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This is a list of notable Jewish American chemists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

Roald Hoffmann
  • Bruce Alberts (born 1938), biochemist known for work on DNA replication
  • Sidney Altman (1939–2022), chemist, Nobel Prize (1989)[1]
  • Christian B. Anfinsen (1916–1995), biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972) (convert to Judaism)[2]
  • Julius Axelrod (1912–2004), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1970)
  • David Baltimore (born 1938), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975)
  • Allen J. Bard (1933–2024), electrochemist, inventor of scanning electrochemical microscope, Wolf Prize (2008)[3]
  • Paul Berg (1926–2023), biochemist, Nobel Prize (1980)[4]
  • Konrad Bloch (1912–2000), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1964)
  • Ronald Breslow (1931–2017), chemist known for work on chemical mechanisms
  • Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1961)
  • Carl Djerassi (1923–2015), pharmaceutical chemist known for development of oral contraceptive pills
  • Murray Eden (1920–2020), physical chemist
  • Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1988)
  • Walter Gilbert (born 1932), biochemist, developed a method for DNA sequencing, Nobel Prize (1980)[4]
  • Herbert A. Hauptman (1917–2011), chemist, Nobel Prize (1985)[5]
  • Roald Hoffmann (born 1937), chemist and writer, Nobel Prize winner (1981)[6]
  • Martin Kamen (1913–2002), chemist who introduced 14C as a tracer for biochemical reactions[7]
  • Martin Karplus (born 1930), theoretical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013)
  • Arthur Kornberg (1918–2007), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1959)
  • Daniel Koshland (1920–2007), biochemist known for induced fit
  • Fritz Lipmann (1899–1986) biochemist whose research on coenzyme A led to a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1953)
  • Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born 1923) chemist, theory of electron-transfer reactions, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1992)
  • Jacob A. Marinsky (1918–2005), chemist who co-discovered promethium[8]
  • Matthew Meselson (born 1930) geneticist and molecular biologist, discovered semi-conservative DNA replication
  • George Olah (1927–2017) chemist, research on carbocations, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1994)
  • Alexander Pines (born 1945), physical chemist, expert in solid-state NMR, Wolf Prize (1991)[9]
  • Martin Pope (1918–2022), physical chemist, Davy Medal (2006)[10]
  • Stanley B. Prusiner (born 1942) neurologist and biochemist, discovered prions, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1997)
  • Efraim Racker (1913–1991), biochemist known for identifying and purifying Factor 1
  • Michael Rossmann (1930–2019), structural biologist who discovered the Rossmann fold protein motif.
  • William Stein (1911–1980), biochemist who worked on the ribonuclease sequence and catalytic activity, Nobel Prize (1972)[11]
  • Gilbert Stork (1921–2017), organic chemist, known for making contributions to the total synthesis of natural products
  • Howard Martin Temin (1934–1994), geneticist and virologist who discovered reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975)
  • Ronald Vale (born 1959), biochemist and cell biologist, research on kinesin and dynein
  • Frank Westheimer (1912–2007), chemist known for pioneering work in physical organic chemistry
  • Richard Zare (born 1939), chemist known for the development of laser-induced fluorescence

References

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  1. ^ James, Laylin K., ed. (1994). Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, 1901–1992. American Chemical Society and Chemical Heritage Foundation. p. 737. ISBN 0-8412-2459-5. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
  2. ^ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972 (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences). Nobelprize.org. Retrieved on 2012-03-08.
  3. ^ "For Creating New Field of Science, Texas Chemist Wins International Prize", January 23, 2008 Archived December 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved July 7, 2008.
  4. ^ a b "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980". Nobel Prize.
  5. ^ Dr. Herbert Hauptman, Nobel Prize winner, is dead at 94
  6. ^ "Roald Hoffmann :: Chemist, writer, and". Archived from the original on 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2007-10-31. "Roald Hoffmann was born in a Polish Jewish family in Zloczow, Poland"
  7. ^ Arnold, James (May 2003). "Obituary: Martin David Kamen". Physics Today. 56 (5): 74–75. Bibcode:2003PhT....56e..74A. doi:10.1063/1.1583542.
  8. ^ "Jacob Marinsky, 87, Dies; Isolated Promethium Ions". New York Times.
  9. ^ "THE 1991 WOLF FOUNDATION PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY". Wolf Foundation.
  10. ^ "Davy Medal To Martin Pope". Chemical and Engineering News.
  11. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972". Nobel Prize.
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