List of Chemists - W

W

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals, (1837–1923)
• Sir James Walker (1863–1935), Scottish physical chemist
• John E. Walker, (born 1941), 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Otto Wallach, (1847–1931), German chemist, 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Alfred Werner, (1866–1919), Swiss chemist, 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Thomas Summers West (1927–2010), British analytical chemist.
• Peter Jaffrey Wheatley (1921–1997)
• Chaim Weizmann, (1874–1952), Russian chemist, developed the ABE-process
• George M. Whitesides, (born 1939), American chemist
• John Rex Whinfield (1901–1966), British chemist, discovered polyester fibres
• Heinrich Otto Wieland (1877–1957) German chemist 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Julius Wilbrand - inventor of TNT
• Harvey W. Wiley, (1844–1930), US chemist, Pure food & drug advocate
• Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, (1921–1996), 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Alexander William Williamson, English chemist, famous for Williamson ether synthesis
• Thomas Willson, (1860–1915), Canadian chemist, discovered an economically efficient process for creating calcium carbide
• Richard Willstätter, (1872–1942), 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, (1876–1959), 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Günter Wirths, Germany
• Georg Wittig, 1897–1987), 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Friedrich Wöhler, (1800–1882), German chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea.
• William Hyde Wollaston, (1766–1828), English chemist, discovered the element Palladium and the element Rhodium
• Robert B. Woodward (1917–1979), 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, (1817–1884), Alsatian French chemist, discovered the Wurtz reaction
• Kurt Wüthrich, (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry