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Famous Chemists - Last Names Starting with H

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

Fritz Haber, (1868–1934)

Otto Hahn, (1879–1968) German chemist, winner of 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

John Scott Haldane, (1860–1936), British biochemist

Arthur Harden (1865-1940), English biochemist, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Herbert A. Hauptman (1917- ) American mathematician, crystallographer and winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Odd Hassel, (1897–1981), Norwegian chemist, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Charles Hatchett, (1765–1847), English chemist who discovered niobium

Walter Norman Haworth (1883-1950) British chemist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

William Henry (1775-1836) English chemist

Dudley R. Herschbach, (1932- ) American chemist, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Germain Henri Hess (1802-1850) Swiss-Russian chemist

George de Hevesy, (1885–1966), chemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Jaroslav Heyrovský, (1890–1967), Czech chemist, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Gerhard Herzberg, (1904–1999), German-Canadian chemist, winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Joel Henry Hildebrand (1880-1983) American chemist and educator

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897-1967) British chemist, winner of 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) British chemist and x-ray crystallographer, winner of 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

J. H. van't Hoff, (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist, winner of the 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Friedrich Hoffmann, (1660–1742), physician and chemist

Roald Hoffmann, (1937- ), Polish-born American chemist, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

August Wilhelm von Hofmann, (1818–1892) German organic chemist

Robert Hooke (1635–1703), English Inventor and Scientist

Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947) English biochemist, winner of 1929 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Felix Hoppe-Seyler (1825-1895), German physiologist and chemist



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