swap_horiz George Porter Alternatives

1

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

2

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

3

Petrus Debye

Petrus Debye (1864-1936) was a Dutch physicist and chemist who made significant contributions to physical chemistry, not...

1930S Physical Chemistry Nobel X Ray

9.0 Excellent

4

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

5

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

6

Paul Sabatier

Paul Sabatier (1854-1941) was a French chemist renowned for his work on hydrogenation reactions, particularly the Sabati...

Physical Chemistry Catalysis Nobel Early 1900S

8.9 Great

7

Gerhard Ertl

Gerhard Ertl was a German physical chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2007 for his studies of chemical...

German Physical Chemistry Catalysis Nobel

8.8 Great

8

Rudolph A. Marcus

Rudolph A. Marcus (born 1929) is a theoretical physical chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1992 for hi...

Theory Physical Chemistry Electron Transfer Current

8.8 Great

9

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

10

Frédéric Joliot

Frédéric Joliot was a French physicist and chemist who, alongside his wife Irène, famously discovered artificial radioac...

Radioactivity France 20TH Century Nobel

8.7 Great

11

Christian B. Anfinsen

Christian B. Anfinsen (1916-1995) was an American biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972 for his g...

20TH Century Folding Biochemistry Proteins

8.7 Great

12

Dudley R. Herschbach

Dudley R. Herschbach was an American physical chemist renowned for his experimental investigations of chemical reaction...

Physical Chemistry Current Nobel Reaction Dynamics

8.6 Great

13

Yuan T. Lee

Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese-American physical chemist renowned for his pioneering work using laser spectroscopy to study...

Physical Chemistry Current Nobel Reaction Dynamics

8.6 Great

14

Herbert C. Brown

Herbert C. Brown (1912-1997) was an American chemist who developed methods for carbon-carbon bond formation, notably the...

Organic 20TH Century Synthesis Nobel

8.6 Great

15

John C. Polanyi

John C. Polanyi (1929-2016) was a Canadian chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his research on...

Canada Physical Chemistry Spectroscopy Nobel

8.4 Great

16

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

17

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

18

Theodor Svedberg

Theodor Svedberg (1875–1964) was a Swedish physical chemist who developed ultracentrifugation techniques and earned the...

Physical Chemistry Nobel Early 1900S Colloids

8.3 Great

19

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

20

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