Chemistry Pioneers 1-18
15 entries in the Chemistry Pioneers compendium.
Chemistry Pioneers 1-18 — Era Chart
Aaron KlugNobel-winning developer of crystallographic electron microscopy.Adolf von BaeyerAkira YoshinoJapanese chemist who created the first safe, production-viable lithium-ion battery.Albert HofmannSwiss chemist who first synthesized and experienced LSD.Albert Szent-GyörgyiHungarian biochemist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine partly for hisAlfred WernerSwiss chemist who founded modern coordination chemistry.August KekuléGerman chemist who co-developed the theory of chemical structure in 1858.Aziz SancarTurkish-American Nobel laureate in DNA repair.Carl BoschGerman chemist and engineer, Nobel laureate, pioneer of high-pressure chemistry.Carl Gustaf MosanderSwedish chemist who discovered three rare earth elements.Carl Wilhelm ScheeleGerman-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist who discovered oxygen and identified molybdenum, tunCarolyn BertozziAmerican chemist who pioneered bioorthogonal chemistry and won the 2022 Nobel Prize.Charles-Édouard GuillaumeSwiss physicist who discovered invar and estimated space temperature.Claude Louis BertholletSavoyard-French chemist who pioneered chemical equilibria and chlorine bleaching.Dan ShechtmanDiscovered quasicrystals, overturning long-held crystallographic assumptions.
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