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Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn was a German chemist whose meticulous research fundamentally changed our understanding of matter. In 1938, he...

Germany Academic Nobel Prize Chemistry

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Glenn Seaborg

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Academic Nobel Prize Chemistry 20TH Century

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Emil Fischer

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Barry Sharpless

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Richard Smalley

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Paul Crutzen

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Elias James Corey

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Wilhelm Ostwald

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George Olah

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Roald Hoffmann

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Alfred Werner

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Organic Switzerland Academic Nobel Prize

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Theodore William Richards

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Vladimir Prelog

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