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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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Robert H. Grubbs

Robert H. Grubbs was a pioneering American chemist renowned for his groundbreaking work in organometallic catalysis spec...

Catalysis Nobel Caltech Organometallic

9.1 Excellent

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Richard Henderson

Richard Henderson is a chemist renowned for his development and application of cryo-electron microscopy. This technique...

Biochemistry Microscopy Current Nobel

8.9 Great

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Joachim Frank

Joachim Frank was a German chemist whose research fundamentally advanced our understanding of biological molecules. He d...

Biochemistry Microscopy Current Nobel

8.8 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

8.8 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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Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar is a chemist renowned for his research on DNA repair pathways. His investigations into how cells fix damaged...

Turkey Biochemistry Dna Repair Current

8.6 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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Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt is a prominent biophysical chemist recognized for his groundbreaking work in computational modeling of bi...

Modeling Biochemistry Computational Current

8.5 Great

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Arieh Warshel

Arieh Warshel is a prominent physical chemist specializing in computational modeling of biomolecular systems. His work f...

Modeling Biochemistry Computational Current

8.4 Great