List of Jewish American chemists
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This is a list of famous Jewish American chemists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Christian B. AnfinsenChristian B. AnfinsenChristian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. was an American biochemist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation...
, biochemist, Nobel PrizeNobel Prize in ChemistryThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
(1972) (converted) - Sidney AltmanSidney AltmanSidney Altman is a Canadian American molecular biologist, who is currently the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R...
, chemist, Nobel Prize (1989) - Allen J. BardAllen J. BardAllen Joseph Bard is an American chemist. He is the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair Professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Among his awards were the Priestley Medal in 2002 and the 2008 Wolf Prize in Chemistry...
, electrochemist, inventor of scanning electrochemical microscope, Wolf Prize (2008) - Paul BergPaul BergPaul Berg is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recognized their contributions to basic research involving nucleic acids...
, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1980) - Erwin ChargaffErwin ChargaffErwin Chargaff was an American biochemist who emigrated to the United States during the Nazi era. Through careful experimentation, Chargaff discovered two rules that helped lead to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA...
, DNA pioneer - Morris CohenMorris Cohen (scientist)Morris Cohen .Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States, Cohen spent his entire career affiliated with MIT. He graduated from his undergraduate degree in 1933, receiving his doctorate three years later, and was appointed assistant professor of metallurgy in 1937...
, metallurgist - Walter GilbertWalter GilbertWalter Gilbert is an American physicist, biochemist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Gilbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 21, 1932...
, DNA sequencing, Nobel Prize (1980) - Henry GilmanHenry GilmanHenry Gilman was an American organic chemist known as the father of organometallic chemistry, the field within which his most notable work was done. He discovered the Gilman reagent, which bears his name....
, organometallic chemist - Moses GombergMoses GombergMoses Gomberg was a chemistry professor at the University of Michigan....
, free radicals - Norman HackermanNorman HackermanNorman Hackerman was an American chemist, internationally known as an expert in metal corrosion, and a former president of both the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University ....
, chemist, http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_jews.html - Herbert A. HauptmanHerbert A. HauptmanHerbert Aaron Hauptman was an American mathematician and Nobel laureate. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that has changed the whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crystallized materials...
, chemist, Nobel Prize (1985) - Roald HoffmannRoald HoffmannRoald Hoffmann is an American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.-Escape from the Holocaust:...
(1937–) chemist & writer, Nobel Prize winner (1981) - Martin KamenMartin KamenMartin David Kamen , a physicist inside the Manhattan project. Together with Sam Ruben, he co-discovered the isotope carbon-14 on February 27, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley....
, Carbon 14 - Martin KarplusMartin KarplusMartin Karplus is an Austrian-born American theoretical chemist. He has been Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University since 1979...
, theoretical chemist - Phoebus LevenePhoebus LevenePhoebus Aaron Theodore Levene, M.D. was a Russian-American biochemist who studied the structure and function of nucleic acids...
, nucleic acid pioneer - Bruce H. LipshutzBruce H. LipshutzBruce H. Lipshutz is an American chemist. He is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.-Biography:Bruce Lipshutz received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from SUNY Binghamton in 1973. He did his graduate work under the supervision of Professor Harry H. Wasserman at Yale...
, organometallic chemist - Jacob A. MarinskyJacob A. MarinskyJacob Akiba Marinsky was a chemist who was the co-discoverer of the element promethium.Marinsky was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended the University at Buffalo, entering at age 16 and receiving a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1939.During World War II he was employed as a chemist for the...
, discovered promethium - Martin PopeMartin PopeMartin Pope is a physical chemist and professor emeritus at New York University.His discoveries of ohmic contacts and research in the fields of organic insulators and semiconductors led to techniques enabling organic semiconductors to carry relatively large currents, and to convert electricity...
, physical chemist, Davy MedalDavy MedalThe Davy Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for an outstandingly important recent discovery in any branch of chemistry". Named after Humphry Davy, the medal is awarded with a gift of £1000. The medal was first awarded in 1877 to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff "for...
(2006) - Gabor A. SomorjaiGabor A. SomorjaiGabor A. Somorjai is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is a leading researcher in the field of surface chemistry and catalysis...
, physical chemist, Wolf Prize (1998) - William SteinWilliam Howard Stein-External links:* Stein's * Stein's Nobel Lecture...
, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972) - Richard ZareRichard ZareRichard Neil Zare is an American physical chemist. He is Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University.-Education:Zare earned his B.A. in 1961 and his Ph.D...
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