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Born September 13, 1886 • near Chesterfield • England
Died February 8, 1975 (aged 88) • England
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1947) • Copley Medal (1942)
Subjects Of Study plant • alkaloid • chemical synthesis • organic compound • penicillin

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Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Robert Burns Woodward, 1966
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
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Richard Willstätter
German chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
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Donald J. Cram
American chemist
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Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Norman Haworth, c. 1920.
Sir Norman Haworth
British chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
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Sir Harold W. Kroto
British chemist
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Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
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Sir John Cornforth
Australian-born British chemist
Baron Alexander Robertus Todd.
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist
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Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
British chemist
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Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
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Peter Dennis Mitchell
British chemist
Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist

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