Who was the greatest chemist of the 20th century?

Despite his whole mess with Vitamin C

I have to go with Linus Pauling

Shulgin and Hoffman did some work, but they did copy, one guy dyacetyled morphine, was my hero. Until that we just boiled opium poppy with vinegar acid. He did so much breaktrought I want my cock to be sucked or fucked or something,.

Woodward is the God of Organic Chemistry

but i have to go with Pauling as well

>>8248369
Woodward was amazing, the dude breathed Organic chemistry, i once heard a story he was so skilled at writing chemical structures that he would do it without even thinking about it, like a natural talent

Lewis

>>8248384
>he would do it without even thinking about it, like a natural talent

Also known as "mastery of a skill", a foreign concept in an increasingly de-skilled world. Notice how "technical" is a bad word? It used to be praised, and before that, expected of people in the position of a master. No longer. Why be skilled when you can simply automate everything?

Pauling was the standard against
whom other chemists were judged.

Both Haber and Bosch without a doubt. The world would have a couple of billion people less if it wasn't for them.

>>8248351
>I always see questions asking who the greatest mathematician or physicist of the 20th century is
>what about the greatest chemist of the 20th century, in your opinion?
That's because the greatest chemists of the 20th century were physicists

>>8248351
pauling

he did like, everything.

le Vitamin C man

didn't Haber create chemical warfare?

>>8248384
Woodward was amazing but writing chemical structures without thinking about it isn't. Any organic chemist can write chemical structures without thinking about it.

>>8248369
the way woodward figured out the structure of B12 using no modern spectroscopic techniques simply blows my mind

he'd basically fragment the molecule, do chemical reactions on the fragments and if they behaved as expected he had a good idea that that part of the molecule was right