1725

Guillaume Rouelle

Paris

Popular Paris chemistry lecturer whose students included Lavoisier.

1764

Antoine Lavoisier

Paris

Established the law of conservation of mass and the role of oxygen in combustion.

1770

Jean Bucquet

Paris

Paris chemist and physician who worked alongside Lavoisier.

1778

Claude Berthollet

Paris

Pioneered chlorine bleaching and studied chemical equilibrium.

1800

Joseph Gay-Lussac

Paris

Formulated the law of combining volumes of gases.

1822

Justus von Liebig

Erlangen

Pioneer of organic chemistry and of the modern teaching laboratory at Giessen.

1839

Heinrich Will

Giessen

Liebig’s student; co-developed a classic method for determining nitrogen in organic compounds.

1852

Friedrich A. Kekule

Giessen

Proposed the tetravalence of carbon and the ring structure of benzene.

1871

Antoine Franchimont

Leiden

Dutch organic chemist and professor at Leiden.

1883

C. A. Lobry de Bruyn

Leiden

Co-discovered the Lobry de Bruyn–Alberda van Ekenstein sugar transformation.

1901

Nicholass Schoorl

Amsterdam

Dutch analytical chemist known for methods of sugar analysis.

1918

Isaak M. Kolthoff

Utrecht

Often called the father of modern analytical chemistry.

1938

James J. Lingane

Minnesota

Leader in electroanalytical chemistry, including controlled-potential electrolysis.

1958

Allen J. Bard

Harvard

Developed scanning electrochemical microscopy and advanced electrogenerated chemiluminescence.

1987

Richard. M. Crooks

Texas

Electrochemist known for dendrimer-encapsulated nanoparticles and microfluidic devices.