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This is a list of famous chemists in alphabetical order.

A

• Emil Abderhalden, (1877–1950), Swiss chemist
• Richard Abegg, (1869–1910), German chemist
• Peter Agre, (1949-), American chemist and doctor, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Arthur Aikin, (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist
• Johan August Arfwedson, (1792–1841), Swedish chemist
• David Anthony Alberola, (1859–1927), American chemist and physicist
• Amedeo Avogadro, (1776–1856), Italian physicist
• Salim Ali, Indian Naturalist and an Ornithologist.

B

• Neil Bartlett, (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
• Sir Derek Barton, (1918–1998), 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Antoine Baum, (1728–1804), French chemist
• Claude Louis Berthollet, (1748–1822), French chemist
• Jöns Jakob Berzelius, (1779–1848), Swedish chemist
• Joseph Black, (1728–1799), chemist
• Carl Bosch, (1872–1940), German chemist
• Robert Boyle, (1627–1691), Irish pioneer of modern chemistry
• Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, (1879–1947), Danish chemist
• Henri Braconnot, (1780–1855), French chemist and pharmacist
• Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist
• Eduard Buchner, (1860–1917), 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

C

• Melvin Calvin, (1911–1997), American chemist, winner of 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Georg Ludwig Carius, (1829–1875), German chemist
• Heinrich Caro, (1834–1910), German chemist
• Wallace Carothers, (1896–1937), American chemist
• Henry Cavendish, (1731–1810), British scientist
• Yves Chauvin, (born 1930), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Elias James Corey, (born 1928), American organic chemist, winner of 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• F. Albert Cotton
• Marie Curie, (1867–1934), Polish-born French radiation physicist, 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Pierre Curie, (1859–1906), 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Robert Curl, (born 1933), winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Theodor Curtius, (1857–1928), German chemist

D

• John Dalton, (1766–1844), physicist
• Carl Peter Henrik Dam, (1895–1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Humphry Davy, (1778–1829)
• Peter Debye, (1884–1966)
• Sir James Dewar, (1842–1923)
• Otto Diels, (1876–1954), German chemist, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Edward Doisy, (born 1893), American biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Davorin Dolar, (1921-2005), chemist from Univ. of Ljubljana
• Emmanuel Dongala, Congolese chemist and novelist
• Jean Baptiste Dumas, (1800–1884), French chemist

E

• Paul Ehrlich, (1854–1915), German chemist, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Manfred Eigen, (born 1927), German chemist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Arthur Eichengrün, (1867–1949)
• Emil Erlenmeyer, (1825–1909), German chemist
• Richard R. Ernst, (born 1933), 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Hans von Euler-Chelpin, (1873–1964), Swedish chemist, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

F

• Michael Faraday (1791–1867), scientist
• Hermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919), not to be confused with:
• Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
• Ernst Gottfried Fischer (1754–1831), German chemist
• Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German organic chemist, 1930 Nobel prize winner
• Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British Chemist and Crystallographer
• Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist
• Wilhelm Fresenius (1913–2004), German chemist, great-grandson of Carl
• Alexander Naumovich Frumkin, (1895–1976), electrochemist

G

• Johan Gadolin, (1760–1852), Finnish chemist
• Victor Goldschmidt, (1888–1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry
• Ljubo Golic, (born 1932), chemist.
• Thomas Graham, (1805–1869), not to be confused with:
• William Hardin Graham ???
• Francois 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)
• Otto Hahn, (1879–1968)
• John Haldane,(1860–1936), British biochemist
• Odd Hassel, (1897–1981), Norwegian chemist 1969 Nobel prize in chemistry
• Charles Hatchett, (1765–1847), English chemist who discovered niobium
• Clayton Heathcock, American Chemist
• Dudley R. Herschbach, (1932-), American chemist, 1986 Nobel prize in chemistry
• Robert Havemann, (1910–1982), chemist.
• George de Hevesy, (1885–1966), chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry 1943
• J. H. van 't Hoff, (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist, 1901 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Friedrich Hoffmann, (1660–1742), physician and chemist
• Roald Hoffmann, (born 1937), Polish-born American chemist, 1981 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• August Wilhelm von Hofmann, (1818–1892) German organic chemist
• Jaroslav Heyrovský, (1890–1967), Czech chemist, 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Gerhard Herzberg, (1904–1999), German-Canadian chemist, 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

I

• Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893–1970), English chemist

J

• Frederic Joliot-Curie (1900–1958), French chemist and physicist
• Irène Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), French chemist and physicist

K

• Paul Karrer, (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783–1857)
• Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, (1829–1896), German organic chemist
• Emil Knoevenagel, (1865–1921)
• Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, (1818–1884)
• Izaak Kolthoff, (1894–1993) the "Father of Analytical Chemistry"
• Aleksandra Kornhauser, (born 1926), chemist.
• Harold Kroto, (born 1939), English chemist, 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), 1938 chemistry Nobel laureate..

L

• Irving Langmuir, (1881–1957), chemist, physicist
• Antoine Lavoisier, (1743–1794), French pioneer chemist
• Eun Lee, (born 1946), Korean organic chemist
• Yuan T. Lee, (born 1936), winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Janez Levec, (born 1943), chemist.
• Primo Levi, (1919–1987), resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
• Gilbert N. Lewis, (1875–1946), American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (1827–1912), English surgeon
• Henri Louis le Chatelier, (1850–1936)
• Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist, winner of 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Justus von Liebig, (1803–1873), German inventor
• Christopher Longuet-Higgens, British Chemist
• Martin Lowry, (1874–1936), British chemist

M

• Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov, (1838–1904)
• Lise Meitner, (1878–1968), physicist
• Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, (1834–1907), chemist, creator of the Periodic Table of Elements
• John Mercer, (1791–1866), chemist and industrialist
• Robert Bruce Merrifield, (1921–2006), solid-phase chemist
• Lothar Meyer, (1830–1895)
• Viktor Meyer, (1848–1897), not to be confused with :
• Kurt Heinrich Meyer
• Stanley Miller (born 1930), American chemist, best known for the Miller-Urey experiment
• Luis E. Miramontes (1925–2004), co-inventor of the contraceptive pill
• William A. Mitchell, (1911–2004), key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, and Kool Whip
• Alexander Mitscherlic, (1836–1918), chemist
• Jacques Monod, (1910–1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
• Peter Moore (born 1939), American biochemist, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University
• Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915), English physicist, discovered Moseley's law.
• Robert S. Mulliken, (1896–1986), American physicist, chemist

N

• Robert Nalbandyan, (1937–2002), Armenian protein chemist
• Isaac Newton, (1642–1727), scientist and alchemist
• Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou, American chemist

O

• George Andrew Olah, (born 1927), 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Lars Onsager, (1903–1976), physical chemist, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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
• Linus Pauling, (1901–1994), Nobel Prizes in chemistry and peace
• William Perkin, (1838–1907) British organic chemist and inventor of mauveine (dye)
• John A. Pople, (1925–2004), theoretical chemist, 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Roy J. Plunkett, (1910–1994), discoverer of Teflon
• Fritz Pregl, (1869–1930), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923.
• Vladimir Prelog, (1906–1998), 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Joseph Priestley, (1733–1804)
• Ilya Prigogine, (1917–2003), 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• John Charles Polanyi, (born 1929), Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986.

Q

• Ğilem Qamay (1901–1970), Soviet chemist

R

• William Ramsay, (born 1852), Scottish chemist
• Henry Rapoport, American chemist, UC Berkeley
• Rhazes (Razi), (865–925)
• Marij Rebek, chemist.
• Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French chemist and physicist
• Tadeus Reichstein, (1897–1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Stuart A. Rice, (born 1932), physical chemist
• Ellen Swallow Richards, (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist.
• Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762–1807), German chemist.
• H. M. Rouell, (1718–1779)
• Leopold Ruzicka, (1887–1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

S

• Paul Sabatier, (1854–1941), 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry corecipient
• Maks Samec, (1844–1889), Slovenian chemist.
• Carl Wilhelm Scheele, (1742–1786), Swedish 18th century chemist, discovered numerous elements
• 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
• 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
• Israel Shahak, (1933–2001)
• K. Barry Sharpless, (born 1941), 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Peter Schultz, American chemist
• Oktay Sinanoglu, (born 1935), Turkish chemist
• S.P.L. Sørensen, (1868–1939), Danish chemist
• Frederick Soddy, (1877–1956), British chemist, 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Wendell Meredith Stanley, (1904–1971), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Branko Stanovnik, (born 1938), chemist.
• Hermann Staudinger, (1881–1965), polymer chemist, 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Alfred Stock, (1876–1946)
• Daston Stocholm, (1884–1971), 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Fraser Stoddart, (born 1945), Scottish chemist, a pioneer in the field of the mechanical bond
• Gilbert Stork

T

• Richard Taylor, (1965-), Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of York.
• Henry Taube, (born 1915), 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Miha Tisler, (born 1926), chemist.
• Margaret Thatcher, (born 1925), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

U

• Harold Clayton Urey, (1893–1981), 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

V

• Lauri Vaska, (born 1925), Estonian/American chemist.
• Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, (1895–1973), chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• Alessandro Volta, (1745–1827), electrochemist, Invented the Voltaic Cell

W

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals, (1837–1923)
• John Ernest Walker
• Alfred Werner, (1866–1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• George Whitesides, American chemist
• Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957) German chemist 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Harvey W. Wiley, (1844–1930), US chemist, Pure food & drug advocate
• Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, (1921–1996), 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Friedrich Woehler, (1800–1882), German chemist
• William Hyde Wollaston, (1766–1828), English chemist
• Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Kurt Wüthrich, (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, (1817–1884)

X

• Xiaoliang Sunney Xie (born 1962), Chinese chemist at Harvard University. Famous for his pioneering work in Single Molecule Microscopy and CARS (Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy) microscopy.

Y

• Sabir Yunusov (1909–1995), Soviet chemist (alkaloids)

Z

• Ahmed H. Zewail (born 1946), Egyptian, 1999 Nobel Prize Winner for his work on femtochemistry.

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