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Robert B. Woodward

Robert B. Woodward was an American organic chemist whose work helped establish how complex natural products could be con...

Organic Synthesis Harvard Nobel

9.72 Brilliant

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Through X-ray crystallography, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin revealed the three-dimensional structures of biologically import...

Structural Crystallography Biochemistry Nobel

9.62 Brilliant

3

K. Barry Sharpless

K. Barry Sharpless is an organic chemist associated with two distinct contributions: asymmetric catalytic oxidation and...

Organic Asymmetric Nobel Click Chemistry

9.55 Brilliant

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Jennifer A. Doudna

Jennifer A. Doudna is an American biochemist whose research on RNA and bacterial defense systems helped establish CRISPR...

Biochemistry Crispr Berkeley Nobel

9.48 Excellent

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Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling helped connect chemical bonding with the quantum-mechanical behavior of atoms, giving chemists new ways to...

Organic Activist Nobel Prize Activism

9.46 Excellent

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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was a Dutch chemist influential in physical chemistry during the early 20th century. His wo...

Thermodynamics Physical Chemistry Nobel Stereochemistry

9.38 Excellent

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Frances H. Arnold

Frances H. Arnold is a chemist recognized globally for her groundbreaking work in directed evolution. She developed tech...

Evolution Biochemistry Nobel Enzymes

9.35 Excellent

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Omar M. Yaghi

Omar M. Yaghi is a prominent chemist specializing in materials science. His research focuses on metal-organic frameworks...

Materials Berkeley Nobel Mof

9.28 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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Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir (1881-1957) was a pioneering American physical chemist. His research fundamentally shaped our understand...

1930S Nobel Surface Chemistry Monolayers

9.22 Excellent

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George A. Olah

George A. Olah (1927-2017) was a prominent chemist specializing in organic chemistry. His research significantly advance...

Organic Usc Nobel Carbocations

9.05 Excellent

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Akira Suzuki

Akira Suzuki (1930–2023) was a prominent Japanese chemist recognized globally for his pioneering work in palladium-catal...

Organic Japanese Nobel Cross Coupling

9.05 Excellent

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Bernard L. Feringa

Bernard L. Feringa is a Dutch chemist recognized globally for his pioneering research in organic chemistry, specifically...

Organic Dutch Nobel Molecular Machines

8.95 Great

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David W.C. MacMillan

David W.C. MacMillan is a chemist specializing in asymmetric organocatalysis. His work focuses on using small organic mo...

Organic Asymmetric Nobel Organocatalysis

8.90 Great

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Richard F. Heck

Richard F. Heck was an American chemist recognized globally for his pioneering work in organic chemistry. His developmen...

Organic American Nobel Cross Coupling

8.85 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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Ei-ichi Negishi

Ei-ichi Negishi is a renowned chemist specializing in organic chemistry, particularly known for his pioneering work on p...

Organic Japanese Nobel Cross Coupling

8.72 Great

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Herbert C. Brown

Herbert C. Brown (1912-1997) was a prominent American chemist recognized for his groundbreaking work in organic synthesi...

Organic 20TH Century Synthesis Nobel

8.62 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

8.38 Great

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Fritz Pregl

Fritz Pregl (1869–1930) was an Austrian chemist and physician whose work revolutionized analytical chemistry. He develop...

Organic Nobel Early 1900S Analytical Chemistry

7.78 Good