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Robert B. Woodward

Robert B. Woodward was an American organic chemist whose work helped establish how complex natural products could be con...

Organic Synthesis Harvard Nobel

9.72 Brilliant

2

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Through X-ray crystallography, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin revealed the three-dimensional structures of biologically import...

Structural Crystallography Biochemistry Nobel

9.62 Brilliant

3

K. Barry Sharpless

K. Barry Sharpless is an organic chemist associated with two distinct contributions: asymmetric catalytic oxidation and...

Organic Asymmetric Nobel Click Chemistry

9.55 Brilliant

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Jennifer A. Doudna

Jennifer A. Doudna is an American biochemist whose research on RNA and bacterial defense systems helped establish CRISPR...

Biochemistry Crispr Berkeley Nobel

9.48 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

9.38 Excellent

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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

9.35 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

9.28 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

9.22 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

9.18 Excellent

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Victor Grignard

Victor Grignard was a French chemist whose work fundamentally changed organic chemistry. He developed Grignard reagents,...

Synthesis Organic Chemistry Nobel Early 1900S

9.12 Excellent

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Susumu Kitagawa

Susumu Kitagawa is a prominent Japanese chemist specializing in materials science. He achieved international recognition...

Kyoto Materials Nobel Mof

9.02 Excellent

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Richard Robson

Richard Robson was a prominent chemist specializing in materials science based in Melbourne. His research significantly...

Materials Melbourne Nobel Mof

8.84 Great

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Moungi G. Bawendi

Moungi G. Bawendi is a chemist recognized for his pioneering work in nanochemistry. His development of colloidal quantum...

Mit Materials Nobel Nanochemistry

8.78 Great

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Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman is an Israeli chemist recognized globally for his pioneering work on quasicrystals. These materials posses...

Israel Materials Current Nobel

8.78 Great

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M. Stanley Whittingham

M. Stanley Whittingham is a chemist recognized for his groundbreaking work on rechargeable lithium batteries during the...

Lithium Ion Solid State Batteries Materials

8.72 Great

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Harry Kroto

Harry Kroto was a British chemist renowned for pioneering work in nanochemistry. His research focused on carbon allotrop...

British Carbon Nobel Nanochemistry

8.62 Great

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Martin Chalfie

Martin Chalfie is a chemist recognized globally for his pivotal role in understanding green fluorescent protein, or GFP....

Biochemistry Columbia Nobel Gfp

8.55 Great

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Aleksey Yekimov

Aleksey Yekimov is a chemist specializing in nanochemistry and materials science. He gained recognition for pioneering w...

Glass Materials Nobel Nanochemistry

8.32 Great

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Chad Mirkin

Chad Mirkin (born 1963) is an American chemist at Northwestern University who invented dip-pen nanolithography and spher...

American 21ST Century Materials Nanochemistry

7.91 Good

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Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865-1929) was an Austrian physical chemist who developed the ultramicroscope, enabling the vis...

Materials Nobel Early 1900S Colloid Chemistry

7.84 Good