Le frazioni, ove indicato dopo il nome dello scienziato, segnalano la percentuale di suddivisione del premio; 1/2 (metà premio), 1/3 o 1/4 rispettivamente. Ove non indicato, i premi sono stati suddivisi equamente.
I Premi Nobel su You Tube.

2017 Jacques Dubochet (SWI), Joachim Frank (D) and Richard Henderson (UK) "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"; annuncio 4 ottobre 2017
2016 Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart e Bernard L. Feringa "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"; annuncio 5 ottobre 2016
2015 Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich e Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair"
2014 Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell e William E. Moerner "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy"
2013 Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt e Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
2012 Robert J. Lefkowitz e Brian K. Kobilka "for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors"
2011 Daniel Shechtman "for the discovery of quasicrystals"

2010 Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi e Akira Suzuki "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis"
2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz e Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
2008 Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie e Roger Y. Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
2007 Gerhard Ertl "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces"
2006 Roger D. Kornberg "for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription"
2005 Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs e Richard R. Schrock "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"
2004 Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko e Irwin Rose "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
2003 "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes" Peter Agre "for the discovery of water channels" e Roderick MacKinnon "for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels"
2002 for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules" John B. Fenn (1/4 premio) e Koichi Tanaka (1/4 premio) "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules" e Kurt Wüthrich (1/2 premio) "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"
2001 William S. Knowles (1/4 premio) e Ryoji Noyori (1/4 premio) "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" e K. Barry Sharpless (1/2 premio) "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"

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 e Giulio Natta (ITA) "for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers"
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 Sklodowska Curie (anche Nobel per la Fisica nel 1903)

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