Dmitri Mendeleev

Dmitri Mendeleev

male, deceased (1907)
Dmitri Mendeleev (Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev) (in Tobolsk - in Saint Petersburg), was a Russian chemist. He is credited as being the primary...
Albert Ghiorso

Albert Ghiorso

male, 94 years old
Albert Ghiorso (b. 15 July 1915) is an American nuclear scientist who helped discover numerous chemical elements on the periodic table.
Martin Heinrich Klaproth

Martin Heinrich Klaproth

male, deceased (1817)
Martin Heinrich Klaproth was a German chemist. Klaproth was born at Wernigerode. During a large portion of his life he followed the profession of...
William Hyde Wollaston

William Hyde Wollaston

male, deceased (1828)
William Hyde Wollaston FRS (August 6, 1766 - December 22, 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical...
Johan Gadolin

Johan Gadolin

male, deceased (1852)
Johan Gadolin was a Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist. Gadolin discovered the chemical element yttrium. He was also the founder of...
Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran

Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran

male, deceased (1912)
Paul Émile (François) Lecoq de Boisbaudran was a French chemist born in Cognac. In 1858 he joined the family wine-making business, but a year la...
Heinrich Rose

Heinrich Rose

male, deceased (1864)
Heinrich Rose (1795-1864) was a German mineralogist and analytic chemist. He was the brother of the mineralogist Gustav Rose (1798-1873) and a son...
William Prout

William Prout

male, deceased (1850)
William Prout (Horton, Gloucestershire, January 15, 1785 - London, April 9, 1850) was an English chemist, physician and natural theologian. His...
Julius Lothar Meyer

Julius Lothar Meyer

male, deceased (1895)
Julius Lothar Meyer (August 19, 1830 - April 11, 1895) was born in Varel, at that time belonging to the duchy of Oldenburg, now part of Germany. He...

Andrés Manuel del Río

male, deceased (1849)
Andrés Manuel del Río Fernández was a Spanish–Mexican scientist and naturalist who discovered the chemical element vanadium.