List of chemists Totally Explained

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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_%28chemist%29, (1753–1815), English chemist

Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, American chemist

Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist

Ralph Nuzzo, American chemist and materials scientist

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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

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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

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Ğilem Qamay (1901–1970), Soviet chemist

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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-Fran%C3%A7ois_Rouelle, (1703–1770), French 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

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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

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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.

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

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Lauri Vaska, (born 1925), Estonian/American chemist

Evert Johannes Willem Verweij, (1905–1981), Dutch chemist

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)

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

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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.

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

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Ahmed H. Zewail (born 1946), Egyptian, 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.Further Information

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