The following is a list of Clarivate Citation Laureates in chemistry, considered likely candidates to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.^[1]

Laureates

	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."	University of California, San Diego Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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."	University of Cologne Max Planck Institute for Coal Research
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."	Stanford University Howard Hughes Medical Institute
	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."	Harvard University Louis Pasteur University
	Jean Fréchet (born 1944)	France  United States	"for the invention and development of dendritic polymers."	University of California, Berkeley King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
	Donald Tomalia (born 1938)	United States		Central Michigan University Dendritic Nanotechnologies, Inc.
	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."	Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute University of California, Berkeley
	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)	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 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."	University of Rochester Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
	Steven Van Slyke (born 1956)	United States		Kateeva
2015[9]
2022	Carolyn Bertozzi (born 1966)	United States	"for foundational contributions to bioorthogonal chemistry."	Stanford University Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2020	Emmanuelle Charpentier (born 1968)	France	"for the development of the CRISPR-cas9 method for genome editing."	Umeå University Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
2020	Jennifer Doudna (born 1964)	United States		University of California, Berkeley Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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		Broad Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	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)	Russia		Russian Academy of Sciences
	Jens Nørskov (born 1952)	Denmark	"for fundamental advances, theoretical and practical, in heterogeneous catalysis on solid surfaces."	Technical University of Denmark Stanford University
	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)	South Korea		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		Institute for Systems Biology Providence St. Joseph Health
	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)	South Korea		Seoul National University Institute for Basic Science
	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."	National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
	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."	Chubu University Kyoto University
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."	Princeton University Howard Hughes Medical Institute
	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
	Kazunori Kataoka [ja] (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, Austin