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Robert B. Woodward

Robert B. Woodward (1921-1990) was an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in organic synthesis, particular...

Organic Synthesis Harvard Nobel

9.7 Brilliant

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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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K. Barry Sharpless

K. Barry Sharpless is an American chemist who developed chiral catalytic oxidation reactions and was awarded the Nobel P...

Organic Asymmetric Nobel Click Chemistry

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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Petrus Debye

Petrus Debye (1864-1936) was a Dutch physicist and chemist who made significant contributions to physical chemistry, not...

1930S Physical Chemistry Nobel X Ray

9.0 Excellent

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Richard Henderson

Richard Henderson pioneered cryo-electron microscopy techniques to determine the three-dimensional structures of biologi...

Biochemistry Microscopy Current Nobel

8.9 Great

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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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Joachim Frank

Joachim Frank is a German physicist and molecular biologist who pioneered cryo-electron microscopy, developing technique...

Biochemistry Microscopy Current Nobel

8.8 Great

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Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman is an Israeli scientist who received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals,...

Israel Materials Current 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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Aziz Sancar

Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2015) recognized for his groundbreaking work elucidating...

Turkey Biochemistry Dna Repair Current

8.6 Great

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Martin Karplus

Martin Karplus shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work developing multiscale models to simulate...

Modeling Theoretical Computational Current

8.6 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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Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt is a South African-born American biophysical chemist and computer scientist who pioneered the use of mole...

Modeling Biochemistry Computational Current

8.5 Great

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Arieh Warshel

Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American physical chemist known for developing computational methods to simulate biomolecula...

Modeling Biochemistry Computational Current

8.4 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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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