List of chemists

Table of contents 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 F 7 G 8 H 9 I 10 J 11 K 12 L 13 M 14 N 15 O 16 P 17 Q 18 R 19 S 20 T 21 U 22 V 23 W 24 X 25 Y 26 Z

A

• Arthur Aikin, (died 1854), English chemist and mineralogist
• Johann Arfvedson, (1792-1841), chemist
• Svante Arrhenius, (1859-1927), chemist and physicist
• Amedeo Avogadro, (1776-1856), Italian physicist

B

• Jons Jacob Berzelius, (1779-1848), chemist
• Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, (1811-1899), German inventor, chemist

C

• Marie Curie, (1867-1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist

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
• Davorin Dolar[?], (born 1921), chemist.

E

• Richard R. Ernst, (born 1933), 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

F

• Michael Faraday, (1791-1867), scientist
• Emil Hermann Fischer[?], (1852-1919), not to be confused with :
• Franz Joseph Emil Fischer[?]
• Carl Remigius Fresenius[?]
• Alexander Naumovich Frumkin[?], (1895-1976), electrochemist

G

• Ljubo Golic[?], (born 1932), chemist.
• Francois Auguste Victor Grignard[?]
• Thomas Graham not to be confused with :
• William Hardin Graham[?] ???

H

• Fritz Haber, (1868-1934)
• Dusan Hadzi[?], (born 1921), chemist.
• Otto Hahn, (1879-1968)
• John Haldane[?], British biochemist
• 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

I

J

K

• Paul Karrer[?], (1889-1971), 1937 chemistry Nobel laureate
• Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, (1829-1896), German organic chemist
• Emil Knoevenagel[?]
• Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, (1818-1884)
• Aleksandra Kornhauser[?], (born 1926), chemist.
• Harold Kroto, (born 1939), English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

L

• Irving Langmuir, (1851-1957), chemist, physicist
• Antoine Lavoisier, (1743-1794), French pioneer chemist
• Janez Levec[?], (born 1943), chemist.
• Primo Levi, (1919-1987), resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
• Henri Louis Le Chatelier[?]
• Justus von Liebig, (1803 in-1873 in), German inventor
• Gilbert N. Lewis, (1875-1946), American chemist
• 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[?]
• 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

• 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, (born 1925), theoretical chemist, 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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

R

• William Ramsay, (born 1852), Scottish chemist
• Marij Rebek[?], chemist.
• Tadeus Reichstein[?], (1897-1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Rhazes (Razi)
• H. M. Rouell
• Leopold Ruzicka[?], (1887-1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

S

• Maks Samec[?], (1844 - 1889 - chemist.
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742-1786), 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements
• Glenn T. Seaborg, (1912-1999), atomic physicist
• Nils Gabriel Sefström, (1787-1845), chemist
• Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov[?], physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry
• Israel Shahak, (1933-2001)
• S.P.L. Sørensen, (1868-1939), Danish chemist
• S. P. L. Sørensen, (1868-1939), Danish chemist
• Frederick Soddy, (1877-1956), British chemist
• Branko Stanovnik[?], (born 1938), chemist.
• Alfred Stock, (1876-1946)
• Theodor Svedberg, (1884-1971)
• Gilbert Stork[?]

T

• Miha Tisler[?], (born 1926), chemist.

U

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, Nobelist

W

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals, (1837-1923)
• John Ernest Walker[?]
• Alfred Werner[?], (1866-1919), 1913 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 Wüthrich, (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Y

Z