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Also Known As synthesis reaction

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Percy Julian
Percy Julian
American chemist
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Bruce Merrifield
American biochemist and educator
Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist
Robert Burns Woodward, 1966
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Hermann Kolbe.
Hermann Kolbe
German chemist
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astronomer
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Peter Armbruster
German physicist
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Har Gobind Khorana
American biochemist
Kurt Alder.
Kurt Alder
German chemist
Norman Haworth, c. 1920.
Sir Norman Haworth
British chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
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Charles J. Pedersen
American chemist
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Otto Paul Hermann Diels
German chemist
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Donald J. Cram
American chemist
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Paul Sabatier
French chemist
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Franz Sondheimer
German-born scientist
Sir Robert Robinson
Sir Robert Robinson
British chemist
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn
French chemist
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Andreas Libavius
German chemist and physician

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