chemist

1. A scientist who specializes in chemistry (synset 109933282)
   referred to in: chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
   is a type of: scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences
   subtypes:

   • biochemist - someone with special training in biochemistry
   • nuclear chemist, radiochemist - a chemist who specializes in nuclear chemistry
   • phytochemist - a chemist who specializes in the chemistry of plants
   specific instances:

   • arrhenius, svante august arrhenius - Swedish chemist and physicist noted for his theory of chemical dissociation (1859-1927)
   • berzelius, jons jakob berzelius - Swedish chemist who discovered three new elements and determined the atomic weights of many others (1779-1848)
   • black, joseph black - British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
   • boyle, robert boyle - Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)
   • buchner, eduard buchner - German organic chemist who studied alcoholic fermentation and discovered zymase (1860-1917)
   • bunsen, robert bunsen, robert wilhelm bunsen - German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899)
   • calvin, melvin calvin - United States chemist noted for discovering the series of chemical reactions in photosynthesis (1911-)
   • carothers, wallace carothers, wallace hume carothers - United States chemist who developed nylon (1896-1937)
   • carver, george washington carver - United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943)
   • cavendish, henry cavendish - British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)
   • crookes, sir william crookes, william crookes - English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919)
   • curie, madame curie, marie curie, marya sklodowska - French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
   • curl, robert curl, robert f. curl, robert floyd curl jr. - American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
   • dalton, john dalton - English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)
   • davy, humphrey davy, sir humphrey davy - English chemist who was a pioneer in electrochemistry and who used it to isolate elements sodium and potassium and barium and boron and calcium and magnesium and chlorine (1778-1829)
   • dewar, sir james dewar - Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923)
   • eigen, manfred eigen - German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927)
   • erlenmeyer, richard august carl emil erlenmeyer - German chemist (1825-1909)
   • faraday, michael faraday - the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867)
   • emil hermann fischer, fischer - German chemist noted for work on synthetic sugars and the purines (1852-1919)
   • fischer, hans fischer - German chemist noted for his synthesis of hemin (1881-1945)
   • flory, paul john flory - United States chemist who developed methods for studying long-chain molecules (1910-1985)
   • gay-lussac, joseph louis gay-lussac - French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850)
   • gibbs, josiah willard gibbs - United States chemist (1839-1903)
   • fritz haber, haber - German chemist noted for the synthetic production of ammonia from the nitrogen in air (1868-1934)
   • hahn, otto hahn - German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968)
   • charles martin hall, hall - United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914)
   • hassel, odd hassel - Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981)
   • henry, william henry - English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)
   • george charles hevesy de hevesy, hevesy - Hungarian chemist who studied radioisotopes and was one of the discoverers of the element hafnium (1885-1966)
   • heyrovsky, joroslav heyrovsky - Czechoslovakian chemist who developed polarography (1890-1967)
   • dorothy hodgkin, dorothy mary crowfoot hodgkin, hodgkin - English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
   • hoffmann, roald hoffmann - United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937)
   • august wilhelm von hoffmann, hoffmann - German chemist (1818-1892)
   • friedrich august kekule, friedrich august kekule von stradonitz, kekule - German chemist remembered for his discovery of the ring structure of benzene (1829-1896)
   • klaproth, martin heinrich klaproth - German chemist who pioneered analytical chemistry and discovered three new elements (1743-1817)
   • harold kroto, harold w. kroto, kroto, sir harold walter kroto - British chemist who with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1939)
   • kuhn, richard kuhn - Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967)
   • irving langmuir, langmuir - United States chemist who studied surface chemistry and developed the gas-filled tungsten lamp and worked on high temperature electrical discharges (1881-1957)
   • antoine laurent lavoisier, antoine lavoisier, lavoisier - French chemist known as the father of modern chemistry; discovered oxygen and disproved the theory of phlogiston (1743-1794)
   • henry le chatelier, le chatelier - French chemist who formulated Le Chatelier's principle (1850-1936)
   • libby, willard frank libby - United States chemist who developed a method of radiocarbon dating (1908-1980)
   • lipscomb, william nunn lipscom jr. - United States chemist noted for his theories of molecular structure (born in 1919)
   • dmitri ivanovich mendeleev, dmitri ivanovich mendeleyev, dmitri mendeleev, dmitri mendeleyev, mendeleev, mendeleyev - Russian chemist who developed a periodic table of the chemical elements and predicted the discovery of several new elements (1834-1907)
   • e. w. morley, edward morley, edward williams morley, morley - United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923)
   • carl gustaf mossander, mosander - Swedish chemist who discovered rare earth elements (1797-1858)
   • muller, paul hermann muller - Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965)
   • giulio natta, natta - Italian chemist noted for work on polymers (1903-1979)
   • nernst, walther hermann nernst - German physicist and chemist who formulated the third law of thermodynamics (1864-1941)
   • alfred bernhard nobel, alfred nobel, nobel - Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896)
   • norrish, ronald george wreyford norrish - English chemist (1897-1978)
   • lars onsager, onsager - United States chemist (born in Norway) noted for his work in thermodynamics (1903-1976)
   • ostwald, wilhelm ostwald - German chemist (1853-1932)
   • louis pasteur, pasteur - French chemist and biologist whose discovery that fermentation is caused by microorganisms resulted in the process of pasteurization (1822-1895)
   • linus carl pauling, linus pauling, pauling - United States chemist who studied the nature of chemical bonding (1901-1994)
   • joseph priestley, priestley - English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804)
   • reichstein, tadeus reichstein - a Swiss chemist born in Poland; studied the hormones of the adrenal cortex
   • richard j. roberts, richard john roberts, roberts - United States biochemist (born in England) honored for his discovery that some genes contain introns (born in 1943)
   • robert robinson, robinson, sir robert robinson - English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)
   • daniel rutherford, rutherford - British chemist who isolated nitrogen (1749-1819)
   • karl scheele, karl wilhelm scheele, scheele - Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786)
   • christian friedrich schonbein, christian schonbein, schonbein - German chemist who discovered ozone and developed guncotton as a propellant in firearms (1799-1868)
   • glenn t. seaborg, glenn theodore seaborg, seaborg - United States chemist who was one of the discoverers of plutonium (1912-1999)
   • richard e. smalley, richard errett smalley, richard smalley, smalley - American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943)
   • frederick soddy, soddy - English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956)
   • ernest solvay, solvay - Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922)
   • soren peter lauritz sorensen, sorensen - Danish chemist who devised the pH scale (1868-1939)
   • lord todd, sir alexander robertus todd, todd - Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907)
   • harold clayton urey, harold urey, urey - United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981)
   • sir geoffrey wilkinson, wilkinson - English chemist honored for his research on pollutants in car exhausts (born in 1921)
   • adolf windaus, windaus - German chemist who studied steroids and cholesterol and discovered histamine (1876-1959)
   • william hyde wollaston, wollaston - English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828)
   • bob woodward, robert burns woodward, robert woodward, woodward - United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979)
   • karl waldemar ziegler, ziegler - German chemist honored for his research on polymers (1898-1973)
   • richard adolph zsigmondy, zsigmondy - German chemist (born in Austria) honored for his research on colloidal solutions (1865-1929)
2. A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs (synset 110441215)
   is a type of: caregiver, health care provider, health professional, pcp, primary care provider - a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability
   subtypes: pharmaceutical chemist, pharmacologist - someone trained in the science of drugs (their composition and uses and effects)
   same as: apothecary, druggist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller

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