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Stoddart, J. Fraser

J. Fraser Stoddart

British-American chemist

Joseph Loschmidt

Austrian chemist

Kurt Wüthrich

Swiss scientist

Feringa, Bernard

Bernard Feringa

Dutch chemist

Hauptman, Herbert A.

Herbert A. Hauptman

American mathematician and crystallographer

Jerome Karle, 1985.

Jerome Karle

American crystallographer

Sauvage, Jean-Pierre

Jean-Pierre Sauvage

French chemist

Fritz Wolfgang London

American physicist

Roland, baron von Eötvös

Hungarian scientist

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