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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

9.7 Brilliant

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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

9.6 Brilliant

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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

9.4 Excellent

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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

9.3 Excellent

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Susumu Kitagawa

Susumu Kitagawa is a Japanese chemist renowned for his pioneering work in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), porous materi...

Kyoto Materials Nobel Mof

9.0 Excellent

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Richard Henderson

Richard Henderson pioneered cryo-electron microscopy techniques to determine the three-dimensional structures of biologi...

Biochemistry Microscopy Current Nobel

8.9 Great

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Moungi G. Bawendi

Moungi G. Bawendi is a chemist renowned for developing colloidal quantum dot synthesis, enabling precise control over na...

Mit Materials Nobel Nanochemistry

8.8 Great

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Richard Robson

Richard Robson was a British chemist known for his pioneering work in organosilicon chemistry, particularly developing m...

Materials Melbourne Nobel Mof

8.8 Great

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Joachim Frank

Joachim Frank is a German physicist and molecular biologist who pioneered cryo-electron microscopy, developing technique...

Biochemistry Microscopy Current Nobel

8.8 Great

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Rudolph A. Marcus

Rudolph A. Marcus (born 1929) is a theoretical physical chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1992 for hi...

Theory Physical Chemistry Electron Transfer Current

8.8 Great

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M. Stanley Whittingham

M. Stanley Whittingham is a British-American chemist who pioneered research on rechargeable lithium batteries while at E...

Lithium Ion Solid State Batteries Materials

8.7 Great

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Louis E. Brus

Louis E. Brus is a physical chemist renowned for his pioneering work in the 1980s synthesizing and characterizing colloi...

Materials Columbia Nobel Nanochemistry

8.7 Great

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Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2015) recognized for his groundbreaking work elucidating...

Turkey Biochemistry Dna Repair Current

8.6 Great

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Martin Karplus

Martin Karplus shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work developing multiscale models to simulate...

Modeling Theoretical Computational Current

8.6 Great

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Dudley R. Herschbach

Dudley R. Herschbach was an American physical chemist renowned for his experimental investigations of chemical reaction...

Physical Chemistry Current Nobel Reaction Dynamics

8.6 Great

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Yuan T. Lee

Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese-American physical chemist renowned for his pioneering work using laser spectroscopy to study...

Physical Chemistry Current Nobel Reaction Dynamics

8.6 Great

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Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt is a South African-born American biophysical chemist and computer scientist who pioneered the use of mole...

Modeling Biochemistry Computational Current

8.5 Great

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Arieh Warshel

Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American physical chemist known for developing computational methods to simulate biomolecula...

Modeling Biochemistry Computational Current

8.4 Great

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Aleksey Yekimov

Aleksey Yekimov (born 1932) was a prominent Soviet and Russian inorganic chemist known for his extensive research on coo...

Glass Materials Nobel Nanochemistry

8.3 Great

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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865-1929) was an Austrian physical chemist who developed the ultramicroscope, enabling the vis...

Materials Nobel Early 1900S Colloid Chemistry

7.8 Good