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Nobel Laureates in PAC

The following list displays the names of those Nobel prize winners for chemistry (56 out of 157) who feature as authors of works published in PAC.

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2010Akira Suzuki, Japan
For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.
2010Ei-ichi Negishi, USA
For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.
2010Richard F. Heck, USA
For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.
2009Ada E. Yonath, Israel
For her studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
2007Gerhard Ertl, Germany
For his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.
2005Richard R. Schrock, USA
For the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.
2005Robert H. Grubbs, USA
For the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.
2002Kurt Wüthrich, Switzerland
For his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution.
2001K. Barry Sharpless, USA
For his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions.
2001Ryoji Noyori, Japan
For his work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions.
2000Alan G. MacDiarmid, USA
For the discovery and development of conductive polymers.
1999Ahmed Hassan Zewail, USA
For his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.
1998John A. Pople, UK
For his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry.
1996Richard E. Smalley, USA
For his discovery of fullerenes.
1996Harold W. Kroto, UK
For his discovery of fullerenes.
1995Mario J. Molina, USA
For his work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.
1995Paul J. Crutzen, The Netherlands
For his work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.
1994George A. Olah, USA
For his contribution to carbocation chemistry.
1992Rudolph A. Marcus, USA
For his contribution to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems.
1991Richard R. Ernst, Switzerland
For his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
1990Elias James Corey, USA
For his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis.
1988Hartmut Michel, Germany
For the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.
1988Robert Huber, Germany
For the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.
1988Johann Deisenhofer, Germany/USA
For the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.
1987Charles J. Pedersen, USA
For his development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity.
1987Jean-Marie Lehn, France
For his development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity.
1987Donald J. Cram, USA
For his development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity.
1986Dudley R. Herschbach, USA
For his contribution concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.
1985Jerome Karle, USA
For his outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.
1984Robert Bruce Merrifield, USA
For his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix.
1983Henry Taube, USA
For his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.
1981Roald Hoffmann, USA
For his theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions.
1981Kenichi Fukui, Japan
For his theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions.
1979Georg Wittig, Germany
For his development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis.
1979Herbert C. Brown, USA
For his development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis.
1976William N. Lipscomb, USA
For his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding.
1975Vladimir Prelog, Switzerland
For his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions.
1975John Warcup Cornforth, Australia/UK
For his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
1974Paul J. Flory, USA
For his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of the macromolecules.
1973Geoffrey Wilkinson, UK
For his pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds.
1973Ernst Otto Fischer, Germany
For his pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds.
1972Christian B. Anfinsen, USA
For his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active confirmation.
1969Derek H. R Barton, UK
For his contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry.
1967George Porter, UK
For his studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of energy.
1967Manfred Eigen, Germany
For his studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of energy.
1966Robert S. Mulliken, USA
For his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method.
1965Robert Burns Woodward, USA
For his outstanding achievements in the art of organic synthesis.
1964Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, UK
For her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.
1963Giulio Natta, Italy
For his discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers.
1961Melvin Calvin, USA
For his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants.
1957Alexander R. Todd, UK
For his work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes.
1954Linus Carl Pauling, USA
For his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.
1952Archer John Porter Martin, UK
For his invention of partition chromatography.
1951Glenn Theodore Seaborg, USA
For his discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements.
1947Robert Robinson, UK
For his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids.
1936Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debye, Netherlands
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.