2006-09-01 03:41:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Ugh. Here are 2 good ones:
William Perkin- Invented the chemical industry.
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/14365;jsessionid=aaa6ZUQzdbpaMo
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393020053?v=glance
Robert Woodward- First physical orgranic synthetic chemist (woo that's long to say)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns_Woodward
2006-09-01 05:24:33 · answer #1 · answered by Iridium190 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Chemistry encompasses seemingly everyday ideas like cooking to nuclear reactions. If you want to do a project on 2 chemists, try looking at those that have discovered something very fundamental.
John Dalton : He's found out lots of nice stuff , like , why we see color! Oh! he was colorblind by the way!
Niels Bohr : He's made great contributions in atomic chemistry and in making a fundamental change in the periodic table to make it how we see it today.
Fredrick Kekule : He was a big celebrity in his day for elucidating the structure of benzene (which he got in a dream if i may add!).
All the best with the project!
2006-09-01 04:30:32 · answer #2 · answered by Scienceguylovesmetal 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My favorites...Antoine Lavoisier, Josiah Gibbs, Amedeo Avogadro, Dmitri Mendeleev and Ludwig Boltzmann. There are lots of interesting chemists.
2006-09-01 04:07:39 · answer #3 · answered by Link 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Linus Pauling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling
Robert Boyle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boyle
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev
2006-09-01 04:01:23 · answer #4 · answered by merdad b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on your interests. chemists do a lot of things and if you search for Nobel prize winners you can find a bunch.
personally i like Marie and Pierre Curie. unlike what others have said they won the Nobel prize in physics in 1903, and she won the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1911. Pierre died in a carriage accident while she died of leukemia
2006-09-01 07:02:29 · answer #5 · answered by shiara_blade 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about Watson and Frick - they discerned the helical structure of DNA and gave us a fundamental understanding of genetics, replication, heredity amongst many other things.
Mendeleyeev gave us the means by whch we classify elements, the Periodic table, which led to a greater understanding of atomic structure.
Marie Curie has to be considered along with her husband, if anyone suffered for their art, they did.
2006-09-01 04:38:17 · answer #6 · answered by eponymouswhitey 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course you can select Lavosier - the one who made the study of chemistry scientific.
The other one you can select is Kekule - the one who made the study of organic chemistry simple and scientific
2006-09-04 08:18:24 · answer #7 · answered by vsgr06 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nobel prize winners in similar fields and both characters in those fields.
1979 - Herbert C. Brown
1976 - William Lipscomb
2006-09-01 08:27:57 · answer #8 · answered by Peter Boiter Woods 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree, Marie and Henri Curie - died for thier work and missed the Nobel Prize by "this much"
2006-09-01 06:55:11 · answer #9 · answered by glazeddonut27 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I suggest "Antoine Lavoisier" and "Amadeus Avogadro"
2006-09-01 04:01:35 · answer #10 · answered by Syaoran 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋