PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Formed 1980 by merger of Chemical Society of London (founded 1841; a/k/a British Chemical Society), Faraday Society (founded 1903), Royal Institute of Chemistry (founded 1877 as Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain), and Society for Analytical Chemistry (founded 1874).

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Herbert C. Brown	Chemist	22-May-1912	19-Dec-2004	Discovered organoboranes
John B. Fenn	Chemist	15-Jun-1917	10-Dec-2010	Electrospray ionization
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood	Chemist	19-Jun-1897	9-Oct-1967	The Kinetics of Chemical Change
Roald Hoffmann	Chemist	18-Jul-1937		Woodward-Hoffmann reaction
Sir Harold Kroto	Chemist	7-Oct-1939		Co-Discovered fullerenes
Jean-Marie Lehn	Chemist	30-Sep-1939		Synthesis of molecules
William Lipscomb	Chemist	9-Dec-1919	14-Apr-2011	Chemical bonding
Rudolph A. Marcus	Chemist	21-Jul-1923		Electron-transfer reactions
Robert S. Mulliken	Chemist	7-Jun-1896	31-Oct-1986	Molecular orbital theory
Giulio Natta	Chemist	26-Feb-1903	2-May-1979	Ziegler-Natta catalysts for polymerization
Ronald G. W. Norrish	Chemist	9-Nov-1897	7-Jun-1978	Rapid chemical processes
Ryoji Noyori	Chemist	3-Sep-1938		Chiral catalysts
John C. Polanyi	Chemist	23-Jan-1929		Infrared chemiluminescence
Martyn Poliakoff	Physicist	16-Dec-1947		The Periodic Table of Videos
George Porter	Chemist	6-Dec-1920	31-Aug-2002	Rapid chemical and biological processes
Sir Robert Robinson	Chemist	13-Sep-1886	8-Feb-1975	Researcher of alkaloids
Glenn Seaborg	Physicist	19-Apr-1912	25-Feb-1999	Co-Discoverer of Plutonium
Nikolay Semyonov	Chemist	15-Apr-1896	25-Sep-1986	Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics
Richard L. M. Synge	Chemist	28-Oct-1914	18-Aug-1994	Partition chromatography
Henry Taube	Chemist	30-Nov-1915	16-Nov-2005	Mechanisms of electron transfer
Alexander R. Todd	Chemist	2-Oct-1907	10-Jan-1997	Nucleic acid, nucleotides
Georg Wittig	Chemist	16-Jun-1897	26-Aug-1987	Wittig Reaction
Robert B. Woodward	Chemist	10-Apr-1917	8-Jul-1979	Synthesized cholesterol, Vitamin B12, etc.
Kurt Wüthrich	Chemist	4-Oct-1938		Magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Ahmed H. Zewail	Chemist	26-Feb-1946		Femtochemistry

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