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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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Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir (1881-1957) was an American physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work o...

1930S Nobel Surface Chemistry Monolayers

9.2 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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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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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