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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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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

9.6 Brilliant

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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

9.5 Brilliant

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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

9.4 Excellent

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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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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

9.4 Excellent

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Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling's impact on chemistry and molecular biology is unparalleled. His work on chemical bonding revolutionized o...

Organic Activist Nobel Prize Activism

9.3 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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Carolyn R. Bertozzi

Carolyn R. Bertozzi was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her development of bioorthogonal chemistry, enabli...

Stanford Nobel Bioorthogonal Click Chemistry

9.2 Excellent

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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

9.1 Excellent

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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

9.1 Excellent

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Bernard L. Feringa

Bernard L. Feringa is a Dutch professor of organic chemistry known for his groundbreaking work on molecular machines, ea...

Organic Dutch Nobel Molecular Machines

9.0 Excellent

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Benjamin List

Benjamin List is a German chemist who received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly with David MacMillan, for deve...

Organic Asymmetric Nobel Organocatalysis

8.9 Great

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Richard F. Heck

Richard F. Heck (1934-2015) was an American chemist who shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the Heck...

Organic American Nobel Cross Coupling

8.9 Great

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Georg Wittig

Georg Wittig was a German chemist who developed the Wittig reaction in 1953, a chemical transformation used to synthesiz...

Organic 20TH Century Synthesis Nobel

8.8 Great

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Ei-ichi Negishi

Ei-ichi Negishi is a Japanese–American chemist who shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing palladium-cat...

Organic Japanese Nobel Cross Coupling

8.7 Great

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Herbert C. Brown

Herbert C. Brown (1912-1997) was an American chemist who developed methods for carbon-carbon bond formation, notably the...

Organic 20TH Century Synthesis Nobel

8.6 Great

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John W. Cornforth

John W. Cornforth (1929-2015) was a British chemist renowned for his pioneering work in organosilicon chemistry, particu...

Organic 20TH Century Nobel Stereochemistry

8.4 Great

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Fritz Pregl

Fritz Pregl (1869-1930) was an Austrian chemist who developed a method for quantitative amino acid analysis, earning him...

Organic Nobel Early 1900S Analytical Chemistry

7.8 Good