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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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Jennifer A. Doudna

Jennifer A. Doudna is a biochemist and professor recognized for her pioneering work in CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technolo...

Biochemistry Crispr Berkeley Nobel

9.5 Brilliant

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Frances H. Arnold

Frances H. Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering directed evolution, a meth...

Evolution Biochemistry Nobel Enzymes

9.4 Excellent

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John B. Goodenough

John B. Goodenough, a Nobel laureate, pioneered research on lithium-ion batteries while at Oxford University, fundamenta...

Lithium Ion Solid State Batteries Materials

9.4 Excellent

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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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Omar M. Yaghi

Omar M. Yaghi is a Syrian-American chemist renowned for pioneering metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), porous materials wit...

Materials Berkeley Nobel Mof

9.3 Excellent

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Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier was a French chemist whose work fundamentally reshaped scientific understanding in the late 18th centu...

Classical 18TH Century French Philosophy

9.2 Excellent

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Carolyn R. Bertozzi

Carolyn R. Bertozzi was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her development of bioorthogonal chemistry, enabli...

Stanford Nobel Bioorthogonal Click Chemistry

9.2 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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Ada E. Yonath

Ada E. Yonath is an Israeli scientist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2009) recognized for her pioneering studies on th...

Crystallography Structural Biology Nobel Ribosome

9.1 Excellent

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Robert H. Grubbs

Robert H. Grubbs (1942-2019) was an American chemist who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing olefin...

Catalysis Nobel Caltech Organometallic

9.1 Excellent

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Akira Suzuki

Akira Suzuki (1930–2023) was a Japanese chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010 for developing palladi...

Organic Japanese Nobel Cross Coupling

9.1 Excellent

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Karl Ziegler

Karl Ziegler (1894-1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1953 for his pioneering work on po...

Germany 20TH Century Polymer Catalysis

9.0 Excellent

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Richard R. Schrock

Richard R. Schrock, a Nobel laureate, is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in olefin metathesis, a re...

Mit Catalysis Nobel Organometallic

8.9 Great

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Giulio Natta

Giulio Natta (1911-1979) was an Italian chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his work on synthe...

Italy 20TH Century Polymer Catalysis

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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Jean-Pierre Sauvage

Jean-Pierre Sauvage is a French chemist who shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on synthesi...

French Coordination Nobel Supramolecular

8.7 Great