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Robert B. Woodward

Robert B. Woodward was a prominent 20th-century chemist specializing in organic synthesis. His meticulous approach to el...

Organic Synthesis Harvard Nobel

9.7 Brilliant

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist renowned for her groundbreaking work utilizing X-ray crystallography to r...

Structural Crystallography Biochemistry Nobel

9.6 Brilliant

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K. Barry Sharpless

K. Barry Sharpless is a renowned organic chemist recognized for his pioneering development of “click chemistry.” His res...

Organic Asymmetric Nobel Click Chemistry

9.6 Brilliant

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Jennifer A. Doudna

Jennifer A. Doudna is a chemist specializing in biochemistry and genome editing. Her research led to the development of...

Biochemistry Crispr Berkeley Nobel

9.5 Brilliant

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Frances H. Arnold

Frances H. Arnold is a chemist recognized globally for her groundbreaking work in directed evolution. She developed tech...

Evolution Biochemistry Nobel Enzymes

9.4 Excellent

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John B. Goodenough

John B. Goodenough is a chemist renowned for his groundbreaking work on lithium-ion battery technology. His research, pr...

Lithium Ion Solid State Batteries Materials

9.4 Excellent

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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was a Dutch chemist influential in physical chemistry during the early 20th century. His wo...

Thermodynamics Physical Chemistry Nobel Stereochemistry

9.4 Excellent

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Omar M. Yaghi

Omar M. Yaghi is a prominent chemist specializing in materials science. His research focuses on metal-organic frameworks...

Materials Berkeley Nobel Mof

9.3 Excellent

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Carolyn R. Bertozzi

Carolyn R. Bertozzi is a chemist renowned for pioneering bioorthogonal chemistry. Her work develops reactions that selec...

Stanford Nobel Bioorthogonal Click Chemistry

9.2 Excellent

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Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir (1881-1957) was a pioneering American physical chemist. His research fundamentally shaped our understand...

1930S Nobel Surface Chemistry Monolayers

9.2 Excellent

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Petrus Debye

Petrus Debye was a prominent Dutch chemist whose work fundamentally shaped physical chemistry in the early 20th century....

1930S Physical Chemistry Nobel X Ray

9.0 Excellent

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Paul Sabatier

Paul Sabatier was a prominent French chemist active in the early 20th century. His research centered on catalysis, speci...

Physical Chemistry Catalysis Nobel Early 1900S

8.9 Great

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Gerhard Ertl

Gerhard Ertl was a distinguished German physical chemist renowned for pioneering research into surface chemistry and cat...

German Physical Chemistry Catalysis Nobel

8.8 Great

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Rudolph A. Marcus

Rudolph A. Marcus was a prominent theoretical physical chemist specializing in electron-transfer processes. His signific...

Theory Physical Chemistry Electron Transfer Current

8.8 Great

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Dudley R. Herschbach

Dudley R. Herschbach was a prominent American physical chemist specializing in reaction dynamics and molecular beams. Hi...

Physical Chemistry Current Nobel Reaction Dynamics

8.6 Great

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Yuan T. Lee

Yuan T. Lee is a prominent physical chemist specializing in reaction dynamics and molecular beams. His research utilizes...

Physical Chemistry Current Nobel Reaction Dynamics

8.6 Great

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George Porter

George Porter (1922-2019) was a British physical chemist renowned for his development of flash photolysis. This techniqu...

20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Kinetics

8.4 Great

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Ronald G. W. Norrish

Ronald G. W. Norrish (1897-1976) was a British chemist renowned for his pioneering work in photochemistry and kinetics....

20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Kinetics

8.3 Great

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Theodor Svedberg

Theodor Svedberg was a prominent Swedish chemist active primarily in the early 20th century. He is recognized for pionee...

Physical Chemistry Nobel Early 1900S Colloids

8.3 Great

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Knut Ångström

Knut Johan Ångström was a Swedish physicist who lived from 1857 to 1910 and was the son of physicist Anders Jonas Ångstr...

Swedish Physical Chemistry Spectroscopy 19TH 20TH Century

6.4 Fair