CS & RSC Nobel Prize Winners (1961 to 1987)

1961

Melvin Calvin (1911-1997) "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants"

1962

Max F Perutz (1914-2002) and John C Kendrew (1917-1997) "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins"

1963

Karl Ziegler (1898-1973) and Giulio Natta (1903-1979) "for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high polymers"

1964

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances"

1966

Robert S Mulliken (1896-1986) "for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method"

1967

Manfred Eigen (1927- ), Ronald G W Norrish (pictured first) (1897-1978) FS President (1953-1955) and George Porter (pictured second) (1920-2002) CS President (1970-1972) "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy"

1969

Derek Barton (pictured) (1918-1998) CS President (1973-1974) and Odd Hassel (1897-1981) "for their contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry"

1971

Gerhard Herzberg (1904-1999) "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals"

1973

Ernst Otto Fischer (1918- ) and Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921-1996) "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds"

1975

John Cornforth (1917- ) "for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions" and Vladimir Prelog (1906-1998) "for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions"

1976

William Lipscomb (pictured) (1919- ) "for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding"

1979

Herbert C Brown (1912-2004) and Georg Wittig (1897-1987) "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis"

1980

Walter Gilbert (1932- ) and Frederick Sanger (1918- ) "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids"

1981

Kenichi Fukui (1918-1998) and Roald Hoffmann (1937- ) "for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions"

1982 

Aaron Klug (1926- ) "for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes"

1983

Henry Taube (1915-2005) "for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes"

1986

Dudley R Herschbach (1932- ), Yuan T Lee (1936- ) and John C Polanyi (1929- ) "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"

1987

Donald J Cram (1919-2001), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939- ) Charles J Pedersen (1904-1989) "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"