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Scientific Biographies

Science is a human pursuit. Meet some of the people who have contributed to the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.
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Stephanie L. Kwolek

In a polymer research lab at DuPont, Kwolek discovered the super fiber known as Kevlar.

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Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope.
DuPont; gift of Stephanie Kwolek

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painting of a women in a lab
Elisabeth Bakker *
ca. 1600s
Frederick G. Banting 1923
Frederick Grant Banting
1891 - 1941
Charles Herbert Best
Charles Herbert Best
1899 - 1978
Rachel Fuller Brown
1898 - 1980
man in lab coat conducting an experiment
Ernst Boris Chain
1906 - 1979
Nancy Chang
b. 1950
Paul Charpentier.
Paul Charpentier
n.d.
James Collip as a graduate student, c. 1914
James Bertram Collip
1892 - 1965
Simone Courvoisier.
Simone Courvoisier
n.d.
man in a hat smoking a pipe
Paul de Kruif
1890 - 1971
Jean Delay.
Jean Delay
1907 - 1987
Pierre Deniker.
Pierre Deniker
1917 - 1998
A person with white hair and a beard is wearing a suit, with framed certificates on the wall behind.
Carl Djerassi
1923 - 2015
Gerhard Domagk stares towards the camera with his chin resting on his hand. he wears a light colored jacket with a dark tie.
Gerhard Domagk
1895 - 1964
A painted portrait of a bearded man in a suit, with shelves of bottles in the background.
Paul Ehrlich
1854 - 1915
Hitchings and Elion in a lab wearing lab coats and smiling. They both hold black, blue, red, and white plastic models
Gertrude Elion
1918 - 1999
Alexander Fleming working in a lab holding a petri dish
Alexander Fleming
1881 - 1955
Howard Florey.
Howard Walter Florey
1898 - 1968
Fuller in a white button up and tie, wearing glasses and sitting in front of a dry erase board
Ray W. Fuller
1935 - 1996
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
1885 - 1975
drawing of a man in a hat
Francisco Hernández
1515 - 1587
Gertrude Elion and George Hitchings in the laboratory, 1948.
George Hitchings
1905 - 1998
A man in vintage attire with a bowler hat, holding a document, poses formally.
Felix Hoffmann
1868 - 1946
Dr. Percy Lavon in a suit and tie, wearing glasses, stands in front of vertical striped wallpaper.
Percy Lavon Julian
1899 - 1975
man in a lab
Henri-Marie Laborit
1914 - 1995
Robert S. Langer
b. 1948
John Macleod, 1923.
John Macleod
1876 - 1935
Russell Earl Marker
1902 - 1995
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