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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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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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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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Paul Sabatier

Paul Sabatier was a prominent French chemist active in the early 20th century. His research centered on catalysis, speci...

Physical Chemistry Catalysis Nobel Early 1900S

8.9 Great

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Gerhard Ertl

Gerhard Ertl was a distinguished German physical chemist renowned for pioneering research into surface chemistry and cat...

German Physical Chemistry Catalysis 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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Thomas A. Steitz

Thomas A. Steitz is a chemist specializing in biochemistry and structural biology. His research significantly advanced o...

Biochemistry Structural Biology Nobel X Ray

8.7 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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John C. Polanyi

John C. Polanyi was a prominent Canadian chemist renowned for his groundbreaking work in reaction dynamics and spectrosc...

Canada Physical Chemistry Spectroscopy Nobel

8.4 Great

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George Porter

George Porter (1922-2019) was a British physical chemist renowned for his development of flash photolysis. This techniqu...

20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Kinetics

8.4 Great

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Leopold Ružička

Leopold Ružička (1908-1997) was a prominent chemist recognized for groundbreaking research in organic chemistry during t...

1930S Organic Chemistry Nobel Terpenes

8.4 Great

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Ronald G. W. Norrish

Ronald G. W. Norrish (1897-1976) was a British chemist renowned for his pioneering work in photochemistry and kinetics....

20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Kinetics

8.3 Great

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Theodor Svedberg

Theodor Svedberg was a prominent Swedish chemist active primarily in the early 20th century. He is recognized for pionee...

Physical Chemistry Nobel Early 1900S Colloids

8.3 Great

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Hans Fischer

Hans Fischer was a prominent 20th-century chemist specializing in organic chemistry during the 1930s. He gained recognit...

1930S Organic Chemistry Nobel Hemin

8.3 Great

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Walter Haworth

Walter Norman Haworth (1892-1940) was a British chemist whose research significantly advanced our understanding of carbo...

Vitamin C 1930S Organic Chemistry Nobel

8.3 Great

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Adolf Butenandt

Adolf Butenandt was a distinguished German chemist renowned for his pioneering research in steroid biochemistry during t...

Biochemistry 1930S Nobel Steroids

8.3 Great

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Friedrich Bergius

Friedrich Bergius (1884-1970) was a German chemist renowned for pioneering the Bergius process. This innovative techniqu...

High Pressure 1930S Coal Nobel

8.2 Great

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Paul Karrer

Paul Karrer was a prominent 20th-century chemist renowned for his research on carotenoids and flavonoids. His investigat...

1930S Organic Chemistry Vitamins Nobel

8.1 Great

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Richard Kuhn

Richard Kuhn (1900-1967) was an Austrian-German biochemist whose research focused on organic compounds important to livi...

1930S Organic Chemistry Vitamins Nobel

7.9 Good