The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987

Donald J. Cram

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Prize share: 1/3

Jean-Marie Lehn

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Prize share: 1/3

Charles J. Pedersen

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Prize share: 1/3

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987 was awarded jointly to Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"

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