Find out more about the greatest 18th Century Chemists, including Michael Faraday, Antoine Lavoisier, Hans Christian Ørsted, Humphry Davy and Joseph Priestley.
Michael Faraday22 September 1791, British
Physicist & Chemist
Antoine Lavoisier26 August 1743, French
Chemist
Humphry Davy17 December 1778, British
Inventor of Davy Lamp
Joseph Priestley24 March 1733, British
Discoverer of Oxygen
Amedeo Avogadro09 August 1776, Italian
Chemist and Physicist
Henry Cavendish10 October 1731, British
Chemist
Hans Christian Ørsted14 August 1777, Danish
Physicist
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac06 December 1778, French
Chemist and Physicist
William Christopher Zeise15 October 1789, Danish
Organic Chemist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius20 August 1779, Swedish
Chemist, Non-fiction writer, University teacher
Carl Wilhelm Scheele09 December 1742, German, Swedish
chemist, pharmacist
Joseph von Fraunhofer06 March 1787, German
Physicist, Astronomer, Chemist
Jacques Charles12 November 1746, French
Physicist, Chemist, Inventor, Balloonist,
Joseph Black16 April 1728, French, British, Scottish
Chemist, Physicist, Scientist, University teacher
Daniel Rutherford03 November 1749, Scottish
botanist, chemist
Joseph Proust26 September 1754, French
Chemist
William Hyde Wollaston06 August 1766, British
Chemist, Physicist, Engineer, Metallurgist
Michel Eugène Chevreul31 August 1786, French
Chemist
Charles Macintosh29 December 1766
Chemist, Inventor
William Cullen15 April 1710, British, Scottish
Physician, Chemist, Farmer, Academic, University
Martin Heinrich Klaproth01 December 1743, German
Chemist, Pharmacist, University teacher