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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

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Gilbert N. Lewis

Gilbert N. Lewis was an American chemist prominent in the 20th century. He significantly advanced our understanding of c...

American 20TH Century Thermodynamics Covalent Bonding

9.4 Excellent

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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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Sir J. Fraser Stoddart

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Northwestern Nobel Supramolecular Molecular Machines

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Richard F. Heck

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Organic American Nobel Cross Coupling

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John Jumper

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Paul Flory

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American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Polymer Chemistry

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George Whitesides

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American 20TH 21ST Century Materials Chemistry Self Assembly

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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...

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Richard Heck

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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

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Richard Schrock

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American Nobel Laureate 20TH 21ST Century Olefin Metathesis

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Harry Gray

Harry Gray (born 1935) is an American inorganic chemist at Caltech who pioneered bioinorganic chemistry and quantitative...

American Electron Transfer Inorganic Chemistry 20TH 21ST Century

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Barry Trost

Barry Trost (born 1941) is an American organic chemist at Stanford University who coined the atom economy principle in g...

American 20TH 21ST Century Atom Economy Organic Synthesis

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David Evans

David A. Evans (born 1941) is an American organic chemist whose research has influenced the field of asymmetric synthesi...

American 20TH 21ST Century Asymmetric Synthesis Evans Auxiliaries

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Samuel Danishefsky

Samuel Danishefsky (born 1936) is an American organic chemist at Columbia University and Memorial Sloan Kettering known...

American 20TH 21ST Century Total Synthesis Natural Products

8.0 Great

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Jacqueline Barton

Jacqueline K. Barton (born 1952) is an American chemist and the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistr...

American Dna 20TH 21ST Century Bioinorganic Chemistry

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Ronald Breslow

Ronald Breslow was a prominent American chemist who served as a professor at Columbia University, where he made signific...

American 20TH 21ST Century Biomimetic Chemistry Thiamine

7.8 Good

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Larry Overman

Larry E. Overman (born 1943) is an American organic chemist and professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is...

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7.7 Good