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Robert Adamson
Photographer, Chemist / 1821 - 1848
Robert Adamson was a Scottish chemist and photographer who is best known for producing 2500 Calotype photographic prints with painter David Octavius Hill.
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(1821-1848)
Photographer, Chemist
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Svante Arrhenius
Academic, Chemist, Physicist / 1859 - 1927
Svante Arrhenius was a Nobel Prize winning scientist known for his revolutionary theories in various fields, including physics, chemistry and astronomy.
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(1859-1927)
Academic, Chemist, Physicist
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Arnold Beckman
Educator, Chemist / 1900 - 2004
Arnold Beckman was an American chemist who founded Beckman Instruments and funded the first silicon transistor company, giving rise to Silicon Valley.
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(1900-2004)
Educator, Chemist
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Herbert C. Brown
Academic, Chemist / 1912 - 2004
Herbert C. Brown was a scientist and professor who won the Nobel Prize for his work in organic chemistry.
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(1912-2004)
Academic, Chemist
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Melvin Calvin
Educator, Chemist / 1911 - 1997
Melvin Calvin was an American biochemist who received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemical pathways of photosynthesis.
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(1911-1997)
Educator, Chemist
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W.H. Carothers
Chemist / 1896 - 1937
A chemist, W.H. Carothers worked for DuPont and with his research laid the foundation for the synthetic fiber industry.
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(1896-1937)
Chemist
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George Washington Carver
Inventor, Botanist, Chemist / 1864 - 1943
George Washington Carver was a prominent African-American scientist and inventor. Carver is best known for the many uses he devised for the peanut.
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(1864-1943)
Inventor, Botanist, Chemist
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John Warcup Cornforth
Academic, Chemist / 1917 -
John Warcup Cornforth is an Australian scientist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize for his research in stereochemistry and enzyme-based synthesis.
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(1917-)
Academic, Chemist
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Pierre Curie
Academic, Chemist, Physicist / 1859 - 1906
French physicist Pierre Curie was of founding fathers of modern physics and is best known for being a pioneer in radioactive studies.
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(1859-1906)
Academic, Chemist, Physicist
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John Dalton
Educator, Scholar, Chemist, Meteorologist, Journalist / 1766 - 1844
Chemist John Dalton is credited with pioneering modern atomic theory. He was also the first to study color blindness.
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(1766-1844)
Educator, Scholar, Chemist, Meteorologist, Journalist
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Marie M. Daly
Chemist / 1921 - 2003
Marie M. Daly is best known for being the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States.
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(1921-2003)
Chemist
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Humphry Davy
Inventor, Chemist / 1778 - 1829
Humphry Davy was a British chemist best known for his contributions to the discoveries of chlorine and iodine. He is noted for suggesting the anesthetic use of nitrous oxide in human surgery.
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(1778-1829)
Inventor, Chemist
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Eleuthere Irenee Du Pont
Entrepreneur, Chemist / 1771 - 1834
In 1802, chemist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours founded an explosives business in Delaware which is now known simply as Du Pont.
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(1771-1834)
Entrepreneur, Chemist
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Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
Chemist / 1780 - 1849
German chemist Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner's observation of similarities among certain elements anticipated the development of the periodic system of elements.
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(1780-1849)
Chemist
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Gertrude B. Elion
Chemist / 1918 - 1999
American biochemist and pharmacologist Gertrude B. Elion helped develop drugs to treat leukemia and prevent kidney transplant rejection. She won a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988.
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(1918-1999)
Chemist
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Paul J. Flory
Educator, Activist, Chemist, Journalist / 1910 - 1985
American chemist Paul J. Flory won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1974 for his work with polymers, the building blocks of plastic and rubber.
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(1910-1985)
Educator, Activist, Chemist, Journalist
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Rosalind Franklin
Chemist / 1920 - 1958
British chemist Rosalind Franklin is best known for her role in the discovery of the structure of DNA ,and for her pioneering use of X-ray diffraction.
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(1920-1958)
Chemist
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Walter Gilbert
Biologist, Chemist / 1932 -
Walter Gilbert is a Nobel-winning molecular biologist who is known for his work with RNA and DNA.
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(1932-)
Biologist, Chemist
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Otto Hahn
Chemist / 1879 - 1968
Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission with fellow scientist Fritz Strassmann in 1938. They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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(1879-1968)
Chemist
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Alice Hamilton
Educator, Activist, Doctor, Chemist / 1869 - 1970
Alice Hamilton was a physician and authority on lead poisoning and industrial disease. The NIOSH present an award in her name.
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(1869-1970)
Educator, Activist, Doctor, Chemist
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Jan Ingenhousz
Biologist, Chemist, Physicist / 1730 - 1799
Jan Ingenhousz was a Dutch physiologist, biologist and chemist who discovered the plant process photosynthesis.
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(1730-1799)
Biologist, Chemist, Physicist
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Percy Julian
Academic, Civil Rights Activist, Medical Professional, Chemist / 1899 - 1975
African-American chemist Percy Julian was a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs such as cortisone, steroids and birth control pills.
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(1899-1975)
Academic, Civil Rights Activist, Medical Professional, Chemist
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Martin Heinrich Klaproth
Educator, Chemist / 1743 - 1817
German chemist Martin Klaproth Heinrich discovered a number of elements in the 19th century, including uranium and zirconium.
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(1743-1817)
Educator, Chemist
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Walter Kohn
Chemist, Physicist / 1923 -
Walter Kohn is a physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1998 for his work in quantum chemistry.
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(1923-)
Chemist, Physicist
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Irving Langmuir
Chemist, Physicist / 1881 - 1957
Irving Langmuir was an American chemist and physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in surface chemistry.
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(1881-1957)
Chemist, Physicist
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Paul C Lauterbur
Educator, Chemist / 1929 - 2007
Paul C. Lauterbur is an American chemist best known for his work in helping to develop magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for internal body structures scanning.
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(1929-2007)
Educator, Chemist
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Primo Levi
Chemist, Journalist, Poet / 1919 - 1987
Italian Jewish chemist Primo Levi survived a year at Auschwitz against all odds. He is best known his moving memoir, If This Is a Man.
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(1919-1987)
Chemist, Journalist, Poet
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Willard Libby
Chemist / 1908 - 1980
Willard Libby was a chemist whose technique of carbon-14 dating provided an extremely valuable tool for a variety of scientists.
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(1908-1980)
Chemist
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Luis Federico Leloir
Chemist / 1906 - 1987
Luis Federico Leloir received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery and study of sugar nucleotides.
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(1906-1987)
Chemist
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Rudolph A. Marcus
Academic, Chemist / 1923 -
Rudolph A. Marcus is a Canadian chemist known for his research in electron-transfer reactions. He established what is known as the Marcus Theory, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1992.
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(1923-)
Academic, Chemist
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Dmitri Mendeleyev
Academic, Chemist / 1834 - 1907
Dmitri Mendeleyev was a Russian chemist who developed the periodic classification of the elements.
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(1834-1907)
Academic, Chemist
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Mario Molina
Chemist / 1943 -
Mexican-born chemist Mario Molina won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for his research on how man-made compounds affect the ozone layer.
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(1943-)
Chemist
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Alfred Nobel
Business Leader, Engineer, Inventor, Chemist / 1833 - 1896
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and other explosives. He used his enormous fortune from 355 patents to institute the Nobel Prizes.
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(1833-1896)
Business Leader, Engineer, Inventor, Chemist
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Severo Ochoa
Academic, Chemist / 1905 - 1993
Severo Ochoa was co-awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering an enzyme in bacteria that enables the synthesis of RNA.
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(1905-1993)
Academic, Chemist
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George A. Olah
Chemist / 1927 -
George A. Olah won the 1994 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work he did in the1960s isolating carbocations, or positively charged hydrocarbon fragments.
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(1927-)
Chemist
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Louis Pasteur
Inventor, Doctor, Chemist / 1822 - 1895
Scientist Louis Pasteur came up with the food preparing process known as pasteurization; he also developed a vaccination for anthrax and rabies.
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(1822-1895)
Inventor, Doctor, Chemist
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Linus Pauling
Chemist / 1901 - 1994
Linus Pauling was a theoretical physical chemist who became the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes.
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(1901-1994)
Chemist
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Lisa Perez Jackson
Civil Servant, Engineer, Chemist / 1962 -
Lisa Perez Jackson is a chemical engineer who in 2008 became the first African American to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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(1962-)
Civil Servant, Engineer, Chemist
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Frederick Sanger
Chemist / 1918 -
Frederick Sanger received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. He discovered the structure of insulin and researched of DNA molecule sequencing.
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(1918-)
Chemist
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Richard E Smalley
Chemist / 1943 - 2005
Richard E. Smalley was an American chemist best known for discovering a new form of carbon, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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(1943-2005)
Chemist
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William Henry Fox Talbot
Photographer, Astronomer, Chemist, Physicist / 1800 - 1877
William Henry Fox Talbot was a chemist who was the first to develop the photographic negative.
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(1800-1877)
Photographer, Astronomer, Chemist, Physicist
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Henry Taube
Academic, Chemist / 1915 - 2005
Henry Taube was the first Canadian-born scientist to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry for work in electron transfer reactions.
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(1915-2005)
Academic, Chemist
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Jeffrey Wigand
Activist, Chemist / 1942 -
Jeffrey Wigand became famous in the 1990s when he took public his knowledge that cigarette companies had tried to conceal the dangers of smoking.
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(1942-)
Activist, Chemist
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Harvey Washington Wiley
Activist, Chemist, Writer / 1844 - 1930
Harvey Washington Wiley was an American chemist known as the "Father of the FDA." Throughout much of his career, Wiley campaigned for reforms in food manufacturing and in food labeling.
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(1844-1930)
Activist, Chemist, Writer
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Ahmed H. Zewail
Educator, Chemist / 1946 -
Chemist Ahmed H. Zewail won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developing a rapid laser technique that let scientists study atoms during chemical reactions.
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(1946-)
Educator, Chemist