Famous Chemists Birthday, Biography & Family

Yves Chauvin

Yves Chauvin was born on 10 October 1930. He was Belgian national and known as French chemist.

Born: 10 October 1930 Belgian

Michael Faraday

Physicist & Chemist

Michael Faraday was the most celebrated British scientist of the 19th century. Know more about his childhood and life with this biography.

Born: 22 September 1791 British

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin was a famous English chemist and pioneer x-ray crystallographer who unravelled the structure of DNA and RNA. To know more about her childhood, profile, timeline and career read on

Born: 25 July 1920 British

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford was one of the greatest physicists, often regarded as the father of nuclear physics. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, family life, achievements and other facts related to his life.

Born: 30 August 1871 British

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle was one of the founders of modern chemistry. He was a natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor. This biography profiles his childhood, life, works, achievements and timeline.

Born: 25 January 1627 British

Henry Cavendish

Henry Cavendish was a theoretical chemist and physicist, renowned for discovery of hydrogen and calculation of the mass of earth. To know more about his childhood, profile, timeline and career read on

Born: 10 October 1731 British

Frederick Sanger

Fredrick Sanger was a two time Nobel Prize winning biochemist, who discovered the ‘Sanger method’ for sequencing DNA. Read on to know more about his childhood, career, profile and timeline

Born: 13 August 1918 British

Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a Nobel Prize winning British biochemist, well-known for her work on the structure of penicillin, insulin and vitamin B12. Check out this biography to know about her childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.

Born: 12 May 1910 British

William Ramsay

William Ramsay was a Nobel Prize winning chemist who discovered the ‘noble gases’. To know more about his childhood, profile, timeline and career read on

Born: 02 October 1852 British

Aaron Klug

Chemist & Biophysicist

Aaron Klug, a chemist and biophysicist, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Read this biography to know more about the life and works.

Born: 11 August 1926 British