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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

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American 20TH Century Thermodynamics Covalent Bonding

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Glenn T. Seaborg

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American 20TH Century Nuclear Chemistry Nobel Laureate

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Walter Kohn

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American 20TH Century Computational Nobel Laureate

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John Pople

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20TH Century Nobel Laureate British American Computational Chemistry

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Lars Onsager

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Paul Flory

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American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Polymer Chemistry

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Jean-Marie Lehn

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French 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Supramolecular Chemistry

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Frank Sherwood Rowland

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American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Atmospheric Chemistry

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Bruce Merrifield

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American 20TH Century Biochemistry Nobel Laureate

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Charles Pedersen

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American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Supramolecular

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Donald Cram

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American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Supramolecular Chemistry

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Alan Heeger

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American 20TH Century Materials Nobel Laureate

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Edwin McMillan

Edwin McMillan (1907–1991) was an American physicist and chemist who made fundamental contributions to nuclear science....

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Transuranium Elements

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William S. Knowles

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American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Asymmetric Hydrogenation

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William Lipscomb

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American 20TH Century Structural Nobel Laureate

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Vincent du Vigneaud

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American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Sulfur Amino Acids

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James B. Sumner

James B. Sumner (1887–1955) was an American chemist at Cornell University who, in 1926, crystallized the enzyme urease f...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Enzyme Crystallization

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John Howard Northrop

John Howard Northrop (1891–1987) was an American biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. He isolat...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Enzyme Purification

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Wendell Meredith Stanley

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American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Virus Crystallization

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