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.

Henry Cavendish
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist and chemist who discovered hydrogen

Heinrich Hlasiwetz
Austria
AustriaAustrian chemist

Rihard Zsigmondy
Austria
AustriaAustrian-German chemist

Geinrih Wiland
Germany
GermanyChemist

Harry Coover
USA
USAAmerican chemist, inventor of Superglue

Tadeusz Reichstein
Poland
PolandSwiss chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950

ictor Moritz Goldschmidt
Norway
NorwayChemist and geophysicist

John Fenn
USA
USAAmerican researcher, professor of analytical chemistry, Nobel laureate.

Mary Morgan
USA
USAAmerican scientist

Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist

Robert Bruce Merrifield
USA
USANobel Prize in Chemistry 1984.

Vladimir Kistyakovsky
Russian and Soviet physical chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Eduard Buhner
Germany
GermanyChemist

John Hogward Northrop
USA
USAChemist Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1946, shared with Wendell M. Stanley and James B. Sumner

Roger Kornberg
USA
USAAmerican biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (2006)

Auguste Laurent
France
FranceFrench organic chemist

Jan Czochralski
Poland
PolandPolish chemist

Gerhard Shrader
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist.

Albert Hofmann
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss chemist

Pol Emil Buabodran
France
FranceFrench chemist who discovered the elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium

Lui-Zhak Thenard
France
FranceFrench chemist

Johann Andreae
Germany
GermanyGerman naturalist, chemist, pharmacist

Leopold Ruzicka
Switzerland
SwitzerlandNobel Prize in Chemistry, 1939 (together with A. Butenandt).

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist

Gustav Giemsa
Germany
GermanyHe is known for creating a solution used in the Romanovsky-Giemsa staining process.

John Daniell
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish scientist, chemist and physicist.

Mary Engle Pennington
USA
USAAmerican bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer

Carleton Ellis
USA
USAAmerican inventor

Rafiga Aliyeva
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani scientist, Doctor of Chemical Sciences

Johann Dobereiner
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist

Henry Bent
USA
USAChemist

Togrul Shahtahtinskiy
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani petrochemist, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, professor, doctor of chemical sciences.

Nicholas Leblanc
France
FranceChemist

Arcadi Boix
USA
USASpanish perfumer and writer

Ricardo Wolf
Germany
GermanyChemist, inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist, diplomat.

Nikolay Menshutkin
Russia
RussiaRussian chemist.

Roald Hoffmann
USA
USANobel Prize in Chemistry, 1981, jointly with Kenichi Fukui

Arthur Kornberg
USA
USAAmerican biochemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 (together with S. Ochoa) for the discovery of the mechanism of nucleic acid biosynthesis

Adolf fon Bayer
Germany
GermanyChemist

Nicolas Flamel
France
FranceA French alchemist known as the inventor of the Philosopher's Stone

Xenophon Kocheshkov
Soviet organic chemist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Paul Sabatier
France
FranceNobel Prize in Chemistry, 1912, jointly with Victor Grignard

John Polanyi
Canada
CanadaChemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986 (together with D. Herschbach and Y. T. Lee).

Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin
Great Britain
Great BritainNobel Prize in Chemistry, 1964.

James Crafts
USA
USAAmerican chemist.

Henry J. Eyring
USA
USAMexican-American chemist

Jan Baptista van Helmont
Belgium
BelgiumChemist, physiologist, physician and mystic. Along with Paracelsus and Sylvius, he is the most prominent representative of the "iatrochemists".

Theodor Svedberg
Sweden
SwedenNobel Prize in Chemistry, 1926.

Hans Bunte
Germany
GermanyGerman chemical engineer, professor of chemical engineering

Hans Adolf Krebs
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish biochemist