List of chemists

This is a list of famous chemists: (alphabetical order)

C

 * Melvin Calvin, (1911–1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Georg Ludwig Carius, (1829–1875), German chemist
 * Heinrich Caro, (1834–1910), German chemist
 * Wallace Carothers, (1896–1937), American chemist
 * Henry Cavendish, (1731–1810), British scientist
 * Yves Chauvin, (born 1930), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Ernst Cohen, (1869–1944), Dutch chemist (murdered in Auschwitz)
 * Elias James Corey, (born 1928), American organic chemist, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * John Cornforth, (born 1917), Australian winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Paul J. Crutzen, (1933), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Marie Curie, (1867–1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * Pierre Curie, (1859–1906), 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * Robert Curl, (born 1933), winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Theodor Curtius, (1857–1928), German chemist

D

 * John Dalton, (1766–1844), physicist and pioneer of the atomic theory
 * Carl Peter Henrik Dam, (1895–1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Raymond Davis, Jr., (1914–2006), American physical chemist
 * Humphry Davy, (1778–1829)
 * Peter Debye, (1884–1966), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Sir James Dewar, (1842–1923)
 * François Diederich, (born 1952), Luxembourg chemist
 * Otto Diels, (1876–1954), German chemist, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Edward Doisy, (1893– 1986), American biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Davorin Dolar, (1921–2005), chemist from Univ. of Ljubljana
 * Emmanuel Dongala, Congolese chemist and novelist
 * David Adriaan van Dorp, (1915–1995), Dutch chemist
 * Cornelius Drebbel, (1572–1633), Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist
 * Jean Baptiste Dumas, (1800–1884), French chemist

E

 * Paul Ehrlich, (1854–1915), German chemist, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Arthur Eichengrün, (1867–1949)
 * Manfred Eigen, (born 1927), German chemist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Fausto Elhuyar, (1755–1833), Spanish chemist, discoverer of tungsten
 * Emil Erlenmeyer, (1825–1909), German chemist
 * Richard R. Ernst, (born 1933), 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Hans von Euler-Chelpin, (1873–1964), Swedish chemist, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Henry Eyring, (1901–1981), Mexican-American theoretical chemist

F

 * Kazimierz Fajans, (1887–1975), Polish-American physical chemist
 * Michael Faraday (1791–1867), scientist
 * Hermann von Fehling, (1812–1885), German chemist
 * Emil Fischer (1852–1919), 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, not to be confused with:
 * Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
 * Ernst Gottfried Fischer (1754–1831), German chemist
 * Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German organic chemist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
 * Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
 * Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British Chemist and Crystallographer
 * Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist
 * Wilhelm Fresenius (1913–2004), German chemist, great-grandson of Carl
 * Alexander Naumovich Frumkin (1895–1976), electrochemist and chemist

G

 * Johan Gadolin, (1760–1852), Finnish chemist
 * Merrill Garnett, (born 1930), American biochemist
 * Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, (1778–1850), French chemist and physicist
 * Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839 – 1903), American engineer, chemist and physicist
 * Johann Rudolf Glauber, (1604–1670), Dutch-German alchemist and chemist
 * Victor Goldschmidt, (1888–1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry
 * Ljubo Golic, (born 1932), chemist.
 * David van Goorle also called Gorlaeus, (1591–1612), Dutch chemist
 * Thomas Graham, (1805–1869),
 * Francois Auguste Victor Grignard, (1871–1935), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
 * Robert H. Grubbs, (born 1942), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

H

 * Fritz Haber, (1868–1934) 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Otto Hahn, (1879–1968) 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * John Scott Haldane,(1860–1936), British biochemist
 * Charles Martin Hall, (1863–1914), American chemist
 * Arthur Harden, (1865–1940), English biochemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929
 * Odd Hassel, (1897–1981), Norwegian chemist 1969 Nobel Prize in chemistry
 * Charles Hatchett, (1765–1847), English chemist who discovered niobium
 * Robert Havemann, (1910–1982), chemist.
 * Clayton Heathcock, American Chemist
 * Dudley R. Herschbach, (1932-), American chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry
 * Charles Herty, American Chemist
 * Gerhard Herzberg, (1904–1999), German-Canadian chemist, 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Germain Henri Hess, (1802–1850), Swiss-born Russian chemist
 * György von Hevesy, George de Hevesy, (1885–1966), Hungarian born chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943
 * Jaroslav Heyrovský, (1890–1967), Czech chemist, 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, (1897–1967), English physical chemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956
 * Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist, 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Friedrich Hoffmann, (1660–1742), physician and chemist
 * Roald Hoffmann, (born 1937), Polish-born American chemist, 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry
 * Albert Hofmann, (1906-2008), Swiss chemist, synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
 * August Wilhelm von Hofmann, (1818–1892) German organic chemist
 * Coenraad Johannes van Houten, (1801–1887), Dutch chemist and chocolate maker, invented cocoa powder
 * Amir H. Hoveyda, US-based chemist working in asymmetric catalysis

I

 * Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893–1970), English chemist

J

 * Paul Janssen (1926–2003), Belgian founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica.
 * Frederic Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), French chemist and physicist
 * Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and physicist

K

 * Paul Karrer, (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783–1857)
 * August Kekulé, (1829–1896), German organic chemist
 * Petrus Jacobus Kipp, (1808–1864), Dutch chemist, inventor of Kipp-generator
 * Martin Heinrich Klaproth, (1743–1817), German chemist
 * Trevor Kletz (born 1922) British promoter of industrial safety
 * Aaron Klug, (born in 1926), winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Emil Knoevenagel, (1865–1921)
 * Walter Kohn, (born 1923), 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
 * Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, (1818–1884)
 * Izaak Kolthoff, (1894–1993), Dutch-American chemist, the "Father of Analytical Chemistry"
 * Else Kooi, (1932–2001), Dutch chemist, developed isolation for MOS-transistors
 * Aleksandra Kornhauser, (born 1926), chemist.
 * Harold Kroto, (born 1939), English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

L

 * Irving Langmuir, (1881–1957), chemist, physicist
 * Paul Lauterbur, (1929–2007), American chemist
 * Antoine Lavoisier, (1743–1794), French pioneer chemist
 * Nicolas Leblanc, (1742–1806), French chemist and surgeon
 * Henri Louis Le Chatelier, (1850–1936)
 * Eun Lee, (born 1946), Korean organic chemist
 * Yuan T. Lee, (born 1936), winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Luis Federico Leloir, (1906–1987), Argentine biochemist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize
 * Janez Levec, (born 1943), chemist.
 * Primo Levi, (1919–1987), resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
 * Gilbert Newton Lewis, (1875–1946), American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry
 * Andreas Libavius, (1555–1616), German doctor and chemist
 * Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist, winner of 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Justus von Liebig, (1803–1873), German inventor
 * Teunis van der Linden, (1884–1965), Dutch chemist, developed insecticide lindane
 * Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (1827–1912), English surgeon
 * H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, British Chemist
 * Martin Lowry, (1874–1936), British chemist
 * Ignacy Łukasiewicz, (1802–1882), Polish pharmacist

M

 * Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry, (1904–1993), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
 * Pierre Macquer, (1718–1784), influential French chemist
 * Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov, (1838–1904)
 * Alan G. Marshall, American chemist, co-inventor of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry
 * Martinus van Marum, (1750–1837), Dutch chemist
 * Lise Meitner, (1878–1968), German physicist
 * Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, (1834–1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements
 * John Mercer, (1791–1866), chemist and industrialist
 * Robert Bruce Merrifield, (1921–2006), solid-phase chemist
 * Lothar Meyer, (1830–1895), not to be confused with :
 * Viktor Meyer, (1848–1897)
 * Stanley Miller (born 1930), American chemist, best known for the Miller-Urey experiment
 * Luis E. Miramontes (1925–2004), co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill
 * William A. Mitchell, (1911–2004), key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, and Kool Whip
 * Alexander Mitscherlic, (1836–1918), chemist
 * Henri Moissan, (1852–1907), French chemist and the winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize
 * Jacques Monod, (1910–1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
 * Peter Moore (born 1939), American biochemist, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University
 * Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915), English physicist, discovered Moseley's law
 * Gerardus Johannes Mulder, (1802–1880), Dutch organic chemist
 * Robert S. Mulliken, (1896–1986), American physicist, chemist

N

 * Robert Nalbandyan, (1937–2002), Armenian protein chemist
 * Giulio Natta, (1903–1979), Italian chemist, 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Costin Nenitescu, (1902–1970), Romanian chemist
 * Antonio Neri, (1500s–1614), Florentine chemist and glassmaker
 * Walther Nernst, (1864–1941), German chemist
 * John Alexander Reina Newlands, (1837–1898), English analytical chemist
 * William_Nicholson_%28chemist%29, (1753–1815), English chemist
 * Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, American chemist
 * Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist
 * Ralph Nuzzo, American chemist and materials scientist

O

 * George Andrew Olah, (born 1927), 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Lars Onsager, (1903–1976), physical chemist, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Luitzen Johannes Oosterhoff, (1907–1974), Dutch chemist
 * Wilhelm Ostwald, (1853–1932), 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

P

 * Paracelsus, (1493–1541), alchemist
 * Rudolph Pariser, (born 1923), theoretical and organic chemist
 * Robert G. Parr, (born 1921), theoretical chemist
 * Louis Pasteur, (1822–1895), French biochemist
 * Linus Pauling, (1901–1994), Nobel Prizes in chemistry and peace
 * Eugène-Melchior Péligot, (1811-1890) French chemist who isolated the uranium metal
 * William Henry Perkin, (1838–1907) British organic chemist and inventor of mauveine (dye)
 * William Henry Perkin, Jr., (1860–1929) British organic chemist, son of Sir William Henry Perkin
 * Roy J. Plunkett, (1910–1994), discoverer of Teflon
 * John Charles Polanyi, (born 1929), Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986.
 * John A. Pople, (1925–2004), theoretical chemist, 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Fritz Pregl, (1869–1930), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923.
 * Vladimir Prelog, (1906–1998), 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Joseph Priestley, (1733–1804)
 * Ilya Prigogine, (1917–2003), 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Q

 * Ğilem Qamay (1901–1970), Soviet chemist

R

 * William Ramsay, (1852–1916), Scottish chemist
 * Henry Rapoport, American chemist, UC Berkeley
 * William Sage Rapson, South African Chemist and co-author of Gold Usage
 * Julius Rebek, (1944), Hungarian_American chemist.
 * Marij Rebek, chemist.
 * Jan Reedijk, (1943), Dutch inorganic chemist
 * Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French chemist and physicist
 * Tadeus Reichstein, (1897–1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
 * Rhazes (Razi), (865–925)
 * Stuart A. Rice, (born 1932), physical chemist
 * Ellen Swallow Richards, (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist.
 * Jeremias Benjamin Richter, (1762–1807), German chemist
 * Nikolaus Riehl, Germany (1901–1990)
 * Andrés Manuel del Río, (1764–1849), Spanish-Mexican geochemist, discovered vanadium
 * Robert Robinson (1886-1975), Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Guillaume-Fran%C3%A7ois_Rouelle, (1703–1770), French chemist
 * Hillar Rootare (1928) Estonian-American Physical Chemist
 * H. M. Rouell, (1718–1779), French chemist
 * Daniel Rutherford, (1749–1819), Scottish chemist
 * Ernest Rutherford, (1871 – 1937), New Zealand born chemist and nuclear physicist. Discovered the Proton. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908
 * Leopold Ruzicka (Lavoslav Ružička), (1887–1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

S

 * Paul Sabatier, (1854–1941), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
 * Maks Samec, (1844–1889), Slovenian chemist.
 * Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742–1786), Swedish 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements
 * Stuart L. Schreiber, (born 1956), American chemist, a pioneer in a field of chemical biology
 * Richard R. Schrock, (born 1945), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Glenn T. Seaborg, (1912–1999), 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Nils Gabriel Sefström, (1787–1845), chemist.
 * Francesco Selmi, (1817–1881), Italian chemist.
 * Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, (1896–1986), physicist and chemist, 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Israel Shahak, (1933–2001)
 * K. Barry Sharpless, (born 1941), 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Patsy O. Sherman (born 1930), 12 US Patents
 * Alexander Shulgin, (born 1925), Pioneer researcher in Psychopharmacology and Entheogens
 * Peter Schultz, American chemist
 * Oktay Sinanoglu, (born 1935), Turkish chemist
 * Ascanio Sobrero, (1812–1888), Italian chemist, discoverer of nitroglycerin
 * Frederick Soddy, (1877–1956), British chemist, 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Susan Solomon, American atmospheric chemist
 * Ernest Solvay, (1838–1922), Belgian chemist and industrialist
 * S.P.L. Sørensen, (1868–1939), Danish chemist
 * Wendell Meredith Stanley, (1904–1971), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Branko Stanovnik, (born 1938), chemist.
 * Hermann Staudinger, (1881–1965), polymer chemist, 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Alfred Stock, (1876–1946)
 * Fraser Stoddart, (born 1945), Scottish chemist, a pioneer in the field of the mechanical bond
 * Gilbert Stork
 * Theodor Svedberg, (1884–1971), 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Joseph Swan, (1828–1914), English physicist, chemist & inventor

T

 * Dr Alethea Tabor, Chemical Biologist
 * Henry Taube, (1915-2005), 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Richard Taylor, (1965-), Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of York
 * Miha Tisler, (born 1926), chemist.

U

 * Harold Clayton Urey, (1893–1981), 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

V

 * Lauri Vaska, (born 1925), Estonian/American chemist
 * Evert Johannes Willem Verweij, (1905–1981), Dutch chemist
 * Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, (1895–1973), chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * Milos Vujic Serbian chemist
 * Max Volmer, Germany (1885–1965)
 * Alessandro Volta, (1745–1827), electrochemist, Invented the Voltaic Cell

W

 * Johannes Diderik van der Waals, (1837–1923)
 * Sir James Walker (1863–1935), Scottish physical chemist
 * John E. Walker, (born 1941), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Alfred Werner, (1866–1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997)
 * George M. Whitesides, (born 1939), American chemist
 * Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957) German chemist 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Harvey W. Wiley, (1844–1930), US chemist, Pure food & drug advocate
 * Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, (1921–1996), 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Günter Wirths, Germany
 * Friedrich Wöhler, (1800–1882), German chemist
 * William Hyde Wollaston, (1766–1828), English chemist
 * Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, (1817–1884)
 * Kurt Wüthrich, (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

X

 * Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (born 1962), Chinese chemist at Harvard University. Famous for his pioneering work in Single Molecule Microscopy and CARS (Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy) microscopy.

Y

 * Sabir Yunusov (1909–1995), Soviet chemist (alkaloids)

Z

 * Ahmed H. Zewail (born 1946), Egyptian, 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.