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Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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139Indexed prize entries
81Award years
Award entries
139 prize entries from the database, sorted by award year (newest first).
Susumu Kitagawa2025 · Chemistry · JapanJohn Jumper2024 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaDemis Hassabis2024 · Chemistry · Great BritainDavid Baker2024 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaAleksey Yekimov2023 · Chemistry · RussiaLouis E Brus2023 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaMoungi G Bawendi2023 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaK. Barry Sharpless2022 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaMorten Meldal2022 · Chemistry · DenmarkCarolyn R. Bertozzi2022 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaDavid W C MacMillan2021 · Chemistry · Great BritainBenjamin List2021 · Chemistry · GermanyJennifer Doudna2020 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaEmmanuelle Charpentier2020 · Chemistry · FranceAkira Yoshino2019 · Chemistry · JapanM Stanley Whittingham2019 · Chemistry · Great BritainJohn B. Goodenough2019 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaGregory P. Winter2018 · Chemistry · Great BritainGeorge P. Smith2018 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaFrances H. Arnold2018 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaRichard Henderson2017 · Chemistry · Great BritainJoachim Frank2017 · Chemistry · GermanyJacques Dubochet2017 · Chemistry · SwitzerlandJean-Pierre Sauvage2016 · Chemistry · FranceBernard L. Feringa2016 · Chemistry · NetherlandsPaul Modrich2015 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaTomas Lindahl2015 · Chemistry · SwedenWilliam E. Moerner2014 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaStefan W. Hell2014 · Chemistry · GermanyEric Betzig2014 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaRobert J. Lefkowitz2012 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaBrian Kobilka2012 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaDan Shechtman2011 · Chemistry · IsraelAkira Suzuki2010 · Chemistry · JapanEi-ichi Negishi2010 · Chemistry · JapanRichard F. Heck2010 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaRyoji Noyori2001 · Chemistry · JapanWilliam S Knowles2001 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaHideki Shirakawa2000 · Chemistry · JapanAlan G MacDiarmid2000 · Chemistry · New ZealandAlan J Heeger2000 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaAhmed Zewal1999 · Chemistry · EgyptJohn A Pople1998 · Chemistry · Great BritainWalter Kohn1998 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaJohn E Walker1997 · Chemistry · Great BritainJens Christian Skou1997 · Chemistry · DenmarkPaul D Boyer1997 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaRichard E Smalley1996 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaHarold W Kroto1996 · Chemistry · Great BritainRobert F Curl1996 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaF Sherwood Rowland1995 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaMario J Molina1995 · Chemistry · MexicoPaul J Crutzen1995 · Chemistry · NetherlandsGeorge A Olah1994 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaMichael Smith1993 · Chemistry · CanadaKary B Mullis1993 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaRudolph A Marcus1992 · Chemistry · CanadaRichard R Ernst1991 · Chemistry · SwitzerlandElias James Corey1990 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaThomas Cech1989 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaSydney Altman1989 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaHartmut Michel1988 · Chemistry · GermanyRobert Huber1988 · Chemistry · GermanyJohann Deisenhofer1988 · Chemistry · GermanyCharles John Pedersen1987 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaJean Marie Lehn1987 · Chemistry · FranceDonald J Cram1987 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaJohn C Polanyi1986 · Chemistry · CanadaYuan T Lee1986 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaDudley R Herschbach1986 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaJerome Karle1985 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaHerbert Aaron Hauptman1985 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaBruce Merrifield1984 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaHenry Taube1983 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaAaron Klug1982 · Chemistry · Great BritainRoald Hoffmann1981 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaKenichi Fukui1981 · Chemistry · JapanWalter Gilbert1980 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaPaul Berg1980 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaGeorg Wittig1979 · Chemistry · GermanyHerbert Charles Brown1979 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaPeter Dennis Mitchell1978 · Chemistry · Great BritainWilliam Nunn Lipscomb1976 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaVladimir Prelog1975 · Chemistry · SwitzerlandJohn Warcup Cornforth1975 · Chemistry · AustraliaGeoffrey Wilkinson1973 · Chemistry · Great BritainErnst Otto Fischer1973 · Chemistry · GermanyWilliam Howard Stein1972 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaStanford Moore1972 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaGerhard Herzberg1971 · Chemistry · CanadaOdd Hassel1969 · Chemistry · NorwayDerek Harold Richard Barton1969 · Chemistry · Great BritainGeorge Porter1967 · Chemistry · Great BritainRonald George Wreyford Norrish1967 · Chemistry · Great BritainRobert Sanderson Mulliken1966 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaDorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin1964 · Chemistry · Great BritainGiulio Natta1963 · Chemistry · ItalyMax Ferdinand Perutz1962 · Chemistry · Great BritainJohn Cowdery Kendrew1962 · Chemistry · Great BritainMelvin Calvin1961 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaAlexander Robertus Todd1957 · Chemistry · Great BritainNikolay Nikolaevich Semenov1956 · Chemistry · RussiaCyril Norman Hinshelwood1956 · Chemistry · Great BritainLinus Pauling1954 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaHermann Staudinger1953 · Chemistry · GermanyRichard Laurence Millington Synge1952 · Chemistry · Great BritainArcher John Porter Martin1952 · Chemistry · Great BritainGlenn Theodore Seaborg1951 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaEdwin Mattison McMillan1951 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaOtto Diels1950 · Chemistry · GermanyKurt Alder1950 · Chemistry · GermanyArne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius1948 · Chemistry · SwedenJames Batcheller Sumner1946 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaWendell Meredith Stanley1946 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaJohn Howard Northrop1946 · Chemistry · United States of AmericaOtto Hahn1944 · Chemistry · GermanyLeopold Srtephen Ruzicka1939 · Chemistry · SwitzerlandAdolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt1939 · Chemistry · GermanyRichard Kuhn1938 · Chemistry · GermanyPaul Karrer1937 · Chemistry · SwitzerlandWalter Norman Haworth1937 · Chemistry · Great BritainPeter J. W. Debye1936 · Chemistry · NetherlandsIrene Joliot-Curie1935 · Chemistry · FranceHans Fischer1930 · Chemistry · GermanyAdolf Windaus1928 · Chemistry · GermanyTheodor Svedberg1926 · Chemistry · SwedenRichard Adolf Zsigmondy1925 · Chemistry · GermanyFritz Pregl1923 · Chemistry · AustriaFrancis William Aston1922 · Chemistry · Great BritainFrederick Soddy1921 · Chemistry · Great BritainFritz Haber1918 · Chemistry · GermanyAlfred Werner1913 · Chemistry · SwitzerlandMarie Sklodowska Curie1911 · Chemistry · PolandErnest Rutherford1908 · Chemistry · Great BritainWilliam Ramsay1904 · Chemistry · Great BritainSvante August Arrhenius1903 · Chemistry · SwedenHermann Emil Fischer1902 · Chemistry · GermanyEmil Herman Fischer1902 · Chemistry · GermanyJacobus Henricus van 't Hoff1901 · Chemistry · Netherlands
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