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Scientific Biographies

Science is a human pursuit. Meet the people behind some of the most significant achievements and discoveries in the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.

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Ellen H. Swallow Richards

A pioneer in water sanitation and the first women to be admitted into MIT, Richards is one of the founders of home economics and spearheaded one of the first school lunch programs in the U.S.

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portrait of Ellen Richards in a cap and gown

Professional portrait of E. M. A. Chandler, ca. 1930. He looks over his left shoulder and is wearing a suit.

Edward Chandler

Paul Charpentier

Uma Chowdhry wearing green shawl and glasses, hand on a rail, cherry blossoms in background

Stanley N. Cohen.

Stanley N. Cohen

James Collip as a graduate student, c. 1914

James Bertram Collip

Carl and Gerty Cori in their lab, wearing white lab coats. Carl points to a document with a pencil. There are beakers and bottles in the background.

Carl Ferdinand Cori

Gerty and Carl Cori working in a lab

Gerty Theresa Cori

Archibald Scott Couper. Photograph of drawing (not before 1860).

Archibald Scott Couper

Simone Courvoisier.

Simone Courvoisier

James Watson and Francis Crick

Marie Sklodowska Curie

Robert Curl

Marie Maynard Daly working in her lab circa 1960

Marie Maynard Daly

portrait of George Davis

George E. Davis

Portrait of Sir Humphrey Davy Bar't., after 1821.

Jean Delay.

Pierre Deniker.

Djerassi wears a tan suit jacket and green ribboned medal around his neck

Gerhard Domagk stares towards the camera with his chin resting on his hand. he wears a light colored jacket with a dark tie.

Portrait of Herbert H. Dow, ca. 1900

Herbert Henry Dow

Charles Drew is seated at a counter wearing a lab coat and touching a microscope

Charles Richard Drew

Engraved portrait of du Pont wearing a dark coat and high collar shirt with white tie

Eleuthère Irénée du Pont

painting of Paul Ehrlich

Hitchings and Elion in a lab wearing lab coats and smiling. They both hold black, blue, red, and white plastic models

Michael Faraday

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