swap_horiz Frédéric Joliot Alternatives

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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

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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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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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Karl Ziegler

Karl Ziegler (1894-1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1953 for his pioneering work on po...

Germany 20TH Century Polymer Catalysis

9.0 Excellent

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Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie, alongside her husband Frédéric, was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of...

Radioactivity France 20TH Century Nobel

8.9 Great

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Giulio Natta

Giulio Natta (1911-1979) was an Italian chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his work on synthe...

Italy 20TH Century Polymer Catalysis

8.9 Great

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Georg Wittig

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Organic 20TH Century Synthesis Nobel

8.8 Great

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George de Hevesy

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1940S Isotopes Nobel Radiochemistry

8.8 Great

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Christian B. Anfinsen

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20TH Century Folding Biochemistry Proteins

8.7 Great

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Herbert C. Brown

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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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George Porter

George Porter (1922-2019) was a British physical chemist who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering...

20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Kinetics

8.4 Great

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Ronald G. W. Norrish

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897-1976) was a British physical chemist who made significant contributions to photoche...

20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Kinetics

8.3 Great

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William H. Stein

William H. Stein was an American physical chemist known for his pioneering work in Raman spectroscopy and developing met...

20TH Century Biochemistry Proteins Nobel

8.2 Great

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Stanford Moore

Stanford Moore (1918-2002) was an American biochemist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work determin...

20TH Century Biochemistry Proteins Nobel

8.2 Great