Famous Chemists
Robert Boyle (1627-1691), Irish / English: best known for the formulation of Boyle's law which describes gas behavior.
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian: periodic law and periodic table.
Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856-1931), American, carborundum
Amedeo Avogadro (17761856), Italian: Avogadro's Law
Svante Arrhenius (18591927), Swedish, Nobel Laureate: physical chemistry, Arrhenius equation
Adolf von Baeyer (18351917) German, Nobel Laureate: synthesis of indigo
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (18111899), German: emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium and rubidium.
Carl Bosch (18721940), German, Nobel Laureate: high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben
Marie Curie (18671934), Polish, Nobel Laureate: radioactivity; discovery of polonium and radium
John Dalton (17661844), English : atomic model and theory
John Frederick Daniell (1790-1845), English: Daniell Cell
Sir Humphry Davy (17781829), British: discoveries of alkali and alkaline earth metals; Davy lamp for miners
Charles Martin Hall (1863-1914), American: aluminium production
Jan Baptista van Helmont (1579-1644), Flemish: physical properties of gases
Robert Hooke (16351703), English: Hooke's Law, microscopy, coined the word 'cell'
Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821 - 1895), Austrian: Loschmidt constant, Loschmidt's paradox
Robert S. Mulliken (18961986), American, Nobel Laureate: molecular orbital theory
Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), Swedish: invention of dynamite, Nobel Prize
Hans Christian Ψrsted (1777-1851), Danish: produced aluminium for the first time, electromagnetism
William Perkin (1838 - 1907), English: discovery of, the first aniline dye, mauveine
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French: the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax
Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), Austrian, Nobel Laureate: quantum physics, Pauli principle
Linus Pauling (1901-1994), American, Nobel Laureate: chemical bonds, structures of molecules, vitamin C benefits
Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), New Zealand-born / British, , Nobel Laureate: Rutherford model of the atom
Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786), German / Swedish: co-discovered oxygen
Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999), American, Nobel Laureate: Discovery of ten transuranium elements
Thomson, J.J. (1856-1940), English, Nobel Laureate: discovery of electron
Jacobus H. van't Hoff (1852 - 1911), Dutch, Nobel Laureate: chemical kinetics, Stereochemistry; awarded first Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Chaim Azriel Weizmann (1874-1952), Israeli: ABE-process, which produces acetone through bacterial fermentation; founded the Weizmann Institute in Israel; the first President of the State of Israel
George Washington Carver (1864-1943), American: development of peanut crops and products
Lothar Meyer (1830 - 1895), German: co-inventor of the periodic table
Chemists - Elementary/Middle School Level
Plastics Inventors - Plastics Historical Society (PSH)
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Famous Chemists - about.com
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100 Distinguished European Chemists - European Network for Chemistry
Biographies of Chemists - Royal Society of Chemistry
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History of Chemistry - Purdue Chemistry Department
The History of Gas Chemistry - Bruce Mattson, Creighton University
Chemical Engineering Technologists - Cartage
Chemistry World - Thinkquest
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Chemical Achievers - Chemical Heritage Foundation
The Path to the Periodic Table
Biographies of Famous Chemists - Virtual Library
The History of Gas Chemistry - Bruce Mattson, Creighton University
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