The annual Nobel Memorial Prize in chemistry is given in memory of Alfred Nobel to researchers in the field of chemistry. It is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences every December 10 and funded by Sveriges Riksbank. To date, 186 outstanding individuals have received such award but Frederick Sanger won the prize twice so the running total is 187.

1. 1901 – Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff (Netherlands)
2. 1902 – Emil Fischer (Germany)
3. 1903 – Svante Arrhenius (Sweden)
4. 1904 – Sir William Ramsay (United Kingdom)
5. 1905 – Adolf von Baeyer (Germany)
6. 1906 – Henri Moissan (France)
7. 1907 – Eduard Buchner (Germany)
8. 1908 – Ernest Rutherford (United Kingdom)
9. 1909 – Wilhelm Ostwald (Germany)
10. 1910 – Otto Wallach (Germany)

11. 1911 – Marie Curie (France)
12. 1912 – Victor Grignard (France)
13. 1912 – Paul Sabatier (France)
14. 1913 – Alfred Werner (Switzerland)
15. 1914 – Theodore William Richards (United States)
16. 1915 – Richard Willstätter (Germany)
17. 1918 – Fritz Haber (Germany)
18. 1920 – Walther Hermann Nernst (Germany)
19. 1921 – Frederick Soddy (United Kingdom)
20. 1922 – Francis William Aston (United Kingdom)

21. 1923 – Fritz Pregl (Austria)
22. 1925 – Richard Zsigmondy (Austria)
23. 1926 – Theodor H.E. Svedberg (Sweden)
24. 1927 – Heinrich Otto Wieland (Germany)
25. 1928 – Adolf Windaus (Germany)
26. 1929 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Sweden)
27. 1929 – Sir Arthur Harden (United Kingdom)
28. 1930 – Hans Fischer (Germany)
29. 1931 – Friedrich Bergius (Germany)
30. 1931 – Carl Bosch (Germany)

31. 1932 – Irving Langmuir (United States)
32. 1934 – Harold C. Urey (United States)
33. 1935 – Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie (France)
34. 1936 – Peter Debye (Netherlands)
35. 1937 – Sir Norman Haworth (United Kingdom)
36. 1937 – Paul Karrer (Switzerland)
37. 1938 – Richard Kuhn (declined) (Germany)
38. 1939 – Adolf Butenandt (declined) (Germany)
39. 1939 – Leopold Ruzicka (Switzerland)
40. 1943 – Georg Charles von Hevesy (Hungary)

41. 1944 – Otto Hahn (Germany)
42. 1945 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (Finland)
43. 1946 – John Howard Northrop (United States)
44. 1946 – Wendell Meredith Stanley (United States)
45. 1946 – James Batcheller Sumner (United States)
46. 1947 – Sir Robert Robinson (United Kingdom)
47. 1948 – Arne Tiselius (Sweden)
48. 1949 – William Francis Giauque (United States)
49. 1950 – Kurt Alder (West Germany)
50. 1950 – Otto Paul Hermann Diels (West Germany)

51. 1951 – Edwin Mattison McMillan (United States)
52. 1941 – Glenn T. Seaborg (United States)
53. 1952 – A.J.P. Martin (United Kingdom)
54. 1952 – R.L.M. Synge (United Kingdom)
55. 1953 – Hermann Staudinger (West Germany)
56. 1954 – Linus Pauling (United States)
57. 1955 – Vincent du Vigneaud (United States)
58. 1956 – Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (United Kingdom)
59. 1956 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
60. 1957 – Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd (United Kingdom)

61. 1958 – Frederick Sanger (United Kingdom)
62. 1959 – Jaroslav Heyrovský (Czechoslovakia)
63. 1960 – Willard Frank Libby (United States)
64. 1961 – Melvin Calvin (United States)
65. 1962 – Sir John Cowdery Kendrew (United Kingdom)
66. 1962 – Max Ferdinand Perutz (United Kingdom)
67. 1963 – Giulio Natta (Italy)
68. 1963 – Karl Ziegler (West Germany)
69. 1964 – Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (United Kingdom)
70. 1965 – Robert Burns Woodward (United States)

71. 1966 – Robert Sanderson Mulliken (United States)
72. 1967 – Manfred Eigen (West Germany)
73. 1967 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (United Kingdom)
74. 1967 – Sir George Porter (United Kingdom)
75. 1968 – Lars Onsager (United States)
76. 1969 – Sir Derek H.R. Barton (United Kingdom)
77. 1969 – Odd Hassel (Norway)
78. 1970 – Luis Federico Leloir (Argentina)
79. 1971 – Gerhard Herzberg (Canada)
80. 1972 – Christian B. Anfinsen (United States)

81. 1972 – Stanford Moore (United States)
82. 1972 – William H. Stein (United States)
83. 1973 – Ernst Otto Fischer (West Germany)
84. 1973 – Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (United Kingdom)
85. 1974 – Paul J. Flory (United States)
86. 1975 – Sir John Warcup Cornforth (United Kingdom)
87. 1975 – Vladimir Prelog (Switzerland)
88. 1976 – William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. (United States)
89. 1977 – Ilya Prigogine (Belgium)
90. 1978 – Peter Dennis Mitchell (United Kingdom)

91. 1979 – Herbert Charles Brown (United States)
92. 1979 – Georg Wittig (West Germany)
93. 1980 – Paul Berg (United States)
94. 1980 – Walter Gilbert (United States)
95. 1980 – Frederick Sanger (United Kingdom)
96. 1981 – Fukui Kenichi (Japan)
97. 1981 – Roald Hoffmann (United States)
98. 1982 – Aaron Klug (United Kingdom)
99. 1983 – Henry Taube (United States)
100. 1984 – Bruce Merrifield (United States)

101. 1985 – Herbert A. Hauptman (United States)
102. 1985 – Jerome Karle (United States)
103. 1986 – Dudley R. Herschbach (United States)
104. 1986 – Yuan T. Lee (United States)
105. 1986 – John C. Polanyi (Canada)
106. 1987 – Donald J. Cram (United States)
107. 1987 – Jean-Marie Lehn (France)
108. 1987 – Charles J. Pedersen (United States)
109. 1988 – Johann Deisenhofer (West Germany)
110. 1988 – Robert Huber (West Germany)

111. 1988 – Hartmut Michel (West Germany)
112. 1989 – Sidney Altman (United States)
113. 1989 – Thomas Robert Cech (United States)
114. 1990 – Elias James Corey (United States)
115. 1991 – Richard R. Ernst (Switzerland)
116. 1992 – Rudolph A. Marcus (United States)
117. 1993 – Kary B. Mullis (United States)
118. 1993 – Michael Smith (Canada)
119. 1994 – George A. Olah (United States)
120. 1995 – Paul Crutzen (Netherlands)

121. 1995 – Mario Molina (United States)
122. 1995 – F. Sherwood Rowland (United States)
123. 1996 – Robert F. Curl, Jr. (United States)
124. 1996 – Sir Harold W. Kroto (United Kingdom)
125. 1986 – Richard E. Smalley (United States)
126. 1997 – Paul D. Boyer (United States)
127. 1997 – Jens C. Skou (Denmark)
128. 1997 – John E. Walker (United Kingdom)
129. 1998 – Walter Kohn (United States)
130. 1998 – John A. Pople (United Kingdom)

131. 1999 – Ahmed H. Zewail (Egypt/United States)
132. 2000 – Alan J. Heeger (United States)
133. 2000 – Alan G. MacDiarmid (United States)
134. 2001 – Shirakawa Hideki (Japan)
135. 2001 – William S. Knowles (United States)
136. 2001 – Noyori Ryoji (Japan)
137. 2001 – K. Barry Sharpless (United States)
138. 2002 – John B. Fenn (United States)
139. 2002 – Tanaka Koichi (Japan)
140. 2002 – Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland)

141. 2003 – Peter Agre (United States)
142. 2003 – Roderick MacKinnon (United States)
143. 2004 – Aaron Ciechanover (Israel)
144. 2004 – Avram Hershko (Israel)
145. 2004 – Irwin Rose (United States)
146. 2005 – Yves Chauvin (France)
147. 2005 – Robert H. Grubbs (United States)
148. 2005 – Richard R. Schrock (United States)
149. 2006 – Roger D. Kornberg (United States)
150. 2007 – Gerhard Ertl (Germany)

151. 2008 – Martin Chalfie (United States)
152. 2008 – Osamu Shimomura (United States)
153. 2008 – Roger Y. Tsien (United States)
154. 2009 – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (United States)
155. 2009 – Thomas Steitz (United States)
156. 2009 – Ada Yonath (Israel)
157. 2010 – Richard F. Heck (United States)
158. 2010 – Negishi Ei-ichi (Japan)
159. 2010 – Suzuki Akira (Japan)
160. 2011 – Daniel Shechtman (Israel)

161. 2012 – Brian K. Kobilka (United States)
162. 2012 – Robert J. Lefkowitz (United States)
163. 2013 – Martin Karplus (Austria/United States)
164. 2013 – Michael Levitt (United States/United States/Israel)
165. 2013 – Arieh Warshel (Israel/United States)
166. 2014 – Eric Betzig (United States)
167. 2014 – Stefan W. Hell (Germany)
168. 2014 – William E. Moerner (United States)
169. 2015 – Tomas Lindahl (Sweden)
170. 2015 – Paul Modrich (United States)

171. 2015 – Aziz Sancar (Turkey/United States)
172. 2016 – Jean-Pierre Sauvage (France)
173. 2016 – J. Fraser Stoddart (United Kingdom)
174. 2016 – Bernard Feringa (Netherlands)
175. 2017 – Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland)
176. 2017 – Joachim Frank (Germany/United States)
177. 2017 – Richard Henderson (United Kingdom)
178. 2018 – Frances Arnold (United States)
179. 2019 – George P. Smith (United States)
180. 2019 – Gregory P. Winter (United Kingdom)

181. 2019 – John B. Goodenough (United States)
182. 2019 – M. Stanley Whittingham (United Kingdom/United States)
183. 2019 – Yoshino Akira (Japan)
184. 2020 – Emmanuelle Charpentier (France)
185. 2021 – Jennifer Doudna (United States)
186. 2021 – Benjamin List (Germany)
187. 2021 – David W.C. MacMillan (United Kingdom/United States)

See also: List of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics

See also: List of Inventors