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] A

Emil Abderhalden, (1877–1950), Swiss chemist
Richard Abegg, (1869–1910), German chemist
Peter Agre, (1949-), American chemist and doctor, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Arthur Aikin, (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist
Johan August Arfwedson, (1792–1841), Swedish chemist
David Anthony Alberola, (1859–1927), American chemist and physicist
Amedeo Avogadro, (1776–1856), Italian physicist
Salim Ali, Indian Naturalist and an Ornithologist.

[edit] B

Neil Bartlett, (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
Sir Derek Barton, (1918–1998), 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Antoine Baum, (1728–1804), French chemist
Claude Louis Berthollet, (1748–1822), French chemist
Jöns Jakob Berzelius, (1779–1848), Swedish chemist
Joseph Black, (1728–1799), chemist
Carl Bosch, (1872–1940), German chemist
Robert Boyle, (1627–1691), Irish pioneer of modern chemistry
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, (1879–1947), Danish chemist
Henri Braconnot, (1780–1855), French chemist and pharmacist
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist
Eduard Buchner, (1860–1917), 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

[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
Elias James Corey, (born 1928), American organic chemist, winner of 1990 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
Carl Peter Henrik Dam, (1895–1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Humphry Davy, (1778–1829)
Peter Debye, (1884–1966)
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, (born 1893), 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
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
Manfred Eigen, (born 1927), German chemist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Arthur Eichengrün, (1867–1949)
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

[edit] F

Michael Faraday (1791–1867), scientist
Hermann 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

[edit] G

Johan Gadolin, (1760–1852), Finnish chemist
Merrill Garnett, (born 1930), American biochemist
Victor Goldschmidt, (1888–1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry
Ljubo Golic, (born 1932), chemist.
Thomas Graham, (1805–1869), not to be confused with:
William Hardin Graham ???
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)
Otto Hahn, (1879–1968)
John Haldane,(1860–1936), British biochemist
Odd Hassel, (1897–1981), Norwegian chemist 1969 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Charles Hatchett, (1765–1847), English chemist who discovered niobium
Clayton Heathcock, American Chemist
Dudley R. Herschbach, (1932-), American chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Robert Havemann, (1910–1982), chemist.
George de Hevesy, (1885–1966), chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943
J. H. 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
August Wilhelm von Hofmann, (1818–1892) German organic chemist
Jaroslav Heyrovský, (1890–1967), Czech chemist, 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Gerhard Herzberg, (1904–1999), German-Canadian chemist, 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

[edit] I

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

[edit] J

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)
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, (1829–1896), German organic chemist
Emil Knoevenagel, (1865–1921)
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, (1818–1884)
Izaak Kolthoff, (1894–1993) the "Father of Analytical Chemistry"
Aleksandra Kornhauser, (born 1926), chemist.
Harold Kroto, (born 1939), English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), 1938 chemistry Nobel laureate..

[edit] L

Irving Langmuir, (1881–1957), chemist, physicist
Antoine Lavoisier, (1743–1794), French pioneer chemist
Eun Lee, (born 1946), Korean organic chemist
Yuan T. Lee, (born 1936), winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Janez Levec, (born 1943), chemist.
Primo Levi, (1919–1987), resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
Gilbert N. Lewis, (1875–1946), American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (1827–1912), English surgeon
Henri Louis le Chatelier, (1850–1936)
Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist, winner of 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Justus von Liebig, (1803–1873), German inventor
H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, British Chemist
Martin Lowry, (1874–1936), British chemist

[edit] M

Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov, (1838–1904)
Lise Meitner, (1878–1968), 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)
Viktor Meyer, (1848–1897), not to be confused with :
Kurt Heinrich Meyer
Stanley Miller (born 1930), American chemist, best known for the Miller-Urey experiment
Luis E. Miramontes (1925–2004), co-inventor of the contraceptive pill
William A. Mitchell, (1911–2004), key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, and Kool Whip
Alexander Mitscherlic, (1836–1918), chemist
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.
Robert S. Mulliken, (1896–1986), American physicist, chemist

[edit] N

Robert Nalbandyan, (1937–2002), Armenian protein chemist
Isaac Newton, (1642–1727), scientist and alchemist
Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, American chemist
Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist

[edit] O

George Andrew Olah, (born 1927), 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Lars Onsager, (1903–1976), physical chemist, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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
William Perkin, (1838–1907) British organic chemist and inventor of mauveine (dye)
John A. Pople, (1925–2004), theoretical chemist, 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Roy J. Plunkett, (1910–1994), discoverer of Teflon
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
John Charles Polanyi, (born 1929), Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986.

[edit] Q

Ğilem Qamay (1901–1970), Soviet chemist

[edit] R

William Ramsay, (born 1852), Scottish chemist
Henry Rapoport, American chemist, UC Berkeley
Rhazes (Razi), (865–925)
Julius Rebek, chemist.
Marij Rebek, chemist.
Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French chemist and physicist
Tadeus Reichstein, (1897–1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Stuart A. Rice, (born 1932), physical chemist
Ellen Swallow Richards, (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist.
Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762–1807), German chemist.
H. M. Rouell, (1718–1779)
Leopold Ruzicka, (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
Peter Schultz, American chemist
Oktay Sinanoglu, (born 1935), Turkish chemist
S.P.L. Sørensen, (1868–1939), Danish chemist
Frederick Soddy, (1877–1956), British chemist, 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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
Theodor Svedberg, (1884–1971), 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Gilbert Stork

[edit] T

Richard Taylor, (1965-), Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of York.
Henry Taube, (born 1915), 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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.
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, (1895–1973), chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Alessandro Volta, (1745–1827), electrochemist, Invented the Voltaic Cell

[edit] W

Johannes Diderik van der Waals, (1837–1923)
John E. Walker, (1941–), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Alfred Werner, (1866–1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
George Whitesides, 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
Friedrich Woehler, (1800–1882), German chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, (1766–1828), English chemist
Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Kurt Wüthrich, (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, (1817–1884)

[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.