Chemistry Nobel prizes by year, annotated list

Field: theoretical chemistry
YearNameLifeFieldMotivation
1954Linus Pauling1901-1994chemical bonding, theoretical chemistry"for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances"
1966Robert S. Mulliken1896-1986chemical bonding, theoretical chemistry"for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method"
1976William Lipscomb1919-2011chemical structure, theoretical chemistry"for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding"
1981Roald Hoffmann1937-theoretical chemistry"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"
1981Kenichi Fukui1918-1998theoretical chemistry"for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"
1992Rudolph A. Marcus1923-theoretical chemistry"for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems"
1998John Pople1925-2004theoretical chemistry"for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry"
1998Walter Kohn1923-2016theoretical chemistry"for his development of the density-functional theory"
2013Arieh Warshel1940-biochemistry, physical chemistry, theoretical chemistry"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
2013Michael Levitt1947-biochemistry, physical chemistry, theoretical chemistry"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
2013Martin Karplus1930-biochemistry, physical chemistry, theoretical chemistry"for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"