Chemistry

Discover a curated list of renowned celebrities who have made significant contributions to the field of Chemistry. From Nobel laureates to pioneering researchers, explore their fascinating journeys and the impact they have had on scientific advancements.

Theodore William Richards

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1914

German organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry (1979, together with G. C. Brown).

Friedrich Adolf Paneth

German chemist and geochemist

Ernst Otto Beckmann

German chemist.

American organic chemist known as the "father of radical chemistry"

Cyril Egeacintov

American chemist, chairman of the Russian Assembly of Nobility in the USA.

German physicist and chemist

Ernst Otto Fisher

German chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1979

American chemical engineer.

Valeriy Legasov

Soviet inorganic chemist

Zhozef-Lui Prust

American chemist

Sergey Reformatskiy

Soviet organic chemist, since 1928 Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Stanislao Cannizzaro

Italian chemist

American physical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1960.

Hara Gobind Khorana

American biochemist (of Indian descent)

American scientist, specialist in atmospheric chemistry

Kuzma Andrianov

Soviet chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Joseph Bienaime Caventou

French chemist and pharmacist

Viktor Grignard

Frederick Soddy

English radiochemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Artury Wirtanen

German chemist and biochemist

British scientist

Antoine-Jerome Balard

French chemist, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences

Vanoccio Biringucho

Italian alchemist, metallurgist and architect.

Soviet organic chemist

Gerhard Herzberg

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1971

Archibald Scott Couper

Scottish chemist

Ukrainian Soviet analytical chemist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1957), honored scientist of the Ukrainian SSR (1966).

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952 (jointly with A. Martin).

Frederick Sanger

English biochemist, the only scientist to twice win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

English chemist

Swedish biochemist, academician of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate.

American chemist, inventor

Wendell Meredith Stanley

American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, 1946, (together with D. Sumner and D. Northrop) “for the preparation of pure enzymes and viral proteins.”

George De Hevesy

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1943.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967 (jointly with R. Norrish and D. Porter).

Henry Cavendish

English physicist and chemist who discovered hydrogen

Heinrich Hlasiwetz

Austrian chemist

Rihard Zsigmondy

Austrian-German chemist

American chemist, inventor of Superglue

Tadeusz Reichstein

Swiss chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950

ictor Moritz Goldschmidt

Chemist and geophysicist

American researcher, professor of analytical chemistry, Nobel laureate.