The following is a list ofClarivate Citation Laureates in chemistry, considered likely candidates to win theNobel Prize in Chemistry.[1] Since 2025, nineteen of the selected citation laureates starting in 2008[clarification needed] were eventually awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry:Robert H. Grubbs (2005),Roger Y. Tsien (2008),Martin Karplus (2012),Fraser Stoddart (2016),John B. Goodenough andM. Stanley Whittingham (2019),Emmanuelle Charpentier andJennifer Doudna (2020),Benjamin List (2021),Carolyn Bertozzi,Morten P. Meldal andKarl Barry Sharpless (2022)Louis E. Brus andMoungi Bawendi (2023),David Baker,John M. Jumper andDemis Hassabis (2024), andSusumu Kitagawa andOmar M. Yaghi (2025).
| Citation Laureates | Nationality | Motivations | Institute | |
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| 2002–2005[2] | ||||
 2005 | Robert H. Grubbs (1942–2021) |  United States | "for discovery catalysts forolefin metathesis inorganic synthesis." | California Institute of Technology |
| Ad Bax (born 1956) |  Netherlands | "for research onnuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of proteins." | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases | |
| Kyriacos C. Nicolaou (born 1946) |  Cyprus United States | "for his contributions onnatural productstotal synthesis and the synthesis of many complex molecules foundTaxol." | University of California, San Diego | |
| George M. Whitesides (born 1939) | United States | "for pioneering research intomolecular self-assembly that promises to lead to significant advances innanoscale machine manufacturing andmicroelectronics." | Harvard University | |
| Seiji Shinkai (born 1944) |  Japan | Kyushu University | ||
2016 | Fraser Stoddart (1942–2024) |  United Kingdom United States | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| 2006[2] | ||||
| Gerald Crabtree (born 1946) | United States | "for contributions on small molecular chemical biology." | Stanford University | |
| Stuart Schreiber (born 1956) | United States | Harvard University | ||
| Tobin J. Marks (born 1944) | United States | "for research are syntheticorgano-f-element and early-transition metalorganometallic chemistry." | Northwestern University | |
| David A. Evans (1941–2022) | United States | "for research in the synthesis of key natural products inorganic chemistry." | California Institute of Technology | |
| Steven V. Ley (born 1945) | United States | University of Cambridge | ||
| 2007[2] | ||||
| Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936) | United States | "for research in synthesizing the many complex organic compounds,epothilones andcalicheamicin, which are natural products with promise as anti-cancer agents." | Columbia University | |
| Dieter Seebach (born 1937) |  Germany | "for contributions on synthetic organic methods." | University of Giessen ETH Zurich | |
| Barry Trost (born 1941) | United States | "for contributions on organometallic and bio-organic chemistry (Tsuji–Trost reaction,Trost ligand,Atom economy)." | Stanford University | |
| 2008[3] | ||||
| Charles M. Lieber (born 1959) | United States | "for his transformational research on nanowires, nanomaterials, and their applications." | Harvard University | |
| Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (born 1950) |  Poland United States | "for his development ofatom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and other methods of "living" polymerization." | Carnegie Mellon University | |
2008 | Roger Y. Tsien (1952–2016) | United States | "for his development and application offluorescent protein probes as visual indicators of cellular function." | |
| 2009[4] | ||||
| Michael Grätzel (born 1944) |  Switzerland | "for his invention of dye-sensitized solar cells, now known asGrätzel cells." | ETH Zurich | |
| Jacqueline Barton (born 1952) | United States | "for their pioneering research ofelectron charge transfer in DNA." | California Institute of Technology | |
| Bernd Giese (born 1940) | Germany | University of Basel | ||
| Gary Schuster (born 1946) | United States | Georgia Institute of Technology | ||
2021 | Benjamin List (born 1968) | Germany | "for his development oforganic asymmetric catalysis usingenamines." | |
| 2010[5] | ||||
| Patrick O. Brown (born 1954) | United States | "for the invention and application ofDNA microarrays, a revolutionary tool in the study of variation in gene expression." | ||
2025 | Susumu Kitagawa (born 1951) | Japan | "for the design and development of porousmetal-organic frameworks, whose applications include hydrogen and methane storage, gas purification, and gas separation, among others." | Kyoto University |
2025 | Omar M. Yaghi (born 1965) |  Jordan United States | University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Stephen J. Lippard (born 1940) | United States | "for pioneering research in bioinorganic chemistry, including the discovery of metallointercalators to disruptDNA replication, an important contribution to improved cancer therapy." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2011[6] | ||||
| Allen J. Bard (1933–2024) | United States | "for the development and application ofscanning electrochemical microscopy." | University of Texas at Austin | |
2012 | Martin Karplus (1930–2024) |  Austria United States | "for pioneering simulations of the molecular dynamics ofbiomolecules." | |
| Jean Fréchet (born 1944) |  France United States | "for the invention and development ofdendritic polymers." | ||
| Donald Tomalia (born 1938) | United States |
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| Fritz Vögtle (1939–2017) | Germany | University of Bonn | ||
| 2012[7] | ||||
2023 | Louis E. Brus (1943–2026) | United States | "for discovery ofcolloidalsemiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots)." | Columbia University |
| Akira Fujishima (born 1942) | Japan | "for the discovery ofphotocatalytic properties oftitanium dioxide (the Honda-Fujishima Effect)." | Tokyo University of Science | |
| Masatake Haruta (1947–2022) | Japan | "for independent foundational discoveries ofcatalysis by gold." | Tokyo Metropolitan University | |
| Graham Hutchings (born 1951) | United Kingdom | Cardiff University | ||
| 2013[8] | ||||
| Paul Alivisatos (born 1959) | United States | "for contributions toDNA nanotechnology." | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Chad Mirkin (born 1963) | United States | Northwestern University | ||
| Nadrian Seeman (1945–2021) | United States | New York University | ||
| Bruce Ames (1928–2024) | United States | "for the invention of theAmes test ofmutagenicity." | ||
| M.G. Finn (born 1958) | United States | "for the development ofmodular click chemistry." | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Valery V. Fokin (born 1971) | United States | Scripps Research Institute | ||
2001 2022 | Karl Barry Sharpless (born 1941) | United States | ||
| 2014[9] | ||||
| Charles T. Kresge (born 1954) | United States | "for design of functional mesoporous materials." | Saudi Aramco | |
| Ryoo Ryong (born 1955) |  South Korea | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | ||
| Galen D. Stucky (born 1936) | United States | University of California, Santa Barbara | ||
| Graeme Moad (born 1952) |  Australia | "for development of thereversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization process." | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | |
| Ezio Rizzardo (born 1943) | Australia | |||
| San Thang (born 1954) | Australia | |||
| Ching Wan Tang (born 1947) |  Hong Kong United States | "for their invention of theorganic light emitting diode." | ||
| Steven Van Slyke (born 1956) | United States | Kateeva | ||
| 2015[10] | ||||
2022 | Carolyn Bertozzi (born 1966) | United States | "for foundational contributions tobioorthogonal chemistry." | |
2020 | Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968) | France | "for the development of theCRISPR-cas9 method forgenome editing." | |
2020 | Jennifer Doudna (born 1964) | United States | ||
2019 | John B. Goodenough (1922–2023) | United States | "for pioneering research leading to the development of thelithium-ion battery." | University of Texas at Austin |
2019 | M. Stanley Whittingham (born 1941) | United Kingdom United States | Birmingham University | |
| 2016[11] | ||||
| George Church (born 1954) | United States | "for application ofCRISPR-cas9gene editing in mouse and human cells." | Harvard Medical School | |
| Feng Zhang (born 1981) |  China United States | |||
| Dennis Lo Yuk-Ming (born 1963) | Hong Kong | "for detectingcell-free fetal DNA inmaternal plasma, a revolution innoninvasive prenatal testing." | Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
| Hiroshi Maeda (1938–2021) | Japan | "for discovering theenhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect ofmacromolecular drugs, a key finding for cancer therapeutics." | Kumamoto University | |
| Yasuhiro Matsumura (born 1955) | Japan | National Cancer Center | ||
| 2017[12] | ||||
| John E. Bercaw (born 1944) | United States | "for critical contributions toC-H functionalization." | California Institute of Technology | |
| Robert G. Bergman (born 1942) | United States | University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Georgiy B. Shul'pin (1946–2023) |  Russia | Russian Academy of Sciences | ||
| Jens Nørskov (born 1952) |  Denmark | "for fundamental advances, theoretical and practical, in heterogeneous catalysis on solid surfaces." | ||
| Tsutomu Miyasaka (born 1953) | Japan | "for their discovery and application ofperovskite materials to achieve efficient energy conversion." | Toin University of Yokohama | |
| Nam-Gyu Park (born 1960) | South Korea | Sungkyunkwan University | ||
| Henry Snaith (born 1978) | United Kingdom | University of Oxford | ||
| 2018[13] | ||||
| Eric Jacobsen (born 1960) | United States | "for contributions to catalytic reactions for organic synthesis, especially for the development ofJacobsen epoxidation." | Harvard University | |
| George M. Sheldrick (1942–2025) | United Kingdom | "for his enormous influence instructural crystallography." | University of Göttingen | |
| JoAnne Stubbe (born 1946) | United States | "for her discovery thatribonucleotide reductases transformribonucleotides intodeoxyribonucleotides by a free-radical mechanism." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2019[14] | ||||
| Rolf Huisgen (1920–2020) | Germany | "for development of the1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition Reaction (Huisgen reaction) and the variantCopper(I)-catalyzed Azide-Alkyne cycloaddition (Meldal)." | University of Munich | |
2022 | Morten P. Meldal (born 1954) | Denmark | University of Copenhagen | |
| Edwin Southern (born 1938) | United Kingdom | "for invention of theSouthern blot method for determining specific DNA sequences." | University of Oxford | |
| Marvin H. Caruthers (born 1940) | United States | "for contributions to protein andDNA sequencing andsynthesis." | University of Colorado | |
| Leroy Hood (born 1938) | United States | |||
| Michael Hunkapiller (born 1948) | United States | Pacific Biosciences | ||
| 2020[15] | ||||
2023 | Moungi Bawendi (born 1961) | United States | "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 (born ?) | United States | University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Hyeon Taeghwan (born 1964) | South Korea | |||
| Stephen L. Buchwald (born 1955) | United States | "for contributions toorganometallic chemistry, notably theBuchwald–Hartwig amination which formscarbon–nitrogen bonds throughpalladium-catalyzed coupling reactions ofamines witharyl halides." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| John F. Hartwig (born 1964) | United States | University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Makoto Fujita (born 1957) | Japan | "for advances insupramolecular chemistry through self-assembly strategies that take inspiration from nature itself." | University of Tokyo | |
| 2021[16] | ||||
| Barry Halliwell (born 1949) | United Kingdom | "for pioneering research infree-radical chemistry including the role of free radicals and antioxidants in human disease." | ||
| William L. Jorgensen (born 1949) | United States | "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 (born 1954) | Japan | "for discovery and development of metal-catalyzed livingradical polymerization." | ||
| 2022[17] | ||||
| Zhenan Bao (born 1970) | China United States | "for the development of novel biomimetic applications of organic and polymeric electronic materials, including flexible 'electronic skin'." | Stanford University | |
| Bonnie Bassler (born 1962) | United States | "for research on regulation ofgene expression in bacteria throughquorum sensing, a chemical communication system." | ||
| Everett Peter Greenberg (born 1948) | United States | University of Washington | ||
| Daniel G. Nocera (born 1957) | United States | "for fundamental experimental and theoretical contributions toproton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) and its application to energy science and biology." | Harvard University | |
| 2023[18] | ||||
| James J. Collins (born 1965) | United States | "for pioneering work on synthetic gene circuits, which launched the field of synthetic biology." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Michael Elowitz (born 1970) | United States | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena | ||
| Stanislas Leibler (born 1957) | United States | Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton | ||
| Shankar Balasubramanian (born 1966) |  india United Kingdom | "for the co-invention of next-generation DNA sequencing methodology that has revolutionized biological research." | University of Cambridge, Cambridge | |
| David Klenerman (born 1959) | United Kingdom | University of Cambridge, Cambridge | ||
| Kazunori Kataoka (born 1950) | Japan | "for the development of innovative drug and gene targeting and delivery methods." | University of Tokyo | |
| Vladimir P. Torchilin (born 1946) | United States | Northeastern University, Boston | ||
| Karen L. Wooley (born 1966) | United States | Texas A&M University | ||
| 2024[19] | ||||
2024 | David Baker (born 1962) | United States | "for contributions to theprediction and design of three-dimensionalprotein structures and functions." | Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Washington School of Medicine |
2024 | John M. Jumper (born 1985) | United States | Google DeepMind | |
2024 | Demis Hassabis (born 1976) | United States | ||
| Kazunari Dōmen (born 1953) | Japan | "for fundamental research onphotocatalysts forwater splitting and the construction of solar hydrogen production systems." | Shinshu University University of Tokyo | |
| Roberto Car (born 1947) |  Italy | "for theCar–Parrinello method for calculating ab-initiomolecular dynamics, a revolution in computational chemistry." | Princeton University | |
| Michele Parrinello (born 1945) | Italy | Università della Svizzera italiana ETH Zurich | ||
| 2025[20] | ||||
| Clifford P. Brangwynne (born 1978) | United States | "for discoveries on the role of phase-separated biomolecular condensates in biochemical organization of the cell." | Princeton University | |
| Anthony A. Hyman (born 1962) | United Kingdom | Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics | ||
| Michael K. Rosen (born 1965) | United States | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | ||
| Jean-Marie Tarascon (born 1953) | France | ""for fundamental advances and novel applications in energy storage and conversion technology." | Collège de France | |
| Tao Zhang (born 1963) | China | "for seminal contributions to the development of Single-Atom Catalysis and applications." | Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
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