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Nobel Prize for Chemistry Winner List (1901-2022)

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The Nobel prize for chemistry is one of the six categories of prizes according to the will of Swedish Inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel. The award is given “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefits on mankind” in the field of Chemistry.

Nobel Prize 2022 Winners list: Complete List of Noble Prize Winners Names of 2022

The first Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff for achieving the laws of chemistry dynamics and osmotic pressure in 1901. In 2022, the Nobel prize for Chemistry was awarded to three laureates for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry, to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten P. Medal, and K. Barry Sharpless.

Noble Prize in Chemistry 2022

List of Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Year	Laureates	Achievements
1901	Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff	For laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure
1902	Emil Fischer	For work on sugar and purine syntheses
1903	Svante Arrhenius	For the theory of electrolytic dissociation
1904	Sir William Ramsay	For the discovery of inert gas elements and their places in the periodic system
1905	Adolf von Baeyer	For work on organic dyes, hydroaromatic compounds
1906	Henri Moissan	For the isolation of fluorine; the introduction of Moissan furnace
1907	Eduard Buchner	For the discovery of noncellular fermentation
1908	Ernest Rutherford	For investigations into the disintegration of elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances
1909	Wilhelm Ostwald	For pioneer work on catalysis, chemical equilibrium, and reaction velocities
1910	Otto Wallach	For pioneer work in alicyclic combinations
1911	Marie Curie	For the discovery of radium and polonium; the isolation of radium
1912	Victor Grignard	For the discovery of the Grignard reagents
1912	Paul Sabatier	For the method of hydrogenating organic compounds
1913	Alfred Werner	For work on the linkage of atoms in molecules
1914	Theodore William Richards	For accurate determination of the atomic weights of numerous elements
1915	Richard Willstätter	For pioneer research in plant pigments, especially chlorophyll
1918	Fritz Haber	For the synthesis of ammonia
1920	Walther Hermann Nernst	For the work in thermochemistry
1921	Frederick Soddy	For chemistry of radioactive substances; occurrence and nature of isotopes
1922	Francis William Aston	For work with mass spectrograph; whole-number rule
1923	Fritz Pregl	method of microanalysis of organic substances
1925	Richard Zsigmondy	For elucidation of the heterogeneous nature of colloidal solutions
1926	Theodor H.E. Svedberg	For work on dispersed systems
1927	Heinrich Otto Wieland	For researches into the constitution of bile acids
1928	Adolf Windaus	For constitution of sterols and their connection with vitamins
1929	Hans von Euler-Chelpin	For investigations in the fermentation of sugars and the enzyme action involved
1929	Sir Arthur Harden	For investigations in the fermentation of sugars and the enzyme action involved
1930	Hans Fischer	For hemin, chlorophyll research; synthesis of hemin
1931	Friedrich Bergius	For invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods
1931	Carl Bosch	For invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods
1932	Irving Langmuir	For discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry
1934	Harold C. Urey	For discovery of heavy hydrogen
1935	Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie	For synthesis of new radioactive elements
1936	Peter Debye	For work on dipole moments and diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases
1937	Sir Norman Haworth	For research on carbohydrates and vitamin C
1937	Paul Karrer	For research on carotenoids, flavins, and vitamins
1938	Richard Kuhn (declined)	For carotenoid and vitamin research
1939	Adolf Butenandt (declined)	For work on sexual hormones
1939	Leopold Ruzicka	For work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes
1943	Georg Charles von Hevesy	For use of isotopes as tracers in chemical research
1944	Otto Hahn	For discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei
1945	Artturi Ilmari Virtanen	For The invention of a fodder-preservation method
1946	John Howard Northrop	For the preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in pure form
	Wendell Meredith Stanley
	James Batcheller Sumner	For the discovery of enzyme crystallization
1947	Sir Robert Robinson	For investigation of alkaloids and other plant products
1948	Arne Tiselius	For research in electrophoresis and adsorption analysis; serum proteins
1949	William Francis Giauque	For the behavior of substances at extremely low temperatures
1950	Kurt Alder	For the discovery and development of diene synthesis
1950	Otto Paul Hermann Diels	For the discovery and development of diene synthesis
1951	Edwin Mattison McMillan	For the discovery of and research on transuranium elements
1951	Glenn T. Seaborg	discovery of and research on transuranium elements
1952	A.J.P. Martin	development of partition chromatography
1952	R.L.M. Synge	development of partition chromatography
1953	Hermann Staudinger	work on macromolecules
1954	Linus Pauling	study of the nature of the chemical bond
1955	Vincent du Vigneaud	the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone
1956	Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood	work on the kinetics of chemical reactions
1956	Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov	work on the kinetics of chemical reactions
1957	Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd	work on nucleotides and nucleotide coenzymes
1958	Frederick Sanger	determination of the structure of the insulin molecule
1959	Jaroslav Heyrovský	discovery and development of polarography
1960	Willard Frank Libby	development of radiocarbon dating
1961	Melvin Calvin	study of chemical steps that take place during photosynthesis
1962	Sir John Cowdery Kendrew	determination of the structure of hemoproteins
1962	Max Ferdinand Perutz	determination of the structure of hemoproteins
1963	Giulio Natta	structure and synthesis of polymers in the field of plastics
1963	Karl Ziegler	structure and synthesis of polymers in the field of plastics
1964	Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin	determining the structure of biochemical compounds essential in combating pernicious anemia
1965	Robert Burns Woodward	synthesis of sterols, chlorophyll, and other substances
1966	Robert Sanderson Mulliken	work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules
1967	Manfred Eigen	studies of extremely fast chemical reactions
	Ronald George Wreyford Norrish	studies of extremely fast chemical reactions
	Sir George Porter	studies of extremely fast chemical reactions
1968	Lars Onsager	work on the theory of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes
1969	Sir Derek H.R. Barton	work in determining actual three-dimensional shapes of molecules
1969	Odd Hassel	work in determining actual three-dimensional shapes of molecules
1970	Luis Federico Leloir	discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates
1971	Gerhard Herzberg	research in the structure of molecules
1972	Christian B. Anfinsen	fundamental contributions to enzyme chemistry
	Stanford Moore	fundamental contributions to enzyme chemistry
	William H. Stein	fundamental contributions to enzyme chemistry
1973	Ernst Otto Fischer	organometallic chemistry
1973	Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson	organometallic chemistry
1974	Paul J. Flory	studies of long-chain molecules
1975	Sir John Warcup Cornforth	work in stereochemistry
1975	Vladimir Prelog	work in stereochemistry
1976	William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.	structure of boranes
1977	Ilya Prigogine	widening the scope of thermodynamics
1978	Peter Dennis Mitchell	formulation of a theory of energy-transfer processes in biological systems
1979	Herbert Charles Brown	introduction of compounds of boron and phosphorus in the synthesis of organic substances
1979	Georg Wittig	introduction of compounds of boron and phosphorus in the synthesis of organic substances
1980	Paul Berg	first preparation of a hybrid DNA
	Walter Gilbert	development of chemical and biological analyses of DNA structure
	Frederick Sanger	development of chemical and biological analyses of DNA structure
1981	Fukui Kenichi	orbital symmetry interpretation of chemical reactions
1981	Roald Hoffmann	orbital symmetry interpretation of chemical reactions
1982	Aaron Klug	determination of the structure of biological substances
1983	Henry Taube	study of electron-transfer reactions
1984	Bruce Merrifield	development of a method of polypeptide synthesis
1985	Herbert A. Hauptman	development of a way to map the chemical structures of small molecules
1985	Jerome Karle	development of a way to map the chemical structures of small molecules
1986	Dudley R. Herschbach	development of methods for analyzing basic chemical reactions
	Yuan T. Lee	development of methods for analyzing basic chemical reactions
	John C. Polanyi	development of methods for analyzing basic chemical reactions
1987	Donald J. Cram	development of molecules that can link with other molecules
	Jean-Marie Lehn	development of molecules that can link with other molecules
	Charles J. Pedersen	development of molecules that can link with other molecules
1988	Johann Deisenhofer	discovery of the structure of proteins needed in photosynthesis
	Robert Huber	discovery of the structure of proteins needed in photosynthesis
	Hartmut Michel	discovery of the structure of proteins needed in photosynthesis
1989	Sidney Altman	discovery of certain basic properties of RNA
1989	Thomas Robert Cech	discovery of certain basic properties of RNA
1990	Elias James Corey	development of retrosynthetic analysis for the synthesis of complex molecules
1991	Richard R. Ernst	improvements in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
1992	Rudolph A. Marcus	explanation of how electrons transfer between molecules
1993	Kary B. Mullis	the invention of techniques for gene study and manipulation
1993	Michael Smith	the invention of techniques for gene study and manipulation
1994	George A. Olah	development of techniques to study hydrocarbon molecules
1995	Paul Crutzen	explanation of processes that deplete Earth’s ozone layer
	Mario Molina	explanation of processes that deplete Earth’s ozone layer
	F. Sherwood Rowland	explanation of processes that deplete Earth’s ozone layer
1996	Robert F. Curl, Jr.	discovery of new carbon compounds called fullerenes
	Sir Harold W. Kroto	discovery of new carbon compounds called fullerenes
	Richard E. Smalley	discovery of new carbon compounds called fullerenes
1997	Paul D. Boyer	explanation of the enzymatic conversion of adenosine triphosphate
	Jens C. Skou	discovery of sodium-potassium-activated adenosine triphosphatase
	John E. Walker	explanation of the enzymatic conversion of adenosine triphosphate
1998	Walter Kohn	development of the density-functional theory
	John A. Pople	development of computational methods in quantum chemistry
1999	Ahmed H. Zewail	study of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy
2000	Alan J. Heeger	discovery of plastics that conduct electricity
	Alan G. MacDiarmid	discovery of plastics that conduct electricity
	Shirakawa Hideki	discovery of plastics that conduct electricity
2001	William S. Knowles	work on chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions
	Noyori Ryoji	work on chirally catalyzed hydrogenation reactions
	K. Barry Sharpless	work on chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions
2002	John B. Fenn	development of techniques to identify and analyze proteins and other large molecules
	Tanaka Koichi	development of techniques to identify and analyze proteins and other large molecules
	Kurt Wüthrich	development of techniques to identify and analyze proteins and other large molecules
2003	Peter Agre	discoveries regarding water channels and ion channels in cells
	Roderick MacKinnon	discoveries regarding water channels and ion channels in cells
2004	Aaron Ciechanover	discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
	Avram Hershko	discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
	Irwin Rose	discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
2005	Yves Chauvin	development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis
	Robert H. Grubbs	development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis
	Richard R. Schrock	development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis
2006	Roger D. Kornberg	work concerning the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
2007	Gerhard Ertl	studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces
2008	Martin Chalfie	discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP
	Osamu Shimomura	discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP
	Roger Y. Tsien	discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP
2009	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
	Thomas Steitz	studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
	Ada Yonath	studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
2010	Richard F. Heck	development of techniques to synthesize complex carbon molecules
	Negishi Ei-ichi	development of techniques to synthesize complex carbon molecules
	Suzuki Akira	development of techniques to synthesize complex carbon molecules
2011	Daniel Shechtman	discovery of quasicrystals
2012	Brian K. Kobilka	studies of G-protein-coupled receptors
	Robert J. Lefkowitz	studies of G-protein-coupled receptors
2013	Martin Karplus	development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems
	Michael Levitt	development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems
	Arieh Warshel	development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems
2014	Eric Betzig	development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
	Stefan W. Hell	development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
	William E. Moerner	development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
2015	Tomas Lindahl	mechanistic studies of DNA repair
	Paul Modrich	mechanistic studies of DNA repair
	Aziz Sancar	mechanistic studies of DNA repair
2016	Jean-Pierre Sauvage	design and synthesis of molecular machines
	J. Fraser Stoddart	design and synthesis of molecular machines
	Bernard Feringa	design and synthesis of molecular machines
2017	Jacques Dubochet	development of cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution
	Joachim Frank	development of cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution
	Richard Henderson	development of cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution
2018	Frances Arnold	first directed evolution of enzymes
	George P. Smith	development of phage display, a method in which a bacteriophage can be used to evolve new proteins
	Gregory P. Winter	work using the phage display method for the directed evolution of antibodies
2019	John B. Goodenough	development of lithium-ion batteries
	M. Stanley Whittingham	development of lithium-ion batteries
	Yoshino Akira	development of lithium-ion batteries
2020	Emmanuelle Charpentier	development of a method for genome editing
	Jennifer Doudna	development of a method for genome editing
2021	Benjamin List	development of asymmetric organocatalysis
	David W.C. MacMillan	development of asymmetric organocatalysis
2022	Carolyn R. Bertozzi	development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry
	Morten P. Meldal	development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry
	K. Barry Sharpless	development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry