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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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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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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 Sabatier

Paul Sabatier (1854-1941) was a French chemist renowned for his work on hydrogenation reactions, particularly the Sabati...

Physical Chemistry Catalysis Nobel Early 1900S

8.9 Great

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Gerhard Ertl

Gerhard Ertl was a German physical chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2007 for his studies of chemical...

German Physical Chemistry Catalysis 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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Thomas A. Steitz

Thomas A. Steitz was an American biochemist renowned for his pioneering work elucidating the structure and function of r...

Biochemistry Structural Biology Nobel X Ray

8.7 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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John C. Polanyi

John C. Polanyi (1929-2016) was a Canadian chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his research on...

Canada Physical Chemistry Spectroscopy Nobel

8.4 Great

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George Porter

George Porter (1922-2019) was a British physical chemist who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering...

20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Kinetics

8.4 Great

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Leopold Ružička

Leopold Ružička (1908-1997) was an Austrian-Swiss biochemist who pioneered steroid chemistry and earned the 1977 Nobel P...

1930S Organic Chemistry Nobel Terpenes

8.4 Great

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Ronald G. W. Norrish

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897-1976) was a British physical chemist who made significant contributions to photoche...

20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Kinetics

8.3 Great

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Theodor Svedberg

Theodor Svedberg (1875–1964) was a Swedish physical chemist who developed ultracentrifugation techniques and earned the...

Physical Chemistry Nobel Early 1900S Colloids

8.3 Great

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Hans Fischer

Hans Fischer (1886-1982) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952 for his research on vita...

1930S Organic Chemistry Nobel Hemin

8.3 Great

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Walter Haworth

Walter Norman Haworth (1892-1940) was a British biochemist renowned for his pioneering work determining the structures o...

Vitamin C 1930S Organic Chemistry Nobel

8.3 Great

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Adolf Butenandt

Adolf Butenandt was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his work on pheromones and steroid...

Biochemistry 1930S Nobel Steroids

8.3 Great

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Friedrich Bergius

Friedrich Bergius (1884-1970) was a German industrial chemist who developed the Bergius process for coal liquefaction us...

High Pressure 1930S Coal Nobel

8.2 Great

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Paul Karrer

Paul Karrer (1889-1971) was a Swiss chemist who specialized in carotenoids and flavonoids, earning the 1937 Nobel Prize...

1930S Organic Chemistry Vitamins Nobel

8.1 Great

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Richard Kuhn

Richard Kuhn (1900-1967) was a German-Swiss biochemist who received the 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on vi...

1930S Organic Chemistry Vitamins Nobel

7.9 Good