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