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• Vitenskapsåret 1494
  • Georgius Agricola (1494*–1555*), German scholar known as "the father of mineralogy"

• Vitenskapsåret 1555
  • Georgius Agricola (1494*–1555*), German scholar known as "the father of mineralogy"

• Vitenskapsåret 1769
  • Friedrich Accum (1769*–1838*), German chemist, advances in the field of gas lighting

• Vitenskapsåret 1836
  • Samuel Andrews, britisk-amerikansk kjemiker (1836*-1904*)
  • Alexander Mitscherlich (1836*–1918*), chemist

• Vitenskapsåret 1838
  • Friedrich Accum (1769*–1838*), German chemist, advances in the field of gas lighting

• Vitenskapsåret 1904
  • Samuel Andrews, britisk-amerikansk kjemiker (1836*-1904*)

• Vitenskapsåret 1910
  • Charles Alfred Coulson, britisk forsker innenfor feltet teoretisk kjemi (1910*-1974*)

• Vitenskapsåret 1918
  • Alexander Mitscherlich (1836*–1918*), chemist

• Vitenskapsåret 1949
  • Peter Agre (born 1949*), American chemist and doctor, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• Vitenskapsåret 1974
  • Charles Alfred Coulson, britisk forsker innenfor feltet teoretisk kjemi (1910*-1974*)

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

• Richard Abegg (1869–1910), German chemist
• Frederick Abel (1827–1902), English chemist
• Homer Burton Adkins (1892–1949), American chemist, known for work in hydrogenation of organic compounds
• Natalie Ahn, American chemist
• Arthur Aikin (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist
• Adrien Albert (1907–1989), Australian medicinal chemist
• John Albery (1936–2013), English physical chemist
• Kurt Alder (1902–1958), German chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Elmer Lucille Allen (born 1931), American chemist and ceramic artist
• Heather C. Allen, American chemist
• Adah Almutairi, American chemist
• Sidney Altman (born 1939), 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Faiza Al-Kharafi (born 1946), Kuwaiti chemist and academic. She was the president of Kuwait University from 1993 to 2002, and the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East.
• Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, American chemist
• Gloria Long Anderson, American chemist
• Christian B. Anfinsen (1916–1995), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Angelo Angeli, Italian chemist
• Octavio Augusto Ceva Antunes (1731–1810), British scientist
• Anthony Joseph Arduengo, III, American chemist
• Johan August Arfwedson (1792–1841), Swedish chemist
• Anton Eduard van Arkel (1893–1976), Dutch chemist
• Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927), Swedish chemist, one of the founders of physical chemistry
• Valerie Ashby, American chemist
• Barbara Askins (born 1939), American chemist
• Larned B. Asprey (1919–2005), American nuclear chemist
• Francis William Aston (1877–1945), 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), Italian chemist and physicist, discovered Avogadro's law

B

• Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843–1931), worked on the "single-grain experiment"
• Myrtle Bachelder (1908–1997), American chemist noted for work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb
• Werner Emmanuel Bachmann (1901–1951), American chemist, known for work in steroids and RDX
• Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgian-American chemist
• Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917), German chemist, 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, synthesis of indigo
• Piero Baglioni, Italian chemist
• Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom (1854–1907), Dutch chemist
• Roman Balabin (born 1985), Swiss chemist
• Alice Ball (1892–1916), African American chemist known for inventing an effective injectable treatment for leprosy
• Emily Balskus (born 1980), American chemist and microbiologist
• Zhenan Bao (born 1970), Chinese chemist known for developing technologies with organic field-effect transistors and organic semiconductors
• Allen J. Bard, (born 1933), 2008 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Vincenzo Barone, (born 1952), Italian chemist
• Neil Bartlett (1932–2008), English/Canadian/American chemist
• Sir Derek Barton (1918–1998), 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Fred Basolo (1920–2007), American inorganic chemist
• Esther Batchelder (1897–1987), American chemist, educator and specialist in nutrition
• Antoine Baum (1728–1804), French chemist
• Karl Bayer (1847–1904), Austrian chemist
• Johann Joachim Becher (1635–1682), Developed the phlogiston theory of combustion
• Kathryn Beers, American polymer chemist
• Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838–1906), German-Russian chemist, created Beilstein database
• Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847–1930), French chemist, early work in stereochemistry
• Angela Belcher, American chemist, materials scientist, and biological engineer
• Irina Beletskaya (born 1933), Russian organometallic chemist
• Ronnie Bell (1907–1996), English physical chemist
• Francesco Bellini (born 1947), research scientist, doctor in organic chemistry
• Ruth R. Benerito (1916–2013), American chemist known for inventions relating to textiles
• Paul Berg (born 1926), 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Helen M. Berman (born 1943), American chemist
• Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907), French chemist, important work in thermochemistry
• Claude Louis Berthollet (1748–1822), French chemist
• Carolyn R. Bertozzi, American chemist, Stanford
• Guy Bertrand French chemist, UCSD
• Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848), Swedish chemist, coined the term "polymer" in 1833
• Johannes Martin Bijvoet (1892–1980), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
• Leonora Bilger (1893–1975), American chemist who studied nitrogenous compounds
• Hazel Bishop (1906–1998), American chemist and cosmetics inventor
• Katherine Bitting (1869–1937), Canadian and American food chemist for the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Canners Association
• Joseph Black (1728–1799), chemist
• Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979), American surface chemist and physicist and inventor of nonreflective glass
• Suzanne Blum, American chemist
• Katharine Blunt (1876–1954), American chemist and nutritionist focusing on home economics, food chemistry and nutrition
• Kristie Boering, American chemist and Earth and planetary scientist
• Dale L. Boger (born 1953), American organic and medicinal chemist
• Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838–1912), French chemist
• Jan Boldingh (1915–2003), Dutch chemist
• Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), Russian chemist and composer
• Hans-Joachim Born, German radiochemist
• Carl Bosch (1872–1940), German chemist
• Octave Leopold Boudouard (1872–1923), French chemist who discovered the Boudouard reaction
• Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802–1887), French chemist, agricultural chemistry
• E. J. Bowen (1898–1980), English physical chemist
• Humphry Bowen (1929–2001), English analytical chemist
• Paul D. Boyer (born 1918), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Robert Boyer, employee of Henry Ford focus on soybean use.
• Robert Boyle (1627–1691), English pioneer of modern chemistry
• Henri Braconnot (1780–1855), French chemist and pharmacist
• Henning Brand (c. 1630–c.1692 or c. 1710), German chemist, discovered phosphorus
• Mary Bidwell Breed (1870–1949), American chemist focusing on aromatic acids, first woman dean of Indiana University
• Ronald Breslow, (born 1931), American organic chemist
• Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (1879–1947), Danish chemist
• Herbert C. Brown (1912–2004), 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Jeannette Brown (born 1934), American organic medicinal chemist, historian, and author
• Jeanette Grasselli Brown (born 1928), American analytical chemist and spectroscopist
• Rachel Fuller Brown (1898–1980), American chemist who co-developed the first useful antifungal antibiotic
• Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Stephen L. Buchwald, (born 1955), American Chemist, Organic Chemistry, co-discoverer of Palladium-catalyzed C-N bond formation Buchwald–Hartwig amination
• Mary Van Rensselaer Buell (1893–1969), American chemist who did early research in nutrition and physiological chemistry
• Kathryn Bullock (born 1945), American chemist who co-developed valve-regulated lead-acid batteries
• Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist, discovered the elements caesium and rubidium with Gustav Kirchhoff and invented the Bunsen burner
• Jeanne Burbank (1915–2002), American chemist who developed lead-acid and silver-zinc batteries for submarines at the United States Naval Research Laboratory
• Stephanie Burns (born 1955), American organosilicon chemist and past honorary president of Society of Chemical Industry
• William Merriam Burton (1865–1954), American chemist, developed the first thermal cracking process for crude oil
• Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Alison Butler, American bioinorganic chemist and metallobiochemist
• Aleksandr Butlerov (1828–1886), Russian chemist, discovered the formose reaction

C

• Mary Letitia Caldwell (1890–1972), American chemist who developed a method for purifying crystalline porcine pancreatic amylase
• Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Allison A. Campbell, American chemist studying biomineralization, biomimetics and biomaterials
• Constantin Cândea (1887–1971), Romanian chemist
• Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910), Italian chemist, postulated the Cannizzaro reaction
• Georg Ludwig Carius (1829–1875), German chemist
• Heinrich Caro (1834–1910), German chemist
• Wallace Carothers (1896–1937), American chemist, known for the discovery of nylon
• Emma P. Carr (1880–1972), American spectroscopist
• Marjorie Constance Caserio, American chemist, winner of the American Chemical Society's Garvan Medal
• Marta Catellani, Italian chemist, discovered the Catellani reaction
• Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British scientist
• Elena Ceaușescu
• Thomas Cech (born 1947), 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Martin Chalfie (born 1947), 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Michelle Chang (born 1977), American chemist, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
• Yves Chauvin (born 1930), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Michel Eugėne Chevreul (1786–1889), French chemist, designed an early form of soap, lived to be 102.
• Christine S. Chow, American chemist
• Aaron Ciechanover (born 1947), 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Giacomo Luigi Ciamician, Italian chemist, father of the solar panel
• G. Marius Clore FRS, (born 1955) American chemist and Member of the United States National Academy of Science. Known for foundational work in three-dimensional protein and nucleic acid structure determination by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
• Edward L. Cochran (born 1929), American Chemist, known for pioneering studies on the nature of free radicals
• Ernst Cohen (1869–1944), Dutch chemist (murdered in Auschwitz)
• Mildred Cohn (1913–2009), American chemist who studied chemical reactions within animal cells
• Vicki Colvin (born 1965), Director of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering at Brown University
• James Bryant Conant (1893–1978), American organic Chemist, Priestley Medal 1944
• Elias James Corey (born 1928), American organic chemist, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Robert Corey (1897–1971), American biochemist
• Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984), Czech biochemist, Nobel Prize in medicine 1947
• Gerty Cori (1896–1957), American biochemist, Nobel Prize in medicine 1947
• Charles D. Coryell (1912–1971), American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium
• John Cornforth (born 1917), Australian winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Brigid Cotter (1921–1978), Irish chemist and barrister
• Frank Albert Cotton (1930–2007), 2000 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Charles Coulson (1910–1974), British theoretical chemist
• Archibald Scott Couper (1831–1892), English chemist, further developed Tetravalence
• James Crafts (1839–1917), American chemist, developer of Friedel–Crafts reaction
• Donald J. Cram (1919–2001), American chemist, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• William Crookes (1832–1919), British chemist, discovered the element thallium
• Paul J. Crutzen (born 1933), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Ana Maria Cuervo (born 1966), Spanish-American physician, researcher, and cell biologist
• Marie Curie (1867–1934), Polish radiation physicist, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Pierre Curie (1859–1906), 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Robert Curl (born 1933), American chemist, winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Theodor Curtius (1857–1928), German chemist
• Emil Czyrniański (1824–1888), Polish chemist

D

• John Dalton (1766–1844), physicist and pioneer of the atomic theory
• Marie Maynard Daly (1921–2003), American biochemist and the first African American woman in the United States to earn a PhD in chemistry
• Carl Peter Henrik Dam (1895–1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Vincenzo, Count Dandolo (1758–1819), Italian Nobleman and Chemist
• Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936), American organic chemist, natural product Total synthesis, 1995/6 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Humphry Davy (1778–1829), British Chemist, discovered several alkaline earth metals
• Raymond Davis, Jr. (1914–2006), American physical chemist
• Serena DeBeer (born 1973) is an American chemist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
• Peter Debye (1884–1966), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Johann Deisenhofer (born 1943), 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Francesco DeMaria (born 1928), Italian-American chemist, working in Chemical engineering
• Sir James Dewar (1842–1923)
• François Diederich (born 1952), Luxembourg chemist
• Otto Diels (1876–1954), German chemist, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Robert Dirks (1978–2015), American computational chemist
• Martha Doan (1872–1960), American chemist who studied thallium compounds
• Edward Doisy (1893– 1986), American biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Davorin Dolar (1921–2005), chemist from Univ. of Ljubljana
• Vy Maria Dong (born 1976), American chemist who studies enantioselective catalysis and natural product synthesis
• David Adriaan van Dorp (1915–1995), Dutch chemist
• Israel Dostrovsky (1918-2010), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli physical chemist, fifth president of the Weizmann Institute of Science
• Herbert Henry Dow (1866–1930), American industrial chemist, known for bromine extraction
• Cornelius Drebbel (1572–1633), Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist
• Vratislav Ducháček (born 1941), Czech chemist
• Carl Duisberg (1861–1935), German chemist, early administrative industrial chemist
• Jean Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884), French chemist, work on atomic weights
• Helen Dyer (1895–1998), American biochemist and early cancer researcher

E

• Sandra Eaton, American chemist notable for work on electron paramagnetic resonance
• Eilaf Egap, American chemist
• Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German chemist, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Arthur Eichengrün (1867–1949)
• Manfred Eigen (born 1927), German chemist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Mostafa El-Sayed, Egyptian-American physical chemist
• Fausto Elhuyar (1755–1833), Spanish chemist, discoverer of tungsten
• Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist and recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Conrad Elvehjem (1901–1962), American biochemist, discovered niacin
• Harry Julius Emeléus (1903–1993), British inorganic chemist
• Gladys Anderson Emerson (1903–1984), American chemist and early nutritionist, and the first person to isolate Vitamin E
• Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), German chemist
• Richard R. Ernst, (born 1933), 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Gerhard Ertl (born 1936), German physical chemist, 2007 Nobel prize in chemistry
• Margaret C. Etter (1943–1992), American chemist and developer of solid state chemistry for crystalline organic compounds
• Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873–1964), Swedish chemist, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Henry Eyring (1901–1981), Mexican-American theoretical chemist
• Evelyn Hickmans (born 1883), British chemist, received the John Scott Medal for developing methods to control phenylketonuria

F

• Kazimierz Fajans (1887–1975), Polish-American physical chemist
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867), chemist and physicist, discovered Benzene
• Hermann von Fehling (1812–1885), German chemist
• John Bennett Fenn (born 1917), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Enrico Fermi (1901–1954), Nuclear Chemist and Elementary Particle Physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
• Mary Peters Fieser (1909–1997), American chemist and author of chemistry books
• Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts, Canadian-American atmospheric chemist
• Hermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919), 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, (actual name Hermann Emil Fischer, see below) not to be confused with:
• Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947), German chemist, co-discovered the Fischer-Tropsch process
• Emily V. Fischer, American chemist notable for work on the WE-CAN project and on peroxyacetyl nitrate
• Ernst Gottfried Fischer (1754–1831), German chemist
• Ernst Otto Fischer (1918–2007), German chemist, 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
• Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German organic chemist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
• Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835–1910), German chemist, co-discovered Wurtz–Fittig reaction
• Edith M. Flanigen (born 1929), American chemist known for synthesizing emeralds and zeolites
• Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy (1775–1809), co-discovered the element Iridium and developed modern chemical notation
• Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
• Paul Flory (1910–1985), 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Maria Forsyth, Australian researcher, new plastic materials for batteries
• Margaret D. Foster, Manhattan Project chemist and the first female chemist to work for the United States Geological Survey
• Joanna Fowler (born 1942), American neural chemist
• Michelle Francl, American computational chemist
• Edward Frankland (1825–1899), English chemist, originated the concept of valence
• Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British Chemist and Crystallographer
• Katherine Franz (born 1972), American chemist noted for work in metal ion coordination in biological systems
• Herman Frasch (1851–1914), German mining engineer and inventor, pioneered the Frasch process
• Helen Murray Free (born 1923), American chemist who developed self-testing systems for diabetes
• Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist
• Ida Freund (1863–1914), first woman to be a university chemistry lecturer in the UK.
• Charles Friedel (1832–1899), French chemist, developer of Friedel–Crafts reaction
• Alexander Naumovich Frumkin (1895–1976), electrochemist and chemist
• Kenichi Fukui (1918–1998), 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

G

• Johan Gadolin (1760–1852), Finnish chemist
• Merrill Garnett (born 1930), American biochemist
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850), French chemist and physicist, discovered the Gay-Lussac law
• Charles Frédéric Gerhardt (1816–1856), French chemist, synthesized acetylsalicylic acid
• William Giauque (1895–1982), 1949 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903), American engineer, chemist and physicist
• Walter Gilbert (born 1932), 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Henry Gilman (1893–1986), American chemist, discovered the Gilman reagent
• Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604–1670), Dutch-German alchemist and chemist
• Lawrence E. Glendenin (1918–2008), American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium
• Leopold Gmelin (1788–1853), German chemist, discovered potassium ferricyanide
• Theodore Nicolas Gobley (1811–1874), French chemist, pioneer in brain tissues analysis, discoverer of lecithin
• Sulamith Goldhaber (1923–1965), Austrian-American chemist, high-energy physicist, and molecular spectroscopist
• Victor Goldschmidt (1888–1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry
• Moses Gomberg (1866–1947), Russian-American chemist, known for pioneering work in radical chemistry
• Mary L. Good (1931–2019), American inorganic chemist
• David van Goorle also called Gorlaeus, (1591–1612), Dutch chemist, one of the first modern atomists
• Loney Gordon (1915–1999), American chemist who assisted in creating the pertussis vaccine
• Carl Gräbe (1841–1927), German chemist, discovered the dye alizarin
• Thomas Graham (1805–1869), Scottish chemist, dialysis and diffusion
• Harry B. Gray (born 1935), 2004 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Martha Greenblatt, American solid state inorganic chemist, 2003 American Chemical Society’s Garvan-Olin Medal
• Bettye Washington Greene (1935–1995), American researcher on latex and polymers
• Sandra C. Greer American chemist notable for work on thermodynamics of fluids, polymer solutions and phase transitions
• François Auguste Victor Grignard (1871–1935), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
• Robert H. Grubbs (born 1942), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

H

• Fritz Haber (1868–1934), German chemist, 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, father of the Haber process
• Dorothy Hahn (1876–1950), early American organic chemist and ultraviolet spectroscopist
• Otto Hahn (1879–1968), German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission, 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, father of nuclear chemistry
• Sossina M. Haile (born 1966), American chemist notable for developing the first solid acid fuel cells
• Naomi Halas, American biochemist focusing on nanoshells and nanophotonics
• John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), British biochemist
• Charles Martin Hall (1863–1914), American chemist, famous for Hall-Héroult process
• George S. Hammond (1921–2005), American chemist, famous for Hammond's postulate
• Arthur Harden (1865–1940), English biochemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929
• Elizabeth Hardy, American chemist and discoverer of the Cope rearrangement
• Anna J. Harrison (1912–1998), first female President of the American Chemical Society
• Odd Hassel (1897–1981), Norwegian chemist 1969 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Charles Hatchett (1765–1847), English chemist who discovered niobium
• Herbert A. Hauptman (born 1917), 1985 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Robert Havemann (1910–1982), chemist
• Walter Haworth (1883–1950), 1937 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Alma Levant Hayden (1927–1967), American spectrophotometer at the National Institutes of Health
• Jabir Ibn Hayyan (722–804), Persian-Arab chemist and alchemist
• Clayton Heathcock, American chemist
• Alan J. Heeger (born 1936), 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Jan Baptist van Helmont (1579–1644), The founder of pneumatic chemistry
• Dudley R. Herschbach (born 1932), American chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Avram Hershko (born 1937), 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Charles Herty, American chemist
• Gerhard Herzberg (1904–1999), German-Canadian chemist, 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Germain Henri Hess (1802–1850), Swiss-born Russian chemist, namesake of Hess's Law
• George de Hevesy (1885–1966), Hungarian born chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943
• Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967), Czech chemist, 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Mary Elliott Hill (1907–1969), American chemist who developed analytic methodology for ultraviolet light
• Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897–1967), English physical chemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956
• Ruby Sakae Hirose (1904–1960), American biochemist and bacteriologist
• Gladys Lounsbury Hobby (1910–1993), American microbiologist known for development and early understanding of antibiotics
• Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist, 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), Swiss chemist, synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
• August Wilhelm Hofmann (1818–1892), German chemist, first to isolate sorbic acid
• Darleane C. Hoffman (born 1926), American Nuclear Chemist
• Friedrich Hoffmann (1660–1742), physician and chemist
• Roald Hoffmann (born 1937), Polish-born American chemist, 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Mei Hong (born 1970), Chinese-American biophysical chemist
• Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947), British biochemist, known for discovery of vitamins, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929
• Marjorie G. Horning (born 1917), American biochemist and pioneer of chromatography
• Linda Hsieh-Wilson, American chemist, California Institute of Technology
• Heinrich Hubert Maria Josef Houben (1875–1940) German organic chemist
• Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801–1887), Dutch chemist and chocolate maker, invented cocoa powder
• Amir H. Hoveyda, U.S.-based chemist working in asymmetric catalysis
• Benjamin Hsiao, Asian American chemist at Stony Brook University, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Chemical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Marcia Huber, American chemical engineer and 2005 Department of Commerce Bronze Medal winner
• Robert Huber (born 1937), 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Catherine T. Hunt (born 1955), American chemist, president American Chemical Society and Dow Chemical Company director

I

• Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893–1970), English chemist
• Vladimir Ipatieff (1867–1952), Russian-American chemist, known for organic synthesis

J

• Nancy B. Jackson (born 1956), American chemist
• Marilyn E. Jacox (1929–2013), American chemist and National Institute of Standards and Technology fellow
• Hope Jahren (born 1969), American chemist and isotope analyst
• Paul Janssen (1926–2003), Belgian founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica
• Allene Jeanes (1906–1995), American chemist who developed Dextran to replace plasma in the Korean War
• Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), French chemist and physicist, 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and physicist, 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Madeleine M. Joullié (born 1927), French-American organic chemist and first woman to have an American tenure track position in organic chemistry
• Percy Lavon Julian (1899–1975), American organic chemist

K

• Henri B. Kagan (born 1930), 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Isabella Karle (1921–2017), American chemist instrumental for extracting plutonium chloride from a mixture containing plutonium oxide
• Jerome Karle (born 1918), 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Paul Karrer (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783–1857)
• Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (born 1929), American chemist and inventor of conformational topology
• Melinda H. Keefe, American chemist and research and development director at the Dow Chemical Company
• August Kekulé (1829–1896), German organic chemist
• Sinah Estelle Kelley (1916–1982), American chemist who helped pioneer mass production of penicillin
• John Kendrew (1917–1997), 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Ann Kiessling, American chemist and reproductive biologist
• Petrus Jacobus Kipp (1808–1864), Dutch chemist, inventor of Kipp-generator
• Johan Kjeldahl (1849–1900), Danish chemist, head chemist at Carlsberg Brewery, methods still in use
• Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743–1817), German chemist, discovered the element uranium
• Trevor Kletz (1922–2013) British promoter of industrial safety
• Aaron Klug (born 1926), winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Emil Knoevenagel (1865–1921)
• William Standish Knowles, (born 1917), 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Walter Kohn, (born 1923), 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe (1818–1884), German chemist known for Kolbe nitrile synthesis
• Izaak Kolthoff (1894–1993), Dutch-American chemist, the "Father of Analytical Chemistry"
• Roger D. Kornberg (born 1947), 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Hans A. Krebs (1900–1981), German biochemist, work on metabolic cycles
• Harold Kroto (1939–2016), English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

L

• Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), chemist, physicist, 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Auguste Laurent (1807–1853), French chemist, discovered anthracene
• Paul Lauterbur (1929–2007), American chemist
• Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794), French pioneer chemist
• Nicolas Leblanc (1742–1806), French chemist and surgeon
• Henri Louis Le Chatelier (1850–1936)
• Yuan T. Lee (born 1936), winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Valery Legasov (1936–1988), Soviet inorganic chemist known for his position as head of the Chernobyl Commission for the Chernobyl Disaster.
• Jean-Marie Lehn (born 1939), French chemist, shared 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Luis Federico Leloir (1906–1987), Argentine biochemist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Raymond Lemieux (1920–2000), 1999 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875–1946), American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry
• Andreas Libavius (1555–1616), German doctor and chemist
• Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842–1914), German chemist, known for synthesis of alizarin
• Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist, winner of 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Justus von Liebig (1803–1873), German inventor and pioneer in agricultural and biological chemistry
• Karl Paul Link (1901–1978), American biochemist, discovered the anticoagulant warfarin.
• William Lipscomb (born 1919), 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827–1912), English surgeon
• Arthur H. Livermore (1915–2009), science educator and chemist
• Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian scientist, anticipated the kinetic-molecular theory by 100 years
• H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, British chemist
• Martin Lowry (1874–1936), British chemist
• Sima Lozanić (1847–1935), Serbian chemist
• Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1802–1882), Polish pharmacist

M

• Alan MacDiarmid (1927–2007), 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry (1904–1993), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
• Roderick MacKinnon (born 1956), 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Pierre Macquer (1718–1784), influential French chemist
• Rudolph A. Marcus, (born 1923), 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Jacob A. Marinsky (1918–2005), American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium
• Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817–1894), Swiss chemist, discovered ytterbium and co-discovered gadolinium.
• Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov (1838–1904)
• Tobin J. Marks (born 1944), American inorganic chemist and material scientist
• Alan G. Marshall, American chemist, co-inventor of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry
• Archer John Porter Martin (1910–2002), 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Martinus van Marum (1750–1837), Dutch chemist
• Elmer McCollum (1879–1967), American biochemist, known for work of diet on health
• Edwin McMillan (1907–1991), 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Lise Meitner (1878–1968), German physicist
• Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907), Russian chemist, creator of the Periodic table of elements
• John Mercer (1791–1866), chemist and industrialist
• Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921–2006), solid-phase chemist, 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Julius Lothar Meyer (1830–1895), German chemist, important work on The periodic table of elements; not to be confused with:
• Viktor Meyer (1848–1897)
• Dan Meyerstein (born 1938), Israeli chemist and president of Ariel University
• August Michaelis (1847–1916), German chemist
• Hartmut Michel (born 1948), 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Huang Minlon (1889–1979), Chinese chemist
• Stanley Miller (born 1930), American chemist, best known for the Miller–Urey experiment
• Luis E. Miramontes (1925–2004), co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill
• Peter D. Mitchell (1920–1992), 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• William A. Mitchell (1911–2004), key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, and Kool Whip
• Eilhardt Mitscherlich (1794–1863) German chemist, remembered for the law of isomorphism.
• Karl Friedrich Mohr (1806–1879), German chemist famous for first musings on the Conservation of energy
• Henri Moissan (1852–1907), French chemist and the winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Mario J. Molina, (born 1943), 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Jacques Monod (1910–1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
• Jeffrey S. Moore (born 1961), American material chemist
• Peter Moore (born 1939), American biochemist, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University
• Stanford Moore (1913–1982), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887–1915), English physicist, discovered Moseley's law
• Gerardus Johannes Mulder (1802–1880), Dutch organic chemist
• Paul Müller (1899–1965), Swiss chemist, discovered DDT, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939
• Robert S. Mulliken (1896–1986), American physicist, chemist, 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Kary Mullis (born 1944), 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Earl Muetterties (1927–1984) American chemist
• Catherine J. Murphy (born 1964), American chemist and materials scientist

N

• Robert Nalbandyan (1937–2002), Armenian protein chemist
• Giulio Natta (1903–1979), Italian chemist, 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Costin Nenitescu (1902–1970), Romanian chemist
• Antonio Neri (1500s–1614), Florentine chemist and glassmaker
• Walther Nernst (1864–1941), German chemist, 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• John Alexander Reina Newlands (1837–1898), English analytical chemist
• William Nicholson (1753–1815), English chemist
• Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, American chemist
• Julius Nieuwland (1878–1936), American chemist, work on synthetic rubber leading to neoprene
• Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), Swedish chemist
• Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897–1978), 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• John Howard Northrop (1891–1987), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Ryōji Noyori (born 1938), 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Ralph Nuzzo, American chemist and materials scientists

O

• George Andrew Olah (born 1927), 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Fred Olsen (1891–1986), inventor of the ball propellant manufacturing process
• Lars Onsager (1903–1976), physical chemist, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Tony Orchard (1941–2005), British inorganic chemist, photoelectron spectroscopist
• Joan Oró (1923–2004), Catalan biochemist, one of his most important contributions was the prebiotic synthesis of the nucleobase adenine from hydrogen cyanide.
• Hans Christian Ørsted, First to isolate aluminium
• Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932), 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

P

• Paracelsus (1493–1541), alchemist
• Rudolph Pariser (born 1923), theoretical and organic chemist
• Robert G. Parr (born 1921), theoretical chemist
• Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French biochemist, father of pasteurization
• Linus Pauling (1901–1994), Nobel Prizes in chemistry and peace
• Charles J. Pedersen (1904–1989), 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Eugène-Melchior Péligot (1811–1890) French chemist who isolated the uranium metal
• William Henry Perkin (1838–1907) British organic chemist and inventor of mauveine (dye)
• William Henry Perkin, Jr. (1860–1929) British organic chemist, son of Sir William Henry Perkin
• Max Perutz (1914–2002), 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Eva Philbin (1914–2005), Irish chemist
• David Andrew Phoenix (born 1966), biochemist
• Roy J. Plunkett (1910–1994), discoverer of Teflon
• John Charles Polanyi (born 1929), Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986.
• John A. Pople (1925–2004), theoretical chemist, 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Vera Vevstafievna Popova (1867–1896), one of the first female Russian chemists.
• George Porter (1920–2002), 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Fritz Pregl (1869–1930), Slovene-German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923.
• Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998), 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), no formal training as a scientist, discovered the element oxygen
• Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003), 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Joseph Louis Proust (1754–1826), discovered the Law of definite proportions

R

• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, (born 1952), 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• William Ramsay (1852–1916), Scottish chemist, 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• C. N. R. Rao (born 1934), Indian chemist
• François-Marie Raoult (1830–1901), 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
• Ken Raymond, American inorganic and bioinorganic chemist, UC Berkeley
• Julius Rebek (born 1944), Hungarian American chemist
• Charles Lee Reese (1862–1940) American chemist and Chemical Director of DuPont
• Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French chemist and physicist
• Tadeus Reichstein (1897–1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Rhazes (Razi), Iranian chemist (865–925)
• Stuart A. Rice (born 1932), physical chemist
• Ellen Swallow Richards (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist
• Theodore William Richards (1868–1928), 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Wim Richter, South Africa
• Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762–1807), German chemist, first used the term stoichiometry
• Nikolaus Riehl, Germany (1901–1990)
• Andrés Manuel del Río (1764–1849), Spanish-Mexican geochemist, discovered vanadium
• Robert Robinson (1886–1975), 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Pierre Jean Robiquet (1780–1840), French chemist, discovered caffeine, alizarin, cantharidin
• Hillar Rootare (born 1928) Estonian-American physical chemist
• Irwin Rose (born 1926), 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Guillaume-François Rouelle (1703–1770), French chemist
• H. M. Rouell (1718–1779), French chemist
• Frank Sherwood Rowland (born 1927), 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Daniel Rutherford (1749–1819), Scottish chemist
• Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), New Zealand born chemist and nuclear physicist. Discovered the proton. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908
• Leopold Ruzicka (Lavoslav Ružička), (1887–1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

S

• Paul Sabatier (1854–1941), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
• Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765), Chemist and teacher of Jabir Bin Hayyan
• Frederick Sanger (born 1918), 1958 and 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786), Swedish 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements
• Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799–1868), German-Swiss chemist, invented the fuel cell, and discovered gun cotton and ozone.
• Stuart L. Schreiber (born 1956), American chemist, a pioneer in a field of chemical biology
• Richard R. Schrock (born 1945), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Peter Schultz, American chemist
• Glenn T. Seaborg (1912–1999), 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787–1845), chemist
• Francesco Selmi (1817–1881), Italian chemist
• Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (1896–1986), physicist and chemist, 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• K. Barry Sharpless, (born 1941), 2001 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Dan Shechtman (born 1941) 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discovered quasicrystals
• Patsy O. Sherman (born 1930), 12 US Patents
• Nevil Vincent Sidgwick (1873–1952), English theoretical chemist, known for work in valency
• Osamu Shimomura (1928–2018), 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Hideki Shirakawa (born 1936), 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Alexander Shulgin (born 1925), Pioneer researcher in Psychopharmacology and Entheogens
• Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (1897–1994), Pakistani chemist, pioneer in natural products chemistry
• Oktay Sinanoglu (born 1935), Turkish chemist
• Joseph H. Simons, (1897-1983) U.S. chemist, discoverer of fluorocarbons, used in gaseous diffusion of Uranium for Manhattan project
• Jens Christian Skou (born 1918), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Richard Smalley (1943–2005), 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Michael Smith (1932–2000), 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Ascanio Sobrero (1812–1888), Italian chemist, discoverer of nitroglycerin
• Frederick Soddy (1877–1956), British chemist, 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Susan Solomon, American atmospheric chemist
• Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), Belgian chemist and industrialist
• S.P.L. Sørensen (1868–1939), Danish chemist
• Gabor A. Somorjai (born 1935), 1998 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Georg Ernst Stahl (1659–1734), Important work on fermentation
• Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904–1971), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Jean Servais Stas (1813–1891), Belgian analytical chemist
• Branko Stanovnik (born 1938), chemist
• Hermann Staudinger (1881–1965), polymer chemist, 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Harry Steenbock (1886–1967), American biochemist, work on ultra violet irradiation
• William Howard Stein (1911–1980), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Thomas A. Steitz (born 1940), 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Alfred Stock (1876–1946), German inorganic chemist, known for work in mercury poisoning
• Fraser Stoddart, (born 1945), 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 (1925–2011), British inorganic chemist
• S. Donald Stookey (born 1915), American glass and ceramic chemist
• Gilbert Stork (born 1921), 1995/6 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (1829–1896), German organic chemist, principal founder of chemical structure
• James B. Sumner (1887–1955), 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 (1884–1971), 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Joseph Swan (1828–1914), English physicist, chemist and inventor
• Frédéric Swarts (1866–1940), Belgian chemist, prepared the first chlorofluorocarbon compound
• Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914–1994), 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

T

• Koichi Tanaka (born 1959), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Henry Taube (1915–2005), 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Louis Jacques Thénard (1777–1857), French chemist, discovered hydrogen peroxide and Thenard's Blue.
• Sir Harold Warris Thompson (1908–1983), English physical chemist
• J. J. Thomson (1856–1940), British physicist, Known in chemistry for discovery of isotopes
• T. Don Tilley (born 1954), organometallic chemist
• Arne Tiselius (1902–1971), 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Max Tishler (1906–1989), 1970 Priestley Medal
• Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd (1907–1997), 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and chemist who invented the barometer, pupil of Galileo
• Roger Y. Tsien (1952–2016), 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Mikhail Tsvet (1872–1919), Russian botanist, known for adsorption chromatography

U

• Georges Urbain (1872–1938), French chemist, discovered the element lutetium
• Harold Clayton Urey (1893–1981), 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

V

• Lauri Vaska (born 1925), Estonian/American chemist
• Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763–1829), Discovered the elements beryllium and chromium
• Vincent du Vigneaud (1901–1978), 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895–1973), chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• Max Volmer, Germany (1885–1965)
• Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), electrochemist, invented the voltaic cell

W

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923)
• Sir James Walker (1863–1935), Scottish physical chemist
• John E. Walker (born 1941), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Otto Wallach (1847–1931), German chemist, 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• John Warner (born 1966), American chemist, 2014 Perkin Medal, one of the "founders" of green chemistry
• Alfred Werner (1866–1919), Swiss chemist, 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Thomas Summers West (1927–2010), British analytical chemist
• Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997)
• Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952), Russian chemist, developed the ABE-process
• George M. Whitesides (born 1939), American chemist
• John Rex Whinfield (1901–1966), British chemist, discovered polyester fibres
• Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957) German chemist 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Julius Wilbrand, inventor of TNT
• Harvey W. Wiley (1844–1930), American chemist, pure food and drug advocate
• Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996), 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Alexander William Williamson, English chemist, famous for Williamson ether synthesis
• Thomas Willson (1860–1915), Canadian chemist, discovered an economically efficient process for creating calcium carbide
• Richard Willstätter (1872–1942), 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (1876–1959), 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Günter Wirths, Germany
• Georg Wittig (1897–1987), 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea
• William Hyde Wollaston (1766–1828), English chemist, discovered the elements palladium and rhodium
• Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Charles de Worms (1903–1979)
• Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884), Alsatian French chemist, discovered the Wurtz reaction
• Kurt Wüthrich (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

X

• Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (born 1962), chemist at Harvard University. A pioneer in the field of Single Molecule Microscopy and CARS (Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy) microscopy.
• Xie Yi (born 1967), Chinese chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Y

• Ada Yonath (born 1939), 2006/7 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Sabir Yunusov (1909–1995), Soviet chemist (alkaloids)

Z

• Richard Zare (born 1939), 2005 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Ahmed H. Zewail (1946–2016), Egyptian, 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.
• Karl Ziegler (1898–1973), 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865–1929), 1925 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Chemists famous in other areas

• Xi Jinping (born 1953), General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of China
• Marion Barry (born 1936), Masters in Organic Chemistry, American politician
• Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), Russian chemist and composer
• Jerry Buss (1934–2013), PhD in Physical Chemistry, owner of the NBA LA Lakers and other sports franchises
• Catherine Coleman (born 1960), American chemist and retired NASA astronaut who went on two Space Shuttle missions
• Emmanuel Dongala (born 1941), Congolese chemist and novelist
• Elizabeth J. Feinler (born 1931), American information scientist and past director of the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute
• Marye Anne Fox (born 1947), American chemist and university chancellor
• Dolph Lundgren (born 1957), Masters in Chemistry, Swedish actor
• Primo Levi (1919–1987), resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
• Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), Russian chemist, historian, philologist, and poet.
• Angela Merkel (born 1954), doctorate in quantum chemistry, Chancellor of Germany (2005–present)
• Gaspard Monge (1746–1818), invented descriptive geometry
• Francis Muguet (1955–2009), advocate of open information access
• Edward W. Morley (1838–1923), performed the Michelson–Morley experiment
• Knute Rockne (1888–1931), head football coach of Notre Dame
• Elio Di Rupo (born 1951), Prime Minister of Belgium
• Israel Shahak (1933–2001)
• Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990), research chemist at BX Plastics

Articles about notable biochemists include:

Innhold:	Topp – 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Æ Ø Å

A

• John Jacob Abel, (1857–1938) American biochemist and pharmacologist. He founded and chaired the first department of pharmacology in the United States at the University of Michigan.
• John Abelson, (b. 1938) American biologist with expertise in biophysics, biochemistry, and genetics. He was a professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
• Gary Ackers, (1939–2011) American Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Washington University in St. Louis.
• Julius Adler, (b. 1930) American Professor of biochemistry and genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
• David Agard, American Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Natalie Ahn, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
• Bruce Alberts, (b. 1938) American biochemist known for his work in science public policy and as an original author of Molecular Biology of the Cell. Alberts, noted particularly for his study of the protein complexes which enable chromosome replication when living cells divide.
• Denis Alexander, (b. 1945), Emeritus Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. Open Scholar at Oxford, where he studied Biochemistry. He studied for a PhD in Neurochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry.
• Richard Amasino, Professor of biochemistry and genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Member of the National Academy of Sciences and was awarded the McKnight Foundation Individual Research Award in Plant Biology in 1986.
• Bruce Ames, (b. 1928) Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Awarded the National Medal of Science and is the inventor of the Ames test.
• John E. Amoore, British, Biochemist who postulated the stereochemical theory of olfaction in 1952.
• Rudolph John Anderson, (1879–1961) American biochemist, graduated with a PhD from Cornell University Medical College.
• Thomas F. Anderson, (1911–1991) American biophysical chemist and geneticist. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1964.
• Mortimer Louis Anson, (1901–1968), American biochemist famous for the advancement in the field of Protein Chemistry.
• Akira Arimura, (1923–2007), Japanese biochemist and endocrinologist; professor at Tulane University
• Shy Arkin (b. 1965), Israeli Professor of Structural Biochemistry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Judy Armitage, British professor of molecular and cellular biochemistry at the University of Oxford.
• Helen Asemota, Nigerian professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of the West Indies.
• Gilbert Ashwell, (1916–2014), American biochemist known for isolating the first cell receptor.
• Isaac Asimov, (1920–1992), Russian-born American science fiction writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University
• William Astbury, (1898–1961), British, pioneer in applying X-ray crystallography to biological molecules such as proteins
• Milo Aukerman, (b. 1963) American biochemist best known for being the lead singer of the punk band the Descendents.

B

• Werner Emmanuel Bachmann (1901–1951), American chemist, studied physical organic chemistry and organic synthesis. Considered a pioneer in steroid synthesis.
• David Baker (born 1962) American biochemist and computational biologist who studies methods to predict and design the three-dimensional structures of proteins. He is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Washington.
• Tania A. Baker, American biochemist, Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the National Academy of Science.
• Clinton Ballou (b. 1923), Professor Emeritus of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as an editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Horace Barker (1907–2000), American biochemist and microbiologist. Awarded his PhD from Stanford University in 1933.
• David Bartel, Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Member of the Whitehead Institute.
• Paul Baskis, American biochemist.
• Bonnie Bassler (b. 1962), American molecular biologist and Professor at Princeton University.
• Philip A. Beachy (b. 1958), Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
• Jon Beckwith (b. 1935), American microbiologist and geneticist. Professor of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School.
• Lorena S. Beese, Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University.
• Helmut Beinert (1913–2007), German born-American professor in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
• Marlene Belfort (b. 1945), American biochemist and professor at the Wadsworth Center at the New York State Department of Health.
• Boris Pavlovich Belousov (1893–1970), USSR, chemist/biophysicist, Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction.
• Paul Berg (b. 1926) American biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980.
• Helen M. Berman, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University.
• Klaus Biemann (b. 1926), Professor Emeritus of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Ethel Ronzoni Bishop (1890–1975), American biochemist and physiologist. Awarded her PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1923.
• Pamela J. Bjorkman (b. 1956), American biochemist and Max Delbrück Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology.
• Konrad Emil Bloch (1912–2000), German-American, 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• Elkan Blout (1919–2006), Professor of biochemistry at Harvard University. Awarded the National Medal of Science in 1990.
• Aaron Bodansky (1887–1960), Russian-born American biochemist specializing in the area calcium metabolism. Earned his PhD from Cornell University in 1921.
• Paul D. Boyer (b. 1918), American, studies on ATP synthase, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997.
• Harold C. Bradley (1878–1976), Professor in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
• Roscoe Brady (b. 1923), American biochemist, Earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1947. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Kenneth Breslauer, Linus C. Pauling professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University.
• Anne Briscoe (1918–2014), American biochemist and activist. Earned her PhD from Yale University in 1949.
• Bernard Brodie (1907–1989), Leading researcher in the field of pharmacology. Awarded the Distinguished Service Award of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1958 and the National Medal of Science in 1968.
• Adrian John Brown (1852–1920), British, pioneer in enzyme kinetics
• Patrick O. Brown (b. 1954), Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University.
• Thomas Bruice, Professor of chemistry and biochemistry at University of California, Santa Barbara. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
• John Buchanan, Professor of biochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earned his PhD from Harvard University in 1943.
• Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), German, 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry see fermentation (biochemistry)
• Dean Burk (1904–1988), American, co-discoverer of biotin.
• Robert H. Burris (1914–2010), Professor in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1979.

C

• David S. Cafiso, (b. 1952) American biochemist and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia.
• T. Colin Campbell, (b. 1934) Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University.
• David E. Cane, (b. 1944) Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry at Brown University. Earned his PhD at Harvard University in 1971.
• Lewis C. Cantley, (b. 1949) Professor in the Departments of Systems Biology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
• John Carbon, Professor Emeritus of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
• H. E. Carter, (1910–2007) American biochemist, Earned PhD in 1934 in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois.
• Thomas Cech, (b. 1947) President of Howard Hughes Medical Institute and was awarded the 1989 Nobel prize in chemistry along with Sidney Altman.
• Howard Cedar, (b. 1943) Israeli American biochemist, awarded the Israel Prize in Biology in 1999.
• Michael Chamberlin, (b. 1937) Professor Emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biology at University of California, Berkeley. Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
• Britton Chance, (1913–2010), professor emeritus of biochemistry and biophysics. Has a PhD in physical chemistry and also a PhD in biology/physiology. Also earned a gold medal in sailing from the 1952 Summer Olympics.
• Christopher Chang, (b. 1974) Professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Michelle Chang, (b. 1977)
• Emmett Chappelle, (b. 1925) biochemist inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work on Bioluminescence.
• Erwin Chargaff, (1905–2002) Austrian biochemist known for Chargaff's rules.
• Martha Chase, (1927–2003) American geneticist, earned her PhD from the University of Southern California.
• Zhijian James Chen, Chinese American biochemist and Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
• Gilbert Chu, Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at the Stanford Medical School.
• Paul Chun, Professor emeritus at the University of Florida.
• George M. Church, (b. 1954) Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard University and MIT.
• Steven Clarke, (b. 1949)
• W. Wallace Cleland, (1930–2013)
• G. Marius Clore FRS, (b. 1955) American biochemist, chemist and biophysicist, National Institutes of Health Distinguished Investigator and Member of the United States National Academy of Science. Foundational work in three-dimensional protein and nucleic acid structure determination by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
• Philip Cohen, (born 1945)
• Edwin Joseph Cohn, (1892–1953)
• Mildred Cohn, (1913–2009)
• Robert Corey, (1897–1971) American, co-discoverer of the alpha helix and beta sheet
• Carl Ferdinand Cori, (1896–1984), American, 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, glycogen research.
• Gerty Cori, (1896–1957), American, 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, glycogen research.
• Shirley Corriher, (b. 1935)
• Peter Coveney, UK, Computational molecular biology specialist.
• Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, (1938–2006)
• Gerald Crabtree, (b. 1946)
• Elizabeth A. Craig
• Margaret Crane
• Robert K. Crane, (1919–2010), American, discovered sodium-glucose cotransport.
• Francis Crick, (1916–2004), British, discovered the double helical structure of DNA.
• Lourdes J. Cruz
• Pedro Cuatrecasas, (b. 1936)
• Richard D. Cummings
• David Cushman, (1939–2000)

D

• Valerie Daggett
• John Call Dalton (1825–1889)
• John W. Daly (1933–2008)
• Marie Maynard Daly (1921–2003)
• Carl Peter Henrik Dam (1895–1976), Danish, 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Robert B. Darnell (b. 1957)
• Marguerite Davis (b. 1887)
• Ronald W. Davis (b. 1941)
• Margaret Oakley Dayhoff (1925–1983)
• Michael W. Deem
• William DeGrado
• Hector DeLuca
• Pierre De Meyts (b. 1944), Belgian physician and biochemist, 2002 Christophe Plantin Prize, Belgium
• Willey Glover Denis (1879–1929)
• Herbert C. Dessauer (1921–2013)
• Revaz Dogonadze (1931–1985), Georgian, Co-author of the quantum-mechanical model of Enzyme Catalysis
• Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893–1986)
• Ford Doolittle (b. 1942)
• Jonathan Dordick (b. 1959)
• Ralph Dorfman (1911–1985)
• Jennifer Doudna
• Alexander Dounce (1909–1997)
• Gideon Dreyfuss
• Jack Cecil Drummond FRS (1891–1952), isolation of Vitamin A, wartime advisor on nutrition
• Christian de Duve, (1917–2013), British-born Belgian, 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

E

• Richard H. Ebright, American molecular biologist and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University.
• John Tileston Edsall (1902–2002)
• Konstantin Efetov (b. 1958) Ukrainian biochemist.
• Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), American biochemist and pharmacologist. Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and is a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
• Terry Elton, American biochemist, earned his PhD in Biochemistry from Washington State University.
• Conrad Elvehjem (1901–1962), American biochemist specializing in nutrition.
• Gladys Anderson Emerson (1903–1984), American historian, biochemist and nutritionist.
• Akira Endo, statins
• Donald Engelman, cancer research
• Earl Evans (1910–1999)

F

• Leone N. Farrell (1904–1986) Canadian biochemist and microbiologist
• Richard D. Feinman (b. 1940) Professor of biochemistry and medical researcher at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
• David Sidney Feingold (b. 1922) American biochemist
• John D. Ferry, (b. 1912)
• Edmond H. Fischer (b. 1920) Swiss American biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• Louis B. Flexner (1902–1996) American biochemist.
• Otto Folin (1867–1934)
• Karl August Folkers (1906–1997) American biochemist awarded the National Medal of Science.
• Bent Formby
• Sidney W. Fox (1912–1998)
• Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat (1910–1999) German/US, virus research.
• Rosalind Franklin, (1920–1958) X-ray crystallographer who helped determine the structure of DNA
• Perry A. Frey (b. 1935) Professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
• Irwin Fridovich (b. 1929) American biochemist.
• Joseph S. Fruton (1912–2007)
• Kazimierz Funk, (1884–1967) Polish, see Vitamin
• Robert F. Furchgott (1916–2009) American biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

G

• Elmer L. Gaden
• Alberto Granado, (1922–2011) Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. Best known for being friends with Che Guevara.
• Merrill Garnett, (b. 1931) Biochemist and cancer researcher.
• Michael H. Gelb, (b. 1957)
• Susan Gerbi, (b. 1944) Professor of Biochemistry and a professor of biology at Brown University.
• Jonathan Gershenzon (b. 1955)
• William John Gies, (1872–1956)
• Walter Gilbert, (b. 1932) Biochemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Martin Glennie, (b. 1956) British, developed anti-cancer therapeutic chiLOB7/4.
• Edward D. Goldberg, (1921–2008)
• Joseph L. Goldstein, (b. 1940) Biochemist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• Eugene Goldwasser, (1922–2010)
• Michael M. Gottesman, (b. 1946) American biochemist.
• Sam Granick, (1909–1977) American biochemist and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
• David E. Green, (1910–1983) pioneer in the study of enzymes, particularly those involved in oxidative phosphorylation.
• Lewis Joel Greene, (b. 1934) American Brazilian biochemist
• Walter Greiling, (1900–1986), German, worked in the field of agricultural microbiology.
• Mark Griep, (b. 1959), Professor of chemistry at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
• Frederick Griffith, (1879–1941), British, discovered that DNA carried hereditary information.
• Charles Grisham, Professor of chemistry at the University of Virginia.
• Kun-Liang Guan, (b. 1963) Chinese-born American biochemist
• F. Peter Guengerich, Professor of biochemistry and the director of the Center in Molecular Toxicology at Vanderbilt University.
• Irwin Gunsalus, (1912–2008) American biochemist who discovered lipoic acid.

H

• John Scott Haldane, (1860–1936) British, physiologist
• Dorothy Hodgkin, (1910–1994) British, founder of protein crystallography and Nobel Prize winner
• Frederick Gowland Hopkins, (1861–1947) British, Nobel Prize-winner for the discovery of vitamins
• Arthur Harden, (1865–1940) British, awarded a Nobel prize for studies on the enzymes of fermentation
• Wayne L. Hubbell, (born 1943) American, biochemist-pioneer of site-directed spin labeling
• Max Henius, (1859–1935) Danish-American Biochemist who specialized in the fermentation processes

I

• Harvey Itano (1920–2010)

J

• Zheng Ji, (1900–2010), Reputed to be the world's oldest professor and the founder of modern nutrition science in China.
• Tracy L. Johnson, Biochemist, Cell and Molecular Biologist, HHMI Professor

K

• Herman Kalckar (1908–1991), Danish, early work on cellular respiration, nucleotide metabolism and galactose metabolism.
• Sir Bernard Katz (1911–2003), German-born, 1970 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for work on nerve biochemistry and the pineal gland.
• Stuart Alan Kauffman (b. 1939), Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
• John Kendrew (1917–1997), British, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962 for determining the first crystal structure of a protein, myoglobin.
• Sir Ernest Kennaway (1881–1958), British, early work on carcinogenic effects of hydrocarbons
• Aila Keto (b. 1943), President of the Rainforest Conservation Society in Queensland, Australia, now known as the Australia Rainforest Conservation Society. Studied biochemistry at the University of Queensland.
• Antony Kidman (1938–2014), Australian biochemist earned his PhD on an American Cancer Society Scholarship from the University of Hawaii. Father of Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman.
• Charles Glen King (1896–1988), American biochemist who was a pioneer in the field of nutrition research.
• Arthur Kornberg (1918–2007), American biochemist, won the Nobel Prize in 1959 for discovery of DNA polymerase.
• Sir Hans Kornberg (1928–2019), British, Microbial biochemistry
• Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist, won the Nobel Prize in 2006 for studies on RNA polymerase.
• Thomas B. Kornberg, American biochemist
• Ernst T. Krebs Jr. (1911–1996), promoter of the ineffective cancer cures laetrile and pangamic acid
• Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), German, 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine see Krebs cycle

L

• Marc Lacroix (biochemist), (b. 1963), Belgian.
• David Lester (1916–1990), American biochemist who did extensive studies of alcoholism and was a professor at Rutgers University.
• Phoebus Levene, (1869–1940), Russian, discovered that DNA was composed of nucleobases and phosphate.
• Choh Hao Li (1913–1987) Known for discovering and synthesizing the human pituitary growth hormone.
• Albert L. Lehninger (1917–86) discovered, with Eugene P. Kennedy, that mitochondria are the site of oxidative phosphorylation in eukaryotes. Author of many classic texts most notably, his series Principles of Biochemistry.

M

• John James Rickard Macleod, (1876–1935) Scottish biochemist and physiologist, 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, discovery of Insulin.
• Thaddeus Mann, (1908–1993) British reproductive biologist.
• Harden M. McConnell, (b. 1927) American biochemist
• Maude Menten, (1879–1960) Canadian, early work on enzyme kinetics.
• Friedrich Miescher, (1844–1895) first scientist to isolate DNA
• Peter D. Mitchell, (1920–1992) British, 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Leonor Michaelis, (1875–1949) German, early work on enzyme kinetics.
• César Milstein, (1927–2002) Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.
• Jacques Monod, (1910–1976) French, 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Kary Mullis, (b. 1944) American, 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry see Polymerase chain reaction
• Elmer Verner McCollum (1879–1967) co-discovered Vitamins A and D and their benefits

N

• David Nachmansohn, (1899–1983), German, responsible for elucidating the role of phosphocreatine in energy production in the muscles
• Joseph Needham, (1900–1995), British, studied the history of Chinese science
• Carl Neuberg, (1877–1956), German, pioneer in the study of metabolism
• Marshall Warren Nirenberg, (b. 1927), American, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Roland Victor Norris, (1888–1950), British, pioneered biochemistry in India
• Paul Nurse, (b. 1949), British, awarded a Nobel prize for studies on the control of the cell cycle
• Eva J. Neer, (1937–2000), American scientist, awarded the American Heart Association's Basic Research Prize 1997, also the FASEB Excellence in Science Award in 1998 for research on G-proteins cell biology

O

• Frank Olson, (1910–1953), American, non-consenting subject of CIA MKULTRA
• Muriel Wheldale Onslow (1880–1932), British biochemist, pioneer in biochemical genetics
• Alexander Oparin, (1894–1980), Soviet biochemist notable for his untested theories about the origin of life.
• Mary Jane Osborn (b. 1927), American lipopolysaccharide researcher

P

• Jakub Karol Parnas, (1884–1949), Polish – Soviet, major contributor to the discovery of glycolysis
• Linus Pauling, (1901–1994) American, 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Louis Pasteur, (1822–1895), French, pioneer in microbiology and stereochemistry
• Max Perutz, (1914–2002), British, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962 for solving the crystal structure of hemoglobin
• Samuel Victor Perry (1918–2009), British, pioneer in muscle research
• David Andrew Phoenix, (b. 1966), British, Structure-function relationships of amphiphilic peptides

Q

• Judah Hirsch Quastel, (1899–1987), British-Canadian, neurochemistry, soil metabolism, cell metabolism, and cancer.

R

• R. Rajalakshmi (1926–2007), Indian nutritionist and biochemist
• David Rittenberg, (1906–1970), US, pioneer in the use of radioactive tracers in molecules
• Jane S. Richardson, (b. 1941), US, developer of the ribbon diagram

S

• Frederick Sanger (1918–2013), two Nobel prizes for DNA sequencing and protein sequencing
• Rudolph Schoenheimer (1898–1941), German/US, pioneer of radioactive tagging of molecules
• Anatoly Sharpenak, (1895–1969), Russian, biochemist
• Alexander Shulgin, (b. 1925), Russian/American pharmacologist, popularized MDMA in America, and work with various psychoactive drugs
• Karl Slotta, (1895–1987), German/US, biochemist pioneer in study of progesterone and antivenom.
• Olav Aasmund Smidsrød (b. 1936), Norwegian biochemist
• Donald F. Steiner, (1930–2014), American biochemist who made ground breaking discoveries in the treatment of diabetes
• Majory Stephenson, (1885-1948), British biochemist and microbiologist
• Audrey Stevens, (1932–2010), co-discoverer of RNA polymerase
• Amanda Swart, South African biochemist known for her research on rooibos

T

• Arne Tiselius, (1902–1971), Nobel laureate, developed protein electrophoresis.

V

• Ruth van Heyningen (1917–2019), British biochemist recognized for her research on the lens and cataracts.
• Angela Vincent, British, autoimmune and genetic disorders.
• Frederic Vester, (1925–2003), German author and ecologist.
• John Craig Venter, (b. 1946), American, Human Genome Project.

W

• John E. Walker (b. 1941), British biochemist.
• Selman Waksman (1888–1973), Russian, biochemist.
• Christopher T. Walsh, Professor of biological chemistry and pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.
• James C. Wang, (b. 1938), Chinese-born American biochemist and biologist. Professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Harvard University. Known for the discovery of topoisomerases.
• Xiaodong Wang, (b. 1963), Chinese-born American biochemist best known for his work with cytochrome c. Member of United States National Academy of Sciences and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• Lewis W. Wannamaker (1924–1983), American biochemist and was a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Arieh Warshel (b. 1940), Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013.
• James D. Watson (b. 1928), American, discovered the double helical structure of DNA
• Samuel Weiss, Canadian neurobiologist, studied biochemistry at McGill University.
• Karl Günther Weitzel (1915–1984), Founder of the first university degree program of biochemistry in Germany.
• Harold Dadford West (1904–1974), American biochemist known for the first to synthesize threonine.
• William T. Wickner (b. 1946), Professor of Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School.
• Maurice Wilkins, (1916–2004), British, discovered the double helical structure of DNA
• Allan Charles Wilson, (1934–1991), Professor of Biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, a pioneer in molecular approaches to understand evolutionary change and reconstruct phylogenies, especially human evolution.
• Friedrich Wöhler (1810–1882), German chemist
• Felisa Wolfe-Simon, American microbial geobiologist and biogeochemist. Member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
• Richard Wolfenden (b. 1935), Professor of chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Y

• Hang Yin, (b. 1976), Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Z

• Donald Zilversmit, (1919–2010), Dutch-born American nutritional biochemist. Professor at Cornell University and member of the National Academy of Sciences.

This is a list of persons known for work in computational chemistry.

• Reinhart Ahlrichs (1940–2016), developer of TURBOMOLE
• Norman Allinger (c. 1928–), developer of force fields for molecular dynamics
• Evert Jan Baerends (1945–), developer of Amsterdam Density Functional
• F. Matthias Bickelhaupt (1965–), quantum chemical models of chemical bonding, reactivity, and catalysis
• Michael Buehl (1962–), known for his work on modelling of homogeneous catalysis and molecular dynamics of transition metal complexes
• Roberto Car (1947–), developer of Car–Parrinello method
• Emily A. Carter, known for orbital free DFT
• James R. Chelikowsky, developer of PARSEC
• G Marius Clore FRS (1955-), known for development of simulated annealing methods for solving three-dimensional structures of proteins and nucleic acids by NMR. Co-developer of XPLOR-NIH and CNS
• David P. Craig (1919–2015), known for Ab initio quantum chemistry methods
• Michael J. S. Dewar (1918–1997), developer of MOPAC
• Robert Dirks (1978–2015), known for work in nucleic acid structure prediction and design
• Vladimir Fock (1898–1974), developer of Hartree–Fock method
• Richard A. Friesner (1952–), developer of Jaguar
• Jürgen Gauß, developer of CFOUR and ACES III
• William Andrew Goddard III, developer of Jaguar and ReaxFF
• Mark S. Gordon (1942–), developer of GAMESS (US)
• Corwin Hansch (1918–2011), known for the Hansch equation and for QSAR
• Douglas Hartree (1897–1958), developer of Hartree–Fock method
• Martin Head-Gordon (1962–), developer of Q-Chem
• Trygve Helgaker (1953–), developer of Dalton
• Kendall N. Houk (1943-), well-known for using the tools of computational chemistry to study organic, organometallic, and biological reactions
• Poul Jørgensen (1944–), developer of Dalton
• William L. Jorgensen (1949–), developer of BOSS and OPLS
• Martin Karplus (1930–), winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
• Walter Kohn (1923–2016), winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the density-functional theory", developer of Kohn–Sham equations
• Peter Kollman (1944–2001), developer of AMBER force field
• Włodzimierz Kołos (1928 – 1996), pioneer of accurate calculations on the electronic structure of molecules
• Cyrus Levinthal (1922–1990), father of computer display of protein structure
• Michael Levitt (1947–), winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
• Hans Lischka (1943-), developer of COLUMBUS
• Frank Neese (1967–), lead author of the ORCA quantum chemistry program package
• Anthony Nicholls, developer of DelPhi and CEO of OpenEye Scientific Software
• Rudolph Pariser (1923–), developer of Pariser–Parr–Pople method
• Robert Parr (1921–2017), developer of Pariser–Parr–Pople method
• Michele Parrinello (1945–), developer of Car–Parrinello method
• John Pople (1925–2004), winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry", developer of Pariser–Parr–Pople method
• Kenneth Ruud (1969–), developer of Dalton
• Yousef Saad, developer of PARSEC
• Chris Sander, developer of WHAT IF
• Joachim Sauer (1949–), codeveloper of QMPOT
• Henry F. Schaefer, III (1944-), director of the Center for Computational Chemistry and developer of PSI (computational chemistry)
• Lu Jeu Sham (1938–), developer of Kohn–Sham equations
• Carlos Simmerling, developer of AMBER force field
• Donald Truhlar (1944–), developer of Minnesota functionals
• Giovanni Vignale (1957–), known for density functional theory
• Arieh Warshel (1940–), winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
• Weitao Yang (1961–), known for density functional theory

A sculpture in honor of Dmitry Mendeleev and his Periodic table in Slovakia.

This list of Russian chemists includes the famous chemists and material scientists of the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia.

Alphabetical list

Innhold:	Topp – 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Æ Ø Å

A

• Aleksandr Arbuzov, discovered Arbuzov reaction.

B

• Ernest Beaux, inventor of Chanel No. 5, "the world's most legendary fragrance"
• Nikolay Beketov, inventor of aluminothermy, a founder of physical chemistry
• Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, proposed the Beilstein test for the detection of halogens, author of the Beilstein database in organic chemistry
• Boris Belousov, chemist and biophysicist, discoverer of Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics

  

  Borodin

• Alexander Borodin, chemist and composer, the author of the famous opera Prince Igor, discovered Borodin reaction, co-discovered Aldol reaction
• Aleksandr Butlerov, discovered hexamine, formaldehyde and formose reaction (the first synthesis of sugar), the first to incorporate double bonds into structural formulae, a founder of organic chemistry and the theory of chemical structure

C

• Dmitry Chernov, founder of modern metallography, discovered polymorphism in metals, built the iron-carbon phase diagram
• Aleksei Chichibabin, discovered Chichibabin pyridine synthesis, Bodroux-Chichibabin aldehyde synthesis and Chichibabin reaction
• Lev Chugaev, discoverer of Chugaev elimination in organic chemistry
• Karl Ernst Claus, chemist and botanist, discoverer of ruthenium

  

  Butlerov

• Valeriy Chernyshev, chemist, honourable inventor of Russia, major specialist in nitrogen chemistry

D

• Nikolay Demyanov, discoverer of Demjanov rearrangement in organic chemistry
• Aleksandr Dianin, discoverer of Bisphenol A and Dianin's compound

F

• Constantin Fahlberg, inventor of saccharin, the first artificial sweetener
• Alexey Favorsky, discoverer of Favorskii rearrangement and Favorskii reaction in organic chemistry
• Alexander Frumkin, a founder of modern electrochemistry, author of the theory of electrode reactions
• Evgraf Fedorov, the first to enumerate all of the 230 space groups of crystals, thus founding the modern crystallography

  

  Claus

G

• Andre Geim, inventor of graphene, developer of gecko tape, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
• Igor Gorynin, inventor of weldable titanium alloys, high strength aluminium alloys, and many radiation-hardened steels

H

• Germain Henri Hess, (1802–1850), Swiss-born Russian chemist. Namesake of Hess's Law.

I

• Vladimir Ipatieff, inventor of Ipatieff bomb, a founder of petrochemistry
• Isidore, legendary inventor of the Russian vodka

J

• Boris Jacobi, re-discovered electroplating and initiated its practical usage

  

  Fyodorov

K

• Pyotr Kapitsa, discovered superfluidity while studying liquid helium, Nobel Prize in Physics winner
• Morris Kharasch, inventor of anti-microbial compound thimerosal
• Gottlieb Kirchhoff, discoverer of glucose
• Ivan Knunyants, inventor of poly-caprolactam, founder of Soviet school of fluorocarbon's chemistry, a developer of Soviet chemical weapons

L

• Sergei Lebedev, inventor of polybutadiene, the first commercially viable synthetic rubber
• Mikhail Lomonosov, polymath, coined the term physical chemistry,

  

  Markovnikov

  re-discovered smalt and founded the scientific study of glass, proved that the phlogiston theory was false, the first to record the freezing of mercury
• Aleksandr Loran, inventor of fire fighting foam

M

• Vladimir Markovnikov, author of the Markovnikov's rule in organic chemistry, discoverer of naphthenes
• Yurii Sh. Matros, Russian-American chemist and chemical engineer, developer of Matros reactor, founder of Matros Technologies Inc.
• Dmitri Mendeleyev, invented the Periodic table of chemical elements, the first to predict the properties of elements yet to be discovered, invented pyrocollodion, developer of pipelines and a prominent researcher of vodka

  

  Mendeleev

• Nikolai Menshutkin, discoverer of Menshutkin reaction in organic chemistry

N

• Sergey Namyotkin, a prominent researcher of terpenes, discoverer of Nametkin rearrangement
• Konstantin Novoselov, inventor of graphene, developer of gecko tape, Nobel Prize in Physics winner

P

• Ilya Prigogine, researcher of dissipative structures, complex systems and irreversibility, Nobel Prize winner

R

• Sergey Reformatsky, discoverer of Reformatsky reaction in organic chemistry

S

• Nikolay Semyonov, chemical physicist, author of the chain reaction theory, Nobel Prize winner
• Carl Schmidt, analyzed the crystal structure of many biochemicals, proved that animal and plant cells are chemically similar

  

  Tsvet

• Vladimir Shukhov, polymath, inventor of chemical cracking
• Mikhail Shultz, physical chemist and artist; one of the creators the glass electrode theory; author of several thermodynamic methods.

T

• Nikolai Trifonov, chemistry professor mentioned in The Gulag Archipelago
• Mikhail Tsvet, botanist, inventor of chromatography

V

• Victor Veselago, the first researcher of materials with negative permittivity and permeability
• Vera Bogdanovskaia, first woman to have died in the cause of chemistry due to a laboratory explosion

W

• Paul Walden, discovered the Walden inversion and ethylammonium nitrate (the first room temperature ionic liquid)

Z

• Alexander Zaitsev, author of the Zaitsev's rule in organic chemistry
• Nikolai Zinin, discovered benzidine, co-discovered aniline, the first President of Russian Physical-Chemical Society
• Nikolay Zelinsky, inventor of activated charcoal gas mask in Europe during World War I, co-discoverer of Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation, a founder of petrochemistry
• Anatol Zhabotinsky, discoverer of Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics