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Robert B. Woodward

Robert B. Woodward (1921-1990) was an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in organic synthesis, particular...

Organic Synthesis Harvard Nobel

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) was a British biochemist who pioneered X-ray crystallography to determine the compl...

Structural Crystallography Biochemistry Nobel

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K. Barry Sharpless

K. Barry Sharpless is an American chemist who developed chiral catalytic oxidation reactions and was awarded the Nobel P...

Organic Asymmetric Nobel Click Chemistry

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Jennifer A. Doudna

Jennifer A. Doudna is a biochemist and professor recognized for her pioneering work in CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technolo...

Biochemistry Crispr Berkeley Nobel

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Frances H. Arnold

Frances H. Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering directed evolution, a meth...

Evolution Biochemistry Nobel Enzymes

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John B. Goodenough

John B. Goodenough, a Nobel laureate, pioneered research on lithium-ion batteries while at Oxford University, fundamenta...

Lithium Ion Solid State Batteries Materials

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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852-1911) was a Dutch physical chemist who pioneered the application of chemical equilibr...

Thermodynamics Physical Chemistry Nobel Stereochemistry

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Omar M. Yaghi

Omar M. Yaghi is a Syrian-American chemist renowned for pioneering metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), porous materials wit...

Materials Berkeley Nobel Mof

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Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir (1881-1957) was an American physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work o...

1930S Nobel Surface Chemistry Monolayers

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Ada E. Yonath

Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli scientist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2009) recognized for her pioneering studies on th...

Crystallography Structural Biology Nobel Ribosome

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George A. Olah

George A. Olah (1927-2017) was a Hungarian-American chemist who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on ca...

Organic Usc Nobel Carbocations

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Robert H. Grubbs

Robert H. Grubbs (1942-2019) was an American chemist who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing olefin...

Catalysis Nobel Caltech Organometallic

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Akira Suzuki

Akira Suzuki (1930–2023) was a Japanese chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010 for developing palladi...

Organic Japanese Nobel Cross Coupling

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Paul J. Crutzen

Paul J. Crutzen (1933-2022) was a Dutch atmospheric chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his wo...

Atmospheric Environment Netherlands Ozone

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Victor Grignard

Victor Grignard (1871-1935) was a French chemist who developed Grignard reagents—organomagnesium compounds—revolutionizi...

Synthesis Organic Chemistry Nobel Early 1900S

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Mario J. Molina

Mexican chemist Mario J. Molina shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work elucidating the depletion of the o...

Atmospheric Environment Mexico Ozone

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Karl Ziegler

Karl Ziegler (1894-1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1953 for his pioneering work on po...

Germany 20TH Century Polymer Catalysis

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Francis William Aston

Francis William Aston (1877–1945) was a British physicist and chemist who pioneered the use of mass spectrometry to dete...

Isotopes Nobel Early 1900S Analytical Chemistry

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Petrus Debye

Petrus Debye (1864-1936) was a Dutch physicist and chemist who made significant contributions to physical chemistry, not...

1930S Physical Chemistry Nobel X Ray

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Roger D. Kornberg

Roger D. Kornberg was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his groundbreaking work determining the high-resolut...

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