1. Otto Wallach (1847)

German Chemist

German organic chemist who was a pioneer in the field of alicyclic compounds. He won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to organic chemistry.

2. Fritz Haber (1868)

German Chemist

He is known as the Father of Chemical Warfare for his work deploying poisonous gases during World War I. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for synthesizing...

3. Felix Hoffmann (1868)

German Chemist

German chemist who discovered the pain-relieving properties of what is now aspirin and heroin.

4. Richard Willstätter (1872)

German Chemist

A German organic chemist who is best known for his study of the structure of plant pigment. He was awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his important research...

5. Otto Hahn (1879)

German Chemist

Pioneer in radioactivity and radiochemistry, who is known as the 'Father of of nuclear chemistry.' He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery of nuclear fission.

6. Alexander Filippou (1958)

German Chemist

Alexander C. Filippou has been a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn since 2005.

7. Hanns-Peter Boehm (1928)

German Chemist

Hanns-Peter Boehm is a German chemist and professor emeritus at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich Germany. Boehm is considered a pioneer of graphene research.

8. Michael Braungart (Unknow)

German Chemist

Michael Braungart is a German chemist who advocates that humans can make a positive instead of a negative environmental impact by redesigning industrial production and therefore that dissipation is not...

9. Helmut Ringsdorf (1929)

German Chemist

Helmut Ringsdorf in Gießen Germany is a German polymer Chemist. His work has promoted cross-disciplinary discussions and collaborations in the field of polymer chemistry biology physics and medicine. Ringsdorf's major...

10. Herbert W. Roesky (1935)

German Chemist

Herbert Roesky is an internationally renowned inorganic chemist.

11. Johann Böhm (1895)

German Chemist

Johann Böhm was a German Bohemian chemist who focused on photochemistry and radiography. The aluminum-containing mineral boehmite was named after him. Böhm studied at the German Polytechnic University in Prague...

12. Heribert Offermanns (1937)

German Chemist

Heribert Offermanns is a German chemist and former member of the board of the Degussa AG.

13. Karl Engler (1842)

German Chemist

Carl Oswald Victor Engler. He was a Professor of Chemistry in Karlsruhe. He wrote a Handbook of Industrial Chemistry in 1872. He is remembered for his early work in Indigo.

14. Helmut Schwarz (1943)

German Chemist

Helmut Schwarz is a highly cited German organic chemist. He has been a professor of chemistry at the Technische Universität Berlin since 1978 and president of the Alexander von Humboldt...

15. Johann Mulzer (1944)

German Chemist

Johann Hermann Wolfgang Mulzer is a German organic chemist best known for his work in total synthesis. Since 1996 he has been a professor of chemistry at the University of...

16. Heino Finkelmann (1945)

German Chemist

Heino Finkelmann is a professor at the University of Freiburg and a highly cited chemist in the area of liquid-crystalline elastomers. One of his famous works is the concept of...

17. Klaus-Dieter Hungenberg (1953)

German Chemist

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Hungenberg Vice President of Polymer Reaction Engineering at BASF SE is a German chemist and a Professor at the University of Paderborn. He is well recognized for...

18. Axel D. Becke (1953)

German Chemist

Axel Dieter Becke is a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Dalhousie University Canada. He is a leading researcher in the application of density functional theory to molecules.

19. Wilhelm Boland (1950)

German Chemist

Boland is a German chemist.

20. Wolfgang Kaim (1951)

German Chemist

gang Kaim is a German chemist who is the chair of coordination chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. He is co-author of the internationally recognized book Bioinorganic Chemistry which was...

21. Stefan Seeger (1962)

German Chemist

Stefan Seeger is a German chemist and professor at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

22. Peter Schwerdtfeger (1955)

German Chemist

Peter Schwerdtfeger currently holds a chair in Theoretical Chemistry at Massey University in Auckland New Zealand serves as Director of the Center of Theoretical Chemistry and Physics member of the...

23. Joachim Maier (1955)

German Chemist

Joachim Maier is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and heads the department of Physical Chemistry. J. Maier studied chemistry in Saarbrücken made his...

24. Ferdi Schüth (1960)

German Chemist

Schüth is a German chemist. He was born 8 July 1960 in Allangen/Warstein. He studied chemistry at the University of Münster from 1978 till 1984 and law from 1983 till...

25. Franz Hein (1892)

German Chemist

z Hein was a German scientist.

26. Thomas M. Klapötke (1961)

German Chemist

Thomas Matthias Klapötke is a German inorganic chemist. Since 1997 he has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Munich. Klapötke currently does research at the University of...

27. Franz-Ulrich Hartl (1957)

German Chemist

z-Ulrich Hartl is a German biochemist and Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. He is known for his pioneering work in the field of protein-mediated protein folding.

28. Philip Kraft (1969)

German Chemist

Philip Kraft is a German fragrance chemist. Since 1996 he has worked at Givaudan the world's leading company in the Flavor and Fragrance Industry where he designs new captive odorants...

29. Frank Neese (1967)

German Chemist

Neese is a German theoretical chemist at the University of Bonn. His research interest includes computation of electronic structures of molecules and he is lead author of the ORCA quantum...

30. Uwe Meierhenrich (1967)

German Chemist

Uwe Meierhenrich is a German Physico-Chemist. He is professor for Analytical and Physical Chemistry and teaches at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France.