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.

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.”

Donald James Cram

American chemist

Wilhelm Ostwald

Former professor at the Riga Polytechnic, Nobel laureate in 1909 in chemistry.

Russian botanist and chemist

English chemist, physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of the Royal Society of London

Heinrich Hlasiwetz

Austrian chemist

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1950, jointly with Philip Hench and Thaddeus Reichstein

Antoni Grabowski

Polish chemical engineer

American chemical engineer.

Friedrich August Kekule

American chemist

American chemist, inventor of Superglue

Jan Baptista van Helmont

Chemist, physiologist, physician and mystic. Along with Paracelsus and Sylvius, he is the most prominent representative of the "iatrochemists".

Georgius Agricola

German scientist, chemist, considered one of the fathers of mineralogy.

He is known for creating a solution used in the Romanovsky-Giemsa staining process.

Soviet and Kazakh chemist

Ernst Otto Fisher

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

Konstantin Krasusky

Russian chemist

Antuan Lavoisier

Carl Auer Welsbach

Austrian chemist

Ellen Swallow Richards

American chemist

Harold Clayton Urey

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1979

Johann Dobereiner

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

Tadeusz Reichstein

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

American chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.

Physicist and chemist

Adolf fon Bayer

Alexander Iovskiy

Professor of Pharmacy and Chemistry at Moscow University.

Scottish chemist

American scientist, specialist in toxicology and occupational hygiene.

Ivan Gorbachevskiy

Ukrainian chemist, biochemist, hygienist and epidemiologist

Kazakhstani scientist, chemist

Jan Czochralski

Alekper Gasan Aliev

Azerbaijani chemist

German biochemist

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967 (jointly with M. Eigen and D. Porter)

American chemist

ictor Moritz Goldschmidt

Chemist and geophysicist

Valeriy Legasov

Soviet inorganic chemist

Constantin Fahlberg

German chemist, inventor of saccharin.

Charles Gerhardt

Alsatian chemist, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris (1856).

Canadian biochemist

Rihard Zsigmondy

Austrian-German chemist

John Hogward Northrop

Chemist Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1946, shared with Wendell M. Stanley and James B. Sumner

Geoffrey Wilkinson

Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1973 (together with E. Fisher).

August-Vilhelm Hofmann

German organic chemist.

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