Lives and Times of Great Pioneers in Chemistry: Lavoisier to Sanger

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) Father of Chemistry
John Dalton (1766–1844) Proponent of the Concept of the Atom
Humphry Davy (1778–1829) The Great Discoverer and Showman)
Jons Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848) Swedish Pioneer Who Wrote the First Chemistry Textbook
Michael Faraday (1791–1867) The Greatest Scientist of All Time
Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882) The One Who Made the First Organic Compound
August Kekule (1829–1896) First to Predict Organic Structures
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834–1907)Designer of the Greatest Table
Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff (1852–1911) First Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Emil Fischer (1852–1919) A Multi-Faceted Organic Chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932) High Priest of Physical Chemistry
Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927) Some Compounds Dissociate, and Some Cause Climate Change
Alfred Werner (1866–1919) Inorganic Kekule
Richard Willstätter (1872–1942) Ecstasy and Agony of Willstätter
Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875–1946) The 20th Century Chemical Genius who Did Not Get the Prize
Robert Robinson (1886–1975) The Quintessential Organic Chemist
Christopher Kelk Ingold (1893–1970) Founder of Physical Organic Chemistry
Henry Eyring (1901–1981) A Simple Man with an Active Mind
Linus Pauling (1901–1994) The Irrepressible Scientist and Crusader, with Two Unshared Nobel Prizes
Robert Burns Woodward (1917–1979) Artist in Organic Synthesis
Frederick Sanger (1918–2013) A Modest Man with Two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry