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Chemist Biographies
Every archived life recorded as chemist, ordered by their place in the ledger.
Modern era
Lúcio Lara
April 9, 1929 – February 27, 2016
Angolan politician (1929-2016)
Contemporary era
Elio Di Rupo
b. July 18, 1951
Belgian politician (born 1951)
Contemporary era
Nikolai Denkov
b. September 3, 1962
Bulgarian physical chemist and politician
Contemporary era
Andrus Ansip
b. October 1, 1956
Estonian chemist and politician (born 1956)
Contemporary era
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
b. October 17, 1959
Scientist and president of Mauritius
Modern era
Margaret Thatcher
October 13, 1925 – April 8, 2013
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990
Contemporary era
Angela Merkel
b. July 17, 1954
Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)
Modern era
Louis Pasteur
December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895
Chemist whose germ theory and vaccines saved uncounted lives
Modern era
Marie Curie
November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934
Physicist and chemist, first person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences
Contemporary era
Rosalind Franklin
July 25, 1920 – April 16, 1958
Chemist whose X-ray images revealed the structure of DNA
Medieval era
Al-Razi
866 CE – 925 CE
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
Medieval era
Al-Biruni
September 4, 973 CE – December 9, 1048
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
Early Modern era
Michael Faraday
September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867
British scientist (1791–1867)
Modern era
Ludwig Boltzmann
February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
Early Modern era
Robert Boyle
January 25, 1627 – December 31, 1691
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
Early Modern era
Alessandro Volta
February 18, 1745 – March 5, 1827
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
Modern era
Pierre Curie
May 15, 1859 – April 19, 1906
French physicist (1859–1906)
Modern era
Ernest Rutherford
August 30, 1871 – October 19, 1937
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
Modern era
Wolfgang Pauli
April 25, 1900 – December 15, 1958
Physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
Modern era
Lise Meitner
1878 – October 27, 1968
Austrian-Swedish physicist
Early Modern era
Antoine Lavoisier
August 26, 1743 – May 8, 1794
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
Early Modern era
John Dalton
September 6, 1766 – July 27, 1844
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
Early Modern era
Amedeo Avogadro
August 9, 1776 – July 9, 1856
Italian scientist
Early Modern era
Humphry Davy
December 17, 1778 – May 29, 1829
British chemist
Early Modern era
Joseph Priestley
March 13, 1733 – February 6, 1804
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
Modern era
Dmitri Mendeleev
January 27, 1834 – January 20, 1907
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
Modern era
Alfred Nobel
October 21, 1833 – December 10, 1896
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
Modern era
Fritz Haber
December 9, 1868 – January 29, 1934
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
Modern era
Linus Pauling
February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994
American scientist (1901–1994)
Modern era
Dorothy Hodgkin
May 12, 1910 – July 29, 1994
British chemist
Early Modern era
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
May 24, 1686 – September 16, 1736
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
Modern era
Ivan Pavlov
September 14, 1849 – February 27, 1936
Russian physiologist (1849–1936)
Modern era
Santiago Ramon y Cajal
May 1, 1852 – October 17, 1934
Spanish scientist (1852-1934)
Modern era
Barbara McClintock
June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992
American scientist and cytogeneticist
Contemporary era
Jennifer Doudna
b. February 19, 1964
American biochemist
Early Modern era
James Watt
January 19, 1736 – August 25, 1819
British engineer (1736–1819)
Modern era
Primo Levi
July 31, 1918 – April 11, 1987
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
Modern era
Sheikh Abdullah
December 5, 1905 – September 8, 1982
Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)
Modern era
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui
October 19, 1897 – April 14, 1994
Natural products chemist, scientist, painter, poet (1897–1994)
Medieval era
Abbas ibn Firnas
810 CE – 887 CE
9th century astronomer and physician
Medieval era
Albertus Magnus
1193 – 1280
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
Contemporary era
Roderic
b. February 19, 1956
American neuroscientist
Modern era
Josiah
February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903
American scientist (1839–1903)
Modern era
Asima Chatterjee
September 23, 1917 – November 22, 2006
Indian chemist (1917–2006)
Modern era
Prafulla Chandra Ray
August 2, 1861 – June 16, 1944
Bengali chemist, educationist, poet, historian, industrialist and philanthropist (1861–1944)
Modern era
Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar
February 21, 1894 – January 1, 1955
Indian chemist (1894–1955)
Modern era
Gustav Kirchhoff
March 12, 1824 – October 17, 1887
German physicist (1824–1887)
Early Modern era
Jons Jacob Berzelius
August 20, 1779 – August 7, 1848
Swedish chemist (1779–1848)
Modern era
Friedrich Wohler
July 31, 1800 – September 23, 1882
German chemist (1800-1882)
Modern era
August Kekule
September 7, 1829 – July 13, 1896
German organic chemist (1829–1896)
Modern era
Svante Arrhenius
February 19, 1859 – October 2, 1927
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
Modern era
Robert Bunsen
March 30, 1811 – August 16, 1899
German chemist (1811-1899)
Modern era
Otto Hahn
March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
Modern era
Irene Joliot-Curie
September 12, 1897 – March 17, 1956
French chemist and physicist (1897–1956)
Modern era
Glenn Seaborg
April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999
American chemist (1912–1999)
Modern era
Mario Molina
March 19, 1943 – October 7, 2020
Mexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)
Modern era
Percy Julian
April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975
African-American chemist (1899-1975)
Modern era
Stephanie Kwolek
July 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014
American chemist, inventor of Kevlar (1923–2014)
Modern era
Charles Goodyear
December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860
American inventor (1800-1860)
Modern era
Leo Baekeland
November 14, 1863 – February 23, 1944
Belgium American inventor (1863-1944)