- List of chemists
This is a list of famous chemists: (alphabetical order)
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Emil Abderhalden , (1877–1950), Swiss chemist
*Richard Abegg , (1869–1910), German chemist
*Frederick Abel , (1827–1902), English chemist
*Peter Agre , (1949-), American chemist and doctor, 2003Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Arthur Aikin , (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist
*Adrien Albert , (1907–1989), Australian Medicinal Chemist
*Johan August Arfwedson , (1792–1841), Swedish chemist
*Anton Eduard van Arkel , (1893–1976), Dutch chemist
*Svante Arrhenius , (1859–1927), Swedish chemist, one of the founders ofphysical chemistry
*Amedeo Avogadro ,(1776–1856), Italian chemist and physicistB
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Leo Baekeland , (1863–1944), Belgian-American chemist
*Adolf von Baeyer , (1835–1917), German chemist, 1905Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom , (1854–1907), Dutch chemist
*Robert Barefoot , (born 1944) Canadian/American chemist, author, lecturer
*Neil Bartlett , (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
*Sir Derek Barton , (1918–1998), 1969Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Antoine Baum , (1728–1804), French chemist
*Karl Bayer , (1847–1904), Austrian chemist
*Irina Beletskaya , (born 1933), Russian organometallic chemist
*Marcellin Berthelot , (1827-1907), French chemist
*Claude Louis Berthollet , (1748–1822), French chemist
*Jöns Jakob Berzelius , (1779–1848), Swedish chemist
*Johannes Martin Bijvoet , (1892–1980), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
*Joseph Black , (1728–1799), chemist
*Dale L. Boger , (born 1953), American organic and medicinal chemist
*Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran , (1838–1912), French chemist
*Jan Boldingh , (1915–2003), Dutch chemist
*Alexander Borodin , (1833–1887), Russian chemist & composer
*Hans-Joachim Born , German radiochemist
*Carl Bosch , (1872–1940), German chemist
*Robert Boyle , (1627–1691), Irish pioneer of modern chemistry
*Henri Braconnot , (1780–1855), French chemist and pharmacist
*Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted , (1879–1947), Danish chemist
*Eduard Buchner , (1860–1917), 1907Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist
*Aleksandr Butlerov , (1828–1886), Russian chemist
*Francesco Bellini (1947– ), research scientist, doctor in organic chemistryC
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Melvin Calvin , (1911–1997), American chemist, winner of 1961Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Georg Ludwig Carius , (1829–1875), German chemist
*Heinrich Caro , (1834–1910), German chemist
*Wallace Carothers , (1896–1937), American chemist
*Henry Cavendish , (1731–1810), British scientist
*Yves Chauvin , (born 1930), 2005Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Ernst Cohen , (1869–1944), Dutch chemist (murdered in Auschwitz)
*Elias James Corey , (born 1928), American organic chemist, winner of the 1990Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*John Cornforth , (born 1917), Australian winner of the 1975Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Donald J. Cram , (1919 – 2001), American chemist, winner of the 1987Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Paul J. Crutzen, (1933), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1995Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Marie Curie , (1867–1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist, 1903Nobel Prize in Physics
*Pierre Curie , (1859–1906), 1903Nobel Prize in Physics
*Robert Curl , (born 1933), winner of 1996Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Theodor Curtius , (1857–1928), German chemistD
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John Dalton , (1766–1844), physicist and pioneer of theatomic theory
*Carl Peter Henrik Dam , (1895–1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*Samuel J. Danishefsky , (born 1936), American organic chemist, natural productTotal synthesis
*Raymond Davis, Jr. , (1914–2006), American physical chemist
*Humphry Davy , (1778–1829)
*Peter Debye , (1884–1966), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1936Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Sir James Dewar , (1842–1923)
*François Diederich , (born 1952), Luxembourg chemist
*Otto Diels , (1876–1954), German chemist, winner of the 1950Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* Edward Doisy, (1893– 1986), American biochemist, winner of the 1943Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*Davorin Dolar , (1921–2005), chemist from Univ. of Ljubljana
*Emmanuel Dongala , Congolese chemist and novelist
*David Adriaan van Dorp , (1915–1995), Dutch chemist
*Cornelius Drebbel , (1572–1633), Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist
*Jean Baptiste Dumas , (1800–1884), French chemistE
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Paul Ehrlich , (1854–1915), German chemist, winner of the 1908Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*Arthur Eichengrün , (1867–1949)
*Manfred Eigen , (born 1927), German chemist, winner of the 1967Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Fausto Elhuyar , (1755–1833), Spanish chemist, discoverer oftungsten
*Emil Erlenmeyer, (1825–1909), German chemist
*Richard R. Ernst , (born 1933), 1991Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Hans von Euler-Chelpin , (1873–1964), Swedish chemist, winner of the 1929Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Henry Eyring , (1901–1981), Mexican-American theoretical chemist
*Gerhard Ertl , (10 October) Nobel prize for chemistry 2007F
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Kazimierz Fajans , (1887–1975), Polish-American physical chemist
*Michael Faraday (1791–1867), scientist
*Hermann von Fehling , (1812–1885), German chemist
*Emil Fischer (1852–1919), 1902Nobel Prize in Chemistry , not to be confused with:
*Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947)
*Ernst Gottfried Fischer (1754–1831), German chemist
*Ernst Otto Fischer (1918–2007), German chemist, 1973Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
*Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German organic chemist, 1930Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
*Nicolas Flamel , French alchemist
*Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British Chemist and Crystallographer
*Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist
*Wilhelm Fresenius (1913–2004), German chemist, great-grandson of Carl
*Alexander Naumovich Frumkin (1895–1976), electrochemist and chemistG
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Johan Gadolin , (1760–1852), Finnish chemist
*Merrill Garnett , (born 1930), Americanbiochemist
*Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , (1778–1850), French chemist and physicist
*Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839 – 1903), American engineer, chemist and physicist
*Johann Rudolf Glauber , (1604–1670), Dutch-German alchemist and chemist
*Victor Goldschmidt , (1888–1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry
*Ljubo Golic , (born 1932), chemist.
*David van Goorle also called Gorlaeus, (1591–1612), Dutch chemist
*Thomas Graham, (1805–1869),
*Francois Auguste Victor Grignard, (1871–1935), 1912Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
*Robert H. Grubbs , (born 1942), 2005Nobel Prize in Chemistry H
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Fritz Haber , (1868–1934) 1918Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Otto Hahn , (1879–1968) 1944Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*John Scott Haldane ,(1860–1936), British biochemist
*Charles Martin Hall , (1863–1914), American chemist
*Arthur Harden , (1865–1940), English biochemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929
*Odd Hassel , (1897–1981), Norwegian chemist 1969Nobel Prize in chemistry
*Charles Hatchett , (1765–1847), English chemist who discoveredniobium
*Robert Havemann , (1910–1982), chemist.
*Clayton Heathcock , American Chemist
*Dudley R. Herschbach , (1932-), American chemist, 1986Nobel Prize in chemistry
*Charles Herty , American Chemist
*Gerhard Herzberg , (1904–1999), German-Canadian chemist, 1971Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Germain Henri Hess , (1802–1850), Swiss-born Russian chemist
*György von Hevesy ,George de Hevesy , (1885–1966), Hungarian born chemist, recipient of theNobel Prize in chemistry 1943
*Jaroslav Heyrovský , (1890–1967), Czech chemist, 1959Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Cyril Norman Hinshelwood , (1897–1967), English physical chemist and winner of the sharedNobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956
*Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff , (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist, 1901Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Friedrich Hoffmann , (1660–1742), physician and chemist
*Roald Hoffmann , (born 1937), Polish-born American chemist, 1981Nobel Prize in chemistry
*Albert Hofmann , (1906-2008), Swiss chemist, synthesizedLysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
*August Wilhelm von Hofmann , (1818–1892) German organic chemist
*Heinrich Hubert Maria Josef Houben , (1875–1940) German organic chemist
*Coenraad Johannes van Houten , (1801–1887), Dutch chemist and chocolate maker, invented cocoa powder
*Amir H. Hoveyda , US-based chemist working in asymmetric catalysisI
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Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893–1970), English chemistJ
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Paul Janssen (1926–2003), Belgian founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica.
*Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), French chemist and physicist
*Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and physicistK
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Paul Karrer , (1889–1971), 1937Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783–1857)
*August Kekulé, (1829–1896), German organic chemist
*Petrus Jacobus Kipp , (1808–1864), Dutch chemist, inventor of Kipp-generator
*Martin Heinrich Klaproth , (1743–1817), German chemist
*Trevor Kletz (born 1922) British promoter of industrial safety
*Aaron Klug , (born in 1926), winner of the 1982Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Emil Knoevenagel , (1865–1921)
*Walter Kohn , (born 1923), 1998Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
*Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe , (1818–1884)
*Izaak Kolthoff , (1894–1993), Dutch-American chemist, the "Father of Analytical Chemistry"
*Else Kooi , (1932–2001), Dutch chemist, developed isolation for MOS-transistors
*Aleksandra Kornhauser , (born 1926), chemist.
*Harold Kroto , (born 1939), English chemist, 1996Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), 1938Nobel Prize in Chemistry .L
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Irving Langmuir , (1881–1957), chemist, physicist
*Paul Lauterbur , (1929–2007), American chemist
*Antoine Lavoisier , (1743–1794), French pioneer chemist
*Nicolas Leblanc , (1742–1806), French chemist and surgeon
*Henri Louis Le Chatelier , (1850–1936)
*Eun Lee , (born 1946), Korean organic chemist
*Yuan T. Lee , (born 1936), winner of 1986Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Jean-Marie Lehn , (born 1939), French chemist, shared 1987Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Luis Federico Leloir , (1906–1987), Argentine biochemist and winner of the 1970Nobel Prize
*Janez Levec , (born 1943), chemist.
*Primo Levi , (1919–1987), resistance fighter,chemist and novelist
*Gilbert Newton Lewis , (1875–1946), American chemist and first Dean of theBerkeley College of Chemistry
*Andreas Libavius , (1555–1616), German doctor and chemist
*Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist, winner of 1960Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Justus von Liebig , (1803–1873), German inventor
*Teunis van der Linden , (1884–1965), Dutch chemist, developed insecticidelindane
*Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister , (1827–1912), English surgeon
*H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins , British Chemist
*Martin Lowry , (1874–1936), British chemist
*Ignacy Łukasiewicz , (1802–1882), Polish pharmacistM
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Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry , (1904–1993), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
*Pierre Macquer , (1718–1784), influential French chemist
*Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov , (1838–1904)
*Alan G. Marshall , American chemist, co-inventor of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry
*Martinus van Marum, (1750–1837), Dutch chemist
*Lise Meitner , (1878–1968), German physicist
*Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, (1834–1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements
*John Mercer, (1791–1866), chemist and industrialist
*Robert Bruce Merrifield , (1921–2006), solid-phase chemist
*Lothar Meyer , (1830–1895), not to be confused with :
*Viktor Meyer , (1848–1897)
*August Michaelis (1847&ndash1916), German chemist
*Stanley Miller (born 1930), American chemist, best known for theMiller-Urey experiment
*Luis E. Miramontes (1925–2004), co-inventor of thecombined oral contraceptive pill
*William A. Mitchell , (1911–2004), key inventor behindPop Rocks , Tang, andKool Whip
*Alexander Mitscherlic , (1836–1918), chemist
*Henri Moissan , (1852–1907), French chemist and the winner of the 1906Nobel Prize
*Jacques Monod , (1910–1976), biochemist, winner ofNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
*Peter Moore (born 1939), American biochemist, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University
*Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915), English physicist, discoveredMoseley's law
*Gerardus Johannes Mulder , (1802–1880), Dutch organic chemist
*Robert S. Mulliken , (1896–1986), American physicist, chemistN
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Robert Nalbandyan , (1937–2002), Armenian protein chemist
*Giulio Natta , (1903–1979), Italian chemist, 1963Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Costin Nenitescu , (1902–1970), Romanian chemist
*Antonio Neri , (1500s–1614), Florentine chemist and glassmaker
*Walther Nernst , (1864–1941), German chemist
*John Alexander Reina Newlands , (1837–1898), English analytical chemist
*William Nicholson, (1753–1815), English chemist
*Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou , American chemist
*Alfred Nobel , (1833-1896), Swedish chemist
*Ralph Nuzzo , American chemist and materials scientistO
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George Andrew Olah , (born 1927), 1994Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Lars Onsager , (1903–1976), physical chemist, 1968Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Luitzen Johannes Oosterhoff , (1907–1974), Dutch chemist
*Wilhelm Ostwald , (1853–1932), 1909Nobel Prize in Chemistry P
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Paracelsus , (1493–1541), alchemist
*Rudolph Pariser , (born 1923), theoretical and organic chemist
*Robert G. Parr , (born 1921), theoretical chemist
*Louis Pasteur , (1822–1895), French biochemist
*Linus Pauling , (1901–1994),Nobel Prize s in chemistry and peace
*Eugène-Melchior Péligot , (1811-1890) French chemist who isolated the uranium metal
*William Henry Perkin, (1838–1907) British organic chemist and inventor ofmauveine (dye)
*William Henry Perkin, Jr. , (1860–1929) British organic chemist, son of Sir William Henry Perkin
*David Andrew Phoenix , (born 1966), Biochemist
*Roy J. Plunkett , (1910–1994), discoverer of Teflon
*John Charles Polanyi , (born 1929), Canadian chemist,Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986.
*John A. Pople, (1925–2004), theoretical chemist, 1998Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Fritz Pregl , (1869–1930), chemist,Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923.*
Vladimir Prelog , (1906–1998), 1975Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Joseph Priestley , (1733–1804)
*Ilya Prigogine , (1917–2003), 1977Nobel Prize in Chemistry Q
*Ğilem Qamay (1901–1970), Soviet chemist
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William Ramsay , (1852–1916), Scottish chemist
*Henry Rapoport , American chemist, UC Berkeley
*William Sage Rapson , South African Chemist and co-author of Gold Usage
*Julius Rebek , (1944), Hungarian_American chemist.
*Marij Rebek , chemist.
*Jan Reedijk , (1943), Dutch inorganic chemist
*Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French chemist and physicist
*Tadeus Reichstein , (1897–1996), chemist, 1950Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
*Rhazes (Razi), (865–925)
*Stuart A. Rice , (born 1932), physical chemist
*Wim Richter , South Africa
*Ellen Swallow Richards , (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist.
*Jeremias Benjamin Richter , (1762–1807), German chemist
*Nikolaus Riehl , Germany (1901–1990)
*Andrés Manuel del Río , (1764–1849), Spanish-Mexican geochemist, discoveredvanadium
*Robert Robinson (1886-1975),Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Guillaume-François Rouelle , (1703–1770), French chemist
*Hillar Rootare (1928) Estonian-American Physical Chemist
*H. M. Rouell , (1718–1779), French chemist
*Daniel Rutherford , (1749–1819), Scottish chemist
*Ernest Rutherford , (1871 – 1937), New Zealand born chemist and nuclear physicist. Discovered theProton .Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908
*Leopold Ruzicka (Lavoslav Ružička) , (1887–1976), 1939Nobel Prize in Chemistry *Paul Sabatier, (1854–1941), 1912
Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
*Maks Samec , (1844–1889), Slovenian chemist.
*Carl Wilhelm Scheele , (1742–1786), Swedish 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements
*Stuart L. Schreiber , (born 1956), American chemist, a pioneer in a field of chemical biology
*Richard R. Schrock , (born 1945), 2005Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Glenn T. Seaborg , (1912–1999), 1951Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Nils Gabriel Sefström , (1787–1845), chemist.
*Francesco Selmi , (1817–1881), Italian chemist.
*Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov , (1896–1986), physicist and chemist, 1956Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Israel Shahak , (1933–2001)
*K. Barry Sharpless , (born 1941), 2001Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Patsy O. Sherman (born 1930), 12 US Patents
*Alexander Shulgin , (born 1925), Pioneer researcher inPsychopharmacology andEntheogens
*Peter Schultz , American chemist
*Salimuzzaman Siddiqui , (1897–1994),Pakistan i chemist, pioneer in natural products chemistry
*Oktay Sinanoglu , (born 1935), Turkish chemist
*Ascanio Sobrero , (1812–1888), Italian chemist, discoverer of nitroglycerin
*Frederick Soddy , (1877–1956), British chemist, 1921Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Susan Solomon , American atmospheric chemist
*Ernest Solvay , (1838–1922), Belgian chemist and industrialist
*S.P.L. Sørensen , (1868–1939), Danish chemist
*Wendell Meredith Stanley , (1904–1971), 1946Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Branko Stanovnik , (born 1938), chemist.
*Hermann Staudinger , (1881–1965), polymer chemist, 1953Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Alfred Stock , (1876–1946)
*Fraser Stoddart, (born 1945), Scottish chemist, a pioneer in the field of themechanical bond
*Gilbert Stork
*Theodor Svedberg , (1884–1971), 1926Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Joseph Swan , (1828–1914), English physicist, chemist & inventorT
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Dr Alethea Tabor , Chemical Biologist
*Henry Taube , (1915-2005), 1983Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Richard Taylor , (1965-), Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of York
*Miha Tisler , (born 1926), chemist.U
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Harold Clayton Urey , (1893–1981), 1934Nobel Prize in Chemistry V
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Lauri Vaska , (born 1925), Estonian/American chemist
*Evert Johannes Willem Verweij , (1905–1981), Dutch chemist
*Artturi Ilmari Virtanen , (1895–1973), chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
*Milos Vujic Serbian chemist
*Max Volmer , Germany (1885–1965)
*Alessandro Volta , (1745–1827), electrochemist, Invented the Voltaic CellW
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals , (1837–1923)
*Sir James Walker (1863–1935), Scottish physical chemist
*John E. Walker , (born 1941), 1997Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Alfred Werner , (1866–1919), 1913Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997)
*George M. Whitesides , (born 1939), American chemist
*Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957) Germanchemist 1927Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Harvey W. Wiley , (1844–1930), USchemist , Pure food & drug advocate
*Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson , (1921–1996), 1973Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Günter Wirths , Germany
*Friedrich Wöhler , (1800–1882), Germanchemist
*William Hyde Wollaston , (1766–1828), Englishchemist
*Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), 1965Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Charles-Adolphe Wurtz , (1817–1884)
*Kurt Wüthrich , (born 1938), 2002Nobel Prize in Chemistry X
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Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (born 1962), Chinese chemist atHarvard University . Famous for his pioneering work inSingle Molecule Microscopy andCARS (Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy) microscopy.Y
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Sabir Yunusov (1909–1995), Soviet chemist (alkaloids )Z
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Ahmed H. Zewail (born 1946),Egypt ian, 1999Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work onfemtochemistry .ee also
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