Robert B.
Woodward
Professor of Chemistry
Harvard University
1964
Chemistry
For an imaginative new approach to the synthesis of complex organic molecules and, especially, for [his] brilliant syntheses of strychnine, reserphine, lysergic acid, and chlorophyll.
Presented by President Johnson at a White House Ceremony in the East Room on February 8, 1965.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1965