Famous Chemists

The Most Famous Chemists
Name	Birthday	Nationality	Bio
Walter Kohn	March 9, 1923	Austrian	Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist and physicist
Amedeo Avogadro	August 9, 1776	Italian	Amedeo Avogadro was an Italian scientist who formulated what is now known as Avogadro's law
Leo Baekeland	November 14, 1863	Belgian, American	Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland was a Belgian-American chemist well-known for his discovery of photographic paper Velox and polymeric plastic Bakelite.
Louis Pasteur	December 27, 1822	French	Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist who developed the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax
Aaron Klug	August 11, 1926	British	Aaron Klug, a chemist and biophysicist, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Carl Bosch	August 27, 1874	German	Carl Bosch was a well-known German chemist and industrialist
Francis William Aston	September 1, 1877	British	Francis William Aston was a British scientist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Michael Faraday	September 22, 1791	British	Michael Faraday was the most celebrated British scientist of the 19th century
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac	December 6, 1778	French	Joseph Louis Gay Lussac was a French chemist and physicist who made notable advances in applied chemistry
Walther Nernst	June 25, 1864	German	Walther Hermann Nernst was a German scientist who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contribution to the field of thermochemistry.

Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist and physicist

Carl Bosch was a well-known German chemist and industrialist

Walther Hermann Nernst was a German scientist who won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contribution to the field of thermochemistry.

Francis William Aston was a British scientist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland was a Belgian-American chemist well-known for his discovery of photographic paper Velox and polymeric plastic Bakelite.

Joseph Louis Gay Lussac was a French chemist and physicist who made notable advances in applied chemistry

Aaron Klug, a chemist and biophysicist, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Michael Faraday was the most celebrated British scientist of the 19th century

Amedeo Avogadro was an Italian scientist who formulated what is now known as Avogadro's law

Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist who developed the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax