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Kuhn, koon, Richard (1900-1967), a German chemist, won the 1938 Nobel Prize for chemistry. See more »
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Alder, Kurt
Alder, Kurt (1902-1958), a German chemist, shared the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1950 with Otto Diels for developing a method of synthesizing organic compounds of the diene group.
See more »Baeyer, Adolf von
Baeyer, BEH yer, Adolf von (1835-1917), a German chemist, won the 1905 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
See more »Bergius, Friedrich
Bergius, BUR gee oos, Friedrich (1884-1949), a German chemist, shared the 1931 Nobel Prize for chemistry.
See more »Bodenstein, Max
Bodenstein, BOH duhn shtyn, Max (1871-1942), was a German physical chemist.
See more »Bosch, Carl
Bosch, bosh or bawsh, Carl (1874-1940), was a German chemist and industrialist.
See more »Buchner, Eduard
Buchner, BUK nuhr, Eduard (1860-1917), a German chemist, was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1907 for his researches into the biochemistry of fermentation.
See more »Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann
Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903-1995), was a German scientist known for his investigations of sex hormones.
See more »Deisenhofer, Johann
Deisenhofer, Johann (1943-...), a German biophysicist, with his colleagues Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel, painstakingly worked out the positions of over 10,000 atoms making up a complex molecule.
See more »Diels, Otto
Diels, deels, Otto (1876-1954), a German chemist, shared the 1950 Nobel Prize for chemistry with his former pupil Kurt Alder.
See more »Eigen, Manfred
Eigen, Manfred (1927-...), a German chemist, shared the 1967 Nobel Prize for chemistry with British scientists Ronald Norrish and George Porter for developing techniques to study rapid chemical reactions.
See more »Euler-Chelpin, Hans Karl August Simon von
Euler-Chelpin, OY luhr KEHL puhn, Hans Karl August Simon von (1873-1964), a German-born Swedish biochemist, carried out research into enzymes (substances that speed up chemical reactions in living organisms without themselves being changed) and the alcoholic fermentation of sugar.
See more »Fischer, Emil
Fischer, Emil (1852-1919), a German chemist, won the 1902 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his wide research.
See more »Fischer, Ernst Otto
Fischer, Ernst Otto (1918-...), a German organic chemist, carried out research into synthetic compounds of organic substances and metals.
See more »Hahn, Otto
Hahn, Otto (1879-1968), was a German chemist who discovered the process of nuclear fission (the splitting of the nucleus of an atom) in 1938.
See more »Huber, Robert
Huber, Robert (1937-...), a German biochemist, headed a team that analyzed the structure of an important giant molecule.
See more »Kekule von Stradonitz, Friedrich August
Kekule von Stradonitz, Friedrich August, KAY kuh lay fuhn SHTRAH doh nihts, FREE drihkh OW goost (1829-1896), was a German chemist and professor.
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Kuhn, koon, Richard (1900-1967), a German chemist, won the 1938 Nobel Prize for chemistry.
See more »Liebig, Justus von
Liebig, Justus von, LEE bihk, YOOS toos fuhn (1803-1873), helped found organic chemistry, the study of compounds that contain carbon.
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