The Most Famous

Chemists from China

This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 602 Chemists, 3 of which were born in China. This makes China the birth place of the 24th most number of Chemists behind Norway and Latvia.

Top 3 Chemists

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Chemists of all time. This list of famous Chinese Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

#1
Tu Youyou
b. 1930
HPI 74.8885 langs
Tu youyou was most famous for discovering artemisinin, a drug that has been used to cure malaria.
#2
Ei-ichi Negishi
1935 - 2021
HPI 71.2863 langs
#3
Edmond H. Fischer
1920 - 2021
HPI 71.1949 langs

Top 3 Chemists

Tu Youyou

Ei-ichi Negishi

Edmond H. Fischer