| Year | Name | Life | Field | Motivation |
|---|
| 1972 | William H. Stein | 1911-1980 | analytical biochemistry, biochemistry | "for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule" |
| 1972 | Stanford Moore | 1913-1982 | analytical biochemistry, biochemistry | "for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule" |
| 1976 | William Lipscomb | 1919-2011 | chemical structure, theoretical chemistry | "for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding" |