Chemist
Images | Names | Description | Country | Year | Link |
Marie Curie` | Physicist and chemist. Radioactivity. Discovered radium and polonium | Poland | 1867-1934 | ||
Michael Faraday | Experimental physicist, chemist and inventor. Electrochemistry. Electromagnetic induction.` | United Kingdom | 1791-1867 | ||
Louis Pasteur | Microbiologist and chemist. The germ theory of disease. Vaccination using weakened bacteria. | France | 1822-1895 | ||
John Dalton | Chemist, meteorologist and physicist. Atomic theory. Table of atomic weights. Color blindness. | England | 1766-1844 | ||
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier | Chemist. The nature of combustion. The law of conservation of mass. | France | 1743-1794 | ||
Alessandro Volta | Physicist and chemist. The electric battery. | Italy | 1743-1827 | ||
Linus Pauling | Chemist, biochemist, quantum chemist and molecular biologist. Atomic structure. Chemical bonds. Protein architecture. | United States | 1901-1994 | ||
Rosalind Franklin | Chemist and X-ray crystallographer. The structure of DNA | United Kingdom | 1920-1958 | ||
Dmitri Mendeleev | Chemist. The periodic table | Russia | 1834-1907 | ||
Robert Hooke | Biologist, physicist and chemist. Cells. Gravity. The air pump. | England | 1635-1703 | ||
Alfred Nobel | Chemist and engineer. Dynamite. | Sweden | 1833-1896 | ||
Benjamin Franklin | Physicist, chemist, geographer, oceanographer, meteorologist and statistician. | United States | 1706-1790 | ||
Henry Cavendish | Experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. The composition of air. | England | 1731-1810 | ||
Amedeo Avogadro | Physicist and chemist. Molecules. Avogadro’s Law. Physicist and chemist. Molecules | Italy | 1776-1856 | ||
Otto Hahn | Chemist and physicist. Nuclear fission. | Germany | 1879-1968 | ||
Joseph Priestley | Physicist and chemist. Soda water. Oxygen. Electrical force | England | 1733-1804 | ||
James Watt | Inventor, engineer and chemist. Steam engine. Horsepower. | Scotland | 1736-1819 | ||
Joseph Louis-Lussac | Chemist and physicist. Gay-Lussac’s Law. | France | 1778-1850 | ||
Robert Bunsen | Chemist. Spectrochemical analysis. Discovered caesium and rubidium | Germany | 1811-1899 | ||
Gertrude B. Elion | Biochemist and pharmacologist. Purines. Immunosuppressive and antiviral drugs. | United States | 1918-1999 | ||
Craig Venter | Biochemist and geneticist. The human genome. | United States | 1946 | ||
Sir Humphrey Davy | Chemist and inventor. Electrolysis. Davy lamp. Electrochemistry. | United Kingdom | 1778-1829 | ||
Justus Von Liebig | Chemist. Organic chemistry. Fertilizer. Law of the Minimum. Liebig condenser. Nutrition theory | Germany | 1803-1873 | ||
Julius Robert Mayer | Physician, chemist and physicist. Thermodynamics. Law of conservation of energy. | Germany | 1814-1878 | ||
Henri Becquerel | Physicist and chemist. Radioactivity | France | 1852-1908 | ||
Hermann Emil Fischer | Chemist. Fischer esterification. The Fischer projection. | German | 1852-1919 | ||
William Ramsay | Chemist. The noble gases | United Kingdom | 1852-1916 | ||
Frederick Sanger | Biochemist. The structure of proteins. Sequencing of insulin | United Kingdom | 1918-2013 | ||
Gordon Moore | Physicist, chemist and computer scientist. | United States | 1929- |