List of chemists

Ab–An • Richard Abegg (1869–1910), German chemist, pioneer of valence theory • Frederick Abel (1827–1902), English chemist, inventor of cordite • 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 (born 1949), American chemist and doctor, known for aquaporin water channels, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), German scholar known as "the father of mineralogy" • Natalie Ahn (PhD 1985), American chemist working on mechanisms of cell signaling • Arthur Aikin (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist, a founding member of the Chemical Society • Adrien Albert (1907–1989), Australian medicinal chemist who studied the links between physico-chemical properties and biological effect of drugs • John Albery (1936–2013), English physical chemist who studied electrochemistry, proton transfer and isotope effects • Kurt Alder (1902–1958), German chemist known for the Diels–Alder reaction, 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Jerome Alexander (1876–1959), American expert on the chemistry of colloids • Ivan Alimarin (1903-1989), Soviet chemist, one of the leaders of analytical chemistry in 20's century • Elmer Lucille Allen (born 1931), American chemist and ceramic artist • Heather C. Allen (born 1960), American chemist who works on interfacial phenomena • Adah Almutairi (born 1976), American chemist known for nanomedicine and nanotechnology • Sidney Altman (1939–2022), Canadian-American biologist known for catalytic RNA, 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Faiza Al-Kharafi (born 1946), Kuwaiti chemist, academic and the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East • Lisa Alvarez-Cohen (PhD 1991), American chemist concerned with microbial degradation of environmental contaminants An–Av • Gloria Long Anderson (born 1938), American chemist, pioneer of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy • Christian B. Anfinsen (1916–1995), American chemist known for work on ribonuclease, 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Andrea Angel (1877–1917), English chemist known for work on explosives • Angelo Angeli (1864–1931), Italian chemist who studied nitrogen compounds such as hydrazoic acid • Octavio Augusto Ceva Antunes (died 2009), Brazilian chemist, consultant for the production of anti-HIV drugs • Anthony Joseph Arduengo, III (born 1952), American chemist known for chemical compounds with unusual valency • Johan August Arfwedson (1792–1841), Swedish chemist who discovered lithium • Anton Eduard van Arkel (1893–1976), Dutch chemist who developed a method for preparing pure titanium and other metals • Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927), Swedish chemist, one of the founders of physical chemistry, he used physical chemistry to estimate the effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide the Earth's increasing surface temperature; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1903 • Valerie Ashby (born 1965/1966), American chemist known for work on functionalized diene monomers and polymers • Barbara Askins (born 1939), American chemist known for inventing a method to enhance underexposed photographic negatives • Larned B. Asprey (1919–2005), American nuclear chemist known for actinide, lanthanide, rare-earth and fluorine chemistry • Alán Aspuru-Guzik (born 1976), Mexican computational chemist known for variational quantum eigensolver • Francis William Aston (1877–1945), British chemist and physicist known for mass spectroscopy, 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Bengt Aurivillius (1918–1994), Swedish chemist known for his research in metal and mixed oxides. • Karin Aurivillius (1920–1982), Swedish chemist who determined the crystal structures of many mercury compounds • Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), Italian chemist and physicist, discovered Avogadro's law as a copmponent of noted for his contribution to molecular theory ==B==

Bab–Bar • Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843–1931), American agricultural chemist worked on the "single-grain experiment" • Myrtle Bachelder (1908–1997), American chemist noted for work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb, and for work on metal chemistry • Werner Emmanuel Bachmann (1901–1951), American chemist, known for work in steroids and RDX • Simone Badal-McCreath (21st century), Jamaican chemist who created prostate and breast cancer cell lines • Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgian-American chemist known for invention of bakelite • Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917), German chemist, 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, synthesis of indigo • Piero Baglioni (born 1952), Italian chemist known for inorganic and organic colloids • Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom (1854–1907), Dutch chemist who studied phase behaviour in physical chemistry • Alice Ball (1892–1916), American chemist known for inventing an effective injectable treatment for leprosy • Emily Balskus (born 1980), American chemist and microbiologist known for work on the human microbiome • Zhenan Bao (born 1970), Chinese chemist known for developing technologies with organic field-effect transistors and organic semiconductors • Phil S. Baran (born 1977), American chemist known for synthesis, novel reactions and reagents • Coral Barbas (PhD 1989), Spanish chemist known for research on metabolomics and integration of chemical data • Allen J. Bard (1933–2024), American chemist known for development of the scanning electrochemical microscope, Wolf Prize in Chemistry • Vincenzo Barone (born 1952), Italian chemist working in theoretical and computational chemistry • Neil Bartlett (1932–2008), English/Canadian/American chemist known for creating the first noble-gas compound • Sir Derek Barton (1918–1998), 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry" Bas–Ben • Fred Basolo (1920–2007), American chemist known for the mechanisms of inorganic reactions • Esther Batchelder (1897–1987), American chemist, educator and specialist in nutrition • Sir Alan Battersby (1925–2018), English organic chemist known for work on biosynthetic pathways • Antoine Baumé (1728–1804), French chemist, inventor of the Baumé scale hydrometer for measuring the density of liquids • Karl Bayer (1847–1904), Austrian chemist who invented the Bayer process of extracting alumina from bauxite • Johann Joachim Becher (1635–1682), German who 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 stereochemistry addressing the relationship between molecular structure and optical activity • Angela Belcher (PhD 1997), American chemist, materials scientist, and biological engineer • Irina Beletskaya (born 1933), Russian organometallic chemist known for studies on aromatic reaction mechanisms • R. P. (Ronnie) Bell (1907–1996), English physical chemist known in particular for The Proton in Chemistry • Andrey Belozersky (1905–1972), Soviet biologist and biochemist, pioneer of molecular biology and the chemistry of nucelic acids • Ruth R. Benerito (1916–2013), American chemist known for inventions relating to textiles, including wash-and-wear cotton fabrics Ber–Bla • Paul Berg (1926–2023), American biochemist known for research on nucleic acids, especially recombinant DNA, 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), German chemist known for known for production of synthetic fuel from coal, 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Helen M. Berman (born 1943), American chemist who worked on structural analysis of protein-nucleic acid complexes • Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907), French chemist, a prominent anti-vitalist who synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substances, and developed thermochemistry • Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), French chemist who developed the theory of chemical equilibria • Carolyn R. Bertozzi (born 1966) American chemist who studies chemical reactions compatible with living systems ("bioorthogonal chemistry"), 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Guy Bertrand (born 1952) French chemist working on carbenes, nitrenes, phosphinidenes, radicals and biradicals • Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848), Swedish chemist who discovered several elements • Johannes Martin Bijvoet (1892–1980), Dutch chemist and crystallographer who determined the absolute configuration of sodium rubidium tartrate • Leonora Bilger (1893–1975), American chemist who studied nitrogenous compounds • Katherine Bitting (1869–1937), Canadian and American food chemist for the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Canners Association • Joseph Black (1728–1799), British chemist known for discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide Blo–Bou • Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979), American surface chemist and physicist and inventor of nonreflective glass • Suzanne Blum (born 1978), American chemist developing single-molecule and single-particle fluorescence microscopy • Katharine Blunt (1876–1954), American chemist and nutritionist focusing on home economics, food chemistry and nutrition • Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) Dutch chemist, botanist, Christian humanist & physician, first to isolate urea from urine • Kristie Boering (born 1963), American chemist and planetary scientist studying atmospheric chemistry and mass transport in the extraterrestrial atmosphere • Alexei Bogdanov (born 1935), Soviet and Russian biochemist and molecular biologist known for fundamental contributions to ribosome structure and function, nucleic acid-protein interactions, and protein biosynthesis mechanisms. • Olga Bogdanova (1896–1982), Soviet chemist who specialized in organic catalysis • Dale L. Boger (born 1953), American chemist working on natural product synthesis, synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, and combinatorial chemistry • Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838–1912), French chemist who discovered gallium, samarium and dysprosium • Jan Boldingh (1915–2003), Dutch chemist known for new analytic techniques such as gas-chromatography and others • Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), Russian chemist and composer. As a chemist he is known best for his work on organic synthesis, including discovery of the aldol reaction • Hans-Joachim Born (1909–1987), German radiochemist who participated in the Soviet nuclear weapons programme • Carl Bosch (1872–1940), German chemist, pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991 • Octave Leopold Boudouard (1872–1923), French chemist who discovered the Boudouard reaction: combination of carbon and carbon dioxide to form carbon monoxide at high temperatures • Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802–1887), French chemist with work in agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy Bow–Bro • E. J. Bowen (1898–1980), English physical chemist known for research into fluorescence • Humphry Bowen (1929–2001), English analytical chemist known for radioisotopes and trace elements • Paul D. Boyer (1918–2018), American biochemist known for studying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Robert Boyle (1627–1691), Irish-English pioneer of modern chemistry, best known for Boyle's law • Henri Braconnot (1780–1855), French chemist who worked on plant chemistry and discovered chitin and pectin • Henning Brand (c. 1630–c.1692 or c. 1710), German alchemist, who accidentally discovered phosphorus while searching for the "philosopher's stone" • Mary Bidwell Breed (1870–1949), American chemist focusing on aromatic acids and the atomic mass of palladium • Ronald Breslow (1931–2017), American organic chemist who designed and synthesized new molecules with interesting properties, such as the cyclopropenyl cation • Alan Brisdon (21st century), British chemist known for Inorganic Spectroscopic Methods • Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (1879–1947), Danish chemist known for work on reaction kinetics, especially acid–base reactions • Herbert C. Brown (1912–2004), American chemist known for work on organoboranes, 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Jeannette Brown (born 1934), American organic medicinal chemist, historian, and author, known for research on drug development targeting tuberculosis and coccidiosis • Jeanette Grasselli Brown (1928–2025), American analytical chemist and spectroscopist • Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980), American chemist who co-developed the first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin Buc–But • Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), German chemist who sounded the death knell of vitalism by discovering cell-free fermentation, 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Stephen L. Buchwald (born 1955), American organic chemist, co-discoverer of palladium-catalyzed C–N bond formation Buchwald–Hartwig amination • Mary Van Rensselaer Buell (1893–1969), American chemist who worked on nucleic acids and nucleotides, the relation of hormones to the metabolism of carbohydrates, and other topics in biochemistry • Kathryn Bullock (1945–2021), American chemist who co-developed valve-regulated lead-acid batteries • Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist, discovered the elements caesium and rubidium with Gustav Kirchhoff and invented the Bunsen burner • Jeanne Burbank (1915–2002), American chemist who developed lead-acid and silver-zinc batteries for submarines at the United States Naval Research Laboratory • Stephanie Burns (born 1955), American organosilicon chemist and past honorary president of Society of Chemical Industry • William Merriam Burton (1865–1954), American chemist, developed the first thermal cracking process for crude oil • Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995), German biochemist, 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "work on sex hormones" • Alison Butler (PhD 1982), American bioinorganic chemist and metallobiochemist • Aleksandr Butlerov (1828–1886), Russian chemist, one of the creators of the theory of chemical structure, who discovered the formose reaction ==C==

Ca • Mary Letitia Caldwell (1890–1972), American chemist who developed a method for purifying crystalline porcine pancreatic amylase • Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Allison A. Campbell (born 1963), American chemist studying biomineralization, biomimetics and biomaterials • Constantin Cândea (1887–1971), Romanian analytical chemist who studied methods of separating metals • Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910), Italian chemist, postulated the Cannizzaro reaction • María Luz Cárdenas (born 1944). Chilean-French enzymologist known for work on mammalian hexokinases. • Heinrich Caro (1834–1910), German chemist who developed a synthesis for aniline red and other dyes • Wallace Carothers (1896–1937), American chemist, known for the discovery of nylon • Emma P. Carr (1880–1972), American chemist known for work on unsaturated hydrocarbons and absorption spectra • Marjorie Constance Caserio (1929–2021), American chemist, known for Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry, winner of the Garvan Medal • Marta Catellani (PhD 1971), Italian chemist working on palladium as a catalyst for multistep organic reactions, who discovered the Catellani reaction • Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist noted for the discovery of hydrogen Ce–Ci • Thomas Cech (born 1947), American biochemist, 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of catalytic RNA • Martin Chalfie (born 1947), American scientist, 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the green fluorescent protein • Christopher Chang (born 1974) American chemist known for molecular imaging sensors as applied to neuroscience and immunology, metal catalysts for renewable energy cycles, and green chemistry • Michelle Chang (born 1977), American chemist known for work on biosynthesis of biofuels and pharmaceuticals • Yves Chauvin (1930–2015), French chemist, 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for deciphering the process of olefin metathesis • Michel Eugėne Chevreul (1786–1889), French chemist, the first scientist to define the concept of a chemical compound and to formally characterize the nature of organic compounds • Christine S. Chow (PhD 1992), American chemist who uses fluorescence spectroscopy and mass spectrometry to study drug-RNA interactions • Aaron Ciechanover (born 1947), Israeli biologist, 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on ubiquitination • Giacomo Luigi Ciamician (1857–1922) Italian chemist, pioneer in photochemistry and green chemistry, and the earliest to anticipate artificial photosynthesis Cl–Cor • G. Marius Clore FRS (born 1955), American chemist, known for foundational work in three-dimensional protein and nucleic acid structure determination by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy • Edward L. Cochran (born 1929), American chemist, known for pioneering studies on the nature of free radicals • Ernst Cohen (1869–1944 Auschwitz), Dutch chemist known for work on the allotropy of metals) • Mildred Cohn (1913–2009), American chemist, a pioneer in the applying nuclear magnetic resonance to enzyme reactions, particularly reactions of adenosine triphosphate • David Collison (PhD 1980), British chemist known for development of electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy • Vicki Colvin (born 1965), American chemist known for work on the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials • James Bryant Conant (1893–1978), American organic chemist who explored the complex relationship between chemical equilibrium and the reaction rate of chemical processes, Priestley Medal 1944 • Elias James Corey (born 1928), American organic chemist, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the theory and methodology of organic synthesis, specifically retrosynthetic analysis • Robert Corey (1897–1971), American biochemist known for co-discovery of the α-helix and the β-sheet • Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984), Czech biochemist, Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 1947 for discovering how glycogen is broken down and resynthesized • Gerty Cori (1896–1957), American biochemist, Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 1947 for discovering how glycogen is broken down and resynthesized • John Cornforth (1917–2013), Australian-British chemist, 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions • Athel Cornish-Bowden (born 1943). British and French enzymologist known for enzyme kns, hexokinases, and metabolic control analysis • Charles D. Coryell (1912–1971), American chemist who worked on hemoglobin structure and co-discovered the element promethium Cot–Cz • Frank Albert Cotton (1930–2007), American chemist known for research on transition metals and as coauthor of Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 2000 Wolf Prize in Chemistry • Charles Coulson (1910–1974), British theoretical chemist, pioneer of the application of quantum theory to problems of molecular structure • Archibald Scott Couper (1831–1892), British chemist who developed the concept of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules • James Crafts (1839–1917), American chemist, developer of Friedel–Crafts reaction for alkylation and acylation • Donald J. Cram (1919–2001), American chemist, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity • William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist who discovered thallium, and was a pioneer of vacuum tubes • Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922), Scottish organic chemist who developed the concept of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules • Paul J. Crutzen (1933–2021), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on atmospheric chemistry, especially in relation to ozone • Ana Maria Cuervo (born 1966), Spanish-American physician, researcher, and cell biologist, best known for work on autophagy • Marie Curie (1867–1934), Polish and French radiation physicist, discovered the elements radium and polonium, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Pierre Curie (1859–1906), French physicist and chemist, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on radioactivity • Robert Curl (1933–2022), American chemist, winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of the fullerene class of materials • Theodor Curtius (1857–1928), German chemist known for the Curtius rearrangement, and also discovery of diazoacetic acid, hydrazine and hydrazoic acid • Anthony Czarnik (born 1957), American chemist and inventor known for work on fluorescent chemosensors • Emil Czyrniański (1824–1888), Polish chemist, known for developing chemical nomenclature in Polish ==D==

Da–Di • Jeff Dahn (born 1957), Canadian materials chemist noted for significant contributions to lithium-ion batteries • John Dalton (1766–1844), British chemist, physicist and meteorologist, whose work laid the foundations of modern atomic theory and stoichiometric chemistry • Marie Maynard Daly (1921–2003), American biochemist who studied the chemistry of histones, protein synthesis, the relationships between cholesterol and hypertension, and uptake of creatine by muscle cells • Carl Peter Henrik Dam (1895–1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology • Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936), American organic chemist, natural product total synthesis, 1995/6 Wolf Prize in Chemistry • Raymond Davis, Jr. (1914–2006), American physicist and chemist who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting neutrinos emitted from the Sun • Humphry Davy (1778–1829), British chemist, discovered several alkaline earth metals • Serena DeBeer (born 1973), American chemist known for developing X-ray based spectroscopic probes of electronic structure • Peter Debye (1884–1966), Dutch chemist who improved the theory of electrical conductivity in electrolyte solutions, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Johann Deisenhofer (born 1943), German biochemist who determined the three-dimensional structure of a protein complex found in photosynthetic bacteria, 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Margarita del Val (born 1959), Spanish chemist, immunologist, and virologist, coordinator of the Salud Global ("Global Health") platform • Nathalie Demassieux (1884–1961), French mineral chemist and academic who worked on the complex halogenated salts of lead • Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju (born 1952), Indian chemist known for work on crystal engineering and weak hydrogen bonds • James Dewar (1842–1923), British chemist and physicist known for his invention of the vacuum flask and its usefor studying the liquefaction of gases • François Diederich (1952–2020), Luxembourg chemist known for molecular recognition studies with biological receptors • Otto Diels (1876–1954), German chemist, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for cyclohexene synthesis • Robert Dirks (1978–2015), American computational chemist known for work on DNA nanotechnology Do–Dy • Martha Doan (1872–1960), American chemist who studied thallium compounds • William von Eggers Doering (1917–2011), American chemist known for the total synthesis of quinine • Edward Doisy (1893–1986), American biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine • Davorin Dolar (1921–2005), Slovenian physical chemist who studied polyelectrolyte solutions, and is regarded as a founder of modern physical chemistry teaching in Slovenia • Vy Maria Dong (born 1976), American chemist who studies enantioselective catalysis and natural product synthesis • David Adriaan van Dorp (1915–1995), Dutch chemist known for the first full synthesis of vitamin A • Israel Dostrovsky (1918–2010), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli physical chemist known for separating oxygen isotopes in water • Herbert Henry Dow (1866–1930), American industrial chemist, known for bromine extraction • Cornelius Drebbel (1572–1633), Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist who contributed to develop measurement and control systems, optics and chemistry • Jean Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884), French chemist, best known for the determination of atomic and molecular masses weights by measuring vapor densities • Helen Dyer (1895–1998), American biochemist and early cancer researcher known for studies of carcinogenesis mechanisms ==E==

• Sandra Eaton (PhD 1972), American chemist notable for work on electron paramagnetic resonance • John Tileston Edsall (1902–2002), American protein chemist, and co-author of Proteins, Amino Acids and Peptides • Eilaf Egap (21st century), American chemist who works on imaging techniques and biomaterials for early diagnostics and drug delivery • Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German chemist, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for contributions to immunology • Arthur Eichengrün (1867–1949), German chemist known for developing the anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol • Manfred Eigen (1927–2019), German chemist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions • Mostafa El-Sayed (born 1933), Egyptian-American physical chemist known for the El-Sayed rule in spectroscopy • Fausto Elhuyar (1755–1833), Spanish chemist, the first to isolate tungsten • Lorne Elias (PhD 1956), Canadian chemist, inventor of the explosives vapour detector EVD-1 • Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for innovative methods of rational drug design • Conrad Elvehjem (1901–1962), American biochemist who identified two vitamins, nicotinic acid (niacin) and nicotinamide • Harry Julius Emeléus (1903–1993), British inorganic chemist known for work on fluorine chemistry • Gladys Anderson Emerson (1903–1984), American chemist and early nutritionist, and the first person to isolate Vitamin E • Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), German chemist known for the early development of the theory of chemical structure and formulating the Erlenmeyer rule. • Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021), Swiss physical chemist, 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy • Gerhard Ertl (born 1936), German physical chemist who laid the foundation of modern surface chemistry, 2007 Nobel prize in chemistry • Margaret C. Etter (1943–1992), American chemist and developer of solid state chemistry for crystalline organic compounds • Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873–1964), Swedish chemist, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the fermentation of sugar and enzymes • Henry Eyring (1901–1981), Mexico-born American theoretical chemist known for the absolute rate theory of chemical reactions ==F==

Fa–Fi • Kazimierz Fajans (1887–1975), Polish-American physical chemist, who worked on radioactivity and co-discovered protactinium • Michael Faraday (1791–1867), British chemist and physicist who discovered include the principles of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis • Hermann von Fehling (1812–1885), German chemist who developed use of Fehling's solution for estimation of sugar • John Bennett Fenn (1917–2010), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in mass spectrometry • Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), Nuclear chemist and elementary particle physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 • Louis Fieser (1899–1977), American chemist who work on blood-clotting agents including the first synthesis of vitamin K, and was the author of numerous textbooks • Mary Peters Fieser (1909–1997), American chemist who worked on quinones and steroids, and was co-author of chemistry books • Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts (PhD 1973), Canadian-American chemist who works on the chemistry of the upper and lower atmosphere • Emil Fischer (1852–1919), 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, known for work on stereochemistry and for the lock and key mechanism of enzyme action • Emily V. Fischer (born 1979/1980), American chemist notable for work on the WE-CAN project and on peroxyacetyl nitrate • Ernst Gottfried Fischer (1754–1831), German chemist who proposed a system of equivalents based on sulfuric acid equal to 1000 • Ernst Otto Fischer (1918–2007), German chemist, 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering work on organometallic chemistry • Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947), German chemist, co-discovered the Fischer–Tropsch process • Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German organic chemist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll • Nellie Ivy Fisher (1907–1995), London-born industrial chemist known for photographic chemistry • Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835–1910), German chemist, co-discovered Wurtz–Fittig reaction Fl–Fu • Edith M. Flanigen (born 1929), American chemist known for synthesizing emeralds and zeolites • Nicolas Flamel (c. 1330–1418), French alchemist who was believed to have created and discovered the philosopher's stone • Paul Flory (1910–1985), American chemist, 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the physical chemistry of macromolecules • Maria Forsyth (PhD 1990), Australian chemist known for work on energy storage and on corrosion • Margaret D. Foster (1895–1970), Manhattan Project chemist and the first female chemist to work for the United States Geological Survey • Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1775–1809), co-discovered the element Iridium and developed modern chemical notation • Joanna Fowler (born 1942), American neural chemist who studied effects on the human brain and radiotracers in brain chemistry • Michelle Francl (PhD 1983), American computational chemist known for the 6-31G* basis set for Na to Ar and electrostatic potential charges • Edward Frankland (1825–1899), English chemist, one of the originators of organometallic chemistry who introduced the concept of valence • Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British chemist and crystallographer whose work was central to understanding the molecular structure of DNA • Katherine Franz (born 1972), American chemist noted for work in metal ion coordination in biological systems • Herman Frasch (1851–1914), German mining engineer and inventor, pioneered the Frasch process • Bertram Fraser-Reid (1934–2020), Jamaican synthetic organic chemist who developed the armed-disarmed principle in glycosylation chemistry • Helen Murray Free (1923–2021), American chemist who developed self-testing systems for diabetes • Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist known for work in analytical chemistry • Ida Freund (1863–1914), British chemist known for texts on chemistry teaching, andy first woman university chemistry lecturer in the UK • Charles Friedel (1832–1899), French chemist, developer of Friedel–Crafts reaction • Alexander Naumovich Frumkin (1895–1976), electrochemist and chemist who develped applied electrochemical processes related to chemical sources of electrical power • Kenichi Fukui (1918–1998), 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for investigating mechanisms of chemical reactions • Elizabeth Fulhame (18th–19th centuries), British chemist, pioneer in the study of catalysis and discoverer of photoreduction • Vera Furness (1921–2002), English chemist and industrial manager who worked on the production of the acrylic Courtelle ==G==

Ga–Gl • Johan Gadolin (1760–1852), Finnish chemist who discvered yttrium • Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), French chemist and physicist who discovered the Gay-Lussac law, known for discovering that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen by volume • Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856), French chemist known for reforming the notation for chemical formulas, and for synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) • Jnan Chandra Ghosh (1894–1959), Indian chemist known for research on strong electrolytes and the dissociation--ionization theory • William Giauque (1895–1982), 1949 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero • Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903), American chemist and physicist whose work on thermodynamics helped to transform physical chemistry into a rigorous deductive science • Walter Gilbert (born 1932), 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a method of sequencing nucleic acids • Cornelia Gillyard (born 1941), American organic chemist known for work with chemicals in the environment • Henry Gilman (1893–1986), American chemist who developed organometallic chemistry, and discovered the Gilman reagent • Judith Giordan (Thesis 1980), American chemist who worked on unsaturated hydrocarbons and became President-Elect of the American Chemical Society • Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604–1670), Dutch-German alchemist and chemist who discovered sodium sulfate and wrote many books • Lawrence E. Glendenin (1918–2008), American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium Gm–Gu • Leopold Gmelin (1788–1853), German chemist who discovered potassium ferricyanide; author of Handbook of Chemistry, which is still used • Theodore Nicolas Gobley (1811–1874), French chemist, pioneer in brain tissues analysis, discoverer of lecithin • Sulamith Goldhaber (1923–1965), Austrian-American chemist, high-energy physicist, and molecular spectroscopist • Victor Goldschmidt (1888–1947), Norwegian mineralogist considered to be one of the founders of modern geochemistry • Moses Gomberg (1866–1947), Russian-American chemist, known for pioneering work in radical chemistry • Mary L. Good (1931–2019), American inorganic chemist who studied catalysis by ruthenium • David van Goorle also called Gorlaeus (1591–1612), Dutch chemist, one of the first modern atomists, who thought that all bodies are made up of atoms • Loney Gordon (1915–1999), American chemist who assisted in creating the pertussis vaccine • Carl Gräbe (1841–1927), German chemist who synthesized the dye alizarin • Thomas Graham (1805–1869), Scottish chemist known for pioneering work on dialysis and diffusion of gases • Harry B. Gray (born 1935), American chemist known for the kinetics of long-range electron-transfer reactions in metalloproteins; 2004 Wolf Prize in Chemistry • Martha Greenblatt (born 1941), American solid state inorganic chemist, 2003 American Chemical Society's Garvan-Olin Medal • Bettye Washington Greene (1935–1995), American industrial chemist who studied colloid and latex chemistry, including interactions between latex and paper • Sandra C. Greer (born 1945), American chemist notable for work on thermodynamics of fluids, polymer solutions and phase transitions • François Auguste Victor Grignard (1871–1935), French chemist, 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on reactions important in the formation of carbon–carbon bonds • Robert H. Grubbs (1942–2021), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on olefin metathesis • Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (1737–1816), French chemist known for establishing modern chemical nomenclature ==H==

Ha • Fritz Haber (1868–1934), German chemist, 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, father of the Haber process • Dorothy Hahn (1876–1950), early American organic chemist and ultraviolet spectroscopist • Otto Hahn (1879–1968), German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission, 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, father of nuclear chemistry • Sossina M. Haile (born 1966), American chemist notable for developing the first solid acid fuel cells • Naomi Halas (PhD 1987), American biochemist focusing on nanoshells and nanophotonics • John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892–1962), British and Indian biochemist, geneticist and evolutionary biologist • Charles Martin Hall (1863–1914), American chemist known for the Hall-Héroult process for inexpensive production of aluminum • Frances Mary Hamer (1894–1980), British chemist who specialized in photographic sensitization compounds • George S. Hammond (1921–2005), American chemist, famous for Hammond's postulate as part of the general theory of the transition state in chemical reactions • Arthur Harden (1865–1940), English biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 for work on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes • Elizabeth Hardy (1915–2008), Canadian-American chemist who discovered the Cope rearrangement of dienes • Anna J. Harrison (1912–1998), American chemist who studied the structure of organic compounds and their interaction with light, first woman President of the American Chemical Society • Odd Hassel (1897–1981), Norwegian chemist who established the three-dimensionality of molecular geometry, 1969 Nobel Prize in chemistry • Charles Hatchett (1765–1847), English chemist who discovered niobium • Herbert A. Hauptman (1917–2011), American mathematician who developed a method that opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials, 1985 Nobel Prize in chemistry • Walter Hawkins (1911–1992), American chemist, a pioneer of polymer chemistry, who co-invented a polymer with antioxidants that prevented deterioration even in extreme temperatures • Walter Haworth (1883–1950), British chemist, 1937 Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C" • Sam Hay (PhD 2004), New Zealand chemist known for in silico enzymology, quantum mechanics roles in biological processes • Alma Levant Hayden (1927–1967), American spectrophotometrist known for showing that Krebiozen was a quack anti-cancer agent • Jabir Ibn Hayyan (722–804), Persian-Arab chemist and alchemist, purported author of many works in Arabic He–Hi • Clayton Heathcock (born 1936), American chemist known for his work on the synthesis of complex polycyclic natural products • Alan J. Heeger (1936–2023), American chemist known for co-founding the field of conducting polymers, 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry • Jan Baptist van Helmont (1579–1644), chemist from the Spanish Netherlands known for studying the weight gain of growing plants, The founder of pneumatic chemistry • Victor Henri (1872–1940), French physical chemist of Russian parents, the first to apply ideas of physical chemistry to the properties of enzymes. • Dudley R. Herschbach (born 1932), American chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on the dynamics of chemical elementary processes • Avram Hershko (born 1937), Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist, 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation • Charles Herty (1867–1938), American chemist who revolutionized the turpentine industry • Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999), German-Canadian chemist, 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals • Germain Henri Hess (1802–1850), Swiss-born Russian chemist who formulated Hess's law, an early principle of thermochemistry • George de Hevesy (1885–1966), Hungarian chemist who discovered hafnium, Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943 for the development of radioactive tracers to study metabolism • Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967), Czech chemist, 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of polarography • Evelyn Hickmans (1883–1972), British biochemist, pioneer in treatment of phenylketonuria • Joel Hildebrand (18811983), American educator and chemist specializing in liquids and nonelectrolyte solutions • Mary Elliott Hill (1907–1969), American chemist who developed analytic methodology for ultraviolet light • Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897–1967), English physical chemist known for study of chemical kinetics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956 Ho–Hu • Gladys Lounsbury Hobby (1910–1993), American microbiologist known for development and early understanding of antibiotics • Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), British chemist, 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for development of protein crystallography • Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist known for developing the princioles of chemical thermodynamics, 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 (1926–2025), American nuclear chemist who studied the properties of transuranium elements • Friedrich Hoffmann (1660–1742), German physician and chemist who found that lime, magnesia, etc. existed in almost all mineral springs in Germany • Roald Hoffmann (born 1937), Polish-born American chemist, 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for theories of the course of chemical reactions • Mei Hong (born 1970), Chinese-American biophysical chemist known for development solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance to elucidate the structures and mechanisms of membrane proteins • Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947), British biochemist, known for discovery of vitamins, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929 • Marjorie G. Horning (1917–2020), American biochemist and pioneer of chromatography who developed new techniques for studying drug metabolism • Benjamin Hsiao (born 1958), Taiwanese American chemist working to understand the structural, morphological development and manipulation of complex polymer systems • Linda Hsieh-Wilson (PhD 1996), American chemist known for work in chemical neurobiology on understanding the structure and function of carbohydrates in the nervous system • Heinrich Hubert Maria Josef Houben (1875–1940), German organic chemist known for work on ketone synthesis, terpenes, and camphor • Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801–1887), Dutch chemist and chocolate maker who invented cocoa powder • Amir H. Hoveyda (PhD 1986), American chemist, particularly noted for developing catalysts for stereoselective olefin metathesis • Marcia Huber (PhD 1985), American chemical engineer known for modeling the thermophysical properties of fluids • Robert Huber (born 1937), German chemist known for crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis, 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry • Catherine T. Hunt (born 1955), American chemist who worked on nuclear magnetic resonance and became president of the American Chemical Society ==I==

• Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893–1970), English chemist known for introducing concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects • Vladimir Ipatieff (1867–1952), Russian-American chemist who worked in petroleum chemistry and catalysts ==J==

• Nancy B. Jackson (1956–2022), American chemist who worked on heterogeneous catalysis and the development of alternative fuels • Marilyn E. Jacox (1929–2013), American chemist who worked on the spectroscopy of free radicals and other unstable chemical species • Hope Jahren (born 1969), American chemist and isotope analyst known for using stable isotope analysis to analyze fossil forests • Paul Janssen (1926–2003), Belgian physician and entrepreneur who discovered the antispasmodic drug ambucetamide • Allene Jeanes (1906–1995), American chemist who developed Dextran to replace plasma in the Korean War • Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), French chemist and physicist, 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of induced radioactivity • Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and physicist, 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of induced radioactivity • Madeleine M. Joullié (born 1927), French-American-Brazilian organic chemist who worked on synthesizing organic compounds such as tilorone, furanomycin, and numerous cyclopeptides • Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), African American organic chemist who was a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine. ==K==

Ka--Kj • Henri B. Kagan (born 1930) French chemist, pioneer of asymmetric catalysis, 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry • Isabella Karle (1921–2017), American chemist instrumental for extracting plutonium chloride from a mixture containing plutonium oxide • Jerome Karle (1918–2013), 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the direct analysis of crystal structures by X-ray scattering • Paul Karrer (1889–1971), Swiss organic chemist known for research on vitamins, 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Alan R. Katritzky (1928–2014), British-American organic chemist, pioneer of heterocyclic chemistry • Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (1929–2016), American chemist and inventor of conformational topology • Melinda H. Keefe (PhD 2001), American chemist known for identifying solvents that can be used to remove dirt without damaging layers of paint • August Kekulé (1829–1896), German organic chemist known for the theory of chemical structure, especially the structure of benzene • John Kendrew (1917–1997), British biochemist and crystallographer known for solving the structure of myoglobin, 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Ann Kiessling (born 1942), American chemist and reproductive biologist known for discovering reverse transcriptase activity in normal human cells • Ann Kimble-Hill (21st century), American biochemist studying structure-function relationships of membrane proteins and lipids • Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864), Dutch chemist, inventor of Kipp's apparatus • Johan Kjeldahl (1849–1900), Danish chemist who developed a method for determining the amount of nitrogen in organic compounds Kl--Ku • Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743–1817), German chemist, who discovered uranium and zirconium, and contributed to the discovery of other elements • Trevor Kletz (1922–2013), British promoter of industrial safety • Aaron Klug (1926–2018), winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing crystallographic electron microscopy • Emil Knoevenagel (1865–1921) German organic chemist, known for the condensation reaction of carbonyl compounds with active methylene compounds • Jeremy Randall Knowles (1935–2008), British physical organic chemist known for studies of chemical mechanisms, especially in enzyme catalysis • William Standish Knowles (1917–2012), 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on asymmetric synthesis, specifically in hydrogenation reactions • Walter Kohn (1923–2016), 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to the understanding of the electronic properties of materials • Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), German chemist known for Kolbe nitrile synthesis • Izaak Kolthoff (1894–1993), Dutch-American chemist with abundant published research in diverse fields of analysis, the "Father of Analytical Chemistry" • Arthur Kornberg (1918–2007), American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1959) for discovery of DNA polymerase • Hans Kornberg (1928–2019), British biochemist known for research in microbial biochemistry • Roger D. Kornberg (born 1947), 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for elucidation of how genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA • Teresa Kowalska (1946–2023), Polish chemist, specialized in the theory and application of chromatography • Hans A. Krebs (1900–1981), German-British biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1953)for work on metabolic cycles • Harold Kroto (1939–2016), English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of fullerenes • Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on carotenoids and vitamins • Eugenia Kumacheva (PhD 1986), Ukrainian-Canadian chemist with work on fundamental and applied polymers science, nanotechnology, microfluidics, and interface chemistry • Theodore Kuwana, (1931–2022), American chemist, founder of the field of spectroelectrochemistry ==L==

La–Li • Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), American chemist, physicist, 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in surface chemistry • Auguste Laurent (1807–1853), French chemist who discovered trichloroethylene, anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid • Paul Lauterbur (1929–2007), American chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2003) work which that the development of magnetic resonance imaging possible • Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794), French chemist who recognized oxygen and hydrogen as elements • Nicolas Leblanc (1742–1806), French chemist and surgeon who discovered how to manufacture soda ash from common salt • Henri Louis Le Chatelier (1850–1936), French chemist known for Le Chatelier's principle, which allows prediction of the effect of a changing condition on a system in chemical equilibrium • Yuan T. Lee (born 1936), Taiwanese chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to the development of reaction dynamics • Valery Legasov (1936–1988), Soviet inorganic chemist known for his position as head of the Chernobyl Commission for the Chernobyl Disaster • Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1939), French chemist, 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis of cryptands • Marko Leko (1853–1932), Serbian chemist known for work on the nature of ammonium chloride • Luis Federico Leloir (1906–1987), Argentine biochemist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Raymond Lemieux (1920–2000), Canadian organic chemist, Wolf Prize in Chemistry • Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875–1946), American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry Li–Lu • Andreas Libavius (1555–1616), German doctor and alchemist who discovered how prepare hydrochloric acid, ammonium sulfate, etc. • Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842–1914), German chemist, known for synthesis of alizarin • Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist known for development of radiocarbon dating, 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 • John Wilfrid Linnett (1913–1975), British chemist at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, known for contributions to theoretical chemistry • William Lipscomb (1919–2011), American chemist known for work in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry; 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912), English surgeon known for recognising that putrefaction in wounds is caused by germs • Arthur H. Livermore (1915–2009), American science educator and chemist who contributed to the synthesis of penicillin • Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian scientist, anticipated the kinetic-molecular theory by 100 years • H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923–2004), British chemist with many contributions to theoretical chemistry • Janis Louie, (born 1971), American chemist who works of catalisis by nickel-based systems • Martin Lowry (1874–1936), British physical chemist who developed acid–base theory • Sima Lozanić (1847–1935), Serbian chemist known for chemistry textbooks • Alfred Lucas (1867–1945), Egypt-based English analytical chemist and archaeologist known for work after the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb • Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1802–1882), Polish pharmacist, inventor of the modern kerosene lamp ==M==

Ma–Me • Alan MacDiarmid (1927–2007), American-New Zealand chemist who discovered conductive polymers, 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry (1904–1993), Dutch chemist and crystallographer known for discoveries on the use of diffraction in crystallography • Roderick MacKinnon (born 1956), American biophsicist known for work on ion channels; 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Pierre Macquer (1718–1784), French chemist known for Dictionnaire de chymie • Rudolph A. Marcus (born 1923), Canadian chemist known for work on the theory of electron transfer reactions; 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 who discovered ytterbium and co-discovered gadolinium • Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov (1838–1904), Russian chemist known for Markovnikov's rule describing addition reactions of hydrogen halides and alkenes • Tobin J. Marks (born 1944), American inorganic chemist and materials scientist known for work in polymerization catalysts • Alan G. Marshall (born 1944), American chemist, co-inventor of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry • Archer John Porter Martin (1910–2002), British physical chemist, 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography • Martinus van Marum (1750–1837), Dutch physician, inventor, scientist and teacher, which created the "large electricity machine" • Elmer McCollum (1879–1967), American biochemist, known for work of diet on health • Edwin McMillan (1907–1991), American physicist, the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium, 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Lise Meitner (1878–1968), Austrian and Swedish nuclear physicist instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission • Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907), Russian chemist, creator of the Periodic table of elements • Maud Menten (1879–1960). Canadian biochemist known for early work on enzyme kinetics • John Mercer (1791–1866), British dye and fabric chemist who developed mercerisation, a process for treating cotton • Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921–2006), solid-phase chemist, 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Julius Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), German chemist, one of the pioneers in developing the earliest versions of the periodic table of the chemical elements • Viktor Meyer (1848–1897), German organic and inorganic chemist, known for work on vapour densities Mi • August Michaelis (1847–1916), German chemist who discovered the Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction • Leonor Michaelis (1875–1949), German biochemist and physical chemist known for fundamental advances in enzyme chemistry • Hartmut Michel (born 1948), German biochemist, 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein • Huang Minlon (1889–1979), Chinese chemist, pioneer of modern pharmaceutical industries in China • Stanley Miller (1930–2007), American chemist, best known for the Miller–Urey experiment • Eugène Millon (1812–1867), French military chemist and physician who discovered the reaction of mercury and nitric acid with egg albumen • David P. Mills (PhD 2007), British chemist who investigates lanthanide and actinide f-block elements • Luis E. Miramontes (1925–2004), Mexican co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill • Peter D. Mitchell (1920–1992), British biochemist known for the theory of chemiosmosis, 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Eilhardt Mitscherlich (1794–1863), German chemist, remembered for the law of isomorphism. • Alexander Mitscherlich (1836–1918), German chemist known for discovering crystallographic isomorphism Mo–Mu • Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806–1879), German chemist famous for early statement on the Conservation of energy • Henri Moissan (1852–1907), French chemist and the winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fluorine • Mario J. Molina (1943–2020), Mexican chemist known for discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Jacques Monod (1910–1976), French biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 "for discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis" • Jeffrey S. Moore (born 1961), American materials chemist known for work on macromolecular architectures • Peter Moore (born 1939), American biochemist known for work on the structure, function, and mechanism of the ribosome • Stanford Moore (1913–1982), American biochemist known for automatic amino acid analysis, 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease • Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887–1915), British physicist who discovered Moseley's law and introduced the concept of atomic number • Gerardus Johannes Mulder (1802–1880), Dutch organic chemist who introduced the concept of protein • Paul Müller (1899–1965), Swiss chemist who discovered DDT and its use as an insecticide; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939 • Robert S. Mulliken (1896–1986), American physicist and chemist known for molecular orbital theory, 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee(1893-1983), Indian chemist known for work on the electrochemistry of colloids • Kary Mullis (1944–2019), American biochemist who invented the polymerase chain reaction, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Earl Muetterties (1927–1984), American chemist known for work on boranes and various aspects of catalysis • Catherine J. Murphy (born 1964), American chemist and materials scientist known for work on nanomaterials ==N==

• Robert Nalbandyan (1937–2002), Armenian protein chemist known for discovery of photosynthetic protein plantacyanin • Sergey Nametkin (1976–1950), Russian organic chemist known the cracking of petrochemicals, and rearrangement of camphenes • Louise Natrajan (PhD 2003), British chemist who ortks on actinide chemistry and luminescence spectroscopy • Giulio Natta (1903–1979), Italian chemical engineer worked on high density polymers, 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Costin Nenițescu (1902–1970), Romanian chemist who studied the oxidation of open-chain and aromatic hydrocarbons with chromic acid and chromic oxychloride • Antonio Neri (1576–1614), Florentine priest, author of L’Arte Vetraria (The Art of Glass), the first general treatise on the systematics of glassmaking • Walther Nernst (1864–1941), German physical chemist whose heat theorem led the way to the third law of thermodynamics, 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • John Alexander Reina Newlands (1837–1898), British analytical chemist, precursor of the periodic order of elements • William Nicholson (1753–1815), British chemist and civil engineer, the first to achieve electrolysis • Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou (born 1946), Cypriot-American chemist known for total synthesis of natural products • Julius Nieuwland (1878–1936), Belgian and American prirest and chemist who worked on synthetic rubber • Mathias Nilsson, Swedish physical and analytical chemist concerned with liquid NMR spectroscopy • Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and established the Nobel Prizes • Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897–1978), British chemist known for flash photolysis and the Norrish reaction, 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • John Howard Northrop (1891–1987), American biochemist known for isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses; 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Ryōji Noyori (born 1938), Japanese chemist, 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations • Ralph Nuzzo (born 1954), American materials chemist known for work on the chemistry of materials, including processes that occur at surfaces and interfaces ==O==

• George Andrew Olah (1927–2017), Hungarian and American chemist who worked on the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids; 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Marilyn Olmstead (1943–2020), American chemist, expert in small-molecule crystallography • Fred Olsen (1891–1986), British-born American chemist, inventor of the ball propellant manufacturing process • Lars Onsager (1903–1976), Norwegian and American physical chemist and theoretical physicist who cirrected the Debye-Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Tony Orchard (1941–2005), British inorganic chemist whose research helped to lay the foundations of much modern consumer electronic technology • Joan Oró (1923–2004), Spanish (Catalan) biochemist known for studies of the origin of life • Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields • Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932), Baltic German physical chemist, 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to the fields of catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities • Larry E. Overman (born 1943), American organic chemist developing chemical reactions, particularly transition metal catalyzed reactions • Geoffrey Ozin (DPhil 1967), British materials chemist known for research on nanomaterials ==P==

• Paracelsus (1493–1541), alchemist • Rudolph Pariser (1923–2021), theoretical and organic chemist • Robert G. Parr (1921–2017), 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), British biochemist • Georgy Pigulevsky (1888–1964), Russian chemist and biochemist • James Pitts (1921–2014), American chemist known for work on photochemistry and atmospheric chemistry • 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 • Vera Vevstafievna Popova (1867–1896), one of the first female Russian chemists • 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 • Evgenii Przhevalsky (1879-1953), Russian and Soviet chemist, father of analytical chemistry in USSR ==R==

• Ronald T. Raines (born 1958), American chemist • Adam Vladislavovich Rakovsky (1879–1941), Soviet physical chemist • Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952), 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • William Ramsay (1852–1916), Scottish chemist, 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • C. N. R. Rao (born 1934), Indian chemist • François-Marie Raoult (1830–1901), French chemist, known for Raoult's law • Henry Rapoport (1918–2002), American chemist, UC Berkeley • William Sage Rapson (1912–1999), South African chemist and co-author of Gold Usage • Nil Ratan Dhar (1892–1986), Pioneering Indian soil chemist • Ken Raymond (born 1942), American inorganic and bioinorganic chemist, UC Berkeley • Prafulla Chandra Ray (1861–1944), Indian chemist • Julius Rebek (born 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 • Oleg Reutov (1920-1998), soviet organic chemist • Rhazes (Razi) (865–925), Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist • Stuart A. Rice (1932–2024), physical chemist • Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist • Theodore William Richards (1868–1928), 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Wim Richter (1946–2019), South Africa • Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762–1807), German chemist, first used the term stoichiometry • Nikolaus Riehl (1901–1990), German chemist • Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), Spanish-Mexican geochemist, discovered vanadium • Robert Robinson (1886–1975), British chemist, 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Pierre Jean Robiquet (1780–1840), French chemist, discovered caffeine, alizarin, cantharidin • Hillar Rootare (1928–2008), Estonian-American physical chemist • Irwin Rose (1926–2015), 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Guillaume-François Rouelle (1703–1770), French chemist • Hilaire-Marin Rouelle (1718–1779), French chemist • Frank Sherwood Rowland (1927–2012), 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 ==S==

• Paul Sabatier (1854–1941), French chemist, 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient • Frederick Sanger (1918–2013), 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 (born 1956), American chemist • Glenn T. Seaborg (1912–1999), 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787–1845), chemist • Francesco Selmi (1817–1881), Italian chemist, regarded as one of the founders of colloid chemistry • Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (1896–1986), physicist and chemist, 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • T. R. Seshadri (1900–1975), Indian chemist, pioneer in plant 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 (1930–2008), 12 US patents • John Sherwood (died 2020), British physical chemist • Nevil Vincent Sidgwick (1873–1952), English theoretical chemist, known for work in valency • Osamu Shimomura (1928–2018), 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Hideki Shirakawa (born 1936), 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Alexander Shulgin (1925–2014), pioneer researcher in Psychopharmacology and Entheogens • Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (1897–1994), Pakistani chemist, pioneer in natural products chemistry • Oktay Sinanoglu (1935–2015), Turkish chemist • Joseph H. Simons (1897–1983), U.S. chemist, discoverer of fluorocarbons, used in gaseous diffusion of Uranium for Manhattan project • Jens Christian Skou (1918–2018), 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 (born 1956), 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 ultraviolet irradiation • William Howard Stein (1911–1980), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Thomas A. Steitz (1940–2018), 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Douglas Stephan, Frustrated Lewis Pairs • Alfred Stock (1876–1946), German inorganic chemist, known for work in mercury poisoning • Brian Stoltz (born 1970), award-winning American organic chemist. • Fraser Stoddart (1942–2024), Scottish chemist, a pioneer in the field of the mechanical bond • Molly Shoichet, award-winning Canadian biomedical engineer known for her work in tissue engineering. She is the only person to be a fellow of the three National Academies in Canada • F. Gordon A. Stone (1925–2011), British inorganic chemist • S. Donald Stookey (1915–2014), American glass and ceramic chemist • Gilbert Stork (1921–2017), 1995/6 Wolf Prize in Chemistry • Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), German organic chemist, principal founder of chemical structure • Yellapragada Subbarow (1895-1948), Indian biochemist known for discovery of ATP and synthesis of many new ground breaking compounds • James B. Sumner (1887–1955), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Kenneth S. Suslick (born 1952), professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, known for optoelectronic nose • Edwin Sutermeister (1876–1958), American chemist, known for its work on papermaking • Theodor Svedberg (1884–1971), 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Joseph Swan (1828–1914), English physicist, chemist and inventor • Frédéric Swarts (1866–1940), Belgian chemist, prepared the first chlorofluorocarbon compound • Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914–1994), 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ==T==

• Koichi Tanaka (born 1959), Japanese electrical engineer, 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Henry Taube (1915–2005), American chemist, (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 • T. Don Tilley (born 1954), organometallic chemist • Arne Tiselius (1902–1971), Swedish biochemist, 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Max Tishler (1906–1989), American chemist, 1970 Priestley Medal • Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd (1907–1997), British biochemist, 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647), Italian physicist and chemist, invented the barometer, pupil of Galileo • Roger Y. Tsien (1952–2016), American biochemist, 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Mikhail Tsvet (1872–1919), Russian botanist, known for adsorption chromatography • Kristy Turner, British chemist ==U==

• Georges Urbain (1872–1938), French chemist, discovered the element lutetium • Harold Clayton Urey (1893–1981), American physical chemist, discovered the element deuterium, 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ==V==