| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Edward P. Abraham |
Chemist |
10-Jun-1913 |
8-May-1999 |
Cephalosporins |
| Edward G. Acheson |
Inventor |
9-Mar-1856 |
6-Jul-1931 |
Discovered silicon carbide |
| Roger Adams |
Chemist |
2-Jan-1889 |
6-Jul-1971 |
Organic chemist at Illinois |
| Peter Agre |
Biologist |
30-Jan-1949 |
|
Water channels of cell membranes |
| Kurt Alder |
Chemist |
10-Jul-1902 |
20-Jun-1958 |
Diels-Alder Reaction |
| Charles Alderton |
Inventor |
21-Jun-1857 |
29-May-1941 |
Invented Dr Pepper |
| Kenneth Alibek |
Biologist |
c. 1951 |
|
Biological weapons designer |
| Sidney Altman |
Chemist |
7-May-1939 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
| Christian Anfinsen |
Chemist |
26-Mar-1916 |
14-May-1995 |
Protein structure and folding |
| Daniel I. Arnon |
Biologist |
14-Nov-1910 |
20-Dec-1994 |
Photophosphorylation |
| Svante Arrhenius |
Chemist |
19-Feb-1859 |
2-Oct-1927 |
Explored electrolytic conductivity |
| Francis W. Aston |
Chemist |
1-Sep-1877 |
20-Nov-1945 |
Invented the mass spectograph |
| Julius Axelrod |
Chemist |
30-May-1912 |
29-Dec-2004 |
Research of neurotransmitters |
| Stephen Babcock |
Chemist |
22-Oct-1843 |
2-Jul-1931 |
Chemistry of milk |
| Adolf von Baeyer |
Chemist |
31-Oct-1835 |
20-Aug-1917 |
Synthesized indigo |
| Antoine-Jérôme Balard |
Chemist |
30-Sep-1802 |
30-Mar-1876 |
Discovered bromine |
| Derek Barton |
Chemist |
8-Sep-1918 |
16-Mar-1998 |
Conformational analysis |
| Jacqueline K. Barton |
Chemist |
7-May-1952 |
|
Professor of Chemistry at CalTech |
| J. Georg Bednorz |
Physicist |
16-May-1950 |
|
High-temperature superconductivity |
| Paul Berg |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1926 |
|
Pioneer in recombinant DNA |
| Friedrich Bergius |
Chemist |
11-Oct-1884 |
30-Mar-1949 |
Hydrogenation of coal |
| Marcellin Berthelot |
Chemist |
27-Oct-1827 |
18-Mar-1907 |
Chimie organique fondée sur la synthèse |
| Claude-Louis Berthollet |
Chemist |
9-Dec-1748 |
6-Nov-1822 |
Essai de statique chimique |
| Jöns Jacob Berzelius |
Chemist |
20-Aug-1779 |
7-Aug-1848 |
Inventor of modern chemical notation |
| Carl Bosch |
Chemist |
27-Aug-1874 |
26-Apr-1940 |
Chairman of I. G. Farben |
| Paul D. Boyer |
Chemist |
31-Jul-1918 |
|
ATP process |
| Robert Boyle |
Chemist |
25-Jan-1627 |
30-Dec-1691 |
Pioneer of modern chemistry |
| Jacques E. Brandenberger |
Chemist |
19-Oct-1872 |
13-Jul-1954 |
Cellophane |
| Wallace R. Brode |
Chemist |
12-Jun-1900 |
10-Aug-1974 |
Absorption spectra of dyes |
| Herbert C. Brown |
Chemist |
22-May-1912 |
19-Dec-2004 |
Discovered organoboranes |
| Eduard Buchner |
Chemist |
20-May-1860 |
13-Aug-1917 |
Cell-free fermentation |
| Robert Wilhelm Bunsen |
Chemist |
31-Mar-1811 |
16-Aug-1899 |
Spectrum analysis, bunsen burner |
| Adolf Butenandt |
Chemist |
24-Mar-1903 |
18-Jan-1995 |
Research in sex hormones |
| Melvin Calvin |
Chemist |
8-Apr-1911 |
8-Jan-1997 |
Deciphered photosynthesis |
| Stanislao Cannizzaro |
Chemist |
13-Jul-1826 |
10-May-1910 |
Atomic vs Molecular weights |
| Wallace Hume Carothers |
Chemist |
27-Apr-1896 |
29-Apr-1937 |
Inventor of Nylon |
| Henry Cavendish |
Chemist |
10-Oct-1731 |
24-Feb-1810 |
Discovered hydrogen |
| Thomas R. Cech |
Chemist |
8-Dec-1947 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
| Erwin Chargaff |
Biologist |
11-Aug-1905 |
20-Jun-2002 |
Biochemist at Columbia University |
| Yves Chauvin |
Chemist |
10-Oct-1930 |
|
Metathesis |
| Michel-Eugène Chevreul |
Chemist |
31-Aug-1786 |
9-Apr-1889 |
Chemistry of fats, dyes |
| Georges Claude |
Chemist |
24-Sep-1870 |
23-May-1960 |
Neon lighting |
| Per Theodor Cleve |
Chemist |
10-Feb-1840 |
18-Jun-1905 |
Discovered holmium (Ho) and thulium (Tm) |
| William Cochran |
Physicist |
30-Jul-1922 |
28-Aug-2003 |
Crystallography |
| Samuel C. Collins |
Chemist |
28-Dec-1898 |
19-Jun-1984 |
Collins-type cryocooler |
| Harry Coover |
Chemist |
6-Mar-1919 |
19-Mar-2011 |
Invented Super Glue |
| Elias James Corey |
Chemist |
12-Jul-1928 |
|
Retrosynthetic analysis |
| John Cornforth |
Chemist |
7-Sep-1917 |
|
Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts |
| F. Albert Cotton |
Chemist |
9-Apr-1930 |
20-Feb-2007 |
Metal-metal bonds |
| Frederick G. Cottrell |
Inventor |
10-Jan-1877 |
16-Nov-1948 |
Smokestack filters to fight pollution |
| Donald J. Cram |
Chemist |
22-Apr-1919 |
17-Jun-2001 |
Synthesis of molecules |
| Sir William Crookes |
Chemist |
17-Jun-1832 |
4-Apr-1919 |
Discovered element Thallium |
| Paul J. Crutzen |
Physicist |
3-Dec-1933 |
|
Ozone depletion |
| Marie Curie |
Chemist |
7-Nov-1867 |
4-Jul-1934 |
Early nuclear chemist |
| Robert F. Curl, Jr. |
Chemist |
23-Aug-1933 |
|
Co-Discovered fullerines |
| John Dalton |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1766 |
27-Jul-1844 |
Early proponent of Atomic Theory |
| Humphry Davy |
Chemist |
17-Dec-1778 |
29-May-1829 |
Leading early 19th century chemist |
| Johann Deisenhofer |
Chemist |
30-Sep-1943 |
|
Proteins of photosynthesis |
| Peter B. Dervan |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1945 |
|
DNA Researcher |
| Henri-Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville |
Chemist |
11-Mar-1818 |
1-Jul-1881 |
Process for obtaining aluminum |
| Otto Diels |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1876 |
7-Mar-1954 |
Diels-Alder Reaction |
| John T. Dorrance |
Business |
11-Nov-1873 |
21-Sep-1930 |
Invented condensed soup |
| Herbert Dow |
Business |
26-Feb-1866 |
15-Oct-1930 |
Founder of Dow Chemical |
| John William Draper |
Chemist |
5-May-1811 |
4-Jan-1882 |
Radiant energy and portrait photography |
| Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas |
Chemist |
14-Jul-1800 |
10-Apr-1884 |
Pioneer of organic chemistry |
| Peter P. Edwards |
Chemist |
1949 |
|
Metal-non-metal transition |
| Geoffrey Eglinton |
Geologist |
1-Nov-1927 |
|
Molecular organic geochemistry |
| Richard R. Ernst |
Chemist |
14-Aug-1933 |
|
NMR spectroscopy |
| Gerhard Ertl |
Chemist |
10-Oct-1936 |
|
Auto emissions and the ozone layer |
| Hans von Euler-Chelpin |
Chemist |
15-Feb-1873 |
7-Nov-1964 |
Enzymes of sugar fermentation |
| John B. Fenn |
Chemist |
15-Jun-1917 |
10-Dec-2010 |
Electrospray ionization |
| George Finch |
Chemist |
4-Aug-1888 |
22-Nov-1970 |
Oxygen for mountain climbing |
| Emil Fischer |
Chemist |
9-Oct-1852 |
15-Jul-1919 |
Peptide bond |
| Ernst Otto Fischer |
Chemist |
10-Nov-1918 |
23-Jul-2007 |
Organometallic "sandwich" compounds |
| Hans Fischer |
Chemist |
27-Jul-1881 |
31-Mar-1945 |
Synthesized hemin |
| Martin Fleischmann |
Chemist |
29-Mar-1927 |
3-Aug-2012 |
Cold fusion crank |
| Paul J. Flory |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1910 |
9-Sep-1985 |
Studied polymers |
| Antoine François Fourcroy |
Chemist |
15-Jun-1755 |
16-Dec-1809 |
French adherent to Lavoisier |
| Joseph S. Francisco |
Chemist |
1955 |
|
Atmospheric chemist |
| Rosalind Franklin |
Chemist |
25-Jul-1920 |
16-Apr-1958 |
Photographed DNA's structure |
| Edmond Frémy |
Chemist |
28-Feb-1814 |
3-Feb-1894 |
Discovered hydrogen fluoride |
| Carl Remigius Fresenius |
Chemist |
28-Dec-1818 |
11-Jun-1897 |
Anleitung zur qualitativen chemischen Analyse |
| Art Fry |
Chemist |
19-Aug-1931 |
|
Post-It notes |
| Kenichi Fukui |
Chemist |
4-Oct-1918 |
9-Jan-1998 |
Frontier orbitals |
| Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac |
Chemist |
6-Dec-1778 |
9-May-1850 |
Researched gases, etc. |
| William F. Giauque |
Chemist |
12-May-1895 |
28-Mar-1982 |
Adiabatic demagnetization |
| Walter Gilbert |
Chemist |
21-Mar-1932 |
|
Sequencing techniques for DNA |
| Robert Gore |
Chemist |
15-Apr-1937 |
|
Co-inventor of Gore-Tex |
| Victor Grignard |
Chemist |
6-May-1871 |
13-Dec-1935 |
Grignard Reaction |
| Robert H. Grubbs |
Chemist |
27-Feb-1942 |
|
Metathesis |
| Samuel Guthrie |
Doctor |
1782 |
19-Oct-1848 |
Discovered chloroform |
| Fritz Haber |
Chemist |
9-Dec-1868 |
29-Jan-1934 |
Synthesized ammonia, chemical warfare |
| Otto Hahn |
Chemist |
8-Mar-1879 |
28-Jul-1968 |
Demonstrated fission |
| H. Tracy Hall |
Chemist |
20-Oct-1919 |
25-Jul-2008 |
Synthetic diamonds |
| Arthur Harden |
Chemist |
12-Oct-1865 |
17-Jun-1940 |
Enzymes of sugar fermentation |
| Robert Hare |
Chemist |
17-Jan-1781 |
15-May-1858 |
Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope |
| Odd Hassel |
Chemist |
17-May-1897 |
11-May-1981 |
Conformational analysis |
| Norman Haworth |
Chemist |
19-Mar-1883 |
19-Mar-1950 |
Carbohydrates and vitamin C |
| Richard F. Heck |
Chemist |
1931 |
|
Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings |
| Jan Baptist van Helmont |
Chemist |
12-Jan-1580 |
30-Dec-1644 |
Recognized discrete gases |
| William Henry |
Chemist |
12-Dec-1775 |
2-Sep-1836 |
Henry's Law |
| Dudley R. Herschbach |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1932 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| Ejnar Hertzsprung |
Astronomer |
8-Oct-1873 |
21-Oct-1967 |
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram |
| George de Hevesy |
Chemist |
1-Aug-1885 |
5-Jul-1966 |
Radioisotope researcher |
| Jaroslav Heyrovsky |
Chemist |
20-Dec-1890 |
27-Mar-1967 |
Polarography |
| Walter Hieber |
Chemist |
18-Dec-1895 |
29-Nov-1976 |
Metal carbonyl chemistry |
| Sir Cyril Hinshelwood |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
The Kinetics of Chemical Change |
| Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin |
Chemist |
12-May-1910 |
29-Jul-1994 |
Determined structure of Vitamin B12 |
| Jacobus H. van 't Hoff |
Chemist |
30-Aug-1852 |
1-Mar-1911 |
Three-dimensional molecular properties |
| Felix Hoffmann |
Chemist |
21-Jan-1868 |
8-Feb-1946 |
Aspirin and heroin |
| Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
| Albert Hofmann |
Chemist |
11-Jan-1906 |
29-Apr-2008 |
Discovered LSD |
| August Wilhelm von Hofmann |
Chemist |
8-Apr-1818 |
2-May-1892 |
Organic chemist, researched aniline |
| Robert Huber |
Chemist |
20-Feb-1937 |
|
Proteins of photosynthesis |
| Frédéric Joliot |
Physicist |
19-Mar-1900 |
14-Aug-1958 |
Artificial radioactivity |
| Irène Joliot-Curie |
Physicist |
12-Sep-1897 |
17-Mar-1956 |
Artificial radioactivity |
| Percy Julian |
Chemist |
11-Apr-1899 |
19-Apr-1975 |
Physostigmine and cortisone |
| Jerome Karle |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1918 |
|
X-Ray diffraction studies |
| Martin Karplus |
Chemist |
15-Mar-1930 |
|
Karplus Equation |
| Paul Karrer |
Chemist |
21-Apr-1889 |
18-Jun-1971 |
Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K |
| Friedrich August Kekulé |
Chemist |
7-Sep-1829 |
13-Jul-1896 |
Theory of chemical structure |
| John C. Kendrew |
Chemist |
24-Mar-1917 |
23-Aug-1997 |
Determined structure of myoglobin |
| Martin Heinrich Klaproth |
Chemist |
1-Dec-1743 |
1-Jan-1817 |
Discovered uranium, zirconium, titanium |
| Aaron Klug |
Chemist |
11-Aug-1926 |
|
Structural analysis of viruses |
| William S. Knowles |
Chemist |
1-Jun-1917 |
13-Jun-2012 |
Chiral catalysts |
| Walter Kohn |
Chemist |
9-Mar-1923 |
|
Density-functional theory |
| Sir Harold Kroto |
Chemist |
7-Oct-1939 |
|
Co-Discovered fullerenes |
| Richard Kuhn |
Chemist |
3-Dec-1900 |
1-Aug-1967 |
Carotenoids, and vitamins B2 and B6 |
| Stephanie Kwolek |
Chemist |
31-Jul-1923 |
|
Invented Kevlar |
| Robert S. Langer |
Chemist |
29-Aug-1948 |
|
Institute Professor at MIT |
| Irving Langmuir |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1881 |
16-Aug-1957 |
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
| Norm Larsen |
Inventor |
1923 |
Dec-1970 |
WD-40 |
| Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier |
Chemist |
26-Aug-1743 |
8-May-1794 |
Father of modern chemistry |
| Yuan T. Lee |
Chemist |
29-Nov-1936 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| Jean-Marie Lehn |
Chemist |
30-Sep-1939 |
|
Synthesis of molecules |
| Luis Leloir |
Chemist |
6-Sep-1906 |
2-Dec-1987 |
Conversion of carbohydrates |
| Richard A. Lerner |
Biologist |
28-Aug-1938 |
|
Scripps Research Institute |
| Willard F. Libby |
Chemist |
17-Dec-1908 |
8-Sep-1980 |
Carbon-14 dating technique |
| Justus Liebig |
Chemist |
12-May-1803 |
18-Apr-1873 |
Reformed pedagogy of chemistry |
| Eli Lilly |
Business |
8-Jul-1838 |
6-Jun-1898 |
Founder of Eli Lilly & Co. |
| William Lipscomb |
Chemist |
9-Dec-1919 |
14-Apr-2011 |
Chemical bonding |
| Karl Lohmann |
Chemist |
10-Apr-1898 |
22-Apr-1978 |
Discovered ATP |
| Mikhail Lomonosov |
Poet |
19-Nov-1711 |
15-Apr-1765 |
Early father of Russian poetry |
| Alan G. MacDiarmid |
Chemist |
14-Apr-1927 |
7-Feb-2007 |
Metallic polymers |
| Charles Macintosh |
Chemist |
29-Dec-1766 |
25-Jul-1843 |
Invented the raincoat |
| Roderick MacKinnon |
Biologist |
19-Feb-1956 |
|
Ion channels of cell membranes |
| Rudolph A. Marcus |
Chemist |
21-Jul-1923 |
|
Electron-transfer reactions |
| Archer J. P. Martin |
Chemist |
1-Mar-1910 |
28-Jul-2002 |
Partition chromatography |
| William D. McElroy |
Biologist |
22-Jan-1917 |
17-Feb-1999 |
Bioluminescence |
| Raphael Mechoulam |
Chemist |
5-Nov-1930 |
|
Discovered THC |
| Dmitri Mendeleev |
Chemist |
8-Feb-1834 |
2-Feb-1907 |
Periodic Table of the Elements |
| Bruce Merrifield |
Chemist |
15-Jul-1921 |
14-May-2006 |
Synthesized polypeptides |
| Hartmut Michel |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1948 |
|
Proteins of photosynthesis |
| Thomas Midgley |
Chemist |
18-May-1889 |
2-Nov-1944 |
Ethyl gasoline, Freon |
| Stanley Miller |
Chemist |
7-Mar-1930 |
20-May-2007 |
Miller-Urey Experiment |
| Chad Mirkin |
Chemist |
23-Nov-1963 |
|
International Institute for Nanotechnology |
| Peter Mitchell |
Chemist |
29-Sep-1920 |
10-Apr-1992 |
ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondia |
| Henri Moissan |
Chemist |
28-Sep-1852 |
20-Feb-1907 |
Isolated fluorine |
| Mario J. Molina |
Chemist |
19-Mar-1943 |
|
Ozone depletion |
| Stanford Moore |
Chemist |
4-Sep-1913 |
23-Aug-1982 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Molecular orbital theory |
| Kary Mullis |
Chemist |
28-Dec-1944 |
|
Nutball 1993 Nobel laureate |
| Giulio Natta |
Chemist |
26-Feb-1903 |
2-May-1979 |
Ziegler-Natta catalysts for polymerization |
| Ei-ichi Negishi |
Chemist |
14-Jul-1935 |
|
Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings |
| Walther Nernst |
Chemist |
25-Jun-1864 |
18-Nov-1941 |
Third Law of Thermodynamics |
| John Alexander Reina Newlands |
Chemist |
26-Nov-1837 |
29-Jul-1898 |
Periodic Law of Elements |
| Nicéphore Niépce |
Chemist |
7-Mar-1765 |
5-Jul-1833 |
Inventor of photography |
| Ronald G. W. Norrish |
Chemist |
9-Nov-1897 |
7-Jun-1978 |
Rapid chemical processes |
| John H. Northrop |
Chemist |
5-Jul-1891 |
27-May-1987 |
Bacteriophages |
| Ryoji Noyori |
Chemist |
3-Sep-1938 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Hans Christian Oersted |
Physicist |
14-Aug-1777 |
9-Mar-1851 |
Discovered electromagnetics |
| George A. Olah |
Chemist |
22-May-1927 |
|
Isolated carbonium ions |
| Lars Onsager |
Chemist |
27-Nov-1903 |
5-Oct-1976 |
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics |
| Wilhelm Ostwald |
Chemist |
2-Sep-1853 |
4-Apr-1932 |
Ostwald's Law of Dilution and Conductivity |
| Paracelsus |
Chemist |
11-Nov-1493 |
24-Sep-1541 |
Alchemist and doctor |
| Louis Pasteur |
Chemist |
27-Dec-1822 |
28-Sep-1895 |
Discovered process of pasteurization |
| Linus Pauling |
Chemist |
28-Feb-1901 |
19-Aug-1994 |
Scientist and peacenik |
| Charles J. Pedersen |
Chemist |
3-Oct-1904 |
26-Oct-1989 |
Synthesis of crown ethers |
| William Henry Perkin |
Chemist |
12-Mar-1838 |
14-Jul-1907 |
Invented mauve |
| Max F. Perutz |
Chemist |
19-May-1914 |
6-Feb-2002 |
X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin |
| Charles Pfizer |
Chemist |
1824 |
19-Oct-1906 |
Founder of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals |
| Kenneth S. Pitzer |
Chemist |
6-Jan-1914 |
26-Dec-1997 |
President of Rice University, 1961-68 |
| Roy Plunkett |
Chemist |
26-Jun-1910 |
12-May-1994 |
Accidentally discovered Teflon |
| John C. Polanyi |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1929 |
|
Infrared chemiluminescence |
| John A. Pople |
Chemist |
31-Oct-1925 |
15-Mar-2004 |
Quantum mechanics of molecules |
| George Porter |
Chemist |
6-Dec-1920 |
31-Aug-2002 |
Rapid chemical and biological processes |
| Fritz Pregl |
Chemist |
3-Sep-1869 |
13-Dec-1930 |
Microanalysis of organic compounds |
| Vladimir Prelog |
Chemist |
23-Jul-1906 |
7-Jan-1998 |
Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts |
| Joseph Priestley |
Chemist |
13-Mar-1733 |
6-Feb-1804 |
Investigated gases, discovered Oxygen |
| Ilya Prigogine |
Chemist |
25-Jan-1917 |
28-May-2003 |
Theory of dissipative structures |
| Sir William Ramsay |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1852 |
23-Jul-1916 |
Discovered noble gases |
| C. N. R. Rao |
Chemist |
30-Jun-1934 |
|
Chemistry of superconductivity |
| Henri-Victor Regnault |
Chemist |
21-Jul-1810 |
19-Jan-1878 |
Properties of gases |
| Theodore W. Richards |
Chemist |
31-Jan-1868 |
2-Apr-1928 |
Atomic weights |
| George Rieveschl |
Chemist |
9-Jan-1916 |
27-Sep-2007 |
Discovered Benadryl |
| Sir Robert Robinson |
Chemist |
13-Sep-1886 |
8-Feb-1975 |
Researcher of alkaloids |
| F. Sherwood Rowland |
Chemist |
28-Jun-1927 |
10-Mar-2012 |
Ozone depletion |
| Leopold Ruzicka |
Chemist |
13-Sep-1887 |
26-Sep-1976 |
Terpenes and hormones |
| Paul Sabatier |
Chemist |
5-Nov-1854 |
14-Aug-1941 |
Heterogeneous catalysis |
| Frederick Sanger |
Chemist |
13-Aug-1918 |
|
Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry |
| Carl Wilhelm Scheele |
Chemist |
9-Dec-1742 |
21-May-1786 |
Discovered oxygen, chlorine, manganese |
| Richard R. Schrock |
Chemist |
4-Jan-1945 |
|
Metathesis |
| Nikolay Semyonov |
Chemist |
15-Apr-1896 |
25-Sep-1986 |
Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics |
| K. Barry Sharpless |
Chemist |
28-Apr-1941 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Dan Shechtman |
Chemist |
24-Jan-1941 |
|
Discovered quasicrystals |
| Osamu Shimomura |
Chemist |
27-Aug-1928 |
|
Green Fluorescent Protein |
| Hideki Shirakawa |
Chemist |
20-Aug-1936 |
|
Metallic polymers |
| Alexander Shulgin |
Chemist |
17-Jun-1925 |
|
Rediscovered MDMA |
| Spencer Silver |
Chemist |
6-Feb-1941 |
|
Post-It notes |
| Louis Slotin |
Physicist |
1-Dec-1910 |
30-May-1946 |
Died tickling the dragon's tail |
| Richard E. Smalley |
Chemist |
6-Jun-1943 |
28-Oct-2005 |
Co-Discovered fullerines |
| Michael Smith |
Chemist |
26-Apr-1932 |
4-Oct-2000 |
Oligonucleotide-based mutagenesis |
| James Smithson |
Chemist |
1765 |
27-Jun-1829 |
Chemist, funded the Smithsonian Institution |
| Frederick Soddy |
Chemist |
2-Sep-1877 |
22-Sep-1956 |
Isotopes |
| Wendell M. Stanley |
Chemist |
16-Aug-1904 |
15-Jun-1971 |
First to crystallize a virus |
| Hermann Staudinger |
Chemist |
23-Mar-1881 |
8-Sep-1965 |
Macromolecular chemistry |
| Harry Steenbock |
Biologist |
16-Aug-1886 |
25-Dec-1967 |
Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D |
| William H. Stein |
Chemist |
25-Jun-1911 |
2-Feb-1980 |
Amino-acid analyzer |
| Otto Stern |
Physicist |
17-Feb-1888 |
17-Aug-1969 |
Molecular beam experiment |
| James B. Sumner |
Chemist |
19-Nov-1887 |
12-Aug-1955 |
Crystallized enzymes |
| Akira Suzuki |
Chemist |
12-Sep-1930 |
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Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings |
| The Svedberg |
Chemist |
30-Aug-1884 |
25-Feb-1971 |
Inventor of the ultracentrifuge |
| Timothy Swager |
Chemist |
1-Jul-1961 |
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Chemist at MIT |
| Richard L. M. Synge |
Chemist |
28-Oct-1914 |
18-Aug-1994 |
Partition chromatography |
| Koichi Tanaka |
Chemist |
3-Aug-1959 |
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Refinements in mass spectrometry |
| Henry Taube |
Chemist |
30-Nov-1915 |
16-Nov-2005 |
Mechanisms of electron transfer |
| Louis-Jacques Thénard |
Chemist |
4-May-1777 |
21-Jun-1857 |
Traité de Chimie élémentaire |
| Arne Tiselius |
Chemist |
10-Aug-1902 |
29-Aug-1971 |
Electrophoresis |
| Alexander R. Todd |
Chemist |
2-Oct-1907 |
10-Jan-1997 |
Nuclaic acid, nucleotides |
| Earl Tupper |
Business |
28-Jul-1907 |
5-Oct-1983 |
Inventor of Tupperware |
| Harold C. Urey |
Chemist |
29-Apr-1893 |
5-Jan-1981 |
Discovered Deuterium |
| Lew Urry |
Chemist |
29-Jan-1927 |
19-Oct-2004 |
Inventor of alkaline battery |
| Thomas Vaughan |
Chemist |
17-Apr-1622 |
27-Feb-1666 |
English alchemist and mystic |
| Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin |
Chemist |
16-May-1763 |
14-Nov-1829 |
Discovered beryllium and chromium |
| Vincent du Vigneaud |
Chemist |
18-May-1901 |
11-Dec-1978 |
Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin |
| Artturi Virtanen |
Chemist |
15-Jan-1895 |
11-Nov-1973 |
AIV method of fodder preservation |
| John Walker |
Chemist |
29-May-1781 |
1-May-1859 |
Invented the friction match |
| John E. Walker |
Chemist |
7-Jan-1941 |
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ATP process |
| Otto Wallach |
Chemist |
27-Mar-1847 |
26-Feb-1931 |
Terpenes and essential oils |
| Chaim Weizmann |
Head of State |
27-Nov-1874 |
9-Nov-1952 |
First President of Israel |
| Alfred Werner |
Chemist |
12-Dec-1866 |
15-Nov-1919 |
Coordination theory of chemistry |
| George M. Whitesides |
Chemist |
3-Aug-1939 |
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Harvard chemist, highest H-Index |
| Otto Wichterle |
Chemist |
27-Oct-1913 |
18-Aug-1998 |
Invented soft contact lenses |
| Heinrich Wieland |
Chemist |
4-Jun-1877 |
5-Aug-1957 |
Studied acids of bile |
| Geoffrey Wilkinson |
Chemist |
14-Jul-1921 |
26-Sep-1996 |
Organometallic "sandwich" compounds |
| Richard Willstätter |
Chemist |
13-Aug-1872 |
3-Aug-1942 |
Plant pigments |
| Adolf Windaus |
Chemist |
25-Dec-1876 |
9-Jun-1959 |
Investigated cholesterol, Vitamin D |
| Georg Wittig |
Chemist |
16-Jun-1897 |
26-Aug-1987 |
Wittig Reaction |
| Friedrich Wöhler |
Chemist |
31-Jul-1800 |
23-Sep-1882 |
Artificial creation of urea |
| William Hyde Wollaston |
Chemist |
6-Aug-1766 |
22-Dec-1828 |
Discovered palladium, rhodium |
| Robert B. Woodward |
Chemist |
10-Apr-1917 |
8-Jul-1979 |
Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc. |
| Kurt Wüthrich |
Chemist |
4-Oct-1938 |
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Magnetic resonance spectroscopy |
| Ahmed H. Zewail |
Chemist |
26-Feb-1946 |
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Femtochemistry |
| Karl Ziegler |
Chemist |
26-Nov-1898 |
12-Aug-1973 |
Researcher in plastics |
| Richard Zsigmondy |
Chemist |
1-Apr-1865 |
23-Sep-1929 |
Ultramicroscope |
