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Born September 13, 1886 • near Chesterfield • England
Died February 8, 1975 (aged 88) • England
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1947) • Copley Medal (1942)
Subjects Of Study plant • alkaloid • chemical synthesis • organic compound • penicillin

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R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Richard Willstätter
German chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Donald J. Cram
American chemist
Paul Sabatier
French chemist
Norman Haworth, c. 1920.
Sir Norman Haworth
British chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
Sir Harold W. Kroto
British chemist
Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Sir John Cornforth
Australian-born British chemist
Baron Alexander Robertus Todd.
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd
British biochemist
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
British chemist
Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
British chemist
Peter Dennis Mitchell
British chemist
Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist

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