The Most Famous
Chemists from Netherlands
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
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
1852 - 1911
HPI 80.8391 langsJacobus Henricus van 't Hoff is most famous for his discovery of the law of chemical equilibrium and the concept of chemical affinity.
- #2
Paul J. Crutzen
1933 - 2021
HPI 73.4562 langsPaul J. Crutzen is most famous for the discovery of the ozone hole in 1985.
- #3
Ben Feringa
b. 1951
HPI 66.6455 langsDutch Nobel laureate in chemistry
- #4
C. H. D. Buys Ballot
1817 - 1890
HPI 63.5629 langsDutch physicist (*1817 – †1890)
- #5
Coenraad Johannes van Houten
1801 - 1887
HPI 59.6717 langsDutch businessman (1801-1887)
- #6
Albert Kluyver
1888 - 1956
HPI 56.5517 langsDutch 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.
