List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry - wikipedia List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( Swedish : Nobelpriset i kemi ) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896. These prizes are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. As dictated by Nobel 's will, the award is administered by the Nobel Foundation and awarded by a committee that consists of five members elected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1901 to Jacobus Henricus van ' t Hoff, of the Netherlands. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years. In 1901, van ' t Hoff received 150,782 SEK, which is equal to 7,731,004 SEK in December 2007. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel 's death. At least 25 laureates have received the Nobel Prize for contributions in the field of organic chemistry, more than any other field of chemistry. Two Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry, Germans Richard Kuhn ( 1938 ) and Adolf Butenandt ( 1939 ), were not allowed by their government to accept the prize. They would later receive a medal and diploma, but not the money. Frederick Sanger is one out of two laureates to be awarded the Nobel prize twice in the same subject, in 1958 and 1980. John Bardeen is the other and was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956 and 1972. Two others have won Nobel Prizes twice, one in chemistry and one in another subject : Maria Skłodowska - Curie ( physics in 1903, chemistry in 1911 ) and Linus Pauling ( chemistry in 1954, peace in 1962 ). As of 2017, the prize has been awarded to 177 individuals, including four women : Maria Skłodowska - Curie, Irène Joliot - Curie ( 1935 ), Dorothy Hodgkin ( 1964 ), and Ada Yonath ( 2009 ). There have been eight years in which the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was not awarded. Contents 1 Laureates 2 See also 3 References 3.1 Notes 3.2 Citations 3.3 Sources 4 External links Laureates Year Image Laureate Country Rationale Ref 1901 Jacobus Henricus van ' t Hoff 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 '' 1904 Sir William Ramsay United Kingdom `` ( for his ) discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system '' 1905 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer Germany `` ( for ) the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through 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 called after him '' 1907 Eduard Buchner Germany `` for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell - free fermentation '' 1908 Ernest Rutherford United Kingdom New Zealand `` for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances '' 1909 Wilhelm Ostwald Germany `` ( for ) his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction '' 1910 Otto Wallach Germany `` ( for ) his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds '' 1911 Maria Skłodowska - Curie Russian Empire France `` ( for ) the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element '' 1912 Victor Grignard France `` for the discovery of the (... ) Grignard reagent '' Paul Sabatier France `` for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals '' 1913 Alfred Werner Switzerland `` ( for ) his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules (... ) especially in inorganic chemistry '' 1914 Theodore William Richards United States `` ( for ) his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements '' 1915 Richard Martin Willstätter Germany `` for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll '' 1916 Not awarded 1917 1918 Fritz Haber Germany `` for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements '' 1919 Not awarded 1920 Walther Hermann Nernst Germany `` ( for ) his work in thermochemistry '' 1921 Frederick Soddy United Kingdom `` for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes '' 1922 Francis William Aston United Kingdom `` for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole - number rule '' 1923 Fritz Pregl Austria Kingdom of Yugoslavia `` for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances '' 1924 Not awarded 1925 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy Germany Hungary `` for his demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used '' 1926 The ( Theodor ) Svedberg Sweden `` for his work on disperse systems '' 1927 Heinrich Otto Wieland Germany `` for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances '' 1928 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus Germany `` ( for ) his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins '' 1929 Arthur Harden United Kingdom `` for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes '' Hans Karl August Simon von Euler - Chelpin Sweden 1930 Hans Fischer Germany `` for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin '' 1931 Carl Bosch Germany `` ( for ) their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods '' Friedrich Bergius Germany 1932 Irving Langmuir United States `` for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry '' 1933 Not awarded 1934 Harold Clayton Urey United States `` for his discovery of heavy hydrogen '' 1935 Frédéric Joliot France `` ( for ) their synthesis of new radioactive elements '' Irène Joliot - Curie France 1936 Petrus ( Peter ) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye Netherlands `` ( for his work on ) molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases '' 1937 Walter Norman Haworth United Kingdom `` for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C '' Paul Karrer Switzerland `` for his investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B '' 1938 Richard Kuhn Germany `` for his work on carotenoids and vitamins '' 1939 Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt Germany `` for his work on sex hormones '' Leopold Ruzicka Kingdom of Yugoslavia Switzerland `` for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes '' 1940 Not awarded 1941 1942 1943 George de Hevesy Germany `` for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of 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 United States `` for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized '' John Howard Northrop United States `` for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form '' Wendell Meredith Stanley United States 1947 Sir Robert Robinson United Kingdom `` for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids '' 1948 Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius Sweden `` for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins '' 1949 William Francis Giauque United States `` for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures '' 1950 Otto Paul Hermann Diels West Germany `` for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis '' Kurt Alder West Germany 1951 Edwin Mattison McMillan United States `` for their discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements '' Glenn Theodore Seaborg United States 1952 Archer John Porter Martin United Kingdom `` for their invention of partition chromatography '' Richard Laurence Millington Synge United Kingdom 1953 Hermann Staudinger West Germany `` for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry '' 1954 Linus Pauling United States `` for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances '' 1955 Vincent du Vigneaud United States `` for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone '' 1956 Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood United Kingdom `` for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions '' Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov Soviet Union 1957 Lord ( Alexander R. ) 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 that of insulin '' 1959 Jaroslav Heyrovský Czechoslovakia `` for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis '' 1960 Willard Frank Libby United States `` for his method to use carbon - 14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science '' 1961 Melvin Calvin United States `` for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants '' 1962 Max Ferdinand Perutz United Kingdom `` for their studies of the structures of globular proteins '' John Cowdery Kendrew United Kingdom 1963 Karl Ziegler West Germany `` for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers '' Giulio Natta Italy 1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin United Kingdom `` for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances '' 1965 Robert Burns Woodward United States `` for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis '' 1966 Robert S. Mulliken United States `` for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method '' 1967 Manfred Eigen West Germany `` for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy '' Ronald George Wreyford Norrish United Kingdom George Porter United Kingdom 1968 Lars Onsager United States Norway `` for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes '' 1969 Derek H.R. Barton United Kingdom `` for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry '' Odd Hassel Norway 1970 Luis F. Leloir Argentina `` for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates '' 1971 Gerhard Herzberg Canada West Germany `` for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals '' 1972 Christian B. Anfinsen United States `` for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation '' Stanford Moore United States `` for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule '' William H. Stein United States 1973 Ernst Otto Fischer West Germany `` for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds '' Geoffrey Wilkinson United Kingdom Paul J. Flory United States `` for his fundamental work, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules '' John Warcup Cornforth Australia United Kingdom `` for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme - catalyzed reactions '' Vladimir Prelog Yugoslavia Switzerland `` for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions '' 1976 William N. Lipscomb United States `` for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding '' 1977 Ilya Prigogine Belgium `` for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures '' 1978 Peter D. Mitchell United Kingdom `` for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory '' 1979 Herbert C. Brown United States `` for their development of the use of boron - and phosphorus - containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis '' Georg Wittig West Germany 1980 Paul Berg United States `` for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant - DNA '' Walter Gilbert United States `` for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids '' Frederick Sanger United Kingdom 1981 Kenichi Fukui Japan `` for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions '' Roald Hoffmann United States Poland 1982 Aaron Klug United Kingdom `` for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid - protein complexes '' Henry Taube United States `` for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes '' 1984 Robert Bruce Merrifield United States `` for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix '' 1985 Herbert A. Hauptman United States `` for their outstanding achievements in developing direct methods for the determination of crystal structures '' Jerome Karle United States 1986 Dudley R. Herschbach United States `` for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes '' Yuan T. Lee United States Taiwan John C. Polanyi Canada Hungary Donald J. Cram United States `` for their development and use of molecules with structure - specific interactions of high selectivity '' Jean - Marie Lehn France Charles J. Pedersen United States 1988 Johann Deisenhofer West Germany `` for their determination of the three - dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre '' Robert Huber West Germany Hartmut Michel West Germany 1989 Sidney Altman Canada United States `` for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA '' Thomas Cech United States 1990 Elias James Corey United States `` for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis '' 1991 Richard R. Ernst Switzerland `` for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) spectroscopy '' 1992 Rudolph A. Marcus United States Canada `` for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems '' 1993 Kary B. Mullis United States `` for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA - based chemistry (... ) for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) method '' Michael Smith Canada `` for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA - based chemistry (... ) for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide - based, site - directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies '' 1994 George A. Olah United States Hungary `` for his contribution to carbocation chemistry '' 1995 Paul J. Crutzen Netherlands `` for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone '' Mario J. Molina Mexico F. Sherwood Rowland United States Robert F. Curl Jr. United States `` for their discovery of fullerenes '' Sir Harold W. Kroto United Kingdom Richard E. Smalley United States 1997 Paul D. Boyer United States `` for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate ( ATP ) '' John E. Walker United Kingdom Jens C. Skou Denmark `` for the first discovery of an ion - transporting enzyme, Na, K - ATPase '' 1998 Walter Kohn United States `` for his development of the density - functional theory '' John A. Pople United Kingdom `` for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry '' 1999 Ahmed Zewail United States Egypt `` for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy '' 2000 Alan J. Heeger United States `` for their discovery and development of conductive polymers '' Alan G. MacDiarmid United States New Zealand Hideki Shirakawa Japan 2001 William S. Knowles United States `` for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions '' Ryōji Noyori Japan K. Barry Sharpless United States `` for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions '' 2002 John B. Fenn United States `` for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules (... ) for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules '' Koichi Tanaka Japan Kurt Wüthrich Switzerland `` for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules (... ) for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three - dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution '' 2003 Peter Agre United States `` for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes (... ) for the discovery of water channels '' Roderick MacKinnon United States `` for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes (... ) for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels '' Aaron Ciechanover Israel `` for the discovery of ubiquitin - mediated protein degradation '' Avram Hershko Israel Irwin Rose United States 2005 Yves Chauvin France `` for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis '' Robert H. Grubbs United States Richard R. Schrock United States 2006 Roger D. Kornberg United States `` for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription '' 2007 Gerhard Ertl Germany `` for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces '' 2008 Osamu Shimomura Japan `` for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP '' Martin Chalfie United States Roger Y. Tsien United States 2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan United States India United Kingdom `` for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome '' Thomas A. Steitz United States Ada E. Yonath Israel Richard F. Heck United States `` for palladium - catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis '' Ei - ichi Negishi Japan Akira Suzuki Japan 2011 Dan Shechtman Israel `` for the discovery of quasicrystals '' 2012 Robert Lefkowitz United States `` for studies of G - protein - coupled receptors '' Brian Kobilka United States 2013 Martin Karplus United States Austria `` for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems '' Michael Levitt United States United Kingdom Israel Arieh Warshel United States Israel 2014 Eric Betzig United States `` for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy '' Stefan W. Hell Germany Romania William E. Moerner United States 2015 Tomas Lindahl Sweden United Kingdom `` for mechanistic studies of DNA repair '' Paul L. Modrich United States Aziz Sancar United States Turkey 2016 Jean - Pierre Sauvage France `` for the design and synthesis of molecular machines '' Fraser Stoddart United Kingdom United States Ben Feringa Netherlands 2017 Jacques Dubochet Switzerland `` for developing cryo - electron microscopy for the high - resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution '' Joachim Frank Germany United States Richard Henderson United Kingdom See also Timeline of chemistry References Notes ^ A. The form and spelling of the names in the name column is according to nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Foundation. Alternative spellings and name forms, where they exist, are given at the articles linked from this column. Where available, an image of each Nobel laureate is provided. For the official pictures provided by the Nobel Foundation, see the pages for each Nobel laureate at nobelprize.org. ^ B. The information in the country column is according to nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Foundation. This information may not necessarily reflect the recipient 's birthplace or citizenship. ^ C. The citation for each award is quoted ( not always in full ) from nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Foundation. The links in this column are to articles ( or sections of articles ) on the history and areas of chemistry for which the awards were presented. The links are intended only as a guide and explanation. For a full account of the work done by each Nobel laureate, please see the biography articles linked from the name column. Citations Jump up ^ `` Alfred Nobel -- The Man Behind the Nobel Prize ''. Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 7 October 2008. Jump up ^ `` The Nobel Prize Awarders ''. Nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 15 October 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2008. Jump up ^ `` The Nobel Prize ''. Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 7 October 2008. 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Official website of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Official website of the Nobel Foundation Nobel Laureates and Universities at Nobelprize.org Laureates of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1901 -- 1925 1901 Jacobus van ' t Hoff 1902 Emil Fischer 1903 Svante Arrhenius 1904 William Ramsay 1905 Adolf von Baeyer 1906 Henri Moissan 1907 Eduard Buchner 1908 Ernest Rutherford 1909 Wilhelm Ostwald 1910 Otto Wallach 1911 Marie Curie 1912 Victor Grignard / Paul Sabatier 1913 Alfred Werner 1914 Theodore Richards 1915 Richard Willstätter 1916 1917 1918 Fritz Haber 1919 1920 Walther Nernst 1921 Frederick Soddy 1922 Francis Aston 1923 Fritz Pregl 1924 1925 Richard Zsigmondy 1926 -- 1950 1926 Theodor Svedberg 1927 Heinrich Wieland 1928 Adolf Windaus 1929 Arthur Harden / Hans von Euler - Chelpin 1930 Hans Fischer 1931 Carl Bosch / Friedrich Bergius 1932 Irving Langmuir 1933 1934 Harold Urey 1935 Frédéric Joliot - Curie / Irène Joliot - Curie 1936 Peter Debye 1937 Norman Haworth / Paul Karrer 1938 Richard Kuhn 1939 Adolf Butenandt / Leopold Ružička 1940 1941 1942 1943 George de Hevesy 1944 Otto Hahn 1945 Artturi Virtanen 1946 James B. Sumner / John Northrop / Wendell Meredith Stanley 1947 Robert Robinson 1948 Arne Tiselius 1949 William Giauque 1950 Otto Diels / Kurt Alder 1951 -- 1975 1951 Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg 1952 Archer Martin / Richard Synge 1953 Hermann Staudinger 1954 Linus Pauling 1955 Vincent du Vigneaud 1956 Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov 1957 Alexander Todd 1958 Frederick Sanger 1959 Jaroslav Heyrovský 1960 Willard Libby 1961 Melvin Calvin 1962 Max Perutz / John Kendrew 1963 Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta 1964 Dorothy Hodgkin 1965 Robert Woodward 1966 Robert S. Mulliken 1967 Manfred Eigen / Ronald Norrish / George Porter 1968 Lars Onsager 1969 Derek Barton / Odd Hassel 1970 Luis Federico Leloir 1971 Gerhard Herzberg 1972 Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein 1973 Ernst Otto Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson 1974 Paul Flory 1975 John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog 1976 -- 2000 1976 William Lipscomb 1977 Ilya Prigogine 1978 Peter D. Mitchell 1979 Herbert C. Brown / Georg Wittig 1980 Paul Berg / Walter Gilbert / Frederick Sanger 1981 Kenichi Fukui / Roald Hoffmann 1982 Aaron Klug 1983 Henry Taube 1984 Robert Merrifield 1985 Herbert A. Hauptman / Jerome Karle 1986 Dudley R. Herschbach / Yuan T. Lee / John Polanyi 1987 Donald J. Cram / Jean - Marie Lehn / Charles J. Pedersen 1988 Johann Deisenhofer / Robert Huber / Hartmut Michel 1989 Sidney Altman / Thomas Cech 1990 Elias Corey 1991 Richard R. Ernst 1992 Rudolph A. Marcus 1993 Kary Mullis / Michael Smith 1994 George Olah 1995 Paul J. Crutzen / Mario J. Molina / F. Sherwood Rowland 1996 Robert Curl / Harold Kroto / Richard Smalley 1997 Paul D. Boyer / John E. Walker / Jens Christian Skou 1998 Walter Kohn / John Pople 1999 Ahmed Zewail 2000 Alan J. Heeger / Alan MacDiarmid / Hideki Shirakawa 2001 -- present 2001 William Knowles / Ryoji Noyori / K. Barry Sharpless 2002 John B. 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Question: who won the first nobel prize for chemistry
Answer: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff