Chemists
This site contains a list of the most important people who have contributed to
the development of chemistry. It is planned to include a biography with the
most important details of their life and their scientific contribution. The
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- Zosimus, (~250-?)
- Geber, Abu Musa Jabir Ibn
Hayyan, (~721-~815)
- Rhazes, Abu Bakr Muhamed
Ibn Zakariyya Ar-Razi, (~845-~930)
- Arnold de Villanova,
(~1235-1311)
- Geber,
(~1270)
- Vannoccio Biringuccio,
(1480-1539)
- Philipus Aureolus
Paracelsus, (1493-1541)
- Georgius Agricola,
(1494-1555)
- Lazarus Ercker, (1530-1594)
- Andreas Libau, Libavus,
(1560-1616)
- Jan Baptista van Helmont,
(1580-16440
- Johann Rudolf Glauber,
(1604-1670)
- Robert Boyle, (1627-1691)
- Hennig Brand, (1630-?)
- Johann Joachim Becher,
(1635-1682)
- Georg Ernst Stahl,
(1660-1734)
- Stephen Hales, (1677-1761)
- Georg Brandt, (1694-1768)
- Andreas Sigsmund Marggraf,
(1709-1782)
- Joseph Black, (1728-1799)
- Henry Cavendish,
(1731-1810)
- Joseph Priestley,
(1733-1804)
- Baron Louis Bernard Guyton
de Morveau, (1737-1816)
- Nicolas Leblanc,
(1742-1806)
- Karl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742-1786)
- Antoine Laurent Lavoasier,
(1743-1794)
- Martin Heinrich Klaproth,
(1743-1817)
- Claude Louis Berthollet,
(1748-1822)
- Daniel Rutherford,
(1749-1819)
- William Nicholson,
(1753-1815)
- Joseph Louis Proust,
(1754-1826)
- Antoine Francois Fourcroy,
(1755-1809)
- Jean Antoine Claude
Chaptal, (1756-1832)
- Johan Gadolin, (1760-1852)
- Sir James Hall, (1761-1832)
- Smithson Tennant,
(1761-1815)
- Jeremias Benjamin Richter,
(1762-1807)
- Louis Nicolas Vauquelin,
(1763-1829)
- Gottlieb Sigismund
Kirchhof, (1764-1833)
- Andres Manuel del Rio,
(1764-1849)
- William Hyde Wollaston,
(1766-1828)
- John Dalton, (1766-1844)
- Anders Gustaf Ekeberg,
(1867-1813)
- William Henry, (1774-1836)
- John Kidd, (1775-1851)
- Friedrich Strohmeyer,
(1776-1835)
- Amadeo Avogadro, Conte de
Quaregna, (1776-1856)
- Bernard Courtois,
(1777-1838)
- Hans Christian Oersted,
(1777-1851)
- Louis Jaques Thenard,
(1777-1857)
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac,
(1778-1850)
- Humphry Davy, (1778-1829)
- Benjamin Silliman,
(1779-1864)
- Jöns Jakob Berzelius,
(1779-1848)
- Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner,
(1780-1849)
- Robert Hare, (1781-1858)
- Samuel Guthrie, (1782-1848)
- Friedrich Wilhelm
Serturner, (1783-1841)
- William Prout, (1785-1850)
- Pierre Louis Dulong,
(1785-1838)
- Michel Eugène Chevreul,
(1786-1889)
- Nils Gabriel Sefstrom,
(1787-1845)
- Pierre Joseph Pelletier,
(1788-1842)
- Leopold Gmelin, (1788-1853)
- John Frederic Daniell,
(1790-1845)
- Michael Faraday,
(1791-1867)
- Alexis-Thérèse Petit,
(1791-1820)
- Eihardt Mitscherlich,
(1794-1863)
- Anselme Payen, (1795-1871)
- Joseph Bienaime Caventou,
(1795-1877)
- Carl Ernst Claus,
(1796-1864)
- Carl Gustav Mosander,
(1797-1858)
- Christian Friedrich
Schonbein, (1799-1868)
- Friedrich Wohler,
(1800-1882)
- Jean Baptiste André Dumas,
(1800-1884)
- Jean Baptiste Boussingault,
(1802-1887)
- Germain Henri Hess,
(1802-1850)
- Antoine Jerome Balard,
(1802-1876)
- Garardus Johannes Mulder,
(1802-1880)
- Justus von Liebig, (1803-1873)
- Charles Thomas Jackson,
(1805-1880)
- Thomas Graham, (1805-1869)
- Auguste Laurent,
(1807-1853)
- Henri Victor Regnault,
(1810-1878)
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
(1811-1899)
- John William Draper,
(1811-1882)
- Ascanio Sobrero,
(1812-1888)
- Jean Servais Stas,
(1813-1891)
- Thomas Andrews, (1813-1885)
- Alexander Parkes,
(1813-1890)
- Edmond Fremy, (1814-1894)
- Jean Charles Marignac,
(1817-1894)
- Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp,
(1817-1892)
- Charles Adolphe Wurtz,
(1817-1884)
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann,
(1818-1892)
- Henri Etienne Saint-Claire
Deville, (1818-1881)
- Adolf Wilhelm Hermann
Kolbe, (1818-1884)
- Max Joseph von Pettenkofer,
(1818-1901)
- Henry Edward Schunck (1820-1903)
- Johann Joseph Loschmidt,
(1821-1895)
- Louis Pasteur, (1822-1895)
- Johann Wilhelm Hittorf,
(1824-1914)
- Alexander William
Williamson, (1824-1904)
- Sir Edward Frankland,
(1825-1899)
- Richard August Erlenmeyer,
(1825-1909)
- Hans Peter Jorgen Thomsen,
(1826-1909)
- Stanislao Cannizzaro,
(1826-1910)
- Sir Frederick Augustus
Abel, (1827-1902)
- Pierre Eugene Marcelin
Berthelot, (1827-1907)
- Alexander Mikhailovich
Butlerov, (1828-1886)
- Sir Joseph Wilson Swan,
(1828-1914)
- Friedrich August von
Stradonitz Kekulé, (1829-1896)
- Francois Marie Raoult,
(1830-1901)
- Julius Lothar Meyer,
(1830-1895)
- Archibald Scott Couper,
(1831-1892)
- Hermann Hellriegel,
(1831-1895)
- Charles Friedel,
(1832-1899)
- William Crookes,
(1832-1919)
- Peter Waage, (1833-1900)
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel,
(1833-1896)
- Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev,
(1934-1907)
- Heinrich Caro, (1834-1910)
- Jacob Volhard, (1834-1910)
- Johannes Wislicenus,
(1835-1902)
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm
Adolf von Baeyer, (1835-1917)
- Cato Maximilian Guldberg,
(1836-1902)
- Johannes Diderick Van der
Waals, (1837-1923)
- John Alexander Reina
Newlands, (1837-1898)
- John Wesley Hyatt,
(1937-1920)
- Vladimir Markovnikov,
(1838-1904)
- Edward Williams Morley,
(1837-1923)
- Friedrich Konrad Beilstein,
(1838-1906)
- Sir William Henry Perkin,
(1838-1907)
- Ernest Solvay, (1838-1922)
- Paul Emile Lecoq de
Boisbaudran, (1838-1912)
- Clemens Alexander Winkler,
(1838-1904)
- Joseph Willard Gibbs,
(1839-1903)
- James Mason Crafts,
(1839-1917)
- Louis-Marie-Hilaire
Bernigaud, Compte de Chardonnet, (1839-1924)
- Ludwig Mond, (1839-1909)
- Lars Fredrik Nilson,
(1840-1899)
- Karl James Peter Graebe,
(1841-1927)
- Karl Paul Gottfried von
Liinde, (1842-1934)
- Sir James Dewar,
(1842-1923)
- Ira Remsen, (1846-1927)
- Raoul Pierre Pictet,
(1846-1929)
- Eugen Baumann, (1846-1896)
- Joseph Achille Le Bel,
(1847-1930)
- Otto Wallach, (1847-1931)
- Viktor Meyer, (1848-1897)
- Johann Gustav Kjeldahl,
(1849-1900)
- Henri Louis Le Châtelier,
(1850-1936)
- Herman Frasch, (1851-1914)
- Eugene Anatole Demarcay,
(1852-1904)
- Jacobus Henricus Van't
Hoff, (1852-1911)
- Ferdinand Frederic Moissan,
(1852-1907)
- William Ramsay, (1852-1919)
- Emil Fisher, (1852-1919)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald,
(1853-1932)
- Jokichi Takamine,
(1854-1922)
- Paul Sabatier, (1854-1941)
- Charles Frederick Cross,
(1855-1935)
- Theodor Curtius,
(1857-1928)
- Karl Auer, Baron von
Welsbach, (1958-1929)
- Svante August Arrhenius,
(1859-1927)
- Pierre Curie, (1859-1906)
- Eduard Buchner, (1860-1917)
- Johann Goldschmidt,
(1861-1923)
- John Ulric Nef, (1862-1915)
- Paul Walden, (1863-1957)
- Frederick Stanley Kipping,
(1863-1949)
- Leo Hendrik Baekeland,
(1863-1944)
- Charles Martin Hall,
(1863-1914)
- Walther Hermann Nernst,
(1864-1941)
- Richard Adolf Zsigmondy,
(1865-1929)
- Sir Arthur Harden,
(1865-1940)
- Moses Gomberg, (1866-1947)
- Alfred Werner, (1866-1919)
- Marie Sklodowska Curie,
(1867-1934)
- Vladimir Nikolayevich
Ipatieff, (1867-1952)
- Soren Peter Lauritz
Sorensen, (1868-1939)
- Theodore William Richards,
(1868-1928)
- Fritz Haber, (1868-1934)
- Georg Bredig, (1868-1944)
- Richard Wilhelm Heinrich
Abegg, (1869-1910)
- Phoebus Aaron Theodor
Levine, (1869-1940)
- Fritz Pregl, (1869-1930)
- Robert Robertson,
(1869-1949)
- Bertram Borden Boltwood,
(1870-1927)
- Georges Claude, (1870-1960)
- Sir William Jackson Pope,
(1870-1939)
- Francois Auguste Victor
Grignard, (1871-1935)
- Ernest Rutherford,
(1871-1937)
- Max Bodenstein, (1871-1942)
- Morris William Travers,
(1872-1961)
- Georges Urbain, (1872-1938)
- Mikhail Semonovich Tswett,
(1872-1919)
- Richard Martin Willstatter,
(1872-1942)
- Arthur Lapworth,
(1872-1941)
- Hans Karl August Simon von
Euler-Cheplin, (1873-1964)
- Nevil Vincent Sidgwick,
(1873-1952)
- William Hobson Mills,
(1873-1959)
- Andre Louis Debierne,
(1874-1949)
- Karl Bosch, (1874-1940)
- Chaim Weismann, (1874-1952)
- Leonor Michaelis,
(1875-1949)
- Gilbert Newton Lewis,
(1875-1946)
- Otto Paul Herman Diels,
(1876-1954)
- Alfred Stock, (1876-1946)
- Adolf Windaus, (1876-1959)
- Heinrich Otto Wieland,
(1877-1957)
- Francis William Aston,
(1877-1945)
- Frederick Soddy,
(1877-1956)
- Julius Arthur Nieuwland,
(1878-1936)
- Johannes Nicolaus Brönsted,
(1879-1947)
- Otto Hahn, (1879-1868)
- Herbert Max Finlay
Freundlich, (1880-1941)
- Irving Langmuir,
(1881-1957)
- Hermann Staudinger,
(1881-1965)
- Hans Fischer, (1881-1945)
- James William Mcbain,
(1882-1953)
- Frank Lee Pyman,
(1882-1944)
- Sir Walter Norman Haworth,
(1883-1950)
- Casimir Funk, (1884-1967)
- Peter Josheph Willem Debye,
(1884-1966)
- Otto Fritz Meyerhof,
(1884-1951)
- Theodor Svedberg,
(1884-1971)
- Friedrich Karl Rudolf
Bergius, (1884-1949)
- George Charles de Havesy,
(1885-1966)
- Joseph Kenyon, (1885-1961)
- Sir Robert Robinson,
(1885-1975)
- Robert Runnels Williams,
(1886-1965)
- Friedrich Adolf Paneth,
(1887--1958)
- Leopold Stephan Ruzicka,
(1887-1976)
- Kasimir Fajans, (1887-1975)
- James Butcheller Summer,
(1887-1955)
- Dalziel Llewellyn Hammick,
(1887-1966)
- Herman Otto Laurenz
Fischer, (1888-1960)
- Victor Moritz Goldschmidt,
(1888-1947)
- Paul Karrer, (1889-1971)
- Thomas Midgley, (1889-1944)
- Jaroslav Heyrovsky,
(1890-1967)
- Michael Polanyi,
(1891-1976)
- John Northrop, (1891-1987)
- Henry Gilman, (1893- )
- Harold Clayton Urey,
(1893-1981)
- Albert von Nagyrapolt
Szent-Györgyi, (1893- )
- Christopher Ingold,
(1893-1970)
- William Francis Giaque,
(1895-1982)
- Artturi Ilmari Virtanen,
(1895-1973)
- Ida Eva Tacke Noddack,
(1896- )
- Nikolay Nikolayevich
Semenov, (1896-1986)
- Wallace Hume Carothers,
(1896-1937)
- Robert Sanderson Mulliken,
(1896-1986)
- Gerty Theresa Cori,
(1896-1957)
- Carl Ferdinand Cori, (1896-
)
- Erich Armand Arthur Joseph
Hückel, (1896- )
- Odd Hassel, (1897-1981)
- Georg Wittig, (1897-1987)
- Sir Cyril Norman
Hinshelwood, (1897-1967)
- Tadeusz Reichstein, (1897-
)
- Irene Joliot-Curie,
(1897-1956)
- Ronald George Wreyford
Norrish, (1897-1978)
- Samuel Glasstone, (1897- )
- Karl Ziegler, (1898-1973)
- Rudolf Schoenheimer,
(1898-1941)
- Paul Hermann Müller,
(1899-1965)
- William Hume-Rothery,
(1899-1968)
- Richard Kuhn, (1900-1967)
- Jean Fréderic Joliot,
(1900-1958)
- Linus Carl Pauling,
(1901-1994)
- Vincent Du Vigneaud,
(1901-1978)
- Kurt Alder, (1902-1958)
- Arne Willhelm Kaurin
Tiselius, (1902-1971)
- Frank Harold Spedding,
(1902- )
- Giulio Natta, (1903-1979)
- Adolf Friedrich Butenandt,
(1903- )
- Lars Onsager, (1903-1976)
- Harry Julius Emeléus,
(1903- )
- Kathleen Lonsdale,
(1903-1971)
- Wendell Stanley,
(1904-1971)
- Gerhared Herzberg, (1904- )
- Charles John Pederson,
(1904-1989)
- Severo Ochoa, (1905- )
- Lyman Creighton Craig,
(1906- )
- Vladimir Prelog, (1906- )
- Karl August Folkers,
(1906-1997)
- George Wald, (1906- )
- Luis Leloir, (1906-1987)
- Alexander Robertus, Lord
Todd, (1907- )
- Edwin McMillan, (1907-1991)
- William Frank Libby,
(1908-1980)
- Archer John Porter Martin,
(1910- )
- Dorothy Mary Crowfoot
Hodgin, (1910-1994)
- Paul John Flory, (1910-1985)
- Charles Alfred Coulson,
(1910-1974)
- Feodor Lynen, (1911- )
- Melvin Calvin, (1911- )
- William Stein, (1911-1980)
- Konrad Emil Bloch, (1912- )
- Glenn Seaborg, (1912- )
- Herbert Charles Brown,
(1912- )
- John Wilfred Linnett,
(1913-1975)
- Stanford Moore, (1913-1982)
- Max Ferdinand Perutz,
(1914- )
- Richard Lawrence Millington
Synge, (1914- )
- Henry Taube, (1915- )
- Francis Harry Compton
Crick, (1916- )
- Christian Anfinsen, (1916-
)
- Herbert Aaron Hauptman,
(1917- )
- John Cowdery Kendrew,
(1917- )
- Robert Burns Woodward,
(1917-1979)
- Sir John Warcup Cornforth,
(1917- )
- Ronald Sydney Nyholm,
(1917-1971)
- Ilya Prigogine, (1917- )
- Frederick Sanger, (1918- )
- Derek Harold Richard Barton,
(1918- )
- Ernst Otto Fisher, (1918- )
- Jerome Karle, (1918- )
- Kenichi Fukui, (1918- )
- Arthur Kornberg, (1918- )
- William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.,
(1919- )
- Donald J. Cram, (1919- )
- Rosalind Elsie Franklin,
(1920- )
- Peter Dennis Mitchell,
(1920-1992)
- George Porter, (1920- )
- Geoffrey Wilkinson, (1921-
)
- Robert Bruce Merrifield,
(1921- )
- Har Gobind Khorana, (1922-
)
- Robert William Holley,
(1922- )
- Hugh Christopher
Longuet-Higgins, (1923- )
- Rudolph A. Marcus, (1923- )
- Paul Berg, (1926- )
- Aaron Klug, (1926- )
- Manfred Eigen, (1927- )
- Marshall Warren Nirnberg,
(1927- )
- Hans Leo Kornberg, (1928- )
- Elias James Corey, (1928- )
- John Charles Polanyi,
(1929- )
- Stanley Lloyd Miller, (1930-
)
- Neil Bartlett, (1930- )
- Walter Gilbert, (1932- )
- Dudley Robert Herschbach,
(1932- )
- Richard R. Ernst, (1933- )
- Robert F. Curl, Jr.,
(1933- )
- Yuan Tseh Lee, (1936- )
- Roald Hoffmann, (1937- )
- Robert Huber, (1937- )
- Jean-Marie Lehn, (1939- )
- Sir Harold W. Kroto (1939-
)
- Sidney Altman, (1939- )
- Johann Deisenhofer, (1943-
)
- Richard E. Smalley
(1943- )
- Thomas R. Cech, (1947- )
- Hartmut Michel, (1948- )
The basic list was compiled from the following books:
- Nobel Laurates in
Chemsitry, 1901-1992, Laylin K. James, Ed., American Chemical Society,
1993.
- Chemists, David Abbott,
Ed., Peter Bedrick Books, New York, 1983.
- Asimov's Biographical
Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 2nd ed., Isac Asimov,
Doubleday, New York, 1982.
Created by Zoran
Zdravkovski and Kiro
Stojanoski
September 28,
1996, last updated May 3, 2000.
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