# Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 1970s

Every Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate between 1970 and 1979, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?

- 12 votes · 15 items
- Aug 20, 2020 · cientifica_bucaramanga
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## Top 15

1. **Luis F. Leloir** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1970. For his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates.
2. **Christian B. Anfinsen** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1972. For his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation.
3. **Gerhard Herzberg** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1971. For his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals.
4. **Stanford Moore** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1972. For their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule.
5. **Ernst Otto Fischer** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1973. For their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds.
6. **Herbert C. Brown** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1979. For their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis.
7. **William H. Stein** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1972. For their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule.
8. **Geoffrey Wilkinson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1973. For their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds.
9. **Paul J. Flory** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1974. For his fundamental work, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules.
10. **Vladimir Prelog** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1975. For his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions.
11. **Ilya Prigogine** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1977. For his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures.
12. **Peter D. Mitchell** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1978. For his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory.
13. **Georg Wittig** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1979. For their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis.
14. **John Warcup Cornforth** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1975. For his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
15. **William N. Lipscomb** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1976. For his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding.

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