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Born May 17, 1897 • Oslo • Norway
Died May 11, 1981 (aged 83) • Oslo • Norway
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1969)
Subjects Of Study conformation • conformational analysis • cyclohexane • organohalogen compound
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist
Paul J. Flory
American chemist
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, detail of an oil painting by Helene Büchmann.
Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
Dutch chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Ahmed H. Zewail
Ahmed H. Zewail
American-Egyptian chemist
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
American chemist
Peter Debye
American physical chemist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
William Francis Giauque
American chemist
Lars Onsager
American chemist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist