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Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists in any field of the 20th...
Frank Westheimer
Frank Henry Westheimer (January 15, 1912 – April 14, 2007) was an American chemist. He was the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Harvard University, and the Westheimer medal is named in his honour.
Born in Baltimore, he graduated from...
Bruno H. Zimm
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Gilbert Stork
Gilbert Stork (born December 31, 1921) is a Belgian-born U.S. organic chemist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. The Stork enamine synthesis is named in his honor.
University of Florida, B.S. 1942;...
Henry Taube
Professor Henry Taube, Ph.D , M.Sc , B.Sc , FRSC (November 30, 1915 – November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist noted for having been awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer...
Richard B. Bernstein
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Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Hoffmann was born in Złoczów, Poland (now Ukraine) to a Jewish...
Herbert C. Brown
Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 – December 19, 2004) was a chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for his work with organoboranes.
Brown was born Herbert Brovarnik in London to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. He moved to the United States in...
Harden M. McConnell
Harden M. McConnell (born July 18, 1927 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American physical chemist at Stanford University.
Harden M. McConnell was born on July 18, 1927 in Richmond, Virginia. He completed his Bachelor of Science from George Washington...
Ronald Breslow
Ronald C. D. Breslow (born 14 March 1931, Rahway, New Jersey) is an American chemist. He is currently University Professor at Columbia University, where he is based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the Departments of Biological...
Elias James Corey
Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American organic chemist. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis. Regarded by many as...
F. Albert Cotton
Frank Albert Cotton (April 9, 1930 – February 20, 2007) was the W.T. Doherty-Welch Foundation Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M; University. He authored over 1700 scientific articles. Cotton was recognized for his research...
Richard Zare
Richard Neil Zare (born November 19, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American physical chemist. He is Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.
Zare earned his B.A. in 1961 and his Ph.D. in 1964 in physical and analytical chemistry at Harvard...
Donald J. Cram
Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919 – June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of...
Richard H. Holm
Richard Hadley Holm (born September 24, 1933 in Boston, Massachusetts), also known as R. H. Holm, is an American inorganic chemist.
Professor Holm received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959 under the direction of F....
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Koji Nakanishi
Koji Nakanishi, a bioorganic and natural products chemist, is Centennial Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and former Chairman of the Chemistry Department, Columbia University.
He was born in Hong Kong on May 11, 1925. He received his bachelor’s...
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M. Frederick Hawthorne
Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne (aka Fred Hawthorne) was born in 1928 in Fort Scott, Kansas and he received his elementary and secondary education in Kansas and Missouri. Prior to high school graduation, through examination he entered the Missouri...
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Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Hassan Zewail (Arabic: أحمد حسن زويل) (born February 26, 1946 in Damanhour, Egypt) is an Egyptian-American scientist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. He is the Linus Pauling Chair Professor...
John D. Roberts
John D. Roberts (born 8 June 1918) is an award-winning American chemist. He has made contributions to the integration of physical chemistry, spectroscopy and organic chemistry for the understanding of chemical reaction rates.
Roberts received both a...
K. Barry Sharpless
Karl Barry Sharpless (born 28 April 1941) is an American chemist known for his work on stereoselective reactions.
Sharpless was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from Friends' Central School in 1959. He continued his studies at Dartmouth College ...
Harry B. Gray
Harry Barkus Gray (b. 14 November 1935 in Woodburn, Kentucky, U.S.) is an Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. He won the Priestley Medal in 1991 and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2004.
Gray received his B...
Robert Parr
Robert Ghormley Parr (born September 22, 1921) is a theoretical chemist. He is a Chemistry Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Parr received an A. B. degree magna cum laude from Brown University in 1942, and then entered...
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Thomas C. Bruice
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Samuel J. Danishefsky
Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936) is an American chemist working as a professor at both Columbia University and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Samuel J. Danishefsky was born in 1936 in the United States. He completed...
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Robert G. Bergman
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JoAnne Stubbe
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Allen J. Bard
Allen J. Bard (December 18, 1933 - ) is the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair Professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Among his awards were the Priestley Medal in 2002 and the 2008 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. He is married to Fran Bard...
