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Wolf Prize in Chemistry
The Wolf Prize in Chemistry is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and Arts.
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Carl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi (born October 29, 1923 in Vienna, Austria), is an American chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill (OCP).
He participated in the invention in 1951,...
Herman Mark
Herman Francis Mark (May 3, 1895 - April 6, 1992) was an Austrian-American chemist regarded for his contributions to the development of polymer science. Mark's x-ray diffraction work on the molecular structure of fibers provided important evidence...
Henry Eyring
Henry Eyring (born February 20, 1901 in Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua – December 26, 1981 in Salt Lake City, Utah) was a Mexican-born American theoretical chemist whose primary contribution was in the study of chemical reaction rates and intermediates....
Joseph Chatt
Joseph Chatt, CBE (6 November 1914 — 19 May 1994) was a renown researcher in the area of inorganic and organometallic chemistry. His name is associated with the description of the pi-bond between transition metals and alkenes, the so-called Dewar...
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John Charles Polanyi
John Charles Polanyi, PC, CC, FRSC, O.Ont, FRS, born in Berlin on January 23, 1929, is a Canadian chemist who won a Nobel Prize.
He is the son of distinguished Austrian-Hungarian chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi, and his wife Magda Elizabeth,...
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George C. Pimentel
George Claude Pimentel (May 2, 1922 – June 18, 1989) was the inventor of the chemical laser. He also developed the modern technique of matrix isolation in low-temperature chemistry. In theoretical chemistry, he proposed the three-centre four...
Gilbert Stork
Gilbert Stork (born December 31, 1921) is a Belgian-born U.S. organic chemist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Columbia University. The Stork enamine synthesis is named in his honor.
University of Florida, B.S. 1942;...
John S. Waugh
John S. Waugh (born 1929) is an American chemist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for developing average hamiltonian theory and using it to extend NMR spectroscopy, previously limited to liquids, to...
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Herbert S. Gutowsky
Herbert S. Gutowsky (November 8, 1919 - January 13, 2000) was an American chemist who was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His pioneering work made nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy one of the most...
Albert Eschenmoser
Albert Eschenmoser (born August 5, 1925) is a Swiss chemist working at the ETH Zurich and The Scripps Research Institute.
His work together with Lavoslav Ružička on terpenes and the postulation of squalene cyclization to form lanosterol improved the...
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David Blow
David Mervyn Blow (June 27, 1931 – June 8, 2004) was an influential British biophysicist. He was best known for the development of X-ray crystallography, a technique used to determine the molecular structures of tens of thousands of biological...
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David Chilton Phillips
David Chilton Phillips, Baron Phillips of Ellesmere, KBE, FRS (7 March 1924 - 23 February 1999) is considered to be a founding father of the now expanding field of structural biology and was an influential figure in science and government. Among...
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Harden M. McConnell
Harden M. McConnell (born July 18, 1927 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American physical chemist at Stanford University.
Harden M. McConnell was born on July 18, 1927 in Richmond, Virginia. He completed his Bachelor of Science from George Washington...
Joshua Jortner
Joshua Jortner (Hebrew: יהושע יורטנר) (March 14, 1933) is an Israeli physical chemist. He is a Professor Emeritus at School of Chemistry, The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Joshua Jortner was born on...
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Raphael David Levine
Raphael David Levine (Hebrew: רפאל לוין, born March 29, 1938 ) is an Israeli chemist who is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles.
Raphael David...
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Alan Battersby
Sir Alan Rushton Battersby FRS (born 1925) is a retired organic chemist known for his work on the genetic blueprint, structure, and synthetic pathway of Cyanocobalamin. This came in collaboration with a partner and also in relation to work on plant...
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Duilio Arigoni
Duilio Arigoni (born December 6, 1928) is a Swiss chemist and Emeritus Professor at ETH Zurich. He is a prominent member of the scientific elite which has elucidated the biosynthetic pathways of many organic natural substances.
Duilio Arigoni was...
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Elias James Corey
Elias James Corey (born July 12, 1928) is an American organic chemist. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis. Regarded by many as...
F. Albert Cotton
Frank Albert Cotton (April 9, 1930 – February 20, 2007) was the W.T. Doherty-Welch Foundation Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M; University. He authored over 1700 scientific articles. Cotton was recognized for his research...
Richard R. Ernst
Richard Robert Ernst (born August 14, 1933) is a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate.
Born in Winterthur, Switzerland, Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier Transform...
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Richard Zare
Richard Neil Zare (born November 19, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American physical chemist. He is Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.
Zare earned his B.A. in 1961 and his Ph.D. in 1964 in physical and analytical chemistry at Harvard...
Alexander Pines
Alexander Pines is the Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and a Faculty Affiliate at QB3-the...
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Rudolph A. Marcus
Rudolph "Rudy" Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) is a Canadian-born chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theory of electron transfer. Marcus theory, named after him, provides a thermodynamic and kinetic framework for...
Peter Schultz
Peter G. Schultz (born June 23, 1956 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is currently a Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute and Director of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF).
Schultz’s work spans the interface of...
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Richard A Lerner
Richard A. Lerner is an American research chemist and entrepreneur. Best known for his work on converting antibodies into enzymes, Lerner is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of The Scripps Research...
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John Pople
Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE, FRS, (October 31, 1925 – March 15, 2004) was a theoretical chemist. Born in Burnham on Sea, Somerset, England, he attended Bristol Grammar School. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1943. He received...
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Gabor A. Somorjai
Gabor A. Somorjai (born May 4, 1935 in Budapest, Hungary) is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry. Somorjai won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 1998 for his...
Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Hassan Zewail (Arabic: أحمد حسن زويل) (born February 26, 1946 in Damanhour, Egypt) is an Egyptian-American scientist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. He is the Linus Pauling Chair Professor...
Raymond U. Lemieux
Raymond Urgel Lemieux, CC, AOE, FRS (June 16, 1920 – July 22, 2000) was a Canadian organic chemist, who pioneered a number of discoveries in the field of chemistry, his first and most famous being the synthesis of sucrose. His contributions include...
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K. Barry Sharpless
Karl Barry Sharpless (born 28 April 1941) is an American chemist known for his work on stereoselective reactions.
Sharpless was born in Philadelphia. He graduated from Friends' Central School in 1959. He continued his studies at Dartmouth College ...
Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori (野依良治, Noyori Ryōji) (born September 3, 1938) is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. Noyori shared half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second...
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Henri Kagan
Henri B. Kagan is currently an Emeritus Professor at the Université Paris-Sud in France. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1930.
He graduated from the Sorbonne and École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris and carried out his PhD under J....
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Harry B. Gray
Harry Barkus Gray (b. 14 November 1935 in Woodburn, Kentucky, U.S.) is an Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. He won the Priestley Medal in 1991 and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2004.
Gray received his B...
Ada Yonath
Ada E. Yonath (born 1939) (Hebrew: עדה יונת, pronounced [ˈada joˈnat]) is an Israeli crystallographer best known for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome. She is the current director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for...
George Feher
George Feher (1924) is an American biophysicist working at the University of California, San Diego.
George Feher was born in Czechoslovakia in 1924. He received his bachelor’s degree, master’s degree and doctorate from UC-Berkeley.
After completing...
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Samuel J. Danishefsky
Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936) is an American chemist working as a professor at both Columbia University and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Samuel J. Danishefsky was born in 1936 in the United States. He completed...
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Gerhard Ertl
Gerhard Ertl (born 10 October 1936) is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. He won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Ertl was born...
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W. E. Moerner
William Esco Moerner (usually known as W.E. Moerner), born 1953, received his B.S. in Physics with Top Honors, B.S. in Electrical Engineering with Top Honors, and his A.B. in Mathematics summa cum laude from Washington University in 1975 followed by...
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Allen J. Bard
Allen J. Bard (December 18, 1933 - ) is the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair Professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Among his awards were the Priestley Medal in 2002 and the 2008 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. He is married to Fran Bard...
