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...Academy of Sciences honored three Americans whose discoveries have advanced this understanding. It awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics to Burton Richter of Stanford University and Samuel C.C. Ting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for their investigations of subatomic particles, and gave the chemistry prize to William Lipscomb of Harvard University for his work in explaining the structure of the chemicals called boranes. Together with the previous awards of the medicine prize to Baruch Blumberg of Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research and Carleton Gajdusek of the National Institutes of Health, and the economics prize to Economist...
Wald and two of his co-signers, William N. Lipscomb Jr., Lawrence Professor of Chemistry who won a Nobel this year, and Edward M. Purcell, Gage University Professor who won a Nobel in 1952, agreed that their reasons for endorsing the statement were unconnected to Carter's campaign...
William N. Lipscomb Jr., Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, who won a Nobel prize this year, said yesterday he hopes the laureates' statement will encourage greater support for basic scientific research, although he said he was aware the statement could be used for political ends...
...Lipscomb began studying the interactions between boron and hydrogen in the early '50s. Using a technique known as X-ray crystallography, he determined the structure of molecules containing these atoms (called boranes or boron hydrides) and went on to establish a sound theoretical basis for that structure...
...Although Lipscomb's initial research was so basic that it was not designed for any practical application, the study of these types of molecules in cancer therapy has already begun...