Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Year:1974
Number:12 - 2
 
Nominee:
Name:John Warcup Cornforth Jr
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1917
Year, Death:2013
City:Sittingbourne
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975
 
Motivation:For his studies on the stereochemistry of enzymatic reactions, especially concerning the biosynthesis of steroids.
 
Nominator:
Name:Vladimir Prelog
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1906
Year, Death:1998
City:Zurich
Country:SWITZERLAND (CH)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975