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Scientific Biographies

Science is a human pursuit. Meet some of the people who have contributed to the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.
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Friedrich Mohs

The German mineralogist created the Mohs Hardness Scale, a simple tool for determining the hardness of minerals that is still used today.

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Friedrich Mohs, Mineraloge, watercolor portrait of the mineralogist by Josef Kriehuber, ca. 1835.
Wien Museum Inv.-Nr. 216022, CC BY 4.0
color portrait of a man sitting in a chair

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Edward Goodrich Acheson
1856 - 1931
Signed portrait of a man
Svante August Arrhenius
1859 - 1927
portrait of Amedeo Avogadro
Amedeo Avogadro
1776 - 1856
Leo Hendrik Baekeland
1863 - 1944
painting of a women in a lab
Elisabeth Bakker *
ca. 1600s
Frederick G. Banting 1923
Frederick Grant Banting
1891 - 1941
Jacqueline K. Barton
b. 1952
Arnold O. Beckman
1900 - 2004
Florence Ogilvy Bell
1913 - 2000
Ruth Benerito
1916 - 2013
Reinhold Benesch
1919 - 1986
Reinhold and Ruth Benesch.
Ruth Benesch
1925 - 2000
Paul Berg
1926 - 2023
Joan Berkowitz
1931 - 2020
Solomon A. Berson, 1945. Archives of the Frederick L. Ehrman Medical Library
Solomon A. Berson
1918 - 1972
portrait of Jons jokob Brezelius
Jöns Jakob Berzelius
1779 - 1848
Charles Herbert Best
Charles Herbert Best
1899 - 1978
Katherin Blodgett at General Electric Research Laboratories, 1938.
Katharine Burr Blodgett
1898 - 1979
Herbert Boyer in 2005.
Herbert W. Boyer
b. 1936
painting of Robert Boyle wearing a long wig
Robert Boyle
1627 - 1691
St. Elmo Brady in a chemistry lab at Fisk University. He is pouring a liquid from one beaker into another. There are counters of lab equipment surrounding him.
St. Elmo Brady
1884 - 1966
Portrait of Helia Bravo-Hollis, 2001.
Helia Bravo-Hollis
1901 - 2001
Rachel Fuller Brown
1898 - 1980
old portrait of two men in suits
Robert Bunsen
1811 - 1899
Black and white photo of Cain in a suit and tie
Gordon A. Cain
1912 - 2002
Undated portrait of Stanislao Cannizzaro
Stanislao Cannizzaro
1826 - 1910
Wallace Hume Carothers
1896 - 1937
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
1907 - 1964
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