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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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Charles Drew is seated at a counter wearing a lab coat and touching a microscope
Charles Richard Drew
1904 - 1950
Engraved portrait of du Pont wearing a dark coat and high collar shirt with white tie
Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
1771 - 1834
painting of Paul Ehrlich
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
Michael Faraday
1791 - 1867
Louis Fieser
1899 - 1977
Mary Fieser, fall 1951.
Mary Peters Fieser
1909 - 1997
Fischer wearing pinch nose glasses resting his head on his hand
Emil Fischer
1852 - 1919
Alexander Fleming working in a lab holding a petri dish
Alexander Fleming
1881 - 1955
Howard Florey.
Howard Walter Florey
1898 - 1968
Rosalind Franklin
1920 - 1958
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 M. Free
1923 - 2021
Helen and Alfred Free
Alfred Free
1913 - 2000
Fuller in a white button up and tie, wearing glasses and sitting in front of a dry erase board
Ray W. Fuller
1935 - 1996
sepia-toned portrait of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
1778 - 1850
Mary Lowe Good
1931 - 2019
Robert W. Gore
1937 - 2020
Autographed etching of Fritz Haber, 1922
Fritz Haber
1868 - 1934
black and white photo of an older woman wearing glasses
Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow
1922 - 2020
Otto Hahn.
Otto Hahn
1879 - 1968
Charles M. Hall
1863 - 1914
Alice Hamilton
1869 - 1970
Paula Hammond in her lab at MIT.
Paula Hammond
b. 1963
Anna Jane Harrison
1912 - 1998
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
1885 - 1975
alan heeger photo
Alan J. Heeger
b. 1936
drawing of a man in a hat
Francisco Hernández
1515 - 1587
Paul Héroult.
Paul Héroult
1863 - 1914
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