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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Edward P. Abraham
Chemist
10-Jun-1913 8-May-1999 Cephalosporins
Edward G. Acheson
Inventor
9-Mar-1856 6-Jul-1931 Discovered silicon carbide
Roger Adams
Chemist
2-Jan-1889 6-Jul-1971 Organic chemist at Illinois
Peter Agre
Biologist
30-Jan-1949   Water channels of cell membranes
Kurt Alder
Chemist
10-Jul-1902 20-Jun-1958 Diels-Alder Reaction
Charles Alderton
Inventor
21-Jun-1857 29-May-1941 Invented Dr Pepper
Kenneth Alibek
Biologist
c. 1951   Biological weapons designer
Sidney Altman
Chemist
7-May-1939   Proved enzyme role of RNA
Christian Anfinsen
Chemist
26-Mar-1916 14-May-1995 Protein structure and folding
Daniel I. Arnon
Biologist
14-Nov-1910 20-Dec-1994 Photophosphorylation
Svante Arrhenius
Chemist
19-Feb-1859 2-Oct-1927 Explored electrolytic conductivity
Francis W. Aston
Chemist
1-Sep-1877 20-Nov-1945 Invented the mass spectograph
Julius Axelrod
Chemist
30-May-1912 29-Dec-2004 Research of neurotransmitters
Stephen Babcock
Chemist
22-Oct-1843 2-Jul-1931 Chemistry of milk
Adolf von Baeyer
Chemist
31-Oct-1835 20-Aug-1917 Synthesized indigo
Antoine-Jérôme Balard
Chemist
30-Sep-1802 30-Mar-1876 Discovered bromine
Derek Barton
Chemist
8-Sep-1918 16-Mar-1998 Conformational analysis
Jacqueline K. Barton
Chemist
7-May-1952   Professor of Chemistry at CalTech
J. Georg Bednorz
Physicist
16-May-1950   High-temperature superconductivity
Paul Berg
Chemist
30-Jun-1926   Pioneer in recombinant DNA
Friedrich Bergius
Chemist
11-Oct-1884 30-Mar-1949 Hydrogenation of coal
Marcellin Berthelot
Chemist
27-Oct-1827 18-Mar-1907 Chimie organique fondée sur la synthèse
Claude-Louis Berthollet
Chemist
9-Dec-1748 6-Nov-1822 Essai de statique chimique
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Chemist
20-Aug-1779 7-Aug-1848 Inventor of modern chemical notation
Carl Bosch
Chemist
27-Aug-1874 26-Apr-1940 Chairman of I. G. Farben
Paul D. Boyer
Chemist
31-Jul-1918   ATP process
Robert Boyle
Chemist
25-Jan-1627 30-Dec-1691 Pioneer of modern chemistry
Jacques E. Brandenberger
Chemist
19-Oct-1872 13-Jul-1954 Cellophane
Wallace R. Brode
Chemist
12-Jun-1900 10-Aug-1974 Absorption spectra of dyes
Herbert C. Brown
Chemist
22-May-1912 19-Dec-2004 Discovered organoboranes
Eduard Buchner
Chemist
20-May-1860 13-Aug-1917 Cell-free fermentation
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
Chemist
31-Mar-1811 16-Aug-1899 Spectrum analysis, bunsen burner
Adolf Butenandt
Chemist
24-Mar-1903 18-Jan-1995 Research in sex hormones
Melvin Calvin
Chemist
8-Apr-1911 8-Jan-1997 Deciphered photosynthesis
Stanislao Cannizzaro
Chemist
13-Jul-1826 10-May-1910 Atomic vs Molecular weights
Wallace Hume Carothers
Chemist
27-Apr-1896 29-Apr-1937 Inventor of Nylon
Henry Cavendish
Chemist
10-Oct-1731 24-Feb-1810 Discovered hydrogen
Thomas R. Cech
Chemist
8-Dec-1947   Proved enzyme role of RNA
Erwin Chargaff
Biologist
11-Aug-1905 20-Jun-2002 Biochemist at Columbia University
Yves Chauvin
Chemist
10-Oct-1930   Metathesis
Michel-Eugène Chevreul
Chemist
31-Aug-1786 9-Apr-1889 Chemistry of fats, dyes
Georges Claude
Chemist
24-Sep-1870 23-May-1960 Neon lighting
Per Theodor Cleve
Chemist
10-Feb-1840 18-Jun-1905 Discovered holmium (Ho) and thulium (Tm)
William Cochran
Physicist
30-Jul-1922 28-Aug-2003 Crystallography
Samuel C. Collins
Chemist
28-Dec-1898 19-Jun-1984 Collins-type cryocooler
Harry Coover
Chemist
6-Mar-1919 19-Mar-2011 Invented Super Glue
Elias James Corey
Chemist
12-Jul-1928   Retrosynthetic analysis
John Cornforth
Chemist
7-Sep-1917   Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts
F. Albert Cotton
Chemist
9-Apr-1930 20-Feb-2007 Metal-metal bonds
Frederick G. Cottrell
Inventor
10-Jan-1877 16-Nov-1948 Smokestack filters to fight pollution
Donald J. Cram
Chemist
22-Apr-1919 17-Jun-2001 Synthesis of molecules
Sir William Crookes
Chemist
17-Jun-1832 4-Apr-1919 Discovered element Thallium
Paul J. Crutzen
Physicist
3-Dec-1933   Ozone depletion
Marie Curie
Chemist
7-Nov-1867 4-Jul-1934 Early nuclear chemist
Robert F. Curl, Jr.
Chemist
23-Aug-1933   Co-Discovered fullerines
John Dalton
Chemist
6-Sep-1766 27-Jul-1844 Early proponent of Atomic Theory
Humphry Davy
Chemist
17-Dec-1778 29-May-1829 Leading early 19th century chemist
Johann Deisenhofer
Chemist
30-Sep-1943   Proteins of photosynthesis
Peter B. Dervan
Chemist
28-Jun-1945   DNA Researcher
Henri-Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville
Chemist
11-Mar-1818 1-Jul-1881 Process for obtaining aluminum
Otto Diels
Chemist
23-Jan-1876 7-Mar-1954 Diels-Alder Reaction
John T. Dorrance
Business
11-Nov-1873 21-Sep-1930 Invented condensed soup
Herbert Dow
Business
26-Feb-1866 15-Oct-1930 Founder of Dow Chemical
John William Draper
Chemist
5-May-1811 4-Jan-1882 Radiant energy and portrait photography
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
Chemist
14-Jul-1800 10-Apr-1884 Pioneer of organic chemistry
Peter P. Edwards
Chemist
1949   Metal-non-metal transition
Geoffrey Eglinton
Geologist
1-Nov-1927   Molecular organic geochemistry
Richard R. Ernst
Chemist
14-Aug-1933   NMR spectroscopy
Gerhard Ertl
Chemist
10-Oct-1936   Auto emissions and the ozone layer
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Chemist
15-Feb-1873 7-Nov-1964 Enzymes of sugar fermentation
John B. Fenn
Chemist
15-Jun-1917 10-Dec-2010 Electrospray ionization
George Finch
Chemist
4-Aug-1888 22-Nov-1970 Oxygen for mountain climbing
Emil Fischer
Chemist
9-Oct-1852 15-Jul-1919 Peptide bond
Ernst Otto Fischer
Chemist
10-Nov-1918 23-Jul-2007 Organometallic "sandwich" compounds
Hans Fischer
Chemist
27-Jul-1881 31-Mar-1945 Synthesized hemin
Martin Fleischmann
Chemist
29-Mar-1927 3-Aug-2012 Cold fusion crank
Paul J. Flory
Chemist
19-Jun-1910 9-Sep-1985 Studied polymers
Antoine François Fourcroy
Chemist
15-Jun-1755 16-Dec-1809 French adherent to Lavoisier
Joseph S. Francisco
Chemist
1955   Atmospheric chemist
Rosalind Franklin
Chemist
25-Jul-1920 16-Apr-1958 Photographed DNA's structure
Edmond Frémy
Chemist
28-Feb-1814 3-Feb-1894 Discovered hydrogen fluoride
Carl Remigius Fresenius
Chemist
28-Dec-1818 11-Jun-1897 Anleitung zur qualitativen chemischen Analyse
Art Fry
Chemist
19-Aug-1931   Post-It notes
Kenichi Fukui
Chemist
4-Oct-1918 9-Jan-1998 Frontier orbitals
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
Chemist
6-Dec-1778 9-May-1850 Researched gases, etc.
William F. Giauque
Chemist
12-May-1895 28-Mar-1982 Adiabatic demagnetization
Walter Gilbert
Chemist
21-Mar-1932   Sequencing techniques for DNA
Robert Gore
Chemist
15-Apr-1937   Co-inventor of Gore-Tex
Victor Grignard
Chemist
6-May-1871 13-Dec-1935 Grignard Reaction
Robert H. Grubbs
Chemist
27-Feb-1942   Metathesis
Samuel Guthrie
Doctor
1782 19-Oct-1848 Discovered chloroform
Fritz Haber
Chemist
9-Dec-1868 29-Jan-1934 Synthesized ammonia, chemical warfare
Otto Hahn
Chemist
8-Mar-1879 28-Jul-1968 Demonstrated fission
H. Tracy Hall
Chemist
20-Oct-1919 25-Jul-2008 Synthetic diamonds
Arthur Harden
Chemist
12-Oct-1865 17-Jun-1940 Enzymes of sugar fermentation
Robert Hare
Chemist
17-Jan-1781 15-May-1858 Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope
Odd Hassel
Chemist
17-May-1897 11-May-1981 Conformational analysis
Norman Haworth
Chemist
19-Mar-1883 19-Mar-1950 Carbohydrates and vitamin C
Richard F. Heck
Chemist
1931   Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings
Jan Baptist van Helmont
Chemist
12-Jan-1580 30-Dec-1644 Recognized discrete gases
William Henry
Chemist
12-Dec-1775 2-Sep-1836 Henry's Law
Dudley R. Herschbach
Chemist
18-Jun-1932   Crossed molecular beam experiments
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Astronomer
8-Oct-1873 21-Oct-1967 Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
George de Hevesy
Chemist
1-Aug-1885 5-Jul-1966 Radioisotope researcher
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
Chemist
20-Dec-1890 27-Mar-1967 Polarography
Walter Hieber
Chemist
18-Dec-1895 29-Nov-1976 Metal carbonyl chemistry
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
Chemist
19-Jun-1897 9-Oct-1967 The Kinetics of Chemical Change
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Chemist
12-May-1910 29-Jul-1994 Determined structure of Vitamin B12
Jacobus H. van 't Hoff
Chemist
30-Aug-1852 1-Mar-1911 Three-dimensional molecular properties
Felix Hoffmann
Chemist
21-Jan-1868 8-Feb-1946 Aspirin and heroin
Roald Hoffmann
Chemist
18-Jul-1937   Woodward-Hoffmann reaction
Albert Hofmann
Chemist
11-Jan-1906 29-Apr-2008 Discovered LSD
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
Chemist
8-Apr-1818 2-May-1892 Organic chemist, researched aniline
Robert Huber
Chemist
20-Feb-1937   Proteins of photosynthesis
Frédéric Joliot
Physicist
19-Mar-1900 14-Aug-1958 Artificial radioactivity
Irène Joliot-Curie
Physicist
12-Sep-1897 17-Mar-1956 Artificial radioactivity
Percy Julian
Chemist
11-Apr-1899 19-Apr-1975 Physostigmine and cortisone
Jerome Karle
Chemist
18-Jun-1918   X-Ray diffraction studies
Martin Karplus
Chemist
15-Mar-1930   Karplus Equation
Paul Karrer
Chemist
21-Apr-1889 18-Jun-1971 Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K
Friedrich August Kekulé
Chemist
7-Sep-1829 13-Jul-1896 Theory of chemical structure
John C. Kendrew
Chemist
24-Mar-1917 23-Aug-1997 Determined structure of myoglobin
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
Chemist
1-Dec-1743 1-Jan-1817 Discovered uranium, zirconium, titanium
Aaron Klug
Chemist
11-Aug-1926   Structural analysis of viruses
William S. Knowles
Chemist
1-Jun-1917 13-Jun-2012 Chiral catalysts
Walter Kohn
Chemist
9-Mar-1923   Density-functional theory
Sir Harold Kroto
Chemist
7-Oct-1939   Co-Discovered fullerenes
Richard Kuhn
Chemist
3-Dec-1900 1-Aug-1967 Carotenoids, and vitamins B2 and B6
Stephanie Kwolek
Chemist
31-Jul-1923   Invented Kevlar
Robert S. Langer
Chemist
29-Aug-1948   Institute Professor at MIT
Irving Langmuir
Chemist
31-Jan-1881 16-Aug-1957 Inventor of the high-vacuum tube
Norm Larsen
Inventor
1923 Dec-1970 WD-40
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
Chemist
26-Aug-1743 8-May-1794 Father of modern chemistry
Yuan T. Lee
Chemist
29-Nov-1936   Crossed molecular beam experiments
Jean-Marie Lehn
Chemist
30-Sep-1939   Synthesis of molecules
Luis Leloir
Chemist
6-Sep-1906 2-Dec-1987 Conversion of carbohydrates
Richard A. Lerner
Biologist
28-Aug-1938   Scripps Research Institute
Willard F. Libby
Chemist
17-Dec-1908 8-Sep-1980 Carbon-14 dating technique
Justus Liebig
Chemist
12-May-1803 18-Apr-1873 Reformed pedagogy of chemistry
Eli Lilly
Business
8-Jul-1838 6-Jun-1898 Founder of Eli Lilly & Co.
William Lipscomb
Chemist
9-Dec-1919 14-Apr-2011 Chemical bonding
Karl Lohmann
Chemist
10-Apr-1898 22-Apr-1978 Discovered ATP
Mikhail Lomonosov
Poet
19-Nov-1711 15-Apr-1765 Early father of Russian poetry
Alan G. MacDiarmid
Chemist
14-Apr-1927 7-Feb-2007 Metallic polymers
Charles Macintosh
Chemist
29-Dec-1766 25-Jul-1843 Invented the raincoat
Roderick MacKinnon
Biologist
19-Feb-1956   Ion channels of cell membranes
Rudolph A. Marcus
Chemist
21-Jul-1923   Electron-transfer reactions
Archer J. P. Martin
Chemist
1-Mar-1910 28-Jul-2002 Partition chromatography
William D. McElroy
Biologist
22-Jan-1917 17-Feb-1999 Bioluminescence
Raphael Mechoulam
Chemist
5-Nov-1930   Discovered THC
Dmitri Mendeleev
Chemist
8-Feb-1834 2-Feb-1907 Periodic Table of the Elements
Bruce Merrifield
Chemist
15-Jul-1921 14-May-2006 Synthesized polypeptides
Hartmut Michel
Chemist
18-Jul-1948   Proteins of photosynthesis
Thomas Midgley
Chemist
18-May-1889 2-Nov-1944 Ethyl gasoline, Freon
Stanley Miller
Chemist
7-Mar-1930 20-May-2007 Miller-Urey Experiment
Chad Mirkin
Chemist
23-Nov-1963   International Institute for Nanotechnology
Peter Mitchell
Chemist
29-Sep-1920 10-Apr-1992 ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondia
Henri Moissan
Chemist
28-Sep-1852 20-Feb-1907 Isolated fluorine
Mario J. Molina
Chemist
19-Mar-1943   Ozone depletion
Stanford Moore
Chemist
4-Sep-1913 23-Aug-1982 Amino-acid analyzer
Robert S. Mulliken
Chemist
7-Jun-1896 31-Oct-1986 Molecular orbital theory
Kary Mullis
Chemist
28-Dec-1944   Nutball 1993 Nobel laureate
Giulio Natta
Chemist
26-Feb-1903 2-May-1979 Ziegler-Natta catalysts for polymerization
Ei-ichi Negishi
Chemist
14-Jul-1935   Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings
Walther Nernst
Chemist
25-Jun-1864 18-Nov-1941 Third Law of Thermodynamics
John Alexander Reina Newlands
Chemist
26-Nov-1837 29-Jul-1898 Periodic Law of Elements
Nicéphore Niépce
Chemist
7-Mar-1765 5-Jul-1833 Inventor of photography
Ronald G. W. Norrish
Chemist
9-Nov-1897 7-Jun-1978 Rapid chemical processes
John H. Northrop
Chemist
5-Jul-1891 27-May-1987 Bacteriophages
Ryoji Noyori
Chemist
3-Sep-1938   Chiral catalysts
Hans Christian Oersted
Physicist
14-Aug-1777 9-Mar-1851 Discovered electromagnetics
George A. Olah
Chemist
22-May-1927   Isolated carbonium ions
Lars Onsager
Chemist
27-Nov-1903 5-Oct-1976 Fourth Law of Thermodynamics
Wilhelm Ostwald
Chemist
2-Sep-1853 4-Apr-1932 Ostwald's Law of Dilution and Conductivity
Paracelsus
Chemist
11-Nov-1493 24-Sep-1541 Alchemist and doctor
Louis Pasteur
Chemist
27-Dec-1822 28-Sep-1895 Discovered process of pasteurization
Linus Pauling
Chemist
28-Feb-1901 19-Aug-1994 Scientist and peacenik
Charles J. Pedersen
Chemist
3-Oct-1904 26-Oct-1989 Synthesis of crown ethers
William Henry Perkin
Chemist
12-Mar-1838 14-Jul-1907 Invented mauve
Max F. Perutz
Chemist
19-May-1914 6-Feb-2002 X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin
Charles Pfizer
Chemist
1824 19-Oct-1906 Founder of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
Kenneth S. Pitzer
Chemist
6-Jan-1914 26-Dec-1997 President of Rice University, 1961-68
Roy Plunkett
Chemist
26-Jun-1910 12-May-1994 Accidentally discovered Teflon
John C. Polanyi
Chemist
23-Jan-1929   Infrared chemiluminescence
John A. Pople
Chemist
31-Oct-1925 15-Mar-2004 Quantum mechanics of molecules
George Porter
Chemist
6-Dec-1920 31-Aug-2002 Rapid chemical and biological processes
Fritz Pregl
Chemist
3-Sep-1869 13-Dec-1930 Microanalysis of organic compounds
Vladimir Prelog
Chemist
23-Jul-1906 7-Jan-1998 Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts
Joseph Priestley
Chemist
13-Mar-1733 6-Feb-1804 Investigated gases, discovered Oxygen
Ilya Prigogine
Chemist
25-Jan-1917 28-May-2003 Theory of dissipative structures
Sir William Ramsay
Chemist
2-Oct-1852 23-Jul-1916 Discovered noble gases
C. N. R. Rao
Chemist
30-Jun-1934   Chemistry of superconductivity
Henri-Victor Regnault
Chemist
21-Jul-1810 19-Jan-1878 Properties of gases
Theodore W. Richards
Chemist
31-Jan-1868 2-Apr-1928 Atomic weights
George Rieveschl
Chemist
9-Jan-1916 27-Sep-2007 Discovered Benadryl
Sir Robert Robinson
Chemist
13-Sep-1886 8-Feb-1975 Researcher of alkaloids
F. Sherwood Rowland
Chemist
28-Jun-1927 10-Mar-2012 Ozone depletion
Leopold Ruzicka
Chemist
13-Sep-1887 26-Sep-1976 Terpenes and hormones
Paul Sabatier
Chemist
5-Nov-1854 14-Aug-1941 Heterogeneous catalysis
Frederick Sanger
Chemist
13-Aug-1918   Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Chemist
9-Dec-1742 21-May-1786 Discovered oxygen, chlorine, manganese
Richard R. Schrock
Chemist
4-Jan-1945   Metathesis
Nikolay Semyonov
Chemist
15-Apr-1896 25-Sep-1986 Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics
K. Barry Sharpless
Chemist
28-Apr-1941   Chiral catalysts
Dan Shechtman
Chemist
24-Jan-1941   Discovered quasicrystals
Osamu Shimomura
Chemist
27-Aug-1928   Green Fluorescent Protein
Hideki Shirakawa
Chemist
20-Aug-1936   Metallic polymers
Alexander Shulgin
Chemist
17-Jun-1925   Rediscovered MDMA
Spencer Silver
Chemist
6-Feb-1941   Post-It notes
Louis Slotin
Physicist
1-Dec-1910 30-May-1946 Died tickling the dragon's tail
Richard E. Smalley
Chemist
6-Jun-1943 28-Oct-2005 Co-Discovered fullerines
Michael Smith
Chemist
26-Apr-1932 4-Oct-2000 Oligonucleotide-based mutagenesis
James Smithson
Chemist
1765 27-Jun-1829 Chemist, funded the Smithsonian Institution
Frederick Soddy
Chemist
2-Sep-1877 22-Sep-1956 Isotopes
Wendell M. Stanley
Chemist
16-Aug-1904 15-Jun-1971 First to crystallize a virus
Hermann Staudinger
Chemist
23-Mar-1881 8-Sep-1965 Macromolecular chemistry
Harry Steenbock
Biologist
16-Aug-1886 25-Dec-1967 Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D
William H. Stein
Chemist
25-Jun-1911 2-Feb-1980 Amino-acid analyzer
Otto Stern
Physicist
17-Feb-1888 17-Aug-1969 Molecular beam experiment
James B. Sumner
Chemist
19-Nov-1887 12-Aug-1955 Crystallized enzymes
Akira Suzuki
Chemist
12-Sep-1930   Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings
The Svedberg
Chemist
30-Aug-1884 25-Feb-1971 Inventor of the ultracentrifuge
Timothy Swager
Chemist
1-Jul-1961   Chemist at MIT
Richard L. M. Synge
Chemist
28-Oct-1914 18-Aug-1994 Partition chromatography
Koichi Tanaka
Chemist
3-Aug-1959   Refinements in mass spectrometry
Henry Taube
Chemist
30-Nov-1915 16-Nov-2005 Mechanisms of electron transfer
Louis-Jacques Thénard
Chemist
4-May-1777 21-Jun-1857 Traité de Chimie élémentaire
Arne Tiselius
Chemist
10-Aug-1902 29-Aug-1971 Electrophoresis
Alexander R. Todd
Chemist
2-Oct-1907 10-Jan-1997 Nuclaic acid, nucleotides
Earl Tupper
Business
28-Jul-1907 5-Oct-1983 Inventor of Tupperware
Harold C. Urey
Chemist
29-Apr-1893 5-Jan-1981 Discovered Deuterium
Lew Urry
Chemist
29-Jan-1927 19-Oct-2004 Inventor of alkaline battery
Thomas Vaughan
Chemist
17-Apr-1622 27-Feb-1666 English alchemist and mystic
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin
Chemist
16-May-1763 14-Nov-1829 Discovered beryllium and chromium
Vincent du Vigneaud
Chemist
18-May-1901 11-Dec-1978 Synthesized vasopressin and oxytocin
Artturi Virtanen
Chemist
15-Jan-1895 11-Nov-1973 AIV method of fodder preservation
John Walker
Chemist
29-May-1781 1-May-1859 Invented the friction match
John E. Walker
Chemist
7-Jan-1941   ATP process
Otto Wallach
Chemist
27-Mar-1847 26-Feb-1931 Terpenes and essential oils
Chaim Weizmann
Head of State
27-Nov-1874 9-Nov-1952 First President of Israel
Alfred Werner
Chemist
12-Dec-1866 15-Nov-1919 Coordination theory of chemistry
George M. Whitesides
Chemist
3-Aug-1939   Harvard chemist, highest H-Index
Otto Wichterle
Chemist
27-Oct-1913 18-Aug-1998 Invented soft contact lenses
Heinrich Wieland
Chemist
4-Jun-1877 5-Aug-1957 Studied acids of bile
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Chemist
14-Jul-1921 26-Sep-1996 Organometallic "sandwich" compounds
Richard Willstätter
Chemist
13-Aug-1872 3-Aug-1942 Plant pigments
Adolf Windaus
Chemist
25-Dec-1876 9-Jun-1959 Investigated cholesterol, Vitamin D
Georg Wittig
Chemist
16-Jun-1897 26-Aug-1987 Wittig Reaction
Friedrich Wöhler
Chemist
31-Jul-1800 23-Sep-1882 Artificial creation of urea
William Hyde Wollaston
Chemist
6-Aug-1766 22-Dec-1828 Discovered palladium, rhodium
Robert B. Woodward
Chemist
10-Apr-1917 8-Jul-1979 Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc.
Kurt Wüthrich
Chemist
4-Oct-1938   Magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Ahmed H. Zewail
Chemist
26-Feb-1946   Femtochemistry
Karl Ziegler
Chemist
26-Nov-1898 12-Aug-1973 Researcher in plastics
Richard Zsigmondy
Chemist
1-Apr-1865 23-Sep-1929 Ultramicroscope



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