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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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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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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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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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Victor Grignard

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Synthesis Organic Chemistry Nobel Early 1900S

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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Francis William Aston

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Isotopes Nobel Early 1900S Analytical Chemistry

9.0 Excellent

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Benjamin List

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Organic Asymmetric Nobel Organocatalysis

8.9 Great

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David W.C. MacMillan

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Organic Asymmetric Nobel Organocatalysis

8.9 Great

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Richard F. Heck

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Organic American Nobel Cross Coupling

8.9 Great

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Paul Sabatier

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Physical Chemistry Catalysis Nobel Early 1900S

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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Adolf von Baeyer

Adolf von Baeyer (1835-1917) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1905 for his work on orga...

Indigo Organic Chemistry Nobel Early 1900S

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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Eduard Buchner

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Fermentation Biochemistry Nobel Enzymes

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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Henri Moissan

Henri Moissan (1859-1904) was a French chemist who synthesized elemental fluorine in 1900 and received the Nobel Prize i...

Nobel Early 1900S Inorganic Chemistry Fluorine

8.6 Great

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Archer John Porter Martin

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1950S Nobel Analytical Chemistry Chromatography

8.5 Great

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John W. Cornforth

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Organic 20TH Century Nobel Stereochemistry

8.4 Great