Famous Chemists

Max Ferdinand Perutz was an Austrian biochemist and Nobel laureate.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to scientists who most increases our understanding of Chemistry. This is an index of photographs of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

This is an index of famous chemists and other scientists who made important contributions to the field of chemistry, arranged alphabetically according to the scientist's last name.

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Women have made many important contributions to the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering. Here's a list of female scientists and a description of the research or invention that made them famous.

Black scientists, engineers, and inventors have made important contributions to the science of chemistry. Learn about black chemists and chemical engineers and their projects. The focus is on African American chemists, but black scientists from other countries are included.

Black scientists, engineers, and inventors have made important contributions to society. These profiles of famous people will help you learn about black scientists, engineers, inventors and their projects.

Aaron Klug is a British chemist, biophysicist and Nobel laureate.

Emil Abderhalden was a famous Swedish physiologist and biochemist. He is known for developing Abderhalden's drying pistol, a pregnancy blood test, a cysteine urine test, and for his research into the polypeptides and proteins.

Richard Abegg was the famous German chemist who pioneered valence theory.

Philip Hauge Abelson was an American chemist.

Franz Karl Achard was a German chemist.

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt was a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Adolf von Baeyer was a German organic chemist and Nobel laureate.

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe was a German chemist.

Ahmed Hassan Zewail is an Egyptian-American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Alan Graham MacDiarmid was a New Zealand chemist and Nobel laureate.

Alan Heeger is an American physicist, chemist and Nobel laureate.

Albert Ghiorso is an American nuclear chemist.

Albert Szent-Györgyi was an Austrian biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Kurt Alder was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Butlerov was a Russian chemist.

Alexander Parkes was a British chemist and metallurgist.

Alexander Robertus Todd was a Scottish biochemist and Nobel laureate.

This is a list of all of the Nobel laureates in Chemistry. The year, winner name(s), country, and research are included. Links to additional information on the laureates and Nobel foundation are also provided.

Alfred Goodman Gilman is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Anders Gustav Ekeberg was a Swedish chemist.

Andreas Sigismund Marggraf was a German chemist.

Andrés Manuel Del Rio was a Spanish mineralogist.

Anselme Payen was a French chemist.

Antoine Jérôme Balard was a French chemist.

Archibald Scott Couper was a Scottish chemist.

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate.

Svante Arrhenius was a famous Swedish chemist and physicist.

Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen was a Finnish biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Ascanio Sobrero was an Italian chemist.

Avaram Hershko is a Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Get biographical information about Amedeo Avogadro and learn about Avogadro's Law and Avogadro's Number.

Axel Fredrik Cronstedt was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist.

Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell was a Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Paul Berg is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Torbern Olof Bergman was a Swedish chemist.

Bernard Courtois was a French chemist and discoverer of iodine.

Joseph Black was a Scottish physical chemist and pioneer of thermochemistry.

Bertram Borden Boltwood was an American chemist.

Carl Bosch was a German industrial chemist and Nobel laureate.

Robert Boyle was an Irish-born scientist best known for Boyle's Law of Ideal Gases. He also was a founding fellow of the Royal Society of London and an early supporter of the atomic nature of matter.

Georg Brandt was a Swedish chemist.

Famous chemist and co-discoverer of cesium and rubidium.

Carl Ferdinand Cori was an Austrian-American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Carl Gräbe was a German organic chemist.

Carl Gustaf Mosander was a Swedish chemist.

Carl Jacob Löwig was a German chemist.

Carl Peter Henrik Dam was a Danish biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a German chemist.

Casimir Funk was a Polish biochemist.

Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Russian chemist and world leader.

Ernst Boris Chain was a German-English biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Charles Glen King was an American biochemist and nutritionist.

Charles Hatchett was an English chemist.

Charles John Pedersen was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Charles Martin Hall was an American chemist.

Charles-Adolphe Wurtz was a French chemist.

Christian Boehmer Anfinsen was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Christian Friedrich Schönbein was a German chemist.

Christian René de Duve is a Belgian biochemist, cytologist and Nobel laureate.

Claude Louis Berthollet was a French chemist.

Clemens Alexander Winkler was a German chemist.

Per Teodor Cleve was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist.

Conrad Arnold Elvehjem was an American biochemist.

Donald James Cram was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Crookes was an English chemist who discovered the element thallium.

Paul Jozef Crutzen is a Dutch chemist and Nobel laureate.

Marie Sklodowska Curie was a Polish-born French scientist. She won the Nobel Prize twice and was famous for her work on radioactivity.

Pierre Curie was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was a British chemist and Nobel laurate.

César Milstein was an Argentine biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Fausto D'Elhuyar was a Spanish mineralogist and chemist who co-discovered the element tungsten.

Juan José D'Elhuyar was a Spanish mineralogist and chemist who co-discovered the element tungsten.

Daniel Rutherford was a Scottish chemist.

André Louis Debierne was a French chemist.

Derek Harold Richard Barton was a British organic chemist and Nobel laureate.

Otto Paul Hermann Diels was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist and Nobel laureate.

Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Gerald Maurice Edelman is an American physical chemist and Nobel laureate.

Edmond Frémy was a French chemist.

Eduard Buchner was a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Edward Adelbert Doisy was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Edward Frankland was an English chemist.

Edward Goodrich Acheson was an American chemist.

Edward Lawrie Tatum was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Edwin Joseph Cohn was an American biochemist.

Edwin McMillan was an American physicist and Nobel laureate.

Eilhardt Mitscherlich was a German chemist.

Elias James Corey is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Elmer Verner McCollum was an American biochemist and nutritionist.

Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer (also just known as Emil Erlenmeyer) was a German chemist.

Richard Robert Ernst is a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate.

Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Eugène Melchior Péligot was a French chemist.

Felix Hoppe-Seyler was a German physiologist and chemist.

John Bennett Fenn is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Ferdinand Reich was a German chemist.

Paul John Flory was an American physical chemist and Nobel laureate.

Francis William Aston was a British chemist, physicist and Nobel laureate.

Frank Sherwood Rowland is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Frederick Sanger was an English biochemist and two time Nobel laureate.

Frederick Soddy was an English chemist and Nobel laureate.

Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz was a German chemist.

Friedrich Bergius was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Friedrich Ferdinand Runge was a German chemist.

Friedrich Konrad Beilstein was a Russian chemist.

Friedrich Stromeyer was a German physician and chemist.

Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch was a German physical chemist.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald was a German physical chemist and Nobel laureate.

Friedrich Wöhler was a German chemist.

Fritz Albert Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Fritz Pregl was an Austrian physician, chemist and Nobel laureate.

Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.

Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist known best for his work with gases and the composition of the Earth's atmosphere. He is credited with the discovery of boron. His work with measuring alcohol and water gave us the measure 'degrees Gay Lussac', which is still used in many countries as a measure of alcohol content in drinks.

Georg Ernst Stahl was an German chemist, physician and creator of the phlogiston theory of combustion.

George de Hevesy was a Hungarian-Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate.

George Eastman was an American chemist and inventor.

George Porter was a British chemist and Nobel laureate.

George Wald was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

George Washington Carver was an American chemist and inventor.

Georges Claude was a French chemist and inventor of the neon light.

Georges Jean Franz Köhler was a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Georges Urbain was a French chemist.

Gerhard Ertl is a German physicist and Nobel laureate.

Gerhard Herzberg was a German physical chemist and Nobel laureate.

Germain Henri Hess was a Swiss-Russian chemist.

Gertrude Belle Elion was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Gerty Theresa Cori was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American chemist, physicist and mathematician.

Giulio Natta was an Italian chemist and Nobel laureate.

Guillaume François Rouelle was a French chemist.

Cato Maximilian Guldberg was a Norwegian chemist.

Fritz Haber was a German chemist.

Otto Hahn was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

John Scott Haldane was a British biochemist who investigated the actions of gases and respiration.

Hans Adolf Krebs was a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish physicist and chemist.

Hans Fischer was a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin was a Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Har Gobind Khorana is an Indian-American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Arthur Harden was an English chemist and Nobel laureate.

Harold Walter Kroto is an English chemist and Nobel laureate.

Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Herbert Aaron Hauptman is an American mathematician, crystallographer and Nobel laureate.

Walter Norman Haworth was a British chemist and Nobel laureate.

Heinz Ludwig Fraenkel-Conrat was a German-American biochemist.

Anne Helmenstine is a respected author and scientist. This is Dr. Helmenstine's bio for About.com.

Learn about Todd Helmenstine, contributing author to About.com's Chemistry site.

Henri Moissan was a French chemist and Nobel laureate.

Henri-Victor Regnault was a French physical chemist.

Henry Taube was a Canadian-American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Henry-Louis Le Chatelier was an French chemist.

Herbert Charles Brown was an Anglo-American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Herbert Henry Dow was a Canadian chemist, inventor and entrepreneur.

Hermann Emil Fischer was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp was a German chemist and historian.

Hermann Staudinger was a German organic chemist and Nobel laureate.

Dudley Robert Herschbach is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Hideki Shirakawa is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate.

Hieronymous Theodor Richter was a German chemist.

August Wilhelm von Hofmann was a German chemist.

Robert Hooke has been called the English Da Vinci. He is credited with numerous inventions and design improvements of scientific instrumentation. He was a natural philosopher who valued observation and experimentation.

Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Humphry Davy was a British chemist and inventor.

Ida (Tacke) Noddack was a German chemist.

Irwin Rose is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Irène Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and Nobel laureate.

Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff was a Dutch chemist and Nobel laureate.

James Dewar was a Scottish physicist and chemist.

Jan Baptista van Helmont was a Flemish physician and alchemist.

Jaroslav Heyrovsky was a Czech chemist and Nobel laureate.

Jean Antoine Claude Chaptal was a French industrial chemist.

Jean Bapitiste Boussingault was a French chemist.

Jean Baptiste André Dumas was a French chemist and pioneer of organic chemistry.

Jean Servais Stas was a Belgian chemist.

Jean-Charles-Galinard de Marignac was a Swiss chemist.

Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist and Nobel laureate.

Jens Christian Skou is a Danish biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Jeremias Benjamin Richter was a German chemist.

Jerome Karle is an American chemist, crystallographer and Nobel laureate.

Joel Henry Hildebrand was an American chemist and educator.

Johan August Arfwedson was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist.

Johan Gadolin was a Finnish chemist.

Johan Gottlieb Gahn was a Swedish chemist.

Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Johann Friedrich Miescher was a Swiss physician and biochemist.

Johann Josef Loschmidt was an Austrian chemist.

Johann Rudolf Glauber was a German alchemist and apothecary.

Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted was a Danish physical chemist.

Johannes Wislicenus was a German chemist and pioneer of stereochemistry.

John Alexander Reina Newlands was a British chemist.

John Anthony Pople was an English theoretical chemist and Nobel laureate.

John C. Sheehan was an American organic chemist.

John Cornforth is an Australian chemist and Nobel laureate.

John Cowdery Kendrew was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate.

John Frederic Daniell was a British chemist and meteorologist.

John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

John Robert Vane was a British chemist and Nobel laureate.

Nef was a Swiss-American chemist.

Jokichi Takamine was a Japanese-American biochemist.

Joseph Priestley was an English theologian and natural philosopher.

Joseph-Achille Le Bel was a French chemist.

Joseph-Louis Proust was a French chemist.

Julius Thomsen was a Dutch physical chemist.

Jöns Jakob Berzelius was a Swedish chemist.

Karl Auer von Welsbach was an Austrian chemist.

Karl Karlovich Klaus was a Russian chemist.

Paul Karrer was a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate.

Kary Banks Mullis is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Edward Calvin Kendall was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Kenichi Fukui was a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate.

Frederick George Keyes was an American physical chemist.

Koichi Tanaka is a Japanese engineer and Nobel laureate.

Konrad Emil Bloch was an German-American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Albrecht Kossel was a German physician, chemist and Nobel laureate.

Kurt Wüthrich was a Swiss biochemist, physicist and Nobel laureate.

Kurt Wüthrich was a Swiss biochemist, physicist and Nobel laureate.

Lafayette Benedict Mendel was an American biochemist.

Irving Langmuir is known for his work on thin film and surface chemistry. He was a prolific innovator for General Electric and produced over 60 patents for them.

Lars Onsager was a Norwegian-American physical chemist and Nobel laureate.

Lavoslav Stjepan Ruži?ka was a Swiss-Hungarian biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Gilbert Lewis is known for his work in thermodynamics and covalent bonds.

Lewis Urry was a Canadian chemical engineer.

Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist and two time Nobel laureate.

Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist.

Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbilogist.

Luis Ernesto Miramontes was a Mexican chemist.

Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine physician, biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Marcellin Berthelot was a French chemist.

Rudolph Arthur Marcus is a Canadian born American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Archer John Porter Martin was an English chemist and Nobel laureate.

Martin Heinrich Klaproth was a German chemist.

Melvin Calvin was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Dmitri Mendeleev formulated a periodic table similar to the one we use today. Elements were grouped according to recurring trends in their properties.

Michel-Eugène Chevreul was a French chemist.

Mario Molina is an Mexican-American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Stanford Moore was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Moses Gomberg was a Russian-American chemist.

Walther Hermann Nernst was a Prussian physical chemist and Nobel laureate.

Nicolas Leblanc was a French physician and chemist.

Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin was a French chemist.

Paul Niggli was a Swiss mineralogist and pioneer of x-ray crystallography.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov was a Russian chemist and Nobel laureate.

Chemist and inventor of dynamite. Creator of the Nobel Foundation.

Walter Noddack was a German chemist.

Osamu Shimomura is a Japanese organic chemist and Nobel laureate.

Otto Heinrich Warburg was a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Otto Meyerhof was a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Otto Wallach was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Paracelsus was a German-Swiss Renaissance alchemist and doctor.

Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Paul Delos Boyer is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Paul Sabatier was a French chemist and Nobel laureate.

Paul Vieille was a French chemist.

Lecoq de Boisbaudran was a French chemist.

Wolfgang Pauli was an Austrian physicist and Nobel laureate.

William Perkin was an English chemist and pioneer of the aniline dye industry.

Peter Dennis Mitchell was a British chemist and Nobel laureate.

Peter Debye was a Dutch American physical chemist and Nobel laureate.

Peter Waage was a Norwegian chemist.

Phoebus Levene was a Russian-American biochemist.

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Pierre-Joseph Pelletier was a French chemist.

Pierre-Louis Dulong was a French chemist and physicist.

George Claude Pimentel was an American chemist.

Vladimir Prelog was a Swiss-Croatian organic chemist and Nobel laureate.

Ray McIntire was an American chemical engineer and inventor of Styrofoam.

Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Richard Kuhn was an Austrian-German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Richard Royce Schrock is an American organic chemist and Nobel laureate.

Roald Hoffmann is a Polish-American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Robert Bruce Merrifield was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Robert Burns Woodward was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Robert Grubbs is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Robert Robinson was an English chemist and Nobel laureate.

Robert Sanderson Mulliken was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Martin Rodbell was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Roderick MacKinnon is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Rodney Robert Porter was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Roger Yonchien Tsien is a Chinese American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish was an English chemist and Nobel laureate.

Ruth Erica (Leroi) Benesch was a French-American biochemist.

Ernest Rutherford was a British physicist who did research that became the basis for modern nuclear physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1908.

Ryoji Noyori is a Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate.

Glenn Seaborg is known for his work with transuranic elements. Here is a brief biography for this influential scientist.

Emilio Segré was an Italian-American physicist and Nobel laureate.

Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev was a Soviet chemist.

Severo Ochoa was a Spanish biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Karl Barry Sharpless is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Michael Smith was a British-Canadian biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Smithson Tennant was an English chemist.

Ernest Solvay was a Belgian industrial chemist.

Wendell Meredith Stanley was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Stanley Cohen is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Stanley Lloyd Miller was an American biochemist and pioneering exobiologist.

Stephanie Louise Kwolek is an American polymer chemist.

Fritz Strassmann was a German analytical chemist.

James Batcheller Sumner was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Sune K. Bergström was a Swedish biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Richard Laurence Millington Synge was an English chemist and Nobel laureate.

Tadeus Reichstein was a Polish born Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate.

Theodor H.E. Svedberg was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate.

Theodore William Richards was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Thomas Leopold Willson was a Canadian chemist and inventor.

Thomas Midgley, Jr. was an American engineer and chemist.

Thomas Robert Cech is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

J.J. Thomson discovered the electron while studying the electricity in a cathode ray tube (CRT).

Louis-Jacques Thenard was a French chemist.

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius was a Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate.

Harold Clayton Urey was an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a famous Dutch physical chemist.

Victor Grignard was a French chemist and Nobel laureate.

Victor Moritz Goldschmidt was a Swiss crystal chemist.

Viktor Meyer was a German chemist.

Vincent du Vigneaud was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Tuan Vo-Dinh is famous chemist and inventor who specializes in the field of photonics.

Selman Abraham Waksman was a Russian-American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Waldo Semon was an American chemical engineer and inventor of vinyl.

John Ernest Walker was an English chemist who was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

James Walker was a famous Scottish physical chemist.

Wallace Hume Carothers was an American polymer chemist.

Otto Wallach was a German chemist whose research into terpenes earned him the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Walter Gilbert is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

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Peter Jaffrey Wheatley was a British chemist and x-ray crystallographer.

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Heinrich Otto Wieland was a German biochemist who was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Harvey Washington Wiley was an American chemist and driving force to form the Food and Drug Administration.

Geoffrey Wilkinson was an English chemist who studied organometallic compounds.

Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist and Nobel laureate.

William A. Mitchell was an American food chemist.

William Cumming Rose was an American biochemist.

William de Wiveleslie Abney was an English chemist, astronomer and photographer.

William Francis Giauque was a Canadian-American chemist and Nobel laureate.

William Gregor was an English chemist.

William Henry was an English chemist.

William Howard Stein was an American biochemist and Nobel laureate.

William Hyde Wollaston was a British chemist.

William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

William Prout was an English chemist and physician.

William Ramsay was a British chemist and Nobel laureate.

Richard Willstätter was a German organic chemist who studied the structure of plant pigments.

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Georg Wittig was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese-American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Sabir Yunusov was a famous Soviet chemist who researched alkaloids.

Yves Chauvin is a French biochemist and Nobel laureate.

Ahmed Hassan Zewail is a famous Egyptian-American chemist.

Karl Waldemar Ziegler was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy was an Austrian-German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Éleuthère Irénée du Pont was a French chemist and industrialist.

Étienne François Geoffroy was a French physician and chemist.