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Key People
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Roald Hoffmann
American chemist
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
British chemist
Manfred Eigen
German physicist
Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
Fukui Kenichi
Japanese chemist
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
British chemist
Dudley R. Herschbach
American chemist and educator
Yuan T. Lee
Taiwanese-American chemist
John C. Polanyi
Canadian chemist and educator