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Wilhelm Ostwald.
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Langmuir, Irving
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American chemist
Walther Nernst
Walther Nernst
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Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot, engraving by Philippe-Auguste Cattelain.
Pierre-Eugène-Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist
Svante Arrhenius, 1918.
Svante Arrhenius
Swedish chemist
Paul J. Flory
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Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, detail of an oil painting by Helene Büchmann.
Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff
Dutch chemist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Telkes, Mária
Mária Telkes
American physical chemist and biophysicist
Ahmed H. Zewail
Ahmed H. Zewail
American-Egyptian chemist
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin
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Werner Kuhn
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Sir William Maddock Bayliss
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Abelson, Philip Hauge
Philip Hauge Abelson
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Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
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Peter Debye
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William D. Coolidge
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Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
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