Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize 1972: Winners

Recipients

  1. Chemistry

    Christian B. Anfinsen

    Chemistry

    for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation

  2. Chemistry

    Stanford Moore, William H. Stein

    Chemistry

    for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule

  3. Medicine

    Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter

    Biology

    for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies

  4. Physics

    John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, John Robert Schrieffer

    Physics

    for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory