swap_horiz James B. Sumner Alternatives

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Robert Burns Woodward

Robert Burns Woodward was a prominent 20th-century American chemist recognized globally for his pioneering work in total...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Total Synthesis

9.5 Brilliant

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Gilbert N. Lewis

Gilbert N. Lewis was an American chemist prominent in the 20th century. He significantly advanced our understanding of c...

American 20TH Century Thermodynamics Covalent Bonding

9.4 Excellent

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Glenn T. Seaborg

Glenn T. Seaborg was a pioneering American chemist whose work fundamentally shaped nuclear chemistry during the 20th cen...

American 20TH Century Nuclear Chemistry Nobel Laureate

9.3 Excellent

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Walter Kohn

Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to the fields of qua...

American 20TH Century Computational Nobel Laureate

9.1 Excellent

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John Pople

John Pople was a British theoretical chemist recognized for making computational quantum chemistry accessible to working...

20TH Century Nobel Laureate British American Computational Chemistry

8.9 Great

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Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-American physical chemist whose work fundamentally altered the study of thermodynamic syste...

20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Laureate Norwegian American

8.9 Great

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Paul Flory

Paul Flory was an American physical chemist whose research established the foundational principles of modern polymer sci...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Polymer Chemistry

8.8 Great

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Jean-Marie Lehn

Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist widely recognized as one of the primary founders of the field of supramolecular chem...

French 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Supramolecular Chemistry

8.8 Great

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Robert Mulliken

Robert Mulliken was an American chemist and physicist who won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was recognized for h...

American 20TH Century Theoretical Nobel Laureate

8.7 Great

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Frank Sherwood Rowland

Frank Sherwood Rowland was an American atmospheric chemist whose research profoundly impacted global environmental polic...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Atmospheric Chemistry

8.7 Great

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Bruce Merrifield

Bruce Merrifield (1921–2006) was an American biochemist awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing solid-p...

American 20TH Century Biochemistry Nobel Laureate

8.6 Great

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Charles Pedersen

Charles Pedersen was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of crown ethers....

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Supramolecular

8.4 Great

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Donald Cram

Donald J. Cram (1919–2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his foundational wor...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Supramolecular Chemistry

8.2 Great

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Alan Heeger

Alan Heeger (born 1936) is an American physicist and chemist who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoverin...

American 20TH Century Materials Nobel Laureate

8.1 Great

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Edwin McMillan

Edwin McMillan (1907–1991) was an American physicist and chemist who made fundamental contributions to nuclear science....

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Transuranium Elements

8.1 Great

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William S. Knowles

William S. Knowles was an American chemist whose work revolutionized the field of synthetic organic chemistry. Working a...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Asymmetric Hydrogenation

8.0 Great

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William Lipscomb

William N. Lipscomb Jr. (1919–2011) was an American inorganic chemist who earned his PhD under Linus Pauling at Caltech...

American 20TH Century Structural Nobel Laureate

7.9 Good

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Vincent du Vigneaud

Vincent du Vigneaud (1901–1978) was an American biochemist who received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the first...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Sulfur Amino Acids

7.8 Good

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John Howard Northrop

John Howard Northrop (1891–1987) was an American biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. He isolat...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Enzyme Purification

7.6 Good

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Wendell Meredith Stanley

Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904–1971) was an American biochemist who shared the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for crystal...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Virus Crystallization

7.5 Good