| 2002 |
John B Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wuthrich |
| 2001 |
William S Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K Barry Sharpless |
| 2000 |
Alan J Heeger, Alan G MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa |
| 1999 |
Ahmed H Zewail |
| 1998 |
Walter Kohn, John A Pople |
| 1997 |
Jens C Skou, John E Walker, Paul D Boyer |
| 1996 |
Sir Harold W Kroto, Robert F Curl, Jr, Richard E Smalley |
| 1995 |
F Sherwood Roland, Mario J Molina, Paul J Crutzen |
| 1994 |
George Olah |
| 1993 |
Kary Banks Mullis, Michael Smith |
| 1992 |
Rudolph A Marcus |
| 1991 |
Richard R Ernst |
| 1990 |
Elias James Corey |
| 1989 |
SidneyAltman,Thomas R Cech |
| 1988 |
Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel |
| 1987 |
Charles J Pedersen, Donald J Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn |
| 1986 |
Dudley R Herschbach,Yuan Tseh Lee, John C Polanyi |
| 1985 |
Herbert A Hauptman, Jerome Karle |
| 1984 |
Robert B Merrifield |
| 1983 |
Henry Taube |
| 1982 |
Sir Aaron Klug |
| 1981 |
Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffman |
| 1980 |
Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger |
| 1979 |
Herbert C Brown, Georg Wittig |
| 1978 |
Peter D Mitchell |
| 1977 |
Ilya Prigogine |
| 1976 |
William N Lipscomb |
| 1975 |
Sir John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog |
| 1974 |
Paul J Flory |
| 1973 |
Ernst Otto Fischer, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson |
| 1972 |
Stanford Moore, William H Stein, Christian B Anfinsen |
| 1971 |
Gerhard Herzberg |
| 1970 |
Luis Federico Leloir |
| 1969 |
Sir Derek H R Barton, Odd Hassel |
| 1968 |
Lars Onsager |
| 1967 |
Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Lord George Porter |
| 1966 |
Robert S Mulliken |
| 1965 |
Robert Burns Woodward |
| 1964 |
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
| 1963 |
Karl Ziegler, Guilio Natta |
| 1962 |
Max Ferdinand Perutz, Sir John Cowdery Kendrew |
| 1961 |
Melvin Calvin |
| 1960 |
Willard Frank Libby |
| 1959 |
Jaroslav Heyrovsky |
| 1958 |
Frederick Sanger |
| 1957 |
Lord Alexander R Todd |
| 1956 |
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov |
| 1955 |
Vincent du Vigneaud |
| 1954 |
Linus Carl Pauling |
| 1953 |
Hermann Staudinger |
| 1952 |
Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge |
| 1951 |
Edwin Mattison McMillan, Glenn Theodore Seaborg |
| 1950 |
Otto Paul Hermann Diets, Kurt Alder |
| 1949 |
William Francis Giauque |
| 1948 |
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius |
| 1947 |
Sir Robert Robinson |
| 1946 |
James Batcheller Sumner, John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley |
| 1945 |
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen |
| 1944 |
Otto Hahn |
| 1943 |
George de Hevesy |
| 1942 |
No award |
| 1941 |
No award |
| 1940 |
No award |
| 1939 |
Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka |
| 1938 |
Richard Kuhn |
| 1937 |
Sir Walter Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer |
| 1936 |
Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debye |
| 1935 |
Frederic Joliot, Irene Joliot-Curie |
