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Chemistry Laureates Crossword Puzzle

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A puzzle written for a November 2021 QueWriMo challenge, based on winners during the first 120 years of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Years that laureates were honoured are shown in square brackets in the clues. Enjoy!
Author: psnz - Diff: Harder

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      1. Candid admission of fault: "Mea ____" (Lat.)
      4. Coordinated groups
      7. Co-winners with 5D, John B. Goodenough and M. Stanley Whittingham [2019] developed ____ 8A batteries
      8. Charged particle important in Jens Christian Skou's work [1997]
      9. Co-recipient Kary B. Mullis [1993] invented the "polymerase chain reaction" (abbr.)
      10. "____ dioxide assimilation in plants" was researched by Melvin Calvin [1961]
      13. Chemist Willard Libby [1960] developed radiocarbon dating for ____ determination in many disciplines
      15. Conferred on his 50th birthday, Adolf ____ Baeyer [1905] added this noble distinction to his name
      17. Contributing to the "____ (skill) of organic synthesis" was Robert Burns Woodward [1965]
      19. Chemist Walther ____ [1920] was recognised for his "work in thermochemistry"
      22. Co-recipient ____ E. Yonath [2009] studied "the structure and function of the ribosome"
      24. Collector's item? (init.)
      25. Car transmission section
      26. Certain nationality shared by Svante August Arrhenius [1903] and 20D (sing.)
      27. Co-winner Hans von ____-Chelpin [1929] was distantly related to a famous Swiss mathematician

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      1. Crying baby's condition (sometimes)
      2. Consequently: German Richard Kuhn [1938] banned from accepting but received his medal & diploma ____
      3. Creator of the "Three Laws of Robotics": Isaac ____
      4. Chemist William Giauque [1949] studied reactions at extremely low ____ (abbr., sing.)
      5. Co-winner with the 7A laureates was Japanese chemist ____ Yoshino [2019]
      6. Co-winner Richard Laurence Millington ____ [1952] invented partition chromatography
      11. Common mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, etc. in the atmosphere, relevant for 14D
      12. Chemist and physicist Francis William Aston [1922] discovered isotopes of ____-radioactive elements
      14. Chemist Sir William Ramsay [1904] discovered these inert elements in 11D (sing.)
      16. Cancel out
      17. Co-winner Paul Berg [1980] studied "the biochemistry of nucleic ____" (plural)
      18. Canadian-born US chemist Henry ____ [1983] explored the "mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions"
      20. Created prestigious prizes in his 1895 will: Alfred ____ (1833-1896)
      21. Contribution imposer, governmental role
      23. "Channels in cell membranes" was a discovery shared by Peter ____ [2003]