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Born December 12, 1866 • Mulhouse • France
Died November 15, 1919 (aged 52) • Zürich • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study coordination compound • oxime

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Henry Taube
American chemist
Sir John Cornforth
Australian-born British chemist
Jacques Dubochet
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Kurt Wüthrich
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Richard R. Ernst
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Paul Karrer
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Leopold Ružička
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Viktor Meyer
Viktor Meyer
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
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Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
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Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
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Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
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Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
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Haber
Fritz Haber
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Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie
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Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
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