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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

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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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Omar M. Yaghi

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Materials Berkeley Nobel Mof

9.28 Excellent

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Walter Kohn

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American 20TH Century Computational Nobel Laureate

9.05 Excellent

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Susumu Kitagawa

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Kyoto Materials Nobel Mof

9.02 Excellent

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John Jumper

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American 21ST Century Protein Folding Computational

8.93 Great

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Richard F. Heck

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Organic American Nobel Cross Coupling

8.85 Great

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Moungi G. Bawendi

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Mit Materials Nobel Nanochemistry

8.78 Great

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David Baker

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American 21ST Century Protein Design Rosetta

8.72 Great

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Louis E. Brus

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8.65 Great

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Roger Tsien

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American 21ST Century Imaging Nobel Laureate

8.51 Great

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Thomas Steitz

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American 21ST Century Nobel Laureate Structural Biology

8.45 Great

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Aleksey Yekimov

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Glass Materials Nobel Nanochemistry

8.32 Great

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Peter Schultz

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American 21ST Century Enzymes Chemical Biology

8.24 Great

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Eric Betzig

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American 21ST Century Nobel Laureate Super Resolution Microscopy

8.21 Great

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William E. Moerner

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American 21ST Century Nobel Laureate Single Molecule Spectroscopy

8.19 Great

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George Smith

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American 21ST Century Biochemistry Nobel Laureate

8.18 Great

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Alan Heeger

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American 20TH Century Materials Nobel Laureate

8.14 Great

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Stuart Schreiber

Stuart L. Schreiber (born 1956) is an American chemist and a pioneer in the field of chemical biology. He is known for h...

American 21ST Century Drug Discovery Chemical Biology

8.09 Great