Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) (Father of chemistry) --
John Dalton (1766-1844) (Proponent of the concept of the atom) --
Humphry Davy (1778-1829) (The great discoverer and showman) --
Jons Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848) (Swedish pioneer who wrote the first chemistry text book) --
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) (The greatest scientist of all time) --
Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882) (The one who made the first organic compound) --
August Kekule (1829-1896) (First to predict organic structures) --
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907) (Designer of the greatest table) --
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff (1852-1911) (First Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) --
Emil Fischer (1852-1919) (A multi-faceted organic chemist) --
Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) (High priest of physical chemistry) --
Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) (Some compounds dissociate, and some cause climate change) --
Alfred Werner (1866-1919) (inorganic Kekule) --
Richard Willstätter (1872-1942) (Ecstasy and agony of Willstätter) --
Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875-1946) (The 20th century chemical genius who di not get the Prize) --
Robert Robinson (1886-1975) (The quintessential organic chemist) --
Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893-1970) (Founder of physical organic chemistry) --
Henry Eyring (1901-1981) (A simple man with an active mind) --
Linus Pauling (1901-1994) (The irrepressible scientist and crusader, with two unshared Nobel prizes) --
Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979) (Artist in organic synthesis) --
Frederick Sanger (1918-2003) (A modest man with two Nobel prizes in chemistry).
