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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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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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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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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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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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Georg Wittig

Georg Wittig was a 20th-century chemist renowned for his development of the Wittig reaction. This chemical process allow...

Organic 20TH Century Synthesis Nobel

8.76 Great

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Jean-Marie Lehn

Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist widely recognized as one of the primary founders of the field of supramolecular chem...

French 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Supramolecular Chemistry

8.75 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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Christian B. Anfinsen

Christian B. Anfinsen was a 20th-century American chemist whose research fundamentally changed biochemistry. He demonstr...

20TH Century Folding Biochemistry Proteins

8.70 Great

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William H. Stein

William H. Stein was a 20th-century American chemist specializing in biochemistry and protein research. His notable cont...

20TH Century Biochemistry Proteins Nobel

8.18 Great

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Stanford Moore

Stanford Moore (1918-2002) was a prominent biochemist renowned for his pioneering use of X-ray crystallography to reveal...

20TH Century Biochemistry Proteins Nobel

8.17 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

8.17 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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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