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.
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.


Edward Goodrich Acheson
1856 - 1931

Svante August Arrhenius
1859 - 1927

Amedeo Avogadro
1776 - 1856

Leo Hendrik Baekeland
1863 - 1944

Frederick Grant Banting
1891 - 1941

Jacqueline K. Barton
b. 1952

Arnold O. Beckman
1900 - 2004

Ruth Benerito
1916 - 2013

Reinhold Benesch
1919 - 1986

Ruth Benesch
1925 - 2000

Paul Berg
1926 - 2023

Joan Berkowitz
1931 - 2020

Solomon A. Berson
1918 - 1972

Jöns Jakob Berzelius
1779 - 1848

Charles Herbert Best
1899 - 1978

Katharine Burr Blodgett
1898 - 1979

Herbert W. Boyer
b. 1936

Robert Boyle
1627 - 1691

St. Elmo Brady
1884 - 1966

Rachel Fuller Brown
1898 - 1980

Robert Bunsen
1811 - 1899

Gordon A. Cain
1912 - 2002

Stanislao Cannizzaro
1826 - 1910

Wallace Hume Carothers
1896 - 1937

Rachel Carson
1907 - 1964

George Washington Carver
ca. 1864 - 1943

Ernst Boris Chain
1906 - 1979

Edward Chandler
1887 - 1973
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