French Chemist
1. Marcellin Berthelot (1827)
French Chemist
French chemist who specialized in thermochemistry and is known for his role in developing the Thomsen-Berthelot principle. He successfully disproved the theory of vitalism, the idea that living organisms are...
2. Henri Moissan (1852)
French Chemist
A French chemist whose work isolating the chemical element fluorine led to the invention of the electric furnace. He received the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his important work.
3. Pierre Curie (1859)
French Chemist
Husband of radioactivity pioneer Marie Curie who collaborated with her on her most important research. He and his wife jointly received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research...
4. Claude Louis Berthollet (1748)
French Chemist
Claude Louis Berthollet was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804. He is known for his scientific contributions to theory of chemical equilibria via...
5. Charles-Adolphe Wurtz (1817)
French Chemist
Charles Adolphe Wurtz was an Alsatian French chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds against...
6. Charles Bernard Desormes (1777)
French Chemist
Charles Bernard Desormes was a French physicist and chemist. He determined the ratio of the specific heats of gases in 1819. He did this and almost all his scientific work...
7. Édouard Filhol (1814)
French Chemist
Édouard Filhol full name Jean Pierre Bernard Édouard Filhol was a French scientist. In 1854 Édouard Filhol was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toulouse a position he...
8. Jean Henri Hassenfratz (1755)
French Chemist
Jean Henri Hassenfratz was a French chemist physics professor mine inspector and participant in the French Revolution. In 1794 Hassenfratz took part in the creation of the École Polytechnique. Hassenfratz...
9. Ariel Fenster (1943)
French Chemist
Ariel Fenster is science promoter and lecturer in chemistry at McGill University and a founding member of the Office for Science and Society. He holds a Master's degree from the...
10. Bertrand Goldschmidt (1912)
French Chemist
Bertrand Goldschmidt is a French chemist born in Paris on 2 November 1912 and died 11 June 2002 also in Paris. He is considered one of the fathers of the...
11. Jean Darcet (1724)
French Chemist
Jean d'Arcet or Jean Darcet was a French chemist and director of the porcelain works at Sèvres.
12. Brigitte Boisselier (1956)
French Chemist
Brigitte Boisselier also known as Brigitte Roehr is a French chemist and Raëlian religious leader best known for her claim to have overseen the creation of the first human clone....
13. Louis Jacques Thénard (1777)
French Chemist
Louis Jacques Thénard was a French chemist. His father a poor peasant managed to have him educated at the academy of Sens and sent him at the age of sixteen...
14. Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763)
French Chemist
Nicolas Louis Vauquelin was a French pharmacist and chemist.
15. Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802)
French Chemist
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Dieudonné Boussingault was a French chemist who made significant contributions to agricultural science petroleum science and metallurgy.
16. Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800)
French Chemist
Jean Baptiste André Dumas was a French chemist best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis as well as the determination of atomic weights and molecular weights by...
17. Jean-Marie Lehn (1939)
French Chemist
Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his synthesis of cryptands. Lehn was an...
18. Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778)
French Chemist
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for two laws related to gases and for his work on alcohol-water mixtures which led to the...
19. Guillaume-François Rouelle (1703)
French Chemist
Guillaume François Rouelle was a French chemist and apothecary.
