Citation Laureates
Nationality
Motivations
Institute
2008 [ 2]
Charles M. Lieber "for his transformational research on nanowires, nanomaterials, and their applications."
Harvard University
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski "for his development of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and other methods of "living" polymerization."
Carnegie Mellon University
Roger Y. Tsien "for his development and application of fluorescent protein probes as visual indicators of cellular function."
2009 [ 3]
Michael Grätzel "for his invention of dye-sensitized solar cells, now known as Grätzel cells ."
ETH Zurich
Jacqueline Barton "for their pioneering research of electron charge transfer in DNA ."
California Institute of Technology
Bernd Giese University of Basel
Gary Schuster Georgia Institute of Technology
Benjamin List "for his development of organic asymmetric catalysis using enamines ."
2010 [ 4]
Patrick O. Brown "for the invention and application of DNA microarrays , a revolutionary tool in the study of variation in gene expression."
Susumu Kitagawa "for the design and development of porous metal-organic frameworks , whose applications include hydrogen and methane storage, gas purification, and gas separation, among others."
Kyoto University
Omar M. Yaghi University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen J. Lippard "for pioneering research in bioinorganic chemistry, including the discovery of metallointercalators to disrupt DNA replication , an important contribution to improved cancer therapy."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011 [ 5]
Allen J. Bard "for the development and application of scanning electrochemical microscopy ."
University of Texas at Austin
Martin Karplus "for pioneering simulations of the molecular dynamics of biomolecules ."
Jean Fréchet United States
"for the invention and development of dendritic polymers ."
Donald Tomalia
Fritz Vögtle
University of Bonn
2012 [ 6]
Louis E. Brus "for discovery of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots )."
Columbia University
Akira Fujishima "for the discovery of photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide (the Honda-Fujishima Effect)."
Tokyo University of Science
Masatake Haruta
"for independent foundational discoveries of catalysis by gold ."
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Graham Hutchings Cardiff University
2013 [ 7]
Paul Alivisatos "for contributions to DNA nanotechnology ."
University of California, Berkeley
Chad Mirkin Northwestern University
Nadrian Seeman New York University
Bruce Ames "for the invention of the Ames test of mutagenicity ."
M.G. Finn "for the development of modular click chemistry ."
Georgia Institute of Technology
Valery Fokin Scripps Research Institute
Karl Barry Sharpless
2014 [ 8]
Charles T. Kresge "for design of functional mesoporous materials."
Saudi Aramco
Ryoo Ryong Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Galen D. Stucky University of California, Santa Barbara
Graeme Moad "for development of the reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization process ."
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Ezio Rizzardo
San Thang
Ching Wan Tang "for their invention of the organic light emitting diode ."
Steven Van Slyke Kateeva
2015 [ 9]
Carolyn Bertozzi "for foundational contributions to bioorthogonal chemistry ."
Emmanuelle Charpentier "for the development of the CRISPR-cas9 method for genome editing ."
Jennifer Doudna
John B. Goodenough "for pioneering research leading to the development of the lithium-ion battery ."
University of Texas at Austin
M. Stanley Whittingham Birmingham University
2016 [ 10]
George Church "for application of CRISPR-cas9 gene editing in mouse and human cells."
Harvard Medical School
Feng Zhang United States
Dennis Lo Yuk-Ming "for detecting cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma , a revolution in noninvasive prenatal testing ."
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hiroshi Maeda "for discovering the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect of macromolecular drugs , a key finding for cancer therapeutics."
Kumamoto University
Yasuhiro Matsumura
National Cancer Center
2017 [ 11]
John E. Bercaw "for critical contributions to C-H functionalization ."
California Institute of Technology
Robert G. Bergman University of California, Berkeley
Georgiy B. Shul'pin Russian Academy of Sciences
Jens Nørskov "for fundamental advances, theoretical and practical, in heterogeneous catalysis on solid surfaces."
Tsutomu Miyasaka "for their discovery and application of perovskite materials to achieve efficient energy conversion."
Toin University of Yokohama
Nam-Gyu Park Sungkyunkwan University
Henry Snaith University of Oxford
2018 [ 12]
Eric Jacobsen "for contributions to catalytic reactions for organic synthesis, especially for the development of Jacobsen epoxidation ."
Harvard University
George M. Sheldrick "for his enormous influence in structural crystallography ."
University of Göttingen
JoAnne Stubbe "for her discovery that ribonucleotide reductases transform ribonucleotides into deoxyribonucleotides by a free-radical mechanism."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2019 [ 13]
Rolf Huisgen "for development of the 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition Reaction (Huisgen reaction) and the variant Copper(I)-catalyzed Azide-Alkyne cycloaddition (Meldal)."
University of Munich
Morten P. Meldal University of Copenhagen
Edwin Southern "for invention of the Southern blot method for determining specific DNA sequences."
University of Oxford
Marvin H. Caruthers "for contributions to protein and DNA sequencing and synthesis ."
University of Colorado
Leroy Hood
Michael Hunkapiller
Pacific Biosciences
2020 [ 14]
Moungi Bawendi "for synthesis of nanocrystals with precise attributes for a wide range of applications in physical, biological, and medical systems."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Christopher B. Murray University of Pennsylvania
Hyeon Taeghwan
Stephen L. Buchwald "for contributions to organometallic chemistry , notably the Buchwald–Hartwig amination which forms carbon–nitrogen bonds through palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions of amines with aryl halides ."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John F. Hartwig University of California, Berkeley
Makoto Fujita "for advances in supramolecular chemistry through self-assembly strategies that take inspiration from nature itself."
University of Tokyo
2021 [ 15]
Barry Halliwell "for pioneering research in free-radical chemistry including the role of free radicals and antioxidants in human disease."
William L. Jorgensen "for methods and studies in the computational chemistry of organic and biomolecular systems in solution, contributing to rational drug design and synthesis."
Yale University
Mitsuo Sawamoto "for discovery and development of metal-catalyzed living radical polymerization ."
2022 [ 16]
Zhenan Bao "for the development of novel biomimetic applications of organic and polymeric electronic materials, including flexible 'electronic skin '."
Stanford University
Bonnie Bassler "for research on regulation of gene expression in bacteria through quorum sensing , a chemical communication system."
Everett Peter Greenberg University of Washington
Daniel G. Nocera "for fundamental experimental and theoretical contributions to proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) and its application to energy science and biology."
Harvard University
2023 [ 17]
James J. Collins "for pioneering work on synthetic gene circuits, which launched the field of synthetic biology."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Elowitz California Institute of Technology , Pasadena
Stanislas Leibler Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton
Shankar Balasubramanian "for the co-invention of next-generation DNA sequencing methodology that has revolutionized biological research."
University of Cambridge , Cambridge
David Klenerman University of Cambridge , Cambridge
Kazunori Kataoka
"for the development of innovative drug and gene targeting and delivery methods."
University of Tokyo
Vladimir P. Torchilin Northeastern University , Boston
Karen L. Wooley Texas A&M University
2024 [ 18]
David Baker "for contributions to the prediction and design of three-dimensional protein structures and functions."
Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Washington School of Medicine
John M. Jumper Google DeepMind
Demis Hassabis
Kazunari Dōmen "for fundamental research on photocatalysts for water splitting and the construction of solar hydrogen production systems."
Shinshu University University of Tokyo
Roberto Car "for the Car–Parrinello method for calculating ab-initio molecular dynamics , a revolution in computational chemistry."
Princeton University
Michele Parrinello Università della Svizzera italiana ETH Zurich
