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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1975
"for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions"
"for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions"
John Warcup Cornforth
Vladimir Prelog
1/2 of the prize
1/2 of the prize
Australia and United Kingdom
Switzerland
University of Sussex
Brighton, United Kingdom
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Zurich, Switzerland
b. 1917
b. 1906
(in Sarajevo, then Bosnia)
d. 1998
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