| 1901 |
Jacobus H. van't Hoff (Netherlands)
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| 1902 |
Emil H. Fischer (Germany) |
| 1903 |
Svante A. Arrhenius (Sweden) |
| 1904 |
Sir William Ramsay (United Kingdom)
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| 1905 |
Adolf von Baeyer (Germany) |
| 1906 |
Henri Moissan (France) |
| 1907 |
Eduard Buchner (Germany) |
| 1908 |
Ernest Rutherford (United Kingdom) |
| 1909 |
Wilhelm Ostwald (Germany)
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| 1910 |
Otto Wallach (Germany) |
| 1911 |
Marie Curie (France) |
| 1912 |
Victor Grignard (France)
Paul Sabatier (France) |
| 1913 |
Alfred Werner (Switzerland) |
| 1914 |
Theodore W. Richards (United States) |
| 1915 |
Richard Willstätter (Germany) |
| 1916 |
Not awarded |
| 1917 |
Not awarded |
| 1918 |
Fritz Haber (Germany) |
| 1920 |
Walther H. Nernst (Germany) |
| 1921 |
Frederick Soddy (United Kingdom)
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| 1922 |
Francis W. Aston (United Kingdom)
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| 1923 |
Fritz Pregl (Austria) |
| 1924 |
Not Awarded |
| 1925 |
Richard Zsigmondy (Germany) |
| 1926 |
Theodor Svedberg (Sweden) |
| 1927 |
Heinrich O. Wieland (Germany) |
| 1928 |
Adolf Windaus (Germany) |
| 1929 |
Sir Arthur Harden (United Kingdom)
Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Sweden) |
| 1930 |
Hans Fischer (Germany) |
| 1931 |
Friedrich K.R. Bergius (Germany)
Karl Bosch (Germany) |
| 1932 |
Irving Langmuir (United States) |
| 1933 |
Not Awarded |
| 1934 |
Harold C. Urey (United States)
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| 1935 |
Irène Joliot-Curie (France)
Frédéric Joliot-Curie (France) |
| 1936 |
Peter Joseph W. Debye (Netherlands)
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| 1937 |
Sir Walter N. Haworth (United Kingdom)
Paul Karrer (Switzerland) |
| 1938 |
Richard Kuhn (Austria) |
| 1939 |
Adolf Butenandt (Germany)
Leopold Ružička (Switzerland) |
| 1940 |
Not awarded |
| 1941 |
Not awarded |
| 1942 |
Not awarded |
| 1943 |
Georg de Hevesy (Hungary)
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| 1944 |
Otto Hahn (Germany) |
| 1945 |
Artturi I. Virtanen (Finland) |
| 1946 |
James B. Sumner (United States)
John H. Northrop (United States)
Wendell M. Stanley (United States) |
| 1947 |
Sir Robert Robinson (United Kingdom)
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| 1948 |
Arne V.K. Tiselius (Sweden)
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| 1949 |
William F. Giauque (United States) |
| 1950 |
Kurt Alder (West Germany)
Otto Paul H. Diels (West Germany) |
| 1951 |
Edwin M. McMillan (United States)
Glenn T. Seaborg (United States) |
| 1952 |
Archer John P. Martin (United Kingdom)
Richard L. M. Synge (United Kingdom) |
| 1953 |
Hermann Staudinger (West Germany) |
| 1954 |
Linus Pauling (United States)
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| 1955 |
Vincent Du Vigneaud (United States) |
| 1956 |
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (United Kingdom)
Nikolai N. Semenov (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) |
| 1957 |
Alexander Robertus Todd (United Kingdom)
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| 1958 |
Frederick Sanger (United Kingdom)
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| 1959 |
Yaroslav Heyrovsky (Czechoslovakia) |
| 1960 |
Willard F. Libby (United States)
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| 1961 |
Melvin Calvin (United States) |
| 1962 |
John C. Kendrew (United Kingdom)
Max F. Perutz (United Kingdom) |
| 1963 |
Giulio Natta (Italy)
Karl Ziegler (West Germany) |
| 1964 |
Dorothy C. Hodgkin (United Kingdom) |
| 1965 |
Robert B. Woodward (United States) |
| 1966 |
Robert S. Mulliken (United States)
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| 1967 |
Manfred Eigen (West Germany)
Ronald G. West Norrish (United Kingdom)
George Porter (United Kingdom) |
| 1968 |
Lars Onsager (United States) |
| 1969 |
Derek H. R. Barton (United Kingdom)
Odd Hassel (Norway) |
| 1970 |
Luis Federico Leloir (Argentina)
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| 1971 |
Gerhard Herzberg (Canada) |
| 1972 |
Christian B. Anfinsen (United States)
Stanford Moore (United States)
William H. Stein (United States) |
| 1973 |
Ernst O. Fischer (West Germany)
Geoffrey Wilkinson (United Kingdom) |
| 1974 |
Paul J. Flory (United States)
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| 1975 |
John W. Cornforth (Australia)
Vladimir Prelog (Switzerland) |
| 1976 |
William N. Lipscomb, Jr. (United States) |
| 1977 |
Ilya Prigogine (Belgium) |
| 1978 |
Peter Mitchell (United Kingdom) |
| 1979 |
Herbert C. Brown (United States)
Georg Wittig (West Germany) |
| 1980 |
Paul Berg (United States)
Walter Gilbert (United States)
Frederick Sanger (United Kingdom) |
| 1981 |
Fukui Kenichi (Japan)
Roald Hoffmann (United States) |
| 1982 |
Aaron Klug (United Kingdom) |
| 1983 |
Henry Taube (United States) |
| 1984 |
R. Bruce Merrifield (United States) |
| 1985 |
Herbert A. Hauptman (United States)
Jerome Karle (United States) |
| 1986 |
Dudley R. Herschbach (United States)
Yuan T. Lee (United States)
John C. Polanyi (Canada) |
| 1987 |
Donald J. Cram (United States)
Charles J. Pedersen (United States)
Jean-Marie Lehr (France) |
| 1988 |
Johann Deisenhofer (West Germany)
Robert Huber (West Germany)
Hartmut Michel (West Germany) |
| 1989 |
Sidney Altman (Canada-United States)
Thomas R. Cech (United States) |
| 1990 |
Elias James Corey (United States) |
| 1991 |
Richard Ernst (Switzerland) |
| 1992 |
Rudolph A. Marcus (Canada-United States) |
| 1993 |
Kary B. Mullis (United States)
Michael Smith (Canada) |
| 1994 |
George A. Olah (United States) |
| 1995 |
Paul J. Crutzen (Netherlands)
Mario J. Molina (Mexico-United States)
F. Sherwood Rowland (United States) |
| 1996 |
Robert F. Curl, Jr. (United States)
Sir Harold W. Kroto (United Kingdom)
Richard E. Smalley (United States) |
| 1997 |
Paul D. Boyer (United States)
John E. Walker (United Kingdom)
Jens C. Skou (Denmark) |
| 1998 |
Walter Kohn (Austria)
John A. Pople (United Kingdom) |
| 1999 |
Ahmed H. Zewail (Egypt and United States) |
| 2000 |
Alan J. Heeger (United States)
Alan G. MacDiarmid (United States)
Hideki Shirakawa (Japan) |
| 2001 |
William S. Knowles (United States)
Ryoji Noyori (Japan)
K. Barry Sharpless (United States) |