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Robert Robinson (1886–1975) was a British organic chemist who won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for investigations of plant alkaloids, including elucidating the structures of morphine and strychnine.
Alan Battersby (1925–2018) was a British organic chemist who served as the Sir Samuel Hall Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He pioneered the use of isotopic labeling, particularly with carbon-13 and NMR spectroscopy, to trace the biosynthetic pathways of porphyrins, alk...
Richard Willstätter (1872–1942) was a German chemist who received the 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations of plant pigments. He determined the molecular structure of chlorophyll, showing that it contains a central magnesium atom within a porphyrin ring, and distinguished between chl...
Roger Adams (1889–1971) was an American organic chemist who spent most of his career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is best known for developing Adams' catalyst, a platinum oxide (PtO₂) reagent widely used for catalytic hydrogenation of organic compounds. Adams also contribute...
