This is a list of famous Jewish American chemists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
- Christian B. Anfinsen, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972) (converted)
- Sidney Altman, chemist, Nobel Prize (1989)
- Allen J. Bard, electrochemist, inventor of scanning electrochemical microscope, Wolf Prize (2008)
- Paul Berg, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1980)
- Erwin Chargaff, DNA pioneer
- Morris Cohen, metallurgist
- Walter Gilbert, DNA sequencing, Nobel Prize (1980)
- Henry Gilman, organometallic chemist
- Moses Gomberg, free radicals
- Norman Hackerman, chemist,
- Herbert A. Hauptman, chemist, Nobel Prize (1985)
- Roald Hoffmann (1937–) chemist & writer, Nobel Prize winner (1981)
- Martin Kamen, Carbon 14
- Martin Karplus, theoretical chemist
- Phoebus Levene, nucleic acid pioneer
- Bruce H. Lipshutz, organometallic chemist
- Jacob A. Marinsky, discovered promethium
- Martin Pope, physical chemist, Davy Medal (2006)
- Gabor A. Somorjai, physical chemist, Wolf Prize (1998)
- William Stein, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972)
- Richard Zare, chemist
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