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.
Evangelina Villegas Moreno
Biochemist Evangelina Villegas codeveloped Quality Protein Maize, a nutritionally fortified corn that was central to a period of intensive agricultural development called the “Green Revolution.”
Glenn Theodore Seaborg
1912 - 1999
Hermann Staudinger
1881 - 1965
Fritz Strassmann
1902 - 1980
Thomas Washington Talley
1868 - 1952
Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson
1856 - 1940
Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
1852 - 1911
Friedrich Wöhler
1800 - 1882
Robert Burns Woodward
1917 - 1979
Rosalyn Yalow
1921 - 2011
Karl Ziegler
1898 - 1973
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