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.

List of winners

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

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.
 2012 – Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.
 2013 – Michael Levitt, Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel for the development of multi scale models for complex chemical systems.
 2014 – Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William E. Moerner for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. 
 2015 – Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
 2016 – Jean-Pierre Sauvage / Fraser Stoddart / Ben Feringa for supramolecular chemistry.
 2017 - Jacques Dubochet/ Joachim Frank / Richard Henderson  for cryo-election microscopy
 2018 - Frances Arnold / George P. Smith / Greg Winter for directed evolution and bacteriophage.
 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.
 2021 - David MacMillan and Benjamin List for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.

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References 

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