Listi yfir verðlaunahafa.

• 1901 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
• 1902 - Hermann Emil Fischer
• 1903 - Svante August Arrhenius
• 1904 - Sir William Ramsay
• 1905 - Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
• 1906 - Henri Moissan
• 1907 - Eduard Buchner
• 1908 - Ernest Rutherford
• 1909 - Wilhelm Ostwald
• 1910 - Otto Wallach

• 1911 - Marie Sklodowska-Curie
• 1912 - Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier
• 1913 - Alfred Werner
• 1914 - Theodore William Richards
• 1915 - Richard Martin Willstätter
• 1918 - Fritz Haber
• 1920 - Walther Hermann Nernst

• 1921 - Frederick Soddy
• 1922 - Francis William Aston
• 1923 - Fritz Pregl
• 1925 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
• 1926 - Theodor Svedberg
• 1927 - Heinrich Otto Wieland
• 1928 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
• 1929 - Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
• 1930 - Hans Fischer

• 1931 - Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
• 1932 - Irving Langmuir
• 1934 - Harold Clayton Urey
• 1935 - Frédéric Joliot, Irene Joliot-Curie
• 1936 - Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
• 1937 - Walter Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer
• 1938 - Richard Kuhn
• 1939 - Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka

• 1943 - George de Hevesy
• 1944 - Otto Hahn
• 1945 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
• 1946 - James Batcheller Sumner, John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley
• 1947 - Sir Robert Robinson
• 1948 - Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
• 1949 - William Francis Giauque
• 1950 - Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder

• 1951 - Edwin Mattison McMillan, Glenn Theodore Seaborg
• 1952 - Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge
• 1953 - Hermann Staudinger
• 1954 - Linus Carl Pauling
• 1955 - Vincent du Vigneaud
• 1956 - Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Níkolaj Semjonov
• 1957 - Lord Alexander R. Todd
• 1958 - Frederick Sanger
• 1959 - Jaroslav Heyrovsky
• 1960 - Willard Frank Libby

• 1961 - Melvin Calvin
• 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew
• 1963 - Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
• 1964 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
• 1965 - Robert Burns Woodward
• 1966 - Robert Sanderson Mulliken
• 1967 - Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter
• 1968 - Lars Onsager
• 1969 - Derek H. R. Barton, Odd Hassel
• 1970 - Luis F. Leloir

• 1971 - Gerhard Herzberg
• 1972 - Christian B. Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein
• 1973 - Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
• 1974 - Paul J. Flory
• 1975 - John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
• 1976 - William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
• 1977 - Ilya Prigogine
• 1978 - Peter D. Mitchell
• 1979 - Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
• 1980 - Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger

• 1981 - Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann
• 1982 - Aaron Klug
• 1983 - Henry Taube
• 1984 - Robert Bruce Merrifield
• 1985 - Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
• 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi
• 1987 - Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
• 1988 - Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
• 1989 - Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
• 1990 - Elias James Corey

• 1991 - Richard R. Ernst
• 1992 - Rudolph A. Marcus
• 1993 - Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith
• 1994 - George A. Olah
• 1995 - Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
• 1996 - Robert Curl, Sir Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley
• 1997 - Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens Christian Skou
• 1998 - Walter Kohn, John A. Pople
• 1999 - Ahmed H. Zewail
• 2000 - Alan J Heeger, Alan G MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa

• 2001 - William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless
• 2002 - Kurt Wüthrich, John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka
• 2003 - Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon
• 2004 - Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko og Irwin Rose
• 2005 - Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock og Yves Chauvin
• 2006 - Roger D. Kornberg
• 2007 - Gerhard Ertl
• 2008 - Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie og Roger Y. Tsien
• 2009 - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz og Ada E. Yonath
• 2010 - Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi og Akira Suzuki

• 2011 - Dan Shechtman
• 2012 - Brian Kobilka og Robert Lefkowitz
• 2013 - Michael Levitt, Martin Karplus og Arieh Warshel
• 2014 - Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell og William E. Moerner
• 2015 - Tomas Lindahl, Paul L. Modrich og Aziz Sancar
• 2016 - Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart og Ben Feringa
• 2017 - Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank og Richard Henderson
• 2018 - Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith og Gregory P. Winter
• 2019 - John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham og Akira Yoshino
• 2020 - Jennifer Doudna og Emmanuelle Charpentier

• 2021 - Benjamin List og David MacMillan
• 2022 - Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal og K. Barry Sharpless
• 2023 - Moungi Bawendi, Lou­is Brus og Al­ex­ei Ekimov