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Organic Synthesis Harvard Nobel

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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

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Jennifer A. Doudna

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Robert Burns Woodward

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John B. Goodenough

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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

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Gilbert N. Lewis

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Karl Ziegler

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Giulio Natta

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Georg Wittig

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George de Hevesy

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Christian B. Anfinsen

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

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Herbert C. Brown

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Organic 20TH Century Synthesis Nobel

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John W. Cornforth

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Organic 20TH Century Nobel Stereochemistry

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George Porter

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20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Kinetics

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Ronald G. W. Norrish

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20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Kinetics

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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

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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

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Darleane Hoffman

Darleane Hoffman is an American nuclear chemist known for her research on actinide and transactinide elements. Her work...

American 20TH Century Nuclear Chemistry Radiochemistry

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