2001 [William S. Knowles]?, [Ryoji Noyori]?, [K. Barry Sharpless]?
2000 Alan J Heeger, Alan G MacDiarmid?, Hideki Shirakawa
1999 Ahmed H. Zewail
1998 Walter Kohn, John A. Pople
1997 Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
1996 Robert Curl, Sir [Harold Kroto]?, Richard Smalley
1995 Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
1994 George A. Olah
1993 Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith
1992 Rudolph A. Marcus
1991 Richard R. Ernst
1990 Elias James Corey
1989 Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
1988 Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
1987 Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
1986 Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi
1985 Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
1984 Robert Bruce Merrifield
1983 Henry Taube
1982 Aaron Klug
1981 Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann
1980 Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
1979 Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
1978 Peter D. Mitchell
1977 Ilya Prigogine
1976 William N. Lipscomb
1975 John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
1974 Paul J. Flory
1973 Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
1972 Christian B. Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein
1971 Gerhard Herzberg
1970 Luis F. Leloir
1969 Derek H. R. Barton, Odd Hassel
1968 Lars Onsager
1967 Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter
1966 Robert S. Mulliken
1965 Robert Burns Woodward
1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1963 Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
1962 Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew
1961 Melvin Calvin
1960 Willard Frank Libby
1959 Jaroslav Heyrovsky
1957 Lord Alexander R. Todd
1956 Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
1955 Vincent du Vigneaud
1952 Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge
1951 Edwin Mattison McMillan?, Glenn Theodore Seaborg
1950 Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder
1949 William Francis Giauque
1948 Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
1947 Sir Robert Robinson
1946 James Batcheller Sumner, John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley
1945 Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
1943 George de Hevesy
1939 Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka
1937 Walter Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer
1936 Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
1935 Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie
1934 Harold Clayton Urey
1932 Irving Langmuir
1931 Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
1930 Hans Fischer
1929 Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
1928 Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
1927 Heinrich Otto Wieland
1926 The (Theodor) Svedberg
1925 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
1922 Francis William Aston
1920 Walther Hermann Nernst
1915 Richard Martin Willstätter
1914 Theodore William Richards
1912 Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier
1905 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
1904 Sir William Ramsay
1903 Svante August Arrhenius
1902 Hermann Emil Fischer
1901 Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff