Nobel Prizes Chemistry
2000
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Alan Heeger
"for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"
Alan MacDiarmid
"for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"
Hideki Shirakawa
"for the discovery and development of conductive polymers"
2001
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
William Knowles
"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
Ryoji Noyori
"for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions"
K. Barry Sharpless
"for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"
2002
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John B. Fenn
"for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
Koichi Tanaka
"for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
Kurt Wüthrich
"for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"
2003
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Peter Agre
"for the discovery of water channels"
Roderick MacKinnon
"for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels"
2004
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Aaron Ciechanover
"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
Avram Hershko
"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
Irwin Rose
"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
2005
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Yves Chauvin
"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"
Robert H. Grubbs
"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"
Richard R. Schrock
"for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"
2006
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Roger D. Kornberg
"for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription"
2007
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Gerhard Ertl
"for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
2008
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Osamu Shimomura
"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
Martin Chalfie
"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
Roger Y. Tsien
"for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
2009
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Thomas A. Steitz
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Ada E. Yonath
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
2010
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard F. Heck
"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
Ei-ichi Negishi
"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
Akira Suzuki
"for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
2011
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Dan Shechtman
"for the discovery of quasicrystals"
2012
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Robert J. Lefkowitz
"for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors"
Brian Kobilka
"for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors"
2013
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Martin Karplus
"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
Michael Levitt
"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
Arieh Warshel
"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
2014
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Eric Betzig
"for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"
Stefan W. Hell
"for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"
William E. Moerner
"for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"
2015
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Tomas Lindahl
"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
Paul Modrich
"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
Aziz Sancar
"for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
2016
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
"for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
"for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"
Bernard L. Feringa
"for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"
2017
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jacques Dubochet
"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
Joachim Frank
"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
Richard Henderson
"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
2018
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Frances H. Arnold
"for the directed evolution of enzymes"
George P. Smith
"for the phage display of peptides and antibodies"
Sir Gregory P. Winter
"for the phage display of peptides and antibodies"
2019
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John B. Goodenough
"for the development of lithium-ion batteries"
M. Stanley Whittingham
"for the development of lithium-ion batteries"
Akira Yoshino
"for the development of lithium-ion batteries"
2020
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Emmanuelle Charpentier
"for the development of a method for genome editing"
Jennifer A. Doudna
"for the development of a method for genome editing"
2021
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Benjamin List
"for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis"
David W.C. MacMillan
"for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis"
2022
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Carolyn Bertozzi
"for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry"
Morten Meldal
"for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry"
K. Barry Sharpless
"for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry"
2023
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Moungi Bawendi
"for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"
Louis Brus
"for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"
Aleksey Yekimov
"for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"
2024
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
David Baker
"for computational protein design"
Demis Hassabis
"for protein structure prediction"
John Jumper
"for protein structure prediction"
2025
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Susumu Kitagawa
"for the development of metal–organic frameworks"
Richard Robson
"for the development of metal–organic frameworks"
Omar M. Yaghi
"for the development of metal–organic frameworks"