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. Kurt Wüthrich for ways to study biological macromolecules with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Roderick MacKinnon for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes [...] for structural and mechanistic studies of potassium ion channels.
* 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.
* 2022 - Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten P. Meldal and Karl Barry Sharpless for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.
* 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.
* 2025 &ndash; Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar M. Yaghi "for pioneering reticular chemistry and for the development of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)".

## Related pages 
* List of Nobel Prize winners by country
* List of Nobel Prize winners in Economics
* List of Nobel Prize winners in Physics
* List of Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine
* List of Nobel Prize winners in Literature
* List of Nobel Peace Prize winners

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