Chemists

Frédéric Swarts

Frédéric Swarts (2 September 1866, Ixelles – 6 September 1940, Ghent) was a Belgian chemist at Ghent University who pioneered organic fluorine chemistry; his Swarts reaction enabled the fluorocarbon and refrigerant industries.

Frederick Abel

Frederick Abel, also known as Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet, was a British chemist who made guncotton safe and invented cordite with James Dewar in 1889.

Frederick Belding Power

Frederick Belding Power (1853–1927) was an American pharmaceutical chemist and phytochemist, first director of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories in London, known for his work on chaulmoogra oil.

Frederick D. Lewis

Frederick D. Lewis is an American organic photochemist, professor emeritus at Northwestern University, known for experimental work on photoinduced charge transfer and hole transport in synthetic DNA hairpins.

Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton

Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors (1914–1997), was a British physical chemist who built Leeds's chemistry department and chaired the 1968 Dainton Report.

Frederick Daniel Chattaway

Frederick Daniel Chattaway (1860–1944) was an English organic chemist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1907, known for nitrogen-halogen chemistry and a laboratory spatula bearing his name.

Frederick G. Donnan

Frederick G. Donnan, also known as Frederick George Donnan, was a British physical chemist whose 1911 Donnan equilibrium theory describes ion distribution across semipermeable membranes.

Frederick Gardner Cottrell

Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1877–1948) was an American physical chemist and UC Berkeley professor who invented the electrostatic precipitator and founded the nonprofit Research Corporation in 1912.

Frederick George Keyes

Frederick George Keyes (1885–1976) was an American physical chemist at MIT whose work on thermodynamics and the properties of steam set standards used across power engineering.

Frederick J. Karol

Frederick J. Karol (1933–2018) was an American chemist and Union Carbide Senior Corporate Fellow who developed the Unipol gas-phase polyethylene process and won the 1989 Perkin Medal.

Frederick Kaufman

Frederick Kaufman (1919–1985) was an Austrian-born American chemist at the University of Pittsburgh, a leader in gas-phase chemical kinetics whose measurements informed the US ban on CFC aerosol propellants.

Frederick Rossini

Frederick Rossini (1899–1990) was an American chemical thermodynamicist best known for directing the American Petroleum Institute's hydrocarbon research projects and compiling the reference tables that became design data for the oil industry.

Frederick Soddy

Frederick Soddy was a British radiochemist who won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on radioactive substances and isotopes, a term he coined in 1913.

Frederick T. Wall

Frederick T. Wall (1912–2010) was an American physical chemist known for the statistical thermodynamics of polymers and the first Monte Carlo simulations of macromolecules on a digital computer.

Frederik R. Wurm

Frederik R. Wurm (Frederik Wurm) is a polymer chemist and professor of Sustainable Polymer Chemistry at the University of Twente since 2020, known for biodegradable polyphosphoesters.

Fredric M. Menger

Fredric M. Menger is an American organic chemist at Emory University known for his work on micelle structure and for coining the term gemini surfactants.

Fredrik Kjellin

Fredrik Adolf Kjellin (1872–1910) was a Swedish chemist and engineer who built the first usable electric induction furnace and produced the first usable electric steel, at Gysinge bruk in 1900.

Frieder Jäkle

Frieder Jäkle, born 1969, is a German-born materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University–Newark whose group develops boron-doped conjugated polymers for organic electronics and sensing.

Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge

Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, also known as Friedrich Ferdinand Runge, was a German chemist who first isolated caffeine from coffee beans and identified key coal-tar compounds including aniline and phenol.

Friedrich Bergius

Friedrich Bergius was a German chemist who invented high-pressure coal hydrogenation, the Bergius process for synthetic liquid fuel, and shared the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Carl Bosch.

Friedrich Emich

Friedrich Emich (1860–1940) was an Austrian chemist at the Technische Hochschule in Graz who founded quantitative inorganic microanalysis; Fritz Pregl credited him as the true founder of microchemistry.

Friedrich Goppelsroeder

Friedrich Goppelsroeder (Christoph Friedrich Goppelsroeder; 1837–1919) was a Swiss chemist who developed capillary analysis, separating dissolved dyes by their rise through filter paper, a precursor of paper chromatography.

Friedrich Krafft

Friedrich Krafft (1852–1923) was a German chemist who studied under Kekulé and taught at Heidelberg; he is known for the Krafft point of surfactants and the Krafft degradation.

Friedrich Paneth

Friedrich Adolf Paneth (1887–1958) was an Austrian-born British chemist who, with George de Hevesy, introduced radioactive tracer techniques in 1913 and later pioneered free radical detection and helium dating of meteorites.

Friedrich Wöhler

Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882) was a German chemist and professor at the University of Göttingen, known for his 1828 synthesis of urea from ammonium cyanate and for isolating aluminum, beryllium, and yttrium.

Fritz Arndt

Fritz Arndt (1885–1969) was a German chemist known for the Arndt–Eistert synthesis of carboxylic acids and as a pioneer of resonance theory, teaching for over twenty years in Istanbul.

Fritz Feigl

Fritz Feigl (1891–1971) was an Austrian-born Brazilian analytical chemist who founded spot-test analysis, detecting substances in a single drop, after fleeing Nazi Austria in 1938.

Fritz Foerster

Fritz Foerster (1866–1931) was a German chemist who built the Dresden Technische Hochschule into a leading center of electrochemistry and wrote the standard German textbook on the electrochemistry of aqueous solutions.

Fritz Haber

Fritz Haber was a German physical chemist who won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen, and who supervised Germany's first poison-gas attack in World War I.