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Robert B. Woodward

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Organic Synthesis Harvard Nobel

9.7 Brilliant

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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

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Structural Crystallography Biochemistry Nobel

9.6 Brilliant

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K. Barry Sharpless

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Organic Asymmetric Nobel Click Chemistry

9.6 Brilliant

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Jennifer A. Doudna

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Biochemistry Crispr Berkeley Nobel

9.5 Brilliant

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Robert H. Grubbs

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Catalysis Nobel Caltech Organometallic

9.1 Excellent

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Richard R. Schrock

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Mit Catalysis Nobel Organometallic

8.9 Great

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Irène Joliot-Curie

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Radioactivity France 20TH Century Nobel

8.9 Great

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Giulio Natta

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Italy 20TH Century Polymer Catalysis

8.9 Great

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Paul Sabatier

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Physical Chemistry Catalysis Nobel Early 1900S

8.9 Great

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Gerhard Ertl

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German Physical Chemistry Catalysis Nobel

8.8 Great

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Georg Wittig

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Organic 20TH Century Synthesis Nobel

8.8 Great

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Frédéric Joliot

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Radioactivity France 20TH Century Nobel

8.7 Great

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Christian B. Anfinsen

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20TH Century Folding Biochemistry Proteins

8.7 Great

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Herbert C. Brown

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Organic 20TH Century Synthesis Nobel

8.6 Great

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Yves Chauvin

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French Catalysis Nobel Organometallic

8.5 Great

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John W. Cornforth

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Organic 20TH Century Nobel Stereochemistry

8.4 Great

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George Porter

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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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William H. Stein

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20TH Century Biochemistry Proteins Nobel

8.2 Great

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Stanford Moore

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20TH Century Biochemistry Proteins Nobel

8.2 Great