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Born July 23, 1906 • Sarajevo • Bosnia and Herzegovina
Died January 7, 1998 (aged 91) • Zürich • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1975)
Subjects Of Study chirality • stereochemistry • stereoisomerism
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner
Swiss chemist
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Sir John Cornforth
Australian-born British chemist
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Donald J. Cram
American chemist
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Adolf Windaus
German chemist
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn
French chemist
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Jacques Dubochet
Swiss biophysicist
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Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss scientist
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Richard R. Ernst
Swiss chemist
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Paul Karrer
Swiss chemist
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Leopold Ružička
Swiss chemist
Viktor Meyer
Viktor Meyer
German chemist
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Frederick Sanger, 1993
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist

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