Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Check all the winners of Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
Year Winner Winner Work
2013 Robert S. Langer For conceiving and implementing advances in polymer chemistry that provide both controlled drug-release systems and new biomaterials.
2012 Paul Alivisatos For developing the colloidal inorganic nanocrystal as a building block of nanoscience making fundamental contributions to controlling the synthesis of these particles, to measuring and understanding their physical properties, and to utilizing their unique properties for applications ranging from light generation and harvesting to biological imaging.
2012 Charles M. Lieber For developing new methods to control the shape and heterostructure of nanowires, for characterizing their physical properties, and for demonstrating their potential applications.
2011 Stuart A. Rice For the deep creative contributions to the chemical sciences in the field of synthesis, properties and an understanding of organic materials.
Ching W. Tang For the deep creative contributions to the chemical sciences in the field of synthesis, properties and an understanding of organic materials.
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski For the deep creative contributions to the chemical sciences in the field of synthesis, properties and an understanding of organic materials.
2010
2009
2008 W. E. Moerner For the ingenious creation of a new field of science, single molecule spectroscopy and electrochemistry, with impact at the nanoscopic regime, from the molecular and cellular domain to complex material systems.
Allen J. Bard For the ingenious creation of a new field of science, single molecule spectroscopy and electrochemistry, with impact at the nanoscopic regime, from the molecular and cellular domain to complex material systems.
2007
2006 Ada Yonath For ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis.
George Feher For ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis.
2005 Richard Zare For his ingenious applications of laser techniques, for identifying complex mechanisms in molecules, and their use in analytical chemistry.
2004 Harry B. Gray For pioneering work in bio-inorganic chemistry, unravelling novel principles of structure and long-range electron transfer in proteins.
2002
2001 Henri B. Kagan for their pioneering, creative and crucial work in developing asymmetric catalysis for the synthesis of chiral molecules, greatly increasing mankind's ability to create new products of fundamental and practical importance.
Ry?ji Noyori for their pioneering, creative and crucial work in developing asymmetric catalysis for the synthesis of chiral molecules, greatly increasing mankind's ability to create new products of fundamental and practical importance.
Karl Barry Sharpless for their pioneering, creative and crucial work in developing asymmetric catalysis for the synthesis of chiral molecules, greatly increasing mankind's ability to create new products of fundamental and practical importance.
2000 F. Albert Cotton For opening up an entirely new phase of transition metal chemistry based on pairs and clusters of metal atoms directly linked by single or multiple bonds.
1999 Raymond Lemieux For his fundamental and seminal contributions to the study and synthesis of oligosaccharides and to the elucidation of their role in molecular recognition in biological systems.
1998 Gabor A. Somorjai For their outstanding contributions to the field of the surface science in general, and for their elucidation of fundamental mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions at single crystal surfaces in particular.
Gerhard Ertl For their outstanding contributions to the field of the surface science in general, and for their elucidation of fundamental mechanisms of heterogeneous catalytic reactions at single crystal surfaces in particular.
1997
1996
1995 Gilbert Stork For designing and developing novel chemical reactions which have opened new avenues to the synthesis of the synthesis of complex molecules, particularly polysaccharides and many other biologically and medicinally important compounds.
Samuel J. Danishefsky For designing and developing novel chemical reactions which have opened new avenues to the synthesis of the synthesis of complex molecules, particularly polysaccharides and many other biologically and medicinally important compounds.
1994 Peter G. Schultz For converting antibodies into enzymes, thus permitting the catalysis of chemical reactions considered impossible to achieve by classical chemical procedures.
Richard Lerner For converting antibodies into enzymes, thus permitting the catalysis of chemical reactions considered impossible to achieve by classical chemical procedures.
1993 Ahmed Zewail For using ultrafast lasers in femtosecond time resolved measurements of the evolution of chemical reactions - thus obtaining the first direct observation of bond breakage in a molecule.
1992 John Pople For his outstanding contributions to Theoretical Chemistry, particularly in developing effective and widely used modern quantum - chemical methods.
1991 Richard R. Ernst For his revolutionary contributions to NMR spectroscopy, especially Fourier-transform and two-dimensional NMR
1991 Alexander Pines For his revolutionary contributions to NMR spectroscopy, especially multiple-quantum and high-spin NMR.
1990
1989 Duilio Arigoni For their fundamental contributions to the elucidation of the mechanism of enzymic reactions and of the biosynthesis of natural products, in particular the pigments of life.
Alan R. Battersby For their fundamental contributions to the elucidation of the mechanism of enzymic reactions and of the biosynthesis of natural products, in particular the pigments of life.
1988 Joshua Jortner For their incisive theoretical studies elucidating energy acquisition and disposal in molecular systems and mechanisms for dynamical selectivity and specificity.
Raphael David Levine For their incisive theoretical studies elucidating energy acquisition and disposal in molecular systems and mechanisms for dynamical selectivity and specificity.
1987 David Chilton Phillips For their contributions to protein X-ray crystallography and to the elucidation of structures of enzymes and their mechanisms of action.
David Mervyn Blow For their contributions to protein X-ray crystallography and to the elucidation of structures of enzymes and their mechanisms of action.
1986 Elias James Corey for outstanding research on the synthesis of many highly complex natural products and the demonstration of novel ways of thinking about such syntheses.
1986 Albert Eschenmoser for outstanding research on the synthesis, stereochemistry and reaction mechanisms for formation of natural products, especially Vitamin-B12.
1984 Rudolph A. Marcus for his contributions to chemical kinetics, especially the theories of unimolecular reactions and electron transfer reactions.
1983 Herbert S. Gutowsky for his pioneering work in the development and applications of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in chemistry.
1983 Harden M. McConnell for his studies of the electronic structure of molecules through paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and for the introduction and biological applications of spin label techniques.
1983 John S. Waugh for his fundamental theoretical and experimental contributions to high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in solids.
1982 John Polanyi for his studies of chemical reactions in unprecedented detail by developing the infrared chemiluminiscence technique, and for envisaging the chemical laser.
1982 George C. Pimentel for development of matrix isolation spectroscopy and for the discovery of photodissociation lasers and chemical lasers.
1981 Joseph Chatt for pioneering and fundamental contributions to synthetic transition metal chemistry, particularly transition metal hydrides and dinitrogen complexes.
1980 Henry Eyring for his development of absolute rate theory and its imaginative applications to chemical and physical processes.
1979 Herman Francis Mark for his contributions to understanding the structure and behavior of natural and synthetic polymers.
1978 Carl Djerassi for his work in bioorganic chemistry, application of new spectroscopic techniques, and his support of international cooperation.