Chemists
500 people
Medieval 5
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Abbas Ibn Firnas
9th century astronomer and physician
Abu Bakr al-Razi
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
Renaissance 6
Cornelis Drebbel
Dutch inventor and submarine pioneer
Georgius Agricola
German mineralogist (1494-1555)
Giambattista della Porta
Italian alchemist and dramatist (1535-1615)
Jan Baptist van Helmont
chemist, physiologist, and physician from the Spanish Low Countries
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
Paracelsus
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
Enlightenment 80
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
Alexandre Brongniart
French chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist (1770–1847)
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Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde
French mathematician
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
Anders Gustaf Ekeberg
Swedish chemist
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
Anselme Payen
French chemist
Antoine César Becquerel
French scientist and pioneer in the study of electric and luminescent phenomena (1788-1878)
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
French agronomist, naturalist, nutritionist, and hygienist; promoter of the potato as...
Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
Swedish mineralogist and chemist (1722-1765)
Baron d'Holbach
German-born French philosopher (1723–1789)
Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
Carl Gustaf Mosander
Swedish chemist and mineralogist (1797–1858)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish German chemist who discovered oxygen
Christian Friedrich Schönbein
German-Swiss chemist, discoverer of guncotton and ozone (1799-1868)
Claude Louis Berthollet
French chemist (1748-1822)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
Daniel Rutherford
British physician, chemist, botanist and physicist (1749–1819)
Edme Mariotte
French physicist, chemist, botanist and priest
Eva Ekeblad
Swedish scientist (1724-1786)
Franz Karl Achard
German chemist
Friedrich Sertürner
German pharmacist (1783–1841)
Gaspard Monge
French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential...
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Georg Brandt
Swedish chemist and mineralogist
Georg Ernst Stahl
German physician and chemist (1659-1734)
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Tyrolean physician and naturalist (1723-1788)
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)
Heinrich Friedrich Link
German naturalist and botanist
Hennig Brand
German merchant
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
Herman Boerhaave
Dutch botanist, chemist, humanist, and physician (1668–1738)
Humphry Davy
British chemist
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
Jan Ingenhousz
Dutch physiologist (1730–1799)
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier
French balloonist
Johan August Arfwedson
Swedish chemist (1792-1841)
Johan Gadolin
Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist (1760–1852)
Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish chemist (1745-1818)
Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben
German scientist
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
German naturalist (1748–1804)
Johann Georg Gmelin
German and Russian scientist (1709-1755)
Johann Joachim Becher
German physicist, scientific alchemist, pioneer of chemistry, scholar, courtier, and adventurer
Johann Rudolf Glauber
German-Dutch alchemist (1604-1670)
Johann Wilhelm Ritter
German chemist, physicist and philosopher
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
German chemist
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
John Frederic Daniell
English chemist and physicist
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792–1871)
Joseph Black
Scottish physicist and chemist (1728–1799)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
Joseph Proust
French chemist
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist (1779–1848)
Louis Daguerre
French scientist, artist and photographer (1787–1851)
Louis Jacques Thénard
French chemist (1777-1857)
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin
French professor of chemistry (1763-1829)
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist (1743-1817)
Mary-Anne Paulzzze Lavoisier
French chemist and painter (1758-1836)
Mathurin Jacques Brisson
French zoologist and natural philosopher
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
Michel Eugène Chevreul
French chemist (1786-1889)
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
Nicolas Leblanc
French chemist
Nicolás Joseph Jacquin
chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands (1727-1817)
Pierre Louis Dulong
French scientist (1785-1838)
René Just Haüy
French mineralogist
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
Rudolf Erich Raspe
German author and scientist (1736–1794)
Samuel Hahnemann
German physician known for creating homeopathy
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Smithson Tennant
British chemist (1761-1815)
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Stephen Gray
British chemist, physicist, astronomer
Stephen Hales
British scientist (1677-1761)
Torbern Bergman
Swedish chemist
William Hyde Wollaston
English chemist and physicist (1766–1828)
William Murdoch
Scottish engineer and inventor (1754-1839)
William Prout
British chemist (1785-1850)
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Adolf Windaus
German chemist (1876–1959)
Adolf von Baeyer
German chemist (1835-1917)
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
German chemist (1818–1884)
Albert Claude
Belgian-American cell biologist (1899–1983)
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)
Albrecht Kossel
German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist (1833–1887)
Alexander Butlerov
Russian chemist (1828-1886)
Alexander Oparin
Soviet biochemist (1894-1980)
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
Alfred Werner
Swiss chemist Nobel laureate (1866-1919)
Alice Augusta Ball
African American chemist (1892–1916)
André-Louis Debierne
French chemist (1874-1949)
Antoine Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
Antoine Jérôme Balard
French chemist
Arthur Harden
British biochemist
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
Finnish chemist and professor (1895–1973)
Artúr Görgey
Hungarian military leader (1818–1916)
Ascanio Sobrero
Italian chemist (1812–1888)
August Kekulé
German organic chemist (1829–1896)
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
German chemist (1818–1892)
Bernardo Houssay
Argentine physician (1887–1971)
C. H. D. Buys Ballot
Dutch physicist (*1817 – †1890)
Carl Auer von Welsbach
Austrian scientist and inventor (1858-1929)
Carl Bosch
German chemical engineer (1874–1940)
Carl Ferdinand Cori
Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1896–1984)
Carl Nägeli
Swiss botanist (1817–1891)
Casimir Funk
Jewish-Polish biochemist
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
Charles Adolphe Wurtz
French chemist (1817–1884)
Charles Friedel
French chemist (1832–1899)
Charles Goodyear
American inventor (1800-1860)
Charles Martin Hall
American chemist (1863-1914)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)
Clara Immerwahr
German chemist (1870-1915)
Claude Bernard
French physiologist (1813-1878)
Clemens Winkler
German chemist (1838-1904)
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
English physical chemist (1897-1967)
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
Edmond Becquerel
French physicist (1820-1891)
Eduard Buchner
German chemist (1907 Nobel Prize)
Edward Adelbert Doisy
American biochemist (1893-1986)
Edward Calvin Kendall
American chemist (1886-1972)
Edward W. Morley
American physical chemist
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Danish astronomer and chemist
Elihu Thomson
American inventor (1853–1937)
Ellen Swallow Richards
American chemist (1842-1911)
Emil Abderhalden
Swiss biochemist and physiologist (1877–1950)
Emil Erlenmeyer
German chemist (1825–1909)
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
Ernest Solvay
Belgian chemist, industrialist, philanthropist (1838-1922)
Felix Hoffmann
German chemist (1868-1946)
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Francis Peyton Rous
American scientist (1879-1970)
Francis William Aston
British chemist (1877-1945)
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Australian virologist (1899-1985)
Frederick Abel
British chemist 1827-1902
Frederick Hopkins
English biochemist
Frederick Soddy
English radiochemist (1877–1956)
Friedrich Bergius
German chemist (1884–1949)
Friedrich Hund
German physicist (1896-1997)
Friedrich Wöhler
German chemist (1800-1882)
Frits Zernike
Dutch physicist (1888–1966)
Fritz Albert Lipmann
German-American biochemist
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
Fritz Pregl
Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1869-1930)
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Georg Wittig
German chemist (1979 Nobel Prize)
Georg von Békésy
Hungarian physicist (1899–1972)
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
George de Hevesy
Hungarian chemist (1885–1966)
Gerhard Domagk
German bacteriologist (1895-1964)
Gerty Cori
Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)
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Gilbert N. Lewis
American physical chemist
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist (1824–1887)
Hans Fischer
German chemist (1881–1945)
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Swedish scientist (1873-1964)
Harold Urey
American physical chemist (1893-1981)
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
German chemist and physicist (1802–1870)
Heinrich Otto Wieland
German Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1877-1957)
Henri Moissan
French chemist (1852–1907)
Henri Nestlé
businessman (1814-1890)
Henri Victor Regnault
French physicist (1810–1878)
Henrik Dam
Danish biochemist and physiologist (1895-1976)
Henry Draper
American physician and astronomer (1837–1882)
Henry Louis Le Châtelier
French chemist (1850–1936)
Henry Moseley
English physicist
Hermann Emil Fischer
German chemist (1852–1919)
Hermann Staudinger
German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1881–1965)
Howard Florey
Australian pathologist (1898-1968)
Ida Noddack
German chemist (1896–1978)
Ignacy Mościcki
President of Poland from 1926 to 1939
Ignacy Łukasiewicz
Polish pharmacist and petroleum industry pioneer (1822-1882)
Irving Langmuir
American chemist and physicist (1881–1957)
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist (1849-1936)
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Dutch physical and organic chemist (1852-1911)
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
James Batcheller Sumner
American chemist (1887-1955)
James Dewar
Scottish chemist and physicist (1842–1923)
James Franck
German-American physicist (1882–1964)
Jaroslav Heyrovský
Czech chemist (1890-1967)
Jean-Baptiste Dumas
French chemist (1800–1884)
Jean-Baptiste Perrin
French physicist (1870–1942)
Johann Josef Loschmidt
Austrian chemist and physicist (1821–1895)
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Dutch physicist (1837–1923)
Johannes Fibiger
Danish physician
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
Danish physical chemist (1879–1947)
John Alexander Reina Newlands
British chemist who did work concerning the periodicity of elements
John Franklin Enders
American medical researcher (1897-1985)
John Howard Northrop
American biochemist (1891-1987)
John William Strutt
English physicist (1842–1919)
Joseph Swan
British physicist and inventor (1828-1914)
Josiah Willard Gibbs
American scientist (1839–1903)
Justus von Liebig
German chemist (1803-1873)
Karl Landsteiner
Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate
Karl Ziegler
German chemist (1898–1973)
Katharine Burr Blodgett
American physicist (1898-1979)
Kazimierz Fajans
Polish-American scientist
Leo Baekeland
Belgium American inventor (1863-1944)
Leopold Ružička
Croatian scientist (1887-1976)
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
Lothar Meyer
German chemist and physician (1830-1895)
Louis Le Prince
French artist and cinematographer, pioneer of cinema
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
Marcellin Berthelot
French chemist and politician (1827-1907)
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
Maud Menten
Canadian physician and chemist (1879–1960)
Max Theiler
South African-American virologist and doctor (1899-1972)
Michael Polanyi
Hungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)
Mihajlo Pupin
Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist (1858–1935)
Mikhail Tsvet
Russian-Italian botanist (1872-1919)
Morris Travers
English chemist (1872–1961)
Mykola Zelinsky
Ukrainian chemist (1861–1953)
Nikolay Semyonov
Soviet physical chemist (1896-1986)
Nils Gustaf Dalén
Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist (1869–1937)
Norman Haworth
British chemist (1883-1950)
Odd Hassel
Norwegian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate (1897–1981)
Oswald Avery
Canadian-born American physician and medical researcher
Otto Diels
German chemist (1876–1954)
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1883–1970)
Otto Stern
German-American physicist (1888–1969)
Otto Wallach
German chemist (1847–1931)
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
Paul Hermann Müller
Swiss chemist (1899-1965)
Paul Karrer
Swiss chemist (1889-1971)
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
Paul Sabatier
French chemist (1854–1941)
Paul Ulrich Villard
French chemist and physicist (1860–1934)
Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran
French chemist (1838–1912)
Per Teodor Cleve
Swedish chemist who discovered holmium and thulium (1840-1905)
Peter Debye
Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966)
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
Pierre Duhem
French physicist and historian of science (1861-1916)
Pompeu Fabra
Catalan linguist (1868–1948)
Richard Abegg
German chemist (1869-1910)
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Austrian chemist (1865-1929)
Richard Chace Tolman
American physicist (1881–1948)
Richard Willstätter
German chemist (1872–1942)
Robert Bunsen
German chemist (1811-1899)
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
Robert Ley
German Nazi politician; indicted by the International Military Tribunal for war crimes...
Robert Mayer
German physicist (1814-1878)
Robert Robinson
English chemist (1886-1975)
Robert S. Mulliken
American physicist, chemist and botanical collector (1896 - 1986)
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
British chemist
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
Selman Abraham Waksman
American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
Russian chemist and photographer (1863–1944)
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Italian chemist (1826-1910)
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen
Danish chemist
Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist (1897-1996)
Theodor Svedberg
Swedish chemist (1884-1971)
Theodore William Richards
United States chemist (1868–1928)
Thomas Andrews
Irish chemist and physicist (1813–1885)
Thomas Graham
British chemist (1805–1869)
Thomas Midgley
American chemist and engineer (1889–1944)
Vera Popova
Russian chemist (1867–1896)
Victor Francis Hess
Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate (1883-1964)
Victor Grignard
French chemist (1871-1935)
Viktor Goldschmidt
Norwegian mineralogist (1888-1947)
Vladimir Markovnikov
Russian chemist
Vladimir Vernadsky
Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry,...
Wallace Carothers
American organic chemist (1896–1937)
Walther Bothe
German physicist, mathematician and chemist (1891-1957)
Walther Hermann Nernst
German physical chemist and physicist (1864–1941)
Wilbur Scoville
American pharmacist (1865–1942)
Wilfrid Voynich
Polish revolutionary, antiquarian, bibliophile, historian and eponym of Voynich...
Wilhelm Ostwald
Baltic German chemist (1853–1932)
William Crookes
British chemist and physicist (1832-1919)
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William Giauque
American chemist (1895-1982)
William Henry Bragg
British scientist (1862–1942)
William Henry Fox Talbot
British inventor and photographer (1800–1877)
William Henry Perkin
British chemist known for his accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye (1838–1907)
William Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
William Ramsay
Scottish chemist (1852–1916)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist
Modern 210
Aaron Ciechanover
Israeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate
Aaron Klug
British chemist and biophysicist
Ada Yonath
Israeli chemist
Ahmed Zewail
Egyptian chemist
Akira Suzuki
Japanese chemist (1930 - )
Akira Yoshino
Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery
Alan J. Heeger
American chemist, physicist
Alan MacDiarmid
New Zealand chemist (1927–2007)
Albert Ghiorso
American nuclear scientist
Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist (1906–2008)
Alfred Hershey
American chemist (1908–1997)
Anna Lee Fisher
American astronaut (born 1949)
Archer John Porter Martin
British chemist (1910–2002)
Arieh Warshel
chemist, biochemist and biophysicist
Arne Tiselius
Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
Arthur Kornberg
American biochemist
Asima Chatterjee
Indian chemist (1917–2006)
Ben Feringa
Dutch Nobel laureate in chemistry
Bengt I. Samuelsson
Swedish biochemist
Benjamin List
German chemist (1968-)
Bernard Katz
German-British biophysicist (1911–2003)
Brian Kobilka
American physiologist
Carl Djerassi
American chemistry professor, inventor, author, playwright (1923–2015)
Carolyn Bertozzi
American chemist (born 1966)
Catherine Coleman
American astronaut, chemist, United States Air Force officer
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Charles J. Pedersen
American organic chemist
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao
Indian chemist
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist (1916–1995)
Christian de Duve
Belgian biochemist, cytologist (1917–2013)
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)
Clair Cameron Patterson
American chemist and geochemist (1922–1995)
César Milstein
Argentine biochemist (1927–2002)
Dan Shechtman
Israeli scientist
David MacMillan
British chemist (1968-)
Derek Barton
English organic chemist (1918–1998)
Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor and martial artist (born 1957)
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Donald J. Cram
American chemist (1919–2001)
Donald Pettit
American astronaut
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
Dudley R. Herschbach
American chemist
Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr.
American pharmacologist (1915–1974)
Edmond H. Fischer
American biochemist (1920–2021)
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Edwin G. Krebs
American biochemist (1918–2009)
Ei-ichi Negishi
Japanese chemist (1935 - 2021)
Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and...
Elias James Corey
American chemist
Eric Betzig
American physicist
Ernst Chain
Jewish-German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)
Ernst Otto Fischer
German chemist (1918–2007)
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Erwin Chargaff
Ukrainian-born biochemist who emigrated to the United States (1905–2002)
Erwin Neher
German biophysicist
F. Sherwood Rowland
American chemist (1927–2012)
Francis Collins
American geneticist and director of the National Institutes of Health
Fraser Stoddart
Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist (1918–2013)
Fritz London
German-American physicist (1900-1954)
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Fritz Strassmann
German chemist (1902–1980)
Geoffrey Wilkinson
British Nobel laureate in Chemistry
George Andrew Olah
Hungarian chemist (1927-2017)
George Emil Palade
Romanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate (1912–2008)
George H. Hitchings
Nobel Prize-winning American physician
George Smith
Nobel prize winning US chemist
George Wald
American biologist, biochemist, physiologist and Nobel laureate (1906–1997)
Georges J. F. Köhler
German immunologist (1946–1995)
Georgy Flyorov
Soviet physicist (1913-1990)
Gerald Edelman
American biologist (1929–2014)
Gerhard Ertl
German physicist
Gerhard Herzberg
German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist (1904-1999)
Giulio Natta
Italian chemist
Glenn Theodore Seaborg
American chemist (1912–1999)
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
Greg Winter
British biochemist (born 1951)
Har Gobind Khorana
Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011)
Harry Kroto
British chemist (1939-2016)
Hartmut Michel
German biochemist (1988 Nobel Prize)
Helen Sharman
British chemist who became the first Briton in space
Henry Taube
Canadian-born American chemist (1915–2005)
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician (1917–2011)
Herbert C. Brown
American chemist (1912–2004)
Hideki Shirakawa
Japanese scientist (1936–)
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
Irwin Rose
American biologist (1926-2015)
J. Michael Bishop
American immunologist and microbiologist who specialized in cancer research
James Black
Scottish doctor and pharmacologist (1924–2010)
James Lovelock
English scientist (1919–2022)
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
Janet L. Kavandi
American astronaut
Jean Dausset
French immunologist (1916-2009)
Jean-Marie Lehn
French chemist
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
French nanotechnologist
Jennifer Doudna
American biochemist
Jens Christian Skou
Danish chemist (1918-2018)
Jerome Karle
American physical chemist (1918–2013)
Joachim Frank
German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate
Johann Deisenhofer
German scientist
John Cornforth
Australian-British chemist
John E. Walker
British biochemist (1941-)
John Fenn
American analytical chemist (1917–2010)
John Kendrew
English biochemist and crystallographer (1917–1997)
John Michael Jumper
American chemist and AI expert
John Polanyi
Hungarian-Canadian chemist
John Pople
Nobel prize winning British chemist (1925-2004)
John Sulston
British biologist and Nobel laureate (1942–2018)
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist (1912–2004)
Karl Barry Sharpless
American chemist and Nobel Laureate (born 1941)
Kary Mullis
American biochemist (1944–2019)
Kenichi Fukui
Japanese chemist (1918–1998)
Koichi Tanaka
Japanese chemist
Konrad Emil Bloch
German American biochemist (1912–2000)
Kurt Alder
German chemist (1902–1958)
Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss chemist (born 1938)
Lars Onsager
American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
Louis E. Brus
American chemist (1943–2026)
Louis Slotin
Canadian physicist and chemist (1910-1946)
Luis Federico Leloir
Argentine biochemist
M. Stanley Whittingham
Nobel laureate in chemistry & American chemist
Manfred Eigen
German biophysical chemist (1927-2019)
Marguerite Perey
French physicist (1909–1975)
Mario Molina
Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010)
Martha Chase
American geneticist
Martin Chalfie
American biochemist, cell biologist, and university teacher (born 1947)
Martin Karplus
Austrian-born American theoretical chemist (1930–2024)
Martin Rodbell
American biochemist (1925-1998)
Mary Ellen Weber
American astronaut
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)
Melvin Calvin
American biochemist (1911–1997)
Michael Levitt
biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology
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Richard Kuhn
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Richard Laurence Millington Synge
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Richard R. Schrock
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Roald Hoffmann
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Robert F. Furchgott
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Robert H. Grubbs
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Robert Huber
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Robert Lefkowitz
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Robert W. Holley
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Roderick MacKinnon
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Roger D. Kornberg
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Roger Y. Tsien
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Roy J. Plunkett
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Rudolph A. Marcus
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Salvador Luria
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Stefan Hell
director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany
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