Chemistry prize
The Nobel Prize category for chemistry.
People in Chemistry prize
31 profiles
ScientistMarie Curie
Discovering polonium and radium.
ChemistLinus Pauling
Explaining chemical bonds and winning separate Nobel Prizes for chemistry and peace.
ChemistOtto Hahn
Finding chemical evidence that uranium nuclei can split.
ChemistGlenn T. Seaborg
Helping discover transuranium elements and reorganising the periodic table’s actinide series.
ScientistIrène Joliot-Curie
Discovering artificial radioactivity with Frédéric Joliot-Curie.
ChemistAhmed Zewail
Using ultrafast laser pulses to observe chemical bonds breaking and forming.
BiologistVenki Ramakrishnan
Mapping the ribosome, the molecular machinery that builds proteins.
ChemistDorothy Hodgkin
Using X-rays to reveal the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin.
BiochemistJennifer Doudna
Co-developing CRISPR-Cas9 as a programmable tool for editing DNA.
MicrobiologistEmmanuelle Charpentier
Co-developing CRISPR-Cas9 as a programmable method for editing DNA.
BiochemistLuis Federico Leloir
Discovering how sugar nucleotides help cells build carbohydrates.
ChemistMario Molina
Showing how CFC gases threaten the ozone layer.
PhysicistErnest Rutherford
Revealing the tiny nucleus at the centre of the atom.
ChemistAda Yonath
Revealing the structure of the ribosome, the cell’s protein-making machinery.
ChemistFrances Arnold
Using directed evolution to engineer useful enzymes.
ChemistRobert Burns Woodward
Constructing complex natural molecules through planned chemical synthesis.
ChemistKarl Barry Sharpless
Developing selective chemical reactions and click chemistry, earning two chemistry Nobel Prizes.
ChemistLouis E. Brus
Discovering how the size of tiny semiconductor crystals changes their properties.
ScientistJohn B. Goodenough
Developing materials that made powerful rechargeable lithium-ion batteries possible.
ChemistMorten Meldal
Co-developing copper-catalysed click chemistry, a reliable way to join molecular building blocks.
ChemistRoger Y. Tsien
Turning fluorescent proteins into tools for watching processes inside living cells.
BiologistMartin Chalfie
Showing how green fluorescent protein could mark living cells for scientific study.
ChemistJacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Helping establish stereochemistry and winning the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
ChemistSvante Arrhenius
Explaining ions in solution and calculating an early link between carbon dioxide and climate.
ChemistFritz Haber
Developing ammonia synthesis and directing Germany’s First World War poison-gas programme.
ChemistCarl Bosch
Turning ammonia synthesis into an industrial process.
ChemistEduard Buchner
Demonstrating that fermentation can occur without living yeast cells.
ChemistIlya Prigogine
Explaining ordered structures in systems far from equilibrium.
ScientistJacques Dubochet
Developing methods for cryo-electron microscopy.
ChemistJean-Pierre Sauvage
Developing mechanically interlocked molecules for molecular machines.
BiochemistAziz Sancar
Explaining how cells repair damaged DNA.