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Famous Chemists - Last Names Starting with M

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

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

Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov, (1838–1904)

Lise Meitner, (1878–1968), physicist who studied radioactivity, part of the team that discovered fission

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, (1834–1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements

John Mercer, (1791–1866), chemist and industrialist

Stanley Miller (born 1930), American chemist, best known for the Miller-Urey experiment

Luis E. Miramontes (1925–2004), co-inventor of the contraceptive pill

William A. Mitchell, (1911–2004), inventor who worked on Pop Rocks, Tang, and Kool Whip

Alexander Mitscherlic, (1836–1918), chemist

Henri Moissan

Mario Molina (1943- ) Mexican-American chemist, winner of 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Jacques Monod, (1910–1976), biochemist, 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Peter Moore (born 1939), American biochemist

Stanford Moore (1913-1982) American biochemist, winner of 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915), English physicist, discovered Moseley's law

Robert S. Mulliken, (1896–1986), American physicist, chemist

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