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Israeli chemist (born 1939)

Adolf von Baeyer

Swiss chemist (1906–2008)

Alexander Gettler

(1883-1968) Hungarian American toxicologist

Alexander Shulgin

American chemist and recreational drug explorer (1925–2014)

Angelo Mariani (chemist)

Antoine Lavoisier

French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)

Swedish biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry

German organic chemist

Benjamin Silliman

Early American chemist and science educator (1779-1864)

American pharmacist

German chemist and engineer

Carl Gustaf Mosander

Swedish chemist and mineralogist

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

German-Swedish Chemist who discovered oxygen

Claude Louis Berthollet

French chemist (1748-1822)

Cyril Callister

Australian chemist and food technologist

Dmitri Mendeleev

Russian chemist (1834–1907)

Dorothy Hodgkin

British chemist

Edward A. Guggenheim

English chemist (1901 - 1970)

American physicist

American pharmacist, Union Army officer, businessman, philanthropist

20th-century Hungarian chemist

German chemist (1852–1919)

Jewish-German-born British biochemist

Ernst Otto Fischer

German chemist (1918-2007)

François-Marie Raoult

Nineteenth century French physical chemist

Frederick Sanger

British biochemist

Frederick Soddy

English chemist and physicist

Friedrich Wöhler

German-Jewish chemist and Nobel laureate

Geoffrey Wilkinson

English chemist and Nobel prize winner (1921–1996)

George Rosenkranz

Jewish Hungarian Mexican chemist and executive, bridge player and writer

Germain Henri Hess

Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist

Gilbert N. Lewis

American physical chemist

Glenn T. Seaborg

20th-century American chemist notable for discovering several transuranium elements

American physical chemist

Canadian-born American chemist

Hermann Staudinger

German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

British chemist and inventor

Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917 - 2003)

Irving Langmuir

American chemist and physicist

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Dutch physical and organic chemist

Jan Baptist van Helmont

Chemist, physiologist, and physician from the Spanish Low Countries

Jaroslav Heyrovský

Czech chemist (1890-1967)

John Stith Pemberton

American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola (1831–1888)

Jöns Jacob Berzelius

Swedish chemist

British chemist (1728-1799)

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)

Joseph Priestley

English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)

Josiah Willard Gibbs

American physicist

Justus von Liebig

19th-century German chemist

Kathleen Lonsdale

Irish crystallographer

American scientist and activist (1901–1994)

Martin Heinrich Klaproth

Mateo Orfila y Rotger (Menorca, 1787- Paris, 1853), professor of Legal Medicine in Paris and founder of toxicology

Canadian physician and chemist

American physical chemist

Michael Sendivogius

Polish alchemist, philosopher, and medical doctor

American chemist

American chemist (1910–1985)

Per Teodor Cleve

Swedish chemist who discovered holmium and thulium (1840-1905)

Percy Lavon Julian

American 20th century research chemist

Dutch-American physical chemist (1884–1966)

Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

German chemist (1811-1899)

Robert Burns Woodward

American chemist (1917–1979)

Robert S. Mulliken

American physicist, chemist and botanical collector (1896 - 1986)

Roger Joseph Boscovich

Croat-Italian physicist

Svante Arrhenius

Swedish scientist

Thomas Midgley Jr.

American chemist (1889-1944)

Biochemist; Nobel laureate

German physical chemist (1864–1941)

Wilhelm Ostwald

Baltic German chemist

William Crookes

British chemist and physicist (1832–1919)

William Hyde Wollaston

English chemist and physicist (1766–1828)

Scottish Chemist