List of chemists
This is a list of chemists. It should include those who have been important to the development or practice of chemistry. Their research or application has made significant contributions in the area of basic or applied chemistry. A Richard Abegg (1869–1910), German chemist Frederick Abel (1827–1902), English chemist Friedrich Accum (1769–1838), German chemist, advances in the field of gas lighting Homer Burton Adkins (1892–1949), American chemist, known for work in hydrogenation of organic compounds Peter Agre (born 1949), American chemist and doctor, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), German scholar known as "the father of mineralogy" Natalie Ahn, American chemist Arthur Aikin (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist Adrien Albert (1907–1989), Australian medicinal chemist John Albery (1936–2013), English physical chemist Kurt Alder (1902–1958), German chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Jerome Alexander (1876–1959), American expert on the chemistry of colloids Elmer Lucille Allen (born 1931), American chemist and ceramic artist Heather C. Allen (born 1960), American chemist Adah Almutairi (born 1976), American chemist Sidney Altman (1939–2022), 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Faiza Al-Kharafi (born 1946), Kuwaiti chemist, academic and the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, American chemist Gloria Long Anderson (born 1938), American chemist Christian B. Anfinsen (1916–1995), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Angelo Angeli (1864–1931), Italian chemist Octavio Augusto Ceva Antunes, Brazilian chemist Anthony Joseph Arduengo, III (born 1952), American chemist Johan August Arfwedson (1792–1841), Swedish chemist Anton Eduard van Arkel (1893–1976), Dutch chemist Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927), Swedish chemist, one of the founders of physical chemistry Valerie Ashby (born 1965/1966), American chemist Barbara Askins (born 1939), American chemist Larned B. Asprey (1919–2005), American nuclear chemist Alán Aspuru-Guzik (born 1976), computational chemist Francis William Aston (1877–1945), 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Karin Aurivillius (1920–1982), Swedish chemist and crystallographer Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), Italian chemist and physicist, discovered Avogadro's law B Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843–1931), worked on the "single-grain experiment" Myrtle Bachelder (1908–1997), American chemist noted for work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb Werner Emmanuel Bachmann (1901–1951), American chemist, known for work in steroids and RDX Simone Badal-McCreath, Jamaican chemist Leo Baekeland (1863–1944), Belgian-American chemist Adolf von Baeyer (1835–1917), German chemist, 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, synthesis of indigo Piero Baglioni (born 1952), Italian chemist Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom (1854–1907), Dutch chemist Alice Ball (1892–1916), African American chemist known for inventing an effective injectable treatment for leprosy Emily Balskus (born 1980), American chemist and microbiologist Zhenan Bao (born 1970), Chinese chemist known for developing technologies with organic field-effect transistors and organic semiconductors Phil S. Baran (born 1977), American chemist known for synthesis, novel reactions and reagents Coral Barbas, Spanish chemist Allen J. Bard (born 1933), 2008 Wolf Prize in Chemistry Vincenzo Barone (born 1952), Italian chemist Neil Bartlett (1932–2008), English/Canadian/American chemist Sir Derek Barton (1918–1998), 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Fred Basolo (1920–2007), American inorganic chemist Esther Batchelder (1897–1987), American chemist, educator and specialist in nutrition Antoine Baumé (1728–1804), French chemist Karl Bayer (1847–1904), Austrian chemist Johann Joachim Becher (1635–1682), German who