This is a list of famous chemists: (alphabetical order) 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
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- Emil Abderhalden, (1877–1950), Swiss chemist
- Richard Abegg, (1869–1910), German chemist
- Frederick Abel, (1827–1902), English chemist
- Peter Agre, (1949-), American chemist and doctor, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Arthur Aikin, (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist
- Adrien Albert, (1907–1989), Australian Medicinal 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
- Amedeo Avogadro,(1776–1856), Italian physicist
B
- Leo Baekeland, (1863–1944), Belgian-American chemist
- Adolf von Baeyer, (1835–1917), German chemist, 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, (1854–1907), Dutch chemist
- Robert Barefoot, (born 1944) Canadian/American chemist, author, lecturer
- Neil Bartlett, (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
- Sir Derek Barton, (1918–1998), 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Antoine Baum, (1728–1804), French chemist
- Karl Bayer, (1847–1904), Austrian chemist
- Irina Beletskaya, (born 1933), Russian organometallic chemist
- Marcellin Berthelot, (1827-1907), French chemist
- Claude Louis Berthollet, (1748–1822), French chemist
- Jöns Jakob Berzelius, (1779–1848), Swedish chemist
- 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
- Carl Bosch, (1872–1940), German chemist
- Robert Boyle, (1627–1691), Irish pioneer of modern chemistry
- Henri Braconnot, (1780–1855), French chemist and pharmacist
- Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, (1879–1947), Danish chemist
- Eduard Buchner, (1860–1917), 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist
- Aleksandr Butlerov, (1828–1886), Russian chemist
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- 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), British scientist
- Yves Chauvin, (born 1930), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Ernst Cohen, (1869–1944), Dutch chemist (murdered in Auschwitz)
- Elias James Corey, (born 1928), American organic chemist, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- John Cornforth, (born 1917), Australian winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Paul J. Crutzen, (1933), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Marie Curie, (1867–1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Pierre Curie, (1859–1906), 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Robert Curl, (born 1933), winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Theodor Curtius, (1857–1928), German chemist
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- 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
- Raymond Davis, Jr., (1914–2006), American physical chemist
- Humphry Davy, (1778–1829)
- Peter Debye, (1884–1966), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 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
- 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
- Emmanuel Dongala, Congolese chemist and novelist
- David Adriaan van Dorp, (1915–1995), Dutch chemist
- Cornelius Drebbel, (1572–1633), Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist
- Jean Baptiste Dumas, (1800–1884), French chemist
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- 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
- Fausto Elhuyar, (1755–1833), Spanish chemist, discoverer of tungsten
- Emil Erlenmeyer, (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
- Henry Eyring, (1901–1981), Mexican-American theoretical chemist
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- Kazimierz Fajans, (1887–1975), Polish-American physical chemist
- Michael Faraday (1791–1867), scientist
- Hermann von Fehling, (1812–1885), German chemist
- Emil Fischer (1852–1919), 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, not to be confused with:
- Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
- Ernst Gottfried Fischer (1754–1831), German chemist
- Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German organic chemist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
- Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
- Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British Chemist and Crystallographer
- Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist
- Wilhelm Fresenius (1913–2004), German chemist, great-grandson of Carl
- Alexander Naumovich Frumkin (1895–1976), electrochemist
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- Johan Gadolin, (1760–1852), Finnish chemist
- Merrill Garnett, (born 1930), American biochemist
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, (1778–1850), French chemist and physicist
- Johann Rudolf Glauber, (1604–1670), Dutch-German alchemist and chemist
- Victor Goldschmidt, (1888–1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry
- Ljubo Golic, (born 1932), chemist.
- David van Goorle also called Gorlaeus, (1591–1612), Dutch chemist
- Thomas Graham, (1805–1869), not to be confused with:
- William Hardin Graham ???
- Francois Auguste Victor Grignard, (1871–1935), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
- Robert H. Grubbs, (born 1942), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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- Fritz Haber, (1868–1934) 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Otto Hahn, (1879–1968) 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- John Scott Haldane,(1860–1936), British biochemist
- Charles Martin Hall, (1863–1914), American chemist
- 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
- Robert Havemann, (1910–1982), chemist.
- Clayton Heathcock, American Chemist
- Dudley R. Herschbach, (1932-), American chemist, 1986 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
- George de Hevesy, (1885–1966), 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
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist, 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Friedrich Hoffmann, (1660–1742), physician and chemist
- Roald Hoffmann, (born 1937), Polish-born American chemist, 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann, (1818–1892) 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
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- Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893–1970), English chemist
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- Paul Janssen (1926–2003), Belgian founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica.
- Frederic Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), French chemist and physicist
- Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and physicist
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- Paul Karrer, (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783–1857)
- August Kekulé, (1829–1896), German organic chemist
- Petrus Jacobus Kipp, (1808–1864), Dutch chemist, inventor of Kipp-generator
- Martin Heinrich Klaproth, (1743–1817), German chemist
- Trevor Kletz (born 1922) British promoter of industrial safety
- Aaron Klug, (born in 1926), winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Emil Knoevenagel, (1865–1921)
- Walter Kohn, (born 1923), 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, (1818–1884)
- Izaak Kolthoff, (1894–1993), Dutch-American chemist, the "Father of Analytical Chemistry"
- Else Kooi, (1932–2001), Dutch chemist, developed isolation for MOS-transistors
- Aleksandra Kornhauser, (born 1926), chemist.
- Harold Kroto, (born 1939), English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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- Irving Langmuir, (1881–1957), chemist, physicist
- Paul Lauterbur, (1929–2007), Americab chemist
- Antoine Lavoisier, (1743–1794), French pioneer chemist
- Nicolas Leblanc, (1742–1806), French chemist and surgeon
- Henri Louis Le Chatelier, (1850–1936)
- Eun Lee, (born 1946), Korean organic chemist
- Yuan T. Lee, (born 1936), winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Luis Federico Leloir, (1906–1987), Argentine biochemist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize
- 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
- Andreas Libavius, (1555–1616), German doctor and chemist
- Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist, winner of 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Justus von Liebig, (1803–1873), German inventor
- Teunis van der Linden, (1884–1965), Dutch chemist, developed insecticide lindane
- Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (1827–1912), English surgeon
- H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, British Chemist
- Martin Lowry, (1874–1936), British chemist
- Ignacy Łukasiewicz, (1802–1882), Polish pharmacist
M
- Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry, (1904–1993), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
- Pierre Macquer, (1718–1784), influential French chemist
- Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov, (1838–1904)
- Alan G. Marshall, American chemist, co-inventor of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry
- Martinus van Marum, (1750–1837), Dutch chemist
- Lise Meitner, (1878–1968), German physicist
- Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, (1834–1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements
- John Mercer, (1791–1866), chemist and industrialist
- Robert Bruce Merrifield, (1921–2006), solid-phase chemist
- Kurt Heinrich Meyer
- Lothar Meyer, (1830–1895), not to be confused with :
- Viktor Meyer, (1848–1897)
- 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
- William A. Mitchell, (1911–2004), key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, and Kool Whip
- Alexander Mitscherlic, (1836–1918), chemist
- Henri Moissan, (1852–1907), French chemist and the winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize
- Jacques Monod, (1910–1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
- Peter Moore (born 1939), American biochemist, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University
- Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915), English physicist, discovered Moseley's law
- Gerardus Johannes Mulder, (1802–1880), Dutch organic chemist
- Robert S. Mulliken, (1896–1986), American physicist, chemist
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
- John Alexander Reina Newlands, (1837–1898), English analytical chemist
- William_Nicholson_(chemist), (1753–1815), English chemist
- Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, American chemist
- Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist
O
- George Andrew Olah, (born 1927), 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Lars Onsager, (1903–1976), physical chemist, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Luitzen Johannes Oosterhoff, (1907–1974), Dutch chemist
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, (1852–1916), Scottish chemist
- Henry Rapoport, American chemist, UC Berkeley
- William Sage Rapson, South African Chemist and co-author of Gold Usage
- Julius Rebek, (1944), Hungarian_American chemist.
- Marij Rebek, chemist.
- Jan Reedijk, (1943), Dutch anorganic chemist
- Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French chemist and physicist
- Tadeus Reichstein, (1897–1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Rhazes (Razi), (865–925)
- Stuart A. Rice, (born 1932), physical chemist
- Ellen Swallow Richards, (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist.
- Jeremias Benjamin Richter, (1762–1807), German chemist
- Nikolaus Riehl, Germany (1901–1990)
- Andrés Manuel del Río, (1764–1849), Spanish-Mexican geochemist, discovered vanadium
- Robert Robinson (1886-1975), Nobel Prize Winner
- Guillaume-François_Rouelle, (1703–1770), French chemist
- H. M. Rouell, (1718–1779), French chemist
- Daniel Rutherford, (1749–1819), Scottish chemist
- Leopold Ruzicka (Lavoslav Ružička) , (1887–1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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- Paul Sabatier, (1854–1941), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
- Maks Samec, (1844–1889), Slovenian chemist.
- Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742–1786), Swedish 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements
- 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
- 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
- Israel Shahak, (1933–2001)
- K. Barry Sharpless, (born 1941), 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Patsy O. Sherman (born 1930), 12 US Patents
- Alexander Shulgin, (born 1925), Pioneer researcher in Psychopharmacology and Entheogens
- Peter Schultz, American chemist
- Oktay Sinanoglu, (born 1935), Turkish chemist
- 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
- Wendell Meredith Stanley, (1904–1971), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Branko Stanovnik, (born 1938), chemist.
- Hermann Staudinger, (1881–1965), polymer chemist, 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Alfred Stock, (1876–1946)
- Fraser Stoddart, (born 1945), Scottish chemist, a pioneer in the field of the mechanical bond
- Gilbert Stork
- Theodor Svedberg, (1884–1971), 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Joseph Swan, (1828–1914), English physicist, chemist & inventor
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- Dr Alethea Tabor, Chemical Biologist
- Henry Taube, (1915-2005), 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Richard Taylor, (1965-), Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of York
- Miha Tisler, (born 1926), chemist.
U
- Harold Clayton Urey, (1893–1981), 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
V
- Lauri Vaska, (born 1925), Estonian/American chemist
- Evert Johannes Willem Verweij, (1905–1981), Dutch chemist
- Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, (1895–1973), chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Max Volmer, Germany (1885–1965)
- Alessandro Volta, (1745–1827), electrochemist, Invented the Voltaic Cell
W
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals, (1837–1923)
- John E. Walker, (born 1941), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Alfred Werner, (1866–1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997)
- George M. Whitesides, (born 1939), American chemist
- Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957) German chemist 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Harvey W. Wiley, (1844–1930), US chemist, Pure food & drug advocate
- Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, (1921–1996), 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Günter Wirths, Germany
- Friedrich Wöhler, (1800–1882), German chemist
- William Hyde Wollaston, (1766–1828), English chemist
- Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, (1817–1884)
- Kurt Wüthrich, (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
X
- Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (born 1962), Chinese chemist at Harvard University. Famous for his pioneering work in Single Molecule Microscopy and CARS (Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy) microscopy.
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- Sabir Yunusov (1909–1995), Soviet chemist (alkaloids)
Z
- Ahmed H. Zewail (born 1946), Egyptian, 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.
