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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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Mary Agnes Chase

A pioneer in the study of grasses, Chase discovered numerous species in the U.S. and South America, building an extraordinary scientific career without formal academic training.

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Mary Agnes Chase ca. 1950.
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Carl von Linde
1842 - 1934
Arthur Dehon Little.
Arthur Little
1863 - 1935
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Mikhail Vasil’evich Lomonosov
1711 - 1765
Alan MacDiarmid
Alan MacDiarmid
1927 - 2007
John Macleod, 1923.
John Macleod
1876 - 1935
Jane Marcet
1769 - 1858
Russell Earl Marker
1902 - 1995
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Eizi Matuda
1894 - 1978
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Hudson Maxim
1853 - 1927
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
b. 1953
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Lise Meitner
1878 - 1968
Portrait of Dmitri Mendeleev, ca. 1900.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
1834 - 1907
Undated photograph of biochemist Maud Leonora Menten.
Maud Leonora Menten
1879 - 1960
Julius Lothar Meyer.
Julius Lothar Meyer
1830 - 1895
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Leonor Michaelis
1875 - 1949
Margery Milne
1914 - 2006
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Friedrich Mohs
1773 - 1839
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Mario Molina
1943 - 2020
Bryan B. Molloy
Bryan B. Molloy
1939 - 2004
Gordon E. Moore
1929 - 2023
Giulio Natta, 1963.
Giulio Natta
1903 - 1979
Alfred Nobel
1833 - 1896
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Isaac Ochoterena
1895 - 1950
A professional portrait of Donald Othmer as a young man, wearing a suit and tie.
Donald F. Othmer
1904 - 1995
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Robert W. Parry
1917 - 2006
Louis Pasteur
1822 - 1895
Linus Carl Pauling
1901 - 1994
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
1900 - 1979
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