Who will win the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on October 8? At present, the “Who’s Next?” voting tends toward a male candidate from the Americas in the field of biochemistry.

Herbert W. Roesky, a German inorganic chemist known for pioneering work on fluorides of both transition and p-block metals, was extremely popular this week and now leads the list of potential Nobel Prize laureates. In addition, computer scientists have entered the list this week as possible future Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry.

Second place remains with Chi-Huey Wong, a Taiwanese-American biochemist who pioneered methods for synthesizing complex carbohydrates and glycoproteins, thereby facilitating their application in therapeutic contexts.

See below for details of the current predictions. Many thanks to everyone who has already voted! And if you haven’t yet, I look forward to your “Who’s Next” guesses!

 

Who Will Win the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

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Suggestions for Laureates

Most frequently mentioned names; for all responses, please refer to the Who’s Next PDF: 20251003_WhosNext_LaureatePredictions_ChemistryViews

Name	Country	Count	Best Known For
Herbert W. Roesky	Germany	201	Pioneering work on fluorides of both transition and p-block metals
Chi-Huey Wong	USA	92	Pioneering methods in the synthesis of complex carbohydrates and glycoproteins, facilitating their application in therapeutic contexts
Omar K. Farha	USA	40	Design and applications of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous materials
Omar Yaghi	USA	35	Founder of reticular chemistry; responsible for many metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs)
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee	UK	19	Computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP
Yoshua Bengio	Canada	18	Canadian computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning
Yann André Le Cun	USA	18	Computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience
Michael Grätzel	Switzerland	16	Invention of dye-sensitized solar cells; mesoscopic photovoltaics

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