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Name (birth - death; country) [Ph.D. granting school; thesis advisor]
- Adams, Roger (1889-1971; USA) [Harvard; with Torrey, Richards]
- Adkins, Homer (1892-1949; USA) [Ohio State; with Evans]
- Alder, Kurt (1902-1958; Germany) [Kiel; with Diels]
- Arigoni, Duilio (--; Switzerland) [ETH; -]
- Arndt, Fritz (1885-; Germany) [Freiburg; with Howitz]
- Arrhenius, Svanate (1859-1927; ------) [; ]
- Auwers, Karl von (1863-1939; Germany) [Berlin; with Hofmann]
- Avogadro, Amadeo (1776-1856; Italian) [; ]
- Bader, Alfred R. (1924-; Austria/USA) [Harvard; with Fieser]
- Baeyer, Adolph von (1835-1917; Germany) [; ]
- Bamberger, Eugen (1857-1932; Germany) [Berlin; with Liebermann]
- Barbier, P. (-----; France) [ ; ]
- Bartlett, Paul D. (1907-1997; USA) [Harvard; with Conant]
- Barton, Sir Derek H.R. (1918-1998; England) [London; with Heilbron, E.R.H. Jones]
- Beckmann, Ernst (1853-1923; Germany) [Leipzig; with Kolbe]
- Beilstein, Friedrich (1838-1906; Germany) [; ]
- Bergmann, Max (1886-1944; Germany/USA) [Berlin; ]
- Berthelot, Marcellin (1827-1907; France) [; ]
- Berzelius, Jöns Jacob Freiherr von (1779-1848; Sweden) [Stockholm; ]
- Blanc, Gustave (1872-1927; France) [Paris; with Friedel]
- Bloch, Konrad E. (1912-; Germany) [Columbia; with Schoenheimer]
- Blomquist, Alfred T. (1906-; USA) [Illinois; with Marvel]
- Boekelheide, Virgil (1919-; USA) [Minnesota; ]
- Bordwell, Frederick G. (1916-; USA) [Minnesota; with Suter]
- Bouveault, Louis (1864-1909; France) [Paris; with Hanriot]
- Bredt, Julius (1855-1937; Germany) [Strasbourg; with Fittig]
- Breslow, Ronald (1931; USA) [Harvard; with Woodward]
- Brown, Herbert C. (1912-; USA) [Chicago; with Schlesinger]
- Bruice, Thomas C. (1925-; USA) [Southern Calf.; with N. Kharasch]
- Bucherer, Hans Th. (1869-1949; Germany) [Leipzig; with Wislicenus]
- Büchi, George (1921-1998; Germany/USA) [ETH; ]
- Bunsen, Robert W. (1811-1899; Germany) [Marburg; ]
- Burgstahler, Albert W. (1928-; USA) [Harvard; with Stork]
- Butleroff, Alexander M. (1828-1886; Russia) [ ; ]
- Calvin, Melvin (1911-1997; USA) [Minnesota; with Glockler]
- Cannizzaro, Stanislao (1826-1910; Italy) [Pisa; with Piria]
- Cava, Michael P. (1926-; USA) [Harvard; ]
- Chapman, Orville L. (1932-; USA) [Cornell; ]
- Chevreul, Michel Eugène (1786-1889; France) [; ]
- Chichibabin, Alexei E. (1871-1945; Russia) [St. Petersburg; ]
- Chugaev (Tschugaeff), Lev A. (1873-1922; Russia) [St. Petersburg; ]
- Claisen, Ludwig (1851-1930; Germany) [Bonn; with Kekulé]
- Clemmensen, E. Ch. (1876-1941; Denmark) [Copenhagen; ]
- Conant, James B. (1893-1978; USA) [Harvard; with Kohler]
- Condon, Francis E. (1919-; USA) [Harvard; with Bartlett]
- Cope, Arthur C. (1909-1966; USA) [Wisconsin; with McElvain]
- Corey, Elias J. (1928-; USA) [MIT; ]
- Cornforth, John Warcup (1917-; Australia) [Oxford; with Robinson]
- Crafts, James M. (1839-1917; USA) [Harvard; ]
- Cram, Donald J. (1919-; USA) [Harvard; ]
- Crick, Francis H.C. (1916-; England) [Cambridge; ]
- Criegee, Rudolf (1902-; Germany) [Würzburg; with K. Dimroth]
- Curtin, David Y. (1920-; USA) [Illinois; with Price]
- Curtius, Theodor (1857-1928; Germany) [Leipzig; with Kolbe]
- Darzens, Georges (1886-1954; France) [Ecole Polytech. Paris; ]
- Dauben, William G. (1919-1997; USA) [Harvard; with L.F. Fieser]
- Debye, Peter J.W. (1884-1966; Netherlands) [Ludwig Maximilian University; ]
- DePuy, Charles H. (1927-; USA) [Yale; with Doering]
- Dewar, Michael J.S. (1918-; India/USA) [Oxford; with F.E. King]
- Dieckmann, Walter (1869-1925; Germany) [Munich; with Bamberger]
- Diels, Otto (1876-1954; Germany) [Berlin; with E. Fischer]
- Djerassi, Carl (1923-; USA) [Wisconsin; with Wilds]
- Doering, William von E. (1917-; USA) [Harvard; with Linstead]
- Dreiding, André S. (1919-; Switzerland) [Michigan; with Bachmann]
- Dumas, Jean Baptiste André (1800-1884; France) [ ; ]
- Edman, Pehr (1916-; Stockholm) [M.D., Karolinska Inst.; with E. Jorpes]
- Eliel, Ernest L. (1921-; Germany/USA) [Illinois; with Snyder]
- Erlenmeyer Jr., Emil (1864-1921; Germany) [Göttingen; ]
- Erlenmeyer, Emil (1825-1909; Germany) [Giessen; ]
- Eschenmoser, Albert (1925-; Switzerland) [ETH; with Schinz, Ruzicka]
- Favorsky, Alexei J. (1860-1945; Russia) [St. Petersburg; ]
- Fieser, Louis F. (1899-1977; USA) [Harvard; with Conant]
- Fieser, Mary (1909-1997; USA) [ ; with L.F. Fieser]
- Fischer, Emil (1852-1919; Germany) [Strasbourg; with Baeyer]
- Fischer, Franz (1877-1947; Germany) [Giessen; with Elbs]
- Fischer, Hans (1881-1945; Germany) [Marburg; with Zincke]
- Fittig, Rudolph (1835-1910; Germany) [Göttingen; ]
- Folkers, Karl (1906-; USA) [Wisconsin; with Adkins]
- Frankland, Edward (1825-1899; England) [ ; ]
- Friedel, Charles (1832-1899; France) [ ; ]
- Friedländer, Paul (1857-1923; Germany) [assistant to Baeyer in Munich]
- Fries, Karl (1875-; Germany) [Marburg; with Zincke]
- Fukui, Kenichi (1919-1998; Japan) [Kyoto; ]
- Fuson, Reynold C. (1895-1979; USA) [Minnesota; with Hunter]
- Gattermann, Ludwig (1860-1920) [Göttingen; with Hübner]
- Gerhardt, Charles Frédéric (1816-1856; France) [; ]
- Gilman, Henry (1893-; USA) [Harvard; with Kohler]
- Glaser, Carl (1841-1935; Germany) [Tübingen; with Strecher]
- Gmelin, Leopold (1788-1853; Germany) [ ; ]
- Gomberg, Moses (1866-1947; Russia/USA) [Michigan; with Prescott]
- Graebe, Carl (1841-1927; Germany) [Heidelberg; with Bunsen]
- Greene, Frederick D. (1927-; USA) [Harvard; with Bartlett]
- Grignard, Victor (1871-1935; France) [ ; ]
- Grob, Cyril A. (1917-; England) [ETH; with Ruzicka, Reichstein]
- Haller, H.L. (1894-; USA) [Columbia; with Ambler]
- Hammett, Louis P. (1894-1987; USA) [Columbia; with Beans]
- Hammond, George S. (1921-; USA) [Harvard; with Bartlett]
- Hantzsch, Arthur (1857-1935; Hermany) [Würzburg; with R. Schmitt]
- Hauser, Charles R. (1900-; USA) [Iowa; with Coleman]
- Haworth, Robert Downes (1898; England) [Manchester; with Lapworth, Perkin Jr.]
- Haworth, Sir Norman (1883-1950; England) [Göttingen; with Wallach]
- Heck, Richard F. (1931-; USA) [UCLA; ]
- Heilbron, Sir Ian (1886-; Scotland) [Leipzig; with Hantszch]
- Hine, Jack (1923-; USA) [Illinois; with R. Adams]
- Hoesch, Kurt (1882-1932; Germany) [Berlin; with E. Fischer]
- Hofmann, August Wilhelm von (1818-1892; Germany) [ ; ]
- Hoffmann, Roald (1937-; USA) [harvard; ]
- House, Herbet O. (1929-; USA) [Illinois; with Fuson]
- Hückel, Erich (1896-; Germany) [Göttingen; with Debye]
- Huisgen, Rolf (1920-; Germany) [Munich; ]
- Hunsdiecker, Cläre (1903-; Germany) [Cologne; with Wintgen]
- Hunsdiecker, Heinz (1904-; Germany) [Cologne; with Wintgen]
- Ingold, Sir Christopher K. (1893-1970; England) [London; with Thorpe]
- Inhoffen, Hans Herloff (1906-; Germany) [Göttingen; with Windhaus]
- Ipatieff, Vladimir N. (1867-1952; Russia) [ ; ]
- Jacobsen, Oskar (1840-1889; Germany) [Kiel; ]
- Johnson, William S. (1913-; USA) [Harvard; with Fieser]
- Jones, Ewart Ray Herbert (1911-; England) [U. Wales; with Simonsen]
- Karrer, Paul (1889-; Russia/Germany) [Zurich; with Werner]
- Kekulé, August (1829-1896; Germany) [ ; ]
- Kharasch, Morris S. (1895-1957; Ukraine/USA) [Chicago; with Piccard]
- Khorana, H.G. (1922-; India/USA) [Liverpool; ]
- Kiliani, Heinrich (1855-1945; Germany) [Munich; with Erlenmeyer]
- Kishner, N.M. (1867-1935; Russia) [Moscow; with Markovnikov]
- Kjeldahl, Johan (1849-1900; Denmark) [ ; ]
- Knoevenagel, Emil (1865-1921; Germany) [Göttingen; ]
- Knorr, Ludwig (1859-1921; Germany) [Erlangen; ]
- Kohler, Elmer Peter (1865-1938; USA) [Johns Hopkins; with Remsen]
- Kolbe, Herman (1818-1884; Germany) [Göttingen; ]
- Krebs, Hans Adolf (1900-; Germany) [Hamburg; ]
- Kuhn, Richard (1900-; Austria) [Munich; with Willstätter]
- Kupchan, Morris (------; USA) [ ; ]
- Langmuir, Irving (1881-1957; ----) [G&246;ttingen; ]
- Lapworth, Arthur (1872-1941; Scotland) [Birmingham; ]
- Laurent, Auguste (1807-1953; France) [ ; ]
- Lavoisier, Antoine (1743-1794; France) [; ]
- Lawesson, Sven-Olov (1926-1985; Sweden) [Uppsala; with Fredga]
- Le Bel, Joseph Achille (1847-1930; France) [ ; ]
- Lemieux, Raymond U. (1920-; Canada) [McGill; with Purves]
- Leonard, Nelson J. (1916-; USA) [Columbia; with Elderfield]
- Lewis, Gilbert N. (1875-1946; USA) [Harvard; with Richards]
- Liebig, Justus von (1803-1873; Germany) [; ]
- Major, Randolph T. (1901-1976; USA) [Princeton; with L.W. Jones]
- Mannich Carl (1877-1947; Gemany) [Basel; with Thoms]
- Manske, Richard H.F. (1901-; England) [Manchester; with Robinson, Lapworth]
- March, Jerry (1929-1997; USA) [Penn. St.; ]
- Markovnikov (Markownikoff), Vladimir W. (1838-1904; Russia) [; ]
- Martin, Arthur John Porter (1910-; USA) [ ; ]
- Marvel, Carl S. (1894-1988; USA) [Illinois; ]
- Meerwein, Hans (1879-; Germany) [Bonn; with Schroeter]
- Meinwald, Jerrold (1927-; USA) [Harvard; with Woodward]
- Meisenheimer, Jacob (1876-1934; Germany) [Munich; ]
- Merrifield, R. Bruce (1921-; USA) [UCLA; ]
- Meyer, Kurt Hans (1883-1952; Germany) [Leipzig; ]
- Meyer, Karl (1899-; Germany) [Berlin; ]
- Meyer, Victor (1848-1897; Germany) [ ; ]
- Michael, Arthur (1853-1942; USA) [ ; ]
- Michaelis, Leonor (1875-1949; Germany) [M.D., Berlin; ]
- Mitscherlich, Eilhard A. (1794-1863; Germany) [ ; ]
- Moore, Richard E. (1933-; USA) [Berkeley; ]
- Mosher, Harry S. (1915-; USA) [Penn State; with Whitmore]
- Nef, John Ulric (1862-1915; Switzerland) [Munich; with Könings]
- Nenitzescu, Costin D. (1902-; Romania) [Tech. Hochsch Munich; with Hans Fischer]
- Newman, Melvin S. (1908-; USA) [Yale; with R.J. Anderson]
- Norris, James F. (1871-1940; USA) [Johns Hopkins; ]
- Noyes, William Albert (1857-1941; USA) [Johns Hopkins; with Remsen]
- Nozoe, Tetsuo (1902-; Japan) [Osaka Imperial Univ.; ]
- Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895; France) [ ; ]
- Pauling, Linus (1901-1994; USA) [Cal Tech; with R. Dickinson]
- Pauson, Peter L. (----; Germany) [Sheffield; with R.D. Haworth]
- Pelletier, S. William (1924-; USA) [Cornell; with J.R. Johnson]
- Perkin Jr., William Henry (1860-1929; England) [Würzburg; with Wislicenus]
- Perkin, Sir William Henry (1838-1907; England) [ ; ]
- Pettit, G. Robert (1929-; USA) [Wayne State; ]
- Pitzer, Keneth S. (1914-; USA) [Berkeley; ]
- Pope, Sir William J. (1870-1939; England) [ ; ]
- Pregl, Fritz (1869-1930; Austria) [Graz; ]
- Prelog, Vladimir (1906-1998; Yugoslavia/Switzerland) [Prague; with Votocek]
- Prévost, Pierre (1751-1839; -----) [ ; ]
- Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804; England) [; ]
- Pschorr, Robert (1868-1930; Germany) [Jena;
- Pummerer, Rudolf (1882-; Austria) [Munich; with Dimroth]
- Reformatsky, Sergius (1860-1934; Russia) [ ; ]
- Reimer, Carl (1856-1921; Germany) [Berlin; ]
- Remsen, Ira (1846-1927; USA) [Göttingen; ]
- Reppe, Walter (1892-; Germany) [Munich; with K.H. Meyer]
- Ritter, John J. (1895-; USA) [Columbia; with Bogert]
- Roberts, John D. (1918-; USA) [UCLA; with W.G. Young]
- Robinson, Sir Robert (1886-1975; England) [Manchester; with Perkin]
- Rosenmund, Karl W. (1884-; Germany) [Berlin; with Diels]
- Ruff, Otto (1871-1939; Germany) [Berlin; Piloty]
- Russell, Glen A. (1926-1998; USA) [Purdue; ]
- Ruzicka, Leopold (1887-; Yugoslavia/Switzerland) [Karlsruhe; with Staudinger]
- Sabatier, Paul (1854-1941; France) [Paris; ]
- Sandmeyer, Traugott (1854-1922; Switzerland) [assistant; to V. Meyer, Hantzsch]
- Sanger, Frederick (1918-; Engalnd) [Cambridge; ]
- Sarett, Lewis H. (1917-; USA) [Princeton; with Wallis]
- Saunders, Martin (1931-; USA) [Harvard; with Woodward]
- Saytzeff, Alexander M. (1841-1910; Russia/France) [studied at Marburg; ]
- Scheele, Carl Wilhelm (1742-1786; Sweden) [apothecary in Stockholm; ]
- Scheuer, Paul J. (1915-; USA) [Harvard; ]
- Schlenk Jr., Wilhelm (1907-; Germany) [Techn Hochsch Berlin; with Pschorr]
- Schlenk, Wilhelm (1879-1943; Germany) [Munich; ]
- Schlesinger, Hermann I. (1882-1960; USA) [Chicago; ]
- Schmidt, Karl Friedrich (1887-; Germany) [Heidelberg; ]
- Schmitt, Rudolf (1830-1898; Germany) [Marburg; ]
- Schotten, Carl (1853-1910; Germany) [Berlin; with Hofmann]
- Seebach, Dieter (---; Germany) [--;--]
- Sertürner, Friedrich W. (1783-1841; Germany) [apothecary in Hameln; ]
- Sharpless, K. Barry (1941; USA) [Stanford; ]
- Sheehan, John C. (1915-; USA) [Michigan; with Bachmann]
- Shine, Henry J. (1923-; England) [London; ]
- Shriner, Ralph L. (1899-; USA) [Illinois; with R. Adams]
- Simmons , Howard E. (1929-; USA) [MIT; with J.D. Roberts, A.C. Cope]
- Smith, Ronald D. (1930-; USA) [MIT; with Cope]
- Sondheimer, Franz (1926-; Germany) [London; with Heilbron]
- Staudinger, Hermann (1881-1965; Germany) [Halle; with Vorländer]
- Stork, Gilbert (1921-; Belgium/USA) [Wisconsin; with McElvain]
- Strecker, Adolph (1822-1871; Germany) [Tübingen; assistant to Liebig]
- Swern, Daniel (1916-; USA) [Maryland; with J.T. Scanlon]
- Synge, Richard L.M. (1914-; England) [Cambridge; with Pirie]
- Szent-Györgyi, Albert (1893-; Hungary/USA) [Cambridge; with Schlesinger]
- Taft, Robert W. (1922-; USA) [Ohio State; with Newman]
- Taube, Henry (1915-; Canada/USA) [UC Berkeley; ]
- Thiele, Johannes (1848-1937; Germany) [Halle; ]
- Thorpe, Jocelyn Field (1872-1940; England) [Heidelberg; with von Auwers]
- Tiemann, Ferdinand (1848-1899; Germany) [ ; ]
- Tiffeneau, Marc (1873-1945; France) [Sorbonne; ]
- Tishler, Max (1908-1989; USA) [Harvard; with Kohler]
- Tollens, Bernhard (1841-1918; Germany) [Göttingen; ]
- Triebs, Alfred (1899-; Germany) [Tech. Hochsch. Munich; with Hans Fischer]
- Tropsch, Hans (1889-1935; Czech Republic) [Prague; ]
- Ullmann, Fritz (1865-1939; Germany) [Lausanne; ]
- Van Tamelen, Eugene E. (1925-; USA) [Harvard; with Stork]
- van't Hoff, Jacobus Hendricus (1852-1911; Netherlands) [Utrecht; ]
- von Braun, Julius (1875-1939; Poland) [Göttingen; with Wallach]
- von Pechmann, Hans Frh. (1850-1902; Germany) [Greiswald; ]
- Vorländer, Daniel (1867-1941; Germany) [Halle; with Tiemann]
- Wagner, G. (1849-1903; Russia) [Kazan; with Butleroff, Markovnikov]
- Walborsky, Harry M. (1923-; Poland/USA) [Ohio State; with Newman]
- Wallach, Otto (1847-1931; Germany) [Göttingen; ]
- Walling, Cheves (1916-; USA) [Chicago; with Kharasch]
- Wallis, Everett S. (1899-1961; USA) [Princeton; with L.W. Jones]
- Wasserman, Harry H. (1920-; USA) [Harvard; with Woodward]
- Watson, James Dewey (1928-; USA) [Indiana; with Luria]
- Weizmann, Chaim (1874-1952; Russia/Israel) [Berlin/Freiburg; with Bistrzycki]
- Westheimer, Frank H. (1912-; USA) [Harvard; with Conant]
- Whiting, Mark C. (1925-; England) [London; with E.R.H. Jones]
- Whitmore, Frank C. (1887-1947; USA) [Harvard; with E.L. Jackson]
- Wiberg, Kenneth B. (1927-; USA) [Columbia; with Doering]
- Wieland, Heinrich (1877-1957; Germany) [Munich; with Thiele]
- Wilkinson, Geoffrey (1921-1997; England) [Imperial College; ]
- Willgerodt, Conrad (1841-1930; Germany) [Freiburg; ]
- Williamson, Alexander W. (1824-1904; England) [Giessen; with Liebig]
- Willstätter, Richard (1872-1942; Germany) [Munich; with Einhorn]
- Windhaus, Alfred (----; Germany) [Goettingen; with ].
- Winstein, Saul (1912-1969; Canada/USA) [Cal. Tech.; with Lucas]
- Wislicenus, Johannes (1835-1902; Germany) [Zurich; ]
- Wittig, Georg F.K. (1897-1987; Germany) [Marburg; with von Auwers]
- Wohl, Alfred (1863-1933; Germany) [Berlin; with Hofmann]
- Wöhler, Friedrich (1800-1882; Germany) [; ]
- Wolff, Ludwig (1857-1919; Germany) [Strasbourg; with Fittig]
- Woodward, Robert Burns (1917-1979; USA) [MIT; ]
- Wurtz, Adolphe (1817-1884; France) [ ; ]
- Zelinsky, Nikolai D. (1861-1953; Russia) [Odessa; ]
- Ziegler, Karl (1898-1973; Germany) [Marburg; with von Auwers]
- Zincke, Theodor (1843-1928; Germany) [Göttingen; ]
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