Die Träger des Nobelpreises für Chemie sind:
- 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 The (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, Irène 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, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
- 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 C. 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