Who will win the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry? The prize winners will be announced shortly, and we are very excited.
Before that, here are the final results of this year’s Who’s Next?. Many thanks to everyone who took part—it was great fun to see all the nominations and how the rankings evolved over time. The results suggest that many expect an award in AI applications, reticular chemistry, or biochemistry. Personally, I would be delighted to see a prize in classical chemistry, but we shall see …
… By the way, someone suggested the current Physics Nobel laureate, John M. Martinis, as a potential candidate.
Who Will Win the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
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Most frequently mentioned names; for all responses, please refer to the Who’s Next PDF: 20251008_WhosNext_LaureatePredictions_ChemistryViews
| Name | Country | Count | Best Known For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herbert W. Roesky | Germany | 205 | 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 | 41 | Design and applications of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and porous materials |
| Omar Yaghi | USA | 39 | Founder of reticular chemistry; responsible for many metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) |
| Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee | UK | 29 | Computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP |
| Yoshua Bengio | Canada | 26 | Computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning |
| Yann André Le Cun | USA | 25 | Computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience |
| Vinton Gray (Vint) Cerf | USA | 23 | one of “the fathers of the Internet” |
| Robert Melancton Metcalfe | USA | 17 | Engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s |
| Michael Grätzel | Switzerland | 16 | Invention of dye-sensitized solar cells; mesoscopic photovoltaics |
| Robert Samuel Langer | USA | 16 | Pioneer of many new technologies in medicine and biotechnology |
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