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Robert Burns Woodward

Complex natural molecules were the central challenge of Robert Burns Woodward's career. This twentieth-century American...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Total Synthesis

9.48 Excellent

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Gilbert N. Lewis

Gilbert N. Lewis helped make the behavior of electrons central to explanations of chemical bonding. An American chemist...

American 20TH Century Thermodynamics Covalent Bonding

9.41 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

9.34 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

9.05 Excellent

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Paul Flory

Paul Flory was an American physical chemist whose research established the foundational principles of modern polymer sci...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Polymer Chemistry

8.84 Great

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Frank Sherwood Rowland

Frank Sherwood Rowland was an American atmospheric chemist whose research profoundly impacted global environmental polic...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Atmospheric Chemistry

8.74 Great

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Robert Mulliken

Robert Mulliken was an American chemist and physicist who won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was recognized for h...

American 20TH Century Theoretical Nobel Laureate

8.69 Great

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Bruce Merrifield

Bruce Merrifield (1921–2006) was an American biochemist awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing solid-p...

American 20TH Century Biochemistry Nobel Laureate

8.61 Great

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Charles Pedersen

Charles Pedersen was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of crown ethers....

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Supramolecular

8.35 Great

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Harry Gray

Harry Gray (born 1935) is an American inorganic chemist at Caltech who pioneered bioinorganic chemistry and quantitative...

American Electron Transfer Inorganic Chemistry 20TH 21ST Century

8.22 Great

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Donald Cram

Donald J. Cram (1919–2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his foundational wor...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Supramolecular Chemistry

8.18 Great

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Alan Heeger

Alan Heeger (born 1936) is an American physicist and chemist who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoverin...

American 20TH Century Materials Nobel Laureate

8.14 Great

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Edwin McMillan

Edwin McMillan (1907–1991) was an American physicist and chemist who made fundamental contributions to nuclear science....

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Transuranium Elements

8.06 Great

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William S. Knowles

William S. Knowles was an American chemist whose work revolutionized the field of synthetic organic chemistry. Working a...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Asymmetric Hydrogenation

8.02 Great

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William Lipscomb

William N. Lipscomb Jr. (1919–2011) was an American inorganic chemist who earned his PhD under Linus Pauling at Caltech...

American 20TH Century Structural Nobel Laureate

7.92 Good

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Alice Ball

Alice Ball (1892–1916) was an American chemist who developed the first effective injectable treatment for leprosy while...

American 20TH Century Pioneer Chaulmoogra Oil

7.86 Good

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Vincent du Vigneaud

Vincent du Vigneaud (1901–1978) was an American biochemist who received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the first...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Sulfur Amino Acids

7.78 Good

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James B. Sumner

James B. Sumner (1887–1955) was an American chemist at Cornell University who, in 1926, crystallized the enzyme urease f...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Enzyme Crystallization

7.72 Good

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Clayton Heathcock

Clayton Heathcock (1936–2021) was an American chemist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His resea...

American 20TH Century Total Synthesis Aldol Reactions

7.67 Good

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Edward Calvin Kendall

Edward Calvin Kendall was an American biochemist renowned for his foundational work in endocrinology during the 20th cen...

American 20TH Century Biochemistry Cortisone

7.67 Good