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.
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.
Mario Molina
1943 - 2020
Bryan B. Molloy
1939 - 2004
Gordon E. Moore
1929 - 2023
Giulio Natta
1903 - 1979
Alfred Nobel
1833 - 1896
Isaac Ochoterena
1895 - 1950
Donald F. Othmer
1904 - 1995
Robert W. Parry
1917 - 2006
Louis Pasteur
1822 - 1895
Linus Carl Pauling
1901 - 1994
William Henry Perkin
1838 - 1907
Roy J. Plunkett
1910 - 1994
Joseph Priestley
1733 - 1804
William Ramsay
1852 - 1916
Theodore William Richards
1868 - 1928
George Rosenkranz
1916 - 2019
Ernest Rutherford
1871 - 1937
Albert Bruce Sabin
1906 - 1993
Jonas Salk
1914 - 1995
Glenn Theodore Seaborg
1912 - 1999
Phillip Sharp
b. 1944
Hideki Shirakawa
b. 1936
Maxine Singer
1931 - 2024
Richard E. Smalley
1943 - 2005
Susan Solomon
b. 1956
Søren Sørensen
1868 - 1939
Hermann Staudinger
1881 - 1965
Fritz Strassmann
1902 - 1980
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