The first letters of the last few lines spell out "atoms", a hint to use the periodic table.

Convert all the numbers in the text to the corresponding periodic table element, by atomic number:

Reading the atomic symbols in order, except interpreting the group of noble gases as "Noble" and the last two numbers as themselves gives

"RECEIVEROFNOBLEPRIZNESINCHEMOISTIREYIN1954"

The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was Linus Pauling.