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Robert Burns Woodward

Robert Burns Woodward was a prominent 20th-century American chemist recognized globally for his pioneering work in total...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Total Synthesis

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Gilbert N. Lewis

Gilbert N. Lewis was an American chemist prominent in the 20th century. He significantly advanced our understanding of c...

American 20TH Century Thermodynamics Covalent Bonding

9.4 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

9.3 Excellent

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Walter Kohn

Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to the fields of qua...

American 20TH Century Computational Nobel Laureate

9.1 Excellent

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Paul Flory

Paul Flory was an American physical chemist whose research established the foundational principles of modern polymer sci...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Polymer Chemistry

8.8 Great

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Christian B. Anfinsen

Christian B. Anfinsen was a 20th-century American chemist whose research fundamentally changed biochemistry. He demonstr...

20TH Century Folding Biochemistry Proteins

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Robert Mulliken

Robert Mulliken was an American chemist and physicist who won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was recognized for h...

American 20TH Century Theoretical Nobel Laureate

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Frank Sherwood Rowland

Frank Sherwood Rowland was an American atmospheric chemist whose research profoundly impacted global environmental polic...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Atmospheric Chemistry

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Bruce Merrifield

Bruce Merrifield (1921–2006) was an American biochemist awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing solid-p...

American 20TH Century Biochemistry Nobel Laureate

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Charles Pedersen

Charles Pedersen was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of crown ethers....

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Supramolecular

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Michael Smith

Michael Smith was a British-born Canadian biochemist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He received the award fo...

20TH Century Biochemistry Nobel Laureate British Canadian

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William H. Stein

William H. Stein was a 20th-century American chemist specializing in biochemistry and protein research. His notable cont...

20TH Century Biochemistry Proteins Nobel

8.2 Great

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Stanford Moore

Stanford Moore (1918-2002) was a prominent biochemist renowned for his pioneering use of X-ray crystallography to reveal...

20TH Century Biochemistry Proteins Nobel

8.2 Great

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Donald Cram

Donald J. Cram (1919–2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his foundational wor...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Supramolecular Chemistry

8.2 Great

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George Smith

George P. Smith is an American biologist and biochemist who was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his invent...

American 21ST Century Biochemistry Nobel Laureate

8.2 Great

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Albert Cotton

Albert Cotton (1930–2007) was an American inorganic chemist at Texas A&M University who discovered the first metal–metal...

American 20TH Century Organometallic Inorganic Chemistry

8.2 Great

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Alan Heeger

Alan Heeger (born 1936) is an American physicist and chemist who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoverin...

American 20TH Century Materials Nobel Laureate

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Edwin McMillan

Edwin McMillan (1907–1991) was an American physicist and chemist who made fundamental contributions to nuclear science....

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Transuranium Elements

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William S. Knowles

William S. Knowles was an American chemist whose work revolutionized the field of synthetic organic chemistry. Working a...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Asymmetric Hydrogenation

8.0 Great

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Tadeus Reichstein

Tadeus Reichstein was a Polish-born Swiss chemist renowned for his substantial contributions to organic chemistry and bi...

20TH Century Vitamin C Biochemistry Cortisone

7.8 Good