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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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Thomas Washington Talley

A leading chemistry educator and musician who proposed a new periodic table of elements to explain the unusual structures of boron hydrides.

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black and white portrait of a man wearing a bowtie

Portrait of Herbert H. Dow, ca. 1900

Herbert Henry Dow

Charles Drew is seated at a counter wearing a lab coat and touching a microscope

Charles Richard Drew

Engraved portrait of du Pont wearing a dark coat and high collar shirt with white tie

Eleuthère Irénée du Pont

painting of Paul Ehrlich

Hitchings and Elion in a lab wearing lab coats and smiling. They both hold black, blue, red, and white plastic models

Michael Faraday

Mary Fieser, fall 1951.

Mary Peters Fieser

Fischer wearing pinch nose glasses resting his head on his hand

Alexander Fleming working in a lab holding a petri dish

Alexander Fleming

Howard Florey.

Howard Walter Florey

Rosalind Franklin

The Frees wearing lab coats and standing in a research lab. Alfred holds what seems to be an animal test subject while Helen injects something.

Helen and Alfred Free

Fuller in a white button up and tie, wearing glasses and sitting in front of a dry erase board

sepia-toned portrait of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Autographed etching of Fritz Haber, 1922

black and white photo of an older woman wearing glasses

Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow

Otto Hahn.

Charles M. Hall

Paula Hammond in her lab at MIT.

Anna Jane Harrison

Elizabeth Lee Hazen

alan heeger photo

drawing of a man in a hat

Francisco Hernández

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