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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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Paul J. Crutzen

Paul J. Crutzen (1933-2022) was a Dutch atmospheric chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his wo...

Atmospheric Environment Netherlands Ozone

9.1 Excellent

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Richard Henderson

Richard Henderson pioneered cryo-electron microscopy techniques to determine the three-dimensional structures of biologi...

Biochemistry Microscopy Current Nobel

8.9 Great

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Joachim Frank

Joachim Frank is a German physicist and molecular biologist who pioneered cryo-electron microscopy, developing technique...

Biochemistry Microscopy Current Nobel

8.8 Great

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Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman is an Israeli scientist who received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals,...

Israel Materials Current 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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Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2015) recognized for his groundbreaking work elucidating...

Turkey Biochemistry Dna Repair Current

8.6 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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Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt is a South African-born American biophysical chemist and computer scientist who pioneered the use of mole...

Modeling Biochemistry Computational Current

8.5 Great

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Arieh Warshel

Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American physical chemist known for developing computational methods to simulate biomolecula...

Modeling Biochemistry Computational Current

8.4 Great