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Chemists

92 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-HamdānīAuthor · BooksAbū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī (279/280-333/334 A.H; c. 893947) was an Arab Muslim geographer, chemist, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer, from the tribe of…
Adolfo KaminskyPhotographer · PhotographyAdolfo Kaminsky (or Adolphe; 1 October 1925 – 9 January 2023) was an Argentine-born member of the French Resistance, specializing in the forgery of identity documents (IDs), and a…
Agustín AlmodóvarPerson · Film memorabiliaAgustín Almodóvar Caballero (born 25 May 1955) is a film producer and younger brother of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar.
Albertus MagnusAuthor · BooksAlbertus Magnus (c. 1200 – 15 November 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great, Albert of Swabia, Albert von Bollstadt, or Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher,…
Alexander MitscherlichAuthor · BooksAlexander Harbord Mitscherlich (20 September 1908 – 26 June 1982) was a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Alfred NobelPhotographer · PhotographyAlfred Bernhard Nobel (noh-BEL; Swedish: [ˈǎlːfrɛd nʊˈbɛlː]; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman.
Alister McGrathAuthor · BooksAlister Edgar McGrath FRSA (born 1953) is an Irish theologian, Anglican priest, intellectual historian, scientist, Christian apologist, and public intellectual.
Ambrose LomaxPhotographer · Photography
Andrés Martínez TruebaAuthor · BooksAndrés Martínez Trueba (11 February 1884 – 19 December 1959) was the President of Uruguay from 1951 to 1955.
Antoine LavoisierAuthor · BooksAntoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 17438 May 1794), also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical…
Arkady GendlerPerson · Music memorabiliaArkady Gendler (1921–2017, Arkadiĭ Khunovich Gendler, Avram Hendler) was a Ukrainian Yiddish-language singer, composer, and folk song collector.
Arthur Herbert ChurchArtist · PaintingsIllustration — Arthur Herbert Church
Asima ChatterjeeAuthor · BooksAsima Chatterjee (23 September 1917 – 22 November 2006) was an Indian organic chemist noted for her work in the fields of organic chemistry and phytomedicine.
Baron d'HolbachAuthor · BooksPaul Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was a prominent figure in the French…
Benjamin RushAuthor · BooksBenjamin Rush (April 19, 1813) was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S.
Bernard PalissyArtist · CeramicsBernard Palissy (bɛʁnaʁ palisi; c. 1589) was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain.
Carl SprengelAuthor · BooksKarl or Philipp Carl Sprengel (March 29, 1787 – April 19, 1859) was a German botanist from Schillerslage (now part of Burgdorf, Hanover).
Charles DaubenyPhotographer · PhotographyIllustration — Charles Daubeny in 1856–1860
Charles François de Cisternay du FayAuthor · BooksCharles François de Cisternay du Fay (14 September 1698 – 16 July 1739) was a French chemist and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi.
Charles Guillaume Alexandre BourgeoisEngraver · PrintsIllustration — C. G. A. Bourgeois; portrait by Louis-Léopold Boilly (c.1800)
Cornelis DrebbelEngraver · PrintsCornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel (1572 – 7 November 1633) was a Dutch engineer and inventor.
Cyril Norman HinshelwoodArtist · PaintingsSir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (19 June 1897 – 9 October 1967) was a British physical chemist and expert in chemical kinetics.
Désiré van MonckhovenPhotographer · PhotographyIllustration — Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven.
Donella MeadowsAuthor · BooksDonella Hager "Dana" Meadows (March 13, 1941 – February 20, 2001) was an American environmental scientist, educator, and writer.
Edmond BecquerelPhotographer · PhotographyAlexandre-Edmond Becquerel (lang; 24 March 1820 – 11 May 1891) was a French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism, electricity, and optics.
Ellen Swallow RichardsAuthor · BooksEllen Henrietta Swallow Richards (Swallow; December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was an American industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the…
Ferdynand Antoni OssendowskiAuthor · Maps and atlasesFerdynand Antoni Ossendowski (fɛrˈdɨnant anˈtɔɲi ɔssɛnˈdɔfskʲi; 27 May 1876 – 3 January 1945) was a Polish writer, explorer, university professor, and anticommunist political activist.
Frank Styant BrownePhotographer · PhotographyFrank Styant Browne (10 July 1854 – 17 April 1938), also known as Styant Browne, was an Australian pharmacist, artist, photographer and X-ray pioneer from Tasmania.
Frédéric Joliot-CuriePerson · Film memorabiliaJean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (lang; Joliot; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène…
Friedrich Adolf PanethPhotographer · PhotographyFriedrich Adolf Paneth (31 August 1887 – 17 September 1958) was an Austrian-born British chemist. Fleeing the Nazis, he escaped to Britain.
Gaston TissandierAuthor · BooksIllustration — Gaston Tissandier; photograph by Alphonse Liébert
Guillaume-François RouelleAuthor · BooksGuillaume François Rouelle (ɡijom fʁɑ̃swa ʁwɛl; 15 September 1703 – 3 August 1770) was a French chemist and apothecary.
Harold UreyAuthor · BooksHarold Clayton Urey ForMemRS (April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist who conducted pioneering work on isotopes.
Harvey Washington WileyAuthor · BooksHarvey Washington Wiley (October 18, 1844 – June 30, 1930) was an American physician and chemist who advocated successfully for the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906…
Heinrich BiltzAuthor · BooksHeinrich Biltz (26 May 1865 – 29 October 1943) was a German chemist and professor.
Henri Victor RegnaultPhotographer · PhotographyHenri Victor Regnault ForMemRS (ɑ̃ʁi viktɔʁ ʁəɲo; 21 July 1810 – 19 January 1878) was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of…
Herbert C. BrownAuthor · BooksHerbert Charles Brown (22 May 1912 – 19 December 2004) was an American chemist and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with organoboranes.[1][2]
Hermann KronePhotographer · PhotographyIllustration — Self-portrait, circa 1850
Hermann Wilhelm VogelAuthor · BooksHermann Wilhelm Vogel (26 March 1834 – 17 December 1898) was a German photochemist and photographer who discovered dye sensitization, which is of great importance to photography.
Hugh Lee PattinsonPhotographer · PhotographyHugh Lee Pattinson FRS (25 December 1796 – 11 November 1858) was an English industrial chemist.
Jack ParsonsAuthor · BooksJohn Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer, chemist, and Thelemite occultist.
Jacques BergierAuthor · BooksIllustration — Image of Jacques Bergier
Jagadish Chandra BoseAuthor · BooksSir Jagadish Chandra Bose (30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a polymath with interests in biology, physics and writing science fiction.
James Leonard Brierley SmithAuthor · BooksJames Leonard Brierley Smith (26 September 1897 – 8 January 1968) was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor.
James WatsonAuthor · BooksJames Dewey Watson (April 6, 1928 – November 6, 2025) was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.
Janusz WiśniewskiAuthor · BooksIllustration — Photo: Agata Dyka (N.Y. 2007)
Jean Henri HassenfratzAuthor · BooksIllustration — Portrait of Jean-Henri Hassenfratz
Jean-Baptiste de LamarckAuthor · BooksJean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier.
Johann Friedrich BöttgerArtist · CeramicsJohann Friedrich Böttger (also Böttcher or Böttiger; 4 February 1682 – 13 March 1719) was a German alchemist. Böttger was born in Schleiz and died in Dresden.
John A. RogersDesigner · Modern designJohn A. Rogers (born August 24, 1967) is an American physical chemist and a materials scientist.
John Frederick William HerschelAuthor · BooksSir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer…
John William DraperAuthor · BooksJohn William Draper (May 5, 1811 – January 4, 1882) was an English polymath: a scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer.
Josef Maria EderPhotographer · PhotographyJosef Maria Eder (16 March 1855 – 18 October 1944) was an Austrian chemist who specialized in the chemistry of photography, and who wrote a comprehensive early history of the technical…
Josiah P. CookeAuthor · BooksJosiah Parsons Cooke (October 12, 1827 – September 3, 1894) was an American chemist who worked at Harvard University and was instrumental in the measurement of atomic weights, inspiring…
Julius NeubronnerPhotographer · PhotographyJulius Gustav Neubronner (8 February 1852 – 17 April 1932) was a German apothecary, inventor, company founder, and a pioneer of amateur photography and film.
Justus von LiebigAuthor · BooksJustus Freiherr von Liebig (12 May 1803 – 18 April 1873) was a German scientist who made major contributions to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of chemistry, as well as to agricultural…
Kurt MaetzigAuthor · BooksKurt Maetzig (25 January 1911 – 8 August 2012) was a German film director who had a significant effect on the film industry in East Germany.
Leona WoodsAuthor · BooksLeona Harriet Woods (August 9, 1919 – November 10, 1986), later known as Leona Woods Marshall and Leona Woods Marshall Libby, was an American physicist who helped build the first nuclear…
Liberty Hyde BaileyAuthor · BooksLiberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American horticulturist and advocate for rural reform in the United States.
Louis DaguerreDesigner · DesignLouis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (lang; 18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French scientist, artist and photographer.
Louis FiguierAuthor · BooksIllustration — Louis Figuier
Louis LumièrePerson · Film memorabiliaLouis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948) was a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema.
Louis-Auguste BissonDesigner · DesignLouis-Auguste Bisson (lang; 1814–1876) was a 19th-century French photographer.
Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'ArconvilleIllustrator · IllustrationMarie Geneviève Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville (née Darlus, also known as la présidente Thiroux d’Arconville and Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville) (17 October 1720 – 23 December 1805), was a…
Michael FaradayAuthor · BooksMichael Faraday (22 September 1791 – 25 August 1867) was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism.
Michael SchindhelmPerson · Film memorabiliaMichael Schindhelm (born 1 October 1960 in Eisenach, Thuringia) is a German-born Swiss author, filmmaker and curator.
Mikhail LomonosovArtist · PaintingsMikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (–) was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science.
Nicolas-Jacques ContéArtist · PaintingsNicolas-Jacques Conté (4 August 1755 – 6 December 1805) was a French inventor of the modern pencil.
Nikolay MorozovAuthor · BooksNikolai Aleksandrovich Morozov (7 July 1854, Borok – 30 July 1946) was a Russian revolutionary who spent about 25 years in prison for revolutionary activities against the Tsarist…
Ole BorchAuthor · BooksOle Borch (7 April 1626 – 13 October 1690) (Latinized to Olaus Borrichius or Olaus Borrichus) was a Danish scientist, physician, grammarian, and poet.
Oliver SacksAuthor · BooksOliver Wolf Sacks (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer.
ParacelsusAuthor · BooksTheophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (10 November 1493 – 24 September 1541), known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
Pompeu FabraAuthor · BooksPompeu Fabra i Poch (20 February 1868 – 25 December 1948) was a Catalan engineer, linguist, and grammarian.
Primo LeviAuthor · BooksPrimo Michele Levi (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer.
Ragnar SohlmanDesigner · DesignRagnar Sohlman (26 February 1870 – 9 July 1948) was a Swedish chemical engineer, manager, civil servant, and creator of the Nobel Foundation.
Roald HoffmannAuthor · BooksRoald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kenichi Fukui “for their theories, developed…
Robert LeyAuthor · BooksRobert Ley (15 February 1890 – 25 October 1945) was a German Nazi politician and head of the German Labour Front during its entire existence, from 1933 to 1945.
Roderick KingsleyDesigner · FashionThe Hobgoblin is the alias of several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, most of whom are depicted as enemies of the superhero Spider-Man and belong…
Rudolf Erich RaspeAuthor · BooksRudolf Erich Raspe (March 1736 – 16 November 1794) was a German librarian, writer, and scientist, called by his biographer John Patrick Carswell a "rogue".
Rudolf GamsjägerPerson · Music memorabiliaRudolf Gamsjäger (23 March 1909 in Vienna, Austria – 28 January 1985 in Vienna, Austria), was an Austrian opera administrator.
Santiago Ramón y CajalPhotographer · Photography
Sergei Prokudin-GorskiiPhotographer · PhotographySergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Прокудин-Горский, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ prɐˈkudʲɪn ˈɡorskʲɪj]; August 30 [O.S.
Sheikh Muhammad AbdullahAuthor · BooksSheikh Mohammad Abdullah (5 December 1905 – 8 September 1982) was an Indian politician who played a central role in the politics of Jammu and Kashmir.[1][3] Abdullah was the founding leader…
Sven RinmanAuthor · BooksSven Rinman (23 June (N.S)/12 June (O.S) 1720 – 20 December 1792)
Thomas WedgwoodPhotographer · PhotographyThomas Wedgwood (14 May 1771 – 10 July 1805) was an English photographer and inventor. He is most widely known as an early experimenter in the field of photography.
Vladko PanayotovAuthor · BooksVladko Panayotov (Bulgarian: Владко Тодоров Панайотов; born 7 May 1950 in Pavlikeni) is a scholar and Bulgarian member of the European Parliament who sits on the committee for the…
Wilhelm OstwaldArtist · PaintingsWilhelm Friedrich Ostwald (– 4 April 1932) was a Baltic German chemist and philosopher.
William CrookesPhotographer · PhotographySir William Crookes (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was an English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on…
William Robert GrovePhotographer · PhotographySir William Robert Grove, FRS FRSE (11 July 1811 – 1 August 1896) was a Welsh judge and physical scientist.[1] He anticipated the general theory of the conservation of energy, and was a…
Yeremey ParnovAuthor · BooksYeremey Iudovich Parnov (20 October 1935 – 18 March 2009) was a Soviet and Russian-Jewish writer and publicist. Parnov attended the Moscow Peat University and worked as a chemical engineer.
Yeshayahu LeibowitzAuthor · BooksYeshayahu Leibowitz (29 January 1903 – 18 August 1994) was an Israeli Orthodox Jewish public intellectual and polymath.
Yuri ZhdanovAuthor · BooksYuri Andreyevich Zhdanov (20 August 1919 – 19 December 2006) was a Soviet and Russian scientist, chemist.

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