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.
Frédéric Joliot
1900 - 1958
Irène Joliot-Curie
1897 - 1956
Percy Lavon Julian
1899 - 1975
August Kekulé
1829 - 1896
Gustav Kirchhoff
1824 - 1887
Harold W. Kroto
1939 - 2016
Stephanie L. Kwolek
1923 - 2014
Henri-Marie Laborit
1914 - 1995
Ralph Landau
1916 - 2004
Robert S. Langer
b. 1948
Irving Langmuir
1881 - 1957
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
1743 - 1794
Gilbert Newton Lewis
1875 - 1946
Warren K. Lewis
1882 - 1975
Justus von Liebig
1803 - 1873
Carl von Linde
1842 - 1934
Arthur Little
1863 - 1935
Alan MacDiarmid
1927 - 2007
John Macleod
1876 - 1935
Jane Marcet
1769 - 1858
Russell Earl Marker
1902 - 1995
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
b. 1953
Lise Meitner
1878 - 1968
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
1834 - 1907
Maud Leonora Menten
1879 - 1960
Julius Lothar Meyer
1830 - 1895
Leonor Michaelis
1875 - 1949
Mario Molina
1943 - 2020
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