| Year | Name | Life | Field | Motivation |
|---|
| 1954 | Linus Pauling | 1901-1994 | chemical bonding, theoretical chemistry | "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances" |
| 1966 | Robert S. Mulliken | 1896-1986 | chemical bonding, theoretical chemistry | "for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method" |
| 1976 | William Lipscomb | 1919-2011 | chemical structure, theoretical chemistry | "for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding" |