List of chemists

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Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950), Swiss chemist

Richard Abegg (1869–1910), German chemist

Frederick Abel (1827–1902), English chemist

Friedrich Accum (1769–1838), German chemist, advances in the field of gas lighting

Homer Burton Adkins (1892–1949), American chemist, known for work in hydrogenation of organic compounds

Peter Agre (1949–), American chemist and doctor, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), German scholar known as "the father of mineralogy"

Arthur Aikin (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist

Adrien Albert (1907–1989), Australian medicinal chemist

John Albery (1936–2013), English physical chemist

Kurt Alder (1902–1958), German chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Sidney Altman (1939–), 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Christian B. Anfinsen (1916–1995), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Angelo Angeli, Brazilian Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Octavio Augusto Ceva Antunes (1731–1810), British scientist

Anthony Joseph Arduengo, III, American chemist

Johan August Arfwedson (1792–1841), Swedish chemist

Anton Eduard van Arkel (1893–1976), Dutch chemist

Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927), Swedish chemist, one of the founders of physical chemistry

Larned B. Asprey (1919–2005), American nuclear chemist

Francis William Aston (1877–1945), 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), Italian chemist and physicist, discovered Avogadro's law

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Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843–1931), worked on the "single-grain experiment"

Werner Emmanuel Bachmann (1901–1951), American chemist, known for work in steroids and RDX

Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgian-American chemist

Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917), German chemist, 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, synthesis of indigo

Piero Baglioni, Italian chemist

Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom (1854–1907), Dutch chemist

Allen J. Bard, (born 1933), 2008 Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Neil Bartlett (1932–2008), English/Canadian/American chemist

Sir Derek Barton (1918–1998), 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Fred Basolo (1920–2007), American inorganic chemist

Esther Batchelder (1897–1987), American chemist, educator and specialist in nutrition

Antoine Baum (1728–1804), French chemist

Karl Bayer (1847–1904), Austrian chemist

Johann Joachim Becher (1635–1682), Developed the phlogiston theory of combustion

Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838–1906), German-Russian chemist, created Beilstein database

Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847–1930), French chemist, early work in sterochemistry

Irina Beletskaya (born 1933), Russian organometallic chemist

Ronnie Bell (1907–1996), English physical chemist

Francesco Bellini (1947–), research scientist, doctor in organic chemistry

Paul Berg (born 1926), 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907), French chemist, important work in thermochemistry

Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), French chemist

Carolyn R. Bertozzi, American chemist, Stanford

Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848), Swedish chemist, coined the term "polymer" in 1833

Johannes Martin Bijvoet (1892–1980), Dutch chemist and crystallographer

Joseph Black (1728–1799), chemist

Dale L. Boger (born 1953), American organic and medicinal chemist

Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838–1912), French chemist

Jan Boldingh (1915–2003), Dutch chemist

Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), Russian chemist & composer

Hans-Joachim Born, German radiochemist

Carl Bosch (1872–1940), German chemist

Octave Leopold Boudouard (1872–1923), French chemist who discovered the Boudouard reaction

Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802–1887), French chemist, agricultural chemistry

E. J. Bowen (1898–1980), English physical chemist

Humphry Bowen (1929–2001), English analytical chemist

Paul D. Boyer (born 1918), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Robert Boyer, employee of Henry Ford focus on soybean use.

Robert Boyle (1627–1691), English pioneer of modern chemistry

Henri Braconnot (1780–1855), French chemist and pharmacist

Henning Brand (c. 1630 – c.1692 or c. 1710), German chemist, discovered phosphorus

Ronald Breslow, (born 1931), American organic chemist

Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (1879–1947), Danish chemist

Herbert C. Brown (1912–2004), 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Stephen L. Buchwald, (born 1955), American Chemist, Organic Chemistry, co-discoverer of Palladium-patalyzed C-N bond formation Buchwald–Hartwig amination

Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist, discovered the elements caesium and rubidium with Gustav Kirchhoff and invented the Bunsen burner

William Merriam Burton (1865–1954), American chemist, developed the first thermal cracking process for crude oil

Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Aleksandr Butlerov (1828–1886), Russian chemist, discovered the formose reaction

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Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Constantin Cândea (1887–1971), Romanian chemist

Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910), Italian chemist, postulated the Cannizzaro reaction

Georg Ludwig Carius (1829–1875), German chemist

Heinrich Caro (1834–1910), German chemist

Wallace Carothers (1896–1937), American chemist, known for the discovery of nylon

Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British scientist

Elena Ceaușescu

Thomas Cech (born 1947), 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Martin Chalfie (born 1947), 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Michelle Chang (born 1977), American chemist, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Yves Chauvin (born 1930), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Michel Eugėne Chevreul (1786–1889), French chemist, designed an early form of soap, lived to be 102.

Aaron Ciechanover (born 1947), 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Giacomo Luigi Ciamician, Italian chemist, father of the solar panel

Edward L. Cochran (born 1929), American Chemist, known for pioneering studies on the nature of free radicals

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

Robert Corey (1897–1971), American biochemist

Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984), Czech biochemist, Nobel Prize in medicine 1947

Gerty Cori (1896–1957), American biochemist, Nobel Prize in medicine 1947

Charles D. Coryell (1912–1971), American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium

John Cornforth (born 1917), Australian winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Frank Albert Cotton (1930–2007), 2000 Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Charles Coulson (1910–1974), British theoretical chemist

Archibald Scott Couper (1831–1892), English chemist, further developed Tetravalence

James Crafts (1839–1917), American chemist, developer of Friedel–Crafts reaction

Donald J. Cram (1919–2001), American chemist, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist, discovered the element thallium

Paul J. Crutzen (1933), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Marie Curie (1867–1934), Polish radiation physicist, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Pierre Curie (1859–1906), 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics

Robert Curl (born 1933), American chemist, winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Theodor Curtius (1857–1928), German chemist

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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

Vincenzo, Count Dandolo (1758–1819), Italian Nobleman and Chemist

Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936), American organic chemist, natural product Total synthesis, 1995/6 Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Humphry Davy (1778–1829), British Chemist, discovered several alkaline earth metals

Raymond Davis, Jr. (1914–2006), American physical chemist

Peter Debye (1884–1966), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Johann Deisenhofer (born 1943), 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Francesco DeMaria (born 1928), Italian-American chemist, working in Chemical engineering

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

Robert Dirks (1978–2015), American computational chemist

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

David Adriaan van Dorp (1915–1995), Dutch chemist

Herbert Henry Dow (1866–1930), American industrial chemist, known for bromine extraction

Cornelius Drebbel (1572–1633), Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist

Vratislav Ducháček (born 1941), Czech chemist

Carl Duisburg (1861–1935), German chemist, early administrative industrial chemist

Jean Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884), French chemist, work on atomic weights

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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

Mostafa El-Sayed, Egyptian-American physical chemist

Fausto Elhuyar (1755–1833), Spanish chemist, discoverer of tungsten

Conrad Elvehjem (1901–1962), American biochemist, discovered niacin

Harry Julius Emeléus (1903–1993), British inorganic chemist

Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), German chemist

Richard R. Ernst, (born 1933), 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Gerhard Ertl (born 1936), German physical chemist, 2007 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

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Kazimierz Fajans (1887–1975), Polish-American physical chemist

Michael Faraday (1791–1867), chemist and physicist, discovered Benzene

Hermann von Fehling (1812–1885), German chemist

John Bennett Fenn (born 1917), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), Nuclear Chemist and Elementary Particle Physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1938

Hermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919), 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, (actual name Hermann Emil Fischer, see below) not to be confused with:

Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947), German chemist, co-discovered the Fischer-Tropsch process

Ernst Gottfried Fischer (1754–1831), German chemist

Ernst Otto Fischer (1918–2007), German chemist, 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner

Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German organic chemist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner

Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835-1910), German chemist, co-discovered Wurtz–Fittig reaction

Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1775–1809), co-discovered the element Iridium and developed modern chemical notation

Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist

Paul Flory (1910–1985), 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Edward Frankland (1825–1899), English chemist, originated the concept of valence

Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British Chemist and Crystallographer

Herman Frasch (1851–1914), German mining engineer and inventor, pioneered the Frasch process

Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist

Charles Friedel (1832–1899), French chemist, developer of Friedel–Crafts reaction

Alexander Naumovich Frumkin (1895–1976), electrochemist and chemist

Kenichi Fukui (1918–1998), 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Johan Gadolin (1760–1852), Finnish chemist

Merrill Garnett, (born 1930), American biochemist

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), French chemist and physicist, discovered the Gay-Lussac law

Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856), French chemist, synthesized acetylsalicylic acid

William Giauque (1895–1982), 1949 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903), American engineer, chemist and physicist

Walter Gilbert (born 1932), 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henry Gilman (1893-1986), American chemist, discovered the Gilman reagent

Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604–1670), Dutch-German alchemist and chemist

Lawrence E. Glendenin (1918–2008), American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium

Leopold Gmelin (1788–1853), German chemist, discovered potassium ferricyanide.

Theodore Nicolas Gobley (1811–1874), French chemist, pioneer in brain tissues analysis, discoverer of lecithin

Victor Goldschmidt (1888–1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry

Moses Gomberg (1866–1947), Russian-American chemist, known for pioneering work in radical chemistry

David van Goorle also called Gorlaeus, (1591–1612), Dutch chemist, one of the first modern atomists

Carl Gräbe (1841–1927), German chemist, discovered the dye alizarin

Thomas Graham (1805–1869), Scottish chemist, dialysis and diffusion.

Harry B. Gray (born 1935), 2004 Wolf Prize in Chemistry

François Auguste Victor Grignard (1871–1935), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient

Robert H. Grubbs (born 1942), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Fritz Haber (1868–1934), German chemist, 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, father of the Haber process

Otto Hahn (1879–1968), German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission, 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, father of nuclear chemistry

John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), British biochemist

Charles Martin Hall (1863–1914), American chemist, famous for Hall-Héroult process

George S. Hammond (1921–2005), American chemist, famous for Hammond's postulate

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

Herbert A. Hauptman (born 1917), 1985 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Robert Havemann (1910–1982), chemist

Walter Haworth (1883–1950), 1937 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Clayton Heathcock, American chemist

Alan J. Heeger (born 1936), 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Jan Baptist van Helmont (1579–1644), The founder of pneumatic chemistry

Dudley R. Herschbach (1932–), American chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Avram Hershko (born 1937), 2004 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, namesake of Hess's Law

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

Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist, 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Swiss chemist, synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)

August Wilhelm Hofmann (1818–1892), German chemist, first to isolate sorbic acid

Darleane C. Hoffman (born 1926), American Nuclear Chemist

Friedrich Hoffmann (1660–1742), physician and chemist

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

Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947), British biochemist, known for discovery of vitamins, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929

Linda Hsieh-Wilson, American chemist, California Institute of Technology

Heinrich Hubert Maria Josef Houben (1875–1940) 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

Benjamin Hsiao, Asian American chemist at Stony Brook University, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Chemical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Robert Huber (born 1937), 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry

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

Vladimir Ipatieff (1867–1952), Russian-American chemist, known for organic synthesis

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Jabir Ibn Hayyan (722–804), Persian chemist and alchemist

Paul Janssen (1926–2003), Belgian founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica.

Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), French chemist and physicist, 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and physicist, 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), American organic chemist

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Henri B. Kagan (born 1930), 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Jerome Karle (born 1918), 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Paul Karrer (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783–1857)

August Kekulé (1829–1896), German organic chemist

John Kendrew (1917–1997), 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864), Dutch chemist, inventor of Kipp-generator

Johan Kjeldahl (1849–1900), Danish chemist, head chemist at Carlsberg Brewery, methods still in use

Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743–1817), German chemist, discovered the element uranium

Trevor Kletz (born 1922) British promoter of industrial safety

Aaron Klug (born 1926), winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Emil Knoevenagel (1865–1921)

William Standish Knowles, (born 1917), 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Walter Kohn, (born 1923), 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), German chemist known for Kolbe nitrile synthesis

Izaak Kolthoff (1894–1993), Dutch-American chemist, the "Father of Analytical Chemistry"

Roger D. Kornberg (born 1947), 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Hans A. Krebs (1900–1981), German biochemist, work on metabolic cycles

Harold Kroto (born 1939), English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), chemist, physicist, 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Auguste Laurent (1807–1853), French chemist, discovered anthracene

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)

Yuan T. Lee (born 1936), winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1939), French chemist, shared 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Luis Federico Leloir (1906–1987), Argentine biochemist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Raymond Lemieux (1920–2000), 1999 Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875–1946), American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry

Andreas Libavius (1555–1616), German doctor and chemist

Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842–1914), German chemist, known for synthesis of alizarin

Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist, winner of 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), German inventor and pioneer in agricultural and biological chemistry

Karl Paul Link (1901–1978), American biochemist, discovered the anticoagulant warfarin.

William Lipscomb (born 1919), 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912), English surgeon

Arthur H. Livermore (1915–2009), science educator and chemist

Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian scientist, anticipated the kinetic-molecular theory by 100 years

H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, British chemist

Martin Lowry (1874–1936), British chemist

Sima Lozanić (1847–1935), Serbian chemist

Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1802–1882), Polish pharmacist

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Alan MacDiarmid (1927–2007), 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry (1904–1993), Dutch chemist and crystallographer

Roderick MacKinnon (born 1956), 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Pierre Macquer (1718–1784), influential French chemist

Rudolph A. Marcus, (born 1923), 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Jacob A. Marinsky (1918–2005), American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium

Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817–1894), Swiss chemist, discovered ytterbium and co-discovered gadolinium.

Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov (1838–1904)

Tobin J. Marks (1944), American inorganic chemist and material scientist

Alan G. Marshall, American chemist, co-inventor of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry

Archer John Porter Martin (1910–2002), 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Martinus van Marum (1750–1837), Dutch chemist

Elmer McCollum (1879–1967), American biochemist, known for work of diet on health

Edwin McMillan (1907–1991), 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Lise Meitner (1878–1968), German physicist

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907), Russian chemist, creator of the Periodic table of elements

John Mercer (1791–1866), chemist and industrialist

Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921–2006), solid-phase chemist, 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Julius Lothar Meyer (1830–1895),German chemist, important work on The periodic table of elements; not to be confused with:

Viktor Meyer (1848–1897)

August Michaelis (1847–1916), German chemist

Hartmut Michel (born 1948), 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Huang Minglon (1889-1979), Chinese chemist

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

Peter D. Mitchell (1920–1992), 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

William A. Mitchell (1911–2004), key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, and Kool Whip

Eilhardt Mitscherlich (1794–1863) German chemist, remembered for the law of isomorphism.

Alexander Mitscherlich (1836–1918), chemist

Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806–1879), German chemist famous for first musings on the Conservation of energy

Henri Moissan (1852–1907), French chemist and the winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Mario J. Molina, (born 1943), 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Jacques Monod (1910–1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965

Jeffrey S. Moore (born 1961), American material chemist

Peter Moore (born 1939), American biochemist, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University

Stanford Moore (1913–1982), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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

Gerardus Johannes Mulder (1802–1880), Dutch organic chemist

Paul Müller, Swiss chemist, (1899–1965), discovered DDT, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939

Robert S. Mulliken (1896–1986), American physicist, chemist, 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Kary Mullis (born 1944), 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Earl Muetterties (1927–1984) American chemist

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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, 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

John Alexander Reina Newlands (1837–1898), English analytical chemist

William Nicholson (1753–1815), English chemist

Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, American chemist

Julius Nieuwland (1878–1936), American chemist, work on synthetic rubber leading to neoprene

Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897–1978), 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

John Howard Northrop (1891–1987), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Ryōji Noyori (born 1938), 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Ralph Nuzzo, American chemist and materials scientists

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George Andrew Olah (born 1927), 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Fred Olsen (1891–1986), inventor of the ball propellant manufacturing process

Lars Onsager (1903–1976), physical chemist, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Tony Orchard (1941–2005), British inorganic chemist, photoelectron spectroscopist

Joan Oró (1923–2004), Catalan biochemist, one of his most important contributions was the prebiotic synthesis of the nucleobase adenine from hydrogen cyanide.

Hans Christian Ørsted, First to isolate aluminium

Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932), 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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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, father of pasteurization

Linus Pauling (1901–1994), Nobel Prizes in chemistry and peace

Charles J. Pedersen (1904–1989), 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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

Max Perutz (1914–2002), 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Eva Philbin (1914–2005), Irish chemist

David Andrew Phoenix (born 1966), Biochemist

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

George Porter (1920–2002), 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Fritz Pregl (1869–1930), Slovene-German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923.

Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998), 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), no formal training as a scientist, discovered the element oxygen

Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003), 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Joseph Louis Proust (1754–1826), discovered the Law of definite proportions

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, (born 1952), 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

William Ramsay (1852–1916), Scottish chemist, 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

François-Marie Raoult (1830–1901), French chemist, known for Raoult's law

Henry Rapoport, American chemist, UC Berkeley

William Sage Rapson, South African chemist and co-author of Gold Usage

Ken Raymond, American inorganic and bioinorganic chemist, UC Berkeley

Julius Rebek (1944), Hungarian American chemist.

Charles Lee Reese (1862–1940) American chemist and Chemical Director of DuPont

Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French chemist and physicist

Tadeus Reichstein (1897–1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Bahram Resul, Kurdish chemist, inventor of Latanoprost

Rhazes (Razi), Iranian Chemist (865–925)

Stuart A. Rice (born 1932), physical chemist

Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist.

Theodore William Richards (1868–1928), 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Wim Richter, South Africa

Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762–1807), German chemist, first used the term stoichiometry

Nikolaus Riehl, Germany (1901–1990)

Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), Spanish-Mexican geochemist, discovered vanadium

Robert Robinson (1886–1975), 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Pierre Jean Robiquet (1780–1840), French chemist, discovered caffeine, alizarin, cantharidin

Hillar Rootare (1928) Estonian-American physical chemist

Irwin Rose (born 1926), 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Guillaume-François Rouelle (1703–1770), French chemist

H. M. Rouell (1718–1779), French chemist

Frank Sherwood Rowland (born 1927), 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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

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Paul Sabatier (1854–1941), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient

Frederick Sanger (born 1918), 1958 and 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), Swedish 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements

Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799–1868), German-Swiss chemist, invented the fuel cell, and discovered gun cotton and ozone.

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

Peter Schultz, American chemist

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

K. Barry Sharpless, (born 1941), 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Dan Shechtman (born 1941) 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discovered quasicrystals.

Patsy O. Sherman (born 1930), 12 US Patents

Nevil Vincent Sidgwick (1873–1952), English theoretical chemist, known for work in valency

Osamu Shimomura (born 1928), 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Hideki Shirakawa (born 1936), 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Alexander Shulgin (born 1925), Pioneer researcher in Psychopharmacology and Entheogens

Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (1897–1994), Pakistani chemist, pioneer in natural products chemistry

Oktay Sinanoglu (born 1935), Turkish chemist

Jens Christian Skou (born 1918), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Richard Smalley (1943–2005), 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Michael Smith (1932–2000), 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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

Gabor A. Somorjai (born 1935), 1998 Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Georg Ernst Stahl (1659–1734), Important work on fermentation

Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904–1971), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Jean Servais Stas (1813–1891), Belgian analytical chemist

Branko Stanovnik (born 1938), chemist.

Hermann Staudinger (1881–1965), polymer chemist, 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Harry Steenbock (1886–1967), American biochemist, work on ultra violet irradiation.

William Howard Stein (1911–1980), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Thomas A. Steitz (born 1940), 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Alfred Stock (1876–1946), German inorganic chemist, known for work in mercury poisoning

Fraser Stoddart, (born 1945), Scottish chemist, a pioneer in the field of the mechanical bond

F. Gordon A. Stone (1925–2011), British inorganic chemist

S. Donald Stookey (born 1915), American glass and ceramic chemist

Gilbert Stork (born 1921), 1995/6 Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), German organic chemist, principal founder of chemical structure

James B. Sumner (1887–1955), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Edwin Sutermeister, American chemist, known for its work on papermaking

Theodor Svedberg (1884–1971), 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Joseph Swan (1828–1914), English physicist, chemist & inventor

Frédéric Swarts (1866–1940), Belgian chemist, prepared the first chlorofluorocarbon compound

Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914–1994), 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Koichi Tanaka (born 1959), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henry Taube (1915–2005), 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Louis Jacques Thénard (1777–1857), French chemist, discovered hydrogen peroxide and Thenard's Blue.

Sir Harold Warris Thompson (1908–1983), English physical chemist

J. J. Thomson (1856–1940), British physicist, Known in chemistry for discovery of isotopes

Arne Tiselius (1902–1971), 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Max Tishler (1906–1989), 1970 Priestley Medal

Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd (1907–1997), 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and chemist who invented the Barometer, pupil of Galileo

Roger Y. Tsien (1952-2016), 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Mikhail Tsvet (1872–1919), Russian botanist, known for adsorption chromatography

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Georges Urbain (1872–1938), French chemist, discovered the element lutetium

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

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Lauri Vaska (born 1925), Estonian/American chemist

Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763–1829), Discovered the elements beryllium and chromium

Vincent du Vigneaud (1901–1978), 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895–1973), chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Max Volmer, Germany (1885–1965)

Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), electrochemist, invented the voltaic cell

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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

Otto Wallach (1847–1931), German chemist, 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

John Warner (born 1966), American chemist, 2014 Perkin Medal, one of the "founders" of green chemistry

Alfred Werner (1866–1919), Swiss chemist, 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Thomas Summers West (1927–2010), British analytical chemist.

Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997)

Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952), Russian chemist, developed the ABE-process

George M. Whitesides (born 1939), American chemist

John Rex Whinfield (1901–1966), British chemist, discovered polyester fibres

Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957) German chemist 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Julius Wilbrand, inventor of TNT

Harvey W. Wiley (1844–1930), United States chemist, Pure food & drug advocate

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996), 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Alexander William Williamson, English chemist, famous for Williamson ether synthesis

Thomas Willson (1860–1915), Canadian chemist, discovered an economically efficient process for creating calcium carbide

Richard Willstätter (1872–1942), 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (1876–1959), 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Günter Wirths, Germany

Georg Wittig (1897–1987), 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea.

William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), English chemist, discovered the elements palladium and rhodium

Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Charles de Worms (1903-1979)

Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884), Alsatian French chemist, discovered the Wurtz reaction

Kurt Wüthrich (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (born 1962), chemist at Harvard University. A pioneer in the field of Single Molecule Microscopy and CARS (Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy) microscopy.

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Ada Yonath (born 1939), 2006/7 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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

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Richard Zare (born 1939), 2005 Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Ahmed H. Zewail (1946-2016), Egyptian, 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.

Karl Ziegler (1898–1973), 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865–1929), 1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Chemists famous in other areas

Xi Jinping (born 1953), General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of China

Marion Barry (born 1936), Masters in Organic Chemistry, American politician

Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), Russian chemist & composer

Jerry Buss (born 1934, died 2013), PhD in Physical Chemistry, owner of the NBA LA Lakers and other sports franchises

Emmanuel Dongala (born 1941), Congolese chemist and novelist

Dolph Lundgren (born 1957), Masters in Chemistry, Swedish actor

Primo Levi (1919–1987), resistance fighter, chemist and novelist

Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian chemist, historian, philologist, and poet.

Angela Merkel (born 1954), Doctorate in Quantum Chemistry, Chancellor of Germany (2005–present)

Gaspard Monge (1746–1818), invented descriptive geometry

Francis Muguet (1955–2009), advocate of open information access

Edward W. Morley (1838–1923), performed the Michelson–Morley experiment

Knute Rockne (1888–1931), head football coach of Notre Dame

Elio Di Rupo (born 1951), Prime Minister of Belgium

Israel Shahak (1933–2001)

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990), Research chemist at BX Plastics