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Born December 9, 1919 • Cleveland • Ohio
Died April 14, 2011 (aged 91) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1976)
Subjects Of Study borane • boron • chemical bonding
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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Irène Joliot-Curie
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Wilhelm Ostwald.
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Haber
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Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
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Ilya Prigogine
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
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