| Year | Name | Life | Field | Motivation |
|---|
| 1936 | Peter Debye | 1884-1966 | physical chemistry, structural chemistry | "for his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases" |
| 1962 | John C. Kendrew | 1917-1997 | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins" |
| 1962 | Max F. Perutz | 1914-2002 | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins" |
| 1964 | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | 1910-1994 | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances" |
| 1982 | Aaron Klug | 1926- | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes" |
| 1985 | Jerome Karle | 1918-2013 | physical chemistry, structural chemistry | "for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures" |
| 1985 | Herbert A. Hauptman | 1917-2011 | physical chemistry, structural chemistry | "for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures" |
| 1988 | Hartmut Michel | 1948- | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre" |
| 1988 | Robert Huber | 1937- | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre" |
| 1988 | Johann Deisenhofer | 1943- | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre" |
| 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" |
| 2003 | Roderick MacKinnon | 1956- | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels" |
| 2003 | Peter Agre | 1949- | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for the discovery of water channels" |
| 2006 | Roger D. Kornberg | 1947- | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription" |
| 2009 | Ada E. Yonath | 1939- | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" |
| 2009 | Thomas A. Steitz | 1940- | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" |
| 2009 | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | 1952- | biochemistry, structural chemistry | "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" |
| 2011 | Dan Shechtman | 1941- | physical chemistry, structural chemistry | "for the discovery of quasicrystals" |