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.
Mario Molina
As a postdoctoral researcher, Molina proposed that CFCs had the potential to destroy the earth’s protective ozone layer. He eventually received a Nobel Prize for his discovery.
Mary Peters Fieser
1909 - 1997
Emil Fischer
1852 - 1919
Alexander Fleming
1881 - 1955
Howard Walter Florey
1898 - 1968
Rosalind Franklin
1920 - 1958
Helen M. Free
1923 - 2021
Alfred Free
1913 - 2000
Ray W. Fuller
1935 - 1996
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
1778 - 1850
Mary Lowe Good
1931 - 2019
Robert W. Gore
1937 - 2020
Fritz Haber
1868 - 1934
Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow
1922 - 2020
Otto Hahn
1879 - 1968
Charles M. Hall
1863 - 1914
Alice Hamilton
1869 - 1970
Paula Hammond
b. 1963
Anna Jane Harrison
1912 - 1998
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
1885 - 1975
Alan J. Heeger
b. 1936
Paul Héroult
1863 - 1914
Henry Aaron Hill
1915 - 1979
George Hitchings
1905 - 1998
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1910 - 1994
Darleane C. Hoffman
b. 1926
Felix Hoffmann
1868 - 1946
Roald Hoffmann
b. 1937
Eugene Houdry
1892 - 1962
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