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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

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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

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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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Robert H. Grubbs

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

Catalysis Nobel Caltech Organometallic

9.10 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

8.85 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

8.83 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

8.82 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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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

8.60 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

8.58 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

8.55 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

8.53 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

8.44 Great