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thelist··on 8 Rejected Papers That Won the Nobel Prize
1. Paul Boyer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1997, Identifying mechanism for adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthesis

2. Richard Ernst, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1991, High resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy

3. Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1969, classification of elementary particles and their interactions

4. Hans Krebs, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1953, discovery of the citric acid cycle (aka the Krebs cycle)

5. Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Prize in Physics, 2000, semiconductor heterostructures in high-speed and opto-electronics

6. John Polanyi, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986, elucidating the dynamics of chemical elementary processes

7. Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1993, invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method

8. Rosalind Yalow, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1977, invention of the radioimmunoassay (RIA)