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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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Karl Ziegler

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

Germany 20TH Century Polymer Catalysis

9.02 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

8.92 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

8.88 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

8.86 Great

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Richard R. Ernst

Richard R. Ernst was a Swiss physical chemist recognized for his transformative advancements in nuclear magnetic resonan...

Swiss 20TH Century Analytical Nobel Laureate

8.82 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

8.71 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

8.69 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

8.43 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

8.13 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

8.04 Great

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Arne Tiselius

Arne Tiselius was a Swedish biochemist renowned for his pioneering work in the separation and analysis of biological mol...

20TH Century Analytical Swedish Proteins

7.93 Good

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Alan Battersby

Alan Battersby (1925–2018) was a British organic chemist who served as the Sir Samuel Hall Professor of Organic Chemistr...

20TH Century British Biosynthesis Natural Products

7.89 Good

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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

7.88 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

7.66 Good

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Karl Schwarzenbach

Karl Schwarzenbach (1904–1978) was a prominent Swiss analytical chemist whose work fundamentally advanced the field of c...

Swiss 20TH Century Analytical Coordination Chemistry

7.08 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

6.93 Fair