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<html> <head> <title>Occupation: Chemist</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Occupation: Chemist LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_c"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/279/000163787/">Edward P. Abraham</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jun-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1999</tt></td> <td>Cephalosporins</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/335/000129945/">Edward G. Acheson</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jul-1931</tt></td> <td>Discovered silicon carbide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/000/000117646/">Roger Adams</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jan-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jul-1971</tt></td> <td>Organic chemist at Illinois</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/868/000100568/">Peter Agre</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Water channels of cell membranes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/444/000100144/">Kurt Alder</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jun-1958</tt></td> <td>Diels-Alder Reaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/635/000207014/">Charles Alderton</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1941</tt></td> <td>Invented Dr Pepper</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/964/000164472/">Kenneth Alibek</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Biological weapons designer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/767/000100467/">Sidney Altman</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Proved enzyme role of RNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/636/000100336/">Christian Anfinsen</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-1995</tt></td> <td>Protein structure and folding</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/082/000179542/">Daniel I. Arnon</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1994</tt></td> <td>Photophosphorylation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/875/000092599/">Svante Arrhenius</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Feb-1859</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1927</tt></td> <td>Explored electrolytic conductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/289/000099989/">Francis W. Aston</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Sep-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1945</tt></td> <td>Invented the mass spectograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/983/000113644/">Julius Axelrod</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Dec-2004</tt></td> <td>Research of neurotransmitters</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/010/000160527/">Stephen Babcock</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Oct-1843</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-1931</tt></td> <td>Chemistry of milk</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/219/000099919/">Adolf von Baeyer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1835</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1917</tt></td> <td>Synthesized indigo</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/586/000114244/">Antoine-Jérôme Balard</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1802</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Mar-1876</tt></td> <td>Discovered bromine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/582/000100282/">Derek Barton</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1998</tt></td> <td>Conformational analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/875/000126497/">Jacqueline K. Barton</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1952</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Professor of Chemistry at CalTech</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/986/000099689/">J. Georg Bednorz</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-May-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>High-temperature superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/631/000100331/">Paul Berg</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jun-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Pioneer in recombinant DNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/408/000100108/">Friedrich Bergius</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Mar-1949</tt></td> <td>Hydrogenation of coal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000100592/">Marcellin Berthelot</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Oct-1827</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Mar-1907</tt></td> <td>Chimie organique fondée sur la synthèse</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/888/000100588/">Claude-Louis Berthollet</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1748</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Nov-1822</tt></td> <td>Essai de statique chimique</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/051/000094766/">Jöns Jacob Berzelius</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1779</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-1848</tt></td> <td>Inventor of modern chemical notation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000100105/">Carl Bosch</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1940</tt></td> <td>Chairman of I. G. Farben</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/804/000100504/">Paul D. Boyer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>ATP process</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/878/000031785/">Robert Boyle</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1627</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1691</tt></td> <td>Pioneer of modern chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/927/000166429/">Jacques E. Brandenberger</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1872</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jul-1954</tt></td> <td>Cellophane</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/269/000172750/">Wallace R. Brode</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1974</tt></td> <td>Absorption spectra of dyes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/625/000100325/">Herbert C. Brown</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1912</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-2004</tt></td> <td>Discovered organoboranes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/227/000099927/">Eduard Buchner</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-1917</tt></td> <td>Cell-free fermentation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/900/000095615/">Robert Wilhelm Bunsen</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1811</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1899</tt></td> <td>Spectrum analysis, bunsen burner</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/424/000100124/">Adolf Butenandt</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1995</tt></td> <td>Research in sex hormones</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/545/000100245/">Melvin Calvin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1997</tt></td> <td>Deciphered photosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/370/000095085/">Stanislao Cannizzaro</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jul-1826</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1910</tt></td> <td>Atomic vs Molecular weights</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/670/000117319/">Wallace Hume Carothers</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Apr-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Apr-1937</tt></td> <td>Inventor of Nylon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000083778/">Henry Cavendish</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Oct-1731</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-1810</tt></td> <td>Discovered hydrogen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/769/000100469/">Thomas R. Cech</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Proved enzyme role of RNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/462/000179922/">Erwin Chargaff</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Aug-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jun-2002</tt></td> <td>Biochemist at Columbia University</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000139791/">Yves Chauvin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Oct-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Metathesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/910/000100610/">Michel-Eugène Chevreul</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-1786</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Apr-1889</tt></td> <td>Chemistry of fats, dyes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/560/000180020/">Georges Claude</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Sep-1870</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-May-1960</tt></td> <td>Neon lighting</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/143/000213501/">Per Theodor Cleve</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1840</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1905</tt></td> <td>Discovered holmium (Ho) and thulium (Tm)</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/870/000168366/">William Cochran</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-2003</tt></td> <td>Crystallography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/011/000168504/">Samuel C. Collins</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1984</tt></td> <td>Collins-type cryocooler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/973/000168469/">Harry Coover</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-2011</tt></td> <td>Invented Super Glue</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000100471/">Elias James Corey</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jul-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Retrosynthetic analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/611/000100311/">John Cornforth</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/689/000180149/">F. Albert Cotton</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Apr-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-2007</tt></td> <td>Metal-metal bonds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/135/000130742/">Frederick G. Cottrell</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jan-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Nov-1948</tt></td> <td>Smokestack filters to fight pollution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/671/000100371/">Donald J. Cram</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-2001</tt></td> <td>Synthesis of molecules</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/965/000100665/">Sir William Crookes</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-1832</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1919</tt></td> <td>Discovered element Thallium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/789/000100489/">Paul J. Crutzen</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ozone depletion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/718/000029631/">Marie Curie</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1867</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jul-1934</tt></td> <td>Early nuclear chemist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/798/000100498/">Robert F. Curl, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discovered fullerines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/278/000049131/">John Dalton</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-1766</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1844</tt></td> <td>Early proponent of Atomic Theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/028/000083776/">Humphry Davy</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1778</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1829</tt></td> <td>Leading early 19th century chemist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/706/000100406/">Johann Deisenhofer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Proteins of photosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/977/000168473/">Peter B. Dervan</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>DNA Researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/922/000100622/">Henri-Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1818</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1881</tt></td> <td>Process for obtaining aluminum</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/441/000100141/">Otto Diels</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1954</tt></td> <td>Diels-Alder Reaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/644/000179107/">John T. Dorrance</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1930</tt></td> <td>Invented condensed soup</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/105/000165607/">Herbert Dow</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-1866</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Oct-1930</tt></td> <td>Founder of Dow Chemical</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/733/000167232/">John William Draper</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1811</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1882</tt></td> <td>Radiant energy and portrait photography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/359/000104047/">Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1800</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1884</tt></td> <td>Pioneer of organic chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/367/000168860/">Peter P. Edwards</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Metal-non-metal transition</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/368/000168861/">Geoffrey Eglinton</a></td> <td><center>Geologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Molecular organic geochemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/774/000100474/">Richard R. Ernst</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>NMR spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/969/000163480/">Gerhard Ertl</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Oct-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Auto emissions and the ozone layer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/380/000100080/">Hans von Euler-Chelpin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1964</tt></td> <td>Enzymes of sugar fermentation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/859/000100559/">John B. Fenn</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-2010</tt></td> <td>Electrospray ionization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/535/000169028/">George Finch</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Aug-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1970</tt></td> <td>Oxygen for mountain climbing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/703/000091430/">Emil Fischer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1852</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1919</tt></td> <td>Peptide bond</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/619/000100319/">Ernst Otto Fischer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Nov-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-2007</tt></td> <td>Organometallic "sandwich" compounds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/376/000100076/">Hans Fischer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jul-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1945</tt></td> <td>Synthesized hemin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/452/000044320/">Martin Fleischmann</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-2012</tt></td> <td>Cold fusion crank</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/598/000100298/">Paul J. Flory</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Sep-1985</tt></td> <td>Studied polymers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/904/000100604/">Antoine François Fourcroy</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1755</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1809</tt></td> <td>French adherent to Lavoisier</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/406/000227722/">Joseph S. Francisco</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Atmospheric chemist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/559/000160079/">Rosalind Franklin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jul-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Apr-1958</tt></td> <td>Photographed DNA's structure</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/907/000100607/">Edmond Frémy</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1814</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Feb-1894</tt></td> <td>Discovered hydrogen fluoride</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/916/000100616/">Carl Remigius Fresenius</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1818</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-1897</tt></td> <td>Anleitung zur qualitativen chemischen Analyse</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/759/000173240/">Art Fry</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Post-It notes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/650/000100350/">Kenichi Fukui</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jan-1998</tt></td> <td>Frontier orbitals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/885/000100585/">Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1778</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-May-1850</tt></td> <td>Researched gases, etc.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/439/000100139/">William F. Giauque</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Mar-1982</tt></td> <td>Adiabatic demagnetization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/634/000100334/">Walter Gilbert</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Mar-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Sequencing techniques for DNA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/140/000272321/">Robert Gore</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-inventor of Gore-Tex</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/260/000099960/">Victor Grignard</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-May-1871</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-1935</tt></td> <td>Grignard Reaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/285/000139865/">Robert H. Grubbs</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Metathesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/793/000166295/">Samuel Guthrie</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1782</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1848</tt></td> <td>Discovered chloroform</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/884/000092608/">Fritz Haber</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1934</tt></td> <td>Synthesized ammonia, chemical warfare</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/187/000099887/">Otto Hahn</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Mar-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jul-1968</tt></td> <td>Demonstrated fission</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/810/000166312/">H. Tracy Hall</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jul-2008</tt></td> <td>Synthetic diamonds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/378/000100078/">Arthur Harden</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1865</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-1940</tt></td> <td>Enzymes of sugar fermentation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/755/000167254/">Robert Hare</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jan-1781</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1858</tt></td> <td>Hydrostatic blow-pipe and spiritoscope</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/584/000100284/">Odd Hassel</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-May-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1981</tt></td> <td>Conformational analysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/416/000100116/">Norman Haworth</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1883</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1950</tt></td> <td>Carbohydrates and vitamin C</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/943/000254181/">Richard F. Heck</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/852/000103543/">Jan Baptist van Helmont</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jan-1580</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1644</tt></td> <td>Recognized discrete gases</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/674/000096386/">William Henry</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Dec-1775</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1836</tt></td> <td>Henry's Law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/662/000100362/">Dudley R. Herschbach</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Crossed molecular beam experiments</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/225/000169715/">Ejnar Hertzsprung</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Oct-1967</tt></td> <td>Hertzsprung-Russell diagram</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/235/000099935/">George de Hevesy</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1885</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jul-1966</tt></td> <td>Radioisotope researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/464/000100164/">Jaroslav Heyrovsky</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1967</tt></td> <td>Polarography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/628/000204016/">Walter Hieber</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1976</tt></td> <td>Metal carbonyl chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/540/000100240/">Sir Cyril Hinshelwood</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jun-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Oct-1967</tt></td> <td>The Kinetics of Chemical Change</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/564/000100264/">Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1994</tt></td> <td>Determined structure of Vitamin B12</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/224/000099924/">Jacobus H. van 't Hoff</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1852</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-1911</tt></td> <td>Three-dimensional molecular properties</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/390/000164895/">Felix Hoffmann</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jan-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1946</tt></td> <td>Aspirin and heroin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/653/000100353/">Roald Hoffmann</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Woodward-Hoffmann reaction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/613/000022547/">Albert Hofmann</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Apr-2008</tt></td> <td>Discovered LSD</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/808/000103499/">August Wilhelm von Hofmann</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1818</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-1892</tt></td> <td>Organic chemist, researched aniline</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/750/000100450/">Robert Huber</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Proteins of photosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/412/000100112/">Frédéric Joliot</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1958</tt></td> <td>Artificial radioactivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/410/000100110/">Irène Joliot-Curie</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1956</tt></td> <td>Artificial radioactivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/957/000160477/">Percy Julian</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Apr-1899</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1975</tt></td> <td>Physostigmine and cortisone</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/659/000100359/">Jerome Karle</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>X-Ray diffraction studies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/219/000165721/">Martin Karplus</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Karplus Equation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/418/000100118/">Paul Karrer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jun-1971</tt></td> <td>Synthesized vitamins A, B2, E, and K</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/934/000100634/">Friedrich August Kekulé</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1829</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jul-1896</tt></td> <td>Theory of chemical structure</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/551/000100251/">John C. Kendrew</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Mar-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1997</tt></td> <td>Determined structure of myoglobin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/533/000097242/">Martin Heinrich Klaproth</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-1743</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jan-1817</tt></td> <td>Discovered uranium, zirconium, titanium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/642/000100342/">Aaron Klug</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Aug-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Structural analysis of viruses</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/848/000100548/">William S. Knowles</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jun-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jun-2012</tt></td> <td>Chiral catalysts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/836/000100536/">Walter Kohn</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Density-functional theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/800/000100500/">Sir Harold Kroto</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discovered fullerenes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/422/000100122/">Richard Kuhn</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1900</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Aug-1967</tt></td> <td>Carotenoids, and vitamins B2 and B6</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/847/000165352/">Stephanie Kwolek</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Invented Kevlar</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/434/000128050/">Robert S. Langer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Institute Professor at MIT</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/776/000079539/">Irving Langmuir</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1957</tt></td> <td>Inventor of the high-vacuum tube</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/916/000352857/">Norm Larsen</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>Dec-1970</tt></td> <td>WD-40</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000087114/">Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1743</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1794</tt></td> <td>Father of modern chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/666/000100366/">Yuan T. Lee</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Crossed molecular beam experiments</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/674/000100374/">Jean-Marie Lehn</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Sep-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Synthesis of molecules</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/589/000100289/">Luis Leloir</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Dec-1987</tt></td> <td>Conversion of carbohydrates</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/930/000171417/">Richard A. Lerner</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Scripps Research Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/470/000100170/">Willard F. Libby</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1980</tt></td> <td>Carbon-14 dating technique</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/875/000100575/">Justus Liebig</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1803</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Apr-1873</tt></td> <td>Reformed pedagogy of chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/175/000178638/">Eli Lilly</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1838</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1898</tt></td> <td>Founder of Eli Lilly & Co.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/601/000100301/">William Lipscomb</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-2011</tt></td> <td>Chemical bonding</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/075/000249325/">Karl Lohmann</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1978</tt></td> <td>Discovered ATP</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/437/000042311/">Mikhail Lomonosov</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1711</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1765</tt></td> <td>Early father of Russian poetry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000100543/">Alan G. MacDiarmid</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Apr-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Feb-2007</tt></td> <td>Metallic polymers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/682/000205067/">Charles Macintosh</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Dec-1766</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jul-1843</tt></td> <td>Invented the raincoat</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/871/000100571/">Roderick MacKinnon</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Feb-1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ion channels of cell membranes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/778/000100478/">Rudolph A. Marcus</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Electron-transfer reactions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/492/000100192/">Archer J. P. Martin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jul-2002</tt></td> <td>Partition chromatography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/497/000170984/">William D. McElroy</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1999</tt></td> <td>Bioluminescence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/699/000210069/">Raphael Mechoulam</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Discovered THC</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/593/000091320/">Dmitri Mendeleev</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1834</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Feb-1907</tt></td> <td>Periodic Table of the Elements</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/647/000100347/">Bruce Merrifield</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jul-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-2006</tt></td> <td>Synthesized polypeptides</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/753/000100453/">Hartmut Michel</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Proteins of photosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/727/000205112/">Thomas Midgley</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>Ethyl gasoline, Freon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/014/000118657/">Stanley Miller</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-2007</tt></td> <td>Miller-Urey Experiment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/223/000218566/">Chad Mirkin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1963</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>International Institute for Nanotechnology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000100307/">Peter Mitchell</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Sep-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1992</tt></td> <td>ADP to ATP conversion in mitochondia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/222/000099922/">Henri Moissan</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1852</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1907</tt></td> <td>Isolated fluorine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/793/000100493/">Mario J. Molina</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Ozone depletion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/638/000100338/">Stanford Moore</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Sep-1913</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Aug-1982</tt></td> <td>Amino-acid analyzer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000099911/">Robert S. Mulliken</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jun-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1986</tt></td> <td>Molecular orbital theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/872/000031779/">Kary Mullis</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1944</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Nutball 1993 Nobel laureate</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/556/000100256/">Giulio Natta</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-1979</tt></td> <td>Ziegler-Natta catalysts for polymerization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/944/000254182/">Ei-ichi Negishi</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/244/000099944/">Walther Nernst</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Nov-1941</tt></td> <td>Third Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/480/000103171/">John Alexander Reina Newlands</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Nov-1837</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1898</tt></td> <td>Periodic Law of Elements</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/948/000205333/">Nicéphore Niépce</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Mar-1765</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jul-1833</tt></td> <td>Inventor of photography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/575/000100275/">Ronald G. W. Norrish</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Nov-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jun-1978</tt></td> <td>Rapid chemical processes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/479/000100179/">John H. Northrop</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jul-1891</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-1987</tt></td> <td>Bacteriophages</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/851/000100551/">Ryoji Noyori</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chiral catalysts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/341/000104029/">Hans Christian Oersted</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1777</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1851</tt></td> <td>Discovered electromagnetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/784/000100484/">George A. Olah</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Isolated carbonium ions</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/579/000100279/">Lars Onsager</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Nov-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1976</tt></td> <td>Fourth Law of Thermodynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/883/000092607/">Wilhelm Ostwald</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1932</tt></td> <td>Ostwald's Law of Dilution and Conductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/865/000024793/">Paracelsus</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Nov-1493</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Sep-1541</tt></td> <td>Alchemist and doctor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/580/000072364/">Louis Pasteur</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Dec-1822</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1895</tt></td> <td>Discovered process of pasteurization</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/824/000031731/">Linus Pauling</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Aug-1994</tt></td> <td>Scientist and peacenik</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/680/000100380/">Charles J. Pedersen</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1989</tt></td> <td>Synthesis of crown ethers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/711/000097420/">William Henry Perkin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1838</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jul-1907</tt></td> <td>Invented mauve</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/548/000100248/">Max F. Perutz</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-2002</tt></td> <td>X-Ray analysis of hemoglobin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/565/000165070/">Charles Pfizer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-1906</tt></td> <td>Founder of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/689/000167188/">Kenneth S. Pitzer</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-1997</tt></td> <td>President of Rice University, 1961-68</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/050/000272231/">Roy Plunkett</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Jun-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1994</tt></td> <td>Accidentally discovered Teflon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000100368/">John C. Polanyi</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jan-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Infrared chemiluminescence</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/833/000100533/">John A. Pople</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-2004</tt></td> <td>Quantum mechanics of molecules</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/577/000100277/">George Porter</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-2002</tt></td> <td>Rapid chemical and biological processes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/250/000099950/">Fritz Pregl</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Dec-1930</tt></td> <td>Microanalysis of organic compounds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/614/000100314/">Vladimir Prelog</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jan-1998</tt></td> <td>Stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/810/000086552/">Joseph Priestley</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Mar-1733</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1804</tt></td> <td>Investigated gases, discovered Oxygen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/604/000100304/">Ilya Prigogine</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jan-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-May-2003</tt></td> <td>Theory of dissipative structures</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/490/000099193/">Sir William Ramsay</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1852</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-1916</tt></td> <td>Discovered noble gases</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/089/000172570/">C. N. R. Rao</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jun-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chemistry of superconductivity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/089/000099789/">Henri-Victor Regnault</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jul-1810</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1878</tt></td> <td>Properties of gases</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/257/000099957/">Theodore W. Richards</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jan-1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Apr-1928</tt></td> <td>Atomic weights</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/444/000162955/">George Rieveschl</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jan-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-2007</tt></td> <td>Discovered Benadryl</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/432/000100132/">Sir Robert Robinson</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1886</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Feb-1975</tt></td> <td>Researcher of alkaloids</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/795/000100495/">F. Sherwood Rowland</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-2012</tt></td> <td>Ozone depletion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/427/000100127/">Leopold Ruzicka</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Sep-1976</tt></td> <td>Terpenes and hormones</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/265/000099965/">Paul Sabatier</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1854</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-1941</tt></td> <td>Heterogeneous catalysis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/213/000099913/">Frederick Sanger</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Aug-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/492/000095207/">Carl Wilhelm Scheele</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1742</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1786</tt></td> <td>Discovered oxygen, chlorine, manganese</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/380/000139960/">Richard R. Schrock</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Metathesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/542/000100242/">Nikolay Semyonov</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1896</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Sep-1986</tt></td> <td>Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/854/000100554/">K. Barry Sharpless</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Apr-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chiral catalysts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/837/000276009/">Dan Shechtman</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Discovered quasicrystals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/626/000173107/">Osamu Shimomura</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-1928</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Green Fluorescent Protein</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/846/000100546/">Hideki Shirakawa</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Metallic polymers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/599/000260816/">Alexander Shulgin</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Rediscovered MDMA</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/758/000173239/">Spencer Silver</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Post-It notes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/469/000141046/">Louis Slotin</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-May-1946</tt></td> <td>Died tickling the dragon's tail</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/802/000100502/">Richard E. Smalley</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-2005</tt></td> <td>Co-Discovered fullerines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/780/000100480/">Michael Smith</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Oct-2000</tt></td> <td>Oligonucleotide-based mutagenesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/131/000056960/">James Smithson</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1765</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jun-1829</tt></td> <td>Chemist, funded the Smithsonian Institution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/286/000099986/">Frederick Soddy</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Sep-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Sep-1956</tt></td> <td>Isotopes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/481/000100181/">Wendell M. Stanley</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1971</tt></td> <td>First to crystallize a virus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/452/000100152/">Hermann Staudinger</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Mar-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1965</tt></td> <td>Macromolecular chemistry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/808/000166310/">Harry Steenbock</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Aug-1886</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Dec-1967</tt></td> <td>Cured rickets with synthesized Vitamin D</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/640/000100340/">William H. Stein</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Feb-1980</tt></td> <td>Amino-acid analyzer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/740/000099443/">Otto Stern</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Aug-1969</tt></td> <td>Molecular beam experiment</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/476/000100176/">James B. Sumner</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1887</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Aug-1955</tt></td> <td>Crystallized enzymes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/945/000254183/">Akira Suzuki</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/252/000099952/">The Svedberg</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-1884</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Feb-1971</tt></td> <td>Inventor of the ultracentrifuge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/195/000173673/">Timothy Swager</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jul-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Chemist at MIT</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/496/000100196/">Richard L. M. Synge</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-1914</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Aug-1994</tt></td> <td>Partition chromatography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/864/000100564/">Koichi Tanaka</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Refinements in mass spectrometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/617/000100317/">Henry Taube</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Nov-2005</tt></td> <td>Mechanisms of electron transfer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/898/000100598/">Louis-Jacques Thénard</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-May-1777</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1857</tt></td> <td>Traité de Chimie élémentaire</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/436/000100136/">Arne Tiselius</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1902</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1971</tt></td> <td>Electrophoresis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/459/000100159/">Alexander R. 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