This is a list of chemists . It should include those who have been important to the development or practice of chemistry . Their research or application has made significant contributions in the area of basic or applied chemistry.
A Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950), Swiss chemist
Richard Abegg (1869–1910), German chemist
Frederick Abel (1827–1902), English chemist
Friedrich Accum (1769–1838), German chemist, advances in the field of gas lighting
Homer Burton Adkins (1892–1949), American chemist, known for work in hydrogenation of organic compounds
Peter Agre (1949–), American chemist and doctor, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), German scholar known as "the father of mineralogy"
Arthur Aikin (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist
Adrien Albert (1907–1989), Australian medicinal chemist
John Albery (1936–2013), English physical chemist
Kurt Alder (1902–1958), German chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Sidney Altman (1939–), 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Faiza Al-Kharafi (1946–), Kuwaiti chemist and academic. She was the president of Kuwait University from 1993 to 2002, and the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East.
Christian B. Anfinsen (1916–1995), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Angelo Angeli , Brazilian Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutics
Octavio Augusto Ceva Antunes (1731–1810), British scientist
Anthony Joseph Arduengo, III , American 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
Larned B. Asprey (1919–2005), American nuclear chemist
Francis William Aston (1877–1945), 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), Italian chemist and physicist, discovered Avogadro's law
B Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843–1931), worked on the "single-grain experiment "
Werner Emmanuel Bachmann (1901–1951), American chemist, known for work in steroids and RDX
Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgian-American chemist
Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917), German chemist, 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , synthesis of indigo
Piero Baglioni , Italian chemist
Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom (1854–1907), Dutch chemist
Allen J. Bard , (born 1933), 2008 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Neil Bartlett (1932–2008), English/Canadian/American chemist
Sir Derek Barton (1918–1998), 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Fred Basolo (1920–2007), American inorganic chemist
Esther Batchelder (1897–1987), American chemist, educator and specialist in nutrition
Antoine Baum (1728–1804), French chemist
Karl Bayer (1847–1904), Austrian chemist
Johann Joachim Becher (1635–1682), Developed the phlogiston theory of combustion
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838–1906), German-Russian chemist, created Beilstein database
Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847–1930), French chemist, early work in sterochemistry
Irina Beletskaya (born 1933), Russian organometallic chemist
Ronnie Bell (1907–1996), English physical chemist
Francesco Bellini (1947–), research scientist, doctor in organic chemistry
Paul Berg (born 1926), 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907), French chemist, important work in thermochemistry
Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), French chemist
Carolyn R. Bertozzi , American chemist, Stanford
Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848), Swedish chemist, coined the term "polymer " in 1833
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
Hans-Joachim Born , German radiochemist
Carl Bosch (1872–1940), German chemist
Octave Leopold Boudouard (1872–1923), French chemist who discovered the Boudouard reaction
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802–1887), French chemist, agricultural chemistry
E. J. Bowen (1898–1980), English physical chemist
Humphry Bowen (1929–2001), English analytical chemist
Paul D. Boyer (born 1918), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Robert Boyer , employee of Henry Ford focus on soybean use.
Robert Boyle (1627–1691), English pioneer of modern chemistry
Henri Braconnot (1780–1855), French chemist and pharmacist
Henning Brand (c. 1630 – c.1692 or c. 1710), German chemist, discovered phosphorus
Ronald Breslow , (born 1931), American organic chemist
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (1879–1947), Danish chemist
Herbert C. Brown (1912–2004), 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Stephen L. Buchwald , (born 1955), American Chemist, Organic Chemistry, co-discoverer of Palladium-patalyzed C-N bond formation Buchwald–Hartwig amination [ 1]
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist, discovered the elements caesium and rubidium with Gustav Kirchhoff and invented the Bunsen burner
William Merriam Burton (1865–1954), American chemist, developed the first thermal cracking process for crude oil
Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Aleksandr Butlerov (1828–1886), Russian chemist, discovered the formose reaction
C Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Constantin Cândea (1887–1971), Romanian chemist
Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910), Italian chemist, postulated the Cannizzaro reaction
Georg Ludwig Carius (1829–1875), German chemist
Heinrich Caro (1834–1910), German chemist
Wallace Carothers (1896–1937), American chemist, known for the discovery of nylon
Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British scientist
Elena Ceaușescu
Thomas Cech (born 1947), 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Martin Chalfie (born 1947), 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Michelle Chang (born 1977), American chemist, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Yves Chauvin (born 1930), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Michel Eugėne Chevreul (1786–1889), French chemist, designed an early form of soap, lived to be 102.
Aaron Ciechanover (born 1947), 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Giacomo Luigi Ciamician , Italian chemist, father of the solar panel
G. Marius Clore , (b. 1955) American chemist and Member of the United States National Academy of Science . Known for foundational work in three-dimensional protein and nucleic acid structure determination by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy .
Edward L. Cochran (born 1929), American Chemist, known for pioneering studies on the nature of free radicals
Ernst Cohen (1869–1944), Dutch chemist (murdered in Auschwitz)
James Bryant Conant (1893– 1978), American organic Chemist, Priestley Medal 1944
Elias James Corey (born 1928), American organic chemist, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Robert Corey (1897–1971), American biochemist
Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984), Czech biochemist, Nobel Prize in medicine 1947
Gerty Cori (1896–1957), American biochemist, Nobel Prize in medicine 1947
Charles D. Coryell (1912–1971), American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium
John Cornforth (born 1917), Australian winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Frank Albert Cotton (1930–2007), 2000 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Charles Coulson (1910–1974), British theoretical chemist
Archibald Scott Couper (1831–1892), English chemist, further developed Tetravalence
James Crafts (1839–1917), American chemist, developer of Friedel–Crafts reaction
Donald J. Cram (1919–2001), American chemist, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist, discovered the element thallium
Paul J. Crutzen (1933), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Marie Curie (1867–1934), Polish radiation physicist, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics , 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Pierre Curie (1859–1906), 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
Robert Curl (born 1933), American chemist, 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
Vincenzo, Count Dandolo (1758–1819), Italian Nobleman and Chemist
Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936), American organic chemist, natural product Total synthesis , 1995/6 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Humphry Davy (1778–1829), British Chemist, discovered several alkaline earth metals
Raymond Davis, Jr. (1914–2006), American physical chemist
Peter Debye (1884–1966), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Johann Deisenhofer (born 1943), 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Francesco DeMaria (born 1928), Italian-American chemist, working in Chemical engineering
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
Robert Dirks (1978–2015), American computational chemist
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
David Adriaan van Dorp (1915–1995), Dutch chemist
Herbert Henry Dow (1866–1930), American industrial chemist, known for bromine extraction
Cornelius Drebbel (1572–1633), Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist
Vratislav Ducháček (born 1941), Czech chemist
Carl Duisburg (1861–1935), German chemist, early administrative industrial chemist[citation needed ]
Jean Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884), French chemist, work on atomic weights
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
Mostafa El-Sayed , Egyptian-American physical chemist
Fausto Elhuyar (1755–1833), Spanish chemist, discoverer of tungsten
Conrad Elvehjem (1901–1962), American biochemist, discovered niacin
Harry Julius Emeléus (1903–1993), British inorganic chemist
Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), German chemist
Richard R. Ernst , (born 1933), 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Gerhard Ertl (born 1936), German physical chemist, 2007 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
Evelyn Hickmans (born in 1883), British chemist, received the John Scott Medal for developing methods to control phenylketonuria [ 2]
F Kazimierz Fajans (1887–1975), Polish-American physical chemist
Michael Faraday (1791–1867), chemist and physicist, discovered Benzene
Hermann von Fehling (1812–1885), German chemist
John Bennett Fenn (born 1917), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), Nuclear Chemist and Elementary Particle Physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
Hermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919), 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , (actual name Hermann Emil Fischer, see below) not to be confused with:
Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947), German chemist, co-discovered the Fischer-Tropsch process
Ernst Gottfried Fischer (1754–1831), German chemist
Ernst Otto Fischer (1918–2007), German chemist, 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German organic chemist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835-1910), German chemist, co-discovered Wurtz–Fittig reaction
Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1775–1809), co-discovered the element Iridium and developed modern chemical notation
Nicolas Flamel , French alchemist
Paul Flory (1910–1985), 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Edward Frankland (1825–1899), English chemist, originated the concept of valence
Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British Chemist and Crystallographer
Herman Frasch (1851–1914), German mining engineer and inventor, pioneered the Frasch process
Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist
Ida Freund (1863-1914), first woman to be a university chemistry lecturer in the UK.
Charles Friedel (1832–1899), French chemist, developer of Friedel–Crafts reaction
Alexander Naumovich Frumkin (1895–1976), electrochemist and chemist
Kenichi Fukui (1918–1998), 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
G Johan Gadolin (1760–1852), Finnish chemist
Merrill Garnett , (born 1930), American biochemist
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), French chemist and physicist, discovered the Gay-Lussac law
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856), French chemist, synthesized acetylsalicylic acid
William Giauque (1895–1982), 1949 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903), American engineer, chemist and physicist
Walter Gilbert (born 1932), 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Henry Gilman (1893-1986), American chemist, discovered the Gilman reagent
Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604–1670), Dutch-German alchemist and chemist
Lawrence E. Glendenin (1918–2008), American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium
Leopold Gmelin (1788–1853), German chemist, discovered potassium ferricyanide .
Theodore Nicolas Gobley (1811–1874), French chemist, pioneer in brain tissues analysis, discoverer of lecithin
Victor Goldschmidt (1888–1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry
Moses Gomberg (1866–1947), Russian-American chemist, known for pioneering work in radical chemistry
David van Goorle also called Gorlaeus, (1591–1612), Dutch chemist, one of the first modern atomists
Carl Gräbe (1841–1927), German chemist, discovered the dye alizarin
Thomas Graham (1805–1869), Scottish chemist, dialysis and diffusion .
Harry B. Gray (born 1935), 2004 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
François 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), German chemist, 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , father of the Haber process
Otto Hahn (1879–1968), German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission , 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , father of nuclear chemistry
John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), British biochemist
Charles Martin Hall (1863–1914), American chemist, famous for Hall-Héroult process
George S. Hammond (1921–2005), American chemist, famous for Hammond's postulate
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
Herbert A. Hauptman (born 1917), 1985 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Robert Havemann (1910–1982), chemist
Walter Haworth (1883–1950), 1937 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Clayton Heathcock , American chemist
Alan J. Heeger (born 1936), 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Jan Baptist van Helmont (1579–1644), The founder of pneumatic chemistry
Dudley R. Herschbach (1932–), American chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Avram Hershko (born 1937), 2004 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, namesake of Hess's Law
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
Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist , 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Swiss chemist, synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
August Wilhelm Hofmann (1818–1892), German chemist, first to isolate sorbic acid
Darleane C. Hoffman (born 1926), American Nuclear Chemist
Friedrich Hoffmann (1660–1742), physician and chemist
Roald Hoffmann (born 1937), Polish-born American chemist, 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947), British biochemist, known for discovery of vitamins , Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929
Linda Hsieh-Wilson , American chemist, California Institute of Technology
Heinrich Hubert Maria Josef Houben (1875–1940) 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
Benjamin Hsiao , Asian American chemist at Stony Brook University , Fellow of the American Physical Society , Fellow of the American Chemical Society , Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [ 3]
Robert Huber (born 1937), 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry
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K Henri B. Kagan (born 1930), 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Jerome Karle (born 1918), 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Paul Karrer (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783–1857)
August Kekulé (1829–1896), German organic chemist
John Kendrew (1917–1997), 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864), Dutch chemist, inventor of Kipp-generator
Johan Kjeldahl (1849–1900), Danish chemist, head chemist at Carlsberg Brewery , methods still in use
Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743–1817), German chemist, discovered the element uranium
Trevor Kletz (born 1922) British promoter of industrial safety
Aaron Klug (born 1926), winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Emil Knoevenagel (1865–1921)
William Standish Knowles , (born 1917), 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Walter Kohn , (born 1923), 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), German chemist known for Kolbe nitrile synthesis
Izaak Kolthoff (1894–1993), Dutch-American chemist, the "Father of Analytical Chemistry "
Roger D. Kornberg (born 1947), 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Hans A. Krebs (1900–1981), German biochemist, work on metabolic cycles
Harold Kroto (1939-2016), English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
L Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), chemist, physicist, 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Auguste Laurent (1807–1853), French chemist, discovered anthracene
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)
Yuan T. Lee (born 1936), winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1939), French chemist, shared 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Luis Federico Leloir (1906–1987), Argentine biochemist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Raymond Lemieux (1920–2000), 1999 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875–1946), American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry
Andreas Libavius (1555–1616), German doctor and chemist
Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842–1914), German chemist, known for synthesis of alizarin
Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist, winner of 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), German inventor and pioneer in agricultural and biological chemistry
Karl Paul Link (1901–1978), American biochemist, discovered the anticoagulant warfarin .
William Lipscomb (born 1919), 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912), English surgeon
Arthur H. Livermore (1915–2009), science educator and chemist
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian scientist, anticipated the kinetic-molecular theory by 100 years
H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins , British chemist
Martin Lowry (1874–1936), British chemist
Sima Lozanić (1847–1935), Serbian chemist
Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1802–1882), Polish pharmacist
M Alan MacDiarmid (1927–2007), 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry (1904–1993), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
Roderick MacKinnon (born 1956), 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Pierre Macquer (1718–1784), influential French chemist
Rudolph A. Marcus , (born 1923), 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jacob A. Marinsky (1918–2005), American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817–1894), Swiss chemist, discovered ytterbium and co-discovered gadolinium .
Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov (1838–1904)
Tobin J. Marks (1944), American inorganic chemist and material scientist
Alan G. Marshall , American chemist, co-inventor of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry
Archer John Porter Martin (1910–2002), 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Martinus van Marum (1750–1837), Dutch chemist
Elmer McCollum (1879–1967), American biochemist, known for work of diet on health
Edwin McMillan (1907–1991), 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Lise Meitner (1878–1968), German physicist
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907), Russian chemist, creator of the Periodic table of elements
John Mercer (1791–1866), chemist and industrialist
Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921–2006), solid-phase chemist, 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Julius Lothar Meyer (1830–1895),German chemist, important work on The periodic table of elements ; not to be confused with:
Viktor Meyer (1848–1897)
August Michaelis (1847–1916), German chemist
Hartmut Michel (born 1948), 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Huang Minglon (1889-1979), Chinese chemist
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
Peter D. Mitchell (1920–1992), 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
William A. Mitchell (1911–2004), key inventor behind Pop Rocks , Tang , and Kool Whip
Eilhardt Mitscherlich (1794–1863) German chemist, remembered for the law of isomorphism.
Alexander Mitscherlich (1836–1918), chemist
Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806–1879), German chemist famous for first musings on the Conservation of energy
Henri Moissan (1852–1907), French chemist and the winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Mario J. Molina , (born 1943), 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jacques Monod (1910–1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
Jeffrey S. Moore (born 1961), American material chemist
Peter Moore (born 1939), American biochemist, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University
Stanford Moore (1913–1982), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887–1915), English physicist, discovered Moseley's law
Gerardus Johannes Mulder (1802–1880), Dutch organic chemist
Paul Müller , Swiss chemist, (1899–1965), discovered DDT , won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939
Robert S. Mulliken (1896–1986), American physicist, chemist, 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Kary Mullis (born 1944), 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Earl Muetterties (1927–1984) American chemist
Catherine J. Murphy (1964– ), American chemist and materials scientist
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, 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John Alexander Reina Newlands (1837–1898), English analytical chemist
William Nicholson (1753–1815), English chemist
Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou , American chemist
Julius Nieuwland (1878–1936), American chemist, work on synthetic rubber leading to neoprene
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897–1978), 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John Howard Northrop (1891–1987), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ryōji Noyori (born 1938), 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry , 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ralph Nuzzo , American chemist and materials scientists
O George Andrew Olah (born 1927), 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Fred Olsen (1891–1986), inventor of the ball propellant manufacturing process[ 4]
Lars Onsager (1903–1976), physical chemist , 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Tony Orchard (1941–2005), British inorganic chemist, photoelectron spectroscopist
Joan Oró (1923–2004), Catalan biochemist, one of his most important contributions was the prebiotic synthesis of the nucleobase adenine from hydrogen cyanide .
Hans Christian Ørsted , First to isolate aluminium
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 , father of pasteurization
Linus Pauling (1901–1994), Nobel Prizes in chemistry and peace
Charles J. Pedersen (1904–1989), 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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
Max Perutz (1914–2002), 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Eva Philbin (1914–2005), Irish chemist
David Andrew Phoenix (born 1966), Biochemist
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
Vera Vevstafievna Popova (1867-1896), one of the first female Russian chemists.
George Porter (1920–2002), 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Fritz Pregl (1869–1930), Slovene-German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923.
Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998), 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), no formal training as a scientist, discovered the element oxygen
Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003), 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Joseph Louis Proust (1754–1826), discovered the Law of definite proportions
R Venkatraman Ramakrishnan , (born 1952), 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
William Ramsay (1852–1916), Scottish chemist, 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
François-Marie Raoult (1830–1901), French chemist, known for Raoult's law
Henry Rapoport , American chemist, UC Berkeley
William Sage Rapson , South African chemist and co-author of Gold Usage
Ken Raymond , American inorganic and bioinorganic chemist , UC Berkeley
Julius Rebek (1944), Hungarian American chemist.
Charles Lee Reese (1862–1940) American chemist and Chemical Director of DuPont
Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French chemist and physicist
Tadeus Reichstein (1897–1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Rhazes (Razi), Iranian Chemist (865–925)
Stuart A. Rice (born 1932), physical chemist
Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist.
Theodore William Richards (1868–1928), 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Wim Richter , South Africa
Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762–1807), German chemist, first used the term stoichiometry
Nikolaus Riehl , Germany (1901–1990)
Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), Spanish-Mexican geochemist, discovered vanadium
Robert Robinson (1886–1975), 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Pierre Jean Robiquet (1780–1840), French chemist, discovered caffeine, alizarin, cantharidin
Hillar Rootare (1928) Estonian-American physical chemist
Irwin Rose (born 1926), 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Guillaume-François Rouelle (1703–1770), French chemist
H. M. Rouell (1718–1779), French chemist
Frank Sherwood Rowland (born 1927), 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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
S Paul Sabatier (1854–1941), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
Frederick Sanger (born 1918), 1958 and 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), Swedish 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements
Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799–1868), German-Swiss chemist, invented the fuel cell , and discovered gun cotton and ozone .
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
Peter Schultz , American chemist
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
K. Barry Sharpless , (born 1941), 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry , 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Dan Shechtman (born 1941) 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , discovered quasicrystals .
Patsy O. Sherman (born 1930), 12 US Patents
Nevil Vincent Sidgwick (1873–1952), English theoretical chemist, known for work in valency
Osamu Shimomura (born 1928), 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Hideki Shirakawa (born 1936), 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Alexander Shulgin (born 1925), Pioneer researcher in Psychopharmacology and Entheogens
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (1897–1994), Pakistani chemist, pioneer in natural products chemistry
Oktay Sinanoglu (born 1935), Turkish chemist
Jens Christian Skou (born 1918), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard Smalley (1943–2005), 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Michael Smith (1932–2000), 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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
Gabor A. Somorjai (born 1935), 1998 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Georg Ernst Stahl (1659–1734), Important work on fermentation
Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904–1971), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jean Servais Stas (1813–1891), Belgian analytical chemist
Branko Stanovnik (born 1938), chemist.
Hermann Staudinger (1881–1965), polymer chemist, 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Harry Steenbock (1886–1967), American biochemist, work on ultra violet irradiation .
William Howard Stein (1911–1980), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Thomas A. Steitz (born 1940), 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Alfred Stock (1876–1946), German inorganic chemist, known for work in mercury poisoning
Fraser Stoddart , (born 1945), Scottish chemist, a pioneer in the field of the mechanical bond
Molly Shoichet , An award-winning Canadian biomedical engineer known for her work in tissue engineering . She is the only person to be a fellow of the three National Academies in Canada.
F. Gordon A. Stone (1925–2011), British inorganic chemist
S. Donald Stookey (born 1915), American glass and ceramic chemist
Gilbert Stork (born 1921), 1995/6 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), German organic chemist, principal founder of chemical structure
James B. Sumner (1887–1955), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Edwin Sutermeister , American chemist, known for its work on papermaking
Theodor Svedberg (1884–1971), 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Joseph Swan (1828–1914), English physicist, chemist & inventor
Frédéric Swarts (1866–1940), Belgian chemist, prepared the first chlorofluorocarbon compound
Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914–1994), 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
T Koichi Tanaka (born 1959), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Henry Taube (1915–2005), 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Louis Jacques Thénard (1777–1857), French chemist, discovered hydrogen peroxide and Thenard's Blue .
Sir Harold Warris Thompson (1908–1983), English physical chemist
J. J. Thomson (1856–1940), British physicist, Known in chemistry for discovery of isotopes
T. Don Tilley (born 1954), organometallic chemist
Arne Tiselius (1902–1971), 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Max Tishler (1906–1989), 1970 Priestley Medal
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd (1907–1997), 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Evangelista Torricelli , Italian physicist and chemist who invented the barometer, pupil of Galileo
Roger Y. Tsien (1952-2016), 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Mikhail Tsvet (1872–1919), Russian botanist, known for adsorption chromatography
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Sir James Walker (1863–1935), Scottish physical chemist
John E. Walker (born 1941), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Otto Wallach (1847–1931), German chemist, 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John Warner (born 1966), American chemist, 2014 Perkin Medal , one of the "founders" of green chemistry
Alfred Werner (1866–1919), Swiss chemist, 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Thomas Summers West (1927–2010), British analytical chemist.
Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997)
Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952), Russian chemist, developed the ABE-process
George M. Whitesides (born 1939), American chemist
John Rex Whinfield (1901–1966), British chemist, discovered polyester fibres
Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957) German chemist 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Julius Wilbrand , inventor of TNT
Harvey W. Wiley (1844–1930), United States chemist, Pure food & drug advocate
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996), 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Alexander William Williamson , English chemist, famous for Williamson ether synthesis
Thomas Willson (1860–1915), Canadian chemist, discovered an economically efficient process for creating calcium carbide
Richard Willstätter (1872–1942), 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (1876–1959), 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Günter Wirths , Germany
Georg Wittig (1897–1987), 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea .
William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), English chemist, discovered the elements palladium and rhodium
Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Charles de Worms (1903-1979)
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884), Alsatian French chemist, discovered the Wurtz reaction
Kurt Wüthrich (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Chemists famous in other areas Xi Jinping (born 1953), General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of China
Marion Barry (born 1936), Masters in Organic Chemistry, American politician
Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), Russian chemist & composer
Jerry Buss (born 1934, died 2013), PhD in Physical Chemistry, owner of the NBA LA Lakers and other sports franchises
Emmanuel Dongala (born 1941), Congolese chemist and novelist
Dolph Lundgren (born 1957), Masters in Chemistry, Swedish actor
Primo Levi (1919–1987), resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian chemist, historian, philologist, and poet.
Angela Merkel (born 1954), Doctorate in Quantum Chemistry, Chancellor of Germany (2005–present)
Gaspard Monge (1746–1818), invented descriptive geometry
Francis Muguet (1955–2009), advocate of open information access
Edward W. Morley (1838–1923), performed the Michelson–Morley experiment
Knute Rockne (1888–1931), head football coach of Notre Dame
Elio Di Rupo (born 1951), Prime Minister of Belgium
Israel Shahak (1933–2001)
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990), Research chemist at BX Plastics
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