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.
Paula Hammond
A pioneer in nanotechnology, Hammond is Vice Provost for Faculty and Institute Professor at MIT, cofounder of MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology, and a member of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
Gordon E. Moore
1929 - 2023
Giulio Natta
1903 - 1979
Alfred Nobel
1833 - 1896
Donald F. Othmer
1904 - 1995
Robert W. Parry
1917 - 2006
Louis Pasteur
1822 - 1895
Linus Carl Pauling
1901 - 1994
William Henry Perkin
1838 - 1907
Roy J. Plunkett
1910 - 1994
Joseph Priestley
1733 - 1804
William Ramsay
1852 - 1916
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
Hideki Shirakawa
b. 1936
Maxine Singer
b. 1931
Richard E. Smalley
1943 - 2005
Susan Solomon
b. 1956
Søren Sørensen
1868 - 1939
Hermann Staudinger
1881 - 1965
Fritz Strassmann
1902 - 1980
Albert Szent-Györgyi
1893 - 1986
Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson
1856 - 1940
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