Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Year:1957
Number:80 - 0
 
Nominee 1:
Name:Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Gender:F
Year, Birth:1910
Year, Death:1994
Profession:Dr
University:University of Oxford
City:Oxford
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964
 
Nominee 2:
Name:Sir Alexander Robertus Todd
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1907
Year, Death:1997
Profession:Dr
University:University of Cambridge
City:Cambridge
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957
 
Nominee 3:
Name:Frederick Sanger
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1918
Year, Death:2013
Profession:Dr
University:University of Cambridge
City:Cambridge
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1958
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980
 
Nominee 4:
Name:Melvin Calvin
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1911
Year, Death:1997
Profession:Professor
University:University of California
City:Berkeley
State:CA
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961
 
Nominee 5:
Name:Bernard L Horecker
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1914
Year, Death:2010
Profession:Dr
City:Bethesda
State:MD
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
 
Nominator:
Name:Leopold Ruzicka
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1887
Year, Death:1976
City:Zurich
Country:SWITZERLAND (CH)
 
Comments: First choice: Dorothy Hodgkin Crowfoot sharing prize with Lord Alexander R Todd. Second choice: Frederick Sanger. Third choice: Melvin Calvin sharing prize with B L Horecker.