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Born April 1, 1865 • Vienna • Austria
Died September 23, 1929 (aged 64) • Göttingen • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
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Theodor H.E. Svedberg
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Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
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Walter Kohn
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Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
American-Austrian chemist
Fritz Pregl
Austrian chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
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Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
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Frederick Sanger
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Fritz Haber
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Irving Langmuir
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie
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Walther Nernst
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Harold C. Urey
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Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner
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Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
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Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
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Karl Ziegler
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