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Nobel Prize in Chemistry

200 laureates awarded across 125 years of discovery (19012025), honoring outstanding contributions in the field of chemistry.

Total Laureates
200
First Awarded
1901
Latest Year
2025
Top Country
United States· 86

Distribution by Decade

1900s – 2020s
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14
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21
18
25
27
16
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Recent Laureates

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2025
Japan / Australia / United States

Susumu Kitagawa & Richard Robson & Omar M. Yaghi

for the development of metal–organic frameworks

2024
United States / United Kingdom / United States

David Baker & Demis Hassabis & John Jumper

for computational protein design

2023
United States / United States / United States

Moungi Bawendi & Louis Brus & Aleksey Yekimov

for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots

Complete Directory

YearLaureate
2025
Susumu Kitagawa Japan
2025
Richard Robson Australia
2025
Omar M. Yaghi United States
2024
David Baker United States
2024
Demis Hassabis United Kingdom
2024
John Jumper United States
2023
Moungi Bawendi United States
2023
Louis Brus United States
2023
Aleksey Yekimov United States
2022
Carolyn Bertozzi United States
2022
Morten Meldal Denmark
2022
K. Barry Sharpless United States
2021
Benjamin List Germany
2021
David W.C. MacMillan United States
2020
Emmanuelle Charpentier France
2020
Jennifer A. Doudna United States
2019
John B. Goodenough United States
2019
M. Stanley Whittingham United States
2019
Akira Yoshino Japan
2018
Frances H. Arnold United States
2018
George P. Smith United States
2018
Sir Gregory P. Winter United Kingdom
2017
Jacques Dubochet Switzerland
2017
Joachim Frank United States
2017
Richard Henderson United Kingdom
2016
Jean-Pierre Sauvage France
2016
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart United States
2016
Ben Feringa Netherlands
2015
Tomas Lindahl Sweden
2015
Paul Modrich United States
2015
Aziz Sancar Turkey
2014
Eric Betzig United States
2014
Stefan Hell Germany
2014
William E. Moerner United States
2013
Martin Karplus United States
2013
Michael Levitt Israel
2013
Arieh Warshel United States
2012
Robert J. Lefkowitz United States
2012
Brian Kobilka United States
2011
Dan Shechtman United States
2010
Richard F. Heck United States
2010
Ei-ichi Negishi Japan
2010
Akira Suzuki Japan
2009
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan United States
2009
Thomas A. Steitz United States
2009
Ada Yonath Israel
2008
Osamu Shimomura Japan
2008
Martin Chalfie United States
2008
Roger Y. Tsien United States
2007
Gerhard Ertl Germany
2006
Roger D. Kornberg United States
2005
Yves Chauvin France
2005
Robert H. Grubbs United States
2005
Richard R. Schrock United States
2004
Irwin Rose United States
2004
Aaron Ciechanover Israel
2004
Avram Hershko Israel
2003
Peter Agre United States
2003
Roderick MacKinnon United States
2002
John B. Fenn United States
2002
Koichi Tanaka Japan
2002
Kurt Wüthrich Switzerland
2001
William Knowles United States
2001
Ryōji Noyori Japan
2001
K. Barry Sharpless United States
2000
Alan Heeger United States
2000
Alan MacDiarmid United States
2000
Hideki Shirakawa Japan
1999
Ahmed Zewail United States
1998
Walter Kohn United States
1998
John Pople United Kingdom
1997
Paul D. Boyer United States
1997
John E. Walker United Kingdom
1997
Jens Christian Skou Denmark
1996
Robert F. Curl Jr. United States
1996
Sir Harold Kroto United Kingdom
1996
Richard E. Smalley United States
1995
Paul Josef Crutzen Germany
1995
Mario Molina United States
1995
F. Sherwood Rowland United States
1994
George A. Olah United States
1993
Kary B. Mullis United States
1993
Michael Smith Canada
1992
Rudolph A. Marcus United States
1991
Richard R. Ernst Switzerland
1990
Elias James Corey United States
1989
Sidney Altman United States
1989
Thomas R. Cech United States
1988
Johann Deisenhofer United States
1988
Robert Huber Germany
1988
Hartmut Michel Germany
1987
Donald J. Cram United States
1987
Jean-Marie Lehn France
1987
Charles J. Pedersen United States
1986
Dudley R. Herschbach United States
1986
Yuan T. Lee Taiwan
1986
John C. Polanyi Canada
1985
Herbert A. Hauptman United States
1985
Jerome Karle United States
1984
Bruce Merrifield United States
1983
Henry Taube United States
1982
Aaron Klug United Kingdom
1981
Kenichi Fukui Japan
1981
Roald Hoffmann Poland
1980
Paul Berg United States
1980
Walter Gilbert United States
1980
Frederick Sanger United Kingdom
1979
Herbert C. Brown United States
1979
Georg Wittig Germany
1978
Peter D. Mitchell United Kingdom
1977
Ilya Prigogine Belgium
1976
William Lipscomb United States
1975
John Cornforth Australia
1975
Vladimir Prelog Serbia
1974
Paul J. Flory United States
1973
Ernst Otto Fischer Germany
1973
Geoffrey Wilkinson United Kingdom
1972
Christian Anfinsen United States
1972
Stanford Moore United States
1972
William H. Stein United States
1971
Gerhard Herzberg Canada
1970
Luis Leloir Argentina
1969
Derek Barton United Kingdom
1969
Odd Hassel Norway
1968
Lars Onsager United States
1967
Manfred Eigen Germany
1967
Ronald G.W. Norrish United Kingdom
1967
George Porter United Kingdom
1966
Robert S. Mulliken United States
1965
Robert B. Woodward United States
1964
Dorothy Hodgkin United Kingdom
1963
Karl Ziegler Germany
1963
Giulio Natta Italy
1962
Max F. Perutz United Kingdom
1962
John C. Kendrew United Kingdom
1961
Melvin Calvin United States
1960
Willard F. Libby United States
1959
Jaroslav Heyrovsky Czech Republic
1958
Frederick Sanger United Kingdom
1957
Lord Todd United Kingdom
1956
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood United Kingdom
1956
Nikolay Semenov Russia
1955
Vincent du Vigneaud United States
1954
Linus Pauling United States
1953
Hermann Staudinger Germany
1952
Archer John Porter Martin United Kingdom
1952
Richard L.M. Synge United Kingdom
1951
Edwin M. McMillan United States
1951
Glenn T. Seaborg United States
1950
Otto Diels Germany
1950
Kurt Alder Germany
1949
William Giauque United States
1948
Arne Tiselius Sweden
1947
Sir Robert Robinson United Kingdom
1946
James B. Sumner United States
1946
John H. Northrop United States
1946
Wendell M. Stanley United States
1945
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Finland
1944
Otto Hahn Germany
1943
George de Hevesy Sweden
1939
Adolf Butenandt Germany
1939
Leopold Ruzicka Austria
1938
Richard Kuhn Germany
1937
Norman Haworth United Kingdom
1937
Paul Karrer Switzerland
1936
Peter Debye United States
1935
Frédéric Joliot-Curie France
1935
Irène Joliot-Curie France
1934
Harold C. Urey United States
1932
Irving Langmuir United States
1931
Carl Bosch Germany
1931
Friedrich Bergius Germany
1930
Hans Fischer Germany
1929
Arthur Harden United Kingdom
1929
Hans von Euler-Chelpin Sweden
1928
Adolf Windaus Germany
1927
Heinrich Wieland Germany
1926
Theodor Svedberg Sweden
1925
Richard Zsigmondy Austria
1923
Fritz Pregl Serbia
1922
Francis W. Aston United Kingdom
1921
Frederick Soddy United Kingdom
1920
Walther Nernst Germany
1918
Fritz Haber Germany
1915
Richard Willstätter Germany
1914
Theodore W. Richards United States
1913
Alfred Werner Switzerland
1912
Victor Grignard France
1912
Paul Sabatier France
1911
Marie Curie Russia
1910
Otto Wallach Germany
1909
Wilhelm Ostwald Germany
1908
Ernest Rutherford New Zealand
1907
Eduard Buchner Germany
1906
Henri Moissan France
1905
Adolf von Baeyer Germany
1904
Sir William Ramsay United Kingdom
1903
Svante August Arrhenius Sweden
1902
Emil Fischer Germany
1901
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Netherlands
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