The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is presented yearly by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the different fields of chemistry. Nobel Prize in Chemistry is one of the five Nobel Prizes started by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895. This award is governed by the Nobel Foundation and awarded by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on the proposal of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry which comprises of five representatives elected by Academy. The award is given in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death. The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was presented in 1901 to Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, of the Netherlands. He was given this award “for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions.” The committee and institution serving as the selection board for the prize typically declare the names of the laureates in October. The award is then presented at a formal function held annually on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. The Nobel winners in chemistry are elected by a committee that comprises five members elected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In its first stage, several thousand people are asked to nominate candidates.
List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry–
Year | Laureate | Country |
2018 | Frances Arnold | United States |
George Smith | United States | |
Gregory Winter | United Kingdom | |
2017 | Jacques Dubochet | Switzerland |
Joachim Frank | Germany/United States | |
Richard Henderson | United Kingdom | |
2016 | Jean-Pierre Sauvage | France |
Fraser Stoddart | United Kingdom/United States | |
Ben Feringa | Netherlands | |
2015 | Tomas Lindahl | Sweden/United Kingdom |
Paul L. Modrich | United States | |
Aziz Sancar | United States/Turkey | |
2014 | Eric Betzig | United States |
Stefan W. Hell | Germany/Romania | |
William E. Moerner | United States | |
2013 | Martin Karplus | United States/Austria |
Michael Levitt | United States/United Kingdom/Israel | |
Arieh Warshel | United States/Israel | |
2012 | Robert Lefkowitz | United States |
Brian Kobilka | United States | |
2011 | Dan Shechtman | Israel |
2010 | Richard F. Heck | United States |
Ei-ichi Negishi | Japan | |
Akira Suzuki | Japan | |
2009 | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | United States/India/ United Kingdom |
Thomas A. Steitz | United States | |
Ada E. Yonath | Israel | |
2008 | Osamu Shimomura | Japan |
Martin Chalfie | United States | |
Roger Y. Tsien | United States | |
2007 | Gerhard Ertl | Germany |
2006 | Roger D. Kornberg | United States |
2005 | Robert H. Grubbs | United States |
Richard R. Schrock | United States | |
Yves Chauvin | France | |
2004 | Aaron Ciechanover | Israel |
Avram Hershko | Israel | |
Irwin Rose | United States | |
2003 | Peter Agre | United States |
Roderick MacKinnon | United States | |
2002 | John B. Fenn | United States |
Koichi Tanaka | Japan | |
Kurt Wüthrich | Switzerland | |
2001 | Ryoji Noyori | Japan |
William S. Knowles | United States | |
K. Barry Sharpless | United States | |
2000 | Alan J. Heeger | United States |
Alan G. MacDiarmid | United States/New Zealand | |
Hideki Shirakawa | Japan | |
1999 | Ahmed Zewail | United States/Egypt |
1998 | Walter Kohn | United States |
John A. Pople | United Kingdom | |
1997 | Paul D. Boyer | United States |
John E. Walker | United Kingdom | |
Jens C. Skou | Denmark | |
1996 | Robert F. Curl Jr. | United States |
Sir Harold W. Kroto | United Kingdom | |
Richard E. Smalley | United States | |
1995 | Paul J. Crutzen | Netherlands |
Mario J. Molina | Mexico | |
F. Sherwood Rowland | United States | |
1994 | George A. Olah | United States/Hungary |
1993 | Kary B. Mullis | United States |
Michael Smith | Canada | |
1992 | Rudolph A. Marcus | United States/Canada |
1991 | Richard R. Ernst | Switzerland |
1990 | Elias James Corey | United States |
1989 | Sidney Altman | Canada/United States |
Thomas Cech | United States | |
1988 | Johann Deisenhofer | West Germany |
Robert Huber | West Germany | |
Hartmut Michel | West Germany | |
1987 | Donald J. Cram | United States |
Jean-Marie Lehn | France | |
Charles J. Pedersen | United States | |
1986 | Dudley R. Herschbach | United States |
Yuan T. Lee | United States/Taiwan | |
John C. Polanyi | Canada/Hungary | |
1985 | Herbert A. Hauptman | United States |
Jerome Karle | United States | |
1984 | Robert Bruce Merrifield | United States |
1983 | Henry Taube | United States |
1982 | Aaron Klug | United Kingdom |
1981 | Kenichi Fukui | Japan |
Roald Hoffmann | United States/Poland | |
1980 | Paul Berg | United States |
Walter Gilbert | United States | |
Frederick Sanger | United Kingdom | |
1979 | Herbert C. Brown | United States |
Georg Wittig | West Germany | |
1978 | Peter D. Mitchell | United Kingdom |
1977 | Ilya Prigogine | Belgium |
1976 | William N. Lipscomb | United States |
1975 | John Warcup Cornforth | Australia/United Kingdom |
Vladimir Prelog | Yugoslavia/Switzerland | |
1974 | Paul J. Flory | United States |
1973 | Ernst Otto Fischer | West Germany |
Geoffrey Wilkinson | United Kingdom | |
1972 | Christian B. Anfinsen | United States |
Stanford Moore | United States | |
William H. Stein | United States | |
1971 | Gerhard Herzberg | Canada/West Germany |
1970 | Luis F. Leloir | Argentina |
1969 | Derek H. R. Barton | United Kingdom |
Odd Hassel | Norway | |
Derek H. R. Barton | United Kingdom | |
1968 | Lars Onsager | United States/Norway |
1967 | Manfred Eigen | West Germany |
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish | United Kingdom | |
George Porter | United Kingdom | |
1966 | Robert S. Mulliken | United States |
1965 | Robert Burns Woodward | United States |
1964 | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | United Kingdom |
1963 | Karl Ziegler | West Germany |
Giulio Natta | Italy | |
1962 | Max Ferdinand Perutz | United Kingdom |
John Cowdery Kendrew | United Kingdom | |
1961 | Melvin Calvin | United States |
1960 | Willard Frank Libby | United States |
1959 | Jaroslav Heyrovsky | Czechoslovakia |
1958 | Frederick Sanger | United Kingdom |
1957 | Lord (Alexander R.) Todd | United Kingdom |
1956 | Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood | United Kingdom |
Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov | Soviet Union | |
1955 | Vincent du Vigneaud | United States |
1954 | Linus Pauling | United States |
1953 | Hermann Staudinger | West Germany |
1952 | Archer John Porter Martin | United Kingdom |
Richard Laurence Millington Synge | United Kingdom | |
1951 | Edwin Mattison McMillan | United States |
Glenn Theodore Seaborg | United States | |
1950 | Otto Paul Hermann Diels | West Germany |
Kurt Alder | West Germany | |
1949 | William Francis Giauque | United States |
1948 | Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius | Sweden |
1947 | Sir Robert Robinson | United Kingdom |
1946 | James Batcheller Sumner | United States |
John Howard Northrop | United States | |
Wendell Meredith Stanley | United States | |
1945 | Artturi Ilmari Virtanen | Finland |
1944 | Otto Hahn | Germany |
1943 | George de Hevesy | Germany |
1942 | Not awarded | |
1941 | ||
1940 | ||
1939 | Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt | Germany |
Leopold Ruzicka | Kingdom of Yugoslavia/Switzerland | |
1938 | Richard Kuhn | Germany |
1937 | Walter Norman Haworth | United Kingdom |
Paul Karrer | Switzerland | |
1936 | Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye | Netherlands |
1935 | Frederic Joliot | France |
Irene Joliot-Curie | France | |
1934 | Harold Clayton Urey | United States |
1933 | Not awarded | |
1932 | Irving Langmuir | United States |
1931 | Carl Bosch | Germany |
Friedrich Bergius | Germany | |
1930 | Hans Fischer | Germany |
1929 | Arthur Harden | United Kingdom |
Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin | Sweden | |
1928 | Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus | Germany |
1927 | Heinrich Otto Wieland | Germany |
1926 | The (Theodor) Svedberg | Sweden |
1925 | Richard Adolf Zsigmondy | Germany/Hungary |
1924 | Not awarded | |
1923 | Fritz Pregl | Austria/Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
1922 | Francis William Aston | United Kingdom |
1921 | Frederick Soddy | United Kingdom |
1920 | Walther Hermann Nernst | Germany |
1919 | Not awarded | |
1918 | Fritz Haber | Germany |
1917 | Not awarded | |
1916 | ||
1915 | Richard Martin Willstatter | Germany |
1914 | Theodore William Richards | United States |
1913 | Alfred Werner | Switzerland |
1912 | Victor Grignard | France |
Paul Sabatier | France | |
1911 | Maria Skłodowska-Curie | Poland |
1910 | Otto Wallach | Germany |
1909 | Wilhelm Ostwald | Germany |
1908 | Ernest Rutherford | United Kingdom |
1907 | Eduard Buchner | Germany |
1906 | Henri Moissan | France |
1905 | Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer | Germany |
1904 | Sir William Ramsay | United Kingdom |
1903 | Svante August Arrhenius | Sweden |
1902 | Hermann Emil Fischer | Germany |
1901 | Jacobus Henricus van t Hoff | Netherlands |