List of chemists

This is a list of famous chemists: (alphabetical order). It should include those who have been important to the development or practice of chemistry.

For a list of those chemists who are famous because of other accomplishments, see the section Chemists famous in other areas.

A

• Emil Abderhalden, (1877–1950), Swiss chemist
• Richard Abegg, (1869–1910), German chemist
• Frederick Abel, (1827–1902), English chemist
• Peter Agre, (1949-), American chemist and doctor, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Georg Agricola, (1494–1555), German scholar known as "the father of mineralogy"
• Arthur Aikin, (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist
• Adrien Albert, (1907–1989), Australian Medicinal Chemist
• Kurt Alder, (1902–1958), German chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Sidney Altman, (1939-), 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Christian B. Anfinsen, (1916–1995), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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
• Francis William Aston, (1877–1945), 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Amedeo Avogadro,(1776–1856), Italian chemist and physicist
• Moncada Arlon,(1776–1856), Filipino chemist and physicist

B

• Leo Baekeland, (1863–1944), Belgian-American chemist
• Adolf von Baeyer, (1835–1917), German chemist, 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, (1854–1907), Dutch chemist
• Neil Bartlett, (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
• Sir Derek Barton, (1918–1998), 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Antoine Baum, (1728–1804), French chemist
• Karl Bayer, (1847–1904), Austrian chemist
• Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, (1838–1906), German-Russian chemist, created Beilstein database
• Irina Beletskaya, (born 1933), Russian organometallic chemist
• Francesco Bellini (1947– ), research scientist, doctor in organic chemistry
• Paul Berg, (born 1926), 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Friedrich Bergius, (1884–1949), 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Marcellin Berthelot, (1827–1907), French chemist
• Claude Louis Berthollet, (1748–1822), French chemist
• Jöns Jakob Berzelius, (1779–1848), Swedish chemist
• Johannes Martin Bijvoet, (1892–1980), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
• Joseph Black, (1728–1799), chemist
• 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 & composer
• Hans-Joachim Born, German radiochemist
• Carl Bosch, (1872–1940), German chemist
• Paul D. Boyer, (born 1918), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Robert Boyle, (1627–1691), Irish pioneer of modern chemistry
• Henri Braconnot, (1780–1855), French chemist and pharmacist
• Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, (1879–1947), Danish chemist
• Herbert C. Brown, (1912–2004), 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Eduard Buchner, (1860–1917), 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist
• Adolf Butenandt, (1903–1995), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Aleksandr Butlerov, (1828–1886), Russian chemist

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
• Thomas Cech, (born 1947), 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Martin Chalfie, (born 1947), 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Yves Chauvin, (born 1930), 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Aaron Ciechanover, (born 1947), 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Ernst Cohen, (1869–1944), Dutch chemist (murdered in Auschwitz)
• Elias James Corey, (born 1928), American organic chemist, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Robert Corey (1897 – 1971), Amercan biochemist
• John Cornforth, (born 1917), Australian winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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
• Paul J. Crutzen, (1933), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Marie Curie, (1867–1934), Polish-born French 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), winner of 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Theodor Curtius, (1857–1928), German chemist

D

• John Dalton, (1766–1844), physicist and pioneer of the atomic theory
• Carl Peter Henrik Dam, (1895–1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Samuel J. Danishefsky, (born 1936), American organic chemist, natural product Total synthesis
• Raymond Davis, Jr., (1914–2006), American physical chemist
• Humphry Davy, (1778–1829)
• Peter Debye, (1884–1966), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Johann Deisenhofer, (born 1943), 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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
• 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
• David Adriaan van Dorp, (1915–1995), Dutch chemist
• Cornelius Drebbel, (1572–1633), Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist
• Jean Baptiste Dumas, (1800–1884), French chemist
• Vincent du Vigneaud, (1901–1978), 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

E

• 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
• 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
• Hans von Euler-Chelpin, (1873–1964), Swedish chemist, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Henry Eyring, (1901–1981), Mexican-American theoretical chemist

F

• Kazimierz Fajans, (1887–1975), Polish-American physical chemist
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867), scientist
• Hermann von Fehling, (1812–1885), German chemist
• John Bennett Fenn, (born 1917), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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)
• 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
• Hermann Emil Fischer, (1852–1919), 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
• Paul Flory, (1910–1985), 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British Chemist and Crystallographer
• Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist
• 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
• 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
• Johann Rudolf Glauber, (1604–1670), Dutch-German alchemist and chemist
• Victor Goldschmidt, (1888–1947) Father of Modern Geochemistry
• Ljubo Golic, (born 1932), chemist.
• David van Goorle also called Gorlaeus, (1591–1612), Dutch chemist
• Thomas Graham, (1805–1869),
• 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) 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Otto Hahn, (1879–1968) 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• John Scott Haldane,(1860–1936), British biochemist
• Charles Martin Hall, (1863–1914), American chemist
• Arthur Harden, (1865–1940), English biochemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1929
• 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
• Clayton Heathcock, American Chemist
• Alan J. Heeger, (born 1936), 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Dudley R. Herschbach, (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
• György von Hevesy, 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
• Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, (1897–1967), English physical chemist and winner of the shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1956
• Dorothy Hodgkin, (1910–1994), 1964 Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Jacobus Henricus 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
• Albert Hofmann, (1906-2008), Swiss chemist, synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
• August Wilhelm von Hofmann, (1818–1892) German organic chemist
• 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, US-based chemist working in asymmetric catalysis
• Robert Huber, (born 1937), 1988 Nobel Prize in chemistry

I

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

J

• Paul Janssen (1926–2003), Belgian founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica.
• 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

K

• Jerome Karle, (born 1918), 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Paul Karrer, (1889–1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner (1783–1857)
• August Kekulé, (1829–1896), German organic chemist
• John Kendrew, (1917–1997), 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Petrus Jacobus Kipp, (1808–1864), Dutch chemist, inventor of Kipp-generator
• Martin Heinrich Klaproth, (1743–1817), German chemist
• Trevor Kletz (born 1922) British promoter of industrial safety
• Aaron Klug, (born in 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)
• Izaak Kolthoff, (1894–1993), Dutch-American chemist, the "Father of Analytical Chemistry"
• Else Kooi, (1932–2001), Dutch chemist, developed isolation for MOS-transistors
• Roger D. Kornberg, (born 1947), 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Aleksandra Kornhauser, (born 1926), chemist.
• Harold Kroto, (born 1939), 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
• 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)
• Eun Lee, (born 1946), Korean organic chemist
• Yuan T. Lee, (born 1936), winner of 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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
• Janez Levec, (born 1943), chemist.
• Gilbert Newton Lewis, (1875–1946), American chemist and first Dean of the Berkeley College of Chemistry
• Andreas Libavius, (1555–1616), German doctor and chemist
• Willard Libby (1908–1980), American chemist, winner of 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Justus von Liebig, (1803–1873), German inventor
• Teunis van der Linden, (1884–1965), Dutch chemist, developed insecticide lindane
• William Lipscomb, (born 1919), 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, (1827–1912), English surgeon
• H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, British Chemist
• Martin Lowry, (1874–1936), British 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
• Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov, (1838–1904)
• Tobin J. Marks, (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
• 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
• Lothar Meyer, (1830–1895), not to be confused with:
• Viktor Meyer, (1848–1897)
• August Michaelis (1847–1916), German chemist
• Hartmut Michel, (born 1948), 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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
• Alexander Mitscherlich, (1836–1918), chemist
• 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
• 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
• Robert S. Mulliken, (1896–1986), American physicist, chemist, 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Kary Mullis, (born 1944), 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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
• 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
• Ryoji Noyori, (born 1938), 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Ralph Nuzzo, American chemist and materials scientist

O

• George Andrew Olah, (born 1927), 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Lars Onsager, (1903–1976), physical chemist, 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Luitzen Johannes Oosterhoff, (1907–1974), Dutch chemist
• 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
• 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
• 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
• George Porter, (1920–2002), 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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

Q

• Ğilem Qamay (1901–1970), Soviet chemist

R

• William Ramsay, (1852–1916), Scottish chemist, 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Henry Rapoport, American chemist, UC Berkeley
• William Sage Rapson, South African Chemist and co-author of Gold Usage
• Julius Rebek, (1944), Hungarian_American chemist.
• Marij Rebek, chemist.
• Jan Reedijk, (1943), Dutch inorganic chemist
• 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
• Theodore William Richards, (1868–1928), 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Wim Richter, South Africa
• Ellen Swallow Richards, (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist.
• Jeremias Benjamin Richter, (1762–1807), German chemist
• Deborah Rick, prolific chemist who now teaches at Bergen County Academies.
• 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
• Hillar Rootare (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
• Maks Samec, (1844–1889), Slovenian chemist.
• Frederick Sanger, (born 1918), 1958 and 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 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
• 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 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Patsy O. Sherman (born 1930), 12 US Patents
• Osamu Shimomura, (born 1928), 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
• 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
• 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
• William Howard Stein, (1911–1980), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Alfred Stock, (1876–1946)
• Fraser Stoddart, (born 1945), Scottish chemist, a pioneer in the field of the mechanical bond
• Gilbert Stork
• James B. Sumner, (1887–1955), 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Theodor Svedberg, (1884–1971), 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Joseph Swan, (1828–1914), English physicist, chemist & inventor
• 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
• Richard Taylor, (1965-), Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of York
• Arne Tiselius, (1902-1971), 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Miha Tisler, (born 1926), chemist
• Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, (1907-1997), 1957 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

U

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

V

• Lauri Vaska, (born 1925), Estonian/American chemist
• Evert Johannes Willem Verweij, (1905–1981), Dutch chemist
• Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, (1895–1973), chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• Milos Vujic Serbian chemist
• 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), 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Alfred Werner, (1866–1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997)
• George M. Whitesides, (born 1939), 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
• 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
• William Hyde Wollaston, (1766–1828), English chemist
• Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, (1817–1884)
• Kurt Wüthrich, (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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 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

• Emmanuel Dongala, (born 1941), Congolese chemist and novelist
• Primo Levi, (1919–1987), resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
• Angela Merkel, (born 1954), Doctorate in Quantum Chemistry, Chancellor of Germany 2005-
• Israel Shahak, (1933–2001)
• Margaret Thatcher, (born 1925), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 - 1990), Research chemist at BX Plastics

See also

• List of biochemists