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Chemistry Nobel Prize winners:
YEAR

WINNER

1901 Jacobus H. van't Hoff (Netherlands)
1902 Emil H. Fischer (Germany)
1903 Svante A. Arrhenius (Sweden)
1904 Sir William Ramsay (United Kingdom)
1905 Adolf von Baeyer (Germany)
1906 Henri Moissan (France)
1907 Eduard Buchner (Germany)
1908 Ernest Rutherford (United Kingdom)
1909 Wilhelm Ostwald (Germany)
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)
1922 Francis W. Aston (United Kingdom)
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)
1935 Irène Joliot-Curie (France)
Frédéric Joliot-Curie (France)
1936 Peter Joseph W. Debye (Netherlands)
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)
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)
1948 Arne V.K. Tiselius (Sweden)
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)
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)
1958 Frederick Sanger (United Kingdom)
1959 Yaroslav Heyrovsky (Czechoslovakia)
1960 Willard F. Libby (United States)
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)
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)
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)
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)


 

 

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