| YEAR | WINNER |
| 1901 | Van't Hoff, Jacobus H. (Neth) |
| 1902 | Fischer, Emil H. (Ger) |
| 1903 | Arrhenius, Svante A. (Sw) |
| 1904 | Ramsay, Sir William (UK) |
| 1905 | Baeyer, Adolf von (Ger) |
| 1906 | Moissan, Henri (Fr) |
| 1907 | Buchner, Eduard (Ger) |
| 1908 | Rutherford, Ernest (UK) |
| 1909 | Ostwald, Wilhelm (Ger) |
| 1910 | Wallach, Otto (Ger) |
| 1911 | Curie, Marie (Fr) |
| 1912 | Grignard, Victor (Fr)
Sabatier, Paul (Fr) |
| 1913 | Werner, Alfred (Switz) |
| 1914 | Richards, Theodore W. (US) |
| 1915 | Willstätter, Richard (Ger) |
| 1916 | Not awarded |
| 1917 | Not awarded |
| 1918 | Haber, Fritz (Ger) |
| 1920 | Nernst, Walther H. (Ger) |
| 1921 | Soddy, Frederick (UK) |
| 1922 | Aston, Francis W. (UK) |
| 1923 | Pregl, Fritz (Aust) |
| 1924 | Not Awarded |
| 1925 | Zsigmondy, Richard (Ger) |
| 1926 | Svedberg, Theodor (Sw) |
| 1927 | Wieland, Heinrich O. (Ger) |
| 1928 | Windaus, Adolf (Ger) |
| 1929 | Harden, Sir Arthur (UK)
Euler-Chelpin, Hans von (Sw) |
| 1930 | Fischer, Hans (Ger) |
| 1931 | Bergius, Friedrich K. R. (Ger)
Bosch, Carl (Ger) |
| 1932 | Langmuir, Irving (US) |
| 1933 | Not Awarded |
| 1934 | Urey, Harold C. (US) |
| 1935 | Joliot-Curie, Irene(Fr)
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric (Fr) |
| 1936 | Debye, Peter Joseph W. (Neth) |
| 1937 | Haworth, Sir Walter N. (UK)
Karrer, Paul (Switz) |
| 1938 | Kuhn, Richard (Aust) |
| 1939 | Butenandt, Adolf (Ger)
Ruzicka, Leopold (Switz) |
| 1940 | Not awarded |
| 1941 | Not awarded |
| 1942 | Not awarded |
| 1943 | Hevesy, Georg de (Hung) |
| 1944 | Hahn, Otto (Ger) |
| 1945 | Virtanen, Artturi I. (Fin) |
| 1946 | Sumner, James B. (US)
Northrop, John H. (US)
Stanley, Wendell M. (US) |
| 1947 | Robinson, Sir Robert (UK) |
| 1948 | Tiselius, Arne V. K. (Sw) |
| 1949 | Giauque, William F. (US) |
| 1950 | Alder, Kurt (W. Ger)
Diels, Otto Paul H. (W. Ger) |
| 1951 | McMillan, Edwin M. (US)
Seaborg, Glenn T. (US) |
| 1952 | Martin, Archer John P. (UK)
Synge, Richard L. M. (UK) |
| 1953 | Staudinger, Hermann (W. Ger) |
| 1954 | Pauling, Linus (US) |
| 1955 | Du Vigneaud, Vincent (US) |
| 1956 | Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril (UK)
Semenov, Nikolai N. (USSR) |
| 1957 | Todd, Alexander Robertus (UK) |
| 1958 | Sanger, Frederick (UK) |
| 1959 | Heyrovsky, Yaroslav (Czech) |
| 1960 | Libby, Willard F. (US) |
| 1961 | Calvin, Melvin (US) |
| 1962 | Kendrew, John C. (UK)
Perutz, Max F. (UK) |
| 1963 | Natta, Giulio (It)
Ziegler, Karl (W. Ger) |
| 1964 | Hodgkin, Dorothy C. (UK) |
| 1965 | Woodward, Robert B. (US) |
| 1966 | Mulliken, Robert S. (US) |
| 1967 | Eigen, Manfred (W. Ger)
Norrish, Ronald G. W. (UK)
Porter, George (UK) |
| 1968 | Onsager, Lars (US) |
| 1969 | Barton, Derek H. R. (UK)
Hassel, Odd (Nor) |
| 1970 | Leloir, Luis Federico (Arg) |
| 1971 | Herzberg, Gerhard (Can) |
| 1972 | Anfinsen, Christian B. (US)
Moore, Stanford (US)
Stein, William H. (US) |
| 1973 | Fischer, Ernst O. (W. Ger)
Wilkinson, Geoffrey (UK) |
| 1974 | Flory, Paul J. (US) |
| 1975 | Cornforth, John W. (Australia)
Prelog, Vladimir (Switz) |
| 1976 | Lipscomb, William N., Jr. (US) |
| 1977 | Prigogine, Ilya (Belg) |
| 1978 | Mitchell, Peter (UK) |
| 1979 | Brown, Herbert C. (US)
Wittig, Georg (W. Ger) |
| 1980 | Berg, Paul (US)
Gilbert, Walter (US)
Sanger, Frederick (UK) |
| 1981 | Fukui, Kenichi (Japan)
Hoffmann, Roald (US) |
| 1982 | Klug, Aaron (UK) |
| 1983 | Taube, Henry (US) |
| 1984 | Merrifield, R. Bruce (US) |
| 1985 | Hauptman, Herbert A. (US)
Karle, Jerome (US) |
| 1986 | Herschbach, Dudley R. (US)
Lee, Yuan T. (US)
Polanyi, John C. (Can) |
| 1987 | Cram, Donald J. (US)
Pedersen, Charles J. (US)
Lehr, Jean-Marie (Fr) |
| 1988 | Deisenhofer, Johann (W. Ger)
Huber, Robert (W. Ger)
Michel, Hartmut (W. Ger) |
| 1989 | Altman, Sidney (Can-US)
Cech, Thomas R. (US) |
| 1990 | Corey, Elias James (US) |
| 1991 | Ernst, Richard (Switz) |
| 1992 | Marcus, Rudolph A. (Can-US) |
| 1993 | Mullis, Kary B. (US)
Smith, Michael (Can) |
| 1994 | Olah, George A. (US) |
| 1995 | Crutzen, Paul J. (Neth)
Molina, Mario J. (Mex-US)
Rowland, F. Sherwood (US) |
| 1996 | Curl, Robert F., Jr. (US)
Kroto, Sir Harold W. (UK)
Smalley, Richard E. (US) |
| 1997 | Boyer, Paul D. (US)
Walker, John E. (UK)
Skou, Jens C. (Den) |
| 1998 | Kohn, Walter (Aust)
Pople, John (UK) |
