Famous chemists
Biographies of famous chemists
Badger chemist genealogy (J Chem Ed, 56, 93 (1979))
Biographies in the Journal of Chemical Education
JD Bernal - Known to the world's brightest people as "sage", crystallographer and socialist
Robert Boyle - Early modern scientist
Henry Eyring (more) - reaction rate theory
Melvin Calvin (Photosynthesis)
James Bryant Conant (more) - Organic chemist, Harvard president and educational reformer.
Michael Faraday - the relationship between chemistry and electricity
Paul Flory (Polymer chemistry)
Louis Hammett - founder of physical organic chemistry
TW Richards - America's first Nobel prize winning chemist
Gilbert Newton Lewis - at wikipedia
Herman Mark (Polymer chemistry)
George Olah - Nobel prizewinning chemist who popularized superacids including magic acid, which dissolves candles forming a solution which gives a single NMR peak.
Linus Pauling (Polymath)
Glenn Seaborg (Heavy isotopes)
The Svedberg (The ultracentrifuge)
Harold Urey (Deuterium, origin of life)
The Guardian reports John Dalton's death
