List of Chemists

Stephen Moulton Babcock, (1843–1931), worked on the "single-grain experiment"
Werner Emmanuel Bachmann, (1901–1951), American chemist, known for work in steroids and RDX
Leo Baekeland, (1863–1944), Belgian-American chemist
Adolf von Baeyer, (1835–1917), German chemist, 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, synthesis of indigo
Piero Baglioni, Italian Chemist
Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, (1854–1907), Dutch chemist
Allen J. Bard, (born 1933), 2008 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Neil Bartlett, (1932–2008), English/Canadian/American chemist
Sir Derek Barton, (1918–1998), 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Fred Basolo, (1920–2007), American inorganic chemist
Antoine Baum, (1728–1804), French chemist
Karl Bayer, (1847–1904), Austrian chemist
Johann Joachim Becher, (1635–1682), Developed the phlogiston theory of combustion
Friedrich Konrad Beilstein, (1838–1906), German-Russian chemist, created Beilstein database
Joseph Achille Le Bel, (1847–1930), French chemist, early work in sterochemistry
Irina Beletskaya, (born 1933), Russian organometallic chemist
Francesco Bellini (1947– ), research scientist, doctor in organic chemistry
Paul Berg, (born 1926), 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Friedrich Bergius, (1884–1949), 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Marcellin Berthelot, (1827–1907), French chemist, important work in thermochemistry
Claude Louis Berthollet, (1748–1822), French chemist
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, American Chemist, UC Berkeley
Jöns Jakob Berzelius, (1779–1848), Swedish chemist, coined the term "polymer" in 1833
Johannes Martin Bijvoet, (1892–1980), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
Joseph Black, (1728–1799), chemist
Dale L. Boger, (born 1953), American organic and medicinal chemist
Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, (1838–1912), French chemist
Jan Boldingh, (1915–2003), Dutch chemist
Alexander Borodin, (1833–1887), Russian chemist & composer
Hans-Joachim Born, German radiochemist
Carl Bosch, (1872–1940), German chemist
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, (1802–1887), French chemist, agricultural chemistry
Paul D. Boyer, (born 1918), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Robert Boyer, Employee of Henry Ford focus on soybean use.
Robert Boyle, (1627–1691), English pioneer of modern chemistry
Henri Braconnot, (1780–1855), French chemist and pharmacist
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, (1879–1947), Danish chemist
Herbert C. Brown, (1912–2004), 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Eduard Buchner, (1860–1917), 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist, discovered the elements caesium and rubidium with Gustav Kirchhoff and invented the Bunsen burner
William Merriam Burton, (1865–1954), American chemist, developed the first thermal cracking process for crude oil
Adolf Butenandt, (1903–1995), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Aleksandr Butlerov, (1828–1886), Russian chemist, discovered the formose reaction