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Chemistry

2001  William Knowles, K. Barry Sharpless, Ryoji Noyori
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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  The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1941  The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1940  The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 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  The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 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  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   The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1918  Fritz Haber

1917  The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1916  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

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