Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine Published in ACS journals
59 out of 189 persons awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine have published in ACS journals
2007 – Oliver Smithies
2004 - Richard Axel - for discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system
2003 - Paul C. Lauterbur - for discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging
2002 - Sydney Brenner - for discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death'
2001 - Leland H. Hartwell - for discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle
2000 - Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard - for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system
1999 - Günter Blobel - for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell
1998 - Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad - for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system
1997 - Stanley B. Prusiner - for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection
1994 - Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell - for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells
1993 - Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A. Sharp - for their discoveries of split genes
1992 - Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs - for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism
1989 - J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus - for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes
1988 - Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings - for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment
1986 - Stanley Cohen - for discoveries of growth factors
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein - for discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism
1982 - Bengt I. Samuelsson - for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances
1978 - Hamilton O. Smith - for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics
1977 - Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally - for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg, D. Carleton Gajdusek - for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases
1975 - David Baltimore, Howard M. Temin - for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell
1972 - Gerald M. Edelman - for discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies
1971 - Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. - for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones
1970 - Julius Axelrod - for discoveries concerning the humoral transmittors in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation
1968 - Robert W. Holley, H. Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg - for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis
1965 - François Jacob, Jacques Monod - for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis
1964 - Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen - for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
1959 - Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg - for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid
1958 - Edward Tatum - for his discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events; Joshua Lederberg - for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria
1957 - Daniel Bovet - for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certain body substances, and especially their action on the vascular system and the skeletal muscles
1955 - Hugo Theorell - for his discoveries concerning the nature and mode of action of oxidation enzymes
1953 - Fritz Lipmann - for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism
1952 - Selman A. Waksman - for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis
1950 - Edward C. Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein - for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects
1947 - Carl Cori, Gerty Cori - for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen; Bernardo Houssay - for his discovery of the part played by the hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugar
1943 - Edward A. Doisy - for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K
1937 - Albert Szent-Györgyi - for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid
1929 - Sir Frederick Hopkins - for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins
1920 - August Krogh - for his discovery of the capillary motor regulating mechanism
