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.
Eizi Matuda
The Japanese Mexican botanist made extensive collections of Central and South American plants, aroids and cacti in particular.


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

Jokichi Takamine
1854 - 1922

Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson
1856 - 1940

Donald A. Tomalia
b. 1938

Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
1852 - 1911

William Walker
1869 - 1934

James Watson
b. 1928

Harvey Washington Wiley
1844 - 1930

Maurice Wilkins
1916 - 2004

Friedrich Wöhler
1800 - 1882

David T. Wong
b. 1935

Robert Burns Woodward
1917 - 1979

Rosalyn Yalow
1921 - 2011

Karl Ziegler
1898 - 1973
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