chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions

biochemist - someone with special training in biochemistry

nuclear chemist, radiochemist - a chemist who specializes in nuclear chemistry

man of science, scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences

Arrhenius, Svante August Arrhenius - Swedish chemist and chemist noted for his theory of chemical dissociation (1859-1927)

Berzelius, Jons Jakob Berzelius - Swedish chemist who discovered three new elements and determined the atomic weights of many others (1779-1848)

Joseph Black, Black - British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

Boyle, Robert Boyle - Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)

Buchner, Eduard Buchner - German organic chemist who studied alcoholic fermentation and discovered zymase (1860-1917)

Bunsen, Robert Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen - German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)

Calvin, Melvin Calvin - United States chemist noted for discovering the series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis (1911-)

Carothers, Wallace Carothers, Wallace Hume Carothers - United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937)

Carver, George Washington Carver - United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)

Cavendish, Henry Cavendish - British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)

Crookes, Sir William Crookes, William Crookes - English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919)

Curie, Madame Curie, Marie Curie, Marya Sklodowska - French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel Prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)

Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr., Curl - American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

Dalton, John Dalton - English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)

Davy, Humphrey Davy, Sir Humphrey Davy - English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)

Sir James Dewar, Dewar - Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923)

Eigen, Manfred Eigen - German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927)

Erlenmeyer, Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer - German chemist (1825-1909)

Faraday, Michael Faraday - the English physicist nd chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867)

Emil Hermann Fischer, Fischer - German chemist noted for work on synthetic sugars and the purines (1852-1919)

Fischer, Hans Fischer - German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945)

Flory, Paul John Flory - United States chemist who developed methods for studying long-chain molecules (1910-1985)

Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850)

Gibbs, Josiah Willard Gibbs - United States chemist (1839-1903)

Fritz Haber, Haber - German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia from the nitrogen in air (1868-1934)

caregiver, health care provider, health professional - a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability

pharmaceutical chemist, pharmacologist - someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects)