RB Woodward won the 1965 Chemistry Nobel Prize for his astounding achievements in total synthesis. Some people say that he should have been awarded a part of th

RB Woodward won the 1965 Chemistry Nobel Prize for his astounding achievements in total synthesis. Some people say that he should have been awarded a part of the 1973 prize that went to Fischer and Wilkinson for sandwich compounds, and he definitively would have received it again in 1981 together with Fukui and Hoffmann for explaining how orbitals influence stereochemistry.