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Organic Chemists

This group collects the Chemistry subcategory's members whose defining work concerns organic chemistry: the synthesis, structure and reactions of carbon-based compounds, from named organic reactions to the total synthesis of complex natural products and pharmaceuticals. It is kept apart from Biochemists, whose members study the chemistry of living systems specifically, and from Polymer And Materials Chemists, whose members study long-chain macromolecules and engineered materials rather than organic synthesis in general.

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1828 1
Organic Chemists
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Adolf von Baeyer

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Alfred Werner

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André K. Isaacs

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Arthur B. Lamb

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Asima Chatterjee

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August Kekule

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Benjamin List

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Bernard L. Feringa

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Carl Shipp Marvel

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Charles A. Kraus

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Charles J. Pedersen

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Charles L. Parsons

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Chika Kuroda

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Derek Barton

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E. J. Corey

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Ei-ichi Negishi

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Elias James Corey

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Ernest L. Eliel

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F. Albert Cotton

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Fred Basolo

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Friedrich Wöhler

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Geoffrey Wilkinson

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Hans Fischer

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Harry Gray

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Henry Gilman

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Herbert C. Brown

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Hermann Irving Schlesinger

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Hermann Staudinger

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Howard E. Simmons Jr.

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Ian Heilbron

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John C. Bailar Jr.

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John D. Roberts

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Justus von Liebig

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Louis Plack Hammett

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M. Frederick Hawthorne

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Marcellin Berthelot

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Marston T. Bogert

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Mary L. Good

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Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda

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Osamu Shimomura

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Otto Diels

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Partha Sarathi Mukherjee

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Paul Karrer

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Paul Sabatier

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Peter B. Dervan

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Pradyut Ghosh

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Ralph Connor

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Richard F. Heck

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Richard R. Schrock

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Richard Willstatter

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Robert Burns Woodward

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Robert Robinson

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Roger Adams

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Ronald Nyholm

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Stephen J. Lippard

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Tobin J. Marks

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Usha Ranjan Ghatak

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Victor Grignard

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Vladimir Prelog

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Willard Libby

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William A. Noyes

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William Gould Young

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William Ramsay

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Organic chemistry
WikipediaOrganic chemistry, History section, Wohler synthesis paragraph
Quote, Organic chemistry, History section, Wohler synthesis paragraph
In 1828 Friedrich Wohler produced the organic chemical urea (carbamide), a constituent of urine, from inorganic starting materials (the salts potassium cyanate and ammonium sulfate), in what is now called the Wohler synthesis.
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