The Nobel Prize laureates are required “to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded according to the Nobel Foundation statutes. The lecture should be given before, or no later than six months after, the Nobel Prize award ceremony, which takes place in Stockholm or, in the case of the peace prize, in Oslo on 10 December.
Videos of Nobel Prize lectures in chemistry
2023
A Synthesis Born of Necessity Unlocks a Nano-World of Wonders
Nobel Prize lecture by Moungi Bawendi
Chemical Quantum Dots
Nobel Prize lecture by Louis Brus
Spatial confinement of electronic & vibronic excitations in QDs
Nobel Prize lecture by Aleksey Yekimov
2022
The Bioorthogonal Chemistry Journey, from Laboratory to Life
Nobel Prize lecture by Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Molecular Click Adventures, a Leap from Shoulders of Giants
Nobel Prize lecture by Morten Meldal
Click Chemistry: the Certainty of Chance
Nobel Prize lecture by K. Barry Sharpless
2021
Asymmetric organocatalysis
Nobel Prize lecture by Benjamin List
Asymmetric organocatalysis: Democratizing catalysis for a sustainable world
Nobel Prize lecture by David W.C. MacMillan
2020
For the development of a method for genome editing
Nobel Prize lecture by Emmanuelle Charpentier
The Chemistry of CRISPR: Editing the Code of Life
Nobel Prize lecture by Jennifer A. Doudna
2019
Designing Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes
Nobel Prize lecture by John B. Goodenough
The Origins of the Lithium Battery
Nobel Prize lecture by M. Stanley Whittingham
Brief History and Future of Lithium-ion Batteries
Nobel Prize lecture by Akira Yoshino
2018
Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life
Nobel Prize lecture by Francis Arnold
Phage Display: Simple Evolution in a Petri Dish
Nobel Prize lecture by George P. Smith
Harnessing Evolution to Make Medicines
Nobel Prize lecture by Sir Gregory P. Winter
2017
Early cryo-electron microscopy
Nobel Prize lecture by Jacques Dubochet
Single-Particle Reconstruction – Story in a Sample
Nobel Prize lecture by Joachim Frank
From Electron Crystallography to Single Particle cryoEM
Nobel Prize lecture by Richard Henderson
2016
From Chemical Topology to Molecular Machines
Nobel Prize lecture by Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Design and Synthesis of Molecular Machines based on the Mechanical Bond
Nobel Prize lecture by Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
The Art of Building Small, from molecular switches to motors
Nobel Prize lecture by Bernard L. Feringa
2015
The Intrinsic Fragility of DNA
Nobel Prize lecture by Tomas Lindahl
Mechanisms in E. Coli and Human Mismatch Repair
Nobel Prize lecture by Paul Modrich
Mechanisms of DNA Repair by Photolyase and Excision Nuclease
Nobel Prize lecture by Aziz Sancar
2014
Single Molecules, Cells, and Super-Resolution Optics
Nobel Prize lecture by Eric Betzig
Nanoscopy with Focused Light
Nobel Prize lecture by Stefan W. Hell
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy, Imaging, and Photocontrol: Foundations for Super-Resolution Microscopy
Nobel Prize lecture by William E. Moerner
2013
Development of Multiscale Models for Complex Chemical Systems: From H+H2 to Biomolecules
Nobel Prize lecture by Martin Karplus
Birth & Future of Multi-Scale Modeling of Biological Macromolecules
Nobel Prize lecture by Michael Levitt
Computer Simulations of Biological Functions: From Enzymes to Molecular Machines
Nobel Prize lecture by Arieh Warshel
2012
A Brief History of G-Protein Coupled Receptors
Nobel Prize lecture by Robert J. Lefkowitz
The Structural Basis of G-Protein Coupled Receptor Signaling
Nobel Prize lecture by Brian K. Kobilka
2011
Quasi-Periodic Materials – A Paradigm Shift in Crystallography
Nobel Prize lecture by Dan Shechtman
2010
Palladium Reactions for Organic Syntheses
Nobel Prize lecture by Richard F. Heck
Magical Power of Transition Metals: Past, Present, and Future
Nobel Prize lecture by Ei-ichi Negishi
Cross-coupling Reactions of Organoboranes: An Easy Way for C-C Bonding
Nobel Prize lecture by Akira Suzuki
2009
Unraveling the Structure of the Ribosome
Nobel Prize lecture by Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
From the Structure and Function of The Ribosome to New Antibiotics
Nobel Prize lecture by Thomas A. Steitz
Hibernating Bears, Antibiotics and the Evolving Ribosome
Nobel Prize lecture by Ada E. Yonath
2008
Discovery of Green Fluorescent Protein, GFP
Nobel Prize lecture by Osamu Shimomura
GFP: Lighting Up Life
Nobel Prize lecture by Martin Chalfie
Constructing and Exploiting the Fluorescent Protein Paintbox
Nobel Prize lecture by Roger Y. Tsien
2007
Reactions at Solid Surfaces: From Atoms to Complexity
Nobel Prize lecture by Gerhard Ertl
2006
The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription
Nobel Prize lecture by Roger D. Kornberg
2005
Olefin Metathesis: The Early Days
Nobel Prize lecture by Yves Chauvin
Olefin Metathesis Catalysts for the Preparation of Molecules and Materials
Nobel Prize lecture by Robert H. Grubbs
Multiple Metal-Carbon Bonds for Catalytic Metathesis Reactions
Nobel Prize lecture by Richard R. Schrock
2004
Intracellular Protein Degradation: From a Vague Idea thru the Lysosome and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System and onto Human Diseases and Drug Targeting
Nobel Prize lecture by Aaron Ciechanover
The Ubiquitin System for Protein Degradation and some of its Roles in the Control of the Cell Division Cycle
Nobel Prize lecture by Avram Hershko
Ubiquitin at Fox Chase
Nobel Prize lecture by Irwin Rose
2003
Aquaporin Water Channels
Nobel Prize lecture by Peter Agre
Potassium Channels and the Atomic Basis of Selective Ion Conduction
Nobel Prize lecture by Roderick MacKinnon
2002
Electrospray Wings for Molecular Elephants
Nobel Prize lecture by John B. Fenn
The Origin of Macromolecule Ionization by Laser Irradiation
Nobel Prize lecture by Koichi Tanaka
NMR Studies of Structure and Function of Biological Macromolecules
Nobel Prize lecture by Kurt Wüthrich
2001
Asymmetric Hydrogenations
Nobel Prize lecture by William S. Knowles
Asymmetric Catalysis: Science and Technology
Nobel Prize lecture by Ryoji Noyori
The Search for New Chemical Reactivity
Nobel Prize lecture by K. Barry Sharpless
2000
Semiconducting and Metallic Polymers: The Fourth Generation of Polymeric Materials
Nobel Prize lecture by Alan Heeger
“Synthetic Metals”: A Novel Role for Organic Polymers
Nobel Prize lecture by Alan G. MacDiarmid
The Discovery of Polyacetylene Film: The Dawning of an Era of Conducting Polymers
Nobel Prize lecture by Hideki Shirakawa
1999
Femtochemistry: Atomic-Scale Dynamics of the Chemical Bond Using Ultrafast Lasers
Nobel Prize lecture by Ahmed Zewail
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