English > chemist: 2 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A scientist who specializes in chemistry. |
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| Category | chemistry, chemical science | The science of matter |
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| Instances | Arrhenius, Svante August Arrhenius | Swedish chemist and physicist noted for his theory of chemical dissociation (1859-1927) |
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| Berzelius, Jons Jakob Berzelius | Swedish chemist who discovered three new elements and determined the atomic weights of many others (1779-1848) |
| Black, Joseph Black | British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) |
| Boyle, Robert Boyle | Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691) |
| Buchner, Eduard Buchner | German organic chemist who studied alcoholic fermentation and discovered zymase (1860-1917) |
| Bunsen, Robert Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen | German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899) |
| Calvin, Melvin Calvin | United States chemist noted for discovering the series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis (1911-) |
| Carothers, Wallace Carothers, Wallace Hume Carothers | United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937) |
| Carver, George Washington Carver | United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts / peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943) |
| Cavendish, Henry Cavendish | British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density / density of the earth (1731-1810) |
| Crookes, William Crookes, Sir William Crookes | English chemist and physicist |
| Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska | French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes |
| Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr. | American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933) |
| Dalton, John Dalton | English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures |
| Davy, Humphrey Davy, Sir Humphrey Davy | English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829) |
| Dewar, Sir James Dewar | Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923) |
| Eigen, Manfred Eigen | German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927) |
| Erlenmeyer, Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer | German chemist (1825-1909) |
| Faraday, Michael Faraday | The English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867) |
| Fischer, Emil Hermann Fischer | German chemist noted for work on synthetic sugars and the purines (1852-1919) |
| Fischer, Hans Fischer | German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945) |
| Flory, Paul John Flory | United States chemist who developed methods for studying long-chain molecules (1910-1985) |
| Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac | French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850) |
| Gibbs, Josiah Willard Gibbs | United States chemist (1839-1903) |
| Haber, Fritz Haber | German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia from the nitrogen in air (1868-1934) |
| Hahn, Otto Hahn | German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968) |
| Hall, Charles Martin Hall | United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914) |
| Hassel, Odd Hassel | Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981) |
| Henry, William Henry | English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836) |
| Hevesy, George Charles Hevesy de Hevesy | Hungarian chemist who studied radioisotopes and was one of the discoverers of the element hafnium (1885-1966) |
| Heyrovsky, Joroslav Heyrovsky | Czechoslovakian chemist who developed polarography (1890-1967) |
| Hodgkin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin | English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994) |
| Hoffmann, Roald Hoffmann | United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937) |
| Hoffmann, August Wilhelm von Hoffmann | German chemist (1818-1892) |
| Kekule, Friedrich August Kekule, Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz | German chemist remembered for his discovery of the ring structure of benzene (1829-1896) |
| Klaproth, Martin Heinrich Klaproth | German chemist who pioneered analytical chemistry and discovered three new elements (1743-1817) |
| Kroto, Harold Kroto, Harold W. Kroto, Sir Harold Walter Kroto | British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939) |
| Kuhn, Richard Kuhn | Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967) |
| Langmuir, Irving Langmuir | United States chemist who studied surface chemistry and developed the gas-filled tungsten lamp and worked on high temperature electrical discharges (1881-1957) |
| Lavoisier, Antoine Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier | French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry |
| Libby, Willard Frank Libby | United States chemist who developed a method of radiocarbon dating (1908-1980) |
| Lipscomb, William Nunn Lipscom Jr. | United States chemist noted for his theories of molecular structure (born in 1919) |
| Mendeleyev, Mendeleev, Dmitri Mendeleyev, Dmitri Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev | Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907) |
| Morley, E. W. Morley, Edward Morley, Edward Williams Morley | United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923) |
| Mosander, Carl Gustaf Mossander | Swedish chemist who discovered rare earth elements (1797-1858) |
| Muller, Paul Hermann Muller | Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965) |
| Natta, Giulio Natta | Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979) |
| Nernst, Walther Hermann Nernst | German physicist and chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics (1864-1941) |
| Nobel, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Bernhard Nobel | Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896) |
| Norrish, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish | English chemist (1897-1978) |
| Onsager, Lars Onsager | United States chemist (born in Norway) noted for his work in thermodynamics (1903-1976) |
| Ostwald, Wilhelm Ostwald | German chemist (1853-1932) |
| Pasteur, Louis Pasteur | French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895) |
| Pauling, Linus Pauling, Linus Carl Pauling | United States chemist who studied the nature of chemical bonding (1901-1994) |
| Priestley, Joseph Priestley | English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804) |
| Reichstein, Tadeus Reichstein | A Swiss chemist born in Poland |
| Roberts, Richard J. Roberts, Richard John Roberts | United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943) |
| Robinson, Robert Robinson, Sir Robert Robinson | English chemist noted for his studies / studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975) |
| Rutherford, Daniel Rutherford | British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819) |
| Scheele, Karl Scheele, Karl Wilhelm Scheele | Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786) |
| Schonbein, Christian Schonbein, Christian Friedrich Schonbein | German chemist who discovered ozone and developed guncotton as a propellant in firearms (1799-1868) |
| Seaborg, Glenn T. Seaborg, Glenn Theodore Seaborg | United States chemist who was one of the discoverers of plutonium (1912-1999) |
| Smalley, Richard Smalley, Richard E. Smalley, Richard Errett Smalley | American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943) |
| Soddy, Frederick Soddy | English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956) |
| Solvay, Ernest Solvay | Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922) |
| Sorensen, Soren Peter Lauritz Sorensen | Danish chemist who devised the pH scale (1868-1939) |
| Todd, Sir Alexander Robertus Todd, Lord Todd | Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907) |
| Urey, Harold Urey, Harold Clayton Urey | United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981) |
| Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson | English chemist honored for his research on pollutants in car exhausts (born in 1921) |
| Windaus, Adolf Windaus | German chemist who studied steroids and cholesterol and discovered histamine (1876-1959) |
| Wollaston, William Hyde Wollaston | English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828) |
| Woodward, Bob Woodward, Robert Woodward, Robert Burns Woodward | United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979) |
| Ziegler, Karl Waldemar Ziegler | German chemist honored for his research on polymers (1898-1973) |
| Zsigmondy, Richard Adolph Zsigmondy | German chemist (born in Austria) honored for his research on colloidal solutions (1865-1929) |
| le Chatelier, Henry le Chatelier | French chemist who formulated Le Chatelier's principle (1850-1936) |
| Narrower | biochemist | someone with special training in biochemistry |
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| nuclear chemist, radiochemist | A chemist who specializes in nuclear chemistry |
| phytochemist | A chemist who specializes in the chemistry of plants |
| Broader | scientist | A person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences |
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| Spanish | química, químico |
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| Catalan | química, químic |
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| Nouns | chemistry | the science of matter |
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