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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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Jonas Salk and Albert Bruce Sabin

In the 1950s Salk and Sabin developed separate vaccines—one from killed virus and the other from live virus—to combat the dreaded polio disease.

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Mary Fieser, fall 1951.
Mary Peters Fieser
1909 - 1997
Fischer wearing pinch nose glasses resting his head on his hand
Emil Fischer
1852 - 1919
Alexander Fleming working in a lab holding a petri dish
Alexander Fleming
1881 - 1955
Howard Florey.
Howard Walter Florey
1898 - 1968
Rosalind Franklin
1920 - 1958
The Frees wearing lab coats and standing in a research lab. Alfred holds what seems to be an animal test subject while Helen injects something.
Helen M. Free
1923 - 2021
Helen and Alfred Free
Alfred Free
1913 - 2000
Fuller in a white button up and tie, wearing glasses and sitting in front of a dry erase board
Ray W. Fuller
1935 - 1996
sepia-toned portrait of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
1778 - 1850
Mary Lowe Good
1931 - 2019
Robert W. Gore
1937 - 2020
Autographed etching of Fritz Haber, 1922
Fritz Haber
1868 - 1934
Clifford and Kathryn Hach.
Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow
1922 - 2020
Otto Hahn.
Otto Hahn
1879 - 1968
Charles M. Hall
1863 - 1914
Alice Hamilton
1869 - 1970
Paula Hammond in her lab at MIT.
Paula Hammond
b. 1963
Anna Jane Harrison
1912 - 1998
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
1885 - 1975
alan heeger photo
Alan J. Heeger
b. 1936
Paul Héroult.
Paul Héroult
1863 - 1914
Henry Aaron Hill
1915 - 1979
Gertrude Elion and George Hitchings in the laboratory, 1948.
George Hitchings
1905 - 1998
Dorothy Hodgkin in 1991 is shown seated and smiling. Her hair is half up and she is wearing a floral dress with brown panels.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1910 - 1994
Darleane C. Hoffman
b. 1926
old photo of Felix Hoffman
Felix Hoffmann
1868 - 1946
Hoffman stands
Roald Hoffmann
b. 1937
photo from an old driver's license
Eugene Houdry
1892 - 1962
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