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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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Friedrich Mohs

The German mineralogist created the Mohs Hardness Scale, a simple tool for determining the hardness of minerals that is still used today.

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Friedrich Mohs, Mineraloge, watercolor portrait of the mineralogist by Josef Kriehuber, ca. 1835.
Wien Museum Inv.-Nr. 216022, CC BY 4.0
color portrait of a man sitting in a chair

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Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
1907 - 1964
black and white photo of George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver
ca. 1864 - 1943
illustration from Grounds of Natural Philosophy book
Margaret Lucas Cavendish
1623 - 1673
man in lab coat conducting an experiment
Ernst Boris Chain
1906 - 1979
Professional portrait of E. M. A. Chandler, ca. 1930. He looks over his left shoulder and is wearing a suit.
Edward Chandler
1887 - 1973
Nancy Chang
b. 1950
Paul Charpentier.
Paul Charpentier
n.d.
Uma Chowdhry wearing green shawl and glasses, hand on a rail, cherry blossoms in background
Uma Chowdhry
1947 - 2024
Stanley N. Cohen.
Stanley N. Cohen
b. 1935
Mildred Cohn
1913 - 2009
Edith Coleman
1874 - 1951
James Collip as a graduate student, c. 1914
James Bertram Collip
1892 - 1965
Carl and Gerty Cori in their lab, wearing white lab coats. Carl points to a document with a pencil. There are beakers and bottles in the background.
Carl Ferdinand Cori
1896 - 1984
Gerty and Carl Cori working in a lab
Gerty Theresa Cori
1896 - 1957
Archibald Scott Couper. Photograph of drawing (not before 1860).
Archibald Scott Couper
1831 - 1892
Simone Courvoisier.
Simone Courvoisier
n.d.
James Watson and Francis Crick
Francis Crick
1916 - 2004
Marie Sklodowska Curie
1867 - 1934
Robert Curl
Robert F. Curl
1933 - 2022
John Dalton
1766 - 1844
Marie Maynard Daly working in her lab circa 1960
Marie Maynard Daly
1921 - 2003
portrait of George Davis
George E. Davis
1850 - 1906
Portrait of Sir Humphrey Davy Bar't., after 1821.
Humphry Davy
1778 - 1829
man in a hat smoking a pipe
Paul de Kruif
1890 - 1971
Jean Delay.
Jean Delay
1907 - 1987
Pierre Deniker.
Pierre Deniker
1917 - 1998
Djerassi wears a tan suit jacket and green ribboned medal around his neck
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
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