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Famous Chemists - Last Names Starting with G

Scientists who Made Important Chemistry Discoveries

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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), French chemist, winner of 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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