List of Jewish American chemists

This is a list of famous Jewish American chemists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

• Sidney Altman, chemist, Nobel Prize (1989)
• Christian B. Anfinsen, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972) (converted)
• Allen J. Bard, electrochemist, inventor of scanning electrochemical microscope, Wolf Prize (2008)
• Paul Berg, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1980)
• Erwin Chargaff, DNA pioneer
• Morris Cohen, metallurgist
• Walter Gilbert, DNA sequencing, Nobel Prize (1980)
• Henry Gilman, organometallic chemist
• Moses Gomberg, free radicals
• Norman Hackerman, chemist
• Herbert A. Hauptman, chemist, Nobel Prize (1985)
• Roald Hoffmann (1937–), chemist and writer, Nobel Prize winner (1981)^[1]
• Martin Kamen, carbon-14
• Martin Karplus, theoretical chemist
• Phoebus Levene, nucleic acid pioneer
• Bruce H. Lipshutz, organometallic chemist
• Jacob A. Marinsky, discovered promethium
• Yurii Sh. Matros, Jewish-American chemist and chemical engineer, developer of Matros reactor, founder of Matros Technologies Inc.
• Martin Pope, physical chemist, Davy Medal (2006)
• Gabor A. Somorjai, physical chemist, Wolf Prize (1998)
• William Stein, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972)
• Richard Zare, chemist

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