Nobel Prize for Chemistry Winner List (1901-2022) – Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards Nobel Prize for Chemistry in Stockholm “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefits on mankind” in the field of Chemistry. The Nobel prize for chemistry is one of the 6 categories of prizes according to the will of Swedish Inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel.
- In 1901, The first Nobel prize in chemistry was honoured to Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff for achieving the laws of chemistry dynamics and osmotic pressure.
- In 2022, the Nobel prize for Chemistry have been presented to three laureates for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry, to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten P. Medal, and K. Barry Sharpless.
List of Nobel Prize for Chemistry
| Year | Laureates | Achievements |
| 1901 | Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff | For laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure |
| 1902 | Emil Fischer | For work on sugar and purine syntheses |
| 1903 | Svante Arrhenius | For the theory of electrolytic dissociation |
| 1904 | Sir William Ramsay | For the discovery of inert gas elements and their places in the periodic system |
| 1905 | Adolf von Baeyer | For work on organic dyes, hydroaromatic compounds |
| 1906 | Henri Moissan | For the isolation of fluorine; the introduction of Moissan furnace |
| 1907 | Eduard Buchner | For the discovery of noncellular fermentation |
| 1908 | Ernest Rutherford | For investigations into the disintegration of elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances |
| 1909 | Wilhelm Ostwald | For pioneer work on catalysis, chemical equilibrium, and reaction velocities |
| 1910 | Otto Wallach | For pioneer work in alicyclic combinations |
| 1911 | Marie Curie | For the discovery of radium and polonium; the isolation of radium |
| 1912 | Victor Grignard | For the discovery of the Grignard reagents |
| 1912 | Paul Sabatier | For the method of hydrogenating organic compounds |
| 1913 | Alfred Werner | For work on the linkage of atoms in molecules |
| 1914 | Theodore William Richards | For accurate determination of the atomic weights of numerous elements |
| 1915 | Richard Willstätter | For pioneer research in plant pigments, especially chlorophyll |
| 1918 | Fritz Haber | For the synthesis of ammonia |
| 1920 | Walther Hermann Nernst | For the work in thermochemistry |
| 1921 | Frederick Soddy | For chemistry of radioactive substances; occurrence and nature of isotopes |
| 1922 | Francis William Aston | For work with mass spectrograph; whole-number rule |
| 1923 | Fritz Pregl | method of microanalysis of organic substances |
| 1925 | Richard Zsigmondy | For elucidation of the heterogeneous nature of colloidal solutions |
| 1926 | Theodor H.E. Svedberg | For work on dispersed systems |
| 1927 | Heinrich Otto Wieland | For researches into the constitution of bile acids |
| 1928 | Adolf Windaus | For constitution of sterols and their connection with vitamins |
| 1994 | George A. Olah | development of techniques to study hydrocarbon molecules |
| 1995 | Paul Crutzen | explanation of processes that deplete Earth’s ozone layer |
| 1995 | Mario Molina | explanation of processes that deplete Earth’s ozone layer |
| 1995 | F. Sherwood Rowland | explanation of processes that deplete Earth’s ozone layer |
| 1996 | Robert F. Curl, Jr. | discovery of new carbon compounds called fullerenes |
| 1996 | Sir Harold W. Kroto | discovery of new carbon compounds called fullerenes |
| 1996 | Richard E. Smalley | discovery of new carbon compounds called fullerenes |
| 1997 | Paul D. Boyer | explanation of the enzymatic conversion of adenosine triphosphate |
| 1997 | Jens C. Skou | discovery of sodium-potassium-activated adenosine triphosphatase |
| 1997 | John E. Walker | explanation of the enzymatic conversion of adenosine triphosphate |
| 1998 | Walter Kohn | development of the density-functional theory |
| 1998 | John A. Pople | development of computational methods in quantum chemistry |
| 1999 | Ahmed H. Zewail | study of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy |
| 2000 | Alan J. Heeger | discovery of plastics that conduct electricity |
| 2000 | Alan G. MacDiarmid | discovery of plastics that conduct electricity |
| 2000 | Shirakawa Hideki | discovery of plastics that conduct electricity |
| 2001 | William S. Knowles | work on chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions |
| 2001 | Noyori Ryoji | work on chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions |
| 2001 | K. Barry Sharpless | work on chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions |
| 2002 | John B. Fenn | development of techniques to identify and analyze proteins and other large molecules |
| 2002 | Tanaka Koichi | development of techniques to identify and analyze proteins and other large molecules |
| 2002 | Kurt Wüthrich | development of techniques to identify and analyze proteins and other large molecules |
| 2003 | Peter Agre | discoveries regarding water channels and ion channels in cells |
| 2003 | Roderick MacKinnon | discoveries regarding water channels and ion channels in cells |
| 2004 | Aaron Ciechanover | discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation |
| 2004 | Avram Hershko | discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation |
| 2004 | Irwin Rose | discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation |
| 2005 | Yves Chauvin | development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis |
| 2005 | Robert H. Grubbs | development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis |
| 2005 | Richard R. Schrock | development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis |
| 2006 | Roger D. Kornberg | work concerning the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription |
| 2007 | Gerhard Ertl | studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces |
| 2008 | Martin Chalfie | discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP |
| 2008 | Osamu Shimomura | discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP |
| 2008 | Roger Y. Tsien | discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP |
| 2009 | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | studies of the structure and function of the ribosome |
| 2009 | Thomas Steitz | studies of the structure and function of the ribosome |
| 2009 | Ada Yonath | studies of the structure and function of the ribosome |
| 2010 | Richard F. Heck | development of techniques to synthesize complex carbon molecules |
| 2010 | Negishi Ei-ichi | development of techniques to synthesize complex carbon molecules |
| 2010 | Suzuki Akira | development of techniques to synthesize complex carbon molecules |
| 2011 | Daniel Shechtman | discovery of quasicrystals |
| 2012 | Brian K. Kobilka | studies of G-protein-coupled receptors |
| 2012 | Robert J. Lefkowitz | studies of G-protein-coupled receptors |
| 2013 | Martin Karplus | development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems |
| 2013 | Michael Levitt | development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems |
| 2013 | Arieh Warshel | development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems |
| 2014 | Eric Betzig | development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy |
| 2014 | Stefan W. Hell | development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy |
| 2014 | William E. Moerner | development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy |
| 2015 | Tomas Lindahl | mechanistic studies of DNA repair |
| 2015 | Paul Modrich | mechanistic studies of DNA repair |
| 2015 | Aziz Sancar | mechanistic studies of DNA repair |
| 2016 | Jean-Pierre Sauvage | design and synthesis of molecular machines |
| 2016 | J. Fraser Stoddart | design and synthesis of molecular machines |
| 2016 | Bernard Feringa | design and synthesis of molecular machines |
| 2017 | Jacques Dubochet | development of cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution |
| 2017 | Joachim Frank | development of cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution |
| 2017 | Richard Henderson | development of cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution |
| 2018 | Frances Arnold | first directed evolution of enzymes |
| 2018 | George P. Smith | development of phage display, a method in which a bacteriophage can be used to evolve new proteins |
| 2018 | Gregory P. Winter | work using the phage display method for the directed evolution of antibodies |
| 2019 | John B. Goodenough | development of lithium-ion batteries |
| 2019 | M. Stanley Whittingham | development of lithium-ion batteries |
| 2019 | Yoshino Akira | development of lithium-ion batteries |
| 2020 | Emmanuelle Charpentier | development of a method for genome editing |
| 2020 | Jennifer Doudna | development of a method for genome editing |
| 2021 | Benjamin List | development of asymmetric organocatalysis |
| 2021 | David W.C. MacMillan | development of asymmetric organocatalysis |
| 2022 | Carolyn R. Bertozzi | development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry |
| 2022 | Morten P. Meldal | development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry |
| 2022 | K. Barry Sharpless | development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry |
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