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Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish chemist and physicist noted for his theory of chemical dissociation (1859-1927)
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Jons Jakob Berzelius
Swedish chemist who discovered three new elements and determined the atomic weights of many others (1779-1848)
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Joseph Black
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
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Robert Boyle
Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)
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Eduard Buchner
German organic chemist who studied alcoholic fermentation and discovered zymase (1860-1917)
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Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)
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Melvin Calvin
United States chemist noted for discovering the series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis (1911-)
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Wallace Hume Carothers
United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937)
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George Washington Carver
United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)
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Henry Cavendish
British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)
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Sir William Crookes
English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919)
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Marya Sklodowska
French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
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Robert Floyd Curl Jr.
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
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John Dalton
English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)
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Sir Humphrey Davy
English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
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Sir James Dewar
Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923)
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Manfred Eigen
German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927)
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Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer
German chemist (1825-1909)
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Michael Faraday
the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867)
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Emil Hermann Fischer
German chemist noted for work on synthetic sugars and the purines (1852-1919)
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Hans Fischer
German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945)
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Paul John Flory
United States chemist who developed methods for studying long-chain molecules (1910-1985)
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850)
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Josiah Willard Gibbs
United States chemist (1839-1903)
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Fritz Haber
German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia from the nitrogen in air (1868-1934)
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Otto Hahn
German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968)
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Charles Martin Hall
United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)
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Odd Hassel
Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981)
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William Henry
English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)
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George Charles Hevesy de Hevesy
Hungarian chemist who studied radioisotopes and was one of the discoverers of the element hafnium (1885-1966)
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Joroslav Heyrovsky
Czechoslovakian chemist who developed polarography (1890-1967)
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Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
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Roald Hoffmann
United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937)
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August Wilhelm von Hoffmann
German chemist (1818-1892)
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Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz
German chemist remembered for his discovery of the ring structure of benzene (1829-1896)
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Martin Heinrich Klaproth
German chemist who pioneered analytical chemistry and discovered three new elements (1743-1817)
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Sir Harold Walter Kroto
British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939)
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Richard Kuhn
Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967)
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Irving Langmuir
United States chemist who studied surface chemistry and developed the gas-filled tungsten lamp and worked on high temperature electrical discharges (1881-1957)
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; discovered oxygen and disproved the theory of phlogiston (1743-1794)
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Henry le Chatelier
French chemist who formulated Le Chatelier's principle (1850-1936)
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Willard Frank Libby
United States chemist who developed a method of radiocarbon dating (1908-1980)
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William Nunn Lipscom Jr.
United States chemist noted for his theories of molecular structure (born in 1919)
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev
Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)
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Edward Williams Morley
United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923)
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Carl Gustaf Mossander
Swedish chemist who discovered rare earth elements (1797-1858)
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Paul Hermann Muller
Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965)
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Giulio Natta
Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979)
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Walther Hermann Nernst
German physicist and chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics (1864-1941)
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896)
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Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
English chemist (1897-1978)
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Lars Onsager
United States chemist (born in Norway) noted for his work in thermodynamics (1903-1976)
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Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist (1853-1932)
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Louis Pasteur
French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895)
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Linus Carl Pauling
United States chemist who studied the nature of chemical bonding (1901-1994)
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Joseph Priestley
English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804)
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Tadeus Reichstein
a Swiss chemist born in Poland; studied the hormones of the adrenal cortex
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Richard John Roberts
United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943)
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Sir Robert Robinson
English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)
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Daniel Rutherford
British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819)
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Karl Wilhelm Scheele
Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786)
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Christian Friedrich Schonbein
German chemist who discovered ozone and developed guncotton as a propellant in firearms (1799-1868)
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg
United States chemist who was one of the discoverers of plutonium (1912-1999)
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Richard Errett Smalley
American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)
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Frederick Soddy
English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956)
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Ernest Solvay
Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922)
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Soren Peter Lauritz Sorensen
Danish chemist who devised the pH scale (1868-1939)
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Sir Alexander Robertus Todd
Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907)
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Harold Clayton Urey
United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981)
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Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson
English chemist honored for his research on pollutants in car exhausts (born in 1921)
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Adolf Windaus
German chemist who studied steroids and cholesterol and discovered histamine (1876-1959)
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William Hyde Wollaston
English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828)
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Robert Burns Woodward
United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979)
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Karl Waldemar Ziegler
German chemist honored for his research on polymers (1898-1973)
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Richard Adolph Zsigmondy
German chemist (born in Austria) honored for his research on colloidal solutions (1865-1929)
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Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
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Francis Henry Compton Crick
English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
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Casimir Funk
United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)
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Sir Walter Norman Haworth
English biochemist who was a pioneer in research on carbohydrates; when he synthesized vitamin C he became the first person to synthesize a vitamin artificially (1883-1950)
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George Herbert Hitchings
United States biochemist noted for developing drugs to treat leukemia and gout (1905-1998)
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
English biochemist who did pioneering work that led to the discovery of vitamins (1861-1947)
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Francois Jacob
French biochemist who (with Jacques Monod) studied regulatory processes in cells (born in 1920)
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Edward Calvin Kendall
United States biochemist who discovered cortisone (1886-1972)
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Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
English biochemist (born in Germany) who discovered the Krebs cycle (1900-1981)
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Fritz Albert Lipmann
United States biochemist (born in Germany) noted for his studies of metabolic processes (1899-1986)
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Otto Fritz Meyerhof
United States biochemist (born in Germany) who studied the metabolism of muscles (1884-1951)
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Jacques Lucien Monod
French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976)
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John Howard Northrop
United States biochemist (1891-1987)
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Severo Ochoa
United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (1905-1993)
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Max Ferdinand Perutz
English biochemist (born in Austria); studied the molecular structure of blood (1914-2002)
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Frederick Sanger
English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)
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Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
United States biochemist (born in Hungary) who was the first to isolate vitamin C (1893-1986)
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Edward Lawrie Tatum
United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975)
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Otto Heinrich Warburg
German biochemist who pioneered the use of chemical techniques in biological investigations; noted for studies of cellular respiration (1883-1970)
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Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
English biochemist who helped discover the structure of DNA (1916-2004)