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Scientist,Birth-Death,CountryEmil AbMderhalden,18771950,Swiss chemistRichard Abegg,18691910,German chemistFrederick Abel,18271902,English chemistFriedrich Accum,17691838,German chemist advances in the field of gas lightingHomer Burton Adkins,18921949,American chemist known for work in hydrogenation of organic compoundsPeter Agre,1949,American chemist and doctor 2003 Nobel Prize in ChemistryGeorgius Agricola,14941555,"German scholar known as ""the father of mineralogy"""""Arthur Aikin,17731855,English chemist and mineralogistAdrien Albert,19071989,Australian medicinal chemistJohn Albery,19362013,English physical chemistKurt Alder,19021958,German chemist 1950 Nobel Prize in ChemistrySidney Altman,1939,1989 Nobel Prize in ChemistryFaiza 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,19161995,1972 Nobel Prize in ChemistryAngelo Angeli,,Brazilian Professor of Chemistry and PharmaceuticsOctavio Augusto Ceva Antunes,17311810,British scientistAnthony Joseph,,Joseph Arduengo III American chemistJohan August Arfwedson,17921841,Swedish chemistAnton Eduard van Arkel,18931976,Dutch chemistSvante Arrhenius,18591927,Swedish chemist one of the founders of physical chemistryLarned B. Asprey,19192005,American nuclear chemistFrancis William Aston,18771945,1922 Nobel Prize in ChemistryAmedeo Avogadro,17761856,Italian chemist and physicist discovered Avogadro's lawStephen Moulton Babcock,18431931,"worked on the ""single-grain experiment"""Werner Emmanuel Bachmann,19011951,American chemist known for work in steroids and RDXLeo Baekeland,18631944,Belgian-American chemistAdolf von Baeyer,18351917,German chemist 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry synthesis of indigoPiero Baglioni,,Italian chemistHendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom,18541907,Dutch chemistAllen J. Bard,born 1933,2008 Wolf Prize in ChemistryNeil Bartlett,19322008,English/Canadian/American chemistSir Derek Barton,19181998,1969 Nobel Prize in ChemistryFred Basolo,19202007,American inorganic chemistEsther Batchelder,18971987,American chemist educator and specialist in nutritionAntoine Baum,17281804,French chemistKarl Bayer,18471904,Austrian chemistJohann Joachim Becher,16351682,Developed the phlogiston theory of combustionFriedrich Konrad Beilstein,18381906,German-Russian chemist created Beilstein databaseJoseph Achille Le Bel,18471930,French chemist early work in stereochemistryIrina Beletskaya,born 1933,Russian organometallic chemistRonnie Bell,19071996,English physical chemistFrancesco Bellini,1947,research scientist doctor in organic chemistryPaul Berg,born 1926,1980 Nobel Prize in ChemistryFriedrich Bergius,18841949,1931 Nobel Prize in ChemistryMarcellin Berthelot,18271907,French chemist important work in thermochemistryClaude Louis Berthollet,17481822,French chemistCarolyn R. Bertozzi,,American chemist StanfordJns Jakob Berzelius,17791848,"Swedish chemist coined the term ""polymer"" in 1833"Johannes Martin Bijvoet,18921980,Dutch chemist and crystallographerJoseph Black,17281799,chemistDale L. Boger,born 1953,American organic and medicinal chemistPaul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran,18381912,French chemistJan Boldingh,19152003,Dutch chemistAlexander Borodin,18331887,Russian chemist & composerHans-Joachim,,Born German radiochemistCarl Bosch,18721940,German chemistOctave Leopold Boudouard,18721923,French chemist who discovered the Boudouard reactionJean-Baptiste Boussingault,18021887,French chemist agricultural chemistryE. J. Bowen,18981980,English physical chemistHumphry Bowen,19292001,English analytical chemistPaul D. Boyer,born 1918,1997 Nobel Prize in ChemistryRobert Boyer,,employee of Henry Ford focus on soybean use.Robert Boyle,16271691,English pioneer of modern chemistryHenri Braconnot,17801855,French chemist and pharmacistHenning Brand,c. 1630  c.1692 or c. 1710,German chemist discovered phosphorusRonald Breslow,born 1931,American organic chemistJohannes Nicolaus Brnsted,18791947,Danish chemistHerbert C. Brown,19122004,1979 Nobel Prize in ChemistryEduard Buchner,18601917,1907 Nobel Prize in ChemistryStephen L. Buchwald,born 1955,American Chemist Organic Chemistry co-discoverer of Palladium-patalyzed C-N bond formation BuchwaldHartwig amination[1]Robert Wilhelm Bunsen,18111899,German inventor chemist discovered the elements caesium and rubidium with Gustav Kirchhoff and invented the Bunsen burnerWilliam Merriam Burton,18651954,American chemist developed the first thermal cracking process for crude oilAdolf Butenandt,19031995,1939 Nobel Prize in ChemistryAleksandr Butlerov,18281886,Russian chemist discovered the formose reactionMelvin Calvin,19111997,American chemist winner of 1961 Nobel Prize in ChemistryConstantin Cndea,18871971,Romanian chemistStanislao Cannizzaro,18261910,Italian chemist postulated the Cannizzaro reactionGeorg Ludwig Carius,18291875,German chemistHeinrich Caro,18341910,German chemistWallace Carothers,18961937,American chemist known for the discovery of nylonHenry Cavendish,17311810,British scientistElena Ceauescu,,Thomas Cech,born 1947,1989 Nobel Prize in ChemistryMartin Chalfie,born 1947,2008 Nobel Prize in ChemistryMichelle Chang,born 1977,American chemist Professor of Chemistry University of California BerkeleyYves Chauvin,born 1930,2005 Nobel Prize in ChemistryMichel Eugne Chevreul,17861889,French chemist designed an early form of soap lived to be 102.Aaron Ciechanover,born 1947,2004 Nobel Prize in ChemistryGiacomo Luigi,,Ciamician Italian chemist father of the solar panelG. 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 radicalsErnst Cohen,18691944,Dutch chemist murdered in AuschwitzJames Bryant Conant,1893 1978,American organic Chemist Priestley Medal 1944Elias James Corey,born 1928,American organic chemist winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in ChemistryRobert Corey,18971971,American biochemistCarl Ferdinand Cori,18961984,Czech biochemist Nobel Prize in medicine 1947Gerty Cori,18961957,American biochemist Nobel Prize in medicine 1947Charles D. Coryell,19121971,American chemist co-discovered the element promethiumJohn Cornforth,born 1917,Australian winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in ChemistryBrigid Cotter,1921-1978,Irish chemist and barristerFrank Albert Cotton,19302007,2000 Wolf Prize in ChemistryCharles Coulson,19101974,British theoretical chemistArchibald Scott Couper,18311892,English chemist further developed TetravalenceJames Crafts,18391917,American chemist developer of FriedelCrafts reactionDonald J. Cram,19192001,American chemist winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in ChemistryWilliam Crookes,18321919,British chemist discovered the element thalliumPaul J. Crutzen,1933,Dutch chemist winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in ChemistryMarie Curie,18671934,Polish radiation physicist 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics 1911 Nobel Prize in ChemistryPierre Curie,18591906,1903 Nobel Prize in PhysicsRobert Curl,born 1933,American chemist winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in ChemistryTheodor Curtius,18571928,German chemistJohn Dalton,17661844,physicist and pioneer of the atomic theoryCarl Peter Henrik Dam,18951976,Danish biochemist winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineVincenzo Count Dandolo,17581819,Italian Nobleman and ChemistSamuel J. Danishefsky,born 1936,American organic chemist natural product Total synthesis 1995/6 Wolf Prize in ChemistryHumphry Davy,17781829,British Chemist discovered several alkaline earth metalsRaymond Davis Jr.,19142006,American physical chemistPeter Debye,18841966,Dutch chemist winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJohann Deisenhofer,born 1943,1988 Nobel Prize in ChemistryFrancesco DeMaria,born 1928,Italian-American chemist working in Chemical engineeringSir James Dewar,18421923,Franois Diederich,born 1952,Luxembourg chemistOtto Diels,18761954,German chemist winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in ChemistryRobert Dirks,19782015,American computational chemistEdward Doisy,1893 1986,American biochemist winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineDavorin Dolar,19212005,chemist from Univ. of LjubljanaDavid Adriaan van Dorp,19151995,Dutch chemistHerbert Henry Dow,18661930,American industrial chemist known for bromine extractionCornelius Drebbel,15721633,Dutch inventor alchemist and chemistVratislav Duchek,born 1941,Czech chemistCarl Duisburg,18611935,German chemist early administrative industrial chemist[citation needed]Jean Baptiste Dumas,18001884,French chemist work on atomic weightsPaul Ehrlich,18541915,German chemist winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineArthur Eichengrn,18671949,Manfred Eigen,born 1927,German chemist winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in ChemistryMostafa El-Sayed,,Egyptian-American physical chemistFausto Elhuyar,17551833,Spanish chemist discoverer of tungstenConrad Elvehjem,19011962,American biochemist discovered niacinHarry Julius Emelus,19031993,British inorganic chemistEmil Erlenmeyer,18251909,German chemistRichard R. Ernst,born 1933,1991 Nobel Prize in ChemistryGerhard Ertl,born 1936,German physical chemist 2007 Nobel prize in chemistryHans von Euler-Chelpin,18731964,Swedish chemist winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in ChemistryHenry Eyring,19011981,Mexican-American theoretical chemistEvelyn Hickmans,born in 1883,British chemist received the John Scott Medal for developing methods to control phenylketonuria[2]Kazimierz Fajans,18871975,Polish-American physical chemistMichael Faraday,17911867,chemist and physicist discovered BenzeneHermann von Fehling,18121885,German chemistJohn Bennett Fenn,born 1917,2002 Nobel Prize in ChemistryEnrico Fermi,19011954,Nuclear Chemist and Elementary Particle Physicist Nobel Prize in Physics 1938Hermann Emil Fischer,18521919,1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry actual name Hermann Emil Fischer see belowFranz Joseph Emil Fischer,18771947,German chemist co-discovered the Fischer-Tropsch processErnst Gottfried Fischer,17541831,German chemistErnst Otto Fischer,19182007,German chemist 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winnerHans Fischer,18811945,German organic chemist 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winnerWilhelm Rudolph Fittig,18351910,German chemist co-discovered WurtzFittig reactionAntoine Franois comte de Fourcroy,17751809,co-discovered the element Iridium and developed modern chemical notationNicolas Flamel,,French alchemistPaul Flory,19101985,1974 Nobel Prize in ChemistryEdward Frankland,18251899,English chemist originated the concept of valenceRosalind Franklin,19201958,British Chemist and CrystallographerHerman Frasch,18511914,German mining engineer and inventor pioneered the Frasch processCarl Remigius Fresenius,18181897,German chemistIda Freund,18631914,first woman to be a university chemistry lecturer in the UK.Charles Friedel,18321899,French chemist developer of FriedelCrafts reactionAlexander Naumovich Frumkin,18951976,electrochemist and chemistKenichi Fukui,19181998,1981 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJohan Gadolin,17601852,Finnish chemistMerrill Garnett,born 1930,American biochemistJoseph Louis Gay-Lussac,17781850,French chemist and physicist discovered the Gay-Lussac lawCharles Frdric Gerhardt,18161856,French chemist synthesized acetylsalicylic acidWilliam Giauque,18951982,1949 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJosiah Willard Gibbs,18391903,American engineer chemist and physicistWalter Gilbert,born 1932,1980 Nobel Prize in ChemistryHenry Gilman,18931986,American chemist discovered the Gilman reagentJohann Rudolf Glauber,16041670,Dutch-German alchemist and chemistLawrence E. Glendenin,19182008,American chemist co-discovered the element promethiumLeopold Gmelin,17881853,German chemist discovered potassium ferricyanide.Theodore Nicolas Gobley,18111874,French chemist pioneer in brain tissues analysis discoverer of lecithinVictor Goldschmidt,18881947,Father of Modern GeochemistryMoses Gomberg,18661947,Russian-American chemist known for pioneering work in radical chemistryDavid van Goorle also called Gorlaeus,15911612,Dutch chemist one of the first modern atomistsCarl Grbe,18411927,German chemist discovered the dye alizarinThomas Graham,18051869,Scottish chemist dialysis and diffusion.Harry B. Gray,born 1935,2004 Wolf Prize in ChemistryFranois Auguste Victor Grignard,18711935,1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipientRobert H. Grubbs,born 1942,2005 Nobel Prize in ChemistryFritz Haber,18681934,German chemist 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry father of the Haber processOtto Hahn,18791968,German chemist discoverer of nuclear fission 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry father of nuclear chemistryJohn Scott Haldane,18601936,British biochemistCharles Martin Hall,18631914,American chemist famous for Hall-Hroult processGeorge S. Hammond,19212005,American chemist famous for Hammond's postulateArthur Harden,18651940,English biochemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929Odd Hassel,18971981,Norwegian chemist 1969 Nobel Prize in chemistryCharles Hatchett,17651847,English chemist who discovered niobiumHerbert A. Hauptman,born 1917,1985 Nobel Prize in chemistryRobert Havemann,19101982,chemistWalter Haworth,18831950,1937 Nobel Prize in chemistryClayton Heathcock,,American chemistAlan J. Heeger,born 1936,2000 Nobel Prize in chemistryJan Baptist van Helmont,15791644,The founder of pneumatic chemistryDudley R. Herschbach,1932,American chemist 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistryAvram Hershko,born 1937,2004 Nobel Prize in chemistryCharles Herty,,American chemistGerhard Herzberg,19041999,German-Canadian chemist 1971 Nobel Prize in ChemistryGermain Henri Hess,18021850,Swiss-born Russian chemist namesake of Hess's LawGeorge de Hevesy,18851966,Hungarian born chemist recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943Jaroslav Heyrovsk,18901967,Czech chemist 1959 Nobel Prize in ChemistryCyril Norman Hinshelwood,18971967,English physical chemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956Dorothy Hodgkin,19101994,1964 Nobel Prize in chemistryJacobus Henricus van 't Hoff,18521911,Dutch physical chemist 1901 Nobel Prize in ChemistryAlbert Hofmann,19062008,Swiss chemist synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamideAugust Wilhelm Hofmann,18181892,German chemist first to isolate sorbic acidDarleane C. Hoffman,born 1926,American Nuclear ChemistFriedrich Hoffmann,16601742,physician and chemistRoald Hoffmann,born 1937,Polish-born American chemist 1981 Nobel Prize in ChemistryFrederick Gowland Hopkins,18611947,British biochemist known for discovery of vitamins Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929Linda Hsieh-Wilson ,,American chemist California Institute of TechnologyHeinrich Hubert Maria Josef Houben,18751940,German organic chemistCoenraad Johannes van Houten,18011887,Dutch chemist and chocolate maker invented cocoa powderRobert Huber,born 1937,1988 Nobel Prize in chemistrySir Christopher Kelk Ingold,18931970,English chemistVladimir Ipatieff,18671952,Russian-American chemist known for organic synthesisJabir Ibn Hayyan,722804,Persian-Arab chemist and alchemistPaul Janssen,19262003,Belgian founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica.Frdric Joliot-Curie,19001958,French chemist and physicist 1935 Nobel Prize in ChemistryIrne Joliot-Curie,18971956,French chemist and physicist 1935 Nobel Prize in ChemistryPercy Lavon Julian,18991975,American organic chemistHenri B. Kagan,born 1930,2001 Wolf Prize in ChemistryJerome Karle,born 1918,1985 Nobel Prize in ChemistryPaul Karrer,18891971,1937 Nobel Prize in ChemistryKarl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner,17831857,August Kekul,18291896,German organic chemistJohn Kendrew,19171997,1962 Nobel Prize in ChemistryPetrus Jacobus Kipp,18081864,Dutch chemist inventor of Kipp-generatorJohan Kjeldahl,18491900,Danish chemist head chemist at Carlsberg Brewery methods still in useMartin Heinrich Klaproth,17431817,German chemist discovered the element uraniumTrevor Kletz,19222013,British promoter of industrial safetyAaron Klug,born 1926,winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in ChemistryEmil Knoevenagel,18651921,William Standish Knowles,born 1917,2001 Nobel Prize in ChemistryWalter Kohn,born 1923,1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe,18181884,German chemist known for Kolbe nitrile synthesisIzaak Kolthoff,18941993,"Dutch-American chemist the ""Father of Analytical Chemistry"""Roger D. Kornberg,born 1947,2006 Nobel Prize in ChemistryHans A. Krebs,19001981,German biochemist work on metabolic cyclesHarold Kroto,19392016,English chemist 1996 Nobel Prize in ChemistryRichard Kuhn,19001967,1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Irving Langmuir,18811957,chemist physicist 1932 Nobel Prize in ChemistryAuguste Laurent,18071853,French chemist discovered anthracenePaul Lauterbur,19292007,American chemistAntoine Lavoisier,17431794,French pioneer chemistNicolas Leblanc,17421806,French chemist and surgeonHenri Louis Le Chatelier,18501936,Yuan T. Lee,born 1936,winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJean-Marie Lehn,born 1939,French chemist shared 1987 Nobel Prize in ChemistryLuis Federico Leloir,19061987,Argentine biochemist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in ChemistryRaymond Lemieux,19202000,1999 Wolf Prize in ChemistryGilbert Newton Lewis,18751946,American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of ChemistryAndreas Libavius,15551616,German doctor and chemistCarl Theodore Liebermann,18421914,German chemist known for synthesis of alizarinWillard Libby,19081980,American chemist winner of 1960 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJustus von Liebig,18031873,German inventor and pioneer in agricultural and biological chemistryKarl Paul Link,19011978,American biochemist discovered the anticoagulant warfarin.William Lipscomb,born 1919,1976 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJoseph Lister 1st Baron Lister,18271912,English surgeonArthur H. Livermore,19152009,science educator and chemistMikhail Lomonosov,17111765,Russian scientist anticipated the kinetic-molecular theory by 100 yearsH. Christopher,,Longuet-Higgins British chemistMartin Lowry,18741936,British chemistSima Lozani,18471935,Serbian chemistIgnacy ukasiewicz,18021882,Polish pharmacistAlan MacDiarmid,19272007,2000 Nobel Prize in ChemistryCarolina Henriette Mac Gillavry,19041993,Dutch chemist and crystallographerRoderick MacKinnon,born 1956,2003 Nobel Prize in ChemistryPierre Macquer,17181784,influential French chemistRudolph A. Marcus,born 1923,1992 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJacob A. Marinsky,19182005,American chemist co-discovered the element promethiumJean Charles Galissard de Marignac,18171894,Swiss chemist discovered ytterbium and co-discovered gadolinium.Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov,18381904,Tobin J. Marks,1944,American inorganic chemist and material scientistAlan G. Marshall ,FT-ICR,American chemist co-inventor of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometryArcher John Porter Martin,19102002,1952 Nobel Prize in ChemistryMartinus van Marum,17501837,Dutch chemistElmer McCollum,18791967,American biochemist known for work of diet on healthEdwin McMillan,19071991,1951 Nobel Prize in ChemistryLise Meitner,18781968,German physicistDmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev,18341907,Russian chemist creator of the Periodic table of elementsJohn Mercer,17911866,chemist and industrialistRobert Bruce Merrifield,19212006,solid-phase chemist 1984 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJulius Lothar Meyer,18301895,German chemist important work on The periodic table of elements; not to be confused with:Viktor Meyer,18481897,August Michaelis,18471916,German chemistHartmut Michel,born 1948,1988 Nobel Prize in ChemistryHuang Minlon,18891979,Chinese chemistStanley Miller,born 1930,American chemist best known for the MillerUrey experimentLuis E. Miramontes,19252004,co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pillPeter D. Mitchell,19201992,1978 Nobel Prize in ChemistryWilliam A. Mitchell,19112004,key inventor behind Pop Rocks Tang and Kool WhipEilhardt Mitscherlich,17941863,German chemist remembered for the law of isomorphism.Alexander Mitscherlich,18361918,chemistKarl Friedrich Mohr,18061879,German chemist famous for first musings on the Conservation of energyHenri Moissan,18521907,French chemist and the winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in ChemistryMario J. Molina,born 1943,1995 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJacques Monod,19101976,biochemist winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965Jeffrey S. Moore,born 1961,American material chemistPeter Moore,born 1939,American biochemist Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale UniversityStanford Moore,19131982,1972 Nobel Prize in ChemistryHenry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley,18871915,English physicist discovered Moseley's lawGerardus Johannes Mulder,18021880,Dutch organic chemistPaul Mller Swiss chemist,18991965,discovered DDT won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939Robert S. Mulliken,18961986,American physicist chemist 1966 Nobel Prize in ChemistryKary Mullis,born 1944,1993 Nobel Prize in ChemistryEarl Muetterties,19271984,American chemistCatherine J. Murphy,1964,American chemist and materials scientistRobert Nalbandyan,19372002,Armenian protein chemistGiulio Natta,19031979,Italian chemist 1963 Nobel Prize in ChemistryCostin Nenitescu,19021970,Romanian chemistAntonio Neri,1500s1614,Florentine chemist and glassmakerWalther Nernst,18641941,German chemist 1920 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJohn Alexander Reina Newlands,18371898,English analytical chemistWilliam Nicholson,17531815,English chemistKyriacos Costa Nicolaou American chemist,,Julius Nieuwland,18781936,American chemist work on synthetic rubber leading to neopreneAlfred Nobel,18331896,Swedish chemistRonald George Wreyford Norrish,18971978,1967 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJohn Howard Northrop,18911987,1946 Nobel Prize in ChemistryRyji Noyori,born 1938,2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry 2001 Nobel Prize in ChemistryRalph Nuzzo,,American chemist and materials scientistsGeorge Andrew Olah,born 1927,1994 Nobel Prize in ChemistryFred Olsen,18911986,inventor of the ball propellant manufacturing process[4]Lars Onsager,19031976,physical chemist 1968 Nobel Prize in ChemistryTony Orchard,19412005,British inorganic chemist photoelectron spectroscopistJoan Or,19232004,Catalan biochemist one of his most important contributions was the prebiotic synthesis of the nucleobase adenine from hydrogen cyanide.Hans Christian,, rsted First to isolate aluminiumWilhelm Ostwald,18531932,1909 Nobel Prize in ChemistryParacelsus,14931541,alchemistRudolph Pariser,born 1923,theoretical and organic chemistRobert G. Parr,born 1921,theoretical chemistLouis Pasteur,18221895,French biochemist father of pasteurizationLinus Pauling,19011994,Nobel Prizes in chemistry and peaceCharles J. Pedersen,19041989,1987 Nobel Prize in ChemistryEugne-Melchior Pligot,18111890,French chemist who isolated the uranium metalWilliam Henry Perkin,18381907,British organic chemist and inventor of mauveineWilliam Henry Perkin Jr.,18601929,British organic chemist son of Sir William Henry PerkinMax Perutz,19142002,1962 Nobel Prize in ChemistryEva Philbin,19142005,Irish chemistDavid Andrew Phoenix,born 1966,BiochemistRoy J. Plunkett,19101994,discoverer of TeflonJohn Charles Polanyi,born 1929,Canadian chemist Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986.John A. Pople,19252004,theoretical chemist 1998 Nobel Prize in ChemistryVera Vevstafievna Popova,18671896,one of the first female Russian chemists.George Porter,19202002,1967 Nobel Prize in ChemistryFritz Pregl,18691930,Slovene-German chemist Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923.Vladimir Prelog,19061998,1975 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJoseph Priestley,17331804,no formal training as a scientist discovered the element oxygenIlya Prigogine,19172003,1977 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJoseph Louis Proust,17541826,discovered the Law of definite proportionsVenkatraman Ramakrishnan,born 1952,2009 Nobel Prize in ChemistryWilliam Ramsay,18521916,Scottish chemist 1904 Nobel Prize in ChemistryFranois-Marie Raoult,18301901,French chemist known for Raoult's lawJulius Rebek,1944,Hungarian American chemist.Charles Lee Reese,18621940,American chemist and Chemical Director of DuPontHenri Victor Regnault,18101878,French chemist and physicistTadeus Reichstein,18971996,chemist 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineRhazes,865925,Iranian ChemistStuart A. Rice,born 1932,physical chemistEllen Swallow Richards,18421911,industrial and environmental chemist.Theodore William Richards,18681928,1914 Nobel Prize in ChemistryWim Richter South Africa,,Jeremias Benjamin Richter,17621807,German chemist first used the term stoichiometryNikolaus Riehl Germany,19011990,Andrs Manuel del Ro,17641849,Spanish-Mexican geochemist discovered vanadiumRobert Robinson,18861975,1947 Nobel Prize in ChemistryPierre Jean Robiquet,17801840,French chemist discovered caffeine alizarin cantharidinHillar Rootare,1928,Estonian-American physical chemistIrwin Rose,born 1926,2004 Nobel Prize in ChemistryGuillaume-Franois Rouelle,17031770,French chemistH. M. Rouell,17181779,French chemistFrank Sherwood Rowland,born 1927,1995 Nobel Prize in ChemistryDaniel Rutherford,17491819,Scottish chemistErnest Rutherford,18711937,New Zealand born chemist and nuclear physicist. Discovered the proton. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908Leopold Ruzicka (Lavoslav Ruika),18871976,1939 Nobel Prize in ChemistryPaul Sabatier,18541941,1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipientFrederick Sanger,born 1918,1958 and 1980 Nobel Prize in ChemistryCarl Wilhelm Scheele,17421786,Swedish 18th century chemist discovered numerous elementsChristian Friedrich Schnbein,17991868,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 biologyRichard R. Schrock,born 1945,2005 Nobel Prize in ChemistryPeter Schultz,,American chemistGlenn T. Seaborg,19121999,1951 Nobel Prize in ChemistryNils Gabriel Sefstrm,17871845,chemist.Francesco Selmi,18171881,Italian chemist.Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov,18961986,physicist and chemist 1956 Nobel Prize in ChemistryK. Barry Sharpless,born 1941,2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry 2001 Nobel Prize in ChemistryDan Shechtman,born 1941,2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry discovered quasicrystals.Patsy O. Sherman,born 1930,12 US PatentsNevil Vincent Sidgwick,18731952,English theoretical chemist known for work in valencyOsamu Shimomura,born 1928,2008 Nobel Prize in ChemistryHideki Shirakawa,born 1936,2000 Nobel Prize in ChemistryAlexander Shulgin,born 1925,Pioneer researcher in Psychopharmacology and EntheogensSalimuzzaman Siddiqui,18971994,Pakistani chemist pioneer in natural products chemistryOktay Sinanoglu,born 1935,Turkish chemistJens Christian Skou,born 1918,1997 Nobel Prize in ChemistryRichard Smalley,19432005,1996 Nobel Prize in ChemistryMichael Smith,19322000,1993 Nobel Prize in ChemistryAscanio Sobrero,18121888,Italian chemist discoverer of nitroglycerinFrederick Soddy,18771956,British chemist 1921 Nobel Prize in ChemistrySusan Solomon,,American atmospheric chemistErnest Solvay,18381922,Belgian chemist and industrialistS.P.L. Srensen,18681939,Danish chemistGabor A. Somorjai,born 1935,1998 Wolf Prize in ChemistryGeorg Ernst Stahl,16591734,Important work on fermentationWendell Meredith Stanley,19041971,1946 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJean Servais Stas,18131891,Belgian analytical chemistBranko Stanovnik,born 1938,chemist.Hermann Staudinger,18811965,polymer chemist 1953 Nobel Prize in ChemistryHarry Steenbock,18861967,American biochemist work on ultra violet irradiation.William Howard Stein,19111980,1972 Nobel Prize in ChemistryThomas A. Steitz,born 1940,2009 Nobel Prize in ChemistryAlfred Stock,18761946,German inorganic chemist known for work in mercury poisoningFraser Stoddart,born 1945,Scottish chemist a pioneer in the field of the mechanical bondF. Gordon A. Stone,19252011,British inorganic chemistS. Donald Stookey,born 1915,American glass and ceramic chemistGilbert Stork,born 1921,1995/6 Wolf Prize in ChemistryFriedrich August Kekul von Stradonitz,18291896,German organic chemist principal founder of chemical structureJames B. Sumner,18871955,1946 Nobel Prize in ChemistryEdwin Sutermeister,,American chemist known for its work on papermakingTheodor Svedberg,18841971,1926 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJoseph Swan,18281914,English physicist chemist & inventorFrdric Swarts,18661940,Belgian chemist prepared the first chlorofluorocarbon compoundRichard Laurence Millington Synge,19141994,1952 Nobel Prize in ChemistryKoichi Tanaka,born 1959,2002 Nobel Prize in ChemistryHenry Taube,19152005,1983 Nobel Prize in ChemistryLouis Jacques Thnard,17771857,French chemist discovered hydrogen peroxide and Thenard's Blue.Sir Harold Warris Thompson,19081983,English physical chemistJ. J. Thomson,18561940,British physicist Known in chemistry for discovery of isotopesT. Don Tilley,born 1954,organometallic chemistArne Tiselius,19021971,1948 Nobel Prize in ChemistryMax Tishler,19061989,1970 Priestley MedalAlexander R. Todd Baron Todd,19071997,1957 Nobel Prize in ChemistryRoger Y. Tsien,19522016,2008 Nobel Prize in ChemistryMikhail Tsvet,18721919,Russian botanist known for adsorption chromatographyGeorges Urbain,18721938,French chemist discovered the element lutetiumHarold Clayton Urey,18931981,1934 Nobel Prize in ChemistryLauri Vaska,born 1925,Estonian/American chemistLouis Nicolas Vauquelin,17631829,Discovered the elements beryllium and chromiumVincent du Vigneaud,19011978,1955 Nobel Prize in ChemistryArtturi Ilmari Virtanen,18951973,chemist Nobel Prize laureateMax Volmer Germany,18851965,Alessandro Volta,17451827,electrochemist invented the voltaic cellJohannes Diderik van der Waals,18371923,Sir James Walker,18631935,Scottish physical chemistJohn E. Walker,born 1941,1997 Nobel Prize in ChemistryOtto Wallach,18471931,German chemist 1910 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJohn Warner,born 1966,"American chemist 2014 Perkin Medal one of the ""founders"" of green chemistry"Alfred Werner,18661919,Swiss chemist 1913 Nobel Prize in ChemistryThomas Summers West,19272010,British analytical chemist.Peter Jaffrey Wheatley,19211997,Chaim Weizmann,18741952,Russian chemist developed the ABE-processGeorge M. Whitesides,born 1939,American chemistJohn Rex Whinfield,19011966,British chemist discovered polyester fibresHeinrich Otto Wieland,18771957,German chemist 1927 Nobel Prize in ChemistryJulius Wilbrand inventor of TNT,,Harvey W. Wiley,18441930,United States chemist Pure food & drug advocateSir Geoffrey Wilkinson,19211996,1973 Nobel Prize in ChemistryAlexander William Williamson ,,English chemist famous for Williamson ether synthesisThomas Willson,18601915,Canadian chemist discovered an economically efficient process for creating calcium carbideRichard Willsttter,18721942,1915 Nobel Prize in ChemistryAdolf Otto Reinhold Windaus,18761959,1928 Nobel Prize in ChemistryGnter Wirths,,GermanyGeorg Wittig,18971987,1979 Nobel Prize in ChemistryFriedrich Whler,18001882,German chemist best known for his synthesis of urea.William Hyde Wollaston,17661828,English chemist discovered the elements palladium and rhodiumRobert B. Woodward,19171979,1965 Nobel Prize in ChemistryCharles de Worms,19031979,Charles-Adolphe Wurtz,18171884,Alsatian French chemist discovered the Wurtz reactionKurt Wthrich,born 1938,2002 Nobel Prize in ChemistryXiaoliang Sunney Xie,born 1962,chemist at Harvard University. A pioneer in the field of Single Molecule Microscopy and CARSXie Yi,born 1967,Chinese chemist. A member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.Ada Yonath,born 1939,2006/7 Wolf Prize in Chemistry 2009 Nobel Prize in ChemistrySabir Yunusov,19091995,Soviet chemistRichard Zare,born 1939,2005 Wolf Prize in ChemistryAhmed H. Zewail,19462016,Egyptian 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.Karl Ziegler,18981973,1963 Nobel Prize in ChemistryRichard Adolf Zsigmondy,18651929,1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry