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Scientists whose most historically significant work is in chemistry: the composition, structure, properties and reactions of substances, spanning organic, inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry. Does not include biochemists whose primary subject is the chemistry of living systems when their most significant legacy sits in Life Sciences, nor physicists whose work touches chemical bonding only incidentally to a physical theory.

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Aaron Ciechanover

Chemistry

Aaron Klug

Chemistry

Abul Hussam

Chemistry

Ada E. Yonath

Chemistry

Adolf Butenandt

Chemistry

Adolf von Baeyer

Chemistry

Adolf Windaus

Chemistry

Ahmed Zewail

Chemistry

Akira Suzuki

Chemistry

Akira Yoshino

Chemistry

Alan Fersht

Chemistry

Alan Heeger

Chemistry

Alan MacDiarmid

Chemistry

Alan R. Battersby

Chemistry

Alexander R. Todd

Chemistry

Alexey Ekimov

Chemistry

Alfred Nobel

Chemistry

Alfred Werner

Chemistry

Allen J. Bard

Chemistry

Al-Tughra'i

Chemistry

Amedeo Avogadro

Chemistry

Anders Gustaf Ekeberg

Chemistry

André K. Isaacs

Chemistry

Anthony T. James

Chemistry

Antoine Lavoisier

Chemistry

Archer Martin

Chemistry

Arieh Warshel

Chemistry

Arne Tiselius

Chemistry

Arnold Beckman

Chemistry

Arthur B. Lamb

Chemistry

Arthur Harden

Chemistry

Artturi Virtanen

Chemistry

Asima Chatterjee

Chemistry

August Kekule

Chemistry

Avram Hershko

Chemistry

Aziz Sancar

Chemistry

Benjamin List

Chemistry

Bernard L. Feringa

Chemistry

Bidyendu Mohan Deb

Chemistry

Biman Bagchi

Chemistry

Bryce Crawford Jr.

Chemistry

Carl Bosch

Chemistry

Carl Djerassi

Chemistry

Carl Shipp Marvel

Chemistry

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Chemistry

Carolyn Bertozzi

Chemistry

Chad Mirkin

Chemistry

Charles A. Kraus

Chemistry

Charles A. Thomas

Chemistry

Charles J. Pedersen

Chemistry

Charles L. Parsons

Chemistry

Chika Kuroda

Chemistry

Christian B. Anfinsen

Chemistry

Clara Immerwahr

Chemistry

Cyril Hinshelwood

Chemistry

Daniela Blanco

Chemistry

Darleane C. Hoffman

Chemistry

David Allara

Chemistry

David Baker

Chemistry

David MacMillan

Chemistry

Deb Shankar Ray

Chemistry

Demis Hassabis

Chemistry

Derek Barton

Chemistry

Dmitri Mendeleev

Chemistry

Donald J. Cram

Chemistry

Dudley R. Herschbach

Chemistry

E. J. Corey

Chemistry

E. J. Crane

Chemistry

Edgar Fahs Smith

Chemistry

Edward Morley

Chemistry

Edward R. Weidlein

Chemistry

Edwin J. Vandenberg

Chemistry

Ei-ichi Negishi

Chemistry

Elias James Corey

Chemistry

Emil Fischer

Chemistry

Emmanuelle Charpentier

Chemistry

Eric Betzig

Chemistry

Ernest H. Volwiler

Chemistry

Ernest L. Eliel

Chemistry

Ernst Otto Fischer

Chemistry

F. Albert Cotton

Chemistry

F. Sherwood Rowland

Chemistry

Farrington Daniels

Chemistry

Frances Arnold

Chemistry

Frank H. Westheimer

Chemistry

Fred Basolo

Chemistry

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Chemistry

Frederick D. Rossini

Chemistry

Frederick Soddy

Chemistry

Friedrich Bergius

Chemistry

Friedrich Wöhler

Chemistry

Fritz Haber

Chemistry

Fritz Pregl

Chemistry

Gábor A. Somorjai

Chemistry

Geoffrey Wilkinson

Chemistry

Georg Ernst Stahl

Chemistry

Georg Wittig

Chemistry

George A. Olah

Chemistry

George C. Pimentel

Chemistry

George de Hevesy

Chemistry
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1. Wikipedia: Chemistry
WikipediaChemistry, History section, Boyle paragraph
Quote, Chemistry, History section, Boyle paragraph
Robert Boyle, although skeptical of elements and convinced of alchemy, played a key part in elevating the "sacred art" as an independent, fundamental and philosophical discipline in his work The Sceptical Chymist (1661).
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