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Robert Burns Woodward

Robert Burns Woodward was a prominent 20th-century American chemist recognized globally for his pioneering work in total...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Total Synthesis

9.5 Brilliant

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Gilbert N. Lewis

Gilbert N. Lewis was an American chemist prominent in the 20th century. He significantly advanced our understanding of c...

American 20TH Century Thermodynamics Covalent Bonding

9.4 Excellent

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Glenn T. Seaborg

Glenn T. Seaborg was a pioneering American chemist whose work fundamentally shaped nuclear chemistry during the 20th cen...

American 20TH Century Nuclear Chemistry Nobel Laureate

9.3 Excellent

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Walter Kohn

Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to the fields of qua...

American 20TH Century Computational Nobel Laureate

9.1 Excellent

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Karl Ziegler

Karl Ziegler (1894-1973) was a German chemist whose research fundamentally changed polymer science. He developed innovat...

Germany 20TH Century Polymer Catalysis

9.0 Excellent

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Giulio Natta

Giulio Natta (1911-1979) was an Italian chemist whose research profoundly impacted polymer science. He pioneered techniq...

Italy 20TH Century Polymer Catalysis

8.9 Great

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John Pople

John Pople was a British theoretical chemist recognized for making computational quantum chemistry accessible to working...

20TH Century Nobel Laureate British American Computational Chemistry

8.9 Great

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Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-American physical chemist whose work fundamentally altered the study of thermodynamic syste...

20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Laureate Norwegian American

8.9 Great

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Derek Barton

Sir Derek Barton was a British chemist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Odd Hassel. He received the awa...

20TH Century British Organic Chemistry Nobel Laureate

8.7 Great

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Christopher Ingold

Christopher Ingold (1893–1970) was a British chemist who systematized physical organic chemistry, establishing the SN1/S...

20TH Century British Organic Chemistry Reaction Mechanisms

8.7 Great

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John W. Cornforth

John W. Cornforth (1929-2015) was a prominent British chemist specializing in organic stereochemistry and biosynthesis....

Organic 20TH Century Nobel Stereochemistry

8.4 Great

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Geoffrey Wilkinson

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson was a British chemist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Ernst Otto Fischer. He wa...

20TH Century British Nobel Laureate Organometallic Chemistry

8.4 Great

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Archer Martin

Archer John Porter Martin was a British biochemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Richard L. M. Synge...

20TH Century British Analytical Partition Chromatography

8.2 Great

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Robert Robinson

Robert Robinson (1886–1975) was a British organic chemist who won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for investigations o...

20TH Century British Nobel Laureate Natural Products

8.1 Great

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Richard Synge

Richard Laurence Millington Synge was a British biochemist best known for co-inventing partition chromatography alongsid...

20TH Century British Analytical Amino Acids

8.0 Great

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Ronald Norrish

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897–1978) was a British chemist who spent his career at the University of Cambridge. He...

20TH Century British Nobel Laureate Photochemistry

7.9 Good

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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897–1967) was a British chemist at the University of Oxford who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize i...

20TH Century British Nobel Laureate Reaction Kinetics

7.7 Good

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Duilio Arigoni

Duilio Arigoni (1928–2020) was a Swiss chemist at ETH Zurich who made contributions to the understanding of biosynthetic...

20TH Century Mechanistic Biosynthesis Terpenes

7.6 Good

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Roger Adams

Roger Adams (1889–1971) was an American organic chemist who spent most of his career at the University of Illinois at Ur...

American 20TH Century Organic Chemistry Catalysis

7.5 Good

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Reginald Patrick Linstead

Reginald Patrick Linstead was a prominent British organic chemist known for his extensive research in macrocyclic compou...

20TH Century British Synthetic Organic Chemistry

6.9 Fair