| Year | Name | Life | Field | Motivation |
|---|
| 1904 | Sir William Ramsay | 1852-1916 | inorganic chemistry, nuclear chemistry | "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system" |
| 1906 | Henri Moissan | 1852-1907 | inorganic chemistry, nuclear chemistry | "in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him" |
| 1913 | Alfred Werner | 1866-1919 | inorganic chemistry | "in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry" |
| 1918 | Fritz Haber | 1868-1934 | industrial chemistry, inorganic chemistry | "for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements" |
| 1943 | George de Hevesy | 1885-1966 | inorganic chemistry, nuclear chemistry | "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes" |
| 1973 | Geoffrey Wilkinson | 1921-1996 | inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry | "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds" |
| 1973 | Ernst Otto Fischer | 1918-2007 | inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry | "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds" |
| 1983 | Henry Taube | 1915-2005 | inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry | "for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes" |
| 2007 | Gerhard Ertl | 1936- | inorganic chemistry, surface chemistry | "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces" |