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Ralph F. Hirschmann
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Ralph F. Hirschmann: Facts & Related Content

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Born May 6, 1922 • Fürth • Germany
Died June 20, 2009 (aged 87) • Pennsylvania
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (2000)
Subjects Of Study organic chemistry • peptide • ribonuclease
Julius Stieglitz
American chemist
Svetlana Mojsov
Svetlana Mojsov
Yugoslavian-born Macedonian American chemist
John F. Hartwig
John F. Hartwig
American chemist
Carl Shipp Marvel
American chemist
George P. Smith
American biochemist
Stephen L. Buchwald
Stephen L. Buchwald
American chemist
Richard F. Heck, 2010.
Richard F. Heck
American chemist
George A. Olah, 2009.
George A. Olah
Hungarian American chemist
Donald J. Cram
American chemist
Calvin, Melvin
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist
Thomas Robert Cech
American scientist
Henry Taube
American chemist
John B. Goodenough
American physicist
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Charles Gerhardt, engraving
Charles Gerhardt
French chemist
Auguste Laurent
French chemist
Emil Fischer.
Emil Fischer
German chemist
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Kekule
August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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