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  2. List of important publications in chemistry - Wikipedia

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    Description: This book explained Dalton's theory of atoms and its applications to chemistry. Importance: The book was one of the first to describe a modern atomic theory, a theory that lies at the basis of modern chemistry. [3]: 251 It is the first to introduce a table of atomic and molecular weights.

  3. Marie Curie - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie's birthplace, 16 Freta Street, Warsaw, Poland. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie [a] (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (/ ˈ k j ʊər i / KURE-ee; [1] French: [maʁi kyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on ...

  4. Linus Pauling - Wikipedia

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    [177] [178] His description reads: "A remarkably versatile scientist, structural chemist Linus Pauling (1901–1994) won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the nature of the chemical bond linking atoms into molecules. His work in establishing the field of molecular biology; his studies of hemoglobin led to the classification of ...

  5. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.

  6. Rosalind Franklin - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 February 2025. British X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958) This article is about the chemist. For the Mars rover named after her, see Rosalind Franklin (rover). Rosalind Franklin Franklin with a microscope in 1955 Born Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920-07-25) 25 July 1920 Notting Hill, London, England ...

  7. Lists of important publications in science - Wikipedia

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    Title page of the 1859 Murray edition of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.. Lists of important publications in science cover publications in various fields of science that have introduced a major new topic, made a significant advance in knowledge or have significantly influenced the world.

  8. List of biochemists - Wikipedia

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    American microbiologist and science educator at Temple University, the discoverer of the antibiotic streptomycin. Paul Schimmel (b. 1940). American biochemist at the Scripps Research Institute, who developed methods of nucleic acid sequencing and coauthored (with Charles Cantor) the very influential three-volume book Biophysical Chemistry.

  9. List of biologists - Wikipedia

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    Bruce Alberts (born 1938), American biochemist, former President of the United States National Academy of Sciences, known for studying the protein complexes involved in chromosome replication, and for the book Molecular Biology of the Cell; Robert Alberty (1921–2014), American physical biochemist, with many contributions to enzyme kinetics.