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.

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

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).

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".

Hans Bunte
Germany
GermanyGerman chemical engineer, professor of chemical engineering

Hans Adolf Krebs
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish biochemist

Christian Shenbeyn
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist.

Donald James Cram
USA
USAAmerican chemist

Max Ferdinand Perutz
Great Britain
Great BritainChemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1962 (shared with D. Kendrew)

Henri Dreyfus
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss scientist, chemist.

Nicolae Teclu
Romania
RomaniaRomanian chemist

Mirza Allahverdev
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani scientist, Doctor of Chemical Sciences.

Ge Hong
China
ChinaChinese Taoist scholar and alchemist, famous for his encyclopedic treatises

Josiah Willard Gibbs
USA
USAAmerican theoretical physicist one of the creators of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

Abaskuli Kuliev
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani scientist, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor

Henry Edward Armstrong
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish chemist

Harold Kroto
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish chemist

Stephanie Kwolek
USA
USAAmerican chemist, inventor of polyparaphenylene terephthalamide

Johann Rudolph Glauber
Germany
GermanyGerman alchemist, chemist, apothecary and physician.

Charles K. Bliss
Australia
AustraliaSemiotics specialist

Joseph Achille Le Bel
France
FranceFrench chemist

Otto Wichterle
Czech
CzechCzech chemist

Johann Becher
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist and doctor

Paul Karrer
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss chemist

Herman Hess
Russia
RussiaRussian chemist

Kristian Anfinsen
USA
USAAmerican biochemist

Jons Jakob Berzelius
Sweden
SwedenSwedish chemist.

David MacMillan
British-American organic chemist

Anry Le Chatelier
France
FranceFrench physicist and chemist.

Germaine Cellier
France
FranceFrench perfumer

Marcellin Berthelot
France
FranceFrench chemist and public figure

Derek Barton
USA
USAEnglish chemist, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry (1969).

Dudley Robert Herschbach
USA
USANobel Prize in Chemistry, 1986 (together with Y. T. Li and D. Polanyi).

Galina Tabulevich
Soviet teacher, chemist

Friedrich Ludwig Knapp
Germany
GermanyGerman chemical technologist.

Robert Vudvord
USA
USAAmerican biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1965

John Dorrance
USA
USAAmerican chemist and entrepreneur

Eugene Anatole Demarcay
France
FranceFrench chemist

Robert Bunsen
Germany
GermanyGerman chemist.

Stepan Zenovich
Professor of Chemistry

Jozef Blek
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish chemist and physicist

Rihard Wilshtetter
Germany
GermanyChemist

Pol Berg
USA
USAAmerican biochemist, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry