Prelog
Americannoun
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In other words, the question that the Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and ETH chemist Vladimir Prelog described as "one of the first problems of molecular theology" in his Nobel Prize lecture in 1975.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024
Cornforth's work on how enzymes activate changes in organic compounds earned him a Nobel Prize in 1975 with co-luareate Vladimir Prelog.
From Time • Sep. 7, 2017
Cornforth, who has been deaf since boyhood, concentrated on enzymes�the catalysts for chemical reactions in living things�while Prelog studied other organic molecules, including antibiotics.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Cornforth, an Australian-born researcher now at the University of Sussex, and Yugoslav-born Prelog, of Zurich's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, helped define the three-dimensional structure of organic molecules.
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