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Lipscomb, William Nunn, Jr.

Lipscomb, William Nunn, Jr. (1919-...), an American inorganic chemist, made important studies on the structure and bonding mechanisms of boranes, complex compounds of boron and hydrogen. For this work, Lipscomb was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize for chemistry. More »

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Davy, Sir Humphry (1778-1829), an English chemist, rose to fame as inventor of the miner's safety lamp. The Davy lamp, perfected in 1815, greatly… More>>
MacDiarmid, muhk DIHR mihd, Alan Graham (1927-2007), a New Zealand-born American chemist, won a share of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry. He… More>>
Skou, Jens Christian (1918-...), a Danish physiologist, won half the 1997 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his pioneering work on an enzyme (a… More>>
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> Ruzicka, Leopold
> Karrer, Paul
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