Acheson, Edward Goodrich
Edward Goodrich Acheson in the lab with his omnipresent cigar…
Edward Goodrich Acheson (portrait)
Cover of the Carborundum Company's 1894 prospectus…
Arrhenius, Svante August
Svante August Arrhenius (portrait)
"Charged Croquet Balls." (drawing)
Avogadro, Amadeo
Baekeland, Leo Hendrik
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (portrait)
The original Bakelizer, used by Baekeland and his coworkers…
Leo Hendrik Baekeland with his wife Céline and their children…
Beckman, Arnold O.
Patent drawing for the original Beckman pH meter
The Beckman G pH meter was produced from 1935 until 1950…
Berzelius, Jöns Jakob
Jöns Jakob Berzelius in 1843 (portrait)
Jöns Jakob Berzelius welcoming King Karl XIV Johan…
Boyle, Robert
Robert Boyle at the age of 63, …
Robert Boyle at the age of 37, with his air pump…
Title page from The Sceptical Chymist, …
Title page from The General History of the Air,…
Bragg, William Henry
William Lawrence Bragg and William Henry Bragg
An early Bragg X-ray spectrometer…
Bragg, William Lawrence
William Lawrence Bragg and William Henry Bragg
An early Bragg X-ray spectrometer…
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff and Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen
Bunsen-Kirchhoff spectroscope with the Bunsen burner…
Cannizzaro, Stanislao
Stanislao Cannizzaro (portrait)
Stanislao Cannizzaro at the age of 32…
Carothers, Wallace Hume
Wallace Hume Carothers in a characteristically pensive mood…
Wallace Carothers, in a happier mood, holding Louisa Hill…
Giant leg, 35 feet high, advertises nylons…
Carson, Rachel
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring…
Chandler, Charles F.
Charles F. Chandler with a wash bottle…
"A proper reception for King Cholera."…
Cottrell, Frederick Gardner
Frederick Gardner Cottrell, the inventor of electrostatic precipitation…
Frederick Gardner Cottrell (portrait)
Couper, Archibald Scott
Archibald Scott Couper in Paris… (portrait)
Archibald Scott Couper's bond lines in a French version of his 1858 paper…
Crick, Francis
James Watson and Francis Crick with their DNA model…
Curie, Marie Sklodowska
Pierre Curie, Pierre's assistant, Petit, and Marie Curie…
Marie and Pierre Curie caricatured in Vanity Fair…
Marie Curie and her two daughters…
Curme, George O.
George O. Curme in his Mellon Institute laboratory…
Dalton, John
John Dalton, F.R.S., engraved by Worthington…
Elements and their combinations as described in Dalton's New System of Chemical Philosophy…
Davis, George E.
Davy, Humphry
Humphry Davy, as painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence…
A young Humphry Davy gleefully works the bellows…
Djerassi, Carl
The announcement of a new cortisone synthesis by Syntex…
Carl Djerassi at Syntex in 1951…
Dow, Herbert Henry
Herbert H. Dow at the age of 22
The old mill in which Dow set up his laboratory…
du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée
First drawing of the du Pont powder mills…
Engraving of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont…
Ehrlich, Paul
The German government honored Paul Ehrlich…
Faraday , Michael
Michael Faraday with an early electrical battery…
Michael Faraday in his laboratory at the Royal Institution…
Michael Faraday's concern about contemporary environmental problems…
Franklin, Rosalind
Franz, John E.
Monsanto's John Franz holding a crystal of the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate…
Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Jean-Baptiste Biot in their balloon…
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (portrait)
Haber, Fritz
Fritz Haber, sketched in 1911…
The laboratory apparatus designed by Fritz Haber…
Fritz Haber, third from the left, on board a ship to Buenos Aires…
Hahn, Otto
Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in their laboratory
Hall, Charles M.
Drawing of the original Hall electrolytic cell set-up…s
Hall, Julia Brainerd
Julia Brainerd Hall, who made many contributions…
Drawing of the original Hall electrolytic cell set-up…
Hamilton, Alice
Alice Hamilton at the age of 24…
Hannay, Norman Bruce
Norman Bruce Hannay (portrait)
Hawkins, Walter Lincoln
Field H. Winslow and W. Lincoln Hawkins (right) of Bell Telephone Laboratories…
Héroult, Paul
Hill, Henry Aaron
Henry Aaron Hill standing outside the American Chemical Society building…
Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot
Hodgkin as chancellor of Bristol University…
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was honored on this postage stamp…
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin presents prizes to children…
Hodgkin with fellow scientist Guy Dodson…
The molecular structure of vitamin B12…
Houdry, Eugene
Eugene Houdry as a lieutenant in the tank corps…
Joliot, Frédéric
Joliot-Curie, Irène
Julian, Percy Lavon
Percy Lavon Julian as a DePauw University student
Percy Lavon Julian was honored on this stamp…
Kekulé von Stradonitz, August
August Kekulé von Stradonitz in 1862 (portrait)
A representation of the benzene ring…
Heinrich von Angeli's portrait of August Kekulé von Stradonitz…
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff and Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen
Bunsen-Kirchhoff spectroscope with the Bunsen burner…
Kwolek, Stephanie L.
Kevlar is widely used in sports equipment
Stephanie L. Kwolek and others of the group that developed Kevlar
Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope
Landau, Ralph
Ralph Landau welcoming Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands to the Rotterdam plant of Oxirane…
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir with radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi…
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier conducts an experiment…
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier. Line engraving…
A replica of Lavoisier's laboratory…
Lewis, Gilbert Newton
Gilbert Newton Lewis's memorandum of 1902…
Gilbert Newton Lewis using a slide rule…
Gilbert Newton Lewis (portrait)
Lewis, Warren K.
Warren K. Lewis teaching at MIT's School of Chemical Engineering Practice…
Liebig, Justus von
Liebig's five-bulbed apparatus…
Cartoon of the Liebig apparatus…
Justus von Liebig's laboratory in Giessen around 1840…
Linde, Carl von
Cylinders of oxygen being loaded on a tractor-trailer truck…
Little, Arthur D.
Los, Marinus
Marinus Los, director of crop science discovery…
Meitner, Lise
Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in their laboratory
Lise Meitner honored on a postage stamp…
Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich
Draft for first version of Mendeleev's periodic table…
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev in his study…
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev as a young man
Meyer, Julius Lothar
Julius Lothar Meyer (portrait)
Nobel, Alfred
Othmer, Donald
Donald Othmer, with a gold-plated Othmer still…
Pauling, Linus Carl
One of Linus Pauling's many peacekeeping activities—flipping pancakes…
Perkin, William Henry
A photograph that William Henry Perkin took of himself…
William Henry Perkin (portrait)
Plunkett, Roy J.
Re-enactment of the 1938 discovery of Teflon…
Roy J. Plunkett with a cable insulated with Teflon…
Priestley, Joseph
Joseph Priestley calling for the head of King George III…
Joseph Priestley, "Doctor Phlogiston,"…
Priestley's pneumatic trough and other chemical apparatus…
Ramsay, William
William Ramsay as the personification of chemistry in Vanity Fair…
Richards, Ellen Swallow
Ellen Swallow Richards with women students at MIT in 1888
Ellen Swallow Richards later in life with her husband…
Richards, Theodore William
Theodore W. Richards (portrait)
Roth, James
A plant for making linear olefins for biodegradable detergents…
Rutherford, Ernest
Ernest Rutherford in academic garb
Postage stamp from New Zealand honoring Ernest Rutherford…
Rutherford on the New Zealand 100-dollar banknote
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore
Glenn T. Seaborg and President John F. Kennedy…
Sinfelt, John H.
John H. Sinfelt in his laboratory at Exxon Research and Engineering Company
Sørensen, Søren
Søren Sørensen visting Cornell University in 1924
Strassmann, Fritz
Thomson, Joseph John
J. J. Thomson and Ernest Rutherford in the 1930s
Van’t Hoff, Jacobus Henricus
Van't Hoff disseminated his stereochemical ideas to leading chemists…
A young Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff in 1904
Walker, William H.
William H. Walker with slide rule at the ready
Watson, James
James Watson and Francis Crick with their DNA model…
Weisz, Paul B.
Paul B. Weisz with a model that shows how tightly a paraffin molecule fits…
Wilkins, Maurice
Maurice Wilkins with X-ray crystallographic equipment…
Wöhler, Friedrich