| Chemists Name |
During |
Place |
Achievement/Scientific Work |
| A |
| Emil Abderhalden |
1877-1950 |
German chemist |
known for a blood test for pregnancy, a test for cystine in urine |
| Richard Abegg |
1869-1910 |
German chemist |
pioneer of valence theory |
| Arthur Aikin |
1773-1854 |
English chemist and mineralogist |
one of the founders of the Geological Society of London in 1807 |
| Johan August Arfwedson |
1792-1841 |
Swedish chemist |
discovered the chemical element lithium |
| Svante Arrhenius |
1859-1927 |
Swedish chemist and physicist |
developed a theory to explain the ice ages |
| Amedeo Avogadro |
1776-1856 |
Italian physicist |
Avogadro's Law, Avogadro's number |
| B |
| Neil Bartlett |
born 1932 |
English/Canadian/American chemist |
Creating one of the first noble gas compounds |
| Antoine Baum |
1728-1804 |
French chemist |
Known for Baumé scale |
| Claude Louis Berthollet |
1748-1822 |
French chemist |
vice president of the French Senate. |
| Jöns Jakob Berzelius |
1779-1848 |
chemist |
Law of constant proportions, Chemical notation, Silicon, Selenium, Thorium, Cerium |
| Joseph Black |
1728-1799 |
chemist |
Latent heat, specific heat, and the discovery of carbon dioxide |
| Carl Bosch |
1872-1940 |
German chemist |
Haber-Bosch process |
| Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted |
1879-1947 |
Danish chemist |
protonic theory of acid-base reactions |
| Henri Braconnot |
1780-1855 |
French chemist and pharmacist |
discovered gallic and ellagic acids |
| Robert Wilhelm Bunsen |
1811-1899 |
German inventor chemist |
Known for Discovery of cacodyl radical; discoveries of cesium and rubidium |
| Eduard Buchner |
1860-1917 |
German chemist |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
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| C |
| Melvin Calvin |
1911-1997 |
American chemist |
1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Georg Ludwig Carius |
1829-1875 |
German chemist |
Director of the Marburger Chemical Institute of Philipps University of Marburg |
| Heinrich Caro |
1834-1910 |
German chemist |
Known for Erlenmeyer azlactone synthesis |
| Wallace Carothers |
1896-1937 |
American chemist |
Known for Nylon |
| Henry Cavendish |
1731-1810 |
Bristish scientist |
Known for Discovery of hydrogen |
| Marie Curie |
1867-1934 |
Poland, France |
Polish-born French radiation physicist |
| Robert Curl |
1933 |
Alice, Texas, United States |
winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
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| D |
| John Dalton |
1766-1844 |
physicist |
Atomic Theory, Law of Multiple Proportions, Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures, Daltonism |
| Henrik Carl Peter Dam |
1895-1976 |
Danish biochemist |
1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Humphry Davy |
1778-1829 |
Penzance, Cornwall, Great Britain |
Electrolysis, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, barium, boron, Davy lamp |
| Peter Debye |
1884-1966 |
Netherlands / United States |
Debye model, Debye relaxation |
| Sir James Dewar |
1876-1954 |
Scottish |
Liquid oxygen, Liquid hydrogen |
| Otto Diels |
1876 –1954 |
German chemnist |
1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Edward Doisy |
1893 |
American biochemist |
1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Davorin Dolar |
born 1921 |
chemist |
research on polyelectrolyte solutions. |
| Jean Baptiste Dumas |
1800-1884 |
French chemist |
Known for Atomic weights |
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| E |
| Paul Ehrlich |
1854-1915 |
German chemist |
1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Manfred Eigen |
1927 |
German chemist |
1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Arthur Eichengrün |
1867-1949 |
German chemist |
invented aspirin. |
| Emil Erlenmayer |
1825-1909 |
German chemist |
Erlenmeyer flask |
| Richard R. Ernst |
1933 1991 |
Swiss chemist |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Hans von Euler-Chelpin |
1873-1964 |
Swedish chemist |
winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| F |
| Michael Faraday |
1791-1867 |
England scientist |
Faraday's law of induction |
| Hermann Emil Fischer |
1852-1919 |
German chemist |
Study of sugars & purines |
| Hans Fischer |
1881-1945 |
German organic chemist |
1930 Nobel prize winner |
| Wilhelm Fresenius son of Carl |
1913-2004 |
German chemist |
studies in analytical chemistry. |
| Alexander Naumovich Frumkin |
1895-1976 |
electrochemist |
Hero of Socialist Labor award. |
| G |
| Johan Gadolin |
1760–1852 |
Finnish chemist |
Known for yttrium |
| Francois Auguste Victor Grignard |
1871-1935 |
France |
1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient |
| Victor Goldschmidt |
1888-1947 |
Zürich |
Father of Modern Geochemistry |
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| H |
| Fritz Haber |
1868-1934 |
German chemist |
Fertilisers, Explosives, Haber process |
| Odd Hassel |
1897-1981 |
Norwegian chemist |
1969 Nobel prize in chemistry |
| Charles Hatchett |
1765-1847 |
English chemist |
discovered niobium |
| Robert Havemann |
1910-1982 |
chemist |
received a doctorate in physical chemistry |
| George de Hevesy |
1885-1966 |
German chemist |
Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943 |
| Friedrich Hoffmann |
1660-1742 |
physician and chemist |
introduced many drugs |
| Roald Hoffmann |
1937 |
Polish-born American chemist 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry |
| Jaroslav Heyrovský |
1890-1967 |
Czech chemist |
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1959) |
| I |
| Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold |
1893-1970 |
English chemist |
Organic reaction mechanisms Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules |
| J |
| Frederic Joliot-Curie |
1900-1958 |
French chemist and physicist |
Known for Atomic nuclei |
| Irène Joliot-Curie |
1897-1956 |
French chemist and physicist |
Known for Transmutation of elements |
| K |
| Paul Karrer |
1889-1971 |
Moscow, Russia |
Known for Vitamins |
| Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner |
1783 - 1857 |
German chemist |
Known for Study of triboluminescence |
| Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz |
1829-1896 |
German organic chemist |
Known for Theory of chemical structure |
| Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe |
1818-1884 |
chemist. |
Kolbe electrolysis |
| Harold Kroto |
born 1939 |
English chemist |
1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Richard Kuhn |
1900 - 1967 |
German chemist |
1938 chemistry Nobel laureate.. |
| L |
| Irving Langmuir |
1851-1957 |
chemist physicist |
Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
| Antoine Lavoisier |
1743-1794 |
French pioneer chemist |
the father of modern chemistry |
| Yuan T. Lee |
born 1936 |
Hsinchu City , Taiwan |
1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Primo Levi |
1919-1987 |
Turin, Italy |
resistance fighter chemist and novelist |
| Gilbert N. Lewis |
1875-1946 |
American chemist |
first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry |
| Willard Libby |
1908-1980 |
American chemist |
1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Justus von Liebig |
1803-1873 |
German inventor |
Known for Nitrogen, Law of the Minimum, Liebig condenser |
| Martin Lowry |
1874-1936 |
British chemist |
studied changes in optical rotation |
| M |
| Albertus Magnus |
died 1280 |
Lauingen, Bavaria |
Saint Albert the Great; Albert of Cologne |
| Lise Meitner |
1878-1968 |
physicist |
Known for Nuclear fission |
| Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev |
1834-1907 |
Tobolsk (Russia) |
chemist creator of the Periodic Table of Elements |
| William A. Mitchell |
1911-2004 |
Raymond, Minnesota |
key inventor behind Pop Rocks Tang and Kool Whip |
| Alexander Mitscherlich |
1836-1918 |
German chemist. |
worked in field of processing wood to create cellulose. |
| Jacques Monod |
1910-1976 |
French chemist. |
biochemist winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
1896-1986 |
American physicist chemist |
Known for molecular orbital theory |
| N |
| Robert Nalbandyan |
1937-2002 |
Armenian protein chemist |
co-discoverer of photosynthetic protein plantacyanin |
| Isaac Newton |
1642-1727 |
Lincolnshire, England |
Known for Newtonian mechanics, Universal gravitation, Calculus, Optics |
| O |
| Lars Onsager |
1903-1976 |
Norway |
physical chemist 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Wilhelm Ostwald |
1853-1932 |
Riga, Latvia |
Known for Onsager reciprocal relations |
| P |
| Paracelsus |
1493-1541 |
Einsiedeln, Switzerland |
alchemist |
| Rudolph Pariser |
born 1923 |
Harbin, China |
theoretical and organic chemist |
| Louis Pasteur |
1822-1895 |
French |
biochemist |
| Linus Pauling |
1901-1994 |
Portland, Oregon, USA |
Nobel Prizes in chemistry and peace |
| John A. Pople |
1925-2004 |
Burnham on Sea, Somerset, England |
theoretical chemist 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Roy J. Plunkett |
1910-1984 |
New Carlisle, Ohio |
discoverer of Teflon |
| Fritz Pregl |
1869-1930 |
Ljubljana, Austria Hungary |
chemist Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923. |
| Vladimir Prelog |
1906-1998 |
Austria-Hungary |
1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Ilya Prigogine |
1917-2003 |
Moscow, Russia |
1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| R |
| William Ramsay |
born 1852 |
Scottish chemist |
Known for Noble gases |
| Henri Victor Regnault |
1810-1878 |
French chemist and physicist |
worked on thermodynamics |
| Tadeus Reichstein |
1897-1996 |
Włocławek, Congress Poland |
chemist 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| Ellen Swallow Richards |
1842 - 1911 |
industrial and environmental chemist. |
worked on Chemistry,Family and Consumer Science |
| Leopold Ruzicka |
1887-1976 |
1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Known for Terpenes |
| S |
| Paul Sabatier |
1854-1941 |
Toulouse, France |
1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient |
| Carl Wilhelm Scheele |
1742-1786 |
Stralsund, Swedish Pomerania |
18th century chemist discovered numerous elements |
| Glenn T. Seaborg |
1912-1999 |
atomic physicist |
Known for Discovery of ten transuranium elements |
| Nils Gabriel Sefström |
1787-1845 |
Swedish chemist |
Rediscovery of vanadium |
| Israel Shahak |
1933-2001 |
Warsaw, Poland |
former president of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights |
| K. Barry Sharpless. |
1941 |
2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Known for stereoselective reactions, click chemistry |
| S.P.L. Sørensen |
1868-1939 |
Danish chemist |
famous for the introduction of the concept of pH |
| Frederick Soddy |
1877-1956 |
British chemist |
Known for Soddy's hexlet, Coining the term 'isotope', Soddy circles |
| U |
| Harold C. Urey |
1893-1981 |
1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
Known for discovery of deuterium, Miller-Urey experiment |
| V |
| J. H. van 't Hoff |
1852-1911 |
Dutch physical chemist 1901 |
Known for Chemical kinetics, Stereochemistry |
| Artturi Ilmari Virtanen |
1895-1973 |
chemist Nobel Prize laureate |
Known for AIV fodder |
| W |
| Johannes Diderik van der Waals |
1837-1923 |
Leiden, Netherlands |
Known for Equation of state, intermolecular forces |
| Alfred Werner |
1866-1919 |
1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Known for configuration of transition metal complexes |
| Heinrich Otto Wieland |
1877-1957 |
German chemist |
Known for bile acids research |
| Harvey W. Wiley |
1844-1930 |
US chemist |
Pure food & drug advocate |
| Friedrich Woehler |
1800-1882 |
German chemist |
Known for Wöhler synthesis of urea |
| William Hyde Wollaston |
1766-1828 |
English chemist |
Known for Discoveries of palladium and rhodium |
| Robert B. Woodward |
1917-1979 |
1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Known for Several landmark organic syntheses |
| Y |
| Sabir Yunusov |
1909-1995 |
Soviet chemist alkaloids |
research in alkaloid chemistry |
| Z |
| Ahmed H. Zewail |
born 1946 |
Egyptian |
1999 Nobel Prize Winner for his work on femtochemistry. |
