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Victor Grignard

Victor Grignard was a French chemist whose work fundamentally changed organic chemistry. He developed Grignard reagents,...

Synthesis Organic Chemistry Nobel Early 1900S

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Friedrich Wöhler

Friedrich Wöhler was a German chemist of the 19th century whose synthesis of urea from ammonium cyanate in 1828 fundamen...

German 19TH Century Pioneer Organic Chemistry

9.1 Excellent

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Adolf von Baeyer

Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917) was a prominent German chemist whose research significantly advanced the field of organic c...

Indigo Organic Chemistry Nobel Early 1900S

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Richard R. Ernst

Richard R. Ernst was a Swiss physical chemist recognized for his transformative advancements in nuclear magnetic resonan...

Swiss 20TH Century Analytical Nobel Laureate

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George Whitesides

George Whitesides (born 1939) is an American chemist at Harvard University renowned for pioneering contributions to soft...

American 20TH 21ST Century Materials Chemistry Self Assembly

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Derek Barton

Sir Derek Barton was a British chemist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Odd Hassel. He received the awa...

20TH Century British Organic Chemistry Nobel Laureate

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Christopher Ingold

Christopher Ingold (1893–1970) was a British chemist who systematized physical organic chemistry, establishing the SN1/S...

20TH Century British Organic Chemistry Reaction Mechanisms

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Albert Eschenmoser

Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist recognized for his extensive contributions to modern chemistry. He is best...

Swiss 20TH Century Mechanistic Natural Product Synthesis

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Richard Heck

Richard Heck was an American chemist who received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Ei-ichi Negishi and Aki...

American Nobel Laureate 20TH 21ST Century Heck Reaction

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Ryoji Noyori

Ryoji Noyori is a Japanese chemist recognized for his foundational work in asymmetric catalysis, specifically the develo...

Japanese Nobel Laureate 20TH 21ST Century Asymmetric Hydrogenation

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Leopold Ružička

Leopold Ružička (1908-1997) was a prominent chemist recognized for groundbreaking research in organic chemistry during t...

1930S Organic Chemistry Nobel Terpenes

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Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou

Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou is a prominent organic chemist known for his research in the total synthesis of complex natural...

20TH 21ST Century Total Synthesis Natural Products Taxol

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Hans Fischer

Hans Fischer was a prominent 20th-century chemist specializing in organic chemistry during the 1930s. He gained recognit...

1930S Organic Chemistry Nobel Hemin

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Walter Haworth

Walter Norman Haworth (1892-1940) was a British chemist whose research significantly advanced our understanding of carbo...

Vitamin C 1930S Organic Chemistry Nobel

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Richard Schrock

Richard Schrock is an American chemist who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Yves Chauvin and Robert Grubbs....

American Nobel Laureate 20TH 21ST Century Olefin Metathesis

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Harry Gray

Harry Gray (born 1935) is an American inorganic chemist at Caltech who pioneered bioinorganic chemistry and quantitative...

American Electron Transfer Inorganic Chemistry 20TH 21ST Century

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Barry Trost

Barry Trost (born 1941) is an American organic chemist at Stanford University who coined the atom economy principle in g...

American 20TH 21ST Century Atom Economy Organic Synthesis

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David Evans

David A. Evans (born 1941) is an American organic chemist whose research has influenced the field of asymmetric synthesi...

American 20TH 21ST Century Asymmetric Synthesis Evans Auxiliaries

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Jacques Dubochet

Jacques Dubochet is a retired Swiss biophysicist who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Joachim Fra...

Swiss 21ST Century Nobel Laureate Structural Chemistry

8.2 Great

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Paul Karrer

Paul Karrer was a prominent 20th-century chemist renowned for his research on carotenoids and flavonoids. His investigat...

1930S Organic Chemistry Vitamins Nobel

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