Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Published in ACS journals
Of the 150 persons awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry since 1901, 114 have published articles in ACS journals.
2007 - Gerhard Ertl
2006 - Roger D. Kornberg - for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription
2005 - Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock - for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis
2004 - Irwin Rose - for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
2003 - Peter Agre - for the discovery of water channels, Roderick MacKinnon - for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels
2002 - John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka - for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules, Kurt Wüthrich - for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution
2001 - William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori - for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions, K. Barry Sharpless - for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions
2000 - Alan Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa - for the discovery and development of conductive polymers
1999 - Ahmed Zewail - for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy
1998 - John Pople - for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry
1997 - Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker - for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), Jens C. Skou - for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase
1996 - Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto, Richard E. Smalley - for their discovery of fullerenes
1995 - Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland - for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone
1994 - George A. Olah - for his contribution to carbocation chemistry
1993 - Kary B. Mullis - for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method; Michael Smith - for his fundamental contributions to the establishment of oligonucleotide-based, site-directed mutagenesis and its development for protein studies
1992 - Rudolph A. Marcus - for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems
1991 - Richard R. Ernst - for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
1990 - Elias James Corey - for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis
1989 - Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech - for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA
1988 - Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel - for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre
1987 - Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen - for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi - for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes
1985 - Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle - for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures
1984 - Bruce Merrifield - for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix
1983 - Henry Taube - for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes
1981 - Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann - for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions
1980 - Paul Berg - for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA, Walter Gilbert - for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids
1979 - Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig - for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis
1976 - William Lipscomb - for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding
1975 - John Cornforth - for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions
1974 - Paul J. Flory - for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of the macromolecules
1973 - Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson - for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds
1972 - Christian Anfinsen - for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation; Stanford Moore, William H. Stein - for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule
1971 - Gerhard Herzberg - for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals
1969 - Derek Barton - for contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry
1968 - Lars Onsager - for the discovery of the reciprocal relations bearing his name, which are fundamental for the thermodynamics of irreversible processes
1967 - Manfred Eigen, Ronald G.W. Norrish - for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of energy
1966 - Robert S. Mulliken - for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method
1965 - Robert B. Woodward - for his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis
1963 - Giulio Natta - for discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers
1962 - Max F. Perutz, John C. Kendrew - for their studies of the structures of globular proteins
1961 - Melvin Calvin - for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants
1960 - Willard F. Libby - for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and other branches of science
1959 - Jaroslav Heyrovsky - for his discovery and development of the polarographic methods of analysis
1955 - Vincent du Vigneaud - for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone
1954 - Linus Pauling - for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances
1953 - Hermann Staudinger - for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry
1952 - Richard L.M. Synge - for his discoveries in the field of macromolecular chemistry
1951 - Edwin M. McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg - for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements
1949 - William F. Giauque - for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behaviour of substances at extremely low temperatures
1948 - Arne Tiselius - for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins
1946 - James B. Sumner - for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized; John H. Northrop, Wendell M. Stanley - for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form
1945 - Artturi Virtanen - for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method
1939 - Leopold Ruzicka - for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes
1937 - Paul Karrer - for his investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2
1936 - Peter Debye - for his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases
1934 - Harold C. Urey - for his discovery of heavy hydrogen
1932 - Irving Langmuir - for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry
1931 - Friedrich Bergius - in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high pressure methods
1929 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin - for investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes
1926 - The Svedberg - for his work on disperse systems
1925 - Richard Zsigmondy - for his demonstration of the heterogenous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry
1922 - Francis W. Aston - for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule
1921 - Frederick Soddy - for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes
1918 - Fritz Haber - for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements
1915 - Richard Willstätter - for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll
1914 - Theodore W. Richards - in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements
1912 - Victor Grignard - for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry; Paul Sabatier - for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been greatly advanced in recent years
1911 - Marie Curie - in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element
1909 - Wilhelm Ostwald - in recognition of his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction
1908 - Ernest Rutherford - for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances
1906 - Henri Moissan - in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him
1905 - Adolf von Baeyer - in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds
1904 - Sir William Ramsay - in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system
1903 - Svante Arrhenius - in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation
1902 - Emil Fischer - in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses
1901 - Jacobus H. van 't Hoff - in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions
