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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is given each year to individuals or groups who have made important contributions to the field of chemistry. Since its founding in 1901, this distinguished award has recognized many scientists for their innovative discoveries, which have shaped our view of the world.
An Overview Of Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prizes are five major honors given each year to those who have made significant contributions to humanity. They were established by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and inventor, in his testament in 1895. The first rewards were granted in 1901.
Nobel prizes are awarded in the following fields-
Physics
Chemistry
Physiology or Medicine
Literature
Peace
There is also a sixth prize for Economic Sciences, established in 1969. This prize is funded by Sweden's central bank and managed by the Nobel Foundation.
The prizes are presented annually at a special ceremony. Each winner, known as a laureate, will receive-
A gold medal (plated in 24-karat gold).
A diploma.
A monetary prize (as of 2023, the value is 11,000,000 SEK, or $1,035,000).
List Of Nobel Prize Winners In Chemistry, 1901-2024
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually to individuals or groups for outstanding contributions to the field of chemistry. Since its founding in 1901, the prize has acknowledged ground-breaking discoveries and innovations that have greatly expanded scientific understanding and benefited humanity.
| Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry from 1901 to 2024 | |
| Name | Year |
| Jacobus H. van ‘t Hoff | 1901 |
| Emil Fischer | 1902 |
| Svante Arrhenius | 1903 |
| Sir William Ramsay | 1904 |
| Adolf von Baeyer | 1905 |
| Henri Moissan | 1906 |
| Eduard Buchner | 1907 |
| Ernest Rutherford | 1908 |
| Wilhelm Ostwald | 1909 |
| Otto Wallach | 1910 |
| Marie Curie | 1911 |
| Victor Grignard | 1912 |
| Paul Sabatier | |
| Alfred Werner | 1913 |
| Theodore W. Richards | 1914 |
| Richard Willstätter | 1915 |
| Fritz Haber | 1918 |
| Walther Nernst | 1920 |
| Frederick Soddy | 1921 |
| Francis W. Aston | 1922 |
| Fritz Pregl | 1923 |
| Richard Zsigmondy | 1925 |
| The Svedberg | 1926 |
| Heinrich Wieland | 1927 |
| Adolf Windaus | 1928 |
| Arthur Harden and Hans von Euler-Chelpin | 1929 |
| Hans Fischer | 1930 |
| Carl Bosch and Friedrich Bergius | 1931 |
| Irving Langmuir | 1932 |
| Harold C. Urey | 1934 |
| Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie | 1935 |
| Peter Debye | 1936 |
| Norman Haworth | 1937 |
| Paul Karrer | |
| Richard Kuhn | 1938 |
| Adolf Butenandt | 1939 |
| Leopold Ruzicka | |
| George de Hevesy | 1943 |
| Otto Hahn | 1944 |
| Artturi Virtanen | 1945 |
| James B. Sumner | 1946 |
| John H. Northrop and Wendell M. Stanley | |
| Sir Robert Robinson | 1947 |
| Arne Tiselius | 1948 |
| William F. Giauque | 1949 |
| Otto Diels and Kurt Alder | 1950 |
| Edwin M. McMillan and Glenn T. Seaborg | 1951 |
| Archer J.P. Martin and Richard L.M. Synge | 1952 |
| Hermann Staudinger | 1953 |
| Linus Pauling | 1954 |
| Vincent du Vigneaud | 1955 |
| Sir Cyril Hinshelwood and Nikolay Semenov | 1956 |
| Lord Todd | 1957 |
| Frederick Sanger | 1958 |
| Jaroslav Heyrovsky | 1959 |
| Willard F. Libby | 1960 |
| Melvin Calvin | 1961 |
| Max F. Perutz and John C. Kendrew | 1962 |
| Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta | 1963 |
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | 1964 |
| Robert B. Woodward | 1965 |
| Robert S. Mulliken | 1966 |
| Manfred Eigen, Ronald G.W. Norrish and George Porter | 1967 |
| Lars Onsager | 1968 |
| Derek Barton and Odd Hassel | 1969 |
| Luis Leloir | 1970 |
| Gerhard Herzberg | 1971 |
| Christian Anfinsen | 1972 |
| Stanford Moore and William H. Stein | |
| Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson | 1973 |
| Paul J. Flory | 1974 |
| John Cornforth | 1975 |
| Vladimir Prelog | |
| William Lipscomb | 1976 |
| Ilya Prigogine | 1977 |
| Peter Mitchell | 1978 |
| Herbert C. Brown and Georg Wittig | 1979 |
| Paul Berg | 1980 |
| Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger | |
| Kenichi Fukui and Roald Hoffmann | 1981 |
| Aaron Klug | 1982 |
| Henry Taube | 1983 |
| Bruce Merrifield | 1984 |
| Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle | 1985 |
| Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi | 1986 |
| Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen | 1987 |
| Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel | 1988 |
| Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech | 1989 |
| Elias James Corey | 1990 |
| Richard R. Ernst | 1991 |
| Rudolph A. Marcus | 1992 |
| Kary B. Mullis | 1993 |
| Michael Smith | |
| George A. Olah | 1994 |
| Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland | 1995 |
| Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto and Richard E. Smalley | 1996 |
| Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker | 1997 |
| Jens C. Skou | |
| Walter Kohn | 1998 |
| John Pople | |
| Ahmed Zewail | 1999 |
| Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa | 2000 |
| William Knowles and Ryoji Noyori | 2001 |
| K. Barry Sharpless | |
| John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka | 2002 |
| Kurt Wüthrich | |
| Peter Agre | 2003 |
| Roderick MacKinnon | |
| Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose | 2004 |
| Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock | 2005 |
| Roger D. Kornberg | 2006 |
| Gerhard Ertl | 2007 |
| Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien | 2008 |
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath | 2009 |
| Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki | 2010 |
| Dan Shechtman | 2011 |
| Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka | 2012 |
| Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel | 2013 |
| Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner | 2014 |
| Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar | 2015 |
| Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa | 2016 |
| Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson | 2017 |
| Frances H. Arnold | 2018 |
| George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter | |
| John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino | 2019 |
| Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna | 2020 |
| Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan | 2021 |
| Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless | 2022 |
| Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Yekimov | 2023 |
| David Baker | 2024 |
| Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper | |
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