List of Jewish American chemists
This is a list of notable Jewish American chemists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.
- Bruce Alberts, biochemist known for work on DNA replication
- Sidney Altman, chemist, Nobel Prize
- Christian B. Anfinsen, biochemist, Nobel Prize
- Julius Axelrod, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- David Baltimore, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Allen J. Bard, electrochemist, inventor of scanning electrochemical microscope, Wolf Prize
- Paul Berg, biochemist, Nobel Prize
- Konrad Bloch, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Ronald Breslow, chemist known for work on chemical mechanisms
- Melvin Calvin, biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Carl Djerassi, pharmaceutical chemist known for development of oral contraceptive pills
- Murray Eden, physical chemist
- Gertrude B. Elion, biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Walter Gilbert, biochemist, developed a method for DNA sequencing, Nobel Prize
- Herbert A. Hauptman, chemist, Nobel Prize
- Roald Hoffmann, chemist and writer, Nobel Prize winner
- Martin Kamen, chemist who introduced 14C as a tracer for biochemical reactions
- Martin Karplus, theoretical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Arthur Kornberg, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Daniel Koshland, biochemist known for induced fit
- Fritz Lipmann biochemist whose research on coenzyme A led to a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Rudolph Arthur Marcus chemist, theory of electron-transfer reactions, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Jacob A. Marinsky, chemist who co-discovered promethium
- Matthew Meselson geneticist and molecular biologist, discovered semi-conservative DNA replication
- George Olah chemist, research on carbocations, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Alexander Pines, physical chemist, expert in solid-state NMR, Wolf Prize
- Martin Pope, physical chemist, Davy Medal
- Stanley B. Prusiner neurologist and biochemist, discovered prions, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Efraim Racker, biochemist known for identifying and purifying Factor 1
- Michael Rossmann, structural biologist who discovered the Rossmann fold protein motif.
- William Stein, biochemist who worked on the ribonuclease sequence and catalytic activity, Nobel Prize
- Gilbert Stork, organic chemist, known for making contributions to the total synthesis of natural products
- Howard Martin Temin, geneticist and virologist who discovered reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Ronald Vale, biochemist and cell biologist, research on kinesin and dynein
- Frank Westheimer, chemist known for pioneering work in physical organic chemistry
- Richard Zare, chemist known for the development of laser-induced fluorescence