2004 Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko en Irwin Rose
2003 Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon
2002 John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich
2001 William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless
2000 Alan Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa
1999 Ahmed Zewail
1998 Walter Kohn, John Pople
1997 Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
1996 Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto, Richard E. Smalley
1995 Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
1994 George A. Olah
1993 Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith
1992 Rudolph A. Marcus
1991 Richard R. Ernst
1990 Elias James Corey
1989 Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
1988 Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
1987 Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
1986 Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi
1985 Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
1984 Bruce Merrifield
1983 Henry Taube
1982 Aaron Klug
1981 Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann
1980 Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
1979 Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
1978 Peter Mitchell
1977 Ilya Prigogine
1976 William Lipscomb
1975 John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
1974 Paul J. Flory
1973 Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
1972 Christian Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein
1971 Gerhard Herzberg
1970 Luis Leloir
1969 Derek Barton, Odd Hassel
1968 Lars Onsager
1967 Manfred Eigen, Ronald G.W. Norrish, George Porter
1966 Robert S. Mulliken
1965 Robert B. Woodward
1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1963 Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
1962 Max F. Perutz, John C. Kendrew
1961 Melvin Calvin
1960 Willard F. Libby
1959 Jaroslav Heyrovsky
1958 Frederick Sanger
1957 Lord Todd
1956 Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Nikolay Semenov
1955 Vincent du Vigneaud
1954 Linus Pauling
1953 Hermann Staudinger
1952 Archer J.P. Martin, Richard L.M. Synge
1951 Edwin M. McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg
1950 Otto Diels, Kurt Alder
1949 William F. Giauque
1948 Arne Tiselius
1947 Sir Robert Robinson
1946 James B. Sumner, John H. Northrop, Wendell M. Stanley
1945 Artturi Virtanen
1944 Otto Hahn
1943 George de Hevesy
1942 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1941 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1940 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1939 Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka
1938 Richard Kuhn
1937 Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer
1936 Peter Debye
1935 Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie
1934 Harold C. Urey
1933 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
1932 Irving Langmuir
1931 Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
1930 Hans Fischer
1929 Arthur Harden, Hans von Euler-Chelpin
1928 Adolf Windaus
1927 Heinrich Wieland
1926 The Svedberg
1925 Richard Zsigmondy
1924 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1923 Fritz Pregl
1922 Francis W. Aston
1921 Frederick Soddy
1920 Walther Nernst
1919 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1918 Fritz Haber
1917 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1916 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
1915 Richard Willstätter
1914 Theodore W. Richards
1913 Alfred Werner
1912 Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier
1911 Marie Curie
1910 Otto Wallach
1909 Wilhelm Ostwald
1908 Ernest Rutherford
1907 Eduard Buchner
1906 Henri Moissan
1905 Adolf von Baeyer
1904 Sir William Ramsay
1903 Svante Arrhenius
1902 Emil Fischer
1901 Jacobus H. van 't Hoff