List of Chemists

Alan MacDiarmid, (1927–2007), 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry, (1904–1993), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
Roderick MacKinnon, (born 1956), 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Pierre Macquer, (1718–1784), influential French chemist
Rudolph A. Marcus, (born 1923), 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jacob A. Marinsky, (1918–2005), American chemist, co-discovered the element promethium
Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, (1817–1894), Swiss chemist, discovered ytterbium and co-discovered gadolinium.
Vladimir Vasilevich Markovnikov, (1838–1904)
Tobin J. Marks, (1944), American inorganic chemist and material scientist
Alan G. Marshall, American chemist, co-inventor of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry
Archer John Porter Martin, (1910–2002), 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Martinus van Marum, (1750–1837), Dutch chemist
Elmer McCollum, (1879–1967), American Biochemist, known for work of diet on health
Edwin McMillan, (1907–1991), 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Lise Meitner, (1878–1968), German physicist
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, (1834–1907), Russian chemist, creator of the Periodic table of elements
John Mercer, (1791–1866), chemist and industrialist
Robert Bruce Merrifield, (1921–2006), solid-phase chemist, 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Julius Lothar Meyer, (1830–1895),German chemist, important work on The periodic table of elements; not to be confused with:
Viktor Meyer, (1848–1897)
August Michaelis (1847–1916), German chemist
Hartmut Michel, (born 1948), 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Stanley Miller (born 1930), American chemist, best known for the Miller-Urey experiment
Luis E. Miramontes (1925–2004), co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill
Peter D. Mitchell, (1920–1992), 1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
William A. Mitchell, (1911–2004), key inventor behind Pop Rocks, Tang, and Kool Whip
Eilhardt Mitscherlich, (1794–1863) German chemist, remembered for the law of isomorphism.
Alexander Mitscherlich, (1836–1918), chemist
Karl Friedrich Mohr, (1806–1879), German chemist famous for first musings on the Conservation of energy
Henri Moissan, (1852–1907), French chemist and the winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Mario J. Molina, (born 1943), 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jacques Monod, (1910–1976), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965
Jeffrey S. Moore (born 1961), American Material Chemist
Peter Moore (born 1939), American biochemist, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University
Stanford Moore, (1913–1982), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887–1915), English physicist, discovered Moseley's law
Gerardus Johannes Mulder, (1802–1880), Dutch organic chemist
Paul Müller, Swiss chemist, (1899–1965), discovered DDT, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1939
Robert S. Mulliken, (1896–1986), American physicist, chemist, 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Kary Mullis, (born 1944), 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Earl Muetterties, (1927–1984) American chemist