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Also Known As Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Butlerov
Born September 6, 1828 • Chistopol • Russia
Died August 17, 1886 (aged 57) • Russia
Subjects Of Study chemical bonding • chemical synthesis • isobutane • isomerism • tautomerism

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Linus Pauling
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Wöhler, detail of a lithograph by R. Hoffmann, 1856
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Donald J. Cram
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R.B. Woodward, 1966.
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Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
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Hermann Kolbe.
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Peter Armbruster
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Walter Kohn
American physicist
Kurt Alder.
Kurt Alder
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Percy Julian
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Norman Haworth, c. 1920.
Sir Norman Haworth
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William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
American chemist
Baeyer, 1905
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist
Charles J. Pedersen
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Robert Sanderson Mulliken
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Bruce Merrifield
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