List of chemists





List of famous chemists:

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

K

   * Paul Karrer, (1889-1971), 1937 chemistry Nobel laureate
   * Friedrich August KekulŽ 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

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 Sefstršm, (1787-1845), chemist
   * Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize for
     Chemistry
   * Israel Shahak, (1933-2001)
   * S.P.L. S¿rensen, (1868-1939), Danish chemist
   * S. P. L. S¿rensen, (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.

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), Ð- 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 WŸthrich, (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry