Albert Hofmann
Swiss chemist born in 1906. First person to synthesize, ingest, & learn the psychedelic effects of LSD.
Charles Goodyear
American self-taught chemist & manufacturing engineer born in 1800. Developed vulcanized rubber.
Marc Tiffeneau
French chemist & president of the Société chimique de France born in 1873.
Paul Sabatier
French chemist & 1912 Nobel Prize winner for his work on organic species in the presence of metals.
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, & inventor born in 1833. He held 355 patents, including dynamite.
Ernest Fourneau
French medicinal chemist born in 1872. Helped discover synthetic local anesthetics.
Carl Bosch
German chemist, engineer, & Nobel Laureate born in 1874. Pioneer in high-pressure industrial chemistry.
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman & chemist born in 1743. Central to the 18th-century chemical revolution.
Philippe Barbier
French chemist born in 1848. Winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize for co-creating organomagnesium reagents.
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Jewish Holocaust survivor born in 1919.