List of chemists

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This is a list of famous chemists: (alphabetical order)

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] C

Melvin Calvin, (1911–1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Georg Ludwig Carius, (1829–1875), German chemist
Heinrich Caro, (1834–1910), German chemist
Wallace Carothers, (1896–1937), American chemist
Henry Cavendish, (1731–1810), British scientist
Yves Chauvin, (born 1930), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ernst Cohen, (1869–1944), Dutch chemist (murdered in Auschwitz)
Elias James Corey, (born 1928), American organic chemist, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John Cornforth, (born 1917), Australian winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Paul J. Crutzen, (1933), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Marie Curie, (1867–1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
Pierre Curie, (1859–1906), 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
Robert Curl, (born 1933), winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Theodor Curtius, (1857–1928), German chemist

[edit] D

John Dalton, (1766–1844), physicist and pioneer of the atomic theory
Carl Peter Henrik Dam, (1895–1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Raymond Davis, Jr., (1914–2006), American physical chemist
Humphry Davy, (1778–1829)
Peter Debye, (1884–1966), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Sir James Dewar, (1842–1923)
François Diederich, (born 1952), Luxembourg chemist
Otto Diels, (1876–1954), German chemist, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Edward Doisy, (1893– 1986), American biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Davorin Dolar, (1921–2005), chemist from Univ. of Ljubljana
Emmanuel Dongala, Congolese chemist and novelist
David Adriaan van Dorp, (1915–1995), Dutch chemist
Cornelius Drebbel, (1572–1633), Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist
Jean Baptiste Dumas, (1800–1884), French chemist

[edit] E

Paul Ehrlich, (1854–1915), German chemist, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Arthur Eichengrün, (1867–1949)
Manfred Eigen, (born 1927), German chemist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Fausto Elhuyar, (1755–1833), Spanish chemist, discoverer of tungsten
Emil Erlenmeyer, (1825–1909), German chemist
Richard R. Ernst, (born 1933), 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Hans von Euler-Chelpin, (1873–1964), Swedish chemist, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Henry Eyring, (1901–1981), Mexican-American theoretical chemist

[edit] F

Kazimierz Fajans, (1887–1975), Polish-American physical chemist
Michael Faraday (1791–1867), scientist
Hermann von Fehling, (1812–1885), German chemist
Emil Fischer (1852–1919), 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, not to be confused with:
Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
Ernst Gottfried Fischer (1754–1831), German chemist
Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German organic chemist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British Chemist and Crystallographer
Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist
Wilhelm Fresenius (1913–2004), German chemist, great-grandson of Carl
Alexander Naumovich Frumkin (1895–1976), electrochemist and chemist

[edit] G

Johan Gadolin, (1760–1852), Finnish chemist
Merrill Garnett, (born 1930), American biochemist
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, (1778–1850), French chemist and physicist
Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839 – 1903), American engineer, chemist and physicist
Johann Rudolf Glauber, (1604–1670), Dutch-German alchemist and chemist
Victor Goldschmidt, (1888–1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry
Ljubo Golic, (born 1932), chemist.
David van Goorle also called Gorlaeus, (1591–1612), Dutch chemist
Thomas Graham, (1805–1869),
Francois Auguste Victor Grignard, (1871–1935), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
Robert H. Grubbs, (born 1942), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

[edit] H

Fritz Haber, (1868–1934) 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Otto Hahn, (1879–1968) 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John Scott Haldane,(1860–1936), British biochemist
Charles Martin Hall, (1863–1914), American chemist
Arthur Harden, (1865–1940), English biochemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929
Odd Hassel, (1897–1981), Norwegian chemist 1969 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Charles Hatchett, (1765–1847), English chemist who discovered niobium
Robert Havemann, (1910–1982), chemist.
Clayton Heathcock, American Chemist
Dudley R. Herschbach, (1932-), American chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Charles Herty, American Chemist
Gerhard Herzberg, (1904–1999), German-Canadian chemist, 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Germain Henri Hess, (1802–1850), Swiss-born Russian chemist
György von Hevesy, George de Hevesy, (1885–1966), Hungarian born chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943
Jaroslav Heyrovský, (1890–1967), Czech chemist, 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, (1897–1967), English physical chemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist, 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Friedrich Hoffmann, (1660–1742), physician and chemist
Roald Hoffmann, (born 1937), Polish-born American chemist, 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Albert Hofmann, (1906-2008), Swiss chemist, synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
August Wilhelm von Hofmann, (1818–1892) German organic chemist
Coenraad Johannes van Houten, (1801–1887), Dutch chemist and chocolate maker, invented cocoa powder
Amir H. Hoveyda, US-based chemist working in asymmetric catalysis

[edit] I

Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893–1970), English chemist

[edit] J

Paul Janssen (1926–2003), Belgian founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica.
Frederic Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), French chemist and physicist
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and physicist

[edit] K

Paul Karrer, (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783–1857)
August Kekulé, (1829–1896), German organic chemist
Petrus Jacobus Kipp, (1808–1864), Dutch chemist, inventor of Kipp-generator
Martin Heinrich Klaproth, (1743–1817), German chemist
Trevor Kletz (born 1922) British promoter of industrial safety
Aaron Klug, (born in 1926), winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Emil Knoevenagel, (1865–1921)
Walter Kohn, (born 1923), 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, (1818–1884)
Izaak Kolthoff, (1894–1993), Dutch-American chemist, the "Father of Analytical Chemistry"
Else Kooi, (1932–2001), Dutch chemist, developed isolation for MOS-transistors
Aleksandra Kornhauser, (born 1926), chemist.
Harold Kroto, (born 1939), English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

[edit] L

Irving Langmuir, (1881–1957), chemist, physicist
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)
Eun Lee, (born 1946), Korean organic chemist
Yuan T. Lee, (born 1936), winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Luis Federico Leloir, (1906–1987), Argentine biochemist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize
Janez Levec, (born 1943), chemist.
Primo Levi, (1919–1987), resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
Gilbert Newton Lewis, (1875–1946), American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry
Andreas Libavius, (1555–1616), German doctor and chemist
Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist, winner of 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Justus von Liebig, (1803–1873), German inventor
Teunis van der Linden, (1884–1965), Dutch chemist, developed insecticide lindane
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (1827–1912), English surgeon
H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, British Chemist
Martin Lowry, (1874–1936), British chemist
Ignacy Łukasiewicz, (1802–1882), Polish pharmacist

[edit] M

Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry, (1904–1993), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
Pierre Macquer, (1718–1784), influential French chemist
Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov, (1838–1904)
Alan G. Marshall, American chemist, co-inventor of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry
Martinus van Marum, (1750–1837), Dutch chemist
Lise Meitner, (1878–1968), German physicist
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, (1834–1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements
John Mercer, (1791–1866), chemist and industrialist
Robert Bruce Merrifield, (1921–2006), solid-phase chemist
Lothar Meyer, (1830–1895), not to be confused with :
Viktor Meyer, (1848–1897)
Stanley Miller (born 1930), American chemist, best known for the Miller-Urey experiment
Luis E. Miramontes (1925–2004), co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill
William A. Mitchell, (1911–2004), key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, and Kool Whip
Alexander Mitscherlic, (1836–1918), chemist
Henri Moissan, (1852–1907), French chemist and the winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize
Jacques Monod, (1910–1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
Peter Moore (born 1939), American biochemist, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915), English physicist, discovered Moseley's law
Gerardus Johannes Mulder, (1802–1880), Dutch organic chemist
Robert S. Mulliken, (1896–1986), American physicist, chemist

[edit] N

Robert Nalbandyan, (1937–2002), Armenian protein chemist
Giulio Natta, (1903–1979), Italian chemist, 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Costin Nenitescu, (1902–1970), Romanian chemist
Antonio Neri, (1500s–1614), Florentine chemist and glassmaker
Walther Nernst, (1864–1941), German chemist
John Alexander Reina Newlands, (1837–1898), English analytical chemist
William_Nicholson_(chemist), (1753–1815), English chemist
Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, American chemist
Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist
Ralph Nuzzo, American chemist and materials scientist

[edit] O

George Andrew Olah, (born 1927), 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Lars Onsager, (1903–1976), physical chemist, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Luitzen Johannes Oosterhoff, (1907–1974), Dutch chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald, (1853–1932), 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

[edit] P

Paracelsus, (1493–1541), alchemist
Rudolph Pariser, (born 1923), theoretical and organic chemist
Robert G. Parr, (born 1921), theoretical chemist
Louis Pasteur, (1822–1895), French biochemist
Linus Pauling, (1901–1994), Nobel Prizes in chemistry and peace
Eugène-Melchior Péligot, (1811-1890) French chemist who isolated the uranium metal
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
Roy J. Plunkett, (1910–1994), discoverer of Teflon
John Charles Polanyi, (born 1929), Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986.
John A. Pople, (1925–2004), theoretical chemist, 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Fritz Pregl, (1869–1930), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923.
Vladimir Prelog, (1906–1998), 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Joseph Priestley, (1733–1804)
Ilya Prigogine, (1917–2003), 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

[edit] Q

Ğilem Qamay (1901–1970), Soviet chemist

[edit] R

William Ramsay, (1852–1916), Scottish chemist
Henry Rapoport, American chemist, UC Berkeley
William Sage Rapson, South African Chemist and co-author of Gold Usage
Julius Rebek, (1944), Hungarian_American chemist.
Marij Rebek, chemist.
Jan Reedijk, (1943), Dutch inorganic chemist
Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French chemist and physicist
Tadeus Reichstein, (1897–1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Rhazes (Razi), (865–925)
Stuart A. Rice, (born 1932), physical chemist
Ellen Swallow Richards, (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist.
Jeremias Benjamin Richter, (1762–1807), German chemist
Nikolaus Riehl, Germany (1901–1990)
Andrés Manuel del Río, (1764–1849), Spanish-Mexican geochemist, discovered vanadium
Robert Robinson (1886-1975), Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Guillaume-François_Rouelle, (1703–1770), French chemist
Hillar Rootare (1928) Estonian-American Physical Chemist
H. M. Rouell, (1718–1779), French chemist
Daniel Rutherford, (1749–1819), Scottish chemist
Ernest Rutherford, (1871 – 1937), New Zealand born chemist and nuclear physicist. Discovered the Proton. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908
Leopold Ruzicka (Lavoslav Ružička) , (1887–1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

[edit] S

Paul Sabatier, (1854–1941), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
Maks Samec, (1844–1889), Slovenian chemist.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742–1786), Swedish 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements
Stuart L. Schreiber, (born 1956), American chemist, a pioneer in a field of chemical biology
Richard R. Schrock, (born 1945), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Glenn T. Seaborg, (1912–1999), 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nils Gabriel Sefström, (1787–1845), chemist.
Francesco Selmi, (1817–1881), Italian chemist.
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, (1896–1986), physicist and chemist, 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Israel Shahak, (1933–2001)
K. Barry Sharpless, (born 1941), 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Patsy O. Sherman (born 1930), 12 US Patents
Alexander Shulgin, (born 1925), Pioneer researcher in Psychopharmacology and Entheogens
Peter Schultz, American chemist
Oktay Sinanoglu, (born 1935), Turkish chemist
Ascanio Sobrero, (1812–1888), Italian chemist, discoverer of nitroglycerin
Frederick Soddy, (1877–1956), British chemist, 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Susan Solomon, American atmospheric chemist
Ernest Solvay, (1838–1922), Belgian chemist and industrialist
S.P.L. Sørensen, (1868–1939), Danish chemist
Wendell Meredith Stanley, (1904–1971), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Branko Stanovnik, (born 1938), chemist.
Hermann Staudinger, (1881–1965), polymer chemist, 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Alfred Stock, (1876–1946)
Fraser Stoddart, (born 1945), Scottish chemist, a pioneer in the field of the mechanical bond
Gilbert Stork
Theodor Svedberg, (1884–1971), 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Joseph Swan, (1828–1914), English physicist, chemist & inventor

[edit] T

Dr Alethea Tabor, Chemical Biologist
Henry Taube, (1915-2005), 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard Taylor, (1965-), Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of York
Miha Tisler, (born 1926), chemist.

[edit] U

Harold Clayton Urey, (1893–1981), 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

[edit] V

Lauri Vaska, (born 1925), Estonian/American chemist
Evert Johannes Willem Verweij, (1905–1981), Dutch chemist
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, (1895–1973), chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Milos Vujic Serbian chemist
Max Volmer, Germany (1885–1965)
Alessandro Volta, (1745–1827), electrochemist, Invented the Voltaic Cell

[edit] W

Johannes Diderik van der Waals, (1837–1923)
Sir James Walker (1863–1935), Scottish physical chemist
John E. Walker, (born 1941), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Alfred Werner, (1866–1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997)
George M. Whitesides, (born 1939), American chemist
Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957) German chemist 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Harvey W. Wiley, (1844–1930), US chemist, Pure food & drug advocate
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, (1921–1996), 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Günter Wirths, Germany
Friedrich Wöhler, (1800–1882), German chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, (1766–1828), English chemist
Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, (1817–1884)
Kurt Wüthrich, (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

[edit] X

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (born 1962), Chinese chemist at Harvard University. Famous for his pioneering work in Single Molecule Microscopy and CARS (Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy) microscopy.