Chemists and chemical engineers who invented industrial processes, materials and products, including dyes, explosives, plastics, fertilizers and rubber. A person belongs here when the cited article describes the person as a chemist or credits a chemical process or product. It excludes metallurgists and materials makers, who sit in the metallurgy and materials group. The group is one of the groupings of engineers under this engineering field in the Technology Atlas, and each member keeps its own entry with its own cited sources and its own place in the field.
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Karl Ziegler (Wikipedia)
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Karl Waldemar Ziegler (German: [kaːʁl ˈvaldəˌmaʁ ˈt͡siːɡlɐ]; 26 November 1898-12 August 1973) was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963, with Giulio Natta, for work on polymers.
Giulio Natta (Wikipedia)
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Giulio Natta (Italian: [ˈd͡ʒu.ljo ˈnat.ta]; 26 February 1903-2 May 1979) was an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate.
Roy J. Plunkett (Wikipedia)
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Roy Joseph Plunkett (June 26, 1910, May 12, 1994) was an American chemist.
Jacques E. Brandenberger (National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee page)
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Invented in 1908, cellophane came from Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger's desire to create a clear, flexible, waterproof film that could be applied to cloth.
Hannibal Goodwin (National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee page)
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Goodwin made his flexible photographic film by dissolving nitrocellulose in nitrobenzole and then diluting the thick mixture with alcohol.
Otto Wichterle (National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee page)
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Wichterle earned his Ph.D. from the Prague Institute of Chemical Technology
Waldo L. Semon (National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee page)
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Semon entered the University of Washington determined to be a chemist.
Charles Goodyear (Wikipedia)
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Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800, July 1, 1860) was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.
Friedrich Wohler (Wikipedia)
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Friedrich Wöhler FRS(For) HonFRSE (German: [ˈvøːlɐ]; 31 July 1800-23 September 1882) was a German chemist known for his work in both organic and inorganic chemistry, being the first to isolate the chemical elements beryllium and yttrium in pure metallic form.
Alfred Nobel (Wikipedia)
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( noh-BEL; Swedish: [ˈǎlːfrɛd nʊˈbɛlː] ; 21 October 1833-10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman.
John Walker, inventor (Wikipedia)
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John Walker (29 May 1781-1 May 1859) was an English chemist and pharmacist credited with inventing the friction light, the first commercially successful friction match, in either 1826 or 1827.
George E. Davis (Wikipedia)
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George Edward Davis (1850-1907) was a chemist who is regarded as the founding father of the discipline of chemical engineering.
Herbert Henry Dow (Wikipedia)
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Herbert Henry Dow (February 26, 1866, October 15, 1930) was an American chemical industrialist who founded the American multinational conglomerate Dow Chemical.
Wikipedia: Fritz Haber
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Fritz Jakob Haber (German: [ˈfʁɪt͡s ˈhaːbɐ] ; 9 December 1868-29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
Wikipedia: Leo Baekeland
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Leo Hendrik Baekeland ( BAYK-land, Dutch: [ˈleːjoː ˈɦɛndrɪɡ ˈbaːkəlɑnt]; November 14, 1863, February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist.
Wikipedia: William Henry Perkin
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Sir William Henry Perkin (12 March 1838-14 July 1907) was an English chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline.
Wikipedia: Ernest Solvay
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Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (French: [sɔlvɛ]; 16 April 1838-26 May 1922) was a Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist.
Wikipedia: Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
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Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (19 March 1877 in Freiburg im Breisgau, 1 December 1947 in Munich) was a German chemist.
Wikipedia: Hans Tropsch
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Hans Tropsch (October 7, 1889, October 8, 1935) was a chemist responsible, along with Franz Fischer, for the development of the Fischer-Tropsch process.
Wikipedia: Ludwig Mond
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Ludwig Mond FRS (7 March 1839-11 December 1909) was a German-born British chemist and industrialist.
Wikipedia: Franz von Soxhlet
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Franz Ritter von Soxhlet (12 January 1848-5 May 1926) was a German agricultural chemist and inventor.
Paul Sabatier (Wikipedia)
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Paul Sabatier (French: [sabatje]; 5 November 1854-14 August 1941) was a French chemist, born in Carcassonne.
Callinicus of Heliopolis (Wikipedia)
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Callinicus of Heliopolis (Medieval Greek: Καλλίνικος fl. 620 AD) was a Byzantine architect and alchemist of Jewish or Egyptian origin.
Thomas Hancock (Wikipedia)
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was an English self-taught manufacturing engineer who founded the British rubber industry
Francis Thomas Bacon (Wikipedia)
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was an English engineer who in 1932 developed the first practical hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell
James Dewar (Grace's Guide)
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His invention of the vacuum flask, now known universally as the Thermos flask
Peregrine Phillips (Grace's Guide)
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Peregrine Phillips Junior was the inventor of the Contact Process for Sulphuric Acid, for which he obtained Patent No. 6096 in 1831.
Spencer Silver (National Inventors Hall of Fame)
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In 1968, Spencer Silver was a senior scientist working to develop new classes of adhesives at 3M when he discovered an acrylic adhesive with unique properties.
Francis Aston (Nobel Prize)
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Leaving academic life for a time, he worked for three years as a chemist in the laboratory of a brewery.
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