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German pathologist Gerhard Domagk was forced to reject the Nobel Prize he won for his discovery of the first sulfa drug.
Linde developed modern refrigeration and made oxygen a commercially viable product.
Kekulé famously “saw” carbon atoms joining in a “giddy dance” in a daydream. Couper invented a symbolic language to represent carbon linkage. Both made significant contributions to the field of structural chemistry.
Partners in life and in the lab, the Joliot-Curies were the first to discover man-made, or “artificial,” radioactivity.
Yalow, a resourceful young researcher, and Berson, a multitalented medical doctor, used radioactive isotopes to study what happens inside the human body.
The spectroscope, invented by Bunsen and Kirchhoff, inaugurated a new era in the search for undiscovered elements.
‘Silent Spring,’ written by Carson and published in 1962, helped ignite the modern environmentalist movement.
Working in the late 19th century, Davis, an Englishman, was often credited with being the father of chemical engineering by members of subsequent generations of chemical engineers. His ‘Handbook of Chemical Engineering’ was the first of its kind.
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.
In the mid-1980s, Solomon led expeditions to Antarctica to gather evidence that CFCs were destroying the ozone layer.
Hazen and Brown discovered nystatin, an early antifungal medication.
The founder of the prestigious Nobel Prizes made his fortune with a big bang by inventing dynamite, a stabilized form of nitroglycerin.
Nobel laureates Smalley, Curl, and Kroto discovered buckminsterfullerene, also known as the buckyball.
Pauling, a Nobel laureate and prolific researcher, made significant contributions to our understanding of chemical bonding and structure.
A Nobel laureate in chemistry, Fischer was a prolific investigator of purines, proteins, sugars, and enzymes.
For his determinations of atomic weights, Richards became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
An unceasing advocate of national pure food and drug legislation, Wiley dedicated his life to protecting public health.
A chemist and leading environmental consultant, Berkowitz tackled everything from preventing water pollution to the best ways to treat industrial wastes.
Over the course of her career, Hoffman, a nuclear chemist, chased some of the most elusive forms of matter—the heavy elements.
Hill, a polymer chemist, supplied essential chemical intermediates to the polymer-products industry.
Three pharmaceutical researchers working at Eli Lilly in the 1980s changed the treatment of depression with their invention of Prozac.
Gordon Moore pioneered computing technology and authored a principle that propelled the digital revolution.
The Coris identified the cyclical process that muscle cells use to make and store energy. Understanding this process of sugar metabolism is particularly important for treating diabetes.
Langmuir and Blodgett enjoyed one of the most fruitful relationships between a mentor and a younger scientist of all time.
The Frees revolutionized diagnostic urine testing with their invention of a chemically coated paper dipstick.
The grandson of enslaved people, Julian overcame racial barriers to achieve scientific, business, and personal success.
A prolific chemist, as well as a novelist, playwright, and poet, Djerassi made crucial contributions to the development of synthetic cortisone and the birth control pill.
With a talent for difficult organic syntheses, Marker produced synthetic hormones from plants, including giant yams, and cofounded Syntex.
An organic chemist and a pioneering steroid researcher, Rosenkranz was instrumental in developing one of the most world-changing pharmaceuticals in history: the oral contraceptive.
In 1934 Beckman invented the first commercially successful electronic pH meter and then went on to found an international scientific instruments company.