| Year | Name | Life | Field | Motivation |
|---|
| 1901 | Jacobus H. van 't Hoff | 1852-1911 | chemical kinetics, physical chemistry | "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions" |
| 1903 | Svante Arrhenius | 1859-1927 | chemical kinetics, physical chemistry | "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation" |
| 1956 | Nikolay Semenov | 1896-1986 | chemical kinetics, physical chemistry | "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions" |
| 1956 | Sir Cyril Hinshelwood | 1897-1967 | chemical kinetics, physical chemistry | "for their researches into the mechanism of chemical reactions" |
| 1967 | George Porter | 1920-2002 | chemical kinetics, physical chemistry | "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy" |
| 1967 | Ronald G.W. Norrish | 1897-1978 | chemical kinetics, physical chemistry | "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy" |
| 1967 | Manfred Eigen | 1927- | chemical kinetics, physical chemistry | "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy" |
| 1986 | John C. Polanyi | 1929- | chemical kinetics, physical chemistry | "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes" |
| 1986 | Yuan T. Lee | 1936- | chemical kinetics, physical chemistry | "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes" |
| 1986 | Dudley R. Herschbach | 1932- | chemical kinetics, physical chemistry | "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes" |
| 1999 | Ahmed Zewail | 1946-2016 | chemical kinetics, physical chemistry | "for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy" |