The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs).

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded half to David Baker for computational protein design and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for protein structure prediction.

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexey (Aleksey) Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for the development of click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry.

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David W. C. MacMillan for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing. Recognizing the CRISPR‑Cas9 system as a transformative tool for molecular biology and biotechnology.