Famous Organic Chemists - List of Famous Organic Chemists - page 2
Organic chemists analyze the chemical properties and structure of organic compounds and organic materials. Organic compounds are structurally diverse compounds that contain carbon atoms. As a field of chemistry, organic chemistry involves the study of the physical as well as the chemical properties of organic compounds through spectroscopy and other methods to determine the chemical composition and constitution of such materials. Organic chemists work in a number of fields as organic compounds are present in almost all materials known to mankind such as food additives, paints, drugs, petrochemicals, plastics, explosives, etc. They also work in research and hold teaching jobs in academics. Researchers in this field basically work in the laboratory where they analyze compounds and their reactivity, and develop new compounds with the help of computers with sophisticated modeling and simulation software. Organic chemists form the foundation of the pharmaceutical industry and play a significant role in the development of new medicines to treat various diseases. They facilitate the rise in standards of living as their research is instrumental for the development of practically all industries in the business world. What follows is a collection of the biographies, timelines, trivia and other information about the professional and personal lives of some of the world’s most famous organic chemists.
The Most Famous Organic Chemists | |||
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| Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
| Dmitri Mendeleev | February 8, 1834 | Russian | Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian chemist who is best known for his discovery of the periodic law |
| Hermann Emil Fischer | October 9, 1852 | German | Emil Fischer was a Nobel Prize winning chemist from Germany who is known for inventing the ‘Fischer Projection’ method |
| Aleksandr Borodin | November 12, 1833 | Russian | Aleksandr Borodin was a prodigal Russian music composer and scientist |
| John Cornforth | September 7, 1917 | Australian, British | John Warcup Cornforth was an Australian-British chemist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Elias James Corey | July 12, 1928 | American | Elias James Corey is a distinguished American organic chemist who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize in Chemistry’ in 1990. |
| Herbert C. Brown | May 22, 1912 | American | Herbert C |
| Adolf von Baeyer | October 31, 1835 | German | Adolf von Baeyer was a well-known German chemist who synthesized indigo |
| Vladimir Prelog | July 23, 1906 | Swiss | Vladimir Prelog was a famous Zürich-based chemist, who won the ‘Nobel Prize’ for his work on stereochemistry |
| Chaim Weizmann | November 27, 1874 | British | The famous scientist is known for his discovery of the industrial fermentation |
| Georg Wittig | June 16, 1897 | German | Georg Wittig was a German chemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1979 |
Hermann Staudinger
Hermann Staudinger was a German chemist who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize in Chemistry’ in 1953
Tadeusz Reichstein
Tadeusz Reichstein was a Polish born Swiss chemist known for his discoveries concerning hormones of the adrenal cortex
Paul Karrer
Paul Karrer was a Swiss Organic Chemist who synthesized various Vitamins and derived their structural formulas
Kurt Alder
Kurt Alder was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1950
Otto Diels
Otto Diels or Otto Paul Herman Diels was a German scientist who received the Nobel Prize in chemistry
Robert Robinson
Sir Robert Robinson was a British scientist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Norman Haworth
Sir Norman Haworth was a British Chemist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937
Heinrich Otto Wieland
Heinrich Otto Wieland was an eminent German scientist who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his investigations of the constitution of the bile acids
Victor Grignard
François Auguste Victor Grignard was a French chemist who developed the synthetic reaction, the ‘Grignard reaction’