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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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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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Richard R. Ernst

Richard R. Ernst was a Swiss physical chemist recognized for his transformative advancements in nuclear magnetic resonan...

Swiss 20TH Century Analytical Nobel Laureate

8.8 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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Derek Barton

Sir Derek Barton was a British chemist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Odd Hassel. He received the awa...

20TH Century British Organic Chemistry Nobel Laureate

8.7 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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George Andrew Olah

George Andrew Olah (1927–2017) was a Hungarian-American chemist who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for generating...

20TH Century Nobel Laureate Carbocations Superacids

8.5 Great

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Gerhard Herzberg

Gerhard Herzberg was a German-Canadian physicist and chemist renowned for his extensive contributions to molecular spect...

20TH Century Nobel Laureate German Canadian Molecular Spectroscopy

8.5 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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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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Geoffrey Wilkinson

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson was a British chemist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Ernst Otto Fischer. He wa...

20TH Century British Nobel Laureate Organometallic Chemistry

8.4 Great

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Ernst Otto Fischer

Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Geoffrey Wilkinson. He was hon...

German 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Organometallic Chemistry

8.4 Great

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Michael Smith

Michael Smith was a British-born Canadian biochemist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He received the award fo...

20TH Century Biochemistry Nobel Laureate British Canadian

8.4 Great

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Henry Eyring

Henry Eyring (1901–1981) was an American physical chemist who developed transition state theory in 1935, providing a qua...

20TH Century Physical Chemistry Kinetics American Mexican

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