British Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry

List of  U.K. Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry

Award winner Award Reason for the award
Michael Stanley Whittingham
(born 1941)
2019 Together with the American John B. Goodenough
and the Japanese Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries.
Greory (Greg) Winter
(born 19051)
2018 He received the award together with the US-American Frances Arnold and the US-American George Smith for their development of chemical products based on natural substances
Richard Henderson
(born 1945)
2017 Together with the Swiss Jacques Dubochet and the American Joachim Frank
Für for the development of cryo-electron microscopy
James Fraser Stoddart
(born 1942 in Scotland)
2016 Together with the Dutchman Bernard Lucas Feringa and the Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage
For their design and synthesis of molecular machines
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
(born 1952)
2009 Together with the US researcher Thomas A. Seitz:
For the studies on the structure and function of the ribosome
John Anthony Pople
(1925-2004)
1998 For the development of methods with which the properties of molecules
and their interaction in chemical processes
can be theoretically researched
John E. Walker
(born 1941)
1997 Together with the US researcher Paul D. Boyer:
For clarifying the synthesis of the high-energy molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
Harold Kroto
(born 1939)
1996 Together with US researchers Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley:
For the discovery of fullerenes, also called buckyballs,
a new form of carbon with a spherical molecule
Aaron Klug
(born 1926)
1982 For the development of crystallographic methods
for deciphering biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes
Frederick Sanger
(born 1918)
1980 Together with the US researcher Walter Gilbert:
For their contributions concerning the determination of basic sequences in nucleic acids
Peter D. Mitchell
(1920-1992)
1978 For his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer
through the development of chemiosmotic theory
John W. Cornforth
Australian-British
(born 1917)
1975 For his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme catalysis reactions
Geoffrey Wilkinson
(1921-1996)
1973 Together with the German researcher Ernst Otto Fischer:
For their pioneering work independently of one another
on the chemistry of the organometallic so-called sandwich compounds
Derek HR Barton
(1918-1998)
1969 Together with the Norwegian Odd Hassel:
For her work on the development of the concept of conformation
and its application in chemistry
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
(1897-1978)
1967 Together with the German Manfred Eigen and the British George Porter:
For their investigations into extremely fast chemical reactions that
are triggered by the destruction of the equilibrium by very short energy impulses
George Porter
(1920-2002
1967 Together with the German Manfred Eigen and the British Ronald George Wreyford Norrish:
For their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions that
are triggered by the destruction of the equilibrium with very short energy pulses
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
(1910-1994)
1964 For their structure determination of biologically important substances with X-rays
Max Ferdinand Perutz
(1914-2002)
1962 Together with the British John Cowdery Kendrew:
For their studies on the structure of globulin proteins
John Cowdery Kendrew
(1917-1997
1962 Together with the British Max Ferdinand Perutz:
For their studies on the structures of globulin proteins
Frederick Sanger
(born 1918)
1958 For his work on the structure of proteins, especially insulin
Alexander Robertus Todd
(1907-1997)
1957 For his work on nucleotides and co-enzyme nucleotides
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
(1897-1967)
1956 Together with the Soviet researcher Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Semjonow:
For her research on the mechanisms of chemical reactions
Archer JP Martin
(1910-2002)
1952 Together with Richard LM Synge from Britain:
For their invention of distribution chromatography
Richard LM Synge
(1914-1994)
1952 Together with the Englishman Archer JP Martin:
For their invention of distribution chromatography
Robert Robinson
(1886-1975)
1947 For his research on biologically important plant products,
especially alkaloids
Walter Norman Haworth
(1883-1950)
1937 For his research on carbohydrates and vitamin C.
Arthur Harden
(1865-1940)
1929 Together with the Swede Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin:
For their research on sugar fermentation
and the role of enzymes in this process
Francis William Aston
(1877-1945)
1922 For his discovery of a large number of isotopes in several
non-radioactive elements with the help of his mass spectrograph
and for his discovery of the so-called law of integers
Frederick Soddy
(1877-1956)
Awarded in
1921 Received in 1922
For his contributions to the knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances
and his investigations into the occurrence and nature of isotopes
Ernest Rutherford
British-New Zealand nuclear physicist
(1871-1937)
1908 For his investigations into the decay of the elements
and the chemistry of radioactive substances
Sir William Ramsay
(1852-1916)
1904 In recognition of the merit he has earned through the discovery of
the indifferent gaseous basic substances – the noble gases – in the air
and the determination of their place in the periodic system

Sir William Ramsay