All Nobel Prizes in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded 116 times to 197 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2024. Frederick Sanger and Barry Sharpless have both been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. This means that a total of 195 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Click on the links to get more information.

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999

“for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy”

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998

“for his development of the density-functional theory”
“for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry”

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997

“for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)”
“for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase”

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995

“for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone”

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994

“for his contribution to carbocation chemistry”

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1993

“for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry”
“for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method”
“for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies”

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992

“for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems”

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991

“for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy”

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1990

“for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis”

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