CS & RSC Nobel Prize Winners (1990 to date)

1990

Elias James Corey (1928- ) "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis"

1991

Richard R Ernst (1933- ) "for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy"

1992

Rudolph A Marcus (1923- ) "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems"

1994

George A Olah (1927- ) "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry"

1996

Robert F Curl Jr (1933- ), Sir Harold Kroto (pictured) (1939- ) RSC President (2002-2004) and Richard E Smalley (1943-2005) "for their discovery of fullerenes"

1997

Paul D Boyer (1918- ) and John E Walker (1941- ) "for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)"

1998

John Pople (1925-2004) "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry"

1999

Ahmed Zewail (1946- ) "for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy"

2001

William S Knowles (1917- ) and Ryoji Noyori (1938- ) "for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions" and K Barry Sharpless (1941- ) "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions"

2002

John B Fenn (1917- ) and Koichi Tanaka (1959- ) "for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules" and "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules" and Kurt Wüthrich (1938- ) "for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules" and "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"

2003

Peter Agre (1949- ) "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes" and "for the discovery of water channels" and Roderick MacKinnon (1956- ) "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes" and "for structural and mechanistic studies in ion channels"

2004

Aaron Ciechanover (1947- ), Avram Hershko (1937- ) and Irwin Rose (1926- ) "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"

2005

Yves Chauvin (1930- ), Robert H Grubbs (1942- ) and Richard R Schrock (1945- ) "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis"

2006

Roger D Kornberg  (1947- ) "for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription"