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Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
Ada Yonath
Israeli chemist
Gerty Cori
Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)
Gertrude B. Elion
American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
Dan Shechtman
Israeli scientist
Selman Abraham Waksman
American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
Chaim Weizmann
Israeli statesman and British chemist (1874–1952)
Tadeusz Reichstein
Polish-Swiss chemist (1897-1996)
Richard Willstätter
German chemist (1872–1942)
Roger D. Kornberg
American biochemist
Paul Berg
American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1926–2023)
George de Hevesy
Hungarian chemist (1885–1966)
Hans Krebs
German-British biochemist (1900-1981)
Harry Kroto
British chemist (1939-2016)
Ernst Chain
Jewish-German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)
Casimir Funk
Jewish-Polish biochemist
Robert Lefkowitz
American physician and biochemist
Christian B. Anfinsen
American biochemist (1916–1995)
Arthur Kornberg
American biochemist
Stanley Cohen
American biochemist
George Andrew Olah
Hungarian chemist (1927-2017)
Stanley B. Prusiner
American neurologist and biochemist
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
German biochemist (1884-1951)
Marshall Warren Nirenberg
American biochemist and geneticist (1927-2010)
John Polanyi
Hungarian-Canadian chemist
Herbert C. Brown
American chemist (1912–2004)
Konrad Emil Bloch
German American biochemist (1912–2000)
Herbert A. Hauptman
American mathematician (1917–2011)
César Milstein
Argentine biochemist (1927–2002)
Jerome Karle
American physical chemist (1918–2013)
Rudolph A. Marcus
Canadian chemist
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist (1912–2004)
Gerald Edelman
American biologist (1929–2014)
Roald Hoffmann
Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor (born 1937)
Arieh Warshel
chemist, biochemist and biophysicist
Fritz Albert Lipmann
German-American biochemist
Martin Karplus
Austrian-born American theoretical chemist (1930–2024)
Robert F. Furchgott
American biochemist (1916-2009)
Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist (1941-2015)
William Howard Stein
American biochemist (1911–1980)
Martin Rodbell
American biochemist (1925-1998)
David Baker
American biochemist and computational biologist (born 1962)
Joseph L. Goldstein
American biochemist
Clara Immerwahr
German chemist (1870-1915)
Michael Polanyi
Hungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)
Mary the Jewess
alchemist who lived between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE in Alexandria
Viktor Goldschmidt
Norwegian mineralogist (1888-1947)
Lina Stern
Soviet biochemist, physiologist and humanist (1875-1968)
Alexander Imich
Polish-born American chemist, parapsychologist, and supercentenarians (1903–2014)
Ludwig Mond
British chemist and businessman (1839–1909)
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Israeli intellectual (1903-1994)
Ruth Arnon
Israeli biochemist
Robert S. Langer, Jr.
American biomedical engineer
Max Factor
American businessman (1872–1938)
Mildred Cohn
American biochemist (1913–2009)
Leonor Michaelis
German biochemist (1875–1949)
Charles M. Lieber
American chemist (1959-)
Carl Theodore Liebermann
German chemist (1842-1914)