Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: Date, Time, and Possible Winners

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the winner(s) of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday, October 8th. It will be at 11:45 a.m. Spanish time.

Last year the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded the protein decodersIt was a collective recognition of three researchers for their contributions to the development and understanding of proteins, authentic engineering tools for creating life that until relatively recently were unknown to the scientific community. The award went to David Baker, director of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington, "for having designed proteins using computational tools," and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper of Google DeepMind, "for making protein structure prediction possible."

The prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor (approximately 934,243 euros), following the guidelines that the prize's creator, Alfred Nobel, wrote in 1895, a year before his death. At that time, he set the prize at 31 million Swedish kronor, a figure that has evolved with the fluctuation of the currency's value. The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1901 to Dutchman Jacobus Hendricus van 't Hoff for his discovery of the so-called laws of chemical kinetics, as well as the laws governing the osmotic pressure of solutions.