Chemistry in History

People

A

Acheson, Edward Goodrich (1856–1931)
Arrhenius, Svante August (1859–1927)
Avogadro, Amedeo (1776–1856)

B

Baekeland, Leo Hendrik (1863–1944)
Barton, Jacqueline K. (1952– )
Beckman, Arnold O. (1900–2004)
Benerito, Ruth (1916– )
Benesch, Reinhold (1919–1986)
Benesch, Ruth Erica (1925–2000)
Berkowitz, Joan (1931– )
Bertozzi, Carolyn (1966– )
Berzelius, Jöns Jakob (1779–1848)
Boyle, Robert (1627–1691)
Brierley, James A. (1938– )
Brierley, Corale L. (1945– )
Bunsen, Robert (1811–1899)
Burns, Stephanie (1955– )

C

Campbell, Walter G. (1877–1963)
Cannizzaro, Stanislao (1826–1910)
Carothers, Wallace Hume (1896–1937)
Carson, Rachel (1907–1964)
Chandler, Charles F. (1836–1925)
Chowdhry, Uma (1947– )
Cohn, Mildred (1913–2009)
Cori, Carl Ferdinand (1896–1984)
Cori, Gerty Theresa (1896–1957)
Cottrell, Frederick Gardner (1877–1948)
Couper, Archibald Scott (1831–1892)
Crick, Francis (1916–2004)
Curie, Marie Sklodowska (1867–1934)
Curme, George O. (1888–1976)

D

Dalton, John (1766–1844)
Daly, Marie Maynard (1921–2003)
Davis, George E. (1850–1906)
Davy, Humphry (1778–1829)
Dorman, Linneaus C. (1935– )
Dow, Herbert Henry (1866–1930)
du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée (1771–1834)

E

Edwards, Cecile Hoover (1926– )
Emerson, Gladys L. A. (1903–1984)

F

Faraday, Michael (1791–1867)
Fischer, Emil (1852–1919)
Flory, Paul (1910–1985)
Franklin (1920–1958)

G

Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (1778–1850)

H

Haber, Fritz (1868–1934)
Hach-Darrow, Clifford C. (1919–1990)
Hach-Darrow, Kathryn (b. 1922)
Hahn, Otto (1879–1968)
Hall, Charles M.  (1863–1914)
Hall, Julia Brainerd (1859–1925)
Hamilton, Alice (1869–1970)
Héroult, Paul (1863–1914)
Hill, Henry Aaron (1915–1979)
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot (1910–1994)
Hoffman, Darleane (1926– )
Houdry, Eugene (1892–1962)

I

J

Jeanes, Allene Rosalind (1906–1995)
Joliot, Frédéric (1900–1958)
Joliot-Curie, Irène (1897–1956)
Julian, Percy Lavon (1899–1975)

K

Kekulé von Stradonitz, August (1829–1896)
Kelsey, Frances Oldham (1914– )
Kiessling, Laura (1960– )
Kirchhoff, Gustav (1824–1887)
Klinman, Judith P. (1941– )
Kwolek, Stephanie L. (1923– )

L

Landau, Ralph (1916–2004)
Langer, Robert S. (1948– )
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent (1743–1794)
Lewis, Gilbert Newton (1875–1946)
Lewis, Warren K. (1882–1975)
Liebig, Justus von (1803–1873)
Linde, Carl von (1842–1934)
Little, Arthur D. (1863–1935)
Lloyd (1839–1900)

M

Mark, Herman Francis (1895–1992)
Marvel, Carl Shipp (1894–1988)
McKeen, John Elmer (1903–1978)
Meitner, Lise (1878–1968)
Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich (1834–1907)
Menten, Maud Leonora (1879–1960)
Meyer, Julius Lothar (1830–1895)
Michaelis, Leonor (1875–1949)
Michel, Helen Vaughn (1932– )
Molina, Mario (1943– )

N

Natta, Giulio (1903–1979)
Nobel, Alfred (1833–1896)

O

Othmer, Donald F. (1904–1995)

P

Pauling, Linus Carl (1901–1994)
Pennington, Mary Engle (1872–1952)
Perkin, William Henry (1838–1907)
Plunkett, Roy J. (1910–1994)
Priestley (1733–1804)

Q

R

Ramsay, William (1852–1916)
Richards, Ellen H. Swallow (1842–1911)
Richards, Theodore William (1868–1928)
Richardson, Jane S. (1941– )
Rutherford, Ernest (1871–1937)

S

Seaborg, Glenn (1912–1999)
Sinfelt, John H. (1931– )
Singer, Maxine (1931– )
Solomon, Susan (1956– )
Sørensen, Søren (1868–1939)
Staudinger, Hermann (1881–1965)
Strassmann, Fritz (1902–1980)
Szent-Györgyi, Albert (1893–1986)

T

Taylor, Kathleen C. (1942– )
Taylor, Susan S. (1942– )
Thomson, Joseph John (1856–1940)

U

V

van’t Hoff, Jacobus Henricus (1852–1911)

W

Walker, William H. (1869–1934)
Watson, James (1928– )
Weisz, Paul B. (1919– )
Wiley, Harvey Washington (1844–1930)
Wilkins, Maurice (1916–2004)
Williams, Robert R. (1886–1965)
Wöhler, Friedrich (1800–1882)
Woodward, Robert Burns (1917–1979)

XYZ

Ziegler, Karl (1898-1973)

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