List of Chemists - R

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• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, (born 1952), 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• William Ramsay, (1852–1916), Scottish chemist, 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• François-Marie Raoult, (1830–1901), French chemist, known for Raoult's law
• Henry Rapoport, American chemist, UC Berkeley
• William Sage Rapson, South African Chemist and co-author of Gold Usage
• Ken Raymond, American Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemist, UC Berkeley
• Julius Rebek, (1944), Hungarian_American chemist.
• Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French chemist and physicist
• Tadeus Reichstein, (1897–1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Rhazes (Razi), Iranian Chemist .(865–925)
• Stuart A. Rice, (born 1932), physical chemist
• Theodore William Richards, (1868–1928), 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Wim Richter, South Africa
• Ellen Swallow Richards, (1842–1911), industrial and environmental chemist.
• Jeremias Benjamin Richter, (1762–1807), German chemist, first used the term stoichiometry
• Nikolaus Riehl, Germany (1901–1990)
• Andrés Manuel del Río, (1764–1849), Spanish-Mexican geochemist, discovered vanadium
• Robert Robinson (1886–1975), 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Pierre Jean Robiquet (1780–1840), French chemist, discovered caffeine, alizarin, cantharidin
• Hillar Rootare (1928) Estonian-American Physical Chemist
• Irwin Rose, (born 1926), 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Guillaume-François Rouelle, (1703–1770), French chemist
• H. M. Rouell, (1718–1779), French chemist
• Frank Sherwood Rowland, (born 1927), 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Daniel Rutherford, (1749–1819), Scottish chemist
• Ernest Rutherford, (1871–1937), New Zealand born chemist and nuclear physicist. Discovered the Proton. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908
• Leopold Ruzicka (Lavoslav Ružička), (1887–1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry