







Occupation
CHEMISTS
With 602 biographies, Chemists are the 31st most common occupation in Pantheon, behind Swimmers, Hockey Players, and Astronomers.
People
Pantheon has 601 people classified as chemists born between 1200 BC and 1987. Of these 601, 85 (14.14%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living chemists include Jiří Drahoš, Edith M. Flanigen, and Ching Wan Tang. The most famous deceased chemists include Carl Graebe, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, and Édouard Herzen.
Living Chemists
Go to all RankingsTu Youyou
1930 - Present
HPI: 73.60
Katalin Karikó
1955 - Present
HPI: 70.30
Akira Suzuki
1930 - Present
HPI: 69.79
Gerhard Ertl
1936 - Present
HPI: 69.42
Avram Hershko
1937 - Present
HPI: 69.25
Dan Shechtman
1941 - Present
HPI: 69.12
Jean-Marie Lehn
1939 - Present
HPI: 69.11
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
1944 - Present
HPI: 68.79
Joachim Frank
1940 - Present
HPI: 68.55
Kurt Wüthrich
1938 - Present
HPI: 68.54
Johann Deisenhofer
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.96
Karl Barry Sharpless
1941 - Present
HPI: 67.89
Deceased Chemists
Go to all RankingsAlfred Nobel
1833 - 1896
HPI: 88.50
Louis Pasteur
1822 - 1895
HPI: 88.44
Dmitri Mendeleev
1834 - 1907
HPI: 86.56
Antoine Lavoisier
1743 - 1794
HPI: 85.07
John Dalton
1766 - 1844
HPI: 82.97
Irène Joliot-Curie
1897 - 1956
HPI: 80.85
Robert Boyle
1627 - 1691
HPI: 80.47
Amedeo Avogadro
1776 - 1856
HPI: 80.35
Jabir ibn Hayyan
721 - 815
HPI: 79.87
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
1779 - 1848
HPI: 79.40
Svante Arrhenius
1859 - 1927
HPI: 78.63
Fritz Haber
1868 - 1934
HPI: 78.50
Places
Most chemists were born in United States (124), Germany (111), and United Kingdom (74). By city, the most common birth places were Paris (20), Berlin (17), and London (14).
Places Over Time
The earliest biographies classified as chemists in Pantheon are Jabir ibn Hayyan, Locusta, and Tapputi. The concentration of chemists was largest during the Newspaper Era, which lasted from 1700 to 1899. Some birth or death locations for earlier chemists are unknown, which may account for timeline differences below.
Lifespans
Which Chemists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Chemists since 1700.