CS & RSC Nobel Prize Winners (1901 to 1929)

1901

Jacobus H van't Hoff (pictured) (1852-1911) "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions"

1902

Hermann Emil Fischer (pictured) (1852-1919) "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine syntheses"

1903

Svante A Arrhenius (pictured) (1859-1927) "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the advancement of chemistry by his electrolytic theory of dissociation"

1904

Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916) CS President (1907-1909) "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system"

1905

Johann F W A von Baeyer (pictured) (1835-1917) "in recognition of his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds"

1906

Henri Moissan  (pictured) (1852-1907) "in recognition of the great services rendered by him in his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him"

1907

Eduard Buchner (pictured) (1860-1917) "for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation"

1908

Ernest Rutherford (pictured) (1871-1937) "for his investigations into the disintegration of the elements, and the chemistry of radioactive substances"

1909

Wilhelm Ostwald (pictured) (1853-1932) "in recognition of his work on catalysis and for his investigations into the fundamental principles governing chemical equilibria and rates of reaction"

1910

Otto Wallach (1847-1931) "in recognition of his services to organic chemistry and the chemical industry by his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds"

1911

Marie Curie (1867-1934) "in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element"

1912

Victor Grignard (1871-1935) "for the discovery of the so-called Grignard reagent, which in recent years has greatly advanced the progress of organic chemistry" and Paul Sabatier (1854-1941) "for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been greatly advanced in recent years"

1913

Alfred Werner (1860-1919) "in recognition of his work on the linkage of atoms in molecules by which he has thrown new light on earlier investigations and opened up new fields of research especially in inorganic chemistry"

1914

Theodore W Richards (1868-1928) "in recognition of his accurate determinations of the atomic weight of a large number of chemical elements"

1915

Richard Willstätter (pictured) (1872-1942) "for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll"

1918

Fritz Haber (pictured) (1868-1934) "for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements"

1920

Walther Nernst (pictured) (1864-1941) "in recognition of his work in thermochemistry"

1921

Frederick Soddy (pictured) (1877-1956) "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes"

1922

Francis W Aston (1877-1945) "for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule"

1926

The Svedberg (1884-1971) "for his work on disperse systems"

1927

Heinrich Wieland (1877-1957) "for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids and relate substances"

1928

Adolf Windaus (1876-1959) "for the services rendered through his research into the constitution of the sterols and their connection with the vitamins"

1929

Arthur Harden (pictured) (1865-1940) and Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873-1964) "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes"