"for his achievements in organic synthesis"
1966	Robert Sanderson Mulliken	USA	"for his work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules"
1967	Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter	Germany, United Kingdom, United Kingdom	"for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions"
1968	Lars Onsager	USA	"for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name"
1969	Derek Harold Richard Barton, Odd Hassel	United Kingdom, Norway	"for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation"
1970	Luis F. Leloir	Argentina	"for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates"
1971	Gerhard Herzberg	Canada	"for his contributions to electronic structure and the geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals"
1972	Christian B. Anfinsen	USA	"for his work on ribonuclease"
Stanford Moore, William H. Stein	USA, USA	"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	Germany, United Kingdom	"for their work on the chemistry of organometallic compounds"
1974	Paul J. Flory	USA	"for his fundamental work, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules"
1975	John Warcup Cornforth	United Kingdom and Australia	"for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions"
Vladimir Prelog	Switzerland	"for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions"
1976	William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.	USA	"for his studies on the structure of Boranes"
1977	Ilya Prigogine	Belgium	"for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics"
1978	Peter D. Mitchell	United Kingdom	"for his formulation of the chemiosmotic theory"
1979	Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig	United Kingdom, Germany	"for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into reagents in organic synthesis"
1980	Paul Berg	USA	"for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA"
Walter Gilbert,Frederick Sanger	USA, United Kingdom	"for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"
1981	Kenichi Fukui (福井謙一), Roald Hoffmann	Japan, USA	"for their theories concerning the course of chemical reactions"
1982	Aaron Klug	United Kingdom	"for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy"
1983	Henry Taube	USA	"for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions"
1984	Robert Bruce Merrifield	USA	"for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix"
1985	Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle	USA, USA	"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	USA, USA, Canada	"for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"
1987	Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen	USA, France, USA	"for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"
1988	Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel	Germany, Germany, Germany	"for their determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre"
1989	Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech	Canada and USA, USA	"for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
1990	Elias James Corey	USA	"for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis"
1991	Richard R. Ernst	Switzerland	"for his contributions to the development of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy"
1992	Rudolph A. Marcus	USA	"for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems"
1993	Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith	USA, Canada	"for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry"
1994	George A. Olah	USA	"for his contribution to carbocation chemistry"
1995	Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland	The Netherlands, Mexico, USA	"for their work in atmospheric chemistry, in particular ozone depletion"
1996	Robert Curl, Sir Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley	USA, United Kingdom, USA	"for their discovery of fullerenes"
1997	Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker	USA, United Kingdom	"for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate"
Jens C. Skou	Denmark	"for his discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+K+-ATPase"
1998	Walter Kohn	USA	"for his development of the density functional theory"
John A. Pople	United Kingdom	"for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry"
1999	Ahmed H. Zewail	Egypt and USA	"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)	USA, USA and New Zealand, Japan	"for their discovery and development of conductive polymers"
2001	William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori (野依良治)	USA, Japan	"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
K. Barry Sharpless	USA	"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"
2002	Kurt Wüthrich, John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka (田中耕一)	Switzerland, USA, Japan	"for their development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules"
2003	Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon	USA, USA	"for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes"
2004	Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose	Israel, Israel, USA	"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
2005	Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock and Yves Chauvin	USA, USA, France	"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"

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