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Robert B. Woodward

Robert B. Woodward was a prominent 20th-century chemist specializing in organic synthesis. His meticulous approach to el...

Organic Synthesis Harvard Nobel

9.7 Brilliant

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist renowned for her groundbreaking work utilizing X-ray crystallography to r...

Structural Crystallography Biochemistry Nobel

9.6 Brilliant

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John B. Goodenough

John B. Goodenough is a chemist renowned for his groundbreaking work on lithium-ion battery technology. His research, pr...

Lithium Ion Solid State Batteries Materials

9.4 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

9.3 Excellent

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Susumu Kitagawa

Susumu Kitagawa is a prominent Japanese chemist specializing in materials science. He achieved international recognition...

Kyoto Materials Nobel Mof

9.0 Excellent

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Richard Henderson

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Biochemistry Microscopy Current Nobel

8.9 Great

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Moungi G. Bawendi

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Mit Materials Nobel Nanochemistry

8.8 Great

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Richard Robson

Richard Robson was a prominent chemist specializing in materials science based in Melbourne. His research significantly...

Materials Melbourne Nobel Mof

8.8 Great

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Joachim Frank

Joachim Frank was a German chemist whose research fundamentally advanced our understanding of biological molecules. He d...

Biochemistry Microscopy Current Nobel

8.8 Great

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Rudolph A. Marcus

Rudolph A. Marcus was a prominent theoretical physical chemist specializing in electron-transfer processes. His signific...

Theory Physical Chemistry Electron Transfer Current

8.8 Great

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M. Stanley Whittingham

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Lithium Ion Solid State Batteries Materials

8.7 Great

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Louis E. Brus

Louis E. Brus is a chemist specializing in materials science. He gained recognition for his groundbreaking research on c...

Materials Columbia Nobel Nanochemistry

8.7 Great

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Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar is a chemist renowned for his research on DNA repair pathways. His investigations into how cells fix damaged...

Turkey Biochemistry Dna Repair Current

8.6 Great

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Martin Karplus

Martin Karplus is a chemist recognized for creating sophisticated computational models of molecules and chemical reactio...

Modeling Theoretical Computational Current

8.6 Great

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Dudley R. Herschbach

Dudley R. Herschbach was a prominent American physical chemist specializing in reaction dynamics and molecular beams. Hi...

Physical Chemistry Current Nobel Reaction Dynamics

8.6 Great

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Yuan T. Lee

Yuan T. Lee is a prominent physical chemist specializing in reaction dynamics and molecular beams. His research utilizes...

Physical Chemistry Current Nobel Reaction Dynamics

8.6 Great

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Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt is a prominent biophysical chemist recognized for his groundbreaking work in computational modeling of bi...

Modeling Biochemistry Computational Current

8.5 Great

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Arieh Warshel

Arieh Warshel is a prominent physical chemist specializing in computational modeling of biomolecular systems. His work f...

Modeling Biochemistry Computational Current

8.4 Great

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Aleksey Yekimov

Aleksey Yekimov is a chemist specializing in nanochemistry and materials science. He gained recognition for pioneering w...

Glass Materials Nobel Nanochemistry

8.3 Great

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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

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Materials Nobel Early 1900S Colloid Chemistry

7.8 Good