Chemists in History (Part 3)
Chemistry: Alchemists - Biochemists
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 201 - 295 of 295
- 1903-02-26 Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
- 1903-03-04 William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
- 1903-03-24 Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939)
- 1904-09-04 Julian W. Hill, American research chemist (developed nylon), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1996)
- 1905-10-15 Charles P. Snow, English novelist (Death Under Sail, Strangers and Brothers) and physical chemist, born in Leicester, England (d. 1980)
- 1906-01-11 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (first synthesised LSD), born in Baden, Switzerland (d. 2008)
- 1906-07-04 Vincent Joseph Schaefer, American chemist and meteorologist (cloud seeding), born in Schenectady, New York (d. 1993)
- 1906-07-23 Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss organic chemist (Nobel 1975), born in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary (d. 1998)
- 1906-08-17 Hazel Bishop, American chemist and cosmetics manufacturer, born in Hoboken, New Jersey (d. 1998)
- 1907-01-14 Derek Richter, British neuroscientist (learning & memory), born in bath, United Kingdom (d. 1995)
- 1907-04-08 Maurice Stacey, British chemist who worked to synthesize vitamin C, born in Moreton, England (d. 1994)
- 1907-10-02 Alexander Robertus Todd, British organic chemist (Nobel Prize 1957), born in Glasgow (d. 1997)
- 1908-06-19 Ernst B. Chain, German-British chemist and bacteriologist (penicillin, Nobel 1945), born in Berlin (d. 1979)
- 1908-08-23 Cornelis van Dis Sr., Dutch chemist and politician, born in Leiden, Netherlands
- 1908-12-17 Willard Libby, American chemist who developed radiocarbon dating (Nobel 1960), born in Grand Valley, Colorado (d. 1980)
Archer John Porter Martin
1910-03-01 Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and Nobel laureate, born in London (d. 2002)

Archer John Porter Martin
- 1910-03-11 Robert H G Havemann, German chemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
1910-05-29 Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist who developed protein crystallography, 3rd woman to win a Nobel Prize (1964), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1994)

Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1910-06-16 Richard Maling Barrer, chemist
- 1910-12-01 Louis Slotin, Canadian Physicist and Chemist (Manhattan Project, Los Alamos) who assembled the plutonium core for 'Trinity', the first detonated atomic device, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba
- 1910-12-13 Charles Alfred Coulson, British chemist (theoretical), born in Dudley, England (d. 1974)
- 1911-04-08 Melvin Calvin, US chemist (photosynthesis, Nobel 1961)
- 1911-10-24 Nathaniel Wyeth, American chemist and inventor (created PET plastic beverage bottle), born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (d. 1990)
- 1912-04-19 Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (AEC, Plutonium, Nobel 1951), born in Ishpeming, Michigan (d. 1999)
- 1913-04-21 Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor, isolated growth hormones)
- 1914-05-19 Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)
- 1914-10-28 Richard Laurence Millington Synge, British biochemist (Nobel 1952), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1994)
- 1915-11-30 Henry Taube, chemist (Nobel 1983)
- 1916-03-26 Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972), born in Monessen, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
- 1916-06-04 Robert F. Furchgott, American pharmacologist (Nobel 1998), born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 2009)
- 1917-04-10 Robert B. Woodward, American organic chemist (Nobel 1965), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1979)
- 1917-06-01 William S. Knowles, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 2012)
- 1917-09-07 John Cornforth, Australian-British chemist (Nobel Prize 1975), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 2013)
- 1918-06-08 John D. Roberts, American chemist, received American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2013), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)
- 1918-09-08 Derek Barton, British organic chemist (Nobel 1969), born in Gravesend, Kent (d. 1998)
- 1918-10-04 Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
- 1918-10-08 Jens Christian Skou, Danish scientist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1997), born in Lemvig, Denmark (d. 2018)
- 1918-11-10 Ernst Fischer, German chemist (Nobel 1973), born in Munich, Germany (d. 2007)
- 1919-06-18 Jerome Karle, American chemist (Nobel 1985) and Manhattan Project member, born in New York (d. 2013)
- 1919-07-31 Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer (Survival in Auschwitz), born in Turin, Italy (d. 1987)
- 1919-08-07 John Hogan, American chemist (discovered methods of producing polypropylene), born in Lowes, Kentucky (d. 2012)
- 1919-12-09 William Lipscomb, American chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry (Nobel 1976), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2011)
Rosalind Franklin
1920-07-25 Rosalind Franklin, English chemist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, born in London (d. 1958)

Rosalind Franklin
- 1920-09-29 Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1920-12-06 George Porter, British chemist (Nobel 1967), born in Stainforth, South Yorkshire, England (d. 2002)
- 1921-07-14 Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist
- 1922-07-25 John B. Goodenough, American scientist (lithium-ion battery), 2019 Novel Prize for Chemistry, born in Jena, Germany
- 1923-03-09 Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American scientist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1998), born in Vienna (d. 2016)
Carl Djerassi
1923-10-29 Carl Djerassi, Austrian-born American chemist and father of the contraceptive pill, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2015)

Carl Djerassi
- 1923-12-08 Rudolph Pariser, American chemist, born in Harbin, China
- 1925-01-08 James Saunders, English playwright (Ark), born in Islington, London (d. 2004)
- 1925-03-16 Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (d. 2004)
- 1925-08-17 John Howard Purnell, Welsh chemist (Royal Society of Chemistry), born in Rhondda, South Wales (d. 1996)
- 1925-10-31 John Pople, English chemist (Nobel Prize 1998), born in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England (d. 2004)
- 1926-07-16 Irwin Rose, American biologist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015)
- 1927-05-09 Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1967)
- 1927-06-28 F. Sherwood Rowland, American Nobel laureate in chemistry 1995, born in Delaware, Ohio (d. 2012)
- 1928-07-12 Elias James Corey, American organic chemist (Nobel 1990), born in Methuen, Massachusetts
- 1929-01-23 John Polanyi, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986), born in Berlin, Germany
- 1930-02-27 Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist
- 1930-04-09 F. Albert Cotton, American chemist, born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania (d. 2007)
- 1931-08-15 Richard F. Heck, American chemist who discovered the Heck Reaction (Nobel Prize 2010), born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 2015)
- 1932-01-06 Stuart A. Rice, American chemist, born in NYC, New York
- 1932-04-26 Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist (Nobel 1993- Site-directed mutagenesis), born in Blackpool, England (d. 2000)
- 1932-06-18 Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1933-08-14 Richard R. Ernst, Swiss physical chemist (Nobel 1991 -techniques for high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy), born in Winterthur, Switzerland
- 1933-08-23 Manfred Donike, German cyclist and chemist drug test pioneer, born in Köttingen, Germany (d. 1995)
- 1933-08-23 Robert Curl, American chemist (Nobel 1996), born in Alice, Texas
- 1933-12-03 Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1934-09-25 Struther Arnott, Scottish molecular biologist and chemist (cancer research), born in Larkhall, Lanarkshire (d. 2013)
- 1935-02-16 Robin Clark, chemist (FRS)
- 1936-01-22 Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1936-08-20 Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist (Nobel Prize 2000 - discovery and development of conductive polymers), born in Tokyo
- 1936-10-10 Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007), born in Stuttgart, Germany
- 1936-11-19 Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1939-10-07 Harold Kroto, English chemist and Nobel laureate (1996), born in Wisbech (d. 2016)
- 1941-01-07 John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941-03-10 George Smith, American Chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2018), born in Norwalk, Connecticut
- 1941-04-28 K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist (Nobel 2001-developing the first chiral catalysts), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1942-02-27 Robert H. Grubbs, American chemist & Nobel Prize laureate, born in Marshall County, Kentucky
- 1943-03-19 Mario Molina, Mexican chemist, 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (CFC's effect on the ozone layer), born in Mexico City, Mexico (d. 2020)
Robert Lefkowitz
1943-04-15 Robert Lefkowitz, American physician (Nobel Prize for Chemistry), born in NYC, New York

Robert Lefkowitz
- 1943-09-30 Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1944-12-28 Kary Mullis, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1945-01-04 Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1946-02-26 Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist & Nobel laureate (1999), born in Damanhur, Egypt (d. 2016)
- 1947-08-15 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, American chemist and NASA astronaut (STS 33), born in Macon, Georgia (d. 1991)
- 1947-12-08 Thomas R. Cech, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1948-01-30 Akira Yoshino, Japanese chemist (lithium-ion battery), 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, born in Suita, Japan
- 1948-07-18 Hartmut Michel, German chemist (Nobel 1988 - determination of the structure of certain proteins that are essential for photosynthesis), born in Ludwigsburg, Germany
- 1949-08-24 Anna Lee Fisher [Tingle], American chemist, emergency physician and astronaut (STS 51-A), born in St Albans, New York
- 1952-02-01 Roger Y. Tsien, American chemist (Nobel Prize 2008), born in NYC, New York (d. 2016)
Brian Kobilka
1955-05-30 Brian Kobilka, American Nobel Prize winning chemistry professor (G protein-coupled receptors), born in Little Falls, Minnesota

Brian Kobilka
- 1956-07-25 Frances Arnold, American Chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2018), born in Edgewood, Pennsylvania
- 1958-09-25 Eamonn Healy, Irish professor of chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, born in Newcastle West, Ireland
Famous Deaths
Deaths 201 - 259 of 259
- 1986-09-25 Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian Chemist and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 90
- 1986-10-22 Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93
- 1986-10-23 Edward A Doisy Sr, American bio-chemist (Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943), dies at 92
- 1986-10-31 Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist and physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90
- 1987-04-11 Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
- 1987-11-28 Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist prof (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74
- 1988-12-04 Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist, dies at 89
- 1990-07-06 Nathaniel Wyeth, American chemist and inventor (created PET plastic beverage bottle), dies at 78
- 1991-04-05 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, American chemist and NASA astronaut (STS 33), dies at 43
- 1991-08-23 Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93
- 1991-09-09 Edwin M. McMillan, American physicist and discoverer of plutonium (Nobel 1951), dies at 83
- 1993-07-25 Vincent Joseph Schaefer, American chemist and meteorologist (cloud seeding), dies at 87
Dorothy Hodgkin
1994-07-29 Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist who developed protein crystallography, 3rd woman to win a Nobel Prize (1964), dies of a stroke at 84

Dorothy Hodgkin
- 1995-01-18 Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91
- 1995-08-21 Manfred Donike, German cyclist and chemist drug test pioneer, dies at 61
- 1996-01-10 Alexander Robertus, organic chemist, dies at 88
- 1996-01-12 John Howard Purnell, Welsh chemist (Royal Society of Chemistry), dies at 70
- 1996-01-27 Julian W. Hill, American research chemist (developed nylon), dies at 91
- 1996-08-01 Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99
- 1996-09-12 Richard Maling Barrer, chemist, dies at 86
- 1996-09-26 Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist, dies at 75
- 1997-01-10 Alexander R. Todd, British chemist (Nobel Prize 1957), dies at 89
- 1998-01-07 Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss organic chemist (Nobel 1975), dies at 91
- 1998-01-09 Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79
- 1998-03-16 Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate, dies at 79
- 1998-03-16 Derek Barton, British organic chemist (Nobel 1969), dies at 79
- 1999-02-25 Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (AEC, Plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies at 86
- 1999-03-03 Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 2001-10-07 Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913)
Archer John Porter Martin
2002-07-28 Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and Nobel laureate, dies at 92

Archer John Porter Martin
- 2002-08-31 George Porter, British chemist (Nobel 1967), dies at 81
- 2003-05-10 Milan Vukcevich, Yugoslavian chemist and a grandmaster of chess problem composition, dies at 66
- 2003-05-28 Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1917)
- 2004-03-15 John Pople, English chemist (Nobel Prize 1998), dies at 78
- 2004-09-13 Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (b. 1925)
- 2004-12-19 Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
- 2005-10-28 Richard Smalley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1943)
- 2005-11-16 Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- 2007-02-20 F. Albert Cotton, American chemist, dies at 76
- 2007-03-27 Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
- 2008-04-29 Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist (first synthesised LSD), dies at 102
- 2009-05-19 Robert F. Furchgott, American pharmacologist (Nobel 1998), dies at 92
- 2010-12-10 John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
- 2011-10-23 Herbert A. Hauptman, American Mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry, dies at 94
- 2012-02-19 John Hogan, American research chemist, dies at 92
- 2012-03-10 F. Sherwood Rowland, American Nobel laureate in chemistry 1995, dies from Parkinson's disease at 84
- 2012-06-13 William S. Knowles, American chemist and Nobel laureate, dies from complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at 95
- 2013-04-20 Struther Arnott, Scottish molecular biologist and chemist (cancer research), dies at 78
- 2013-06-06 Jerome Karle, American chemist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 94
- 2013-12-08 John Cornforth, Australian-British chemist (Nobel Prize 1975), dies at 96
Carl Djerassi
2015-01-30 Carl Djerassi, Austrian-born American chemist and father of the contraceptive pill, dies at 91

Carl Djerassi
- 2015-06-02 Irwin Rose, American biologist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 2004), dies at 88
- 2015-10-09 Richard F. Heck, American chemist who discovered the Heck Reaction (Nobel Prize 2010), dies at 84
- 2016-04-19 Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American scientist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1998), dies at 93
- 2016-05-07 Harold Kroto, English chemist, (Nobel Prize laureate 1996), dies at 76
- 2016-08-02 Ahmed Zewail, Egyptian-American chemist, (Nobel Prize 1999), dies at 70
- 2016-08-24 Roger Y. Tsien, American chemist (Nobel Prize 2008), dies at 64
- 2016-10-29 John D. Roberts, American chemist, received American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (2013), dies at 98
- 2018-05-28 Jens Christian Skou, Danish scientist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1997), dies at 99