Famous Scientists Who Contributed to Chemistry

These are images of famous chemists or other scientists who made significant contributions to the field of chemistry.  Pictures containing multiple famous chemists appear first.

Índice temático
  1. First Solvay Conference
  2. Alfred Bernhard Nobel
  3. Curie Lab
  4. Curie Women
  5. J. J. Thomson and Ernest Rutherford
  6. Lavoisier
  7. Emil Abderhalden
  8. Richard Abegg
  9. Svante A. Arrhenius
  10. Francis W. Aston
  11. Amedeo Avogadro
  12. Adolf von Baeyer
  13. Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley
  14. Friedrich Bergius
  15. Karl Bosch
  16. Eduard Buchner
  17. Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
  18. George Washington Carver
  19. De Chancourtois
  20. Marie Curie
  21. Marie Curie
  22. Marie Curie
  23. Marie Curie
  24. Pierre Curie
  25. John Dalton
  26. Sir Humphry Davy
  27. Sir Humphry Davy
  28. Sir Humphry Davy
  29. Fausto D'Elhuyar
  30. Juan Jose D'Elhuyar
  31. Albert Einstein
  32. Einstein's Tongue
  33. Albert Einstein
  34. Rosalind Franklin
  35. Mae Jemison
  36. Gilbert N. Lewis
  37. Shannon Lucid
  38. Lise Meitner
  39. Dmitri Mendeleev
  40. Dmitri Mendeleyev
  41. Dmitri Mendeleev
  42. Julius Lothar Meyer
  43. Robert Millikan
  44. Gaylord Nelson
  45. Linus Pauling
  46. Linus Pauling
  47. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
  48. Ernest Rutherford
  49. Ernest Rutherford
  50. Ernest Rutherford
  51. J.J. Thomson
  52. Sir Joseph John (J. J.) Thomson
  53. Johannes Diderik van der Waals
  54. Tuan Vo-Dinh
  55. James Walker

First Solvay Conference


First Solvay Conference (1911), Marie Curie (seated, 2nd from right) confers with Henri Poincaré. Standing, 4th from right, Ernest Rutherford; 2nd from right, Albert Einstein; far right, Paul Langevin.
Benjamin Couprie/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

Seated (L-R): Walther Nernst, Marcel Brillouin, Ernest Solvay, Hendrik Lorentz, Emil Warburg, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Wilhelm Wien, Marie Curie, Henri Poincaré.

Standing (L-R): Robert Goldschmidt, Max Planck, Heinrich Rubens, Arnold Sommerfeld, Frederick Lindemann, Maurice de Broglie, Martin Knudsen, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Georges Hostelet, Edouard Herzen, James Hopwood Jeans, Ernest Rutherford, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel


Chemist and inventor of dynamite. Creator of the Nobel Foundation.
Gösta Florman/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.

Curie Lab


Pierre Curie, Pierre's assistant, Petit, and Marie Curie.
Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0 

Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the radioactive elements polonium and radium.

Curie Women


Marie Curie with Meloney, Irène, and Eve shortly after their arrival in the United States.
 Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

J. J. Thomson and Ernest Rutherford


J. J. Thomson and Ernest Rutherford in the 1930s.
 Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

Lavoisier


Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier and his Wife (1788). Oil on canvas. 259.7 x 196 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Jacques-Louis David/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

Antoine Lavoisier is often considered to be the Father of Chemistry.

Emil Abderhalden


Emil Abderhalden was a famous Swiss biochemist and physiologist.
George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress)/Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

Richard Abegg


Richard Wilhelm Heinrich Abegg was the German chemist who described valence theory.
Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0 

Svante A. Arrhenius

Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0 

Francis W. Aston

Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

Amedeo Avogadro

Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0 

Avogadro formulated Avogadro's law. Avogadro's number is named in honor of him.

Adolf von Baeyer

Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0  

Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley


Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley was a farmer and hobbyist snow crystal photomicrographer. He took over 5000 images of snowflakes.
 Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0 

Friedrich Bergius

Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0  

Karl Bosch

Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0  

Eduard Buchner

Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0  

Robert Wilhelm Bunsen


Pioneer of spectroscopy and inventor of the bunsen burner.
F. J. Moore, 'A History of Chemistry' c.1918


George Washington Carver at work in his lab.
USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library/Public Domain

George Washington Carver


George Washington Carver was an American inventor, scientist, and educator.
Frances Benjamin Johnston/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

De Chancourtois


De Chancourtois was a French geologist who devised a periodic table of the elements in which the elements were grouped according to periodic properties and ordered according to increasing atomic weight.
Unknown/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

Marie Curie


Marie Curie driving a radiology car in 1917.
 Unknown/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

Marie Curie

The Granger Collection, New York

Marie Curie

 Unknown/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

Marie Curie


Marie Sklodowska, before she moved to Paris.
Unknown/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0 

Pierre Curie

 Unknown/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

John Dalton


John Dalton (September 6, 1766 – July 27, 1844) was an English chemist and physicist. Dalton is best known for his work on atomic theory and research into color blindness.
 William Henry Worthington/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

Sir Humphry Davy


Sir Humphry Davy (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and physicist. He discovered several alkali and alkaline earth metals and investigated the properties of the elements chlorine and iodine.
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Sir Humphry Davy


Sir Humphry Davy (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and physicist. He discovered several alkali and alkaline earth metals and investigated the properties of the elements chlorine and iodine.
The Life of Sir Humphry Davy by John A. Paris, London: Colburn and Bentley, 1831.

This engraving is circa 1830, based on a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830).

Sir Humphry Davy

Thorpe's 1896 biography of Davy

Fausto D'Elhuyar


Fausto D'Elhuyar (1755 - 1833) Co-discoverer of tungsten.
Unknown/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0 

Juan Jose D'Elhuyar


Famous Chemists Juan Jose D'Elhuyar (1754 - 1796) co-discoverer of tungsten.
Unknown/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0 

Albert Einstein


This photo was inscribed "To Linus Pauling" from Albert Einstein (1958).
 Unknown/Wikimedia Commons/CC by 1.0

Einstein's Tongue


Famous Scientists Silly (and famous) picture of Einstein sticking his tongue out.
Public Domain

Albert Einstein


Famous Scientists Photograph of Albert Einstein (1947).
Library of Congress, Photograph by Oren Jack Turner, Princeton, N.J.

Rosalind Franklin


Rosalind Franklin used x-ray crystallography to see the structure of DNA and the tobacco mosaic virus.
I believe this is a photo of a portrait in the National Portait Gallery in London.

Mae Jemison


Mae Jemison is a retired medical doctor and American astronaut. In 1992, she became the first black woman in space. She holds a degree in chemical engineering from Stanford and a degree in medicine from Cornell.
NASA

Gilbert N. Lewis


Among other contributions to chemistry, Gilbert N. Lewis isolated heavy water and brought E. O. Lawrence to Berkeley.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Shannon Lucid


Shannon Lucid as an American biochemist and US astronaut. For a while, she held the American record for the most time in space. She studies the effects of space on human health, often using her own body as a test subject.
NASA

Lise Meitner


Lise Meitner (November 17, 1878 – October 27, 1968) was an Austrian/Swedish physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics. She was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, for which Otto Hahn received a Nobel Prize.

Dmitri Mendeleev


Dmitri Mendeleev is credited with developing the first periodic table of the elements. There were earlier tables, but Mendeleev's table showed the elements exhibited a periodicity of properties when they were arranged according to their atomic weight.

Dmitri Mendeleyev


Dmitri Mendeleyev (or Dmitri Mendeleev) is credited with developing one of the first periodic tables that organized the elements according to increasing atomic weight and accounted for trends in their chemical and physical properties.
public domain

Dmitri Mendeleev


Dmitri Mendeleev (1834 - 1907).
Library of Congress

Julius Lothar Meyer


Julius Lothar Meyer was a German chemist and contemporary of Dmitri Mendeleev. The scientists independently developed the periodic table in which the elements were ordered according to increasing atomic weight and grouped according to periodic properties.
19th century photograph of Julius Lothar Meyer.

Robert Millikan


Famous Scientists Robert Millikan is famous for his measurement of the charge on the electron and his work on the photoelectric effect. Millikan received the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics.
photograph by Clark Millikan (1891)

Gaylord Nelson


Gaylord Anton Nelson (June 4, 1916 – July 3, 2005) was an American Democratic politician from Wisconsin. He is best remembered for founding Earth Day and for calling for Congressional hearings on the safety of combined oral contraceptive pills.
US Congress

Linus Pauling


Linus Pauling - Age 7. Linus Pauling lived in the rural town of Condon, Oregon.

Linus Pauling


Linus Pauling - age 17 (1918).

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen


Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen or Roentgen (1845-1923), discoverer of x-rays.
Universität Gießen

Ernest Rutherford


Ernest Rutherford.

Ernest Rutherford


Ernest Rutherford, oil painting by J. Dunn, 1932.
J. Dunn, National Portrait Gallery, London

Ernest Rutherford


Ernest Rutherford in academic garb.
Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection, University of Pennsylvania Library

J.J. Thomson


J.J. Thomson.
Chemical Heritage Foundation Collections

Sir Joseph John (J. J.) Thomson


Sir Joseph John (J. J.) Thomson.

Johannes Diderik van der Waals


Famous Chemists Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837 - 1923).

Tuan Vo-Dinh


Famous Chemists - Tuan Vo-Dinh Professor Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh is famous chemist and inventor who specializes in the field of photonics.
Image courtesy of Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh

James Walker


Famous Chemists James Walker (1863 - 1935).

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