About RCSA
History
Nobel Laureates
RCSA is proud to have supported the research of 40 early career scientists
who have received the Nobel Prize
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Harold C. Urey (1893 -1981) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1934. Research Corporation grant in 1938 for research on isotopes. |
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Ernest O. Lawrence (1901 -1958) Nobel Prize in physics, 1939. Research Corporation grants 1930-1932, 1934-1935 and 1937-1938 to secure magnet to build the first large cyclotron. Grants for research in nuclear physics 1939-1942. |
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Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898 -1988) Nobel Prize in physics, 1944. Research Corporation grants in 1931 for molecular beam research; in 1937-1940 for research on magnetic moment of the atom. |
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Percy W. Bridgman (1882 -1961) Nobel Prize in physics in 1946. Research Corporation grant in 1954 to investigate the properties of matter under pressure. |
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Edward C. Kendall (1886 -1972) Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine, 1950. Research Corporation grants in 1942-1944 for study of cortical hormones. |
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Felix Bloch (1905 -1983) Nobel Prize in physics, 1952. Research Corporation grant in 1939 for low voltage generator; grants in 1946-1948 for nuclear induction and its application to polarized neutrons. |
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Edward M. Purcell (1912 -1997) Nobel Prize in physics, 1952. Research Corporation grants in 1946 and 1948 for research on resonance absorption by nuclear magnetic moments. |
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George Beadle (1903 -1989) Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, 1958. Research Corporation grant in 1944 for research on the induction and detection of biochemical mutations in Neurospora Crassa. |
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Edward L. Tatum (1909 -1975) Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, 1958. Research Corporation grants 1946-1947 for research on the uses of isotopes in the study of biosynthesis of amino acids and vitamins by mutant strains of neurospora and E. coli. |
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Severo Ochoa (1905 -1993) Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine, 1959. RC grants: 1941 for research on the intermediary carbohydrate metabolism; 1944 for research on respiratory enzymes and the mechanism of the biological oxidation of pyruvic acid; 1951 to study enzyme systems involved in biological oxidations and syntheses. |
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Robert Hofstadter (1915 -1990) Nobel Prize in physics, 1961. Research Corporation grant in 1950 for study of nuclear electric charge distribution by experiments on the elastic scattering of electrons from nuclei. |
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Feodor Lynen (1911 -1979) Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, 1964. Research Corporation award in 1954 for research on the biosynthesis of the fatty acids and isoprene derivatives. |
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Robert B. Woodward (1917 -1979) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1965. Research Corporation awards 1949-1953 for experiments on the synthesis of cortisone; grant in 1957 for the investigation of the structure and synthesis of chlorophyll. |
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Manfred Eigen (1927- ) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1967. Research Corporation award in 1954 for research concerning the velocity and mechanism of high speed ionic reactions. |
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Robert W. Holley (1922 -1993) Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, 1968. Research Corporation grant in 1958 for research concerning the chemistry of intermediates in protein synthesis. |
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Max Delbruck (1906 -1981) Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, 1969. Research Corporation award in 1958 for the production, characterization and mapping of the phage T2L. |
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Ernst O. Fischer (1918 -2007) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1973. Research Corporation grant in 1961 as part of the Foundation?s West German Grants program. |
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William N. Lipscomb Jr. (1919 -2011) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1976. Research Corporation grant in 1959 for determination of the molecular structure of an enzyme, a proteinase from Tetra-hymena pyriformis W, by x-ray diffraction methods. |
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Herbert C. Brown (1912 - 2004) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1979. Research Corporation awards in 1948 and 1949 for research on the effects of structure on the chemistry of addition compounds. |
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George Wald (1906 -1997) Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, 1979. Research Corporation grants in 1942 and 1943 for research on the physiological action of thiamin in neuromuscular systems; in 1949 for a) cozymase-destroying systems in the tissues of freshwater fishes, or b) the conversion of beta-carotene to vitamin A in vitro. |
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Georg Wittig (1897 -1987) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1979. Research Corporation award in 1955 for research on organic anion chemistry. |
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Dudley Herschbach (1932 - ) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1986. Research Corporation award in 1998 for research on a mechanical means to decelerate gaseous molecules. |
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Donald J. Cram (1919 - 2001) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1987. Research Corporation grant in 1951 for research on macro-ring compounds containing aromatic nuclei as part of the ring system. |
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Thomas R. Cech (1947- ) Nobel Prize for chemistry, 1989. Research Corporation grants in 1977 and 1978 for photochemical crosslinking of DNA with psoralens. |
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Elias J. Corey (1928 - ) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1990. Research Corporation grants in 1958 and 1959 for the synthesis of electronically unstable organic structures protected by large substituents. |
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Rudolph A. Marcus (1923 - ) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1992. Research Corporation grants in 1954 and 1956 for studies of the behavior of the dicarboxylate ions. |
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Edwin G. Krebs (1918 - 2009) Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, 1992. Research Corporation grants in 1958 and 1959 for immunochemical studies on glycolytic enzymes. |
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Joseph H. Taylor Jr. (1941 - ) Nobel Prize in physics, 1993. Research Corporation grant in 1970 for observations of the temporal variation of pulsars. |
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Frederick Reines (1918 -1998) Nobel Prize in physics, 1995. Research Corporation grants in 1959 and 1961 to search for neutrons and gamma-rays of extra-terrestrial origin. |
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Robert F. Curl Jr. (1933 - ) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1996. Research Corporation grant in 1958 to investigate the microwave spectra of radicals and molecules. |
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Richard E. Smalley (1943 - 2005) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1996. Research Corporation grants in 1976 and 1977 to investigate supersonic molecular beam laser spectroscopy of photoactive molecules. |
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Robert C. Richardson (1937 - 2013 ) Nobel Prize in physics, 1996. Research Corporation grants in 1972 and 1973 for investigation of possible superfluid properties of liquid 3He. |
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Ahmed H. Zewail (1946 - ) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1999. Research Corporation grant in 1976 for an investigation of energy transport in high-dimensional solids. |
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Alan G. MacDiarmid (1927 - 2007) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 2000. Research Corporation grants 1956-1957 and 1959 for an investigation of silico-ethyl (SiH3SiH2) compounds. |
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Carl E. Wieman (1951 - ) Nobel Prize in physics, 2001. Research Corporation grant in 1981 for a precision test of the Weinberg-Salaam theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions. |
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Karl B. Sharpless (1941 - ) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 2001. Research Corporation grant in 1971 to study the chemistry of cis-dioxotransition metal species and its relevance to the action of mixed function oxygenases. |
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Raymond Davis Jr. (1914 - 2006) Nobel Prize in physics, 2002. Research Corporation grant in 1948 for studies in the adsorption of gases by solids. |
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Robert H. Grubbs (1942 - ) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 2005. RCSA awards in 1969 for studies in multisite organometallic reactions; 1988-1990 to study computational approaches to polymer structures. |
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Richard R. Schrock (1945 - ) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 2005. Research Corporation grant in 1975 for the study of reactions of transition metal complexes with ylides. |
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Ei-ichi Negishi (1935 - ) Nobel Prize in chemistry, 2010. Research Corporation grant in 1973 for the study of Chemistry of small ring organoboron compounds. |
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