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Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist

Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist

Roald Hoffmann
American chemist

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
British chemist

Manfred Eigen
German physicist

Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist

Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist

Fukui Kenichi
Japanese chemist

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
British chemist

Dudley R. Herschbach
American chemist and educator

Yuan T. Lee
Taiwanese-American chemist

John C. Polanyi
Canadian chemist and educator
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