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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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George Kistiakowsky

Chemistry

George P. Smith

Chemistry

George Porter

Chemistry

George S. Hammond

Chemistry

George Whitesides

Chemistry

Geraldine Richmond

Chemistry

Gerhard Ertl

Chemistry

Gerhard Herzberg

Chemistry

Gilbert N. Lewis

Chemistry

Giulio Natta

Chemistry

Glenn T. Seaborg

Chemistry

Gregory Winter

Chemistry

Hans Fischer

Chemistry

Hans von Euler-Chelpin

Chemistry

Harold Urey

Chemistry

Harold W. Kroto

Chemistry

Harry Gray

Chemistry

Harry Kroto

Chemistry

Hartmut Michel

Chemistry

Heinrich Wieland

Chemistry

Henri Moissan

Chemistry

Henry Cavendish

Chemistry

Henry Eyring

Chemistry

Henry Fox Talbot

Chemistry

Henry Gilman

Chemistry

Henry Louis Le Chatelier

Chemistry

Henry Taube

Chemistry

Herbert A. Hauptman

Chemistry

Herbert C. Brown

Chemistry

Hermann Irving Schlesinger

Chemistry

Hermann Staudinger

Chemistry

Hideki Shirakawa

Chemistry

Howard E. Simmons Jr.

Chemistry

Humphry Davy

Chemistry

Ian Heilbron

Chemistry

Ilya Prigogine

Chemistry

Ira Remsen

Chemistry

Irène Joliot-Curie

Chemistry

Irving Langmuir

Chemistry

Irwin Rose

Chemistry

J. Fraser Stoddart

Chemistry

J. Willard Gibbs

Chemistry

Jabir ibn Hayyan

Chemistry

Jacob Sagiv

Chemistry

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Chemistry

Jacqueline Barton

Chemistry

Jacques Dubochet

Chemistry

James B. Sumner

Chemistry

James Bryant Conant

Chemistry

James Smithson

Chemistry

Jaroslav Heyrovský

Chemistry

Jean-Marie Lehn

Chemistry

Jean-Pierre Sauvage

Chemistry

Jennifer Doudna

Chemistry

Jens C. Skou

Chemistry

Jerome Karle

Chemistry

Joachim Frank

Chemistry

JoAnne Stubbe

Chemistry

Joel H. Hildebrand

Chemistry

Johann Deisenhofer

Chemistry

Johann Joachim Becher

Chemistry

John B. Fenn

Chemistry

John B. Goodenough

Chemistry

John C. Bailar Jr.

Chemistry

John C. Polanyi

Chemistry

John Cornforth

Chemistry

John D. Roberts

Chemistry

John Dalton

Chemistry

John E. Walker

Chemistry

John Howard Northrop

Chemistry

John Kendrew

Chemistry

John M. Jumper

Chemistry

John Pople

Chemistry

John Wilkinson

Chemistry

Jokichi Takamine

Chemistry

Jons Jacob Berzelius

Chemistry

Joseph Priestley

Chemistry

Joseph Proust

Chemistry

Justus von Liebig

Chemistry

K. Barry Sharpless

Chemistry

Karl August Folkers

Chemistry

Karl Ziegler

Chemistry

Kathleen Lonsdale

Chemistry

Katsuko Saruhashi

Chemistry

Kenichi Fukui

Chemistry

Kenneth Pitzer

Chemistry

Koichi Tanaka

Chemistry

Kurt Alder

Chemistry

Kurt Wüthrich

Chemistry

Lars Onsager

Chemistry

Leopold Ruzicka

Chemistry

Linus Pauling

Chemistry

Louis Brus

Chemistry

Louis Pasteur

Chemistry

Louis Plack Hammett

Chemistry

M. Frederick Hawthorne

Chemistry

M. Stanley Whittingham

Chemistry

Manfred Eigen

Chemistry

Marcellin Berthelot

Chemistry

Mario Molina

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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