| Year | Name | Life | Field | Motivation |
|---|
| 1902 | Emil Fischer | 1852-1919 | organic chemistry | "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses" |
| 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" |
| 1905 | Adolf von Baeyer | 1835-1917 | industrial chemistry, organic chemistry | "in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds" |
| 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" |
| 1910 | Otto Wallach | 1847-1931 | industrial chemistry, organic chemistry | "in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds" |
| 1912 | Paul Sabatier | 1854-1941 | organic chemistry | "for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been greatly advanced in recent years" |
| 1912 | Victor Grignard | 1871-1935 | organic chemistry | "for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry" |
| 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" |
| 1915 | Richard Willstätter | 1872-1942 | natural products chemistry, organic chemistry | "for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll" |
| 1918 | Fritz Haber | 1868-1934 | industrial chemistry, inorganic chemistry | "for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements" |
| 1927 | Heinrich Wieland | 1877-1957 | natural products chemistry, organic chemistry | "for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and related substances" |
| 1928 | Adolf Windaus | 1876-1959 | natural products chemistry, organic chemistry | "for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins" |
| 1930 | Hans Fischer | 1881-1945 | natural products chemistry, organic chemistry | "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin" |
| 1937 | Paul Karrer | 1889-1971 | natural products chemistry, organic chemistry | "for his investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2" |
| 1937 | Norman Haworth | 1883-1950 | natural products chemistry, organic chemistry | "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C" |
| 1938 | Richard Kuhn | 1900-1967 | natural products chemistry, organic chemistry | "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins" |
| 1939 | Leopold Ruzicka | 1887-1976 | natural products chemistry, organic chemistry | "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" |
| 1939 | Adolf Butenandt | 1903-1995 | natural products chemistry, organic chemistry | "for his work on sex hormones" |
| 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" |
| 1947 | Sir Robert Robinson | 1886-1975 | natural products chemistry, organic chemistry | "for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids" |
| 1950 | Kurt Alder | 1902-1958 | organic chemistry | "for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis" |
| 1950 | Otto Diels | 1876-1954 | organic chemistry | "for their discovery and development of the diene synthesis" |
| 1965 | Robert B. Woodward | 1917-1979 | natural products chemistry, organic chemistry | "for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis" |
| 1969 | Odd Hassel | 1897-1981 | organic chemistry, stereochemistry | "for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry" |
| 1969 | Derek Barton | 1918-1998 | organic chemistry, stereochemistry | "for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry" |
| 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" |
| 1975 | Vladimir Prelog | 1906-1998 | organic chemistry, stereochemistry | "for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions" |
| 1975 | John Cornforth | 1917-2013 | organic chemistry, stereochemistry | "for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions" |
| 1979 | Georg Wittig | 1897-1987 | organic chemistry | "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis" |
| 1979 | Herbert C. Brown | 1912-2004 | organic chemistry | "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis" |
| 1983 | Henry Taube | 1915-2005 | inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry | "for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes" |
| 1987 | Charles J. Pedersen | 1904-1989 | organic chemistry | "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity" |
| 1987 | Jean-Marie Lehn | 1939- | organic chemistry | "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity" |
| 1987 | Donald J. Cram | 1919-2001 | organic chemistry | "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity" |
| 1990 | Elias James Corey | 1928- | organic chemistry | "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis" |
| 1994 | George A. Olah | 1927- | organic chemistry | "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry" |
| 1996 | Richard E. Smalley | 1943-2005 | organic chemistry, structural chemistry | "for their discovery of fullerenes" |
| 1996 | Sir Harold Kroto | 1939-2016 | organic chemistry, structural chemistry | "for their discovery of fullerenes" |
| 1996 | Robert F. Curl Jr. | 1933- | organic chemistry, structural chemistry | "for their discovery of fullerenes" |
| 2001 | Barry Sharpless | 1941- | industrial chemistry, organic chemistry | "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions" |
| 2001 | Ryoji Noyori | 1938- | industrial chemistry, organic chemistry | "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" |
| 2001 | William Knowles | 1917-2012 | industrial chemistry, organic chemistry | "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" |
| 2005 | Richard R. Schrock | 1945- | organic chemistry | "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis" |
| 2005 | Robert H. Grubbs | 1942- | organic chemistry | "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis" |
| 2005 | Yves Chauvin | 1930-2015 | organic chemistry | "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis" |
| 2007 | Gerhard Ertl | 1936- | inorganic chemistry, surface chemistry | "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces" |
| 2010 | Akira Suzuki | 1930- | organic chemistry | "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" |
| 2010 | Ei-ichi Negishi | 1935- | organic chemistry | "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" |
| 2010 | Richard F. Heck | 1931-2015 | organic chemistry | "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" |