Here's a List of Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences annually awards the Nobel Prize to scientists, who have made valuable contributions in the field of chemistry. Here are the scientists, who find their names in the esteemed list of winners.

“It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.” – Marie Curie

Alfred Nobel, the inventor of ‘Dynamite’, was the mastermind behind starting Nobel Prizes to honor the great achievements in some subjects, chemistry being one of them. While signing his last will and testament on November 27, 1895, he kept a large share of his fortune for Nobel Prizes. Since the year 1901, Nobel Prizes are being awarded, and each award consists of a personal diploma, a medal, and cash prize.

From 1901 to 2012, a total 105 awards have been awarded, of which 63 have been given to one laureate, 23 have been shared by two laureates, and 19 by three laureates. Since the Nobel Prize started, in all 166 honorees in the field of Chemistry have been awarded till date. Frederick Sanger was the only one to receive this honor twice; so a total of 165 individuals have received this award for their extraordinary work. Check out the following list of Nobel laureates, who have been bestowed with this honor.

Source: Nobelprize.org

List of Laureates

1901-1920

Name – Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff Country – Netherlands Awarded for – Discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions	1901
Name – Hermann Emil Fischer Country – Germany Awarded for – Work on sugar and purine synthesis	1902
Name – Svante August Arrhenius Country – Sweden Awarded for – Electrolytic theory of dissociation	1903
Name – Sir William Ramsay Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Discovery of inert gaseous elements in air and their places in the periodic table	1904
Name – Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer Country – Germany Awarded for – Work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds	1905
Name – Henri Moissan Country – France Awarded for – Isolation of fluorine element	1906
Name – Eduard Buchner Country – Germany Awarded for – Discovery of cell-free fermentation	1907
Name – Ernest Rutherford Country – New Zealand/United Kingdom Awarded for – Investigations into the disintegration of the elements, chemistry of radioactive substances	1908
Name – Wilhelm Ostwald Country – Germany Awarded for – Work on catalysis and investigations into the fundamental principles bearing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction	1909
Name – Otto Wallach Country – Germany Awarded for – Work on alicyclic compounds	1910
Name – Marie Curie Country – Poland/France Awarded for – Discovery of radium and polonium	1911
Name – Victor Grignard Country – France Awarded for – Discovery of the Grignard reagent	1912
Name – Paul Sabatier Country – France Awarded for – Method of hydrogenating organic compounds	1912
Name – Alfred Werner Country – Switzerland Awarded for – Work on the linkage of atoms in molecules	1913
Name – Theodore William Richards Country – United States Awarded for – Determination of atomic weight of many chemical elements	1914
Name – Richard Martin Willstätter Country – Germany Awarded for – Research on plant pigments – chlorophyll	1915
Name – Fritz Haber Country – Germany Awarded for – Synthesis of ammonia	1918
Name – Walther Hermann Nernst Country – Germany Awarded for – Work in thermochemistry	1920

1921-1939

Name – Frederick Soddy Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes	1921
Name – Francis William Aston Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Discovery of mass spectrograph and enunciation of whole-number rule	1922
Name – Fritz Pregl Country – Austria Awarded for – Invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic compounds	1923
Name – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy Country – Hungary/Germany Awarded for – Demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions	1925
Name – Theodor Svedberg Country – Sweden Awarded for – Work on disperse systems	1926
Name – Heinrich Otto Wieland Country – Germany Awarded for – Investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances	1927
Name – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus Country – Germany Awarded for – Research into the constitutions of the sterols and connections with vitamins	1928
Name – Sir Arthur Harden Country – United Kingdom Name – Hans von Euler-Chelpin Country – Germany Awarded for – Investigation on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes	1929
Name – Hans Fischer Country – Germany Awarded for – Research into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll	1930
Name – Friedrich Bergius Name – Carl Bosch Country – Germany Awarded for – Invention and development of chemical high pressure methods	1931
Name – Irving Langmuir Country – United States Awarded for – Discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry	1932
Name – Harold Clayton Urey Country – United States Awarded for – Discovery of heavy hydrogen	1934
Name – Jean Frédéric Joliot Name – Iréne Joliot-Curie Country – France Awarded for – Synthesis of new radioactive elements	1935
Name – Peter Josephus Wilhelmus Debye Country – Netherlands Awarded for – Investigation on dipole moments, diffraction of X-ray, and electrons in gases	1936
Name – Walter Norman Haworth Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C	1937
Name – Paul Karrer Country – Switzerland Awarded for – Investigations on carotenoids, flavins, and vitamins A and B2	1937
Name – Richard Kuhn Country – Germany Awarded for – Work on carotenoids and vitamins	1938
Name – Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt Country – Germany Awarded for – Work on sex hormones	1939
Name – Leopold Ruzicka Country – Croatia Awarded for – Work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes	1939

1943-1960

Name – George de Hevesy Country – Hungary Awarded for – Work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes	1943
Name – Otto Hahn Country – Germany Awarded for – Discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei	1944
Name – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Country – Finland Awarded for – Research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method	1945
Name – Wendell Meredith Stanley Name – James Batcheller Sumner Name – John Howard Northrop Country – United States Awarded for – Preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form	1946
Name – Sir Robert Robinson Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Investigations on plant products of biological importance	1947
Name – Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius Country – Sweden Awarded for – Research on electrophoresis	1948
Name – William Francis Giauque Country – United States Awarded for – Contribution in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behavior of substances at extremely low temperatures	1949
Name – Kurt Alder Name – Otto Paul Hermann Diels Country – Germany Awarded for – Discovery and development of the diene synthesis	1950
Name – Glenn Theodore Seaborg Name – Edwin Mattison McMillan Country – United States Awarded for – Discovery of transuranium elements	1951
Name – Richard Laurence Millington Synge Name – Archer John Porter Martin Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Invention of partition chromatography	1952
Name – Hermann Staudinger Country – Germany Awarded for – Discoveries in macromolecular chemistry	1953
Name – Linus Carl Pauling Country – United States Awarded for – Research into the nature of the chemical bond	1954
Name – Vincent du Vigneaud Country – United States Awarded for – Work on biochemically important sulfur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone	1955
Name – Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Country – United Kingdom Name – Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov Country – Russia Awarded for – Research into the mechanism of chemical reactions	1956
Name – Sir Alexander Todd Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes	1957
Name – Frederick Sanger Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Work on the structure of proteins (specially insulin)	1958
Name – Jaroslav Heyrovský Country – Czech Republic Awarded for – Discovery of the polarographic method of analysis	1959
Name – Willard Frank Libby Country – United States Awarded for – Method to use carbon-14 for age determination	1960

1961-1980

Name – Melvin Calvin Country – United States Awarded for – Research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants	1961
Name – Max Ferdinand Perutz Name – John Cowdery Kendrew Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Work on structure of globular proteins	1962
Name – Karl Ziegler Country – Germany Name – Giulio Natta Country – Italy Awarded for – Discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers	1963
Name – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances	1964
Name – Robert Burns Woodward Country – United States Awarded for – Achievements in the art of organic synthesis	1965
Name – Robert S. Mulliken Country – United States Awarded for – Fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method	1966
Name – Manfred Eigen Country – Germany Name – George Porter Country – United Kingdom Name – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Studies of extremely fast chemical reactions	1967
Name – Lars Onsager Country – United States Awarded for – Discovery of the Onsager reciprocal relations	1968
Name – Derek H. R. Barton Country – United Kingdom Name – Odd Hassel Country – Norway Awarded for – Development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry	1969
Name – Luis F. Leloir Country – Argentina Awarded for – Discovery of sugar nucleotides and its role in biosynthesis of carbohydrates	1970
Name – Gerhard Herzberg Country – Canada Awarded for – Work on electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals	1971
Name – Christian B. Anfinsen Name – William H. Stein Name – Stanford Moore Country – United States Awarded for – Work on ribonuclease concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation	1972
Name – Geoffrey Wilkinson Country – United Kingdom Name – Ernst Otto Fischer Country – Germany Awarded for – Work on chemistry of the organometallic compounds (so-called sandwich compounds)	1973
Name – Paul J. Flory Country – United States Awarded for – Fundamental work, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules	1974
Name – Vladimir Prelog Country – Yugoslavia/Switzerland Awarded for – Research on stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions	1975
Name – John Warcup Cornforth Country – Australia/United Kingdom Awarded for – Work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions	1975
Name – William N. Lipscomb Country – United States Awarded for – Study on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding	1976
Name – Ilya Prigogine Country – Belgium Awarded for – Contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures	1977
Name – Peter D. Mitchell Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Work on biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory	1978
Name – Georg Wittig Country – Germany Name – Herbert C. Brown Country – United States Awarded for – Development and use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds	1979
Name – Paul Berg Country – United States Awarded for – Study of the biochemistry of nucleic acids regarding recombinant-DNA	1980
Name – Walter Gilbert Country – United States Name – Frederick Sanger Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Work concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids	1980

1981-2000

Name – Roald Hoffmann Country – United States Name – Kenichi Fukui Country – Japan Awarded for – Theories concerning the course of chemical reactions	1981
Name – Aaron Klug Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Development of crystallographic electron microscopy	1982
Name – Henry Taube Country – Canada/United States Awarded for – Work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes	1983
Name – Robert Bruce Merrifield Country – United States Awarded for – Methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix	1984
Name – Herbert A. Hauptman Name – Jerome Karle Country – United States Awarded for – Developing direct methods for the determination of crystal structures	1985
Name – Dudley R. Herschbach Country – United States Name – Yuan T. Lee Country – United States/Taiwan Name – John C. Polanyi Country – Canada/Hungary Awarded for – Contribution concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes	1986
Name – Charles J. Pedersen Country – United States Name – Jean-Marie Lehn Country – France Name – Donald J. Cram Country – United States Awarded for – Development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity	1987
Name – Robert Huber Name – Hartmut Michel Name – Johann Deisenhofer Country – Germany Awarded for – Determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction center	1988
Name – Sidney Altman Country – Canada/United States Name – Thomas R. Cech Country – United States Awarded for – Discovery of catalytic properties of RNA	1989
Name – Elias James Corey Country – United States Awarded for – Theory of organic synthesis	1990
Name – Richard R. Ernst Country – Switzerland Awarded for – Methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy	1991
Name – Richard R. Ernst Country – Switzerland Awarded for – Methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy	1992
Name – Michael Smith Country – Canada/United Kingdom Awarded for – Establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis	1993
Name – Kary B. Mullis Country – United States Awarded for – Invention of the polymerase chain reaction method	1993
Name – George A. Olah Country – United States/Hungary Awarded for – Contribution to carbocation chemistry	1994
Name – Paul J. Crutzen Country – Netherlands Awarded for – Work in atmospheric chemistry concerning formation and decomposition of ozone	1995
Name – Mario J. Molina Country – Mexico/United States Name – F. Sherwood Rowland Country – United States Awarded for – Work in atmospheric chemistry concerning formation and decomposition of ozone	1995
Name – Robert F. Curl Jr. Name – Richard E. Smalley Country – United States Name – Sir Harold W. Kroto Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Discovery of fullerenes	1996
Name – Paul D. Boyer Country – United States Name – John E. Walker Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate	1997
Name – Jens C. Skou Country – Denmark Awarded for – First discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na⁺, K⁺ -ATPase	1997
Name – Walter Kohn Country – United States Awarded for – Development of the density-functional theory	1998
Name – John A. Pople Country – United Kingdom Awarded for – Development of computational methods in quantum chemistry	1998
Name – Ahmed Zewail Country – Egypt/United States Awarded for – Study of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy	1999
Name – Alan J. Heeger Country – United States Name – Alan G. MacDiarmid Country – New Zealand/United States Name – Hideki Shirakawa Country – Japan Awarded for – Discovery and development of conductive polymers	2000

2001-2015

Name – William S. Knowles Country – United States Name – Ryōji Noyori Country – Japan Name – K. Barry Sharpless Country – United States Awarded for – Work on chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions	2001
Name – John B. Fenn Country – United States Name – Koichi Tanaka Country – Japan Awarded for – Development of soft desorption ionization methods for mass spectrometric analyzes of biological macromolecules	2002
Name – Kurt Wüthrich Country – Switzerland Awarded for – Development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution	2002
Name – Peter Agre Country – United States Awarded for – Discovery of water channels – aquaporins	2003
Name – Roderick MacKinnon Country – United States Awarded for – Discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes, studies of ion channels	2003
Name – Aaron Ciechanover Country – Israel Name – Irwin Rose Country – United States Name – Avram Hershko Country – Israel Awarded for – Discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation	2004
Name – Yves Chauvin Country – France Name – Robert H. Grubbs Country – United States Name – Richard R. Schrock Country – United States Awarded for – Development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis	2005
Name – Roger D. Kornberg Country – United States Awarded for – Study of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcriptions	2006
Name – Gerhard Ertl Country – Germany Awarded for – Study of chemical processes on solid surfaces	2007
Name – Osamu Shimomura Country – Japan Name – Martin Chalfie Country – United States Name – Roger Y. Tsien Country – United States Awarded for – Discovery of the green fluorescent protein	2008
Name – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Name – Thomas A. Steitz Country – United States Name – Ada E. Yonath Country – Israel Awarded for – Study of the structure and function of ribosome	2009
Name – Richard F. Heck Country – United States Name – Ei-ichi Negishi Country – China/United States Name – Akira Suzuki Country – Japan Awarded for – Work on palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis	2010
Name – Dan Shechtman Country – Israel Awarded for – Discovery of quasicrystals	2011
Name – Robert Lefkowitz Name – Brian Kobilka Country – United States Awarded for – Study of G-protein-coupled receptors	2012
Name – Martin Karplus Country – United States/Austria Name – Michael Levitt Country – United Kingdom/United States/Israel Name – Arieh Warshel Country – United States/Israel Awarded for – The development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.	2013
Name – Eric Betzig Name – Moerner, William E. Name – Stefan Hell Country – United States, United States and Germany respectively Awarded for – Development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.	2014
Name – Tomas Lindahl Name – Paul L. Modrich Name – Aziz Sancar Country – Sweden, United States and Turkey respectively Awarded for – Mechanistic studies of DNA repair.	2015

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