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Scientific Biographies

Science is a human pursuit. Meet the people behind some of the most significant achievements and discoveries in the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.

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Mario Molina

As a postdoctoral researcher, Molina proposed that CFCs had the potential to destroy the earth’s protective ozone layer. The Mexican chemist eventually received a Nobel Prize for his discovery.

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man dressed in a suit with a yellow tie

Edward Goodrich Acheson

Signed portrait of a man

Svante August Arrhenius

portrait of Amedeo Avogadro

Amedeo Avogadro

Leo Hendrik Baekeland

Frederick Banting and Charles Best on the roof of the University of Toronto’s Medical Building in 1922. Dogs were used as experimental subjects in the insuli. From the F. G. Banting Papers. Courtesy Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

Frederick Grant Banting

Jacqueline K. Barton

Arnold O. Beckman

Reinhold Benesch

Reinhold and Ruth Benesch.

Solomon A. Berson, 1945. Archives of the Frederick L. Ehrman Medical Library

Solomon A. Berson

portrait of Jons jokob Brezelius

Jöns Jakob Berzelius

Charles Herbert Best

Charles Herbert Best

Katherin Blodgett at General Electric Research Laboratories, 1938.

Katharine Burr Blodgett

Herbert W. Boyer

painting of Robert Boyle wearing a long wig

St. Elmo Brady in a chemistry lab at Fisk University. He is pouring a liquid from one beaker into another. There are counters of lab equipment surrounding him.

Rachel Fuller Brown

old portrait of two men in suits

Black and white photo of Cain in a suit and tie

Undated portrait of Stanislao Cannizzaro

Stanislao Cannizzaro

Wallace Hume Carothers

Rachel Carson

black and white photo of George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver

ca. 1864 - 1943

man in lab coat conducting an experiment

Ernst Boris Chain

Professional portrait of E. M. A. Chandler, ca. 1930. He looks over his left shoulder and is wearing a suit.

Edward Chandler

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