The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 117 times to 200 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2025. Frederick Sanger and Barry Sharpless have both been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. This means that a total of 198 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Click on the links to get more information.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1969
“for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968
“for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967
“for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966
“for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1965
“for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964
“for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1963
“for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962
“for their studies of the structures of globular proteins”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961
“for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960
“for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science”