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• Atul Kumar, (Born 1963), Indian chemist
• Emil Abderhalden, (1877–1950), Swiss chemist
• Richard Abegg, (1869–1910), German chemist
• Frederick Abel, (1827–1902), English chemist
• Friedrich Accum, (1769–1838),German chemist, advances in the field of gas lighting
• Homer Burton Adkins, (1892–1949), American chemist, known for work in hydrogenation of organic compounds
• Peter Agre, (1949-), American chemist and doctor, 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Georgius Agricola, (1494–1555), German scholar known as "the father of mineralogy"
• Arthur Aikin, (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist
• Adrien Albert, (1907–1989), Australian Medicinal Chemist
• Kurt Alder, (1902–1958), German chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Sidney Altman, (1939-), 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Christian B. Anfinsen, (1916–1995), 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Angelo Angeli, an Italian Chemist
• Anthony Joseph Arduengo, III, an American Chemist
• Johan August Arfwedson, (1792–1841), Swedish chemist
• Anton Eduard van Arkel, (1893–1976), Dutch chemist
• Svante Arrhenius, (1859–1927), Swedish chemist, one of the founders of physical chemistry
• Francis William Aston, (1877–1945), 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Amedeo Avogadro,(1776–1856), Italian chemist and physicist, discovered and Avogadro's law