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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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Humphry Davy

Davy was a charismatic English chemist, poet, inventor, fisherman, and scientific administrator. How have biographers approached his multifaceted story?

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Portrait of Sir Humphrey Davy Bar’t., after 1821.
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Portrait of Sir Humphrey Davy Bar't., after 1821.

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Undated photograph of Lee Riley
Lee W. Riley
1949 - 2022
Rosenkranz in a suit and tie, smiling
George Rosenkranz
1916 - 2019
Black and white photograph of Glenn T. Seaborg in an office
Glenn Theodore Seaborg
1912 - 1999
sepia toned portrait of a man in coat and riding boots
Ignaz Semmelweis
1818 - 1865
Susan Solomon
b. 1956
color photo of a man with a baby on his shoulders
Calvin Ross Sperling
1957 - 1995
Hermann Staudinger
1881 - 1965
Fritz Strassmann.
Fritz Strassmann
1902 - 1980
Albert sits on a chair, leaning forward with his elbows on his legs and hands clasped.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
1893 - 1986
Portrait of Jokichi Takamine
Jokichi Takamine
1854 - 1922
Evangelina Villegas in a lab, ca. 1970.
Evangelina Villegas Moreno
1924(25) - 2017
Karl Ziegler (center) with members of the Hercules group that commercialized high-density polyethylene as Hi-fax.
Karl Ziegler
1898 - 1973
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