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Linus Pauling

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Organic Activist Nobel Prize Activism

9.46 Excellent

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Jöns Jacob Berzelius

Jöns Jacob Berzelius was a significant 19th-century Swedish chemist. He is known for pioneering work in determining atom...

19TH Century Pioneer Swedish Atomic Weights

9.39 Excellent

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August Kekulé

August Kekulé was a 19th-century German chemist whose work significantly advanced organic chemistry. He is best known fo...

Organic German 19TH Century Benzene

9.23 Excellent

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Friedrich Wöhler

Friedrich Wöhler was a German chemist of the 19th century whose synthesis of urea from ammonium cyanate in 1828 fundamen...

German 19TH Century Pioneer Organic Chemistry

9.12 Excellent

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John C. Polanyi

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Canada Physical Chemistry Spectroscopy Nobel

8.42 Great

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William Henry Perkin

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19TH Century Industrial British Mauveine

8.32 Great

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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

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French 19TH Century Pioneer Analytical

8.27 Great

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August Wilhelm von Hofmann

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19TH Century Organic Chemistry German British Organic Dyes

7.93 Good

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Arne Tiselius

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20TH Century Analytical Swedish Proteins

7.93 Good

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Edward Frankland

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19TH Century Pioneer British Organometallic Chemistry

7.91 Good

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Alice Ball

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American 20TH Century Pioneer Chaulmoogra Oil

7.86 Good

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Alexander Butlerov

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Russian 19TH Century Pioneer Structural Theory

7.86 Good

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Marcellin Berthelot

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French 19TH Century Pioneer Organic Synthesis

7.79 Good

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Hermann Kolbe

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German 19TH Century Organic Chemistry Organosynthesis

7.76 Good

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Vladimir Markovnikov

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Russian 19TH Century Organic Chemistry Markovnikovs Rule

7.64 Good

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Archibald Scott Couper

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19TH Century Pioneer Scottish Structural Organic Chemistry

7.41 Good

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Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner

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German 19TH Century Classification Triads

7.36 Good

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Adolphe Wurtz

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French 19TH Century Pioneer Organic Chemistry

7.31 Good

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Nikolai Zinin

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Russian 19TH Century Pioneer Organic Chemistry

7.22 Good

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Knut Ångström

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Swedish Physical Chemistry Spectroscopy 19TH 20TH Century

6.35 Fair