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.
Edith Coleman
The Australian nature writer solved the orchid pollination mystery that puzzled Darwin.


Maud Leonora Menten
1879 - 1960

Julius Lothar Meyer
1830 - 1895

Leonor Michaelis
1875 - 1949

Mario Molina
1943 - 2020

Bryan B. Molloy
1939 - 2004

Gordon E. Moore
1929 - 2023

Giulio Natta
1903 - 1979

Alfred Nobel
1833 - 1896

Isaac Ochoterena
1895 - 1950

Donald F. Othmer
1904 - 1995

Robert W. Parry
1917 - 2006

Louis Pasteur
1822 - 1895

Linus Carl Pauling
1901 - 1994

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
1900 - 1979

Mary Engle Pennington
1872 - 1952

William Henry Perkin
1838 - 1907

Roy J. Plunkett
1910 - 1994

Joseph Priestley
1733 - 1804

William Ramsay
1852 - 1916

Petr Rehbinder
1898 - 1972

Ellen H. Swallow Richards
1842 - 1911

Theodore William Richards
1868 - 1928

George Rosenkranz
1916 - 2019

Ernest Rutherford
1871 - 1937

Albert Bruce Sabin
1906 - 1993

Jonas Salk
1914 - 1995

Glenn Theodore Seaborg
1912 - 1999

Phillip Sharp
b. 1944
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