American Decades
Awards
NOBEL PRIZES
1970
No award.
1971
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., wins the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for work on the action of hormones.
1972
Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, and William H. Stein, all of the United States, share the Nobel Prize for chemistry for "fundamental contributions to enzyme chemistry."
John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, and John R. Schrieffer win the Nobel Prize for physics for the development of the theory of superconductivity.
1973
Norwegian-American physicist Ivar Glaever, Leo Esaki of Japan, and Brian Josephson of England win the Nobel Prize for physics for their work in tunneling in superconductors and semiconductors.
1974
Paul J. Flory wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his studies of long-chain molecules.
1975
L. James Rainwater...
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1970's Science and Technology
