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Born August 27, 1874 • Cologne • Germany
Died April 26, 1940 (aged 65) • Heidelberg • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1931)
Inventions Haber-Bosch process
Subjects Of Study chemical reaction • pressure

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Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
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Fritz Haber
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Manfred Eigen
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Ertl, Gerhard
Gerhard Ertl
German chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
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Herbert Charles Brown
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Ahmed Zewail, wearing a suit and purple tie, speaks at a podium against a dark background at the UNESCO and L'Oreal Awards for Women and Science.
Ahmed H. Zewail
American-Egyptian chemist
Warshel, Arieh
Arieh Warshel
American-Israeli chemist
Levitt, Michael
Michael Levitt
American-British-Israeli chemist
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
American-Austrian chemist
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Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
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Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
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Herschbach, Dudley R.
Dudley R. Herschbach
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Yuan T. Lee
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John C. Polanyi
Canadian chemist and educator
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
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Karl Ziegler
German chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
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Joachim Frank
German-American biochemist

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