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Famous Chemists - Last Names Starting with G

Scientists who Made Important Chemistry Discoveries

By Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D., About.com

This is an alphabetical list of famous chemists and other scientists who made important contributions to the field of chemistry.

Index of Famous Chemists

Johan Gadolin, (1760-1852), Finnish chemist

Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745-1818) Swedish chemist

Jean-Charles-Galinard de Marignac, Swiss chemist (1817-1894)

Albert Ghiorso (1915- ) American nuclear chemist

Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903) American chemist, physicist and mathematician

Moses Gomberg (1866-1947) Russian-American chemist

Alfred Goodman Gilman (1941- ) American biochemist, winner of 1994 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Victor Goldschmidt, (1888–1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry

Ljubo Golic, (born 1932), chemist

Francois Auguste Victor Grignard, (1871–1935), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Robert H. Grubbs, (born 1942), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Cato Maximilian Guldberg (1836-1902) Norwegian chemist

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