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

A

• Emil Abderhalden, (1877–1950), Swiss chemist
• Richard Abegg, (1869–1910), German chemist
• Frederick Abel, (1827–1902), English chemist
• Peter Agre, (1949-), American chemist and doctor, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Arthur Aikin, (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist
• Adrien Albert, (1907–1989), Australian Medicinal Chemist
• Johan August Arfwedson, (1792–1841), Swedish chemist
• Anton Eduard van Arkel, (1893–1976), Dutch chemist
• Svante Arrhenius, (1859–1927), Swedish chemist, one of the founders of physical chemistry
• Amedeo Avogadro,(1776–1856), Italian physicist

B

• Leo Baekeland, (1863–1944), Belgian-American chemist
• Adolf von Baeyer, (1835–1917), German chemist, 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, (1854–1907), Dutch chemist
• Robert Barefoot, (born 1944) Canadian/American chemist, author, lecturer
• Neil Bartlett, (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
• Sir Derek Barton, (1918–1998), 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Antoine Baum, (1728–1804), French chemist
• Karl Bayer, (1847–1904), Austrian chemist
• Irina Beletskaya, (born 1933), Russian organometallic chemist
• Marcellin Berthelot, (1827-1907), French chemist
• Claude Louis Berthollet, (1748–1822), French chemist
• Jöns Jakob Berzelius, (1779–1848), Swedish chemist
• Johannes Martin Bijvoet, (1892–1980), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
• Joseph Black, (1728–1799), chemist
• Dale L. Boger, (born 1953), American organic and medicinal chemist
• Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, (1838–1912), French chemist
• Jan Boldingh, (1915–2003), Dutch chemist
• Alexander Borodin, (1833–1887), Russian chemist & composer
• Carl Bosch, (1872–1940), German chemist
• Robert Boyle, (1627–1691), Irish pioneer of modern chemistry
• Henri Braconnot, (1780–1855), French chemist and pharmacist
• Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, (1879–1947), Danish chemist
• Eduard Buchner, (1860–1917), 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist
• Aleksandr Butlerov, (1828–1886), Russian chemist

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

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

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

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

G

• Johan Gadolin, (1760–1852), Finnish chemist
• Merrill Garnett, (born 1930), American biochemist
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, (1778–1850), French 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), 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

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
• George de Hevesy, (1885–1966), 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
• 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

I

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

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

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.

L

• Irving Langmuir, (1881–1957), chemist, physicist
• Paul Lauterbur, (1929–2007), Americab 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 N. 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

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
• Kurt Heinrich Meyer
• 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

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

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

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

Q

• Ğilem Qamay (1901–1970), Soviet chemist

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 anorganic 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
• Andrés Manuel del Río, (1764–1849), Spanish-Mexican geochemist, discovered vanadium
• Robert Robinson (1886-1975), Nobel Prize Winner
• Guillaume-François_Rouelle, (1703–1770), French chemist
• H. M. Rouell, (1718–1779), French chemist
• Daniel Rutherford, (1749–1819), Scottish chemist
• Leopold Ruzicka (Lavoslav Ružička) , (1887–1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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