Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 1970s
The top 3 according to 12 votes from people: Luis F. Leloir · Christian B. Anfinsen · Gerhard Herzberg. (Updated Aug 20, 2020.)
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?
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Top 15
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Luis F. Leloir
1970. For his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates.
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Christian B. Anfinsen
1972. For his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation.
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Gerhard Herzberg
1971. For his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals.
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Stanford Moore
1972. For their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule.
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Ernst Otto Fischer
1973. For their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds.
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Herbert C. Brown
1979. For their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis.
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William H. Stein
1972. For their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule.
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Geoffrey Wilkinson
1973. For their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds.
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Paul J. Flory
1974. For his fundamental work, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules.
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Vladimir Prelog
1975. For his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions.
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Ilya Prigogine
1977. For his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures.
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Peter D. Mitchell
1978. For his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory.
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Georg Wittig
1979. For their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis.
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John Warcup Cornforth
1975. For his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
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William N. Lipscomb
1976. For his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding.
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Leloir, orgullo argentino.