Premi Nobel per la Chimica dal 1971 al 1980

	1971 Gerhard Herzberg (Hamburg, Germany, *25.12.1904 - +1999) Canada, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic stucture and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals".
	1972 The Prize was divided, one half being awarded to: Christian B. Anfinsen (USA, *26.3.1916 - +1995) USA, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, "for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation";
	and the other half jointly to:
	Stanford Moore (USA, 4.9.1913 - 23.8.1982) USA, Rockefeller University, New York, NY,
	and
	William H. Stein (USA, 25.6.1911 - 2.2.1980) USA, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, "for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule".
	1973 The Prize was divided equally between: Ernst Otto Fischer (Germany, *10.11.1918) Federal Republic of Germany, Technical University of Munich, Munich,
	and
	Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (Great Britain, *14.7.1921 - +1996) Great Britain, Imperial College, London, "for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds".
	1974 Paul J. Flory (USA, 19.6.1910 - 9.9.1985) USA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, "for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of the macromolecules".
	1975 The Prize was divided equally between: John Warcup Cornforth (Great Britain, *7.9.1917) Great Britain, University of Sussex, Brighton, "for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions";
	and
	Vladimir Prelog (Sarajevo then Yugoslavia, *23.7.1906 - +1998) Switzerland, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, "for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions".
	1976 William N. Lipscomb (USA, *9.12.1919) USA, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding".
	1977 Ilya Prigogine (Moscow, Russia, *25.1.1917) Belgium, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussells (University of Texas, USA), "for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures".

	1978 Peter D. Mitchell (Great Britain, 29.9.1920 - +1992) Great Britain, Glynn Research Laboratories, Bodmin, "for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory".
	1979 The Prize was divided equally between: Herbert C. Brown (London, Great Britain, *22.5.1912) USA, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN,
	and
	Georg Wittig (Germany, 16.6.1897 - 26.8.1987) Federal Republic of Germany, University of Heidelberg, "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis".
	1980 The Prize was divided, one half being awarded to: Paul Berg (USA, *30.6.1926) USA, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA";
	and the other half jointly to:
	Walter Gilbert (USA, *21.3.1932) USA, Biological Laboratories, Cambridge, MA,
	and
	Frederick Sanger (Great Britain, 13.8.1918) USA, Great Britain, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids".

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