The Most Famous
CHEMISTS from South Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest South Korean Chemists. The pantheon dataset contains 602 Chemists, 1 of which were born in South Korea. This makes South Korea the birth place of the 37th most number of Chemists behind New Zealand, and Türkiye.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South Korean Chemists of all time. This list of famous South Korean Chemists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Charles J. Pedersen (1904 - 1989)
With an HPI of 65.87, Charles J. Pedersen is the most famous South Korean Chemist. His biography has been translated into 47 different languages on wikipedia.
Charles John Pedersen (Japanese: 安井 良男, Yasui Yoshio, October 3, 1904 – October 26, 1989) was an American organic chemist best known for discovering crown ethers and describing methods of synthesizing them during his entire 42-year career as a chemist for DuPont at DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware, and at DuPont's Jackson Laboratory in Deepwater, New Jersey. Often associated with Reed McNeil Izatt, Pedersen also shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 with Donald J. Cram and Jean-Marie Lehn. He is the one of three Nobel Prize laureates born in Korea, along with Peace Prize laureate Kim Dae-jung and Literature laureate Han Kang. Pedersen made many other discoveries in chemistry, such as discovering and developing metal deactivators. His early investigations also led to the development of a dramatically improved process for manufacturing tetraethyl lead, an important gasoline additive. He also contributed to the development of neoprene.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as South Korean chemists born between 1904 and 1904. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased South Korean chemists include Charles J. Pedersen.
