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Born December 9, 1919 • Cleveland • Ohio
Died April 14, 2011 (aged 91) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1976)
Subjects Of Study borane • boron • chemical bonding
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Paul J. Flory
American chemist
Herbert Charles Brown
American chemist
Ahmed H. Zewail
Ahmed H. Zewail
American-Egyptian chemist
Walter Kohn
American physicist
Mulliken, 1966
Robert Sanderson Mulliken
American chemist and physicist
Peter Debye
American physical chemist
William Francis Giauque
American chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Haber
Fritz Haber
German chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
German chemist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, detail of an oil painting by Helene Büchmann.
Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
Dutch chemist
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
Suzuki Akira
Suzuki Akira
Japanese chemist
Odd Hassel
Norwegian chemist