Nobel laurates2011Quasi-periodic Materials a Paradigm Shift in CrystallographyNobel Lecture by Dan Shechtman2010Palladium Reactions for Organic SynthesesNobel Lecture by Richard F. HeckMagical Power of Transition Metals: Past, Present, and FutureNobel Lecture by Ei-ichi NegishiCross-coupling Reactions of Organoboranes: An Easy Way for C-C BondingNobel Lecture by Akira Suzuki2009Unraveling the Structure of the RibosomeNobel Lecture by Venkatraman Ramakrishnan From the Structure and Function of The Ribosome to New AntibioticsNobel Lecture by Thomas A. SteitzHibernating Bears, Antibiotics and the Evolving RibosomeNobel Lecture by Ada E. Yonath2008Discovery of Green Fluorescent Protein, GFPNobel Lecture by Osamu Shimomura GFP: Lighting Up Life Nobel Lecture by Martin Chalfie Constructing and Exploiting the Fluorescent Protein PaintboxNobel Lecture by Roger Y. Tsien2007Reactions at Solid Surfaces: From Atoms to ComplexityNobel Lecture by Gerhard Ertl 2006The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic TranscriptionNobel Lecture by Roger D. Kornberg2005Olefin Metathesis: The Early DaysNobel Lecture by Yves Chauvin Olefin Metathesis Catalysts for the Preparation of Molecules and MaterialsNobel Lecture by Robert H. GrubbsMultiple Metal-Carbon Bonds for Catalytic Metathesis ReactionsNobel Lecture by Richard R. Schrock2004Intracellular Protein Degradation: From a Vague Idea thru the Lysosome and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System and onto Human Diseases and Drug TargetingNobel Lecture by Aaron Ciechanover The Ubiquitin System for Protein Degradation and some of its Roles in the Control of the Cell Division CycleNobel Lecture by Avram Hershko Ubiquitin at Fox ChaseNobel Lecture by Irwin Rose 2003Aquaporin Water ChannelsNobel Lecture by Peter Agre Potassium Channels and the Atomic Basis of Selective Ion ConductionNobel Lecture by Roderick MacKinnon 2002Electrospray Wings for Molecular ElephantsNobel Lecture by John B. FennThe Origin of Macromolecule Ionization by Laser IrradiationNobel Lecture by Koichi Tanaka NMR Studies of Structure and Function of Biological MacromoleculesNobel Lecture by Kurt Wthrich 2001Asymmetric HydrogenationsNobel Lecture by William S. KnowlesAsymmetric Catalysis: Science and TechnologyNobel Lecture by Ryoji Noyori The Search for New Chemical ReactivityNobel Lecture by K. Barry Sharpless2000Semiconducting and Metallic Polymers: The Fourth Generation of Polymeric MaterialsNobel Lecture by Alan Heeger "Synthetic Metals": A Novel Role for Organic PolymersNobel Lecture by Alan G. MacDiarmidThe Discovery of Polyacetylene Film: The Dawning of an Era of Conducting PolymersNobel Lecture by Hideki Shirakawa 1999Femtochemistry: Atomic-Scale Dynamics of the Chemical Bond Using Ultrafast LasersNobel Lecture by Ahmed Zewail

2012The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has not been awarded yet. It will be announced on Wednesday 10 October, 11:45 a.m. CET at the earliest.2011Dan Shechtman2010Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira Suzuki2009Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, Ada E. Yonath2008Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y. Tsien2007Gerhard Ertl2006Roger D. Kornberg2005Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock2004Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose2003Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon2002John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wthrich2001William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless2000Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa1999Ahmed H. Zewail1998Walter Kohn, John A. Pople1997Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou1996Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley1995Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland1994George A. Olah1993Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith1992Rudolph A. Marcus1991Richard R. Ernst1990Elias James Corey1989Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech1988Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel1987Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen1986Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi1985Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle1984Robert Bruce Merrifield1983Henry Taube1982Aaron Klug1981Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann1980Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger1979Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig1978Peter D. Mitchell1977Ilya Prigogine1976William N. Lipscomb1975John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog1974Paul J. Flory1973Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson1972Christian B. Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein1971Gerhard Herzberg1970Luis F. Leloir1969Derek H. R. Barton, Odd Hassel1968Lars Onsager1967Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter1966Robert S. Mulliken1965Robert Burns Woodward1964Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin1963Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta1962Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew1961Melvin Calvin1960Willard Frank Libby1959Jaroslav Heyrovsky1958Frederick Sanger1957Lord (Alexander R.) Todd1956Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov1955Vincent du Vigneaud1954Linus Carl Pauling1953Hermann Staudinger1952Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge1951Edwin Mattison McMillan, Glenn Theodore Seaborg1950Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder1949William Francis Giauque1948Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius1947Sir Robert Robinson1946James Batcheller Sumner, John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley1945Artturi Ilmari Virtanen1944Otto Hahn1943George de Hevesy1942No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.1941No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.1940No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.1939Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka1938Richard Kuhn1937Walter Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer1936Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye1935Frdric Joliot, Irne Joliot-Curie1934Harold Clayton Urey1933No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.1932Irving Langmuir1931Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius1930Hans Fischer1929Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin1928Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus1927Heinrich Otto Wieland1926The (Theodor) Svedberg1925Richard Adolf Zsigmondy1924No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.1923Fritz Pregl1922Francis William Aston1921Frederick Soddy1920Walther Hermann Nernst1919No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.1918Fritz Haber1917No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.1916No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.1915Richard Martin Willsttter1914Theodore William Richards1913Alfred Werner1912Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier1911Marie Curie, ne Sklodowska1910Otto Wallach1909Wilhelm Ostwald1908Ernest Rutherford1907Eduard Buchner1906Henri Moissan1905Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer1904Sir William Ramsay1903Svante August Arrhenius1902Hermann Emil Fischer1901Jacobus Henricus van 't