| Year | Name | Life | Field | Motivation |
|---|
| 1991 | Richard R. Ernst | 1933- | physical chemical methodology | "for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy" |
| 2002 | Kurt Wüthrich | 1938- | physical chemical methodology | "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution" |
| 2002 | Koichi Tanaka | 1959- | physical chemical methodology | "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules" |
| 2002 | John B. Fenn | 1917-2010 | physical chemical methodology | "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules" |