Peter Waage (1833-1900) Norwegian chemist
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923)
Selman A. Waksman (1888-1973) Russian-American biochemist, winner of 1952 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Sir James Walker (1863–1935), famous Scottish physical chemist
John Ernest Walker (born 1941), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Otto Wallach (1847–1931), 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Otto Heinrich Warburg German biochemist, winner of 1932 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Karl Auer von Welsbach (1858-1929) Austrian chemist
Alfred Werner (1866–1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997)
Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957) German chemist, 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Harvey W. Wiley (1844–1930), famous American chemist
Richard Willstätter (1872–1942), 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996), 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (1876–1959), 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Clemens Alexander Winkler (1838-1904), German chemist, discovered germanium.
Günter Wirths, famous German chemist
Johannes Wislicenus (1835-1902) German organic chemist, pioneer of stereochemistry
Georg Wittig (1897–1987), 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), German chemist
William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), British chemist
Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), American biochemist, 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Kurt Wüthrich (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884)
