List of chemists

This is a list of famous chemists:

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), German chemist
• Richard Abegg, (1869-1910), German chemist
• Arthur Aikin, (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
• Johan August Arfwedson, (1792-1841), Swedish chemist
• Svante Arrhenius, (1859-1927), Swedish chemist and physicist
• Amedeo Avogadro, (1776-1856), Italian physicist

B

• Neil Bartlett, (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
• Antoine Baum, (1728-1804), French chemist
• Claude Louis Berthollet, (1748-1822), French chemist
• J?Jakob Berzelius, (1779-1848), Swedish chemist
• Joseph Black, (1728-1799), chemist
• Carl Bosch, (1872-1940), German chemist
• Johannes Nicolaus Br?d, (1879-1947), Danish chemist
• Henri Braconnot (1780-1855), French chemist and pharmacist
• Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, (1811-1899), German inventor, chemist
• Eduard Buchner, (1860-1917), 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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), Bristish scientist
• Maria Skłodowska-Curie, (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist
• Pierre Curie, (1859-1906)
• Robert Curl, winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

D

• John Dalton, (1766-1844), physicist
• Henrik Carl Peter Dam, (1895-1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Humphry Davy, (1778-1829)
• Peter Debye, (1884-1966)
• Sir James Dewar
• Otto Diels, (1876-1954), German chemnist, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Edward Doisy, (1893-), American biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Davorin Dolar, (born 1921), 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
• Manfred Eigen, (1927-), German chemist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• [[Arthur Eichengr?(1867-1949)
• Emil Erlenmayer, (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

F

• Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), scientist
• Hermann Emil Fischer, (1852-1919), not to be confused with :
• Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
• Hans Fischer, German organic chemist, 1930 Nobel prize winner, (1881-1945)
• Carl Remigius Fresenius
• Wilhelm Fresenius, son of Carl, German chemist, (1913-2004)
• Alexander Naumovich Frumkin, (1895-1976), electrochemist

G

• Johan Gadolin, (1760–1852), Finnish chemist
• Ljubo Golic, (born 1932), chemist.
• Thomas Graham not to be confused with:
• William Hardin Graham ???
• Francois Auguste Victor Grignard, (1871-1935), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
• Victor Goldschmidt, (1888-1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry

H

• Fritz Haber, (1868-1934)
• Dusan Hadzi, (born 1921), chemist.
• Otto Hahn, (1879-1968)
• John Haldane, British biochemist
• Odd Hassel, (1897-1981), Norwegian chemist 1969Nobel prize in chemistry
• Charles Hatchett, (1765-1847), English chemist who discovered niobium
• Robert Havemann, (1910-1982), chemist
• George de Hevesy, (1885-1966), chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943
• Friedrich Hoffmann, (1660-1742), physician and chemist
• Roald Hoffmann, (born 1937), Polish-born American chemist, 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• [[Jaroslav Heyrovsk?1890-1967), Czech chemist

I

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

J

• Frederic Joliot-Curie (1900-1958), French chemist and physicist
• Ir讥 Joliot-Curie (1897-1956), French chemist and physicist

K

• Paul Karrer, (1889-1971), 1937 chemistry Nobel laureate.
• Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783 - 1857)
• Friedrich August Kekul頶on Stradonitz, (1829-1896), German organic chemist
• Emil Knoevenagel
• Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, (1818-1884)
• Izaak Kolthoff, (1894-1993) the "Father of Analytical Chemistry"
• Aleksandra Kornhauser, (born 1926), chemist.
• Harold Kroto, (born 1939), English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Richard Kuhn (1900 - 1967), 1938 chemistry Nobel laureate..

L

• Irving Langmuir, (1851-1957), chemist, physicist
• Antoine Lavoisier, (1743-1794), French pioneer chemist
• Yuan T. Lee, (born 1936), winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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
• Henri Louis le Chatelier
• Willard Libby (1908-1980), American chemist, winner of 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Justus von Liebig, (1803 in-1873 in), German inventor
• Martin Lowry, (1874-1936), British chemist

M

• Albertus Magnus, (died 1280), (a.k.a. Saint Albert the Great; Albert of Cologne)
• Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov
• Lise Meitner, (1878-1968), physicist
• Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, (1834-1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements
• John Mercer, (1791-1866), chemist and industrialist
• Lothar Meyer, (1830-1895)
• Viktor Meyer not to be confused with :
• Kurt Heinrich Meyer
• William A. Mitchell, (1911-2004), key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, and Kool Whip
• Alexander Mitscherlich, (1836-1918), chemist
• Jacques Monod, (1910-1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
• Robert S. Mulliken, (1896-1986), American physicist, chemist

N

• Robert Nalbandyan, (1937-2002), Armenian protein chemist
• Isaac Newton, (1642-1727), scientist

O

• Lars Onsager, (1903-1976), physical chemist, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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
• John A. Pople, (1925-2004), theoretical chemist, 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Roy J. Plunkett, (1910-1984), discoverer of Teflon
• 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, (born 1852), Scottish chemist
• Rhazes (Razi)
• Marij Rebek, chemist.
• Henri Victor Regnault (1810-1878), French chemist and physicist
• Tadeus Reichstein, (1897-1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Stuart A. Rice, (1932-), physical chemist
• Ellen Swallow Richards (1842 - 1911), industrial and environmental chemist.
• H. M. Rouell
• Leopold Ruzicka, (1887-1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

S

• Paul Sabatier, 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
• Maks Samec, (1844 - 1889 - chemist.
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742-1786), Swedish 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements
• Glenn T. Seaborg, (1912-1999), atomic physicist
• [[Nils Gabriel Sefstr?, (1787-1845), chemist
• Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Israel Shahak, (1933-2001)
• K. Barry Sharpless. (1941- ) 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• S.P.L. S?en, (1868-1939), Danish chemist
• Frederick Soddy, (1877-1956), British chemist
• Wendell Meredith Stanley, (1904-1971), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1946.
• Branko Stanovnik, (born 1938), chemist.
• Hermann Staudinger, (1881-1965), polymer chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1953.
• Alfred Stock, (1876-1946)
• Theodor Svedberg, (1884-1971)
• Gilbert Stork

T

• Miha Tisler, (born 1926), chemist.

U

• Harold C. Urey, (1893-1981), 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

V

• J. H. van 't Hoff, (1852-1911), August 30, 1852 - March 1, 1911), Dutch physical chemist, 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, (1895-1973), chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

W

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals, (1837-1923)
• John Ernest Walker
• Alfred Werner, (1866-1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877-1957) German chemist 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Harvey W. Wiley, (1844-1930), US chemist, Pure food & drug advocate
• Friedrich Woehler, (1800-1882), German chemist
• William Hyde Wollaston, (1766-1828), English chemist
• Robert B. Woodward (1917-1979), 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Kurt W?h, (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Charles Adolphe Wurtz, (1817-1884)

X

Y

• Sabir Yunusov (1909-1995), Soviet chemist (alkaloids)

Z

• Ahmed H. Zewail (born 1946), Egyptian, 1999 Nobel Prize Winner for his work on femtochemistry.