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* Richard Abegg (1869–1910), German chemist * Frederick Abel (1827–1902), English chemist *

Friedrich Accum Friedrich Christian Accum or Frederick Accum (29 March 1769 – 28 June 1838) was a German chemist, whose most important achievements included advances in the field of gas lighting, efforts to keep processed foods free from dangerous additives, a ...

(1769–1838), German chemist, advances in the field of

gas lighting Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a gaseous fuel, such as hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, coal gas (town gas) or natural gas. The light is produced either directly ...

Homer Burton Adkins Homer Burton Adkins (16 January 1892 – 10 August 1949) was an American chemist who studied the hydrogenation of organic compounds. Adkins was regarded as top in his field and a world authority on the hydrogenation of organic compounds. Adk ...

(1892–1949), American chemist, known for work in

hydrogenation Hydrogenation is a chemical reaction between molecular hydrogen (H2) and another compound or element, usually in the presence of a catalyst such as nickel, palladium or platinum. The process is commonly employed to reduce or saturate organic ...

organic compounds In chemistry, organic compounds are generally any chemical compounds that contain carbon-hydrogen or carbon-carbon bonds. Due to carbon's ability to catenate (form chains with other carbon atoms), millions of organic compounds are known. The s ...

Peter Agre Peter Agre (born January 30, 1949) is an American physician, Nobel Laureate, and molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director ...

(born 1949), American chemist and doctor, 2003

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Georgius Agricola Georgius Agricola (; born Georg Pawer or Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire ...

(1494–1555), German scholar known as "the father of mineralogy" * Natalie Ahn, American chemist * Arthur Aikin (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist * Adrien Albert (1907–1989), Australian medicinal chemist * John Albery (1936–2013), English physical chemist * Kurt Alder (1902–1958), German chemist, 1950

Jerome Alexander Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1585–1670) was an English-born barrister, judge and politician, who spent much of his career in Ireland (after he had been professionally ruined in England), and became a substantial Irish landowner. He was a noted bene ...

(1876–1959), American expert on the chemistry of

colloid A colloid is a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance. Some definitions specify that the particles must be dispersed in a liquid, while others extend ...

s * Elmer Lucille Allen (born 1931), American chemist and ceramic artist * Heather C. Allen (born 1960), American chemist *

Adah Almutairi Adah Almutairi ( ar, غادة المطيري; born November 1, 1976) is an American scientist and professor at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her work focuses on nanomedicine, nanotechnology, chemistry and polymer science. Forbes h ...

(born 1976), American chemist *

Sidney Altman Sidney Altman (May 7, 1939 – April 5, 2022) was a Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989, he shared the Nobel Prize in ...

(1939–2022), 1989

Faiza Al-Kharafi Faiza Mohammed Al-Kharafi ( ar, فايزة الخرافي, translit=Fāyzah al-Kharāfī; born 1946) is a Kuwaiti chemist and academic. She was the president of Kuwait University from 1993 to 2002, and the first woman to head a major university ...

(born 1946), Kuwaiti chemist, academic and the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East * Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, American chemist * Gloria Long Anderson (born 1938), American chemist *

Christian B. Anfinsen Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr. (March 26, 1916 – May 14, 1995) was an American biochemist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the conne ...

(1916–1995), 1972

Angelo Angeli Angelo Angeli (20 August 1864 – 31 May 1931) was an Italian chemist. Angeli's salt and the Angeli–Rimini reaction are named after him. Scientific career Angeli studied in Padua, where he met the chemist Giacomo Luigi Ciamician. When C ...

(1864–1931), Italian chemist * Octavio Augusto Ceva Antunes, Brazilian chemist * Anthony Joseph Arduengo, III (born 1952), American chemist * Johan August Arfwedson (1792–1841), Swedish chemist *

Anton Eduard van Arkel Anton Eduard van Arkel, (19 November 1893 – 14 March 1976) was a Dutch chemist. Van Arkel suggested the names " pnictogen" and "pnictide" to refer to chemical elements in group 15 (the nitrogen group or nitrogen family) of the periodic table. ...

(1893–1976), Dutch chemist *

Svante Arrhenius Svante August Arrhenius ( , ; 19 February 1859 – 2 October 1927) was a Swedish scientist. Originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, Arrhenius was one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry. He received the Nob ...

(1859–1927), Swedish chemist, one of the founders of

physical chemistry Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistica ...

Valerie Ashby Valerie Sheares Ashby is a chemist and university professor who currently serves as President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She was the Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University from 2015 to 2022 and for ...

(born 1965/1966), American chemist * Barbara Askins (born 1939), American chemist * Larned B. Asprey (1919–2005), American nuclear chemist * Alán Aspuru-Guzik (born 1976), computational chemist *

Francis William Aston Francis William Aston FRS (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945) was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes in many non-radioactive elements a ...

(1877–1945), 1922

* Karin Aurivillius (1920–1982), Swedish chemist and crystallographer *

Amedeo Avogadro Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro, Count of Quaregna and Cerreto (, also , ; 9 August 17769 July 1856) was an Italian scientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law, which states that equal volume ...

(1776–1856), Italian chemist and physicist, discovered

Avogadro's law Avogadro's law (sometimes referred to as Avogadro's hypothesis or Avogadro's principle) or Avogadro-Ampère's hypothesis is an experimental gas law relating the volume of a gas to the amount of substance of gas present. The law is a specific ca ...

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Stephen Moulton Babcock Stephen Moulton Babcock (22 October 1843 – 2 July 1931) was an American agricultural chemist. He is best known for developing the Babcock test, used to determine butterfat content in milk and cheese processing, and for the single-grain experime ...

(1843–1931), worked on the " single-grain experiment" * Myrtle Bachelder (1908–1997), American chemist noted for work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb *

Werner Emmanuel Bachmann Werner Emmanuel Bachmann (November 13, 1901 – March 22, 1951) was an American chemist. Bachmann was born in Detroit, Michigan where he studied chemistry and chemical engineering at Wayne State University and later at the University of Michiga ...

(1901–1951), American chemist, known for work in

steroids A steroid is a biologically active organic compound with four rings arranged in a specific molecular configuration. Steroids have two principal biological functions: as important components of cell membranes that alter membrane fluidity; and ...

and RDX * Simone Badal-McCreath, Jamaican chemist *

Leo Baekeland Leo Hendrik Baekeland (November 14, 1863 – February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist. He is best known for the inventions of Velox photographic paper in 1893, and Bakelite in 1907. He has been called "The Father of the Plastics Industry" ...

(1863–1944), Belgian-American chemist *

Adolf von Baeyer Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (; 31 October 1835 – 20 August 1917) was a German chemist who synthesised indigo and developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC org ...

(1835–1917), German chemist, 1905

, synthesis of

indigo Indigo is a deep color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine, based on the ancient dye of the same name. The word "indigo" comes from the Latin word ''indicum'', ...

* Piero Baglioni (born 1952), Italian chemist * Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom (1854–1907), Dutch chemist *

Alice Ball Alice Augusta Ball (July 25, 1882 – December 31, 1916) was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. She was the first woman and first African American to rece ...

(1892–1916), African American chemist known for inventing an effective injectable treatment for leprosy * Emily Balskus (born 1980), American chemist and microbiologist * Zhenan Bao (born 1970), Chinese chemist known for developing technologies with

organic field-effect transistors An organic field-effect transistor (OFET) is a field-effect transistor using an organic semiconductor in its channel. OFETs can be prepared either by vacuum evaporation of small molecules, by solution-casting of polymers or small molecules, or ...

and

organic semiconductors Organic semiconductors are solids whose building blocks are pi-bonded molecules or polymers made up by carbon and hydrogen atoms and – at times – heteroatoms such as nitrogen, sulfur and oxygen. They exist in the form of molecular crystals or ...

Phil S. Baran Phil S. Baran (born August 10, 1977) is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute and Member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology.

(born 1977), American chemist known for synthesis, novel reactions and reagents * Coral Barbas, Spanish chemist *

Allen J. Bard Allen Joseph Bard (born December 18, 1933) is an American chemist. He is the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair Professor and director of the Center for Electrochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Bard is considered a "father of modern el ...

(born 1933), 2008

Wolf Prize in Chemistry The Wolf Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and Arts ...

Vincenzo Barone Vincenzo Barone (b. 8 November 1952, Ancona) is an Italian chemist, active in the field of theoretical and computational chemistry. He became full professor of physical chemistry at the University of Naples in 1994, and professor of theoretical a ...

(born 1952), Italian chemist * Neil Bartlett (1932–2008), English/Canadian/American chemist *

Sir Derek Barton Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton (8 September 1918 – 16 March 1998) was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969. Education and early life Barton was born in Gravesend, Kent, to William Thomas and Maude Henrietta Barton ( ...

(1918–1998), 1969

Fred Basolo Fred Basolo (11 February 1920 – 27 February 2007) was an American inorganic chemist. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1943, under Prof. John C. Bailar, Jr. Basolo spent his professional career at Nort ...

(1920–2007), American inorganic chemist * Esther Batchelder (1897–1987), American chemist, educator and specialist in nutrition *

Antoine Baumé Antoine Baumé (26 February 172815 October 1804) was a French chemist. Life He was born at Senlis. He was apprenticed to the chemist Claude Joseph Geoffroy, and in 1752 was admitted a member of the École de Pharmacie, where in the same year h ...

(1728–1804), French chemist * Karl Bayer (1847–1904), Austrian chemist * Johann Joachim Becher (1635–1682), German who developed the

phlogiston theory The phlogiston theory is a superseded scientific theory that postulated the existence of a fire-like element called phlogiston () contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion. The name comes from the Ancient Greek (''bur ...

of combustion *

Kathryn Beers Kathryn L. Beers is an American polymer chemist. Beers is Leader of the Polymers and Complex Fluids group in the Materials Science and Engineering Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her research interests include mic ...

, American polymer chemist *

Friedrich Konrad Beilstein Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Бейльштейн) (17 February 183818 October 1906), was a Russian chemist and founder of the famous ''Handbuch der organischen Chemie'' (''Handbook of Organic Chemistry''). T ...

(1838–1906), German-Russian chemist, created

Beilstein database The Beilstein database is the largest database in the field of organic chemistry, in which compounds are uniquely identified by their Beilstein Registry Number. The database covers the scientific literature from 1771 to the present and contains ...

* Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847–1930), French chemist, early work in

stereochemistry Stereochemistry, a subdiscipline of chemistry, involves the study of the relative spatial arrangement of atoms that form the structure of molecules and their manipulation. The study of stereochemistry focuses on the relationships between stereoi ...

* Angela Belcher, American chemist, materials scientist, and biological engineer * Irina Beletskaya (born 1933), Russian organometallic chemist * R. P. Bell (1907–1996), English physical chemist *

Francesco Bellini Francesco Bellini, (; born November 20, 1947) is an Italian-born research scientist, administrator, entrepreneur and Quebecer business man. A pioneer scientist-entrepreneur for Canadian bio-pharmaceutical industry, he was co-founder of Bioche ...

(born 1947), research scientist, doctor in organic chemistry *

Andrey Belozersky Andrey Nikolayevich Belozersky (Андре́й Никола́евич Белозе́рский) (29 August, 1905 ( Tashkent, Turkestan region, Russian Empire) – 31 December, 1972 ( Moscow, Soviet Union)) was a Soviet biologist and biochem ...

(1905-1972), biochemist, doctor in biological sciences *

Ruth R. Benerito Ruth Mary Rogan Benerito (January 12, 1916 – October 5, 2013) was an American chemist and inventor known for her work related to the textile industry, notably including the development of wash-and-wear cotton fabrics. She held 55 patents. Pe ...

(1916–2013), American chemist known for inventions relating to textiles *

Paul Berg Paul Berg (born June 30, 1926) is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recognized their con ...

(born 1926), 1980

* Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), 1931

Helen M. Berman Helen Miriam Berman is a Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University and a former director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank (one of the member organizations of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank). A structural b ...

(born 1943), American chemist *

Marcellin Berthelot Pierre Eugène Marcellin Berthelot (; 25 October 1827 – 18 March 1907) was a French chemist and Republican politician noted for the ThomsenBerthelot principle of thermochemistry. He synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substa ...

(1827–1907), French chemist, important work in

thermochemistry Thermochemistry is the study of the heat energy which is associated with chemical reactions and/or phase changes such as melting and boiling. A reaction may release or absorb energy, and a phase change may do the same. Thermochemistry focuses on ...

Claude Louis Berthollet Claude Louis Berthollet (, 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804. He is known for his scientific contributions to theory of chemical equilibria via the mecha ...

(1748–1822), French chemist * Carolyn R. Bertozzi (born 1966) American chemist, Stanford * Guy Bertrand (born 1952) French chemist, UCSD * Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848), Swedish chemist, coined the term "

polymer A polymer (; Greek '' poly-'', "many" + '' -mer'', "part") is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules called macromolecules, composed of many repeating subunits. Due to their broad spectrum of properties, both synthetic a ...

" in 1833 * Johannes Martin Bijvoet (1892–1980), Dutch chemist and crystallographer * Leonora Bilger (1893–1975), American chemist who studied nitrogenous compounds * Hazel Bishop (1906–1998), American chemist and cosmetics inventor * Katherine Bitting (1869–1937), Canadian and American food chemist for the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Canners Association *

Joseph Black Joseph Black (16 April 1728 – 6 December 1799) was a Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide. He was Professor of Anatomy and Chemistry at the University of Glas ...

(1728–1799), Scottish chemist * Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979), American surface chemist and physicist and inventor of nonreflective glass * Suzanne Blum (born 1978), American chemist * Katharine Blunt (1876–1954), American chemist and nutritionist focusing on home economics, food chemistry and nutrition *

Herman Boerhaave Herman Boerhaave (, 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738Underwood, E. Ashworth. "Boerhaave After Three Hundred Years." ''The British Medical Journal'' 4, no. 5634 (1968): 820–25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20395297.) was a Dutch botanist, ...

(1668–1738) Dutch chemist, botanist, Christian humanist & physician, first to isolate urea from urine * Kristie Boering (born 1963), American chemist and Earth and planetary scientist *

Dale L. Boger Dale Lester Boger is an American medicinal and organic chemist and former chair of the Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA. Dale Boger was born on August 22, 1953, in Hutchinson, Kansas. He studied chemistr ...

(born 1953), American organic and medicinal chemist * Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838–1912), French chemist * Jan Boldingh (1915–2003), Dutch chemist *

Alexander Borodin Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin ( rus, link=no, Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Aleksandr Porfir’yevich Borodin , p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr pɐrˈfʲi rʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bərɐˈdʲin, a=RU-Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin.ogg, ...

(1833–1887), Russian chemist and composer *

Hans-Joachim Born Hans-Joachim Born (8 May 1909 – 15 April 1987) was a German radiochemist trained and educated at the ''Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie''. Up to the end of World War II, he worked in Nikolaj Vladimirovich Timofeev-Resovskij's ''Abteilung f ...

(1909–1987), German radiochemist *

Carl Bosch Carl Bosch (; 27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest ...

(1872–1940), German chemist *

Octave Leopold Boudouard Octave Leopold Boudouard (1872–1923) was a French chemist known for his 1905 discovery of the Boudouard reaction. Career Octave Leopold Boudouard became a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers A music school is an edu ...

(1872–1923), French chemist who discovered the Boudouard reaction *

Jean-Baptiste Boussingault Jean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné Boussingault (2 February 1801 – 11 May 1887) was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy. Biography Jean-Baptiste Boussingault – an agric ...

(1802–1887), French chemist, agricultural chemistry * E. J. Bowen (1898–1980), English physical chemist * Humphry Bowen (1929–2001), English analytical chemist *

Paul D. Boyer Paul Delos Boyer (July 31, 1918 – June 2, 2018) was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the "enzy ...

(1918–2018), 1997

* Robert Boyer (1909–1989), employee of

Henry Ford Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. By creating the first automobile that ...

focus on

soybean The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (''Glycine max'') is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses. Traditional unfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, from which tofu ...

use. *

Robert Boyle Robert Boyle (; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders ...

(1627–1691), Irish-English pioneer of modern chemistry *

Henri Braconnot Henri Braconnot (29 May 1780 – 13 January 1855) was a French chemist and pharmacist. He was born in Commercy, his father being a counsel at the local parliament. At the death of his father, in 1787, Henri began his instruction in an elementar ...

(1780–1855), French chemist and pharmacist * Henning Brand (c. 1630–c.1692 or c. 1710), German chemist, discovered

phosphorus Phosphorus is a chemical element with the symbol P and atomic number 15. Elemental phosphorus exists in two major forms, white phosphorus and red phosphorus, but because it is highly reactive, phosphorus is never found as a free element on Ea ...

* Mary Bidwell Breed (1870–1949), American chemist focusing on aromatic acids, first woman dean of Indiana University *

Ronald Breslow Ronald Charles David Breslow (March 14, 1931 – October 25, 2017) was an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey. He was University Professor at Columbia University, where he was based in the Department of Chemistry and affiliated with the De ...

(1931–2017), American organic chemist * Alan Brisdon, British Chemist *

Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (; 22 February 1879 – 17 December 1947) was a Danish physical chemist, who developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Martin Lowry. Biography Brønsted was born ...

(1879–1947), Danish chemist *

Herbert C. Brown Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 – December 19, 2004) was an American chemist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with organoboranes. Life and career Brown was born Herbert Brovarnik in London, to Ukrainian Jewis ...

(1912–2004), 1979

* Jeannette Brown (born 1934), American organic medicinal chemist, historian, and author * Jeanette Grasselli Brown (born 1928), American analytical chemist and spectroscopist * Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980), American chemist who co-developed the first useful antifungal antibiotic *

Eduard Buchner Eduard Buchner (; 20 May 1860 – 13 August 1917) was a German chemist and zymologist, awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation. Biography Early years Buchner was born in Munich to a physician and Doctor Extraor ...

(1860–1917), 1907

* Stephen L. Buchwald (born 1955), American Chemist, Organic Chemistry, co-discoverer of Palladium-catalyzed C-N bond formation

Buchwald–Hartwig amination In organic chemistry, the Buchwald–Hartwig amination is a chemical reaction for the synthesis of carbon–nitrogen bonds via the palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions of amines with aryl halides. Although Pd-catalyzed C-N couplings were repor ...

* Mary Van Rensselaer Buell (1893–1969), American chemist who did early research in nutrition and physiological chemistry * Kathryn Bullock (born 1945), American chemist who co-developed valve-regulated lead-acid batteries *

Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (; 30 March 1811 – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. The Buns ...

(1811–1899), German inventor, chemist, discovered the elements

caesium Caesium (IUPAC spelling) (or cesium in American English) is a chemical element with the symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft, silvery-golden alkali metal with a melting point of , which makes it one of only five elemental metals that a ...

and

rubidium Rubidium is the chemical element with the symbol Rb and atomic number 37. It is a very soft, whitish-grey solid in the alkali metal group, similar to potassium and caesium. Rubidium is the first alkali metal in the group to have a density higher ...

with

Gustav Kirchhoff Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. He ...

and invented the

Bunsen burner A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a kind of ambient air gas burner used as laboratory equipment; it produces a single open gas flame, and is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion. The gas can be natural gas (which is ma ...

* Jeanne Burbank (1915–2002), American chemist who developed lead-acid and silver-zinc batteries for submarines at the United States Naval Research Laboratory * Stephanie Burns (born 1955), American organosilicon chemist and past honorary president of Society of Chemical Industry *

William Merriam Burton William Merriam Burton (November 17, 1865 – December 29, 1954) was an American chemist who developed a widely used thermal cracking process for crude oil. Burton was born in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1886, he received a Bachelor of Science d ...

(1865–1954), American chemist, developed the first

thermal cracking In petrochemistry, petroleum geology and organic chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules such as kerogens or long-chain hydrocarbons are broken down into simpler molecules such as light hydrocarbons, by the breaking of ...

process for

crude oil Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crude ...

Adolf Butenandt Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (; 24 March 1903 – 18 January 1995) was a German biochemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939 for his "work on sex hormones." He initially rejected the award in accordance with government po ...

(1903–1995), 1939

* Alison Butler, American bioinorganic chemist and metallobiochemist *

Aleksandr Butlerov Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov (Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Бу́тлеров; 15 September 1828 – 17 August 1886) was a Russian chemist, one of the principal creators of the theory of chemical structure (1857–186 ...

(1828–1886), Russian chemist, discovered the

formose reaction The formose reaction, discovered by Aleksandr Butlerov in 1861, and hence also known as the Butlerov reaction, involves the formation of sugars from formaldehyde. The term formose is a portmanteau of formaldehyde and aldose. Reaction and mechanism ...

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Mary Letitia Caldwell Mary Letitia Caldwell (December 18, 1890 – July 1, 1972) was an American chemist. Growing up she valued education and strived to achieve. She was an instructor at Western College teaching chemistry. She was known for being unique and descriptiv ...

(1890–1972), American chemist who developed a method for purifying crystalline porcine pancreatic amylase * Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), American chemist, winner of 1961

Allison A. Campbell Allison A. Campbell (born 1963, in Portland, Oregon) is an American chemist who is known in the areas of biomineralization, biomimetics and biomaterials for her innovative work on bioactive coatings for medical implants. She is the acting associ ...

(born 1963), American chemist studying biomineralization, biomimetics and biomaterials *

Constantin Cândea Constantin Cândea (; December 15, 1887 – March 4, 1971) was a Romanian chemist, Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. Engineer and later Rector at the Polytechnic University of Timișoara – formerly the Polytechnic School of Timișoara between 1 ...

(1887–1971), Romanian chemist * Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910), Italian chemist, postulated the

Cannizzaro reaction The Cannizzaro reaction, named after its discoverer Stanislao Cannizzaro, is a chemical reaction which involves the base-induced disproportionation of two molecules of a non-enolizable aldehyde to give a primary alcohol and a carboxylic acid. ...

Georg Ludwig Carius Georg Ludwig Carius (August 24, 1829 – April 24, 1875) was a German chemist born in Barbis, in the Kingdom of Hanover. He studied under Friedrich Wöhler and was assistant to Robert Bunsen for 6 years. He was Director of the Marburger Chemica ...

(1829–1875), German chemist * Heinrich Caro (1834–1910), German chemist *

Wallace Carothers Wallace Hume Carothers (; April 27, 1896 – April 29, 1937) was an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who was credited with the invention of nylon. Carothers was a group leader at the DuPont Experimen ...

(1896–1937), American chemist, known for the discovery of

nylon Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers composed of polyamides ( repeating units linked by amide links).The polyamides may be aliphatic or semi-aromatic. Nylon is a silk-like thermoplastic, generally made from pet ...

* Emma P. Carr (1880–1972), American spectroscopist * Marjorie Constance Caserio (1929–2021), American chemist, winner of the American Chemical Society's Garvan Medal * Marta Catellani, Italian chemist, discovered the

Catellani reaction The Catellani reaction was discovered by Marta Catellani ( Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy) and co-workers in 1997. The reaction uses aryl iodides to perform bi- or tri-functionalization, including C-H functionalization of the unsubstitute ...

Henry Cavendish Henry Cavendish ( ; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English natural philosopher and scientist who was an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "infl ...

(1731–1810), British scientist * Elena Ceaușescu (1916–1989), Romanian communist politician *

Thomas Cech Thomas Robert Cech (born December 8, 1947) is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman, for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA. Cech discovered that RNA could itself cut strands of RNA, ...

(born 1947), 1989

* Martin Chalfie (born 1947), 2008

* Michelle Chang (born 1977), American chemist, Professor of Chemistry,

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

* Yves Chauvin (1930–2015), 2005

* Michel Eugėne Chevreul (1786–1889), French chemist, designed an early form of soap, lived to be 102 * Christine S. Chow, American chemist *

Aaron Ciechanover Aaron Ciechanover ( ; he, אהרן צ'חנובר; born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin. Biography Earl ...

(born 1947), 2004

* Giacomo Luigi Ciamician (1857–1922) Italian chemist, father of the solar panel * G. Marius Clore FRS (born 1955), American

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe th ...

, known for foundational work in three-dimensional protein and nucleic acid structure determination by

nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, most commonly known as NMR spectroscopy or magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), is a spectroscopic technique to observe local magnetic fields around atomic nuclei. The sample is placed in a magnetic fie ...

* Edward L. Cochran (born 1929), American chemist, known for pioneering studies on the nature of

free radicals In chemistry, a radical, also known as a free radical, is an atom, molecule, or ion that has at least one unpaired valence electron. With some exceptions, these unpaired electrons make radicals highly chemically reactive. Many radicals spon ...

Ernst Cohen Ernst Julius Cohen ForMemRS (7 March 1869 – 6 March 1944) was a Dutch Jewish chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals. Cohen studied chemistry under Svante Arrhenius in Stockholm, Henri Moissan at Paris, and Jacobus van't ...

(1869–1944), Dutch chemist (murdered in Auschwitz) *

Mildred Cohn Mildred Cohn (July 12, 1913 – October 12, 2009) was an American biochemist who furthered understanding of biochemical processes through her study of chemical reactions within animal cells. She was a pioneer in the use of nuclear magnetic re ...

(1913–2009), American chemist who studied chemical reactions within animal cells * David Collison, British chemist * Vicki Colvin (born 1965), Director of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering at Brown University *

James Bryant Conant James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Conant obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard in 1916 ...

(1893–1978), American organic chemist,

Priestley Medal The Priestley Medal is the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and is awarded for distinguished service in the field of chemistry. Established in 1922, the award is named after Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen ...

1944 * Elias James Corey (born 1928), American organic chemist, winner of the 1990

* Robert Corey (1897–1971), American biochemist *

Carl Ferdinand Cori Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS (December 5, 1896 – October 20, 1984) was an Austrian-American biochemist and pharmacologist born in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic) who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physi ...

(1896–1984), Czech biochemist,

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

in medicine 1947 *

Gerty Cori Gerty Theresa Cori (; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was an Austro-Hungarian and American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Me ...

(1896–1957), American biochemist,

in medicine 1947 * Charles D. Coryell (1912–1971), American chemist, co-discovered the element

promethium Promethium is a chemical element with the symbol Pm and atomic number 61. All of its isotopes are radioactive; it is extremely rare, with only about 500–600 grams naturally occurring in Earth's crust at any given time. Promethium is one of onl ...

John Cornforth Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., (7 September 1917 – 8 December 2013) was an AustralianBritish chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel ...

(1917–2013), Australian winner of the 1975

* Brigid Cotter (1921–1978), Irish chemist and barrister * Frank Albert Cotton (1930–2007), 2000

Charles Coulson Charles Alfred Coulson (13 December 1910 – 7 January 1974) was a British applied mathematician and theoretical chemist. Coulson's major scientific work was as a pioneer of the application of the quantum theory of valency to problems of m ...

(1910–1974), British theoretical chemist *

Archibald Scott Couper Archibald Scott Couper (; 31 March 1831 – 11 March 1892) was a Scottish chemist who proposed an early theory of chemical structure and bonding. He developed the concepts of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules ...

(1831–1892), English chemist, further developed Tetravalence *

James Crafts James Mason Crafts (March 8, 1839 – June 20, 1917) was an American chemist, mostly known for developing the Friedel–Crafts alkylation and acylation reactions with Charles Friedel in 1876. Biography James Crafts, the son of Royal Altamo ...

(1839–1917), American chemist, developer of

Friedel–Crafts reaction The Friedel–Crafts reactions are a set of reactions developed by Charles Friedel and James Crafts in 1877 to attach substituents to an aromatic ring. Friedel–Crafts reactions are of two main types: alkylation reactions and acylation react ...

* Donald J. Cram (1919–2001), American chemist, winner of the 1987

William Crookes Sir William Crookes (; 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing t ...

(1832–1919), British chemist, discovered the element

thallium Thallium is a chemical element with the symbol Tl and atomic number 81. It is a gray post-transition metal that is not found free in nature. When isolated, thallium resembles tin, but discolors when exposed to air. Chemists William Crookes an ...

Alexander Crum Brown Alexander Crum Brown FRSE FRS (26 March 1838 – 28 October 1922) was a Scottish organic chemist. Alexander Crum Brown Road in Edinburgh's King's Buildings complex is named after him. Early life and education Crum Brown was born at 4 Bellev ...

(1838–1922), Scottish organic chemist * Paul J. Crutzen (1933–2021), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1995

Ana Maria Cuervo Ana Maria Cuervo (born 14 July 1966) is a Spanish-American physician, researcher, and cell biologist. She is a professor in developmental and molecular miology, anatomy and structural biology, and medicine and co-director of the Institute for Agi ...

(born 1966), Spanish-American physician, researcher, and cell biologist *

Marie Curie Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( , , ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the fir ...

(1867–1934), Polish radiation physicist, 1903

Nobel Prize in Physics ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of a bearded man facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then " ...

, 1911

Pierre Curie Pierre Curie ( , ; 15 May 1859 – 19 April 1906) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity. In 1903, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, and Henri Becq ...

(1859–1906), 1903

Robert Curl Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933 – July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for ...

(born 1933), American chemist, winner of 1996

Theodor Curtius ''Geheimrat'' Julius Wilhelm Theodor Curtius (27 May 1857 – 8 February 1928) was professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg University and elsewhere. He published the Curtius rearrangement in 1890/1894 and also discovered diazoacetic acid, hydra ...

(1857–1928), German chemist *

Emil Czyrniański Emilian (also Emil) Czyrniański (Lemko ''Емілиян Чырняньскій'') (1824–1888) was a Polish chemist of Lemko descent, science writer, rector of the Jagiellonian University and co-founder of the Polish Academy of Learning. He is ...

(1824–1888), Polish chemist

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Jeff Dahn Jeff Dahn (born in 1957 in the United States and emigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada in 1970) is a Professor in the Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science and the Department of Chemistry at Dalhousie University. He is recognized as one of the pio ...

(born 1957), American materials chemist noted for significant contributions to lithium-ion batteries *

John Dalton John Dalton (; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He is best known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry, and for his research into Color blindness, colour blindness, which ...

(1766–1844), physicist and pioneer of the

atomic theory Atomic theory is the scientific theory that matter is composed of particles called atoms. Atomic theory traces its origins to an ancient philosophical tradition known as atomism. According to this idea, if one were to take a lump of matter ...

* Marie Maynard Daly (1921–2003), American biochemist and the first African American woman in the United States to earn a PhD in chemistry * Carl Peter Henrik Dam (1895–1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, accordi ...

* Vincenzo, Count Dandolo (1758–1819), Italian Nobleman and Chemist *

Samuel J. Danishefsky Samuel J. Danishefsky (born March 10, 1936) is an American chemist working as a professor at both Columbia University and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Birth and education Samuel J. Danishefsky was born in 1936 i ...

(born 1936), American organic chemist, natural product

Total synthesis Total synthesis is the complete chemical synthesis of a complex molecule, often a natural product, from simple, commercially-available precursors. It usually refers to a process not involving the aid of biological processes, which distinguishes i ...

, 1995/6

Humphry Davy Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for ...

(1778–1829), British chemist, discovered several alkaline earth metals * Raymond Davis, Jr. (1914–2006), American physical chemist * Serena DeBeer (born 1973, American chemist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion *

Peter Debye Peter Joseph William Debye (; ; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Biography Early life Born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije in Maastricht, Netherland ...

(1884–1966), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1936

Johann Deisenhofer Johann Deisenhofer (; born September 30, 1943) is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane p ...

(born 1943), 1988

* Margarita del Val (born 1959), Spanish

, immunologist, and virologist *

Nathalie Demassieux Nathalie Demassieux (1884–1961), was a chemist and French academic who specialized in mineral chemistry. She was, after Irène Joliot-Curie and Pauline Ramart, the third woman to obtain a position as a lecturer in a French university. In tribute ...

(1884–1961), French mineral chemist and academic *

James Dewar Sir James Dewar (20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923) was a British chemist and physicist. He is best known for his invention of the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with research into the liquefaction of gases. He also studied a ...

(1842–1923), British chemist and physicist *

François Diederich François Diederich (9 July 1952, in Ettelbruck – 23 September 2020) was a Luxembourgian chemist specializing in organic chemistry. Education He obtained both his diploma and PhD (first synthesis of Kekulene) from the University of Heidelb ...

(1952–2020), Luxembourg chemist *

Otto Diels Otto Paul Hermann Diels (; 23 January 1876 – 7 March 1954) was a German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for diene synthesis. The pair was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistr ...

(1876–1954), German chemist, winner of the 1950

* Robert Dirks (1978–2015), American computational chemist * Martha Doan (1872–1960), American chemist who studied thallium compounds *

William von Eggers Doering William von Eggers Doering (June 22, 1917 – January 3, 2011) was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University. Before Harvard, he taught at Columbia (1942–1952) and Yale (1952–1968). Doering was born in Fort Worth, Tex ...

(1917–2011), American chemist *

Edward Doisy Edward Adelbert Doisy (November 13, 1893 – October 23, 1986) was an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1943 with Henrik Dam for their discovery of vitamin K (K from "Koagulations-Vitamin" in German) an ...

(1893– 1986), American biochemist, winner of the 1943

Davorin Dolar Davorin Dolar (January 1, 1921 – November 12, 2005) was a Slovenian chemist at the University of Ljubljana. He was a physical chemist who studied polyelectrolyte solutions. He is regarded as a founder of modern physical chemistry teaching in Slov ...

(1921–2005), chemist from University of Ljubljana * Vy Maria Dong (born 1976), American chemist who studies enantioselective catalysis and natural product synthesis * David Adriaan van Dorp (1915–1995), Dutch chemist * Israel Dostrovsky (1918–2010), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli physical chemist, fifth president of the

Weizmann Institute of Science The Weizmann Institute of Science ( he, מכון ויצמן למדע ''Machon Vaitzman LeMada'') is a public research university in Rehovot, Israel, established in 1934, 14 years before the State of Israel. It differs from other Israeli unive ...

Herbert Henry Dow Herbert Henry Dow (February 26, 1866 – October 15, 1930) was a Canadian-born American chemical industrialist who founded the American multinational conglomerate Dow Chemical. He was a graduate of Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, ...

(1866–1930), American industrial chemist, known for

bromine Bromine is a chemical element with the symbol Br and atomic number 35. It is the third-lightest element in group 17 of the periodic table ( halogens) and is a volatile red-brown liquid at room temperature that evaporates readily to form a simi ...

extraction *

Cornelius Drebbel Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel ( ) (1572 – 7 November 1633) was a Dutch engineer and inventor. He was the builder of the first operational submarine in 1620 and an innovator who contributed to the development of measurement and control systems, ...

(1572–1633), Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist * Vratislav Ducháček (1941–2018), Czech chemist *

Carl Duisberg Friedrich Carl Duisberg (29 September 1861 – 19 March 1935) was a German chemist and industrialist. Life Duisberg was born in Barmen, Germany. From 1879 to 1882, he studied at the Georg August University of Göttingen and Friedrich Schiller Un ...

(1861–1935), German chemist, early administrative industrial chemist *

Jean Baptiste Dumas Jean Baptiste André Dumas (14 July 180010 April 1884) was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring v ...

(1800–1884), French chemist, work on atomic weights * Helen Dyer (1895–1998), American biochemist and early cancer researcher

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* Sandra Eaton, American chemist notable for work on electron paramagnetic resonance * Eilaf Egap, American chemist *

Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich (; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure ...

(1854–1915), German chemist, winner of the 1908

Arthur Eichengrün Arthur Eichengrün (13 August 1867 – 23 December 1949) was a German Jewish chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until th ...

(1867–1949), German chemist *

Manfred Eigen Manfred Eigen (; 9 May 1927 – 6 February 2019) was a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions. Eigen's research helped solve major problems in physical chemistry and ...

(1927–2019), German chemist, winner of the 1967

Mostafa El-Sayed Mostafa A. El-Sayed (Arabic: مصطفى السيد) is an Egyptian-American physical chemist, a leading nanoscience researcher, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a US National Medal of Science laureate. He was the editor-in-chief ...

(born 1933), Egyptian-American physical chemist * Fausto Elhuyar (1755–1833), Spanish chemist, discoverer of

tungsten Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with the symbol W and atomic number 74. Tungsten is a rare metal found naturally on Earth almost exclusively as compounds with other elements. It was identified as a new element in 1781 and first isol ...

* Lorne Elias, Canadian chemist, inventor of the explosives vapour detector EVD-1 *

Gertrude B. Elion Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovat ...

(1918–1999), American biochemist and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine *

Conrad Elvehjem Conrad Arnold Elvehjem (May 27, 1901July 27, 1962) was internationally known as an American biochemist in nutrition. In 1937 he identified two vitamins, nicotinic acid, also known as niacin, and nicotinamide, which were deficient directly in hum ...

(1901–1962), American biochemist, discovered

niacin Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid, is an organic compound and a form of vitamin B3, an essential human nutrient. It can be manufactured by plants and animals from the amino acid tryptophan. Niacin is obtained in the diet from a variet ...

Harry Julius Emeléus Harry Julius Emeléus CBE, FRS (22 June 1903 – 2 December 1993) was a leading English inorganic chemist and a professor in the department of chemistry, Cambridge University. Early life Emeléus was born in Poplar, London on 22 June 1903, t ...

(1903–1993), British inorganic chemist *

Gladys Anderson Emerson Gladys Ludwina Anderson Emerson (July 1, 1903 – January 18, 1984) was an American historian, biochemist and nutritionist who researched the impact of vitamins on the body. She was the first person to isolate Vitamin E in a pure form, and won th ...

(1903–1984), American chemist and early nutritionist, and the first person to isolate Vitamin E * Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), German chemist *

Richard R. Ernst Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate. Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic ...

(1933–2021), 1991

* Gerhard Ertl (born 1936), German physical chemist, 2007

Nobel prize in chemistry ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of a bearded man facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then "M ...

* Margaret C. Etter (1943–1992), American chemist and developer of solid state chemistry for crystalline organic compounds *

Hans von Euler-Chelpin Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin (15 February 1873 – 6 November 1964) was a German-born Swedish biochemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 with Arthur Harden for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and enzy ...

(1873–1964), Swedish chemist, winner of the 1929

* Henry Eyring (1901–1981), Mexican-American theoretical chemist

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* Kazimierz Fajans (1887–1975), Polish-American physical chemist *

Michael Faraday Michael Faraday (; 22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic inducti ...

(1791–1867), chemist and physicist, discovered

Benzene Benzene is an organic chemical compound with the molecular formula C6H6. The benzene molecule is composed of six carbon atoms joined in a planar ring with one hydrogen atom attached to each. Because it contains only carbon and hydrogen atoms ...

Hermann von Fehling Hermann von Fehling (9 June 1812 – 1 July 1885) was a German chemist, famous as the developer of Fehling's solution used for estimation of sugar. Biography Hermann von Fehling was born in Lübeck. With the intention of taking up pharmacy he ...

(1812–1885), German chemist *

John Bennett Fenn John Bennett Fenn (June 15, 1917December 10, 2010) was an American professor of analytical chemistry who was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. Fenn shared half of the award with Koichi Tanaka for their work in mass spectro ...

(1917–2010), 2002

Enrico Fermi Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" an ...

(1901–1954), Nuclear Chemist and Elementary Particle Physicist,

1938 *

Mary Peters Fieser Mary Peters Fieser (May 27, 1909 – March 22, 1997) was an American chemist best known for the many books she wrote with her husband Louis Fieser. Biography She was born Mary Peters in 1909 in Atchison, Kansas.. Her father, Robert Peters, was a ...

(1909–1997), American chemist and author of chemistry books * Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts, Canadian-American atmospheric chemist *

Hermann Emil Fischer Hermann Emil Louis Fischer (; 9 October 1852 – 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of draw ...

(1852–1919), 1902

, (actual name Hermann Emil Fischer, see below) not to be confused with: *

Franz Joseph Emil Fischer Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (19 March 1877 in Freiburg im Breisgau – 1 December 1947 in Munich) was a German chemist. He was the founder and first director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Coal Research. He is known for the discovery of t ...

(1877–1947), German chemist, co-discovered the Fischer–Tropsch process * Emily V. Fischer (born 1979/1980), American chemist notable for work on the WE-CAN project and on peroxyacetyl nitrate * Ernst Gottfried Fischer (1754–1831), German chemist * Ernst Otto Fischer (1918–2007), German chemist, 1973

winner * Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German organic chemist, 1930

winner * Nellie Ivy Fisher (1907–1995), London-born industrial chemist *

Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (6 December 183519 November 1910) was a German chemist. He discovered the pinacol coupling reaction, mesitylene, diacetyl and biphenyl. Fittig studied the action of sodium on ketones and hydrocarbons. He discovered the Fit ...

(1835–1910), German chemist, co-discovered Wurtz–Fittig reaction * Edith M. Flanigen (born 1929), American chemist known for synthesizing emeralds and zeolites *

Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy Antoine is a French given name (from the Latin ''Antonius'' meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin. The name is used in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West Greenland, Haiti, French Guiana ...

(1775–1809), co-discovered the element

Iridium Iridium is a chemical element with the symbol Ir and atomic number 77. A very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group, it is considered the second-densest naturally occurring metal (after osmium) with a density o ...

and developed modern chemical notation *

Nicolas Flamel Nicolas Flamel (; 1330 – 22 March 1418) was a French scribe and manuscript-seller. After his death, Flamel developed a reputation as an alchemist believed to have created and discovered the philosopher's stone and to have thereby achieved im ...

(c. 1330–1418), French

alchemist Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim ...

Paul Flory Paul John Flory (June 19, 1910 – September 9, 1985) was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules. He was a leading pioneer in understanding the behavior of polymers in so ...

(1910–1985), 1974

* Maria Forsyth, Australian researcher, new plastic materials for batteries * Margaret D. Foster (1895–1970), Manhattan Project chemist and the first female chemist to work for the United States Geological Survey *Joanna Fowler (born 1942), American neural chemist *Michelle Francl, American computational chemist *Edward Frankland (1825–1899), English chemist, originated the concept of valence (chemistry), valence *Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British Chemist and Crystallographer *Katherine Franz (born 1972), American chemist noted for work in metal ion coordination in biological systems *Herman Frasch (1851–1914), German mining engineer and inventor, pioneered the Frasch process *Bertram Fraser-Reid (1934 – 2020), Jamaican synthetic organic chemist who developed the Glycosyl donor, armed-disarmed principle in glycosylation chemistry. He constructed the largest ever synthetic hetero-oligosaccharide without the use of automated methods. *Helen Murray Free (1923–2021), American chemist who developed self-testing systems for diabetes *Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist *Ida Freund (1863–1914), first woman to be a university chemistry lecturer in the UK *Charles Friedel (1832–1899), French chemist, developer of

*Alexander Naumovich Frumkin (1895–1976), electrochemist and chemist *Kenichi Fukui (1918–1998), 1981

*Elizabeth Fulhame (18th–19th centuries), British chemist, pioneer in the study of catalysis *Vera Furness (1921–2002), English chemist and industrial manager

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*Johan Gadolin (1760–1852), Finns, Finnish chemist *Merrill Garnett (born 1930), American biochemist *Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), French chemist and physicist, discovered the Gay-Lussac law *Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856), French chemist, synthesized acetylsalicylic acid *William Giauque (1895–1982), 1949

*Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903), American engineer, chemist and physicist *Walter Gilbert (born 1932), 1980

*Henry Gilman (1893–1986), American chemist, discovered the Gilman reagent *Judith Giordan, American chemist and professor; 2014 American Chemical Society Henry Whalen Award *Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604–1670), Dutch-German alchemist and chemist *Lawrence E. Glendenin (1918–2008), American chemist, co-discovered the element

*Leopold Gmelin (1788–1853), German chemist, discovered potassium ferricyanide *Theodore Nicolas Gobley (1811–1874), French chemist, pioneer in brain tissues analysis, discoverer of lecithin *Adolph Goetting (1851–1929), German chemist, worked for Avon Products, California Perfume Company *Sulamith Goldhaber (1923–1965), Austrian-American chemist, high-energy physicist, and molecular spectroscopist *Victor Goldschmidt (1888–1947), father of modern geochemistry *Moses Gomberg (1866–1947), Russian-American chemist, known for pioneering work in radical (chemistry), radical chemistry *Mary L. Good (1931–2019), American inorganic chemist *David van Goorle also called Gorlaeus (1591–1612), Dutch chemist, one of the first modern atomists *Loney Gordon (1915–1999), American chemist who assisted in creating the pertussis vaccine *Carl Gräbe (1841–1927), German chemist, discovered the dye alizarin *Thomas Graham (chemist), Thomas Graham (1805–1869), Scottish chemist, Dialysis (chemistry), dialysis and diffusion *Harry B. Gray (born 1935), 2004

*Martha Greenblatt (born 1941), American solid state inorganic chemist, 2003 American Chemical Society's Garvan-Olin Medal *Bettye Washington Greene (1935–1995), American researcher on latex and polymers *Sandra C. Greer (born 1945) American chemist notable for work on thermodynamics of fluids, polymer solutions and phase transitions *Victor Grignard, François Auguste Victor Grignard (1871–1935), 1912

corecipient *Robert H. Grubbs (1942–2021), 2005

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*Fritz Haber (1868–1934), German chemist, 1918

, father of the Haber process *Dorothy Hahn (1876–1950), early American organic chemist and ultraviolet spectroscopist *Otto Hahn (1879–1968), German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission, 1944

, father of nuclear chemistry *Sossina M. Haile (born 1966), American chemist notable for developing the first solid acid fuel cells *Naomi Halas, American biochemist focusing on nanoshells and nanophotonics *J. B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892–1962), British and Indian biochemist, geneticist and evolutionary biologist *John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), British biochemist *Charles Martin Hall (1863–1914), American chemist, famous for Hall-Héroult process *Frances Mary Hamer (1894–1980), British chemist who specialized in photographic sensitization compounds *George S. Hammond (1921–2005), American chemist, famous for Hammond's postulate *Arthur Harden (1865–1940), English biochemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 *Elizabeth Hardy (chemist), Elizabeth Hardy (1915–2008), American chemist and discoverer of the Cope rearrangement *Anna J. Harrison (1912–1998), first female President of the American Chemical Society *Odd Hassel (1897–1981), Norwegian chemist 1969 Nobel Prize in chemistry *Charles Hatchett (1765–1847), English chemist who discovered niobium *Herbert A. Hauptman (1917–2011), 1985 Nobel Prize in chemistry *Robert Havemann (1910–1982), chemist *Walter Lincoln Hawkins, Walter Hawkins (1911–1992), African American chemist, widely regarded as a pioneer of polymer chemistry. Co-invented a polymer with antioxidants that prevented deterioration even in extreme temperatures.  *Walter Haworth (1883–1950), 1937 Nobel Prize in chemistry *Sam Hay (Chemist), Sam Hay, New Zealand chemist *Alma Levant Hayden (1927–1967), American spectrophotometer at the National Institutes of Health *Jabir Ibn Hayyan (722–804), Persian-Arab chemist and alchemist *Clayton Heathcock (born 1936), American chemist *Alan J. Heeger (born 1936), 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry *Jan Baptist van Helmont (1579–1644), The founder of pneumatic chemistry *Dudley R. Herschbach (born 1932), American chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry *Avram Hershko (born 1937), 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry *Charles Herty (1867–1938), American chemist *Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999), German-Canadian chemist, 1971

*Germain Henri Hess (1802–1850), Swiss-born Russian chemist, namesake of Hess's Law *George de Hevesy (1885–1966), Hungarian born chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943 *Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967), Czech Republic, Czech chemist, 1959

*Evelyn Hickmans (1883–1972), British biochemist, pioneer in treatment of phenylketonuria *Joel Hildebrand (18811983) American educator and chemist specializing in liquids and nonelectrolyte solutions *Mary Elliott Hill (1907–1969), American chemist who developed analytic methodology for ultraviolet light *Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897–1967), English physical chemist and winner of the shared

in Chemistry in 1956 *Gladys Lounsbury Hobby (1910–1993), American microbiologist known for development and early understanding of antibiotics *Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry *Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911), Netherlands, Dutch physical chemistry, physical chemist, 1901

*Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Swiss chemist, synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) *August Wilhelm Hofmann (1818–1892), German chemist, first to isolate sorbic acid *Darleane C. Hoffman (born 1926), American nuclear chemist *Friedrich Hoffmann (1660–1742), physician and chemist *Roald Hoffmann (born 1937), Polish-born American chemist, 1981

*Mei Hong (chemist), Mei Hong (born 1970), Chinese-American biophysical chemist *Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947), British biochemist, known for discovery of vitamins,

in 1929 *Marjorie G. Horning (1917–2020), American biochemist and pioneer of chromatography *Linda Hsieh-Wilson, American chemist, California Institute of Technology *Heinrich Hubert Maria Josef Houben (1875–1940) German organic chemist *Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801–1887), Dutch chemist and chocolate maker, invented cocoa powder *Amir H. Hoveyda, U.S.-based chemist working in asymmetric catalysis *Benjamin Hsiao (born 1958), Asian American chemist at Stony Brook University, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Chemical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science *Marcia Huber, American chemical engineer and 2005 Department of Commerce Bronze Medal winner *Robert Huber (born 1937), 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry *Catherine T. Hunt (born 1955), American chemist, president American Chemical Society and Dow Chemical Company director

I

*Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893–1970), English chemist *Vladimir Ipatieff (1867–1952), Russian-American chemist, known for organic synthesis

J

*Nancy B. Jackson (1956–2022), American chemist *Marilyn E. Jacox (1929–2013), American chemist and National Institute of Standards and Technology fellow *Hope Jahren (born 1969), American chemist and isotope analyst *Paul Janssen (1926–2003), Belgian founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica *Allene Jeanes (1906–1995), American chemist who developed Dextran to replace plasma in the Korean War *Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), French chemist and physicist, 1935

*Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and physicist, 1935

*Madeleine M. Joullié (born 1927), French-American organic chemist and first woman to have an American tenure track position in organic chemistry *Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), African American organic chemist who was a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal Medication, drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine.

K

*Henri B. Kagan (born 1930), 2001

*Isabella Karle (1921–2017), American chemist instrumental for extracting plutonium chloride from a mixture containing plutonium oxide *Jerome Karle (1918–2013), 1985

*Paul Karrer (1889–1971), 1937

*Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783–1857) *Alan R. Katritzky (1928–2014) Pioneer in heterocyclic chemistry *Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (1929–2016), American chemist and inventor of conformational topology *Melinda H. Keefe, American chemist and research and development director at the Dow Chemical Company *Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, August Kekulé (1829–1896), German organic chemist *Sinah Estelle Kelley (1916–1982), American chemist who helped pioneer mass production of penicillin *John Kendrew (1917–1997), 1962

*Ann Kiessling (born 1942), American chemist and reproductive biologist *Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864), Dutch chemist, inventor of Kipp-generator *Johan Kjeldahl (1849–1900), Danish chemist, head chemist at Carlsberg Brewery, methods still in use *Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743–1817), German chemist, discovered the element uranium *Trevor Kletz (1922–2013) British promoter of industrial safety *Aaron Klug (1926–2018), winner of the 1982

*Emil Knoevenagel (1865–1921) *Jeremy R. Knowles, Jeremy Randall Knowles (1935–2008), British organic chemist *William Standish Knowles (1917–2012), 2001

*Walter Kohn (1923–2016), 1998

*Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), German chemist known for Kolbe nitrile synthesis *Izaak Kolthoff (1894–1993), Dutch-American chemist, the "Father of analytical chemistry, Analytical Chemistry" *Roger D. Kornberg (born 1947), 2006

*Hans A. Krebs (1900–1981), German biochemist, work on metabolic cycles *Harold Kroto (1939–2016), English chemist, 1996

*Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), 1938

*Eugenia Kumacheva, polymer chemist

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*Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), chemist, physicist, 1932

*Auguste Laurent (1807–1853), French chemist, discovered anthracene *Paul Lauterbur (1929–2007), American chemist *Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794), French pioneer chemist *Nicolas Leblanc (1742–1806), French chemist and surgeon *Henri Louis Le Chatelier (1850–1936) *Yuan T. Lee (born 1936), winner of 1986

*Valery Legasov (1936–1988), Soviet inorganic chemist known for his position as head of the Chernobyl Commission for the Chernobyl Disaster *Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1939), French chemist, shared 1987

*Luis Federico Leloir (1906–1987), Argentine biochemist and winner of the 1970

*Raymond Lemieux (1920–2000), 1999

*Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875–1946), American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry *Andreas Libavius (1555–1616), German doctor and chemist *Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842–1914), German chemist, known for synthesis of alizarin *Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist, winner of 1960

*Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), German inventor and pioneer in agricultural and biological chemistry *Karl Paul Link (1901–1978), American biochemist, discovered the anticoagulant warfarin *Jack Linnett, John Wilfrid Linnett (1913–1975), British chemist at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. *William Lipscomb (1919–2011), 1976

*Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912), English surgeon *Arthur H. Livermore (1915–2009), science educator and chemist *Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian scientist, anticipated the kinetic-molecular theory by 100 years *H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923–2004), British chemist *Janis Louie, (born 1971) American chemist *Martin Lowry (1874–1936), British chemist *Sima Lozanić (1847–1935), Serbs, Serbian chemist *Alfred Lucas (chemist), Alfred Lucas (1867–1945), Egypt-based English chemist and archaeologist *Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1802–1882), Polish pharmacist

M

*Alan MacDiarmid (1927–2007), 2000

*Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry (1904–1993), Dutch chemist and crystallographer *Roderick MacKinnon (born 1956), 2003

*Pierre Macquer (1718–1784), influential French chemist *Rudolph A. Marcus (born 1923), 1992

*Jacob A. Marinsky (1918–2005), American chemist, co-discovered the element

*Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817–1894), Swiss chemist, discovered ytterbium and co-discovered gadolinium *Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov (1838–1904) *Tobin J. Marks (born 1944), American inorganic chemist and material scientist *Alan G. Marshall (born 1944), American chemist, co-inventor of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry *Archer John Porter Martin (1910–2002), 1952

*Martin van Marum, Martinus van Marum (1750–1837), Dutch chemist *Elmer McCollum (1879–1967), American biochemist, known for work of diet on health *Edwin McMillan (1907–1991), 1951

*Lise Meitner (1878–1968), German physicist *Dmitri Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907), Russian chemist, creator of the Periodic table of elements *John Mercer (scientist), John Mercer (1791–1866), chemist and industrialist *Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921–2006), solid-phase chemist, 1984

*Julius Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), German chemist, important work on The periodic table of elements; not to be confused with: *Viktor Meyer (1848–1897) * Dan Meyerstein (born 1938), Israeli chemist and president of Ariel University *August Michaelis (1847–1916), German chemist *Leonor Michaelis (1875–1949), German biochemist and physical chemist *Hartmut Michel (born 1948), 1988

*Huang Minlon (1889–1979), Chinese chemist *Stanley Miller (1930–2007), American chemist, best known for the Miller–Urey experiment *Eugène Millon (1812–1867), French chemist *David P. Mills, British chemist *Luis E. Miramontes (1925–2004), co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill *Peter D. Mitchell (1920–1992), 1978

*William A. Mitchell (1911–2004), key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang (drink), Tang, and Kool Whip *Eilhardt Mitscherlich (1794–1863) German chemist, remembered for the law of isomorphism. *Alexander Mitscherlich (chemist), Alexander Mitscherlich (1836–1918), chemist *Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806–1879), German chemist famous for first musings on the Conservation of energy *Henri Moissan (1852–1907), French chemist and the winner of the 1906

*Mario J. Molina (1943–2020), 1995

*Jacques Monod (1910–1976), biochemist, winner of

in 1965 *Jeffrey S. Moore (chemist), Jeffrey S. Moore (born 1961), American material chemist *Peter Moore (chemist), Peter Moore (born 1939), American biochemist, Sterling Professor, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University *Stanford Moore (1913–1982), 1972

*Hamilton Morris (born 1987), American chemist, creator and director of the television series ''Hamilton's Pharmacopeia'' *Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887–1915), English physicist, discovered Moseley's law *Gerardus Johannes Mulder (1802–1880), Dutch organic chemist *Paul Hermann Müller, Paul Müller (1899–1965), Swiss chemist, discovered DDT, won the

in 1939 *Robert S. Mulliken (1896–1986), American physicist, chemist, 1966

*Kary Mullis (1944–2019), 1993

*Earl Muetterties (1927–1984), American chemist *Catherine J. Murphy (born 1964), American chemist and materials scientist

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*Robert Nalbandyan (1937–2002), Armenian protein chemist *Louise Natrajan, British chemist *Giulio Natta (1903–1979), Italian chemist, 1963

*Costin Nenitescu (1902–1970), Romanian chemist *Antonio Neri (1576–1614), Florentine chemist and glassmaker *Walther Nernst (1864–1941), German chemist, 1920

*John Alexander Reina Newlands (1837–1898), English analytical chemist *William Nicholson (chemist), William Nicholson (1753–1815), English chemist *Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou (born 1946), Cypriot-American chemist *Julius Nieuwland (1878–1936), American chemist, work on synthetic rubber leading to neoprene *Mathias Nilsson, Swedish chemist *Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist *Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897–1978), 1967

*John Howard Northrop (1891–1987), 1946

*Ryōji Noyori (born 1938), 2001

, 2001

*Ralph Nuzzo (born 1954), American chemist and materials scientist

O

*George Andrew Olah (1927–2017), 1994

*Marilyn Olmstead (1943-2020) chemist, expert in small molecule crystallography *Fred Olsen (1891–1986), inventor of the ball propellant manufacturing process *Lars Onsager (1903–1976), physical chemistry, physical chemist, 1968

*Tony Orchard (1941–2005), British inorganic chemist, photoelectron spectroscopist *Joan Oró (1923–2004), Catalan people, Catalan biochemist, one of his most important contributions was the prebiotic synthesis of the nucleobase adenine from hydrogen cyanide *Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), first to isolate aluminium *Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932), 1909

*Larry E. Overman (born 1943), transition-metal catalysis in synthesis *Geoffrey Ozin (born 1943), materials chemist

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*Paracelsus (1493–1541), alchemist *Rudolph Pariser (born 1923), theoretical chemistry, theoretical and organic chemistry, organic chemist *Robert G. Parr (1921–2017), theoretical chemistry, theoretical chemist *Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French biochemist, father of pasteurization *Linus Pauling (1901–1994),

s in chemistry and peace *Charles J. Pedersen (1904–1989), 1987

*Eugène-Melchior Péligot (1811–1890), French chemist who isolated the uranium metal *Sir William Henry Perkin, William Henry Perkin (1838–1907), British organic chemist and inventor of mauveine (dye) *William Henry Perkin, Jr. (1860–1929), British organic chemist, son of Sir William Henry Perkin *Max Perutz (1914–2002), 1962

*Eva Philbin (1914–2005), Irish chemist *David Andrew Phoenix (born 1966), biochemist *Georgy Pigulevsky (1888-1964), Russian chemist and biochemist *Roy J. Plunkett (1910–1994), discoverer of Polytetrafluoroethylene, Teflon *John Charles Polanyi (born 1929), Canadian chemist,

1986 *John Pople, John A. Pople (1925–2004), theoretical chemistry, theoretical chemist, 1998

*Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Vera Vevstafievna Popova (1867–1896), one of the first female Russian chemists *George Porter (1920–2002), 1967

*Fritz Pregl (1869–1930), Slovene-German chemist,

1923 *Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998), 1975

*Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), no formal training as a scientist, discovered the element oxygen *Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003), 1977

*Joseph Louis Proust (1754–1826), discovered the Law of definite proportions

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*Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952), 2009

*William Ramsay (1852–1916), Scottish chemist, 1904

*C. N. R. Rao (born 1934), Indian chemist *François-Marie Raoult (1830–1901), French chemist, known for Raoult's law *Henry Rapoport (1918–2002), American chemist, UC Berkeley *William Sage Rapson (1912–1999), South African chemist and co-author of Gold Usage *Ken Raymond (born 1942), American inorganic and Bioinorganic chemistry, bioinorganic chemist, UC Berkeley *Julius Rebek (born 1944), Hungarian American chemist *Charles Lee Reese (1862–1940), American chemist and Chemical Director of DuPont *Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French chemist and physicist *Tadeus Reichstein (1897–1996), chemist, 1950

*Rhazes (Razi) (865–925), Iranian chemist *Stuart A. Rice (born 1932), physical chemist *Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist *Theodore William Richards (1868–1928), 1914

*Wim Richter (1946–2019), South Africa *Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762–1807), German chemist, first used the term stoichiometry *Nikolaus Riehl (1901–1990), German chemist *Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), Spanish-Mexican geochemist, discovered vanadium *Robert Robinson (organic chemist), Robert Robinson (1886–1975), 1947

*Pierre Jean Robiquet (1780–1840), French chemist, discovered caffeine, alizarin, cantharidin *Hillar Rootare (1928–2008), Estonian-American physical chemist *Irwin Rose (1926–2015), 2004

*Guillaume-François Rouelle (1703–1770), French chemist *Hilaire-Marin Rouelle (1718–1779), French chemist *Frank Sherwood Rowland (1927–2012), 1995

*Daniel Rutherford (1749–1819), Scottish chemist *Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), New Zealand born chemist and nuclear physicist. Discovered the proton.

1908 *Leopold Ruzicka (Lavoslav Ružička) (1887–1976), 1939

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*Paul Sabatier (chemist), Paul Sabatier (1854–1941), 1912

corecipient *Frederick Sanger (1918–2013), 1958 and 1980

*Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), Swedish 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements *Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799–1868), German-Swiss chemist, invented the fuel cell, and discovered gun cotton and ozone *Stuart L. Schreiber (born 1956), American chemist, a pioneer in a field of chemical biology *Richard R. Schrock (born 1945), 2005

*Peter G. Schultz, Peter Schultz (born 1956), American chemist *Glenn T. Seaborg (1912–1999), 1951

*Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787–1845), chemist *Francesco Selmi (1817–1881), Italian chemist *Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (1896–1986), physicist and chemist, 1956

*K. Barry Sharpless (born 1941), 2001

, 2001

*Dan Shechtman (born 1941), 2011

, discovered quasicrystals *Patsy O. Sherman (1930–2008), 12 US patents *John Sherwood (chemist), John Sherwood (died 2020), British physical chemist *Nevil Vincent Sidgwick (1873–1952), English theoretical chemist, known for work in valence (chemistry), valency *Osamu Shimomura (1928–2018), 2008

*Hideki Shirakawa (born 1936), 2000

*Alexander Shulgin (1925–2014), pioneer researcher in Psychopharmacology and Entheogens *Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (1897–1994), Pakistani chemist, pioneer in natural products chemistry *Oktay Sinanoglu (1935–2015), Turkey, Turkish chemist *Joseph H. Simons (1897–1983), U.S. chemist, discoverer of fluorocarbons, used in gaseous diffusion of Uranium for Manhattan project *Jens Christian Skou (1918–2018), 1997

*Richard Smalley (1943–2005), 1996

*Michael Smith (chemist), Michael Smith (1932–2000), 1993

*Ascanio Sobrero (1812–1888), Italian chemist, discoverer of nitroglycerin *Frederick Soddy (1877–1956), British chemist, 1921

*Susan Solomon (born 1956), American atmospheric chemist *Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), Belgian chemist and industrialist *S.P.L. Sørensen (1868–1939), Danish chemist *Gabor A. Somorjai (born 1935), 1998

*Georg Ernst Stahl (1659–1734), Important work on fermentation *Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904–1971), 1946

*Jean Servais Stas (1813–1891), Belgian analytical chemist *Branko Stanovnik (born 1938), chemist *Hermann Staudinger (1881–1965), polymer chemist, 1953

*Harry Steenbock (1886–1967), American biochemist, work on ultraviolet irradiation *William Howard Stein (1911–1980), 1972

*Thomas A. Steitz (1940–2018), 2009

*Douglas Stephan, Frustrated Lewis Pairs *Alfred Stock (1876–1946), German inorganic chemist, known for work in mercury poisoning *James Fraser Stoddart, Fraser Stoddart (born 1942), Scottish chemist, a pioneer in the field of the mechanical bond *Molly Shoichet, award-winning Canadian biomedical engineer known for her work in tissue engineering. She is the only person to be a fellow of the three National Academies in Canada *F. Gordon A. Stone (1925–2011), British inorganic chemist *S. Donald Stookey (1915–2014), American glass and ceramic chemist *Gilbert Stork (1921–2017), 1995/6

*Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), German organic chemist, principal founder of chemical structure *James B. Sumner (1887–1955), 1946

*Kenneth S. Suslick (born 1952), professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, known for optoelectronic nose *Edwin Sutermeister (1876–1958), American chemist, known for its work on papermaking *Theodor Svedberg (1884–1971), 1926

*Joseph Swan (1828–1914), English physicist, chemist and inventor *Frédéric Swarts (1866–1940), Belgian chemist, prepared the first chlorofluorocarbon compound *Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914–1994), 1952

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*Koichi Tanaka (born 1959), 2002

*Henry Taube (1915–2005), 1983

*Louis Jacques Thénard (1777–1857), French chemist, discovered hydrogen peroxide and cobalt blue, Thenard's Blue *Sir Harold Warris Thompson (1908–1983), English physical chemist *J. J. Thomson (1856–1940), British physicist, Known in chemistry for discovery of isotopes *Don Tilley, T. Don Tilley (born 1954), organometallic chemist *Arne Tiselius (1902–1971), 1948

*Max Tishler (1906–1989), 1970

*Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd (1907–1997), 1957

*Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), Italian physicist and chemist who invented the barometer, pupil of Galileo *Roger Y. Tsien (1952–2016), 2008

*Mikhail Tsvet (1872–1919), Russian botanist, known for adsorption chromatography *Kristy Turner, British chemist

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*Georges Urbain (1872–1938), French chemist, discovered the element lutetium *Harold Clayton Urey (1893–1981), 1934

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*Lauri Vaska (1925–2015), Estonian/American chemist *Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763–1829), Discovered the elements beryllium and chromium *Vincent du Vigneaud (1901–1978), 1955

*Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895–1973), chemist, Nobel Prize laureate *Max Volmer, Germany (1885–1965) *Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), electrochemist, invented the voltaic cell

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*Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923) *James Walker (chemist), Sir James Walker (1863–1935), Scottish physical chemist *John E. Walker (born 1941), 1997

*Otto Wallach (1847–1931), German chemist, 1910

*John Warner (chemist), John Warner (born 1962), American chemist, 2014 Perkin Medal, one of the "founders" of green chemistry *Alfred Werner (1866–1919), Swiss chemist, 1913

*Thomas Summers West (1927–2010), British analytical chemist *Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997) *Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952), Russian chemist, developed the Acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation, ABE-process *George M. Whitesides (born 1939), American chemist *John Rex Whinfield (1901–1966), British chemist, discovered polyester fibres *Otto Wichterle (1913-1998), Czech chemist, known for inventing modern contact lenses *Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957), German chemist 1927

*Julius Wilbrand (1839–1906), inventor of Trinitrotoluene, TNT *Harvey W. Wiley (1844–1930), American chemist, pure food and drug advocate *Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996), 1973

*Alexander William Williamson (1824–1904), English chemist, famous for Williamson ether synthesis *Thomas Willson (1860–1915), Canadians, Canadian chemist, discovered an economically efficient process for creating calcium carbide *Richard Willstätter (1872–1942), 1915

*Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (1876–1959), 1928

*Günter Wirths (1911–2005), German chemist *Georg Wittig (1897–1987), 1979

*Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea *William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), English chemist, discovered the elements palladium and rhodium *Robert Burns Woodward, Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), 1965

*Charles de Worms (1903–1979) *Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884), Alsace, Alsatian French chemist, discovered the Wurtz reaction *Kurt Wüthrich (born 1938), 2002

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*Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (born 1962), chemist at Harvard University. A pioneer in the field of Single Molecule Microscopy and Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy, CARS (Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy) microscopy *Xie Yi (born 1967), China, Chinese chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Y

*Ada Yonath (born 1939), 2006/7

, 2009

*Sabir Yunusov (1909–1995), Soviet Union, Soviet chemist (alkaloids)

Z

*Richard Zare (born 1939), 2005

*Nikolay Zelinsky (1861–1953), Russian and Soviet Organic chemist, inventor of the first effective gas mask (1915) *Ahmed H. Zewail (1946–2016), Egyptian, 1999

for his work on femtochemistry *Karl Ziegler (1898–1973), 1963

*Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865–1929), 1925

Chemists famous in other areas

*Xi Jinping (born 1953), General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the People's Republic of China, President of China *Marion Barry (1936–2014), Masters in Organic Chemistry, American politician *

(1833–1887), Russian chemist and composer *Jerry Buss (1934–2013), PhD in Physical Chemistry, owner of the NBA LA Lakers and other sports franchises *Catherine Coleman (born 1960), American chemist and retired NASA astronaut who went on two Space Shuttle missions *Emmanuel Dongala (born 1941), Congolese chemist and novelist *Elizabeth J. Feinler (born 1931), American information scientist and past director of the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute *Marye Anne Fox (1947–2021), American chemist and university chancellor *Dolph Lundgren (born 1957), Masters in Chemistry, Swedish actor *Primo Levi (1919–1987), resistance fighter, chemist and novelist *Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian chemist, historian, philologist, and poet *Angela Merkel (born 1954), doctorate in quantum chemistry, Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), Chancellor of Germany (2005–2021) *Gaspard Monge (1746–1818), invented descriptive geometry *Francis Muguet (1955–2009), advocate of open information access *Edward W. Morley (1838–1923), performed the Michelson–Morley experiment *Knute Rockne (1888–1931), head football coach of Notre Dame *Elio Di Rupo (born 1951), Prime Minister of Belgium *Israel Shahak (1933–2001) *Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990), research chemist at BX Plastics

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