Top 20 Chemist celebrities in the world
Here is the latest list of the world's top 20 Chemist celebrities [Updated February 7, 2023].
Alfred Nobel was born
on October 21, 1833
in Stockholm, Sweden.
Nobel is credited with the invention of dynamite. While studying explosives, a shed he was using exploded at the factory in Heleneborg Stockholm, and killed five people, including his younger brother Emil.
Alice Ball was born
on July 24, 1892
in United States.
She died at the age of 24 under mysterious circumstances. It is suspected that she may have died from chlorine poisoning, as stated in an article in the Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
John Dalton was born
on September 6, 1766
in Eaglesfield, England.
He suffered from color blindness and researched the condition extensively and, as a result, color blindness is sometimes called "Daltonism," in his honor.
Henri Moissan was born
on September 28, 1852
in France.
He was one of the original members of the International Atomic Weights Committee, a group entrusted with periodic critical evaluation of atomic weights of elements and other cognate data.
Dmitri Mendeleev was born
on February 8, 1834
in Tobolsk, Russia.
He helped to found the first oil refinery in Russia and investigated the composition of petroleum.
Ahmed Zewail was born
on February 26, 1946
in Damanhur, Egypt.
He won the Priestley Medal and Davy Medal in 2011, which are both prestigious chemistry awards.
Roald Hoffmann was born
on July 18, 1937
in Zolochiv, Ukraine.
He also wrote poetry and released The Metamict State and Gaps and Verges.
Robert Huber was born
on February 20, 1937
in Germany.
He was co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry.
Rudolph Marcus was born
on July 21, 1923
in Canada.
He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1992.
Willard Frank Libby was born
on December 17, 1908
in United States.
Measuring the levels of a carbon isotope allowed his technique to precisely measure the age of objects tens of thousands of years old.
Peter Agre was born
on January 30, 1949
in Northfield, United States.
He helped found the Scientist and Engineers of America group and he received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of aquaporins.
Alexander Parkes was born
on December 29, 1813
in England.
He introduced his plastic material at an international exhibition and was able to predict many uses for the new material that are in line with how we use plastic today.
Luke Howard was born
on November 28, 1772
in England.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.
Kurt Alder was born
on July 10, 1902
in Germany.
He worked tirelessly on the investigations of the synthesis of organic compounds.
Karl Ziegler was born
on November 26, 1898
in Helsa, Germany.
He was a co-founder and president of the German Chemical Society, which was started after World War II.
Justus Von Liebig was born
on May 12, 1803
in Darmstadt, Germany.
In 1946, the University of Giessen was officially renamed Justus Liebig University Giessen in his honor.
Jons Jacob Berzelius was born
on August 20, 1779
in Sweden.
He disproved Prout's hypothesis which said that elements were built up of atoms of hydrogen.
Joachim Heinrich Seelig was born
on March 29, 1942
in Cologne, Germany.
He created methods to study the thermodynamic properties of cell membrains and the interactions of lipids and proteins in nuclear magnetic resonance.
Jean Marie Lehn was born
on September 30, 1939
in France.
He has been made both a Knight of the Order of National Merit and a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
James Dewar was born
on September 20, 1842
in Scotland.
Not limiting himself to theory, he actually built a practical device that yielded significant amounts of liquid oxygen to prove his hypothesis.
