List of Nobel laureates in Chemistry facts for kids

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is a super important award given every year to scientists who make amazing discoveries in chemistry. It's one of five special prizes created by a Swedish inventor named Alfred Nobel way back in 1895. He wanted to celebrate people who made the world a better place through their work.

These Nobel Prizes honor great achievements in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and medicine. The Nobel Foundation manages the prizes, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences chooses the chemistry winners.

The very first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was given in 1901 to Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff from the Netherlands. Each winner gets a shiny medal, a special diploma, and a money prize. The awards ceremony happens every year in Stockholm on December 10th, which is the day Alfred Nobel passed away.

Cool Facts About the Chemistry Prize

• Many Discoveries: A lot of Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, at least 25, have been given for work in organic chemistry. This is a branch of chemistry that studies carbon-based compounds, which are super important for life!
• Unusual Situations: Sometimes, things get complicated. For example, two German scientists, Richard Kuhn (in 1938) and Adolf Butenandt (in 1939), were not allowed by their government to accept their prizes. They eventually received their medal and diploma, but not the money.
• Double Winners: Imagine winning a Nobel Prize once! Some amazing scientists have won it twice!
  • Frederick Sanger won the Chemistry Prize two times (in 1958 and 1980) for his work on proteins and DNA.
  • Karl Barry Sharpless also won the Chemistry Prize twice (in 2001 and 2022).
  • Maria Skłodowska-Curie won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and then another in Chemistry in 1911. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win in two different sciences!
  • Linus Pauling won the Chemistry Prize in 1954 and the Peace Prize in 1962.
• Women in Chemistry: As of 2023, eight incredible women have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Maria Skłodowska-Curie was the very first, winning in 1911.

When the Prize Wasn't Awarded

Sometimes, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given out. This happened for eight years, like during World War I and World War II (1916, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1933, and from 1940 to 1942). Other times, the announcement was just delayed by a year. For example, the 1914 prize was given in 1915 to Theodore William Richards because the committee felt no one met the high standards that year.

Laureates

Year	Name		Nationality	Citation
1901		van 't Hoff, Jacobus HenricusJacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911)	Dutch	"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions"
1902		Fischer, Hermann EmilHermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919)	German	"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses"
1903		Arrhenius, SvanteSvante Arrhenius (1859–1927)	Swedish	"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation"
1904		Ramsay, WilliamWilliam Ramsay (1852–1916)	British	"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"
1905		von Baeyer, AdolfAdolf von Baeyer (1835–1917)	German	"in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds"
1906		Moissan, HenriHenri Moissan (1852–1907)	French	"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"
1907		Buchner, EduardEduard Buchner (1860–1917)	German	"for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation"
1908		Rutherford, ErnestErnest Rutherford (1871–1937)	New Zealander	"for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances"
1909		Ostwald, WilhelmWilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932)	German, born in Latvia	"in recognition of his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction"
1910		Wallach, OttoOtto Wallach (1847–1931)	German	"in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds"
1911		Curie, MarieMarie Curie (1867–1934)	French Polish	"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"
1912		Grignard, VictorVictor Grignard (1871–1935)	French	"for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry"
		Sabatier, PaulPaul Sabatier (1854–1941)		"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"
1913		Werner, AlfredAlfred Werner (1866–1919)	Swiss	"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"
1914		Richards, Theodore WilliamTheodore William Richards (1868–1928)	American	"in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements"
1915		Willstätter, RichardRichard Willstätter (1872–1942)	German	"for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll"
1916	zzzNot awarded
1917
1918		Haber, FritzFritz Haber (1868–1934)	German	"for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements"
1919	zzzNot awarded
1920		Nernst, WaltherWalther Nernst (1864–1941)	German	"in recognition of his work in thermochemistry"
1921		Soddy, FrederickFrederick Soddy (1877–1956)	British	"for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes"
1922		Aston, Francis WilliamFrancis William Aston (1877–1945)	British	"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"
1923		Pregl, FritzFritz Pregl (1869–1930)	Austrian Yugoslavian	"for his invention of the method of micro-analysis of organic substances"
1924	zzzNot awarded
1925		Zsigmondy, Richard AdolfRichard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865–1929)	Austrian	"for his demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used"
1926		Svedberg, TheThe Svedberg (1884–1971)	Swedish	"for his work on disperse systems"
1927		Wieland, Heinrich OttoHeinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957)	German	"for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances"
1928		Windaus, AdolfAdolf Windaus (1876–1959)	German	"for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins"
1929		Harden, ArthurArthur Harden (1865–1940)	British	"for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes"
		von Euler-Chelpin, HansHans von Euler-Chelpin (1873–1964)	German Swedish
1930		Fischer, HansHans Fischer (1881–1945)	German	"for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin"
1931		Bosch, CarlCarl Bosch (1874–1940)	German	"in recognition of their contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods"
		Bergius, FriedrichFriedrich Bergius (1884–1949)
1932		Langmuir, IrvingIrving Langmuir (1881–1957)	American	"for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry"
1933	zzzNot awarded
1934		Urey, HaroldHarold Urey (1893–1981)	American	"for his discovery of heavy hydrogen"
1935		Joliot, FrédéricFrédéric Joliot (1900–1958)	French	"in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements"
		Joliot-Curie, IrèneIrène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956)
1936		Debye, PeterPeter Debye (1884–1966)	Dutch	"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"
1937		Haworth, NormanNorman Haworth (1883–1950)	British	"for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C"
		Karrer, PaulPaul Karrer (1889–1971)	Swiss	"for his investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2"
1938		Kuhn, RichardRichard Kuhn (1900–1967)	German	"for his work on carotenoids and vitamins"
1939		Butenandt, AdolfAdolf Butenandt (1903–1995)	German	"for his work on sex hormones"
		Ružička, LeopoldLeopold Ružička (1887–1976)	Swiss Yugoslavian	"for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes"
1940	zzzNot awarded
1941
1942
1943		de Hevesy, GeorgeGeorge de Hevesy (1885–1966)	Hungarian	"for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"
1944		Hahn, OttoOtto Hahn (1879–1968)	German	"for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei"
1945		Virtanen, Artturi IlmariArtturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895–1973)	Finnish	"for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method"
1946		Sumner, James B.James B. Sumner (1887–1955)	American	"for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized"
		Northrop, John HowardJohn Howard Northrop (1891–1987)		"for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form"
		Stanley, Wendell MeredithWendell Meredith Stanley (1904–1971)
1947		Robinson, RobertRobert Robinson (1886–1975)	British	"for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids"
1948		Tiselius, ArneArne Tiselius (1902–1971)	Swedish	"for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins"
1949		Giauque, WilliamWilliam Giauque (1895–1982)	American Canadian	"for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures"
1950		Diels, OttoOtto Diels (1876–1954)	West German	"for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis"
		Alder, KurtKurt Alder (1902–1958)
1951		McMillan, EdwinEdwin McMillan (1907–1991)	American	"for their discoveries in the chemistry of transuranium elements"
		Seaborg, Glenn T.Glenn T. Seaborg (1912–1999)
1952		Martin, ArcherArcher Martin (1910–2002)	British	"for their invention of partition chromatography"
		Synge, Richard Laurence MillingtonRichard Laurence Millington Synge (1914–1994)
1953		Staudinger, HermannHermann Staudinger (1881–1965)	West German	"for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry"
1954		Pauling, LinusLinus Pauling (1901–1994)	American	"for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances"
1955		du Vigneaud, VincentVincent du Vigneaud (1901–1978)	American	"for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone"
1956		Hinshelwood, Cyril NormanCyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897–1967)	British	"for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions"
		Semyonov, NikolayNikolay Semyonov (1896–1986)	Soviet
1957		Todd, Alexander R.Alexander R. Todd (1907–1997)	British	"for his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes"
1958		Sanger, FrederickFrederick Sanger (1918–2013)	British	"for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin"
1959		Heyrovský, JaroslavJaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967)	Czechoslovak	"for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis"
1960		Libby, WillardWillard Libby (1908–1980)	American	"for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science"
1961		Calvin, MelvinMelvin Calvin (1911–1997)	American	"for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"
1962		Perutz, MaxMax Perutz (1914–2002)	Austrian British	"for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"
		Kendrew, JohnJohn Kendrew (1917–1997)	British
1963		Ziegler, KarlKarl Ziegler (1898–1973)	West German	"for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers"
		Natta, GiulioGiulio Natta (1903–1979)	Italian
1964		Hodgkin, DorothyDorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994)	British	"for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances"
1965		Woodward, Robert BurnsRobert Burns Woodward (1917–1979)	American	"for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis"
1966		Mulliken, Robert S.Robert S. Mulliken (1896–1986)	American	"for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method"
1967		Eigen, ManfredManfred Eigen (1927–2019)	West German	"for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy"
		Norrish, Ronald George WreyfordRonald George Wreyford Norrish (1897–1978)	British
		Porter, GeorgeGeorge Porter (1920–2002)
1968		Onsager, LarsLars Onsager (1903–1976)	American Norwegian	"for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes"
1969		Barton, DerekDerek Barton (1918–1998)	British	"for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry"
		Hassel, OddOdd Hassel (1897–1981)	Norwegian
1970		Leloir, LuisLuis Leloir (1906–1987)	Argentine	"for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates"
1971		Herzberg, GerhardGerhard Herzberg (1904–1999)	Canadian West German	"for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals"
1972		Anfinsen, Christian B.Christian B. Anfinsen (1916–1995)	American	"for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation"
		Moore, StanfordStanford Moore (1913–1982)		"for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule"
		Stein, WilliamWilliam Stein (1911–1980)
1973		Fischer, Ernst OttoErnst Otto Fischer (1918–2007)	West German	"for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds"
		Wilkinson, GeoffreyGeoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996)	British
1974		Flory, PaulPaul Flory (1910–1985)	American	"for his fundamental work, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules"
1975		Cornforth, JohnJohn Cornforth (1917–2013)	Australian British	"for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions"
		Prelog, VladimirVladimir Prelog (1906–1998)	Swiss Yugoslavian	"for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions"
1976		Lipscomb, WilliamWilliam Lipscomb (1919–2011)	American	"for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding"
1977		Prigogine, IlyaIlya Prigogine (1917–2003)	Belgian	"for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures"
1978		Mitchell, Peter D.Peter D. Mitchell (1920–1992)	British	"for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory"
1979		Brown, Herbert C.Herbert C. Brown (1912–2004)	American	"for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis"
		Wittig, GeorgGeorg Wittig (1897–1987)	West German
1980		Berg, PaulPaul Berg (1926–2023)	American	"for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA"
		Gilbert, WalterWalter Gilbert (1932–present)		"for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"
		Sanger, FrederickFrederick Sanger (1918–2013)	British
1981		Fukui, KenichiKenichi Fukui (1918–1998)	Japanese	"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"
		Hoffmann, RoaldRoald Hoffmann (1937–present)	American Polish
1982		Klug, AaronAaron Klug (1926–2018)	British	"for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes"
1983		Taube, HenryHenry Taube (1915–2005)	American Canadian	"for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes"
1984		Merrifield, Robert BruceRobert Bruce Merrifield (1921–2006)	American	"for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix"
1985		Hauptman, Herbert A.Herbert A. Hauptman (1917–2011)	American	"for their outstanding achievements in developing direct methods for the determination of crystal structures"
		Karle, JeromeJerome Karle (1918–2013)
1986		Herschbach, Dudley R.Dudley R. Herschbach (1932–present)	American	"for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"
		Lee, Yuan T.Yuan T. Lee (1936–present)	Taiwanese
		Polanyi, JohnJohn Polanyi (1929–present)	Canadian
1987		Cram, Donald J.Donald J. Cram (1919–2001)	American	"for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"
		Lehn, Jean-MarieJean-Marie Lehn (1939–present)	French
		Pedersen, Charles J.Charles J. Pedersen (1904–1989)	American
1988		Deisenhofer, JohannJohann Deisenhofer (1943–present)	West German	"for their determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre"
		Huber, RobertRobert Huber (1937–present)
		Michel, HartmutHartmut Michel (1948–present)
1989		Altman, SidneySidney Altman (1939–2022)	American Canadian	"for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"
		Cech, ThomasThomas Cech (1947–present)	American
1990		Corey, Elias JamesElias James Corey (1928–present)	American	"for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis"
1991		Ernst, Richard R.Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021)	Swiss	"for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy"
1992		Marcus, Rudolph A.Rudolph A. Marcus (1923–2026)	American Canadian	"for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems"
1993		Mullis, KaryKary Mullis (1944–2019)	American	"for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry, [especially] for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method"
		Smith, MichaelMichael Smith (1932–2000)	British Canadian	"for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry, [especially] for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies"
1994		Olah, GeorgeGeorge Olah (1927–2017)	American Hungarian	"for his contribution to carbocation chemistry"
1995		Crutzen, Paul J.Paul J. Crutzen (1933–2021)	Dutch	"for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone"
		Molina, Mario J.Mario J. Molina (1943–2020)	Mexican
		Rowland, F. SherwoodF. Sherwood Rowland (1927–2012)	American
1996		Curl, RobertRobert Curl (1933–2022)	American	"for their discovery of fullerenes"
		Kroto, HarryHarry Kroto (1939–2016)	British
		Smalley, RichardRichard Smalley (1943–2005)	American
1997		Boyer, Paul D.Paul D. Boyer (1918–2018)	American	"for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)"
		Walker, John E.John E. Walker (1941–present)	British
		Skou, JensJens Skou (1918–2018)	Danish	"for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase"
1998		Kohn, WalterWalter Kohn (1923–2016)	American Austrian	"for his development of the density-functional theory"
		Pople, JohnJohn Pople (1925–2004)	British	"for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry"
1999		Zewail, AhmedAhmed Zewail (1946–2016)	American Egyptian	"for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy"
2000		Heeger, Alan J.Alan J. Heeger (1936–present)	American	"for their discovery and development of conductive polymers"
		MacDiarmid, AlanAlan MacDiarmid (1927–2007)	American New Zealander
		Shirakawa, HidekiHideki Shirakawa (1936–2026)	Japanese
2001		Knowles, WilliamWilliam Knowles (1917–2012)	American	"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
		Noyori, RyōjiRyōji Noyori (1938–present)	Japanese
		Sharpless, BarryBarry Sharpless (1941–present)	American	"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"
2002		Fenn, JohnJohn Fenn (1917–2010)	American	"for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules, [especially] for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
		Tanaka, KoichiKoichi Tanaka (1959–present)	Japanese
		Wüthrich, KurtKurt Wüthrich (1938–present)	Swiss	"for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules, [especially] for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"
2003		Agre, PeterPeter Agre (1949–present)	American	"for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes, [especially] for the discovery of water channels"
		MacKinnon, RoderickRoderick MacKinnon (1956–present)		"for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes, [especially] for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels"
2004		Ciechanover, AaronAaron Ciechanover (1947–present)	Israeli	"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
		Hershko, AvramAvram Hershko (1937–present)
		Rose, IrwinIrwin Rose (1926–2015)	American
2005		Chauvin, YvesYves Chauvin (1930–2015)	French	"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"
		Grubbs, Robert H.Robert H. Grubbs (1942–2021)	American
		Schrock, Richard R.Richard R. Schrock (1945–present)
2006		Kornberg, Roger D.Roger D. Kornberg (1947–present)	American	"for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription"
2007		Ertl, GerhardGerhard Ertl (1936–present)	German	"for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
2008		Shimomura, OsamuOsamu Shimomura (1928–2018)	Japanese	"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
		Chalfie, MartinMartin Chalfie (1947–present)	American
		Tsien, Roger Y.Roger Y. Tsien (1952–2016)
2009		Ramakrishnan, VenkatramanVenkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952–present)	American British	"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
		Steitz, Thomas A.Thomas A. Steitz (1940–2018)	American
		Yonath, AdaAda Yonath (1939–2026)	Israeli
2010		Heck, Richard F.Richard F. Heck (1931–2015)	American	"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
		Negishi, Ei-ichiEi-ichi Negishi (1935–2021)	Japanese
		Suzuki, AkiraAkira Suzuki (1930–present)
2011		Shechtman, DanDan Shechtman (1941–present)	American Israeli	"for the discovery of quasicrystals"
2012		Lefkowitz, RobertRobert Lefkowitz (1943–present)	American	"for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors"
		Kobilka, BrianBrian Kobilka (1955–present)
2013		Karplus, MartinMartin Karplus (1930–2024)	American Austrian	"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
		Levitt, MichaelMichael Levitt (1947–present)	American British Israeli South African
		Warshel, AriehArieh Warshel (1940–present)	American Israeli
2014		Betzig, EricEric Betzig (1960–present)	American	"for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"
		Hell, StefanStefan Hell (1962–present)	German Romanian
		Moerner, William E.William E. Moerner (1953–present)	American
2015		Lindahl, TomasTomas Lindahl (1938–present)	British Swedish	"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
		Modrich, Paul L.Paul L. Modrich (1946–present)	American
		Sancar, AzizAziz Sancar (1946–present)	Turkish
2016		Feringa, BenBen Feringa (1951–present)	Dutch	"for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"
		Sauvage, Jean-PierreJean-Pierre Sauvage (1944–present)	French
		Stoddart, FraserFraser Stoddart (1942–2024)	American British
2017		Dubochet, JacquesJacques Dubochet (1942–present)	Swiss	"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
		Frank, JoachimJoachim Frank (1940–present)	American German
		Henderson, RichardRichard Henderson (1945–present)	British
2018		Arnold, FrancesFrances Arnold (1956–present)	American	"for the directed evolution of enzymes"
		Smith, GeorgeGeorge Smith (1941–present)		"for the phage display of peptides and antibodies"
		Winter, GregGreg Winter (1951–present)	British
2019		Goodenough, John B.John B. Goodenough (1922–2023)	American	"for the development of lithium ion batteries"
		Whittingham, M. StanleyM. Stanley Whittingham (1941–present)	American British
		Yoshino, AkiraAkira Yoshino (1948–present)	Japanese
2020		Charpentier, EmmanuelleEmmanuelle Charpentier (1968–present)	French	"for the development of a method for genome editing"
		Doudna, JenniferJennifer Doudna (1964–present)	American
2021		List, BenjaminBenjamin List (1968–present)	German	"for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis"
		MacMillan, David W. C.David W. C. MacMillan (1968–present)	British
2022		Bertozzi, CarolynCarolyn Bertozzi (1966–present)	American	"for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry"
		Meldal, MortenMorten Meldal (1954–present)	Danish
		Sharpless, BarryBarry Sharpless (1941–present)	American
2023		Bawendi, MoungiMoungi Bawendi (1961–present)	American French Tunisian	"for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"
		Brus, Louis E.Louis E. Brus (1943–2026)	American
		Ekimov, AlexeyAlexey Ekimov (1945–present)	Russian
2024		Baker, DavidDavid Baker (1962–present)	American	"for computational protein design"
		Hassabis, DemisDemis Hassabis (1976–present)	British	"for protein structure prediction"
		Jumper, John M.John M. Jumper (1985–present)	American
2025		Kitagawa, SusumuSusumu Kitagawa (1951–present)	Japanese	"for the development of metal–organic frameworks"
		Robson, RichardRichard Robson (1937–present)	British
		Yaghi, Omar M.Omar M. Yaghi (1965–present)	Jordanian Palestinian Saudi
2026		Kagan, Henri B.Henri B. Kagan (1930–present)	French	"for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis"
		Soai, KensōKensō Soai (1950–present)	Japanese

Nobel laureates by country

The Nobel laureates in chemistry from 1901 to 2026 came from the following countries:

Country	Number of laureates
United States	82
United Kingdom	36
Germany	32
France	13
Japan	11
Switzerland	7
Canada	7
Israel	6
Sweden	5
Netherlands	4
Austria	4
Hungary	2
Norway	2
Denmark	2
New Zealand	2
Russia	2
Poland	2
Argentina	1
Australia	1
Belgium	1
Taiwan	1
Latvia	1
Czechia	1
Egypt	1
Mexico	1
Finland	1
South Africa	1
Romania	1
Italy	1
Tunisia	1
Turkey	1
Jordan	1
Saudi Arabia	1
Palestine	1

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:Ganadores del Premio Nobel de Química para niños

• Timeline of chemistry