Priestley Medal (chemistry)
Jewish recipients of the Priestley Medal (chemistry) documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 22% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.
20 documented recipients
Sir Ian Heilbron1886
Organic chemist known for natural product and vitamin chemistry
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
H. I. Schlesinger1882
Inorganic chemist known for boron hydrides and borohydrides
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Max Tishler1906
Chemist who developed industrial syntheses of vitamins, cortisone, and antibiotics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Henry Gilman1893
Organometallic chemist known for organocopper (Gilman) reagents
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Melvin Calvin1961
Photosynthesis
Source: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1961
Milton Harris1906
Polymer chemist known for textile and fiber chemistry
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Herbert Brown1979
Chemist who found how to make sodium borohydride and developed hydroboration, turning boron compounds into important reagents of organic synthesis; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1979
Source: Wikipedia — Herbert Brown / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1979
Frank Westheimer1912
Chemist known for physical organic and bioorganic chemistry
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Roald Hoffmann1981
Theoretical chemist and child survivor of the Holocaust who with Robert Woodward set out the orbital symmetry rules for the course of chemical reactions; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1981, shared with…
Source: Wikipedia — Roald Hoffmann / NobelPrize.org Chemistry 1981
Carl Djerassi1923
Chemist who first synthesized an orally active progestin, making the contraceptive pill possible.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ernest Eliel1921
Organic chemist known for the study of stereochemistry
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Ronald Breslow1931
Organic chemist known for artificial enzymes and biomimetic chemistry
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Allen Bard1933
Electrochemist, developer of scanning electrochemical microscopy
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
George Olah1927
Chemist who used superacids to make fleeting carbocations stable enough to study; Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994
Source: Wikipedia — George Olah
Gabor Somorjai1935
Physical chemist, pioneer of surface science and heterogeneous catalysis
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Richard Zare1939
Physical chemist known for laser chemistry and analytical spectroscopy
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Robert Langer1948
Biomedical engineer who pioneered controlled drug-delivery systems and tissue engineering.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Stephen Lippard1940
Chemist known for bioinorganic chemistry, including the mechanism of the anticancer drug cisplatin
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Jacqueline Barton1952
Chemist who discovered electron charge transport along the DNA double helix.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Tobin Marks1944
Chemist known for organometallic catalysis and electronic materials
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry