A Look at Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry (813 words, 2 pages)
Two Americans and a Japanese were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing more efficient chemical reactions to produce many medicines, including L-dopa, the standard treatment for Parkinson's disease. Dr. William S. Knowles, 84, of St. Louis, who retired from the Monsanto Company in 1986, and Dr. Ryoji ...
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