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Scientific Biographies

Science is a human pursuit. Meet the people behind some of the most significant achievements and discoveries in the history of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the life sciences.
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Nancy Chang
b. 1950
Paul Charpentier.
Paul Charpentier
n.d.
Uma Chowdhry wearing green shawl and glasses, hand on a rail, cherry blossoms in background
Uma Chowdhry
1947 - 2024
Stanley N. Cohen.
Stanley N. Cohen
b. 1935
Mildred Cohn
1913 - 2009
James Bertram Collip
1892 - 1965
Carl and Gerty Cori in their lab, wearing white lab coats. Carl points to a document with a pencil. There are beakers and bottles in the background.
Carl Ferdinand Cori
1896 - 1984
Gerty and Carl Cori working in a lab
Gerty Theresa Cori
1896 - 1957
Archibald Scott Couper. Photograph of drawing (not before 1860).
Archibald Scott Couper
1831 - 1892
Simone Courvoisier.
Simone Courvoisier
n.d.
James Watson and Francis Crick
Francis Crick
1916 - 2004
Marie Sklodowska Curie
1867 - 1934
Robert Curl
Robert F. Curl
1933 - 2022
John Dalton
1766 - 1844
Marie Maynard Daly working in her lab circa 1960
Marie Maynard Daly
1921 - 2003
portrait of George Davis
George E. Davis
1850 - 1906
Portrait of Sir Humphrey Davy Bar't., after 1821.
Humphry Davy
1778 - 1829
Jean Delay.
Jean Delay
1907 - 1987
Pierre Deniker.
Pierre Deniker
1917 - 1998
Djerassi wears a tan suit jacket and green ribboned medal around his neck
Carl Djerassi
1923 - 2015
Gerhard Domagk stares towards the camera with his chin resting on his hand. he wears a light colored jacket with a dark tie.
Gerhard Domagk
1895 - 1964
Portrait of Herbert H. Dow, ca. 1900
Herbert Henry Dow
1866 - 1930
Charles Drew is seated at a counter wearing a lab coat and touching a microscope
Charles Richard Drew
1904 - 1950
Engraved portrait of du Pont wearing a dark coat and high collar shirt with white tie
Eleuthère Irénée du Pont
1771 - 1834
painting of Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich
1854 - 1915
Hitchings and Elion in a lab wearing lab coats and smiling. They both hold black, blue, red, and white plastic models
Gertrude Elion
1918 - 1999
Michael Faraday
1791 - 1867
Louis Fieser
1899 - 1977
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