The Most Famous

Chemists from Netherlands

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This page contains a list of the greatest Dutchs Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 602 Chemists, 6 of which were born in Netherlands. This makes Netherlands the birth place of the 17th most number of Chemists behind India and Italy.

Top 6 Dutch Chemists

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

  1. #1
    Photo of Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

    Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

    1852 - 1911

    HPI 80.8391 langs

    Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff is most famous for his discovery of the law of chemical equilibrium and the concept of chemical affinity.

  2. #2
    Photo of Paul J. Crutzen

    Paul J. Crutzen

    1933 - 2021

    HPI 73.4562 langs

    Paul J. Crutzen is most famous for the discovery of the ozone hole in 1985.

  3. #3
    Photo of Ben Feringa

    Ben Feringa

    b. 1951

    HPI 66.6455 langs

    Dutch Nobel laureate in chemistry

  4. #4
    Photo of C. H. D. Buys Ballot

    C. H. D. Buys Ballot

    1817 - 1890

    HPI 63.5629 langs

    Dutch physicist (*1817 – †1890)

  5. #6
    Photo of Albert Kluyver

    Albert Kluyver

    1888 - 1956

    HPI 56.5517 langs

    Dutch botanist, microbiologist, and biochemist (1888-1956)

Overlapping Lives

Which Chemists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 5 most globally memorable Chemists since 1700.

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