Chemist - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

The highest honor awarded to chemists is the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded since 1901, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
1901–1925
  • Jacobus van 't Hoff (1901)
  • Emil Fischer (1902)
  • Svante Arrhenius (1903)
  • 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 / Paul Sabatier (1912)
  • Alfred Werner (1913)
  • Theodore Richards (1914)
  • Richard Willstätter (1915)
  • Fritz Haber (1918)
  • Walther Nernst (1920)
  • Frederick Soddy (1921)
  • Francis Aston (1922)
  • Fritz Pregl (1923)
  • Richard Zsigmondy (1925)
1926–1950
  • Theodor Svedberg (1926)
  • Heinrich Wieland (1927)
  • Adolf Windaus (1928)
  • Arthur Harden / Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1929)
  • Hans Fischer (1930)
  • Carl Bosch / Friedrich Bergius (1931)
  • Irving Langmuir (1932)
  • Harold Urey (1934)
  • Frédéric Joliot-Curie / Irène Joliot-Curie (1935)
  • Peter Debye (1936)
  • Norman Haworth / Paul Karrer (1937)
  • Richard Kuhn (1938)
  • Adolf Butenandt / Leopold Ružička (1939)
  • George de Hevesy (1943)
  • Otto Hahn (1944)
  • Artturi Virtanen (1945)
  • James B. Sumner / John Northrop / Wendell Meredith Stanley (1946)
  • Robert Robinson (1947)
  • Arne Tiselius (1948)
  • William Giauque (1949)
  • Otto Diels / Kurt Alder (1950)
1951–1975
  • Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg (1951)
  • Archer Martin / Richard Synge (1952)
  • Hermann Staudinger (1953)
  • Linus Pauling (1954)
  • Vincent du Vigneaud (1955)
  • Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov (1956)
  • Alexander Todd (1957)
  • Frederick Sanger (1958)
  • Jaroslav Heyrovský (1959)
  • Willard Libby (1960)
  • Melvin Calvin (1961)
  • Max Perutz / John Kendrew (1962)
  • Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta (1963)
  • Dorothy Hodgkin (1964)
  • Robert Woodward (1965)
  • Robert S. Mulliken (1966)
  • Manfred Eigen / Ronald Norrish / George Porter (1967)
  • Lars Onsager (1968)
  • Derek Barton / Odd Hassel (1969)
  • Luis Federico Leloir (1970)
  • Gerhard Herzberg (1971)
  • Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein (1972)
  • E.O.Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973)
  • Paul Flory (1974)
  • John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog (1975)
1976–2000
  • William Lipscomb (1976)
  • Ilya Prigogine (1977)
  • Peter D. Mitchell (1978)
  • Herbert C. Brown / Georg Wittig (1979)
  • Paul Berg / Walter Gilbert / Frederick Sanger (1980)
  • Kenichi Fukui / Roald Hoffmann (1981)
  • Aaron Klug (1982)
  • Henry Taube (1983)
  • Robert Merrifield (1984)
  • Herbert A. Hauptman / Jerome Karle (1985)
  • Dudley R. Herschbach / Yuan T. Lee / John Polanyi (1986)
  • Donald J. Cram / Jean-Marie Lehn / Charles J. Pedersen (1987)
  • Johann Deisenhofer / Robert Huber / Hartmut Michel (1988)
  • Sidney Altman / Thomas Cech (1989)
  • Elias Corey (1990)
  • Richard R. Ernst (1991)
  • Rudolph A. Marcus (1992)
  • Kary Mullis / Michael Smith (1993)
  • George Olah (1994)
  • Paul J. Crutzen / Mario J. Molina / Frank Rowland (1995)
  • Robert Curl / Harold Kroto / Richard Smalley (1996)
  • Paul D. Boyer / John E. Walker / Jens Christian Skou (1997)
  • Walter Kohn / John Pople (1998)
  • Ahmed Zewail (1999)
  • Alan J. Heeger / Alan MacDiarmid / Hideki Shirakawa (2000)
2001–present
  • William Knowles / Ryoji Noyori / K. Barry Sharpless (2001)
  • John B. Fenn / Koichi Tanaka / Kurt Wüthrich (2002)
  • Peter Agre / Roderick MacKinnon (2003)
  • Aaron Ciechanover / Avram Hershko / Irwin Rose (2004)
  • Robert H. Grubbs / Richard R. Schrock / Yves Chauvin (2005)
  • Roger D. Kornberg (2006)
  • Gerhard Ertl (2007)
  • Osamu Shimomura / Martin Chalfie / Roger Y. Tsien (2008)
  • Venkatraman Ramakrishnan / Thomas A. Steitz / Ada E. Yonath (2009)
  • Richard F. Heck / Akira Suzuki / Ei-ichi Negishi (2010)
  • Dan Shechtman (2011)
  • Robert Lefkowitz / Brian Kobilka (2012)
  • Complete list
  • (1901–1925)
  • (1926–1950)
  • (1951–1975)
  • (1976–2000)
  • (2001–2025)

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