CHRONOLOGY: Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry since 1960

Oct 6, 2010, 13:05 GMT

2010 Richard F Heck US Ei-ichi Negishi Japan Akira Suzuki Japan

2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan US Thomas A Steitz US Ada E Yonath Israel

2008 Osamu Shimomura Japan Martin Chalfie US Roger Y Tsien US

2007 Gerhard Ertl Germany

2006 Roger D Kornberg US

2005 Yves Chauvin France Robert H Grubbs US Richard R Schrock US

2004 Aaron Ciechanov Israel Avram Hershko Israel Irwin Rose US

2003 Peter Agre US Roderick MacKinnon US

2002 John Fenn US Koichi Tanaka Japan Kurt Wuethrich Switzerland

2001 William Knowles US Ryoji Noyori Japan K Barry Sharpless US

2000 Alan J Heeger US Alan G MacDiarmid US Hideki Shirakawa Japan

1999 Ahmed Zewail Egypt/US

1998 Walter Kohn US John A Pople Britain

1997 Jens C Skou Denmark Paul D Boyer US John E Walker Britain

1996 Robert F Curl Jr US Richard E Smalley US Harold Kroto Britain

1995 Paul Crutzen Netherlands Mario Molina Mexico F Sherwood Rowland US

1994 George A Olah US

1993 Kary Mullis US Michael Smith Canada

1992 Rudolph A Marcus US

1991 Richard R Ernst Switzerland

1990 Elias James Corey US

1989 Sidney Altmann Canada Thomas Cech US

1988 Johann Deisenhofer Germany Robert Huber Germany Hartmut Michel Germany

1987 Donald J Cram US Charles J Pedersen US Jean-Marie Lehn France

1986 John Polanyi Canada Dudley Herschbach US Lee Yuan-tse Taiwan

1985 Herbert A Hauptmann US Jeroma Karle US

1984 Robert Bruce Merrifield US

1983 Henry Taube US

1982 Aaron Klug Britain

1981 Kenichi Fukui Japan Roald Hoffmann US

1980 Paul Berg US Walter Gilbert US Frederick Sanger Britain (for the second time)

1979 Herbert C Brown US Georg Wittig Germany

1978 Peter Mitchell Britain

1977 Ilja Prirogine Belgium

1976 William Lipscomb US

1975 John Warcup Conforth Britain

1974 Paul L Flory US

1973 Ernst Otto Fischer Germany Geoffrey Wilkinson Britain

1972 Christian Anfinsen US Stanford Moore US William Stein US

1971 Gerhard Herzberg Canada

1970 Luis Leloir Argentina

1969 Odd Hassel Norway Derek Barton Britain

1968 Lars Onsager US

1967 Manfred Eigen Germany Ronald Norrish Britain George Porter Britain

1966 -

1965 Robert Burns US

1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Britain

1963 Max Ziegler Germany Giulio Natta Italy

1962 John Cowdery Kendrew Britain Max Perutz Britain

1961 Melvin Calvin US

1960 Willard Libby US