Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2010:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010

Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira Suzuki

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 was awarded jointly to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira
Suzuki "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis".

2009

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, Ada E. Yonath

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 was awarded jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz
and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".
2008:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y. Tsien

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 was awarded jointly to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger
Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP".

2007:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007

Gerhard Ertl

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 was awarded to Gerhard Ertl "for his studies of chemical processes on
solid surfaces".
2006:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006

Roger D. Kornberg

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 was awarded to Roger D. Kornberg "for his studies of the molecular
basis of eukaryotic transcription".

2005:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005

Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 was awarded jointly to Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs and Richard
R. Schrock "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis".
2004:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004

Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 was awarded jointly to Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Irwin
Rose "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"

2003:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003

Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 was awarded "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes"
jointly with one half to Peter Agre "for the discovery of water channels" and with one half to Roderick
MacKinnon "for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels".
2002:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002

John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 was awarded "for the development of methods for identification and
structure analyses of biological macromolecules" with one half jointly to John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka
"for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of
biological macromolecules" and the other half to Kurt Wüthrich "for his development of nuclear
magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological
macromolecules in solution".

2001

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001

William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 was divided, one half jointly to William S. Knowles and Ryoji Noyori
"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" and the other half to K. Barry Sharpless
"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions".
2000:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000

Alan Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 was awarded jointly to Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and
Hideki Shirakawa "for the discovery and development of conductive polymers".

1999:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999

Ahmed Zewail

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999 was awarded to Ahmed Zewail "for his studies of the transition states
of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy".
1998:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998

Walter Kohn, John Pople

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998 was divided equally between Walter Kohn "for his development of the
density-functional theory" and John A. Pople "for his development of computational methods in quantum
chemistry".

1997:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997

Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997 was divided, one half jointly to Paul D. Boyer and John E. Walker "for
their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)"
and the other half to Jens C. Skou "for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -
ATPase".
1996:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996

Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto, Richard E. Smalley

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 was awarded jointly to Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold W. Kroto and
Richard E. Smalley "for their discovery of fullerenes".

1995:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995

Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995 was awarded jointly to Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina and F.
Sherwood Rowland "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and
decomposition of ozone".
1994:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994

George A. Olah

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994 was awarded to George A. Olah "for his contribution to carbocation
chemistry".

1993:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993

Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993 was awarded "for contributions to the developments of methods
within DNA-based chemistry" jointly with one half to Kary B. Mullis "for his invention of the polymerase
chain reaction (PCR) method" and with one half to Michael Smith "for his fundamental contributions to
the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein
studies".
1992:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992

Rudolph A. Marcus

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992 was awarded to Rudolph A. Marcus "for his contributions to the
theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems".

1991:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991

Richard R. Ernst

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991 was awarded to Richard R. Ernst "for his contributions to the
development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy".
1990:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990

Elias James Corey

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990 was awarded to Elias James Corey "for his development of the theory
and methodology of organic synthesis".

1989:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989

Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989 was awarded jointly to Sidney Altman and Thomas R. Cech "for their
discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
1988:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988

Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988 was awarded jointly to Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber and
Hartmut Michel "for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction
centre".

1987:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987

Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987 was awarded jointly to Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles
J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high
selectivity".
1986:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986

Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986 was awarded jointly to Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee and John C.
Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".

1985:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985

Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1985 was awarded jointly to Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle "for
their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal
structures"
1984:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1984

Bruce Merrifield

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1984 was awarded to Bruce Merrifield "for his development of
methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix".

1983:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1983

Henry Taube

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1983 was awarded to Henry Taube "for his work on the mechanisms of
electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes".
1982:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982

Aaron Klug

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1982 was awarded to Aaron Klug "for his development of crystallographic
electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein
complexes".

1981:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981

Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981 was awarded jointly to Kenichi Fukui and Roald Hoffmann "for their
theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"
1980:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980

Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980 was divided, one half awarded to Paul Berg "for his fundamental
studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA",the other half
jointly to Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger "for their contributions concerning the determination of
base sequences in nucleic acids".

1979:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979

Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979 was awarded jointly to Herbert C. Brown and Georg Wittig "for their
development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important
reagents in organic synthesis"
1978:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978

Peter Mitchell

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978 was awarded to Peter Mitchell "for his contribution to the
understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory".

1977:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977

Ilya Prigogine

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 was awarded to Ilya Prigogine "for his contributions to non-
equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures".
1976:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1976

William Lipscomb

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1976 was awarded to William Lipscomb "for his studies on the structure of
boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding".

1975:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975

John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975 was divided equally between John Warcup Cornforth "for his work on
the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions" and Vladimir Prelog "for his research into the
stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions".
1974:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1974

Paul J. Flory

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1974 was awarded to Paul J. Flory "for his fundamental achievements, both
theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of the macromolecules".

1973:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973

Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973 was awarded jointly to Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson "for
their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called
sandwich compounds"
1972:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972

Christian Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972 was divided, one half awarded to Christian B. Anfinsen "for his work
on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the
biologically active conformation",the other half jointly to Stanford Moore and William H. Stein "for their
contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of
the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule".

1971:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971

Gerhard Herzberg

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971 was awarded to Gerhard Herzberg "for his contributions to the
knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals".
1970:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1970

Luis Leloir

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1970 was awarded to Luis Leloir "for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and
their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates".

1969:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1969

Derek Barton, Odd Hassel

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1969 was awarded jointly to Derek H. R. Barton and Odd Hassel "for their
contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry"
1968:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968

Lars Onsager

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968 was awarded to Lars Onsager "for the discovery of the reciprocal
relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes"

1967:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967

Manfred Eigen, Ronald G.W. Norrish, George Porter

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967 was divided, one half awarded to Manfred Eigen "for their studies of
extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of
energy",the other half jointly to Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter "for their studies of
extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of
energy".
1966:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966

Robert S. Mulliken

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966 was awarded to Robert S. Mulliken "for his fundamental work
concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method".

1965:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965

Robert B. Woodward

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965 was awarded to Robert B. Woodward "for his outstanding
achievements in the art of organic synthesis".
1964:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 was awarded to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin "for her determinations
by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances".

1963:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963

Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963 was awarded jointly to Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta "for their
discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers"
1962:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962

Max F. Perutz, John C. Kendrew

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962 was awarded jointly to Max Ferdinand Perutz and John Cowdery
Kendrew "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"

1961:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961

Melvin Calvin

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961 was awarded to Melvin Calvin "for his research on the carbon dioxide
assimilation in plants".
1960:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960

Willard F. Libby

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960 was awarded to Willard F. Libby "for his method to use carbon-14 for
age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science".

1959:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959

Jaroslav Heyrovsky

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1959 was awarded to Jaroslav Heyrovsky "for his discovery and
development of the polarographic methods of analysis".
1958:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958

Frederick Sanger

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958 was awarded to Frederick Sanger "for his work on the structure of
proteins, especially that of insulin".

1957:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957

Lord Todd

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957 was awarded to Lord Todd "for his work on nucleotides and
nucleotide co-enzymes".
1956:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956

Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Nikolay Semenov

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956 was awarded jointly to Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood and Nikolay
Nikolaevich Semenov "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"

1955:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955

Vincent du Vigneaud

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1955 was awarded to Vincent du Vigneaud "for his work on biochemically
important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone".
1954:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954

Linus Pauling

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 was awarded to Linus Pauling "for his research into the nature of the
chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances".

1953:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1953

Hermann Staudinger

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1953 was awarded to Hermann Staudinger "for his discoveries in the field
of macromolecular chemistry".
1952:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952

Archer J.P. Martin, Richard L.M. Synge

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952 was awarded jointly to Archer John Porter Martin and Richard
Laurence Millington Synge "for their invention of partition chromatography"

1951:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951

Edwin M. McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951 was awarded jointly to Edwin Mattison McMillan and Glenn
Theodore Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements"
1950:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950

Otto Diels, Kurt Alder

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1950 was awarded jointly to Otto Paul Hermann Diels and Kurt Alder "for
their discovery and development of the diene synthesis"

1949:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1949

William F. Giauque

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1949 was awarded to William F. Giauque "for his contributions in the field
of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low
temperatures".
1948:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948

Arne Tiselius

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1948 was awarded to Arne Tiselius "for his research on electrophoresis and
adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins".

1947:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1947

Sir Robert Robinson

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1947 was awarded to Sir Robert Robinson "for his investigations on plant
products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids".
1946:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946

James B. Sumner, John H. Northrop, Wendell M. Stanle

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 was divided, one half awarded to James Batcheller Sumner "for his
discovery that enzymes can be crystallized",the other half jointly to John Howard Northrop and Wendell
Meredith Stanley "for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form

1945:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1945

Artturi Virtanen

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1945 was awarded to Artturi Virtanen "for his research and inventions in
agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method".
1944:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944

Otto Hahn

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 was awarded to Otto Hahn "for his discovery of the fission of
heavy nuclei".

Otto Hahn received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1945. During the selection process in
1944, the Nobel Committee for Chemistry decided that none of the year's nominations met the
criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the
Nobel Prize can in such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then
applied. Otto Hahn therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1944 one year later, in 1945.

1943:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1943

George de Hevesy
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1943 was awarded to George de Hevesy "for his work on the use
of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes".

George de Hevesy received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1944. During the selection process
in 1943, the Nobel Committee for Chemistry decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria
as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can
in such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. George de Hevesy
therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1943 one year later, in 1944.

1942:

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund
and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1941:

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund
and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1940:

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund
and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1939:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939

Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 was divided equally between Adolf Friedrich Johann
Butenandt "for his work on sex hormones" and Leopold Ruzicka "for his work on
polymethylenes and higher terpenes".
1938:
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1938
Richard Kuhn

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1938 was awarded to Richard Kuhn "for his work on carotenoids and
vitamins".
Richard Kuhn received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1939. During the selection process in 1938, the
Nobel Committee for Chemistry decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria as outlined
in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can in such a
case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. Richard Kuhn therefore
received his Nobel Prize for 1938 one year later, in 1939. Richard Kuhn was caused by the authorities of
his country to decline the award, but he later received the diploma and the medal.

1937:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1937

Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1937 was divided equally between Walter Norman Haworth "for his
investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C" and Paul Karrer "for his investigations on carotenoids,
flavins and vitamins A and B2".
1936:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936

Peter Debye

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936 was awarded to Peter Debye "for his contributions to our knowledge
of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and
electrons in gases".

1935:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935

Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935 was awarded jointly to Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie "in
recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements"
1934:
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934
Harold C. Urey

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934 was awarded to Harold C. Urey "for his discovery of heavy hydrogen".

1933:

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and
with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1932:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932

Irving Langmuir

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932 was awarded to Irving Langmuir "for his discoveries and
investigations in surface chemistry".
1931:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1931

Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1931 was awarded jointly to Carl Bosch and Friedrich Bergius "in
recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods"

1930:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1930

Hans Fischer

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1930 was awarded to Hans Fischer "for his researches into the constitution
of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin".
1929:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929

Arthur Harden, Hans von Euler-Chelpin

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929 was awarded jointly to Arthur Harden and Hans Karl August Simon
von Euler-Chelpin "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes"

1928:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1928

Adolf Windaus

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1928 was awarded to Adolf Windaus "for the services rendered through his
research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins".
1927:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1927

Heinrich Wieland

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1927 was awarded to Heinrich Wieland "for his investigations of the
constitution of the bile acids and related substances".
Heinrich Wieland received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1928. During the selection process in 1927,
the Nobel Committee for Chemistry decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria as
outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can in
such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. Heinrich Wieland
therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1927 one year later, in 1928.

1926:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1926

The Svedberg

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1926 was awarded to The Svedberg "for his work on disperse systems".
1925:
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1925
Richard Zsigmondy

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1925 was awarded to Richard Zsigmondy "for his demonstration of the
heterogenous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become
fundamental in modern colloid chemistry".
Richard Zsigmondy received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1926. During the selection process in 1925,
the Nobel Committee for Chemistry decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria as
outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can in
such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. Richard Zsigmondy
therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1925 one year later, in 1926.

1924:
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize
section.

1923:
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923
Fritz Pregl

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923 was awarded to Fritz Pregl "for his invention of the method of micro-
analysis of organic substances".
1922:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922

Francis W. Aston

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922 was awarded to Francis W. Aston "for his discovery, by means of his
mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation
of the whole-number rule".

1921:
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1921
Frederick Soddy

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1921 was awarded to Frederick Soddy "for his contributions to our
knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature
of isotopes".
Frederick Soddy received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1922. During the selection process in 1921,
the Nobel Committee for Chemistry decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria as
outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can in
such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. Frederick Soddy
therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1921 one year later, in 1922.
1920:
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920
Walther Nernst

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1920 was awarded to Walther Nernst "in recognition of his work in
thermochemistry".
Walther Nernst received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1921. During the selection process in 1920,
the Nobel Committee for Chemistry decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria as
outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can in
such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. Walther Nernst
therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1920 one year later, in 1921.

1919:
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize
section.

1918:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918

Fritz Haber
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918 was awarded to Fritz Haber "for the synthesis of ammonia from its
elements".
Fritz Haber received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1919. During the selection process in 1918, the
Nobel Committee for Chemistry decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria as outlined
in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can in such a
case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. Fritz Haber therefore
received his Nobel Prize for 1918 one year later, in 1919.

1917:
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize
section.

1916:

No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize
section.

1915:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1915

Richard Willstätter

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1915 was awarded to Richard Willstätter "for his researches on plant
pigments, especially chlorophyll".
1914:
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914
Theodore W. Richards

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914 was awarded to Theodore W. Richards "in recognition of his accurate
determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements".
Theodore W. Richards received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1915. During the selection process in
1914, the Nobel Committee for Chemistry decided that none of the year's nominations met the criteria
as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. According to the Nobel Foundation's statutes, the Nobel Prize can
in such a case be reserved until the following year, and this statute was then applied. Theodore W.
Richards therefore received his Nobel Prize for 1914 one year later, in 1915.

1913:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1913

Alfred Werne

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1913 was awarded to Alfred Werner "in recognition of his work on the
linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up
new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry".
1912:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1912

Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1912 was divided equally between Victor Grignard "for the discovery of the
so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic
chemistry" and Paul Sabatier "for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of
finely disintegrated metals whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been greatly advanced in
recent years".

1911:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911

Marie Curie

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 was awarded to Marie Curie "in recognition of her services to the
advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of
radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
1910:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1910

Otto Wallach

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1910 was awarded to Otto Wallach "in recognition of his services to
organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds".

1909:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909

Wilhelm Ostwald

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1909 was awarded to Wilhelm Ostwald "in recognition of his work on
catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and
rates of reaction".
1908:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908

Ernest Rutherford

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908 was awarded to Ernest Rutherford "for his investigations into the
disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances".

1907:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907

Eduard Buchner

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1907 was awarded to Eduard Buchner "for his biochemical researches and
his discovery of cell-free fermentation".
1906:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1906

Henri Moissan

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1906 was awarded to Henri Moissan "in recognition of the great services
rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the
service of science of the electric furnace called after him".

1905:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1905

Adolf von Baeyer

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1905 was awarded to Adolf von Baeyer "in recognition of his services in the
advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and
hydroaromatic compounds".
1904:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1904

Sir William Ramsay

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1904 was awarded to Sir William Ramsay "in recognition of his services in
the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic
system".

1903:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903

Svante Arrhenius

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903 was awarded to Svante Arrhenius "in recognition of the extraordinary
services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation".
1902:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902

Emil Fischer

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902 was awarded to Emil Fischer "in recognition of the extraordinary
services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses".

1901:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1901

Jacobus H. van 't Hoff

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1901 was awarded to Jacobus H. van 't Hoff "in recognition of the
extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic
pressure in solutions".