Christian Friedrich Schönbein

male, deceased (1868)
Christian Friedrich Schönbein was a German-Swiss chemist who is most well-known for his discovery of guncotton. In 1838, he discovered the p...
Johann Rudolf Glauber

Johann Rudolf Glauber

male, deceased (1670)
Johann Rudolf Glauber (March 10? 1604- March 16 1670), a German-Dutch alchemist and chemist. Born in Karlstadt am Main, he received no formal...
Geber

Geber

male, deceased (815)
Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan (c. 721-c. 815), known also by his Latinised name Geber, was a prominent Shia Muslim polymath, chemist, alchemist,...

Ignacy Mościcki

male, deceased (1946)
Ignacy Mościcki was a Polish politician and chemist, president of Poland (1926-1939). Ignacy Mościcki was born December 1, 1867, in Mierzanów (a sma...
Peter Woulfe

Peter Woulfe

male, deceased (1803)
Peter Woulfe (1727 - 1803) was an Irish chemist and mineralogist who first had the idea that wolframite might contain a previously undiscovered...

Israel Lipski

male
Israel Lipski (born Lobulsk, 1865-1888) was a convicted murderer of Polish-Jewish descent living in Whitechapel, London. Lipski worked as an...

Charles Stine

male, deceased (1954)
Charles Milton Altland Stine (1882-1954) was a chemist and a vice-president of E.I. Dupont de Nemours who created the laboratory from which nylon...

Henri Bracconet

male
Henri Bracconet is arguably the first inventor of plastics in the world. He was the director of the Botanical gardens in the town of Nancy, France...
Lotus Thompson

Lotus Thompson

female, deceased (1963)
Lotus Thompson (1906-1963) was an Australian actress of silent and sound films. She was born in Sydney, Australia on August 22, 1906. Her film...