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Apart from Lipscomb, who else won a Nobel prize for chemistry in 1970s?

  • Geoffrey Wilkinson

  • Paul L. Modrich

  • Linus Pauling

  • Herbert C. Brown

Answer

In addition to Lipscomb, Herbert C. Brown also won a Nobel prize for chemistry in the 1970s. Brown was awarded the prize in 1979 for his work on organoboranes, a class of compounds that contain boron and carbon. Organoboranes are used in a variety of applications, including the production of plastics, pharmaceuticals, and agricultural chemicals.
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