Chemists have changed the way that science looks at the world. By breaking substances down to the atomic level, chemists have greatly expanded our knowledge of the world. Click here to find articles about the greatest chemists in history.
Boyer, Paul Delos (1918-), an American biochemist, discovered the mechanism that produces energy in living cells. See more »
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See more »Butenandt, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903-1995), a German biochemist, studied the structure of male and female sex hormones.
See more »Adolf Otto Windaus (1876-1959), a German chemist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1928 for his research into sterols (complex, solid, unsaturated alcohols) and their connection with vitamins, particularly vitamin D.
See more »Baeyer, Adolf von (1835-1917), a German chemist, won the 1905 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on organic chemical structure and his contributions to the synthetic dye industry.
See more »MacDiarmid, Alan Graham (1927-), a New Zealand-born American chemist. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry with American physicist Alan Jay Heeger and Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa who discovered and developed plastic materials through which electric current can flow.
See more »Kossel, Albrecht (1853-1927) was a German biochemist and pioneer in using methods of organic chemistry to study physiology, particularly that of tissues and cells.
See more »Brown, Alexander Crum (1838-1922), was a Scottish chemist who established the system of representing chemical compounds in the form of diagrams, with connecting lines representing bonds.
See more »Oparin, Alexander Ivanovich (1894-1980), a Soviet biochemist, is best known for his theory on the origins of life on earth from chemical substances.
See more »Todd, Alexander, also known as Lord Todd, (1907-1997) was a British biochemist who contributed to the understanding of the protein composition of cells.
See more »Nobel, Alfred Bernhard (1833-1896), a Swedish chemist, manufacturer, and philanthropist.
See more »Werner, Alfred (1866-1919), a French-born Swiss chemist, opened new areas of research in chemistry with his explanation of the internal structure of complex inorganic compounds.
See more »Avogadro, Amedeo (1776-1856), an Italian physicist and chemist. His research in molecular structure was one of the early steps leading to modern atomic theory.
See more »Becquerel, Antoine César (1852-1908), a French electrochemist, conducted groundbreaking work on voltaic cells, in which he solved the problem of how electricity in the cell is produced.
See more »Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent (1743-1794), a French chemist. By 1777 Lavoisier had concluded that combustion, or burning, is the chemical union of the burning substance with a gas that he named oxygen.
See more »Martin, Archer John Porter (1910-2002) was a British biochemist. With Richard Laurence Millington Synge, he received the 1952 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
See more »Tiselius, Arne (1902-1971) was a Swedish physical chemist who won the 1948 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research on electrophoresis (a method of separating and purifying through the use of an electric field) and adsorption (a process in which matter gathers on the surface of a material).
See more »Harden, Arthur (1865-1940) was a British chemist. He shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in chemistry with the German chemist Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin for their research on sugar fermentation and enzymes.
See more »Virtanen, Artturi Ilmari (1895-1973) was a Finnish biochemist whose study of plant decay led to the discovery of a method of preserving cattle feed.
See more »Welsbach, Baron Carl Auer von (1858-1929), an Austrian chemist. During the 1880's in the laboratory of Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, inventor of the Bunsen burner, he did research on rare-earth elements and their compounds.
See more »Berzelius, Jons Jakob, Baron (1779-1848), the Swedish chemist who devised the system of chemical symbols and formulas.
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