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 1979
“for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978
“for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977
“for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1976
“for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975
“for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions”
“for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1974
“for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of the macromolecules”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1973
“for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972
“for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation”
“for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971
“for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1970
“for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates”