List of Chemists - D

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• John Dalton, (1766–1844), physicist and pioneer of the atomic theory
• Carl Peter Henrik Dam, (1895–1976), Danish biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Vincenzo, Count Dandolo, (1758–1819), Italian Nobleman and Chemist
• Samuel J. Danishefsky, (born 1936), American organic chemist, natural product Total synthesis, 1995/6 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
• Humphry Davy, (1778–1829), British Chemist, discovered several alkaline earth metals
• Raymond Davis, Jr., (1914–2006), American physical chemist
• Peter Debye, (1884–1966), Dutch chemist, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Johann Deisenhofer, (born 1943), 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Francesco DeMaria, (born 1928), Italian-American chemist, working in Chemical engineering
• Sir James Dewar, (1842–1923)
• François Diederich, (born 1952), Luxembourg chemist
• Otto Diels, (1876–1954), German chemist, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Edward Doisy, (1893– 1986), American biochemist, winner of the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Davorin Dolar, (1921–2005), chemist from Univ. of Ljubljana
• David Adriaan van Dorp, (1915–1995), Dutch chemist
• Herbert Henry Dow, (1866–1930), American industrial chemist, known for bromine extraction
• Cornelius Drebbel, (1572–1633), Dutch inventor, alchemist and chemist
• Vratislav Ducháček, (born 1941), Czech chemist
• Carl Duisberg, (1861–1935), German chemist, early administrative industrial chemist
• Jean Baptiste Dumas, (1800–1884), French chemist, work on atomic weights