| Year | Name | Life | Field | Motivation |
|---|
| 1953 | Hermann Staudinger | 1881-1965 | polymer chemistry | "for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry" |
| 1963 | Giulio Natta | 1903-1979 | industrial chemistry, polymer chemistry | "for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers" |
| 1963 | Karl Ziegler | 1898-1973 | industrial chemistry, polymer chemistry | "for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers" |
| 1974 | Paul J. Flory | 1910-1985 | polymer chemistry | "for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of the macromolecules" |