The following is a list of Clarivate Citation Laureates in chemistry, considered likely candidates to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[1]
| Citation Laureates | Nationality | Motivations | Institute | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008[2] | ||||
| 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 of atom 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 of fluorescent protein probes as visual indicators of cellular function." | |
| 2009[3] | ||||
| Michael Grätzel (born 1944) |  Switzerland | "for his invention of dye-sensitized solar cells, now known as Grätzel cells." | ETH Zurich | |
| Jacqueline Barton (born 1952) | United States | "for their pioneering research of electron 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 of organic asymmetric catalysis using enamines." | |
| 2010[4] | ||||
| Patrick O. Brown (born 1954) | United States | "for the invention and application of DNA microarrays, a revolutionary tool in the study of variation in gene expression." | ||
| Susumu Kitagawa (born 1951) |  Japan | "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 (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 disrupt DNA replication, an important contribution to improved cancer therapy." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2011[5] | ||||
| Allen J. Bard (born 1933) | United States | "for the development and application of scanning electrochemical microscopy." | University of Texas at Austin | |
| 2012 | Martin Karplus (born 1930) |  Austria United States | "for pioneering simulations of the molecular dynamics of biomolecules." | |
| Jean Fréchet (born 1944) |  France United States | "for the invention and development of dendritic polymers." | ||
| Donald Tomalia (born 1938) | United States | |||
| Fritz Vögtle (1939–2017) | Germany | University of Bonn | ||
| 2012[6] | ||||
| 2023 | Louis E. Brus (born 1943) | United States | "for discovery of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots)." | Columbia University |
| Akira Fujishima (born 1942) | Japan | "for the discovery of photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide (the Honda-Fujishima Effect)." | Tokyo University of Science | |
| Masatake Haruta (1947–2022) | Japan | "for independent foundational discoveries of catalysis by gold." | Tokyo Metropolitan University | |
| Graham Hutchings (born 1951) |  United Kingdom | Cardiff University | ||
| 2013[7] | ||||
| Paul Alivisatos (born 1959) | United States | "for contributions to DNA nanotechnology." | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Chad Mirkin (born 1963) | United States | Northwestern University | ||
| Nadrian Seeman (1945–2021) | United States | New York University | ||
| Bruce Ames (born 1928) | United States | "for the invention of the Ames test of mutagenicity." | ||
| M.G. Finn (born 1958) | United States | "for the development of modular click chemistry." | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Valery Fokin (born 1971) | United States | Scripps Research Institute | ||
| 2001 2022 | Karl Barry Sharpless (born 1941) | United States | ||
| 2014[8] | ||||
| Charles T. Kresge (born 1954) | United States | "for design of functional mesoporous materials." | Saudi Aramco | |
| Ryoo Ryong (born 1955) | 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 the reversible 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 (1947) |  Hong Kong United States | "for their invention of the organic light emitting diode." | ||
| Steven Van Slyke (born 1956) | United States | Kateeva | ||
| 2015[9] | ||||
| 2022 | Carolyn Bertozzi (born 1966) | United States | "for foundational contributions to bioorthogonal chemistry." | |
| 2020 | Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968) | France | "for the development of the CRISPR-cas9 method for genome editing." | |
| 2020 | Jennifer Doudna (born 1964) | United States | ||
| 2019 | John B. Goodenough (born 1922) | United States | "for pioneering research leading to the development of the lithium-ion battery." | University of Texas at Austin |
| 2019 | M. Stanley Whittingham (born 1941) | United Kingdom United States | Birmingham University | |
| 2016[10] | ||||
| George Church (born 1954) | United States | "for application of CRISPR-cas9 gene 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 detecting cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma, a revolution in noninvasive prenatal testing." | Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
| Hiroshi Maeda (1938–2021) | Japan | "for discovering the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect of macromolecular drugs, a key finding for cancer therapeutics." | Kumamoto University | |
| Yasuhiro Matsumura (born 1955) | Japan | National Cancer Center | ||
| 2017[11] | ||||
| John E. Bercaw (born 1944) | United States | "for critical contributions to C-H functionalization." | California Institute of Technology | |
| Robert G. Bergman (born 1942) | United States | University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Georgiy B. Shul'pin (born 1946) | 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 of perovskite materials to achieve efficient energy conversion." | Toin University of Yokohama | |
| Nam-Gyu Park (born 1960) | Sungkyunkwan University | |||
| Henry Snaith (born 1978) | United Kingdom | University of Oxford | ||
| 2018[12] | ||||
| Eric Jacobsen (born 1960) | United States | "for contributions to catalytic reactions for organic synthesis, especially for the development of Jacobsen epoxidation." | Harvard University | |
| George M. Sheldrick (born 1942) | United Kingdom | "for his enormous influence in structural crystallography." | University of Göttingen | |
| JoAnne Stubbe (born 1946) | United States | "for her discovery that ribonucleotide reductases transform ribonucleotides into deoxyribonucleotides by a free-radical mechanism." | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2019[13] | ||||
| Rolf Huisgen (1920–2020) | Germany | "for development of the 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition Reaction (Huisgen reaction) and the variant Copper(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 the Southern blot method for determining specific DNA sequences." | University of Oxford | |
| Marvin H. Caruthers (born 1940) | United States | "for contributions to protein and DNA sequencing and synthesis." | University of Colorado | |
| Leroy Hood (born 1938) | United States | |||
| Michael Hunkapiller (born 1948) | United States | Pacific Biosciences | ||
| 2020[14] | ||||
| 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) | ||||
| Stephen L. Buchwald (born 1955) | United States | "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 (born 1964) | United States | University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Makoto Fujita (born 1957) | Japan | "for advances in supramolecular chemistry through self-assembly strategies that take inspiration from nature itself." | University of Tokyo | |
| 2021[15] | ||||
| Barry Halliwell (born 1949) | United Kingdom | "for pioneering research in free-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 living radical polymerization." | ||
| 2022[16] | ||||
| 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 of gene expression in bacteria through quorum 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 to proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) and its application to energy science and biology." | Harvard University | |
| 2023[17] | ||||
| 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) | 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 | ||
| (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 |