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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

John B. Goodenough, a Nobel laureate, pioneered research on lithium-ion batteries while at Oxford University, fundamenta...

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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Carolyn R. Bertozzi

Carolyn R. Bertozzi was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her development of bioorthogonal chemistry, enabli...

Stanford Nobel Bioorthogonal Click Chemistry

9.2 Excellent

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Robert H. Grubbs

Robert H. Grubbs (1942-2019) was an American chemist who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing olefin...

Catalysis Nobel Caltech Organometallic

9.1 Excellent

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Victor Grignard

Victor Grignard (1871-1935) was a French chemist who developed Grignard reagents—organomagnesium compounds—revolutionizi...

Synthesis Organic Chemistry Nobel Early 1900S

9.1 Excellent

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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

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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

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Leopold Ružička

Leopold Ružička (1908-1997) was an Austrian-Swiss biochemist who pioneered steroid chemistry and earned the 1977 Nobel P...

1930S Organic Chemistry Nobel Terpenes

8.4 Great

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Hans Fischer

Hans Fischer (1886-1982) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952 for his research on vita...

1930S Organic Chemistry Nobel Hemin

8.3 Great

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Walter Haworth

Walter Norman Haworth (1892-1940) was a British biochemist renowned for his pioneering work determining the structures o...

Vitamin C 1930S Organic Chemistry Nobel

8.3 Great

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Adolf Butenandt

Adolf Butenandt was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his work on pheromones and steroid...

Biochemistry 1930S Nobel Steroids

8.3 Great

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Friedrich Bergius

Friedrich Bergius (1884-1970) was a German industrial chemist who developed the Bergius process for coal liquefaction us...

High Pressure 1930S Coal Nobel

8.2 Great

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Paul Karrer

Paul Karrer (1889-1971) was a Swiss chemist who specialized in carotenoids and flavonoids, earning the 1937 Nobel Prize...

1930S Organic Chemistry Vitamins Nobel

8.1 Great

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Richard Kuhn

Richard Kuhn (1900-1967) was a German-Swiss biochemist who received the 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on vi...

1930S Organic Chemistry Vitamins Nobel

7.9 Good