Nobel Laureates
Three of the Institute’s current faculty are Nobel Laureates:
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Kurt Wüthrich, Ph.D., 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, “for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution” |
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K. Barry Sharpless, Ph.D., 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, “for his work on chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions” |
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Gerald M. Edelman, M.D., Ph.D., 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, “for (his) discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies” |



