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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

9.5 Brilliant

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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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Akira Suzuki

Akira Suzuki (1930–2023) was a prominent Japanese chemist recognized globally for his pioneering work in palladium-catal...

Organic Japanese Nobel Cross Coupling

9.1 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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John Pople

John Pople was a British theoretical chemist recognized for making computational quantum chemistry accessible to working...

20TH Century Nobel Laureate British American Computational Chemistry

8.9 Great

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Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-American physical chemist whose work fundamentally altered the study of thermodynamic syste...

20TH Century Physical Chemistry Nobel Laureate Norwegian American

8.9 Great

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Richard R. Ernst

Richard R. Ernst was a Swiss physical chemist recognized for his transformative advancements in nuclear magnetic resonan...

Swiss 20TH Century Analytical Nobel Laureate

8.8 Great

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Paul Flory

Paul Flory was an American physical chemist whose research established the foundational principles of modern polymer sci...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Polymer Chemistry

8.8 Great

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Jean-Marie Lehn

Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist widely recognized as one of the primary founders of the field of supramolecular chem...

French 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Supramolecular Chemistry

8.8 Great

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George Whitesides

George Whitesides (born 1939) is an American chemist at Harvard University renowned for pioneering contributions to soft...

American 20TH 21ST Century Materials Chemistry Self Assembly

8.8 Great

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Osamu Shimomura

Osamu Shimomura was a pioneering Japanese-American biochemist renowned for his work with jellyfish. He developed the gro...

Japanese Biochemistry Nobel Gfp

8.7 Great

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Ei-ichi Negishi

Ei-ichi Negishi is a renowned chemist specializing in organic chemistry, particularly known for his pioneering work on p...

Organic Japanese Nobel Cross Coupling

8.7 Great

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Derek Barton

Sir Derek Barton was a British chemist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Odd Hassel. He received the awa...

20TH Century British Organic Chemistry Nobel Laureate

8.7 Great

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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...

American 20TH Century Theoretical Nobel Laureate

8.7 Great

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Frank Sherwood Rowland

Frank Sherwood Rowland was an American atmospheric chemist whose research profoundly impacted global environmental polic...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Atmospheric Chemistry

8.7 Great

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Bruce Merrifield

Bruce Merrifield (1921–2006) was an American biochemist awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing solid-p...

American 20TH Century Biochemistry Nobel Laureate

8.6 Great

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Richard Heck

Richard Heck was an American chemist who received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Ei-ichi Negishi and Aki...

American Nobel Laureate 20TH 21ST Century Heck Reaction

8.5 Great

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Richard Schrock

Richard Schrock is an American chemist who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Yves Chauvin and Robert Grubbs....

American Nobel Laureate 20TH 21ST Century Olefin Metathesis

8.3 Great

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Hideki Shirakawa

Hideki Shirakawa (born 1936) is a Japanese chemist who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering that pol...

Japanese 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Conducting Polymers

8.1 Great

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William S. Knowles

William S. Knowles was an American chemist whose work revolutionized the field of synthetic organic chemistry. Working a...

American 20TH Century Nobel Laureate Asymmetric Hydrogenation

8.0 Great