Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Organic Chemists, including Dmitri Mendeleev, Chaim Weizmann, Hermann Emil Fischer, Wallace Carothers and Adolf von Baeyer

Famous 19th Century Organic Chemists

Dmitri MendeleevDmitri Mendeleev
08 February 1834, Russian
Inventor of Periodic Table
Chaim WeizmannChaim Weizmann
27 November 1874, British
Former President of Israel

Adolf von BaeyerAdolf von Baeyer
31 October 1835, German
Chemist

Wallace Hume Carothers Wallace Carothers
27 April 1896, American
Inventor of Neoprene & Nylon

Hermann StaudingerHermann Staudinger
23 March 1881, German
Chemist

François Auguste Victor GrignardVictor Grignard
06 May 1871, French
Chemist
Hans Fischer Hans Fischer
27 July 1881, German
Chemist

Heinrich Otto WielandHeinrich Otto Wieland
04 June 1877, German
Father of Biochemistry

Hermann Emil FischerHermann Emil Fischer
09 October 1852, German
Chemist

Norman HaworthNorman Haworth
19 March 1883, British
Chemist
Otto DielsOtto Diels
23 January 1876, German
Chemist

Otto WallachOtto Wallach
27 March 1847, German
Chemist
Georg WittigGeorg Wittig
16 June 1897, German
Organic Chemist

Tadeusz ReichsteinTadeusz Reichstein
20 July 1897, Polish
Chemist

Paul KarrerPaul Karrer
21 April 1889, Swiss
Chemist
Paul SabatierPaul Sabatier
05 November 1854, French
Chemist

Robert Robinson Robert Robinson
13 September 1886, British
Scientist
Aleksandr BorodinAleksandr Borodin
12 November 1833, Russian
Composer, Chemist