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Kuhn, koon, Richard (1900-1967), a German chemist, won the 1938 Nobel Prize for chemistry. See more »

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.

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Baeyer, Adolf von

Baeyer, BEH yer, Adolf von (1835-1917), a German chemist, won the 1905 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

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Bergius, Friedrich

Bergius, BUR gee oos, Friedrich (1884-1949), a German chemist, shared the 1931 Nobel Prize for chemistry.

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Bodenstein, Max

Bodenstein, BOH duhn shtyn, Max (1871-1942), was a German physical chemist.

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Bosch, Carl

Bosch, bosh or bawsh, Carl (1874-1940), was a German chemist and industrialist.

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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.

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Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm

Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm (1811-1899), was a German chemist.

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Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann

Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903-1995), was a German scientist known for his investigations of sex hormones.

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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.

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Diels, Otto

Diels, deels, Otto (1876-1954), a German chemist, shared the 1950 Nobel Prize for chemistry with his former pupil Kurt Alder.

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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.

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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.

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Fischer, Emil

Fischer, Emil (1852-1919), a German chemist, won the 1902 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his wide research.

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Fischer, Ernst Otto

Fischer, Ernst Otto (1918-...), a German organic chemist, carried out research into synthetic compounds of organic substances and metals.

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Haber, Fritz

Haber, Fritz (1868-1934), was a German physical chemist.

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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.

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Huber, Robert

Huber, Robert (1937-...), a German biochemist, headed a team that analyzed the structure of an important giant molecule.

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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, Richard

Kuhn, koon, Richard (1900-1967), a German chemist, won the 1938 Nobel Prize for chemistry.

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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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