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Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist
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Paul J. Flory
American chemist
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, detail of an oil painting by Helene Büchmann.
Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
Dutch chemist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Telkes, Mária
Mária Telkes
American physical chemist and biophysicist
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
Rosalind Franklin poses for a black-and-white portrait, wearing a light top and a beaded necklace, with her hand resting under her chin.
Rosalind Franklin
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Werner Kuhn
Swiss chemist
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Sir William Maddock Bayliss
British physiologist
Abelson, Philip Hauge
Philip Hauge Abelson
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Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist
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William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
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Peter Debye
American physical chemist
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
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William D. Coolidge
American engineer and chemist

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