List of chemists

This is a list of chemists. It should include those who have been important to the development or practice of chemistry. Their research or application has made significant contributions in the area of basic or applied chemistry.

A

Ab–An

Richard Abegg, German chemist, pioneer of valence theory
Frederick Abel, English chemist, inventor of cordite
Friedrich Accum, German chemist, advances in the field of gas lighting
Homer Burton Adkins, American chemist, known for work in hydrogenation of organic compounds
Peter Agre, American chemist and doctor, known for aquaporin water channels, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Georgius Agricola, German scholar known as "the father of mineralogy"
Natalie Ahn, American chemist working on mechanisms of cell signaling
Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist, a founding member of the Chemical Society
Adrien Albert, Australian medicinal chemist who studied the links between physico-chemical properties and biological effect of drugs
John Albery, English physical chemist who studied electrochemistry, proton transfer and isotope effects
Kurt Alder, German chemist known for the Diels–Alder reaction, 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jerome Alexander, American expert on the chemistry of colloids
Ivan Alimarin, Soviet chemist, one of the leaders of analytical chemistry in 20's century
Elmer Lucille Allen, American chemist and ceramic artist
Heather C. Allen, American chemist who works on interfacial phenomena
Adah Almutairi, American chemist known for nanomedicine and nanotechnology
Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist known for catalytic RNA, 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Faiza Al-Kharafi, Kuwaiti chemist, academic and the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, American chemist concerned with microbial degradation of environmental contaminants

An–Av

Gloria Long Anderson, American chemist, pioneer of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist known for work on ribonuclease, 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Andrea Angel, English chemist known for work on explosives
Angelo Angeli, Italian chemist who studied nitrogen compounds such as hydrazoic acid
Octavio Augusto Ceva Antunes, Brazilian chemist, consultant for the production of anti-HIV drugs
Anthony Joseph Arduengo, III, American chemist known for chemical compounds with unusual valency
Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist who discovered lithium
Anton Eduard van Arkel, Dutch chemist who developed a method for preparing pure titanium and other metals
Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, one of the founders of physical chemistry, he used physical chemistry to estimate the effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide the Earth's increasing surface temperature; Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1903
Valerie Ashby, American chemist known for work on functionalized diene monomers and polymers
Barbara Askins, American chemist known for inventing a method to enhance underexposed photographic negatives
Larned B. Asprey, American nuclear chemist known for actinide, lanthanide, rare-earth and fluorine chemistry
Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Mexican computational chemist known for variational quantum eigensolver
Francis William Aston, British chemist and physicist known for mass spectroscopy, 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Bengt Aurivillius, Swedish chemist known for his research in metal and mixed oxides.
Karin Aurivillius, Swedish chemist who determined the crystal structures of many mercury compounds
Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist and physicist, discovered Avogadro's law as a copmponent of noted for his contribution to molecular theory

B

Bab–Bar

Stephen Moulton Babcock, American agricultural chemist worked on the "single-grain experiment"
Myrtle Bachelder, American chemist noted for work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb, and for work on metal chemistry
Werner Emmanuel Bachmann, American chemist, known for work in steroids and RDX
Simone Badal-McCreath, Jamaican chemist who created prostate and breast cancer cell lines
Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist known for invention of bakelite
Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, synthesis of indigo
Piero Baglioni, Italian chemist known for inorganic and organic colloids
Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist who studied phase behaviour in physical chemistry
Alice Ball, American chemist known for inventing an effective injectable treatment for leprosy
Emily Balskus, American chemist and microbiologist known for work on the human microbiome
Zhenan Bao, Chinese chemist known for developing technologies with organic field-effect transistors and organic semiconductors
Phil S. Baran, American chemist known for synthesis, novel reactions and reagents
Coral Barbas, Spanish chemist known for research on metabolomics and integration of chemical data
Allen J. Bard, American chemist known for development of the scanning electrochemical microscope, Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Vincenzo Barone, Italian chemist working in theoretical and computational chemistry
Neil Bartlett, English/Canadian/American chemist known for creating the first noble-gas compound
Sir Derek Barton, 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “contributions to the development of the concept of conformation and its application in chemistry"

Bas–Ben

Fred Basolo, American chemist known for the mechanisms of inorganic reactions
Esther Batchelder, American chemist, educator and specialist in nutrition
Sir Alan Battersby, English organic chemist known for work on biosynthetic pathways
Antoine Baumé, French chemist, inventor of the Baumé scale hydrometer for measuring the density of liquids
Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist who invented the Bayer process of extracting alumina from bauxite
Johann Joachim Becher, German who developed the phlogiston theory of combustion
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, German-Russian chemist, created Beilstein database
Joseph Achille Le Bel, French chemist, early work in stereochemistry addressing the relationship between molecular structure and optical activity
Angela Belcher, American chemist, materials scientist, and biological engineer
Irina Beletskaya, Russian organometallic chemist known for studies on aromatic reaction mechanisms
R. P. (Ronnie) Bell, English physical chemist known in particular for The Proton in Chemistry
Andrey Belozersky, Soviet biologist and biochemist, pioneer of molecular biology and the chemistry of nucelic acids
Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist known for inventions relating to textiles, including wash-and-wear cotton fabrics

Ber–Bla

Paul Berg, American biochemist known for research on nucleic acids, especially recombinant DNA, 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Friedrich Bergius, German chemist known for known for production of synthetic fuel from coal, 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Helen M. Berman, American chemist who worked on structural analysis of protein-nucleic acid complexes
Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist, a prominent anti-vitalist who synthesized many organic compounds from inorganic substances, and developed thermochemistry
Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist who developed the theory of chemical equilibria
Carolyn R. Bertozzi American chemist who studies chemical reactions compatible with living systems, 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Guy Bertrand French chemist working on carbenes, nitrenes, phosphinidenes, radicals and biradicals
Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist who discovered several elements
Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist and crystallographer who determined the absolute configuration of sodium rubidium tartrate
Leonora Bilger, American chemist who studied nitrogenous compounds
Katherine Bitting, Canadian and American food chemist for the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Canners Association
Joseph Black, British chemist known for discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide

Blo–Bou

Katharine Burr Blodgett, American surface chemist and physicist and inventor of nonreflective glass
Suzanne Blum, American chemist developing single-molecule and single-particle fluorescence microscopy
Katharine Blunt, American chemist and nutritionist focusing on home economics, food chemistry and nutrition
Herman Boerhaave Dutch chemist, botanist, Christian humanist & physician, first to isolate urea from urine
Kristie Boering, American chemist and planetary scientist studying atmospheric chemistry and mass transport in the extraterrestrial atmosphere
Alexei Bogdanov, Soviet and Russian biochemist and molecular biologist known for fundamental contributions to ribosome structure and function, nucleic acid-protein interactions, and protein biosynthesis mechanisms.
Olga Bogdanova, Soviet chemist who specialized in organic catalysis
Dale L. Boger, American chemist working on natural product synthesis, synthetic methodology, medicinal chemistry, and combinatorial chemistry
Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist who discovered gallium, samarium and dysprosium
Jan Boldingh, Dutch chemist known for new analytic techniques such as gas-chromatography and others
Alexander Borodin, Russian chemist and composer. As a chemist he is known best for his work on organic synthesis, including discovery of the aldol reaction
Hans-Joachim Born, German radiochemist who participated in the Soviet nuclear weapons programme
Carl Bosch, German chemist, pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991
Octave Leopold Boudouard, French chemist who discovered the Boudouard reaction: combination of carbon and carbon dioxide to form carbon monoxide at high temperatures
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist with work in agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy

Bow–Bro

E. J. Bowen, English physical chemist known for research into fluorescence
Humphry Bowen, English analytical chemist known for radioisotopes and trace elements
Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist known for studying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate, 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Robert Boyle, Irish-English pioneer of modern chemistry, best known for Boyle's law
Henri Braconnot, French chemist who worked on plant chemistry and discovered chitin and pectin
Henning Brand, German alchemist, who accidentally discovered phosphorus while searching for the "philosopher's stone"
Mary Bidwell Breed, American chemist focusing on aromatic acids and the atomic mass of palladium
Ronald Breslow, American organic chemist who designed and synthesized new molecules with interesting properties, such as the cyclopropenyl cation
Alan Brisdon, British chemist known for Inorganic Spectroscopic Methods
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish chemist known for work on reaction kinetics, especially acid–base reactions
Herbert C. Brown, American chemist known for work on organoboranes, 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jeannette Brown, American organic medicinal chemist, historian, and author, known for research on drug development targeting tuberculosis and coccidiosis
Jeanette Grasselli Brown, American analytical chemist and spectroscopist
Rachel Fuller Brown, American chemist who co-developed the first useful antifungal antibiotic, nystatin

Buc–But

Eduard Buchner, German chemist who sounded the death knell of vitalism by discovering cell-free fermentation, 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Stephen L. Buchwald, American organic chemist, co-discoverer of palladium-catalyzed C–N bond formation Buchwald–Hartwig amination
Mary Van Rensselaer Buell, American chemist who worked on nucleic acids and nucleotides, the relation of hormones to the metabolism of carbohydrates, and other topics in biochemistry
Kathryn Bullock, American chemist who co-developed valve-regulated lead-acid batteries
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German inventor, chemist, discovered the elements caesium and rubidium with Gustav Kirchhoff and invented the Bunsen burner
Jeanne Burbank, American chemist who developed lead-acid and silver-zinc batteries for submarines at the United States Naval Research Laboratory
Stephanie Burns, American organosilicon chemist and past honorary president of Society of Chemical Industry
William Merriam Burton, American chemist, developed the first thermal cracking process for crude oil
Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist, 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "work on sex hormones"
Alison Butler, American bioinorganic chemist and metallobiochemist
Aleksandr Butlerov, Russian chemist, one of the creators of the theory of chemical structure, who discovered the formose reaction

C

Ca

Mary Letitia Caldwell, American chemist who developed a method for purifying crystalline porcine pancreatic amylase
Melvin Calvin, American chemist, winner of 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Allison A. Campbell, American chemist studying biomineralization, biomimetics and biomaterials
Constantin Cândea, Romanian analytical chemist who studied methods of separating metals
Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, postulated the Cannizzaro reaction
María Luz Cárdenas. Chilean-French enzymologist known for work on mammalian hexokinases.
Heinrich Caro, German chemist who developed a synthesis for aniline red and other dyes
Wallace Carothers, American chemist, known for the discovery of nylon
Emma P. Carr, American chemist known for work on unsaturated hydrocarbons and absorption spectra
Marjorie Constance Caserio, American chemist, known for Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry, winner of the Garvan Medal
Marta Catellani, Italian chemist working on palladium as a catalyst for multistep organic reactions, who discovered the Catellani reaction
Henry Cavendish, British experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist noted for the discovery of hydrogen

Ce–Ci

Thomas Cech, American biochemist, 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of catalytic RNA
Martin Chalfie, American scientist, 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the green fluorescent protein
Christopher Chang American chemist known for molecular imaging sensors as applied to neuroscience and immunology, metal catalysts for renewable energy cycles, and green chemistry
Michelle Chang, American chemist known for work on biosynthesis of biofuels and pharmaceuticals
Yves Chauvin, French chemist, 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for deciphering the process of olefin metathesis
Michel Eugėne Chevreul, French chemist, the first scientist to define the concept of a chemical compound and to formally characterize the nature of organic compounds
Christine S. Chow, American chemist who uses fluorescence spectroscopy and mass spectrometry to study drug-RNA interactions
Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist, 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on ubiquitination
Giacomo Luigi Ciamician Italian chemist, pioneer in photochemistry and green chemistry, and the earliest to anticipate artificial photosynthesis

Cl–Cor

G. Marius Clore FRS, American chemist, known for foundational work in three-dimensional protein and nucleic acid structure determination by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Edward L. Cochran, American chemist, known for pioneering studies on the nature of free radicals
Ernst Cohen
Mildred Cohn, American chemist, a pioneer in the applying nuclear magnetic resonance to enzyme reactions, particularly reactions of adenosine triphosphate
David Collison, British chemist known for development of electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy
Vicki Colvin, American chemist known for work on the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials
James Bryant Conant, American organic chemist who explored the complex relationship between chemical equilibrium and the reaction rate of chemical processes, Priestley Medal 1944
Elias James Corey, American organic chemist, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the theory and methodology of organic synthesis, specifically retrosynthetic analysis
Robert Corey, American biochemist known for co-discovery of the α-helix and the β-sheet
Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech biochemist, Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 1947 for discovering how glycogen is broken down and resynthesized
Gerty Cori, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 1947 for discovering how glycogen is broken down and resynthesized
John Cornforth, Australian-British chemist, 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions
Athel Cornish-Bowden. British and French enzymologist known for enzyme kns, hexokinases, and metabolic control analysis
Charles D. Coryell, American chemist who worked on hemoglobin structure and co-discovered the element promethium

Cot–Cz

Frank Albert Cotton, American chemist known for research on transition metals and as coauthor of Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, 2000 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Charles Coulson, British theoretical chemist, pioneer of the application of quantum theory to problems of molecular structure
Archibald Scott Couper, British chemist who developed the concept of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules
James Crafts, American chemist, developer of Friedel–Crafts reaction for alkylation and acylation
Donald J. Cram, American chemist, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity
William Crookes, British chemist who discovered thallium, and was a pioneer of vacuum tubes
Alexander Crum Brown, Scottish organic chemist who developed the concept of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules
Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on atmospheric chemistry, especially in relation to ozone
Ana Maria Cuervo, Spanish-American physician, researcher, and cell biologist, best known for work on autophagy
Marie Curie, Polish and French radiation physicist, discovered the elements radium and polonium, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Pierre Curie, French physicist and chemist, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on radioactivity
Robert Curl, American chemist, winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of the fullerene class of materials
Theodor Curtius, German chemist known for the Curtius rearrangement, and also discovery of diazoacetic acid, hydrazine and hydrazoic acid
Anthony Czarnik, American chemist and inventor known for work on fluorescent chemosensors
Emil Czyrniański, Polish chemist, known for developing chemical nomenclature in Polish

D

Da–Di

Jeff Dahn, Canadian materials chemist noted for significant contributions to lithium-ion batteries
John Dalton, British chemist, physicist and meteorologist, whose work laid the foundations of modern atomic theory and stoichiometric chemistry
Marie Maynard Daly, American biochemist who studied the chemistry of histones, protein synthesis, the relationships between cholesterol and hypertension, and uptake of creatine by muscle cells
Carl Peter Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology
Samuel J. Danishefsky, American organic chemist, natural product total synthesis, 1995/6 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist and chemist who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting neutrinos emitted from the Sun
Humphry Davy, British chemist, discovered several alkaline earth metals
Serena DeBeer, American chemist known for developing X-ray based spectroscopic probes of electronic structure
Peter Debye, Dutch chemist who improved the theory of electrical conductivity in electrolyte solutions, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Johann Deisenhofer, German biochemist who determined the three-dimensional structure of a protein complex found in photosynthetic bacteria, 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Margarita del Val, Spanish chemist, immunologist, and virologist, coordinator of the Salud Global platform
Nathalie Demassieux, French mineral chemist and academic who worked on the complex halogenated salts of lead
Gautam Radhakrishna Desiraju, Indian chemist known for work on crystal engineering and weak hydrogen bonds
James Dewar, British chemist and physicist known for his invention of the vacuum flask and its usefor studying the liquefaction of gases
François Diederich, Luxembourg chemist known for molecular recognition studies with biological receptors
Otto Diels, German chemist, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for cyclohexene synthesis
Robert Dirks, American computational chemist known for work on DNA nanotechnology

Do–Dy

Martha Doan, American chemist who studied thallium compounds
William von Eggers Doering, American chemist known for the total synthesis of quinine
Edward Doisy, American biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Davorin Dolar, Slovenian physical chemist who studied polyelectrolyte solutions, and is regarded as a founder of modern physical chemistry teaching in Slovenia
Vy Maria Dong, American chemist who studies enantioselective catalysis and natural product synthesis
David Adriaan van Dorp, Dutch chemist known for the first full synthesis of vitamin A
Israel Dostrovsky, Russian -born Israeli physical chemist known for separating oxygen isotopes in water
Herbert Henry Dow, American industrial chemist, known for bromine extraction
Cornelius Drebbel, Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist who contributed to develop measurement and control systems, optics and chemistry
Jean Baptiste Dumas, French chemist, best known for the determination of atomic and molecular masses weights by measuring vapor densities
Helen Dyer, American biochemist and early cancer researcher known for studies of carcinogenesis mechanisms

E

Sandra Eaton, American chemist notable for work on electron paramagnetic resonance
John Tileston Edsall, American protein chemist, and co-author of Proteins, Amino Acids and Peptides
Eilaf Egap, American chemist who works on imaging techniques and biomaterials for early diagnostics and drug delivery
Paul Ehrlich, German chemist, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for contributions to immunology
Arthur Eichengrün, German chemist known for developing the anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol
Manfred Eigen, German chemist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions
Mostafa El-Sayed, Egyptian-American physical chemist known for the El-Sayed rule in spectroscopy
Fausto Elhuyar, Spanish chemist, the first to isolate tungsten
Lorne Elias, Canadian chemist, inventor of the explosives vapour detector EVD-1
Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for innovative methods of rational drug design
Conrad Elvehjem, American biochemist who identified two vitamins, nicotinic acid and nicotinamide
Harry Julius Emeléus, British inorganic chemist known for work on fluorine chemistry
Gladys Anderson Emerson, American chemist and early nutritionist, and the first person to isolate Vitamin E
Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist known for the early development of the theory of chemical structure and formulating the Erlenmeyer rule.
Richard R. Ernst, Swiss physical chemist, 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Gerhard Ertl, German physical chemist who laid the foundation of modern surface chemistry, 2007 Nobel prize in chemistry
Margaret C. Etter, American chemist and developer of solid state chemistry for crystalline organic compounds
Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish chemist, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the fermentation of sugar and enzymes
Henry Eyring, Mexico-born American theoretical chemist known for the absolute rate theory of chemical reactions

F

Fa–Fi

Kazimierz Fajans, Polish-American physical chemist, who worked on radioactivity and co-discovered protactinium
Michael Faraday, British chemist and physicist who discovered include the principles of electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis
Hermann von Fehling, German chemist who developed use of Fehling's solution for estimation of sugar
John Bennett Fenn, 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in mass spectrometry
Enrico Fermi, Nuclear chemist and elementary particle physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
Louis Fieser, American chemist who work on blood-clotting agents including the first synthesis of vitamin K, and was the author of numerous textbooks
Mary Peters Fieser, American chemist who worked on quinones and steroids, and was co-author of chemistry books
Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts, Canadian-American chemist who works on the chemistry of the upper and lower atmosphere
Emil Fischer, 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, known for work on stereochemistry and for the lock and key mechanism of enzyme action
Emily V. Fischer, American chemist notable for work on the WE-CAN project and on peroxyacetyl nitrate
Ernst Gottfried Fischer, German chemist who proposed a system of equivalents based on sulfuric acid equal to 1000
Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist, 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering work on organometallic chemistry
Franz Joseph Emil Fischer, German chemist, co-discovered the Fischer–Tropsch process
Hans Fischer, German organic chemist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll
Nellie Ivy Fisher, London-born industrial chemist known for photographic chemistry
Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist, co-discovered Wurtz–Fittig reaction

Fl–Fu

Edith M. Flanigen, American chemist known for synthesizing emeralds and zeolites
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist who was believed to have created and discovered the philosopher's stone
Paul Flory, American chemist, 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the physical chemistry of macromolecules
Maria Forsyth, Australian chemist known for work on energy storage and on corrosion
Margaret D. Foster, Manhattan Project chemist and the first female chemist to work for the United States Geological Survey
Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, co-discovered the element Iridium and developed modern chemical notation
Joanna Fowler, American neural chemist who studied effects on the human brain and radiotracers in brain chemistry
Michelle Francl, American computational chemist known for the 6-31G* basis set for Na to Ar and electrostatic potential charges
Edward Frankland, English chemist, one of the originators of organometallic chemistry who introduced the concept of valence
Rosalind Franklin, British chemist and crystallographer whose work was central to understanding the molecular structure of DNA
Katherine Franz, American chemist noted for work in metal ion coordination in biological systems
Herman Frasch, German mining engineer and inventor, pioneered the Frasch process
Bertram Fraser-Reid, Jamaican synthetic organic chemist who developed the armed-disarmed principle in glycosylation chemistry
Helen Murray Free, American chemist who developed self-testing systems for diabetes
Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist known for work in analytical chemistry
Ida Freund, British chemist known for texts on chemistry teaching, andy first woman university chemistry lecturer in the UK
Charles Friedel, French chemist, developer of Friedel–Crafts reaction
Alexander Naumovich Frumkin, electrochemist and chemist who develped applied electrochemical processes related to chemical sources of electrical power
Kenichi Fukui, 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for investigating mechanisms of chemical reactions
Elizabeth Fulhame, British chemist, pioneer in the study of catalysis and discoverer of photoreduction
Vera Furness, English chemist and industrial manager who worked on the production of the acrylic Courtelle

G

Ga–Gl

Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist who discvered yttrium
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist who discovered the Gay-Lussac law, known for discovering that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen by volume
Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, French chemist known for reforming the notation for chemical formulas, and for synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid
Jnan Chandra Ghosh, Indian chemist known for research on strong electrolytes and the dissociation--ionization theory
William Giauque, 1949 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero
Josiah Willard Gibbs, American chemist and physicist whose work on thermodynamics helped to transform physical chemistry into a rigorous deductive science
Walter Gilbert, 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a method of sequencing nucleic acids
Cornelia Gillyard, American organic chemist known for work with chemicals in the environment
Henry Gilman, American chemist who developed organometallic chemistry, and discovered the Gilman reagent
Judith Giordan, American chemist who worked on unsaturated hydrocarbons and became President-Elect of the American Chemical Society
Johann Rudolf Glauber, Dutch-German alchemist and chemist who discovered sodium sulfate and wrote many books
Lawrence E. Glendenin, American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium

Gm–Gu

Leopold Gmelin, German chemist who discovered potassium ferricyanide; author of Handbook of Chemistry, which is still used
Theodore Nicolas Gobley, French chemist, pioneer in brain tissues analysis, discoverer of lecithin
Sulamith Goldhaber, Austrian-American chemist, high-energy physicist, and molecular spectroscopist
Victor Goldschmidt, Norwegian mineralogist considered to be one of the founders of modern geochemistry
Moses Gomberg, Russian-American chemist, known for pioneering work in radical chemistry
Mary L. Good, American inorganic chemist who studied catalysis by ruthenium
David van Goorle also called Gorlaeus, Dutch chemist, one of the first modern atomists, who thought that all bodies are made up of atoms
Loney Gordon, American chemist who assisted in creating the pertussis vaccine
Carl Gräbe, German chemist who synthesized the dye alizarin
Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist known for pioneering work on dialysis and diffusion of gases
Harry B. Gray, American chemist known for the kinetics of long-range electron-transfer reactions in metalloproteins; 2004 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Martha Greenblatt, American solid state inorganic chemist, 2003 American Chemical Society's Garvan-Olin Medal
Bettye Washington Greene, American industrial chemist who studied colloid and latex chemistry, including interactions between latex and paper
Sandra C. Greer, American chemist notable for work on thermodynamics of fluids, polymer solutions and phase transitions
François Auguste Victor Grignard, French chemist, 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on reactions important in the formation of carbon–carbon bonds
Robert H. Grubbs, 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on olefin metathesis
Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, French chemist known for establishing modern chemical nomenclature

H

Ha

Fritz Haber, German chemist, 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, father of the Haber process
Dorothy Hahn, early American organic chemist and ultraviolet spectroscopist
Otto Hahn, German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission, 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, father of nuclear chemistry
Sossina M. Haile, American chemist notable for developing the first solid acid fuel cells
Naomi Halas, American biochemist focusing on nanoshells and nanophotonics
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, British and Indian biochemist, geneticist and evolutionary biologist
Charles Martin Hall, American chemist known for the Hall-Héroult process for inexpensive production of aluminum
Frances Mary Hamer, British chemist who specialized in photographic sensitization compounds
George S. Hammond, American chemist, famous for Hammond's postulate as part of the general theory of the transition state in chemical reactions
Arthur Harden, English biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929 for work on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes
Elizabeth Hardy, Canadian-American chemist who discovered the Cope rearrangement of dienes
Anna J. Harrison, American chemist who studied the structure of organic compounds and their interaction with light, first woman President of the American Chemical Society
Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist who established the three-dimensionality of molecular geometry, 1969 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Charles Hatchett, English chemist who discovered niobium
Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician who developed a method that opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials, 1985 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Walter Hawkins, American chemist, a pioneer of polymer chemistry, who co-invented a polymer with antioxidants that prevented deterioration even in extreme temperatures
Walter Haworth, British chemist, 1937 Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C"
Sam Hay, New Zealand chemist known for in silico enzymology, quantum mechanics roles in biological processes
Alma Levant Hayden, American spectrophotometrist known for showing that Krebiozen was a quack anti-cancer agent
Jabir Ibn Hayyan, Persian-Arab chemist and alchemist, purported author of many works in Arabic

He–Hi

Clayton Heathcock, American chemist known for his work on the synthesis of complex polycyclic natural products
Alan J. Heeger, American chemist known for co-founding the field of conducting polymers, 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Jan Baptist van Helmont, chemist from the Spanish Netherlands known for studying the weight gain of growing plants, The founder of pneumatic chemistry
Victor Henri, French physical chemist of Russian parents, the first to apply ideas of physical chemistry to the properties of enzymes.
Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on the dynamics of chemical elementary processes
Avram Hershko, Hungarian-born Israeli biochemist, 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
Charles Herty, American chemist who revolutionized the turpentine industry
Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian chemist, 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals
Germain Henri Hess, Swiss-born Russian chemist who formulated Hess's law, an early principle of thermochemistry
George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist who discovered hafnium, Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943 for the development of radioactive tracers to study metabolism
Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of polarography
Evelyn Hickmans, British biochemist, pioneer in treatment of phenylketonuria
Joel Hildebrand, American educator and chemist specializing in liquids and nonelectrolyte solutions
Mary Elliott Hill, American chemist who developed analytic methodology for ultraviolet light
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English physical chemist known for study of chemical kinetics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956

Ho–Hu

Gladys Lounsbury Hobby, American microbiologist known for development and early understanding of antibiotics
Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist, 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry for development of protein crystallography
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch physical chemist known for developing the princioles of chemical thermodynamics, 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide
August Wilhelm Hofmann, German chemist, first to isolate sorbic acid
Darleane C. Hoffman, American nuclear chemist who studied the properties of transuranium elements
Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist who found that lime, magnesia, etc. existed in almost all mineral springs in Germany
Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born American chemist, 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for theories of the course of chemical reactions
Mei Hong, Chinese-American biophysical chemist known for development solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance to elucidate the structures and mechanisms of membrane proteins
Frederick Gowland Hopkins, British biochemist, known for discovery of vitamins, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929
Marjorie G. Horning, American biochemist and pioneer of chromatography who developed new techniques for studying drug metabolism
Benjamin Hsiao, Taiwanese American chemist working to understand the structural, morphological development and manipulation of complex polymer systems
Linda Hsieh-Wilson, American chemist known for work in chemical neurobiology on understanding the structure and function of carbohydrates in the nervous system
Heinrich Hubert Maria Josef Houben, German organic chemist known for work on ketone synthesis, terpenes, and camphor
Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Dutch chemist and chocolate maker who invented cocoa powder
Amir H. Hoveyda, American chemist, particularly noted for developing catalysts for stereoselective olefin metathesis
Marcia Huber, American chemical engineer known for modeling the thermophysical properties of fluids
Robert Huber, German chemist known for crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis, 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Catherine T. Hunt, American chemist who worked on nuclear magnetic resonance and became president of the American Chemical Society

I

Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold, English chemist known for introducing concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects
Vladimir Ipatieff, Russian-American chemist who worked in petroleum chemistry and catalysts

J

Nancy B. Jackson, American chemist who worked on heterogeneous catalysis and the development of alternative fuels
Marilyn E. Jacox, American chemist who worked on the spectroscopy of free radicals and other unstable chemical species
Hope Jahren, American chemist and isotope analyst known for using stable isotope analysis to analyze fossil forests
Paul Janssen, Belgian physician and entrepreneur who discovered the antispasmodic drug ambucetamide
Allene Jeanes, American chemist who developed Dextran to replace plasma in the Korean War
Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of induced radioactivity
Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of induced radioactivity
Madeleine M. Joullié, French-American-Brazilian organic chemist who worked on synthesizing organic compounds such as tilorone, furanomycin, and numerous cyclopeptides
Percy Lavon Julian, African American organic chemist who was a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine.

K

Ka--Kj

Henri B. Kagan French chemist, pioneer of asymmetric catalysis, 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Isabella Karle, American chemist instrumental for extracting plutonium chloride from a mixture containing plutonium oxide
Jerome Karle, 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the direct analysis of crystal structures by X-ray scattering
Paul Karrer, Swiss organic chemist known for research on vitamins, 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Alan R. Katritzky, British-American organic chemist, pioneer of heterocyclic chemistry
Joyce Jacobson Kaufman, American chemist and inventor of conformational topology
Melinda H. Keefe, American chemist known for identifying solvents that can be used to remove dirt without damaging layers of paint
August Kekulé von Stradonitz|August Kekulé], German organic chemist known for the theory of chemical structure, especially the structure of benzene
John Kendrew, British biochemist and crystallographer known for solving the structure of myoglobin, 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ann Kiessling, American chemist and reproductive biologist known for discovering reverse transcriptase activity in normal human cells
Ann Kimble-Hill, American biochemist studying structure-function relationships of membrane proteins and lipids
Petrus Jacobus Kipp, Dutch chemist, inventor of Kipp's apparatus
Johan Kjeldahl, Danish chemist who developed a method for determining the amount of nitrogen in organic compounds

Kl--Ku

Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist, who discovered uranium and zirconium, and contributed to the discovery of other elements
Trevor Kletz, British promoter of industrial safety
Aaron Klug, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing crystallographic electron microscopy
Emil Knoevenagel German organic chemist, known for the condensation reaction of carbonyl compounds with active methylene compounds
Jeremy Randall Knowles, British physical organic chemist known for studies of chemical mechanisms, especially in enzyme catalysis
William Standish Knowles, 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on asymmetric synthesis, specifically in hydrogenation reactions
Walter Kohn, 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to the understanding of the electronic properties of materials
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist known for Kolbe nitrile synthesis
Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch-American chemist with abundant published research in diverse fields of analysis, the "Father of Analytical Chemistry"
Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of DNA polymerase
Hans Kornberg, British biochemist known for research in microbial biochemistry
Roger D. Kornberg, 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for elucidation of how genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA
Teresa Kowalska, Polish chemist, specialized in the theory and application of chromatography
Hans A. Krebs, German-British biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on metabolic cycles
Harold Kroto, English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of fullerenes
Richard Kuhn, 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on carotenoids and vitamins
Eugenia Kumacheva, Ukrainian-Canadian chemist with work on fundamental and applied polymers science, nanotechnology, microfluidics, and interface chemistry
Theodore Kuwana,, American chemist, founder of the field of spectroelectrochemistry

L

La–Li

Irving Langmuir, American chemist, physicist, 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work in surface chemistry
Auguste Laurent, French chemist who discovered trichloroethylene, anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid
Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine work which that the development of magnetic resonance imaging possible
Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist who recognized oxygen and hydrogen as elements
Nicolas Leblanc, French chemist and surgeon who discovered how to manufacture soda ash from common salt
Henri Louis Le Chatelier, French chemist known for Le Chatelier's principle, which allows prediction of the effect of a changing condition on a system in chemical equilibrium
Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to the development of reaction dynamics
Valery Legasov, Soviet inorganic chemist known for his position as head of the Chernobyl Commission for the Chernobyl Disaster
Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist, 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis of cryptands
Marko Leko, Serbian chemist known for work on the nature of ammonium chloride
Luis Federico Leloir, Argentine biochemist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Raymond Lemieux, Canadian organic chemist, Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Gilbert Newton Lewis, American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry

Li–Lu

Andreas Libavius, German doctor and alchemist who discovered how prepare hydrochloric acid, ammonium sulfate, etc.
Carl Theodore Liebermann, German chemist, known for synthesis of alizarin
Willard Libby, American chemist known for development of radiocarbon dating, 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Justus von Liebig, German inventor and pioneer in agricultural and biological chemistry
Karl Paul Link, American biochemist, discovered the anticoagulant warfarin
John Wilfrid Linnett, British chemist at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, known for contributions to theoretical chemistry
William Lipscomb, American chemist known for work in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry; 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon known for recognising that putrefaction in wounds is caused by germs
Arthur H. Livermore, American science educator and chemist who contributed to the synthesis of penicillin
Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist, anticipated the kinetic-molecular theory by 100 years
H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, British chemist with many contributions to theoretical chemistry
Janis Louie,, American chemist who works of catalisis by nickel-based systems
Martin Lowry, British physical chemist who developed acid–base theory
Sima Lozanić, Serbian chemist known for chemistry textbooks
Alfred Lucas, Egypt-based English analytical chemist and archaeologist known for work after the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb
Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist, inventor of the modern kerosene lamp

M

Ma–Me

Alan MacDiarmid, American-New Zealand chemist who discovered conductive polymers, 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry, Dutch chemist and crystallographer known for discoveries on the use of diffraction in crystallography
Roderick MacKinnon, American biophsicist known for work on ion channels; 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Pierre Macquer, French chemist known for Dictionnaire de chymie
Rudolph A. Marcus, Canadian chemist known for work on the theory of electron transfer reactions; 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jacob A. Marinsky, American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, Swiss chemist who discovered ytterbium and co-discovered gadolinium
Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov, Russian chemist known for Markovnikov's rule describing addition reactions of hydrogen halides and alkenes
Tobin J. Marks, American inorganic chemist and materials scientist known for work in polymerization catalysts
Alan G. Marshall, American chemist, co-inventor of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry
Archer John Porter Martin, British physical chemist, 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography
Martinus van Marum, Dutch physician, inventor, scientist and teacher, which created the "large electricity machine"
Elmer McCollum, American biochemist, known for work of diet on health
Edwin McMillan, American physicist, the first to produce a transuranium element, neptunium, 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Lise Meitner, Austrian and Swedish nuclear physicist instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist, creator of the Periodic table of elements
Maud Menten. Canadian biochemist known for early work on enzyme kinetics
John Mercer, British dye and fabric chemist who developed mercerisation, a process for treating cotton
Robert Bruce Merrifield, solid-phase chemist, 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist, one of the pioneers in developing the earliest versions of the periodic table of the chemical elements
Viktor Meyer, German organic and inorganic chemist, known for work on vapour densities

Mi

August Michaelis, German chemist who discovered the Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction
Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist and physical chemist known for fundamental advances in enzyme chemistry
Hartmut Michel, German biochemist, 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein
Huang Minlon, Chinese chemist, pioneer of modern pharmaceutical industries in China
Stanley Miller, American chemist, best known for the Miller–Urey experiment
Eugène Millon, French military chemist and physician who discovered the reaction of mercury and nitric acid with egg albumen
David P. Mills, British chemist who investigates lanthanide and actinide f-block elements
Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill
Peter D. Mitchell, British biochemist known for the theory of chemiosmosis, 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Eilhardt Mitscherlich, German chemist, remembered for the law of isomorphism.
Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist known for discovering crystallographic isomorphism

Mo–Mu

Karl Friedrich Mohr, German chemist famous for early statement on the Conservation of energy
Henri Moissan, French chemist and the winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fluorine
Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist known for discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jacques Monod, French biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 "for discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"
Jeffrey S. Moore, American materials chemist known for work on macromolecular architectures
Peter Moore, American biochemist known for work on the structure, function, and mechanism of the ribosome
Stanford Moore, American biochemist known for automatic amino acid analysis, 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley, British physicist who discovered Moseley's law and introduced the concept of atomic number
Gerardus Johannes Mulder, Dutch organic chemist who introduced the concept of protein
Paul Müller, Swiss chemist who discovered DDT and its use as an insecticide; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939
Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist known for molecular orbital theory, 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, Indian chemist known for work on the electrochemistry of colloids
Kary Mullis, American biochemist who invented the polymerase chain reaction, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Earl Muetterties, American chemist known for work on boranes and various aspects of catalysis
Catherine J. Murphy, American chemist and materials scientist known for work on nanomaterials

N

Robert Nalbandyan, Armenian protein chemist known for discovery of photosynthetic protein plantacyanin
Sergey Nametkin, Russian organic chemist known the cracking of petrochemicals, and rearrangement of camphenes
Louise Natrajan, British chemist who ortks on actinide chemistry and luminescence spectroscopy
Giulio Natta, Italian chemical engineer worked on high density polymers, 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Costin Nenițescu, Romanian chemist who studied the oxidation of open-chain and aromatic hydrocarbons with chromic acid and chromic oxychloride
Antonio Neri, Florentine priest, author of L’Arte Vetraria, the first general treatise on the systematics of glassmaking
Walther Nernst, German physical chemist whose heat theorem led the way to the third law of thermodynamics, 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John Alexander Reina Newlands, British analytical chemist, precursor of the periodic order of elemnts
William Nicholson, British chemist and civil engineer, the first to achjeve electrolysis
Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, Cypriot-American chemist known for total synthesis of natural products
Julius Nieuwland, Belgian and American prirest and chemist who worked on synthetic rubber
Mathias Nilsson, Swedish physical and analytical chemist concerned with liquid NMR spectroscopy
Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and established the Nobel Prizes
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist known for flash photolysis and the Norrish reaction, 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John Howard Northrop, American biochemist known for isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses; 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ryōji Noyori, Japanese chemist, 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations
Ralph Nuzzo, American materials chemist known for work on the chemistry of materials, including processes that occur at surfaces and interfaces

O

George Andrew Olah, Hungarian and American chemist who worked on the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids; 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Marilyn Olmstead, American chemist, expert in small-molecule crystallography
Fred Olsen, British-born American chemist, inventor of the ball propellant manufacturing process
Lars Onsager, Norwegian and American physical chemist and theoretical physicist who cirrected the Debye-Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Tony Orchard, British inorganic chemist whose research helped to lay the foundations of much modern consumer electronic technology
Joan Oró, Spanish biochemist known for studies of the origin of life
Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields
Wilhelm Ostwald, Baltic German physical chemist, 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for contributions to the fields of catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities
Larry E. Overman, American organic chemist developing chemical reactions, particularly transition metal catalyzed reactions
Geoffrey Ozin, British materials chemist known for research on nanomaterials

P

Paracelsus, alchemist
Rudolph Pariser, theoretical and organic chemist
Robert G. Parr, theoretical chemist
Louis Pasteur, French biochemist, father of pasteurization
Linus Pauling, Nobel Prizes in chemistry and peace
Charles J. Pedersen, 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Eugène-Melchior Péligot, French chemist who isolated the uranium metal
William Henry Perkin, British organic chemist and inventor of mauveine
William Henry Perkin, Jr., British organic chemist, son of Sir William Henry Perkin
Max Perutz, 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Eva Philbin, Irish chemist
David Andrew Phoenix, British biochemist
Georgy Pigulevsky, Russian chemist and biochemist
James Pitts, American chemist known for work on photochemistry and atmospheric chemistry
Roy J. Plunkett, discoverer of Teflon
John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986
John A. Pople, theoretical chemist, 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Vera Vevstafievna Popova, one of the first female Russian chemists
George Porter, 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Fritz Pregl, Slovene-German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923
Vladimir Prelog, 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Joseph Priestley, no formal training as a scientist, discovered the element oxygen
Ilya Prigogine, 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Joseph Louis Proust, discovered the Law of definite proportions
Evgenii Przhevalsky, Russian and Soviet chemist, father of analytical chemistry in USSR

R

Ronald T. Raines, American chemist
Adam Vladislavovich Rakovsky, Soviet physical chemist
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
C. N. R. Rao, Indian chemist
François-Marie Raoult, French chemist, known for Raoult's law
Henry Rapoport, American chemist, UC Berkeley
William Sage Rapson, South African chemist and co-author of Gold Usage
Nil Ratan Dhar, Pioneering Indian soil chemist
Ken Raymond, American inorganic and bioinorganic chemist, UC Berkeley
Prafulla Chandra Ray, Indian chemist
Julius Rebek, Hungarian American chemist
Charles Lee Reese, American chemist and Chemical Director of DuPont
Henri Victor Regnault, French chemist and physicist
Tadeus Reichstein, chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Oleg Reutov, soviet organic chemist
Rhazes , Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist
Stuart A. Rice, physical chemist
Ellen Swallow Richards, industrial and environmental chemist
Theodore William Richards, 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Wim Richter, South Africa
Jeremias Benjamin Richter, German chemist, first used the term stoichiometry
Nikolaus Riehl, German chemist
Andrés Manuel del Río, Spanish-Mexican geochemist, discovered vanadium
Robert Robinson, British chemist, 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Pierre Jean Robiquet, French chemist, discovered caffeine, alizarin, cantharidin
Hillar Rootare, Estonian-American physical chemist
Irwin Rose, 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Guillaume-François Rouelle, French chemist
Hilaire-Marin Rouelle, French chemist
Frank Sherwood Rowland, 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist
Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand born chemist and nuclear physicist. Discovered the proton. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908
Leopold Ruzicka , 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

S

Paul Sabatier, French chemist, 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
Frederick Sanger, 1958 and 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements
Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German-Swiss chemist, invented the fuel cell, and discovered gun cotton and ozone
Stuart L. Schreiber, American chemist, a pioneer in a field of chemical biology
Richard R. Schrock, 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Peter Schultz, American chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg, 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nils Gabriel Sefström, chemist
Francesco Selmi, Italian chemist, regarded as one of the founders of colloid chemistry
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, physicist and chemist, 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
T. R. Seshadri, Indian chemist, pioneer in plant chemistry
K. Barry Sharpless, 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Dan Shechtman, 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discovered quasicrystals
Patsy O. Sherman, 12 US patents
John Sherwood, British physical chemist
Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, English theoretical chemist, known for work in valency
Osamu Shimomura, 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Hideki Shirakawa, 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Alexander Shulgin, pioneer researcher in Psychopharmacology and Entheogens
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist, pioneer in natural products chemistry
Oktay Sinanoglu, Turkish chemist
Joseph H. Simons, U.S. chemist, discoverer of fluorocarbons, used in gaseous diffusion of Uranium for Manhattan project
Jens Christian Skou, 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard Smalley, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Michael Smith, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Ascanio Sobrero, Italian chemist, discoverer of nitroglycerin
Frederick Soddy, British chemist, 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Susan Solomon, American atmospheric chemist
Ernest Solvay, Belgian chemist and industrialist
S.P.L. Sørensen, Danish chemist
Gabor A. Somorjai, 1998 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Georg Ernst Stahl, Important work on fermentation
Wendell Meredith Stanley, 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jean Servais Stas, Belgian analytical chemist
Branko Stanovnik, chemist
Hermann Staudinger, polymer chemist, 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Harry Steenbock, American biochemist, work on ultraviolet irradiation
William Howard Stein, 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Thomas A. Steitz, 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Douglas Stephan, Frustrated Lewis Pairs
Alfred Stock, German inorganic chemist, known for work in mercury poisoning
Brian Stoltz, award-winning American organic chemist.
Fraser Stoddart, Scottish chemist, a pioneer in the field of the mechanical bond
Molly Shoichet, award-winning Canadian biomedical engineer known for her work in tissue engineering. She is the only person to be a fellow of the three National Academies in Canada
F. Gordon A. Stone, British inorganic chemist
S. Donald Stookey, American glass and ceramic chemist
Gilbert Stork, 1995/6 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German organic chemist, principal founder of chemical structure
Yellapragada Subbarow, Indian biochemist known for discovery of ATP and synthesis of many new ground breaking compounds
James B. Sumner, 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Kenneth S. Suslick, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, known for optoelectronic nose
Edwin Sutermeister, American chemist, known for its work on papermaking
Theodor Svedberg, 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Joseph Swan, English physicist, chemist and inventor
Frédéric Swarts, Belgian chemist, prepared the first chlorofluorocarbon compound
Richard Laurence Millington Synge, 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

T

Koichi Tanaka, Japanese electrical engineer, 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Henry Taube, American chemist,, French chemist, discovered hydrogen peroxide and Thenard's Blue
Sir Harold Warris Thompson, English physical chemist
J. J. Thomson, British physicist, Known in chemistry for discovery of isotopes
T. Don Tilley, organometallic chemist
Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist, 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Max Tishler, American chemist, 1970 Priestley Medal
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, British biochemist, 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and chemist, invented the barometer, pupil of Galileo
Roger Y. Tsien, American biochemist, 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Mikhail Tsvet, Russian botanist, known for adsorption chromatography
Kristy Turner, British chemist

U

Georges Urbain, French chemist, discovered the element lutetium
Harold Clayton Urey, American physical chemist, discovered the element deuterium, 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

V

Lauri Vaska, Estonian/American chemist
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist, discovered the elements beryllium and chromium
Vincent du Vigneaud, 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Max Volmer, Germany
Alessandro Volta, Italian electrochemist, invented the voltaic cell
Alexander Vinogradov, Soviet geochemist

W

Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist
Sir James Walker, Scottish physical chemist
John E. Walker, British chemist, 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Otto Wallach, German chemist, 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
John Warner, American chemist, 2014 Perkin Medal, one of the "founders" of green chemistry
Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Thomas Summers West, British analytical chemist
Peter Jaffrey Wheatley, English chemist
Chaim Weizmann, Russian chemist, developed the ABE-process
George M. Whitesides, American chemist
John Rex Whinfield, British chemist, discovered polyester fibres
Otto Wichterle, Czech chemist, known for inventing modern contact lenses
Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Julius Wilbrand, German chemist, inventor of TNT
Harvey W. Wiley, American chemist, pure food and drug advocate
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Alexander William Williamson, English chemist, famous for Williamson ether synthesis
Thomas Willson, Canadian chemist, discovered an economically efficient process for creating calcium carbide
Richard Willstätter, German chemist, 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Günter Wirths, German chemist
Georg Wittig, German chemist, 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea
William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist, discovered the elements palladium and rhodium
Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Charles de Worms, English chemist and lepidopterist
Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, Alsatian French chemist, discovered the Wurtz reaction
Kurt Wüthrich, 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

X

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Chinese-American biochemist, pioneer in the field of Single Molecule Microscopy and CARS microscopy
Xie Yi, Chinese chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Y

Ada Yonath, Israeli chemist, 2006/7 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Sabir Yunusov, Soviet chemist

Z

Richard Zare, American chemist, 2005 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Nikolay Zefirov, Russian and Soviet Organic and Medicinal Chemist
Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian and Soviet Organic chemist, inventor of the first effective gas mask
Ahmed H. Zewail, Egyptian chemist, 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry
Karl Ziegler, German chemist, 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, 1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Chemists famous in other areas

Marion Barry, Masters in Organic Chemistry, American politician
Alexander Borodin, Russian chemist and composer
Jerry Buss, PhD in Physical Chemistry, owner of the NBA LA Lakers and other sports franchises
Catherine Coleman, American chemist and retired NASA astronaut who went on two Space Shuttle missions
Emmanuel Dongala, Congolese chemist and novelist
Elizabeth J. Feinler, American information scientist and past director of the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute
Marye Anne Fox, American chemist and university chancellor
Dolph Lundgren, Masters in Chemistry, Swedish actor
Primo Levi, resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian chemist, historian, philologist, and poet
Angela Merkel, doctorate in quantum chemistry, Chancellor of Germany
Gaspard Monge, invented descriptive geometry
Francis Muguet, advocate of open information access
Edward W. Morley, performed the Michelson–Morley experiment
Knute Rockne, head football coach of Notre Dame
Elio Di Rupo, Prime Minister of Belgium
Israel Shahak, Israeli chemist and civil-rights activist
Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, research chemist at BX Plastics