Number of Nobel Laureates* in Chemistry

 

About the Nobel Prizes

Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award

 

All Nobel Prizes in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 103 times to 161 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2011. Frederick Sanger is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1958 and 1980. This means that a total of 160 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Click on the links to get more information.

2012
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has not been awarded yet. It will be announced on Wednesday 10 October, 11:45 a.m. CET at the earliest.

2011
Dan Shechtman

2010
Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira Suzuki

2009
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, Ada E. Yonath

2008
Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y. Tsien

2007
Gerhard Ertl

2006
Roger D. Kornberg

2005
Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock

2004
Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose

2003
Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon

2002
John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich

2001
William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless

2000
Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa

1999
Ahmed H. Zewail

1998
Walter Kohn, John A. Pople

1997
Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou

1996
Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley

1995
Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland

1994
George A. Olah

1993
Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith

1992
Rudolph A. Marcus

1991
Richard R. Ernst

1990
Elias James Corey

1989
Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech

1988
Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel

1987
Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen

1986
Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi

1985
Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle

1984
Robert Bruce Merrifield

1983
Henry Taube

1982
Aaron Klug

1981
Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann

1980
Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger

1979
Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig

1978
Peter D. Mitchell

1977
Ilya Prigogine

1976
William N. Lipscomb

1975
John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog

1974
Paul J. Flory

1973
Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson

1972
Christian B. Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein

1971
Gerhard Herzberg

1970
Luis F. Leloir

1969
Derek H. R. Barton, Odd Hassel

1968
Lars Onsager

1967
Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter

1966
Robert S. Mulliken

1965
Robert Burns Woodward

1964
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

1963
Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta

1962
Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew

1961
Melvin Calvin

1960
Willard Frank Libby

1959
Jaroslav Heyrovsky

1958
Frederick Sanger

1957
Lord (Alexander R.) Todd

1956
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov

1955
Vincent du Vigneaud

1954
Linus Carl Pauling

1953
Hermann Staudinger

1952
Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge

1951
Edwin Mattison McMillan, Glenn Theodore Seaborg

1950
Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder

1949
William Francis Giauque

1948
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius

1947
Sir Robert Robinson

1946
James Batcheller Sumner, John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley

1945
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

1944
Otto Hahn

1943
George de Hevesy

1942
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1941
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1940
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1939
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka

1938
Richard Kuhn

1937
Walter Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer

1936
Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye

1935
Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie

1934
Harold Clayton Urey

1933
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1932
Irving Langmuir

1931
Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius

1930
Hans Fischer

1929
Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin

1928
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus

1927
Heinrich Otto Wieland

1926
The (Theodor) Svedberg

1925
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

1924
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1923
Fritz Pregl

1922
Francis William Aston

1921
Frederick Soddy

1920
Walther Hermann Nernst

1919
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1918
Fritz Haber

1917
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1916
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1915
Richard Martin Willstätter

1914
Theodore William Richards

1913
Alfred Werner

1912
Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier

1911
Marie Curie, née Sklodowska

1910
Otto Wallach

1909
Wilhelm Ostwald

1908
Ernest Rutherford

1907
Eduard Buchner

1906
Henri Moissan

1905
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer

1904
Sir William Ramsay

1903
Svante August Arrhenius

1902
Hermann Emil Fischer

1901
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

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