Svante Arrhenius
| 1911
| Theodore W. Richards | 1912
| Leo H. Baekeland | 1913
| Ira Remsen | 1914
| Arthur A. Noyes | 1915
| Willis R. Whitney | 1916
| Edward W. Morley | 1917
| William M. Burton | 1918
| William A. Noyes | 1919
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F. G. Cottrell
| 1920
| Mme. Marie Curie | 1921
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No award
| 1922
| Julius Stieglitz | 1923
| Gilbert N. Lewis | 1924
| Moses Gomberg | 1925
| Sir James Colquhoun Irvine | 1926
| John Jacob Abel | 1927
| William Draper Harkins | 1928
| Claude Silbert Hudson | 1929
| Irving Langmuir | 1930
| Phoebus A. Levene | 1931
| Edward Curtis Franklin | 1932
| Richard Willstatter | 1933
| Harold Clayton Urey | 1934
| Charles August Kraus | 1935
| Roger Adams | 1936
| Herbert Newby McCoy | 1937
| Robert R. Williams | 1938
| Donald Dexter Van Slyke | 1939
| Vladimir lpatieff | 1940
| Edward A. Doisy | 1941
| Thomas Midgley, Jr. | 1942
| Conrad A. Elvehjem | 1943
| George O. Curme, Jr. | 1944
| Frank C. Whitmore | 1945
| Linus Pauling | 1946
| Wendell M. Stanley | 1947
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Carl F. Cori
| 1948
| Peter J. W. Debye | 1949
| Carl S. Marvel | 1950
| William Francis Giauque | 1951
| William C. Rose | 1952
| Joel H. Hildebrand | 1953
| Elmer K. Bolton | 1954
| Farrington Daniels | 1955
| Vincent du Vigneaud | 1956
| W. Albert Noyes, Jr. | 1957
| Willard F. Libby | 1958
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Herman I. Schlesinger
| 1959
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George B. Kistiakowsky
| 1960
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Louis Plack Hammett
| 1961
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Lars Onsager | 1962
| Paul D. Bartlett | 1963
| lzaak M. Kolthoff | 1964
| Robert S. Mulliken | 1965
| Glenn T. Seaborg | 1966
| Robert Burns Woodward | 1967
| Henry Eyring | 1968
| Gerhard Herzberg | 1969
| Frank H. Westheimer | 1970
| Henry Taube | 1971
| John T. Edsall | 1972
| Paul John Flory | 1973
| Har Gobind Khorana | 1974
| Herman F. Mark | 1975
| Kenneth S. Pitzer | 1976
| Melvin Calvin | 1977
| W. O. Baker | 1978
| E. Bright Wilson | 1979
| Frank Albert Cotton | 1980
| Bert Lester Vallee | 1981
| Gilbert Stork | 1982
| John D. Roberts | 1983
| Elias J. Corey | 1984
| Donald J. Cram | 1985
| Jack Halpern | 1986
| Allen J. Bard | 1987
| Rudolph A. Marcus | 1988
| Richard B. Bernstein | 1989
| Richard N. Zare | 1990
| Gunther Wilke | 1991
| Harry B. Gray | 1992
| Peter B. Dervan | 1993
| M. Frederick Hawthorne | 1994
| Sir John Meurig Thomas | 1995
| Fred Basolo | 1996
| Carl Djerassi | 1997
| Mario J. Molina | 1998
| Lawrence F. Dahl | 1999
| Nicholas J. Turro | 2000
| Tobin J. Marks | 2001
| Ralph Hirschmann | 2002
| John I. Brauman | 2003
| Ronald Breslow | 2004
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David A. Evans | 2005 |
Jacqueline K. Barton |
2006 |
Sylvia T. Ceyer
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2007 |
Carolyn R. Bertozzi |
2008 |
Louis Brus |
2009 |
Maurice Brookhart |
2010 |
Robert G. Bergman |
2011 |
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