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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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Marston T. Bogert

Chemistry

Martin Chalfie

Chemistry

Martin Karplus

Chemistry

Mary L. Good

Chemistry

Max Perutz

Chemistry

Max Tishler

Chemistry

Max Trautz

Chemistry

Melvin Calvin

Chemistry

Michael Levitt

Chemistry

Michael Smith

Chemistry

Mihir Chowdhury

Chemistry

Milton Harris

Chemistry

Morten Meldal

Chemistry

Mostafa El-Sayed

Chemistry

Moungi Bawendi

Chemistry

Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda

Chemistry

Nadrian Seeman

Chemistry

Nikolay Semyonov

Chemistry

Norman Haworth

Chemistry

Odd Hassel

Chemistry

Osamu Shimomura

Chemistry

Otto Diels

Chemistry

Otto Hahn

Chemistry

Partha Sarathi Mukherjee

Chemistry

Paul Alivisatos

Chemistry

Paul D. Boyer

Chemistry

Paul Flory

Chemistry

Paul J. Crutzen

Chemistry

Paul Karrer

Chemistry

Paul Modrich

Chemistry

Paul S. Anderson

Chemistry

Paul Sabatier

Chemistry

Peter Agre

Chemistry

Peter B. Dervan

Chemistry

Peter D. Mitchell

Chemistry

Peter Debye

Chemistry

Peter J. Stang

Chemistry

Pradyut Ghosh

Chemistry

Ralph Connor

Chemistry

Ralph Nuzzo

Chemistry

Richard E. Smalley

Chemistry

Richard F. Heck

Chemistry

Richard Henderson

Chemistry

Richard Kuhn

Chemistry

Richard R. Ernst

Chemistry

Richard R. Schrock

Chemistry

Richard Synge

Chemistry

Richard Willstätter

Chemistry

Richard Zare

Chemistry

Richard Zsigmondy

Chemistry

Roald Hoffmann

Chemistry

Robert Bruce Merrifield

Chemistry

Robert Bunsen

Chemistry

Robert Burns Woodward

Chemistry

Robert F. Curl Jr.

Chemistry

Robert H. Grubbs

Chemistry

Robert Huber

Chemistry

Robert Langer

Chemistry

Robert Robinson

Chemistry

Robert S. Mulliken

Chemistry

Robert W. Parry

Chemistry

Roderick MacKinnon

Chemistry

Roger Adams

Chemistry

Roger D. Kornberg

Chemistry

Roger Y. Tsien

Chemistry

Ronald Breslow

Chemistry

Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

Chemistry

Ronald Gillespie

Chemistry

Ronald Nyholm

Chemistry

Rosalind Franklin

Chemistry

Rudolph A. Marcus

Chemistry

Ryoji Noyori

Chemistry

Samaresh Bhattacharya

Chemistry

Samuel C. Lind

Chemistry

Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya

Chemistry

Sidney Altman

Chemistry

Stanford Moore

Chemistry

Stefan Hell

Chemistry

Stephen J. Lippard

Chemistry

Susmita Bose

Chemistry

Svante Arrhenius

Chemistry

Theodor Svedberg

Chemistry

Theodore William Richards

Chemistry

Thomas A. Steitz

Chemistry

Thomas Ebbesen

Chemistry

Thomas Midgley Jr.

Chemistry

Thomas R. Cech

Chemistry

Tobin J. Marks

Chemistry

Tomas Lindahl

Chemistry

Tu Youyou

Chemistry

Usha Ranjan Ghatak

Chemistry

Uzi Even

Chemistry

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Chemistry

Victor Grignard

Chemistry

Vincent du Vigneaud

Chemistry

Virginijus Šikšnys

Chemistry

Vladimir Prelog

Chemistry

W. Albert Noyes Jr.

Chemistry

Wallace R. Brode

Chemistry

Walter Kohn

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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