Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureates of the 1980s
The top 3 according to 62 votes from people: Walter Gilbert · Paul Berg · Frederick Sanger. (Updated Dec 14, 2019.)
Every Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate between 1980 and 1989, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?
Top 21
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Walter Gilbert
1980. For their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids.
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Paul Berg
1980. For his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA.
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Frederick Sanger
1980. For their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids.
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Aaron Klug
1982. For his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.
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Kenichi Fukui
1981. For their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions.
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Jean-Marie Lehn
1987. For their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity.
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Henry Taube
1983. For his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.
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Robert Bruce Merrifield
1984. For his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix.
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Herbert A. Hauptman
1985. For their outstanding achievements in developing direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.
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Jerome Karle
1985. For their outstanding achievements in developing direct methods for the determination of crystal structures.
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Robert Huber
1988. For their determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.
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Roald Hoffmann
1981. For their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions.
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John C. Polanyi
1986. For their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.
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Charles J. Pedersen
1987. For their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity.
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Hartmut Michel
1988. For their determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.
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Donald J. Cram
1987. For their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity.
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Yuan T. Lee
1986. For their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.
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Johann Deisenhofer
1988. For their determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.
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Sidney Altman
1989. For their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA.
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Thomas Cech
1989. For their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA.
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Dudley R. Herschbach
1986. For their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.
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Comments (5)
Herschbach, Lee and Polanyi, molecular beams.
Paul Berg and recombinant DNA.
Hauptman and Karle, a mathematician winning in chemistry.
Sanger's second Nobel, sequencing DNA.
Fukui and Hoffmann, frontier orbitals.