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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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Donald wears a suit and maroon tie. There is an orange background.
Donald A. Tomalia
b. 1938
Portrait of Jacobus van't Hoff, before 1898.
Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
1852 - 1911
Portrait of William Walker
William Walker
1869 - 1934
James Watson and Francis Crick
James Watson
b. 1928
Harvey Washington Wiley
1844 - 1930
Maurice Wilkins with X-ray crystallographic equipment about 1954.
Maurice Wilkins
1916 - 2004
half-length portrait of German chemist Friedrich Wöhler
Friedrich Wöhler
1800 - 1882
David T. Wong
David T. Wong
b. 1935
Robert Burns Woodward
1917 - 1979
Rosalyn Yalow
1921 - 2011
Karl Ziegler (center) with members of the Hercules group that commercialized high-density polyethylene as Hi-fax.
Karl Ziegler
1898 - 1973
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