Other Nobel Prizes : Physics - Medicine - Literature - Peace - Economics The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded every year since 1901 with the exception of 1916, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1933, 1940, 1941 and 1942 when the award money was distributed back into the Special Fund for Chemistry or portioned out between the Chemistry Fund and the Main Fund. Each Nobel Laureate receives a medal and prize money to go with their fame. The following is a list of the Nobel Laureates in Chemistry. The bold names indicate that a writeup exists whether extensive or brief. The names appear here for the most part as they are listed at the Nobel Prize website. They have been linked via pipeline when a variation occurs in the name title for an existing writeup. - 1901 - Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff
- 1902 - Hermann Emil Fischer
- 1903 - Svante August Arrhenius
- 1904 - Sir William Ramsay
- 1905 - Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
- 1906 - Henri Moissan
- 1907 - Eduard Bucher
- 1908 - Ernest Rutherford
- 1909 - Wilhelm Ostwald
- 1910 - Otto Wallach
- 1911 - Marie Curie
- 1912 - Victor Grinard, Paul Sabatier
- 1913 - Alfred Werner
- 1914 - Theodore William Richards
- 1915 - Richard Willstatter
- 1916 - prize money allocated to special fund of this section
- 1917 - prize money allocated to special fund of this section
- 1918 - Fritz Haber
- 1919 - prize money allocated to special fund of this section
- 1920 - Walther Hermann Nernst
- 1921 - Frederick Soddy
- 1922 - Francis William Aston
- 1923 - Fritz Pregl
- 1924 - prize money allocated to special fund of this section
- 1925 - Richard Zsigmondy
- 1926 - Theodor Svedberg
- 1927 - Heinrich Otto Wieland
- 1928 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
- 1929 - Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
- 1930 - Hans Fischer
- 1931 - Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
- 1932 - Irving Langmuir
- 1933 - 1/3 of prize money allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
- 1934 - Harold Clayton Urey
- 1935 - Frederic Joliot-Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie
- 1936 - Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
- 1937 - Walter Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer
- 1938 - Richard Kuhn
- 1939 - Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka
- 1940 - 1/3 of prize money allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
- 1941 - 1/3 of prize money allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
- 1942 - 1/3 of prize money allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
- 1943 - George de Hevesy
- 1944 - Otto Hahn
- 1945 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
- 1946 - James B. Sumner, John H. Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley
- 1947 - Sir Robert Robinson
- 1948 - Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
- 1949 - William Francis Giauque
- 1950 - Otto Paull Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder
- 1951 - Edwin Mattison McMillan, Glenn Seaborg
- 1952 - Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge
- 1953 - Hermann Staudinger
- 1954 - Linus Pauling
- 1955 - Vincent du Vigneaud
- 1956 - Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
- 1957 - Lord Alexander R. Todd
- 1958 - Frederick Sanger
- 1959 - Jaroslav Heyrovsky
- 1960 - Willard Libby
- 1961 - Melvin Calvin
- 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew
- 1963 - Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
- 1964 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- 1965 - Robert Burns Woodward
- 1966 - Robert S. Mulliken
- 1967 - Manfred Eigen, Ronald G.W. Norrish, Lord George Porter
- 1968 - Lars Onsager
- 1969 - Derek Barton, Odd Hassel
- 1970 - Luis Leloir
- 1971 - Gerhard Herzberg
- 1972 - Christian Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William Stein
- 1973 - Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
- 1974 - Paul Flory
- 1975 - John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
- 1976 - William Lipscomb
- 1977 - Ilya Prigogine
- 1978 - Peter Mitchell
- 1979 - Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
- 1980 - Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
- 1981 - Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann
- 1982 - Aaron Klug
- 1983 - Henry Taube
- 1984 - Bruce Merrifield
- 1985 - Herbert Hauptman, Jerome Karle
- 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi
- 1987 - Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
- 1988 - Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
- 1989 - Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
- 1990 - Elias J. Corey
- 1991 - Richard R. Ernst
- 1992 - Rudolf A. Marcus
- 1993 - Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith
- 1994 - George A. Olah
- 1995 - Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
- 1996 - Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto, Richard E. Smalley
- 1997 - Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
- 1998 - Walter Kohn, John Pople
- 1999 - Ahmed Zewail
- 2000 - Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa
- 2001 - William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless
- 2002 - John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wuthrich
- 2003 - Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon
- 2004 - Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose
- 2005 - Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock
- 2006 - Roger D. Kornberg
- 2007 - Gerhard Ertl
Sources: Nobelprize.org (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/) |
