Scientific Biographies
Science is a human pursuit. Meet the people behind some of the most significant achievements and discoveries in the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.
Fanny Angelina Hesse
Hesse changed medicine and the life sciences when she introduced agar, a jelly derived from seaweed, into laboratory research.
Michael Faraday
1791 - 1867
Louis Fieser
1899 - 1977
Mary Peters Fieser
1909 - 1997
Emil Fischer
1852 - 1919
Alexander Fleming
1881 - 1955
Howard Walter Florey
1898 - 1968
Rosalind Franklin
1920 - 1958
Helen M. Free
1923 - 2021
Alfred Free
1913 - 2000
Ray W. Fuller
1935 - 1996
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
1778 - 1850
Mary Lowe Good
1931 - 2019
Robert W. Gore
1937 - 2020
Fritz Haber
1868 - 1934
Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow
1922 - 2020
Otto Hahn
1879 - 1968
Charles M. Hall
1863 - 1914
Alice Hamilton
1869 - 1970
Paula Hammond
b. 1963
Anna Jane Harrison
1912 - 1998
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
1885 - 1975
Alan J. Heeger
b. 1936
Paul Héroult
1863 - 1914
Henry Aaron Hill
1915 - 1979
George Hitchings
1905 - 1998
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1910 - 1994
Darleane C. Hoffman
b. 1926
Felix Hoffmann
1868 - 1946
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