List of Chemists - F

F

• Kazimierz Fajans, (1887–1975), Polish-American physical chemist
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867), chemist and physicist, discovered Benzene
• Hermann von Fehling, (1812–1885), German chemist
• John Bennett Fenn, (born 1917), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Enrico Fermi, (born 1901), Nuclear Chemist and Elementary Particle Physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
• Hermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919), 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, (actual name Hermann Emil Fischer, see below) not to be confused with:
• Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947), German chemist, co-discovered the Fischer-Tropsch process
• Ernst Gottfried Fischer (1754–1831), German chemist
• Ernst Otto Fischer (1918–2007), German chemist, 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
• Hans Fischer (1881–1945), German organic chemist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner
• Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy,(1775–1809), co-discovered the element Iridium and developed modern chemical notation
• Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
• Paul Flory, (1910–1985), 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Edward Frankland,(1825–1899), English chemist, originated the concept of valence
• Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), British Chemist and Crystallographer
• Herman Frasch, (1851–1914), German mining engineer and inventor, pioneered the Frasch process
• Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818–1897), German chemist
• Charles Friedel, (1832–1899), French chemist, developer of Friedel-Crafts reaction
• Alexander Naumovich Frumkin (1895–1976), electrochemist and chemist
• Kenichi Fukui, (1918–1998), 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry