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R.B. Woodward, 1966.

Robert Burns Woodward

American chemist

Percy Julian

Percy Julian

American chemist

Tadeus Reichstein

Swiss chemist

Philip Showalter Hench.

Philip Showalter Hench

American physician

Edward Kendall

Edward Calvin Kendall

American chemist