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The photometer has become one of the principal instruments in biochemistry and analytical chemistry.

In 2020, Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing" (through CRISPR).

She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Emmanuelle Charpentier, "for the development of a method for genome editing."

In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside Akira Yoshino and John B. Goodenough.

Yoshino was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside M. Stanley Whittingham and John B. Goodenough.

In 2018, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering the use of directed evolution to engineer enzymes.

He was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work, sharing his prize with Greg Winter and Frances Arnold.

For these developments Winter was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with George Smith and Frances Arnold.

In 2017, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution".

He is regarded as the founder of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard Henderson.

Henderson shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank.

He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

He has specialized in supramolecular chemistry for which he has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa.

Feringa's research on molecular machines was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage.

In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

Modrich received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015, jointly with Aziz Sancar and Tomas Lindahl.

In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair.

He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy" along with Stefan Hell and fellow Cornell alumnus William E. Moerner.

He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy", together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.

In 2014, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

He was awarded the shared 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on computational protein design.

In 2024, Hassabis and John M. Jumper were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their AI research contributions to protein structure prediction.

Jumper, Demis Hassabis and David Baker were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction.

In 2023, Bawendi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Louis E. Brus and Alexey Ekimov "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots".

In 2023, Brus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Ekimov and Moungi Bawendi "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots".

Ekimov, Brus and Moungi Bawendi were the recipients of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots".

Bertozzi was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly with Morten P. Meldal and Karl Barry Sharpless, "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry".

Meldal was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, jointly with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Karl Barry Sharpless, "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry".

Sharpless was awarded half of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions", and one third of the 2022 prize, jointly with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Morten P. Meldal, "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry".

He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis".

He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis".

Asima Chatterjee (23 September 1917-22 November 2006) was an Indian organic chemist noted for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013

gaining a PhD in chemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 1927

The Haber process, also called the Haber-Bosch process, is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia.

In chemistry, a molecule or ion is called chiral

was an American chemist

Hence, the programme encompasses physics, chemistry, biology, molecular biology, mathematics and computer science.

biomedical sciences, chemistry and materials

in physics, chemistry and biology and conducts high-level research in those fields

Mathematical, Chemical and Physical Sciences

Chemistry (6th in Japan, 20th in the world)

followed in 1977 by new buildings for the chemistry, biology and geoscience departments.

The seat of the school's physics and chemistry departments

The Faculty of Chemistry was founded in 1864 as a department of the Faculty of Sciences, and organized as faculty in 1948.

The college's curriculum under Webster and Webb combined classical training in Latin and Greek with more practical subjects like chemistry, physics, and engineering.

DU's chemistry, geology, zoology, sociology, and history departments have been awarded the status of Centres of Advanced Studies.

Sheffield's Department of Chemistry has also educated two winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

5-year BS-MS programs in Biological, Chemical, Mathematical, Geological, Physical and Earth, Climate, Environmental Sciences

Chemistry (5th in Japan, 22nd in the world)

home to the math, biology, physics, chemistry, geology, and pre-medicine departments

The Burjassot Campus houses the colleges of Biology, Pharmacy, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and the School of Engineering

was a Scottish physicist and chemist

was a chemical researcher who worked at The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research

was a self-taught French chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium

was a Swedish chemist, biologist, mineralogist and oceanographer

is a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Florence

was a German chemist and recipient of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

was an American chemist, inventor, and entrepreneur

was an American chemist best known for the many books she wrote with her husband Louis Fieser

was an American organic chemist and a professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College

was an American professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College

was an American chemist whose work impacted carbohydrate chemistry

Fowler received her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Colorado in 1967

Lucy earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois majoring in analytical chemistry

was an American chemist known for advancing the science of quantum chemistry

was a Swiss-Russian chemist and medical doctor who formulated Hess' law

was a Belgian analytical chemist who accurately measured the atomic weight of carbon

was an Austrian botanist and organic chemist

She specializes in organometallic chemistry and its application to problems in organic chemistry

was a Swiss chemist

was an American physicist and chemist known for her advances in surface chemistry

was a German physicist and chemist who contributed to modern quantum mechanics and molecular physics

Her research expertise is in the field of electrochemistry

is a Bulgarian chemist and a president of the Bulgarian Phytochemical Society

was an English chemist who became a schoolteacher

was a British chemist and pharmacist

was a German chemist

was a German biologist, and physical chemist

was a German chemist, photographer and entrepreneur born in Elberfeld

was an American spectroscopist and chemical educator

was a German-Austrian chemist and anthroposophist

was a German chemist, physician and inventor

was a Scottish chemist and one of the first five women

was an American chemist best known for her long-distance collaboration

was a Swedish chemist

was a German chemist and physician

is an American chemist, engineer

is an American chemist and professor of chemistry

was a French physicist and chemist who discovered the element thallium independently from William Crookes in 1862

was a German physician, chemist, and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics

was an Austrian scientist who performed ground-breaking work in chemistry, physics (thermodynamics, optics, electrodynamics), and crystal forms

His training was mostly in chemistry but his later research was mostly in physics

is a chemist best known for developing metal

was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield

was an Italian chemist

was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy

was an English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry

was an English chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye

was an American chemist

was an American physical chemist

was an American chemist who was a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

He is known for developing average hamiltonian theory and using it to extend NMR spectroscopy

was an American theoretical chemist and physical chemist

was a British chemist

was a British chemist

was a Danish chemist noted in thermochemistry

was a German chemist

was a British chemist

was an American chemist, inventor and educator

was an English chemist and Professor of Colour Chemistry and Dyeing at the University of Leeds

on the ground of his work in physical chemistry

he gained a first class Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the Royal College of Science in London

was a British physical chemist

was a French chemist and one of the discoverers of bromine

famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium

known for his scientific contributions to the theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions

Later in life he published several textbooks in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceutical science, mineralogy, and botany.

was an Austrian-born American physical chemist and nuclear physicist

was a French chemist and noblewoman

was a French chemist and surgeon

was an English chemist

was a German chemist and mineralogist

was a Dutch chemist, botanist, Christian humanist, and physician

was a German alchemist who lived and worked in Hamburg

was a German-Dutch alchemist and chemist

was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist

was a German alchemist

Suckow was a professor of physics, chemistry, and natural history at the University of Heidelberg

A pioneer of chemistry

II (Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy)

was a French chemist and physicist

was a German chemist

was a Swedish chemist and mineralogist

Subsequently he became teacher of physics and chemistry (1702)

French chemist, was born at Rouen

Schulze is best known for his discovery that the darkening in sunlight of various substances mixed with silver nitrate is due to the light

was a French chemist

was a chemist, physician, and physiologist

and in 1666 of chemistry and botany

was the first professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford

is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry"

A strong proponent of alchemy and using chemistry in medicine

was an early British chemist who invented the concept of catalysis and discovered photoreduction

was a French physician and chemist, best known for his 1718 affinity tables

was a French chemist and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi

was a Prussian physician, chemist, and a glass and porcelain technologist

was a Prussian physician, chemist, metallurgist, and mineralogist

was an Italian doctor and early iatrochemist

was a German physician and alchemist

was a philosopher, translator, alchemist, physician and bibliophile

Alchemia, one of the first chemistry textbooks ever written

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Georg Ernst Stahl (22 October 1659-14 May 1734) was a German chemist, physician and philosopher.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( ; ; 21 October 1833-10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman.

James Smithson (c. 1765-27 June 1829) was a British chemist and mineralogist.

Ronald James Gillespie, (August 21, 1924, February 26, 2021) was a British chemist specializing in the field of molecular geometry, who arrived in Canada after accepting an offer that included his own laboratory with new equipment, which post-World War II Britain could not provide.

Sir Ronald Sydney Nyholm (29 January 1917-4 December 1971) was an Australian chemist who was a leading figure in inorganic chemistry in the 1950s and 1960s.

Henry Louis Le Chatelier (; 8 October 1850-17 September 1936) was a French chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Joseph Louis Proust (26 September 1754-5 July 1826) was a French chemist.

Max Trautz (19 March 1880 - 19 August 1960) was a German chemist.

Glenn Theodore Seaborg ( ; April 19, 1912February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Irving Langmuir (; January 31, 1881, August 16, 1957) was an American chemist, physicist, and metallurgical engineer.

Harold Clayton Urey ( ; April 29, 1893, January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist who conducted pioneering work on isotopes.

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. (; 30 August 1852-1 March 1911) was a Dutch physical chemist.

Ferdinand Frédéric Henri Moissan (; 28 September 1852-20 February 1907) was a French chemist and pharmacist who won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in isolating fluorine from its compounds.

Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez (19 March 19437 October 2020) was a Mexican physical chemist.

Chika Kuroda (黒田チカ; 24 March 1884-8 November 1968) was a Japanese chemist whose research focused on natural pigments.

Gerolamo Cardano (; also Girolamo or Geronimo; ; ; 24 September 1501, 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, music theorist, writer, and

Geoffrey Eglinton, FRS (1 November 1927-11 March 2016) was a British chemist and emeritus professor and senior research fellow in earth sciences at the University of Bristol.

Karl Gustav Bischof (18 January 1792-30 November 1870) was a German chemist, born in Nuremberg.

Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck (3 May 1809 - 16 July 1887) was a Belgian palaeontologist and chemist, born in Leuven.

Michael Ellis Fisher (3 September 1931-26 November 2021) was an English physicist, as well as chemist and mathematician, known for his many seminal contributions

Dan Shechtman (; born January 24, 1941) is an Israeli chemist, the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University.

Thomas Wren Ebbesen (born 30 January 1954) is a Franco-Norwegian physical chemist and professor at the University of Strasbourg in France, known for his pioneering work in nanoscience.

Ralph G. Nuzzo (born February 23, 1954 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American chemist and professor.

Robert Samuel Langer Jr. FREng (born August 29, 1948) is an American biotechnologist, businessman, chemical engineer, chemist, and inventor.

Armand Paul Alivisatos (born November 12, 1959) is an American chemist who has been the 14th president of the University of Chicago since September 2021.

Chad Alexander Mirkin (born November 23, 1963) is an American chemist.

Peter Joseph William Debye ( ; born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije, ; March 24, 1884, November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.

Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui “for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions”. He has also published plays, poetry and popular

Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American organic chemist.

Carl Djerassi (October 29, 1923, January 30, 2015) was a Viennese-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook.

Paul John Flory (June 19, 1910, September 9, 1985) was an American chemist and Nobel laureate who was known for his work in the field of polymers, or macromolecules.

Robert Sanderson Mulliken (June 7, 1896, October 31, 1986) was an American physical chemist, primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital theory, i.e.

Henry Taube (November 30, 1915, November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes." He was the second Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize,

Herbert Charles Brown (22 May 1912-19 December 2004) was an American chemist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with organoboranes.

Roger Adams (January 2, 1889, July 6, 1971) was an American organic chemist who developed the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and helped determine the composition of natural substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids.

Frank Albert Cotton FRS (April 9, 1930, February 20, 2007) was an American chemist.

Mostafa A. El-Sayed () is an Egyptian-American physical chemist, nanoscience researcher, member of the National Academy of Sciences and US National Medal of Science laureate.

Darleane Christian Hoffman (November 8, 1926, September 4, 2025) was an American nuclear chemist who was among the researchers who confirmed the existence of seaborgium, element 106. She was a faculty senior scientist in the Nuclear Science Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a

Ira Remsen (10 February 1846-4 March 1927) was an American chemist who introduced organic chemistry research and education in the United States along the lines of German universities where he received his early training.

Ronald Charles David Breslow (March 14, 1931, October 25, 2017) was an American chemist from Rahway, New Jersey.

Marion Frederick Hawthorne (August 24, 1928, July 8, 2021) was an inorganic chemist who made contributions to the chemistry of boron hydrides, especially their clusters.

William Gould Young (July 30, 1902, July 5, 1980) was an American physical organic chemist and professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

Jacqueline K. Barton (born May 7, 1952 New York City, NY), is an American chemist.

John Dombrowski Roberts (June 8, 1918, October 29, 2016) was an American chemist.

Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer (January 6, 1914, December 26, 1997) was an American physical and theoretical chemist, educator, and university president.

JoAnne Stubbe (born June 11, 1946) is an American chemist best known for her work on ribonucleotide reductases, for which she was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2009. In 2017, she retired as a professor of chemistry and biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ernest Ludwig Eliel (December 28, 1921, September 18, 2008) was an organic chemist born in Cologne, Germany.

Mary Lowe Good (June 20, 1931, November 20, 2019) was an American inorganic chemist who worked academically, in industrial research and in government.

Peter John Stang (born November 17, 1941) is an American chemist and Distinguished Professor of chemistry at the University of Utah.

Henry Gilman (May 9, 1893, November 7, 1986) was an American organic chemist known as the father of organometallic chemistry.

Louis Plack Hammett (April 7, 1894 - February 9, 1987) was an American physical chemist.

Farrington Daniels (March 8, 1889, June 23, 1972) was an American physical chemist who is considered one of the pioneers of the modern direct use of solar energy.

William Albert Noyes (November 6, 1857 - October 24, 1941) was an American analytical and organic chemist.

Carl Shipp "Speed" Marvel (September 11, 1894, January 4, 1988) was an American chemist who specialized in polymer chemistry.

Hermann Irving Schlesinger (October 11, 1882, October 3, 1960) was an American inorganic chemist, working in boron chemistry.

Fred Basolo (11 February 1920-27 February 2007) was an American inorganic chemist.

Edward Ray Weidlein (July 14, 1887, August 15, 1983) was an American chemist and later director, chairman, and president at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh.

Ernest Henry Volwiler (August 22, 1893, October 3, 1992) was an American chemist.

Sir Ian Morris Heilbron DSO FRS (6 November 1886-14 September 1959) was a Scottish chemist, who pioneered organic chemistry developed for therapeutic and industrial use.

Wallace Reed Brode (12 June 1900 - August 10, 1974) was an American chemist.

James Bryant Conant (; March 26, 1893, February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a president of Harvard University, and the first U.S. ambassador to West Germany.

Charles August Kraus (August 15, 1875, June 27, 1967) was an American chemist.

Marston Taylor Bogert (April 18, 1868, March 21, 1954) was an American chemist.

William Joseph Sparks (February 26, 1905, October 23, 1976) was a chemist at Exxon.

Frank Henry Westheimer (January 15, 1912, April 14, 2007) was an American chemist.

Edwin J. Vandenberg (September 13, 1918, June 11, 2005) was a chemist at Hercules Inc.

George Andrew Olah (born Oláh András György; May 22, 1927, March 8, 2017) was a Hungarian-American chemist.

Geraldine Lee Richmond (born January 17, 1953, in Salina, Kansas) is an American chemist and physical chemist who is the Interim Vice President for Research and Innovation (VPRI) at the University of Oregon.

Joel Henry Hildebrand (November 16, 1881 - April 30, 1983) was an American educator and a pioneer chemist.

George Claude Pimentel (May 2, 1922, June 18, 1989) was a preeminent chemist and researcher, the inventor of the chemical laser, who was also dedicated to science education and public service.

Evan Jay Crane (February 14, 1889, December 30, 1966) was an American chemist and the editor of Chemical Abstracts 1915-1958.

Milton Harris (March 21, 1906, September 12, 1991) was an American chemist.

Paul S. Anderson (born February 3, 1938) is an American chemist.

Sir John Warcup Cornforth Jr., (7 September 1917-8 December 2013) was an AustralianBritish chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1975 for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalysed reactions, becoming the only Nobel laureate born in New South Wales.

Sir Aaron Klug (11 August 1926-20 November 2018) was a British biophysicist and chemist.

George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, (6 December 1920-31 August 2002) was a British chemist.

Sir John Anthony Pople (31 October 1925-15 March 2004) was a British theoretical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Walter Kohn in 1998 for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry.

Sir John Ernest Walker (born 7 January 1941) is a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Sir Alan Roy Fersht (born 21 April 1943) is a British chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.

Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (16 January 1767 in Stockholm, Sweden, 11 February 1813 in Uppsala, Sweden) was a Swedish analytical chemist who discovered tantalum in 1802.

Muhammad Qudrat-A-Khuda (1 December 1900-3 November 1977) was a Bangladeshi organic chemist, educationist and writer.

Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (14 February 1793-28 February 1875) was a British surgeon, chemist, architect, builder, lecturer and consultant.

Samaresh Bhattacharya (born 1960) is an Indian inorganic and organometallic chemist and a professor of the department of chemistry at Jadavpur University.

Usha Ranjan Ghatak (26 February 1931-18 June 2005) was an Indian synthetic organic chemist, stereochemist and the director of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS).

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (; 1 April 1865-23 September 1929) was an Austrian-born chemist.

Heinrich Otto Wieland (; 4 June 1877-5 August 1957) was a German chemist.

Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (; 15 January 1895-11 November 1973) was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preservation method".

William Francis Giauque (; May 12, 1895, March 28, 1982) was a Canadian-born American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (19 June 1897-9 October 1967) was a British physical chemist and expert in chemical kinetics.

John Charles Polanyi (; born 23 January 1929) is a German-born Hungarian-Canadian chemist.

Thomas Robert Cech (born 8 December 1947) is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman “for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA.”

Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (August 23, 1933, July 3, 2022) was an American chemist who was Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at Rice University.

Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943, October 28, 2005) was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University.

William Standish Knowles (June 1, 1917, June 13, 2012) was an American chemist.

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François Auguste Victor Grignard (6 May 1871-13 December 1935) was a French chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the eponymously named Grignard reagent and Grignard reaction, both of which are important in the formation of carbon-carbon bonds.

Alfred Werner (12 December 1866 - 15 November 1919) was a Swiss chemist who was a student at ETH Zurich and a professor at the University of Zurich.

Theodore William Richards (January 31, 1868, April 2, 1928) was an American physical chemist and the first American scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, earning the award "in recognition of his exact determinations of the atomic weights of a large number of the chemical elements."

Fritz Pregl (; 3 September 1869-13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background.

Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus (; 25 December 1876-9 June 1959) was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins.

Hans Fischer (27 July 1881 - 31 March 1945) was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin."

Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius (, 11 October 1884-30 March 1949) was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1931, together with Carl Bosch) in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical

Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS (19 March 1883-19 March 1950) was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C) while working at the University of Birmingham.

Paul Karrer (21 April 1889-18 June 1971) was a Swiss organic chemist best known for his research on vitamins.

Otto Paul Hermann Diels (23 January 1876 - 7 March 1954) was a German chemist.

Kurt Alder (10 July 1902 - 20 June 1958) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

Hermann Staudinger (; 23 March 1881-8 September 1965) was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers.

Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, sometimes Semenov, Semionov or Semenoff (;, 25 September 1986) was a Soviet physicist and chemist.

Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908, September 8, 1980) was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and palaeontology.

Karl Waldemar Ziegler (; 26 November 1898-12 August 1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers.

Robert Burns Woodward (April 10, 1917, July 8, 1979) was an American organic chemist, who is considered by many to be the preeminent synthetic organic chemist of the twentieth century.

Manfred Eigen (; 9 May 1927-6 February 2019) was a German biophysical chemist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions.

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish FRS (9 November 1897-7 June 1978) was a British chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.

Lars Onsager (27 November 1903 - 5 October 1976) was a Norwegian American physical chemist and theoretical physicist.

Odd Hassel (17 May 1897 - 11 May 1981) was a Norwegian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate.

Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, (December 25, 1904 - March 3, 1999) was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules

Ernst Otto Fischer (; 10 November 1918-23 July 2007) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry.

Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS (14 July 1921-26 September 1996) was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis.

Vladimir Prelog (23 July 1906-7 January 1998) was a Croatian-Swiss organic chemist who received the 1975 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions.

Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine (; ; 28 May 2003) was a Belgian physical chemist of Russian origin, noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility.

Georg Wittig (16 June 1897 - 26 August 1987) was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction.

Jerome Karle (born Jerome Karfunkle; June 18, 1918, June 6, 2013) was an American physical chemist.

Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932) is an American chemist at Harvard University.

Yuan Tseh Lee (; born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese physical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 for his contributions to the development of reaction dynamics.

Donald James Cram (April 22, 1919, June 17, 2001) was an American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity." They were the founders of the

Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn (born 30 September 1939) is a French chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands.

Charles John Pedersen (, Yasui Yoshio, October 3, 1904, October 26, 1989) was an American organic chemist best known for discovering crown ethers and describing methods of synthesizing them during his entire 42-year career as a chemist for DuPont at DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington,

Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933-4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate.

Rudolph Arthur Marcus (July 21, 1923, July 16, 2026) was a Canadian-born American chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems". Marcus theory, named after him, provides a thermodynamic and kinetic

Paul Jozef Crutzen (; 3 December 1933-28 January 2021) was a Dutch meteorologist and atmospheric chemist.

Paul Delos Boyer (July 31, 1918, June 2, 2018) was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Walter Kohn (; March 9, 1923, April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist.

Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS (14 April 1927-7 February 2007) was a New Zealand-American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.

John Bennett Fenn (June 15, 1917December 10, 2010) was an American analytical chemist who was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002, sharing half of the award with Koichi Tanaka for their work in mass spectrometry (the other half went to Kurt Wüthrich).

Robert Howard Grubbs ForMemRS (February 27, 1942, December 19, 2021) was an American chemist and the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

Richard Royce Schrock (born January 4, 1945) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate recognized for his contributions to the olefin metathesis reaction used in organic chemistry.

Valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory ( VESP-ər, və-SEP-ər) is a model used in chemistry to predict the geometry of individual molecules from the number of electron pairs surrounding their central atoms.

In chemistry, Le Chatelier's principle (pronounced UK: or US: ) is a principle used to predict the effect of a change in conditions on chemical equilibrium.

In chemistry, valence bond (VB) theory is one of the two basic theories, along with molecular orbital (MO) theory, that were developed to use the methods of quantum mechanics to describe chemical bonding.

In chemistry, the law of definite proportions, sometimes called Proust's law or the law of constant composition, states that a given chemical compound contains its constituent elements in a fixed ratio (by mass) and does not depend on its source or method of preparation.

Collision theory is a principle of chemistry used to predict the rates of chemical reactions.

In chemistry, the law of multiple proportions states that in compounds which contain two particular chemical elements, the amount of Element A per measure of Element B will differ across these compounds by ratios of small whole numbers.

In physics and chemistry, the law of conservation of mass or principle of mass conservation states that for any system which is closed to all incoming and outgoing transfers of matter, the mass of the system must remain constant over time.

In chemistry, Abegg's rule states that the difference between the maximum positive and negative valence of an element is frequently eight.

In chemistry, the cage effect (also known as geminate recombination) describes how the properties of a molecule are affected by its surroundings.

It uses tools from biology and chemistry, attempting a synthesis of many sciences.

Silicon (, SILL-ih-kən) is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic lustre, and is a tetravalent non-metal (sometimes considered as a metalloid) and semiconductor.

Titanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ti and atomic number 22. Found in nature only as an oxide, it can be reduced to produce a lustrous transition metal with a silver color, low density, and high strength that is resistant to corrosion in sea water, aqua regia, and chlorine.

George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky (, ;, December 7, 1982) was a Ukrainian-American physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor.

Stephen James Lippard (born October 12, 1940) is the Arthur Amos Noyes Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Richard Neil Zare (born November 19, 1939, in Cleveland, Ohio) is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science and a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.

Tobin Jay Marks (born November 25, 1944) is an inorganic chemistry Professor, the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry, Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Professor of Applied Physics at Northwestern University in

Robert W. Parry (October 1, 1917, December 1, 2006) was a professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan and the University of Utah.

Peter B. Dervan (born June 28, 1945) is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology.

Uzi Even (; born 18 October 1940) is an Israeli professor emeritus of physical chemistry at Tel Aviv University and a former politician well known for being the first openly gay member of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament).

Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland (June 28, 1927, March 10, 2012) was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine.

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Justus Freiherr von Liebig (12 May 1803-18 April 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural and biological chemistry; he is considered one of the principal founders of organic chemistry.

Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (c. 936-1013), popularly known as al-Zahrawi, Latinised as Albucasis or Abulcasis (from Arabic Abū al-Qāsim), was an Arab physician, surgeon and chemist from al-Andalus.

He also made strides in logic, mathematics but especially trigonometry, biology, and chemistry.

The c. 215 treatises that survive today mainly deal with alchemy and chemistry, magic, and Shi'ite religious philosophy.

Michael Polanyi ( poh-LAN-yee; Hungarian: Polányi Mihály; 11 March 1891-22 February 1976) was a Hungarian-British polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy.

Max Tishler (October 30, 1906, March 18, 1989) was president of Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories where he led the research teams that synthesized ascorbic acid, riboflavin, cortisone, pyridoxine, pantothenic acid, nicotinamide, methionine, threonine, and tryptophan.

Edgar Fahs Smith (May 23, 1854, May 3, 1928) was an American scientist who is best known today for his interests in the history of chemistry.

Gabor A. Somorjai (May 4, 1935, July 7, 2025) was a Hungarian-born American professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry and catalysis, especially the catalytic effects of metal surfaces on gas-phase reactions ("heterogeneous catalysis").

Frederick Dominic Rossini (July 18, 1899, October 12, 1990) was an American thermodynamicist noted for his work in chemical thermodynamics.

He is a chemistry professor at George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Virginia, and a member of advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology.

Mu'ayyad al-Din Abu Isma'il al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Samad al-Du'ali al-Kināni al-Tughra'i (Arabic: العميد فخر الكتاب مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي بن محمد بن عبد الصمد الدؤلي الكناني الطغرائي) (1061, c. 1121) was an Arabic poet and alchemist.

Frederick Soddy FRS (2 September 1877-22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions.

Leopold Ružička (pronounced [rǔʒitʃka]; born Lavoslav Stjepan Ružička; 13 September 1887-26 September 1976) was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including the first chemical synthesis of male sex hormones." He worked most of his life in Switzerland, and received eight doctorates honoris causa in science, medicine, and law; seven prizes and medals; and twenty-four honorary memberships in chemical, biochemical, and other scientific societies.

Koichi Tanaka (田中 耕一, Tanaka Kōichi; born August 3, 1959) is a Japanese electrical engineer who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules with John Bennett Fenn and Kurt Wüthrich (the latter for work in NMR spectroscopy).

The ideal gas law, also called the general gas equation, is the equation of state of a hypothetical ideal gas.

Boyle's law, also referred to as the Boyle-Mariotte law or Mariotte's law (especially in France), is an empirical gas law that describes the relationship between pressure and volume of a confined gas.

Avogadro's law (sometimes referred to as Avogadro's hypothesis or Avogadro's principle) or Avogadro-Ampère's hypothesis is an experimental gas law relating the volume of a gas to the amount of substance of gas present.

The octet rule is a chemical rule of thumb that reflects the theory that main-group elements tend to bond in such a way that each atom has eight electrons in its valence shell, giving it the same electronic configuration as a noble gas.

He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for palladium catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" jointly with Richard F. Heck and Akira Suzuki.