| | 2006 - Roger D. Kornberg |
| | 2005 - Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock |
| | 2004 - Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose |
| | 2003 - Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon |
| | 2002 - John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich |
| | 2001 - William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless |
| | 2000 - Alan Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa |
| | 1999 - Ahmed Zewail |
| | 1998 - Walter Kohn, John Pople |
| | 1997 - Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou |
| | 1996 - Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto, Richard E. Smalley |
| | 1995 - Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland |
| | 1994 - George A. Olah |
| | 1993 - Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith |
| | 1992 - Rudolph A. Marcus |
| | 1991 - Richard R. Ernst |
| | 1990 - Elias James Corey |
| | 1989 - Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech |
| | 1988 - Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel |
| | 1987 - Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen |
| | 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi |
| | 1985 - Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle |
| | 1984 - Bruce Merrifield |
| | 1983 - Henry Taube |
| | 1982 - Aaron Klug |
| | 1981 - Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann |
| | 1980 - Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger |
| | 1979 - Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig |
| | 1978 - Peter Mitchell |
| | 1977 - Ilya Prigogine |
| | 1976 - William Lipscomb |
| | 1975 - John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog |
| | 1974 - Paul J. Flory |
| | 1973 - Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson |
| | 1972 - Christian Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein |
| | 1971 - Gerhard Herzberg |
| | 1970 - Luis Leloir |
| | 1969 - Derek Barton, Odd Hassel |
| | 1968 - Lars Onsager |
| | 1967 - Manfred Eigen, Ronald G.W. Norrish, George Porter |
| | 1966 - Robert S. Mulliken |
| | 1965 - Robert B. Woodward |
| | 1964 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
| | 1963 - Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta |
| | 1962 - Max F. Perutz, John C. Kendrew |
| | 1961 - Melvin Calvin |
| | 1960 - Willard F. Libby |
| | 1959 - Jaroslav Heyrovsky |
| | 1958 - Frederick Sanger |
| | 1957 - Lord Todd |
| | 1956 - Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Nikolay Semenov |
| | 1955 - Vincent du Vigneaud |
| | 1954 - Linus Pauling |
| | 1953 - Hermann Staudinger |
| | 1952 - Archer J.P. Martin, Richard L.M. Synge |
| | 1951 - Edwin M. McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg |
| | 1950 - Otto Diels, Kurt Alder |
| | 1949 - William F. Giauque |
| | 1948 - Arne Tiselius |
| | 1947 - Sir Robert Robinson |
| | 1946 - James B. Sumner, John H. Northrop, Wendell M. Stanley |
| | 1945 - Artturi Virtanen |
| | 1944 - Otto Hahn |
| | 1943 - George de Hevesy |
| | 1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| | 1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| | 1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| | 1939 - Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka |
| | 1938 - Richard Kuhn |
| | 1937 - Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer |
| | 1936 - Peter Debye |
| | 1935 - Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie |
| | 1934 - Harold C. Urey |
| | 1933 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| | 1932 - Irving Langmuir |
| | 1931 - Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius |
| | 1930 - Hans Fischer |
| | 1929 - Arthur Harden, Hans von Euler-Chelpin |
| | 1928 - Adolf Windaus |
| | 1927 - Heinrich Wieland |
| | 1926 - The Svedberg |
| | 1925 - Richard Zsigmondy |
| | 1924 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| | 1923 - Fritz Pregl |
| | 1922 - Francis W. Aston |
| | 1921 - Frederick Soddy |
| | 1920 - Walther Nernst |
| | 1919 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| | 1918 - Fritz Haber |
| | 1917 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| | 1916 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section |
| | 1915 - Richard Willstätter |
| | 1914 - Theodore W. Richards |
| | 1913 - Alfred Werner |
| | 1912 - Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier |
| | 1911 - Marie Curie |
| | 1910 - Otto Wallach |
| | 1909 - Wilhelm Ostwald |
| | 1908 - Ernest Rutherford |
| | 1907 - Eduard Buchner |
| | 1906 - Henri Moissan |
| | 1905 - Adolf von Baeyer |
| | 1904 - Sir William Ramsay |
| | 1903 - Svante Arrhenius |
| | 1902 - Emil Fischer |
| | 1901 - Jacobus H. van 't Hoff |