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1 Hargittai, I., A Forceful Life, Scientific American, 1996, July 101-103

2 Hargittai, I., Chemistry Gallery, Nature, 1998, 393, 641

3 Hargittai, M., Hargittai, I. Eternal dissymmetry, Mendeleev Communications, 2003, 13, 91-92

4 Hargittai, I., Eyes on the Prize, Nature, 2003, 423, 921

5 Hargittai, B., Hargittai, I. Glenn T. Seaborg; discoveries; and the capital of knowledge, Structural Chemistry, 2009, 20, 355-359

6 Hargittai, I., The Human Genome Project-A triumph (also) of structural chemistry: On Victor McElheny's new book, Drawing the Map of Life, Structural Chemistry, 2010, 667-671

7 Hargittai, I., Linus Pauling's quest for the structure of proteins, Structural Chemistry, 2010, 21, 1-7

8 Hargittai, I., Dan Shechtman's Quasicrystal Discovery in Perspective, Israel Journal of Chemistry, 2011, 51, 1144-1152.

9 Hargittai, I., Marie Sklodowska Curie and the Year of Chemistry, Structural Chemistry, 2011, 22, 1-2

10 Hargittai, I., Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov and chemical structure: Tribute to a scientist and to a 150-year old concept, Structural Chemistry, 2011, 22, 243-246

11 Hargittai, I., History: Dreaming of the Bomb, Nature, 2012, 491, 670

12 Hargittai, I., A Cold War Puzzle Persists, Physics World, 2012, August, 44-45

13 Hargittai, I., Los Alamos and "Los Arzamas", Structural Chemistry, (2013) 24, 1397-1400

14 Hargittai, I., ACS memorial plaques in New York City, Structural Chemistry, 2015, 26, 899-903

15 Hargittai, I., James D. Watson 88-the discovery of the double helix was an iconic event in structural chemistry, Structural Chemistry, 2016, 27, 419-429.

16 Hargittai, I., Michael Polanyi-pupils and crossroads-on the 125th anniversary of his birth, Structural Chemistry, 2016, 27, 1327-1344

17 Hargittai, I., Structures and Mechanisms in chemical reactions: George A. Olah's life-long search of chemistry, Structural Chemistry, 2017, 28, 259-277

18 Hargittai, I., Sydney Brenner (1927-2019)-One of the greats of our science on new frontiers, Structural Chemistry, 2019, 30, 627-632

19 Hargittai, B., Hargittai I. Year of the periodic table: Mendeleev and the others, Structural Chemistry, 2019, 30, 1-7

20 Hargittai, I., His Fate Was Larger than Himself: Andrei D. Sakharov's Centenary European Review, 2022, 30(2), in production

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