List of Jewish American chemists

This is a list of notable Jewish American chemists. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

Roald Hoffmann

• Sidney Altman, chemist, Nobel Prize (1989)[1]
• Christian B. Anfinsen, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972) (converted)[2]
• Allen J. Bard, electrochemist, inventor of scanning electrochemical microscope, Wolf Prize (2008)[3]
• Paul Berg, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1980)[4]
• Walter Gilbert, DNA sequencing, Nobel Prize (1980)[4]
• Herbert A. Hauptman, chemist, Nobel Prize (1985)[5]
• Roald Hoffmann (1937–), chemist and writer, Nobel Prize winner (1981)[6]
• Martin Kamen, carbon-14[7]
• Jacob A. Marinsky, discovered promethium[8]
• Alexander Pines, physical chemist, Wolf Prize (1991)[9]
• Martin Pope, physical chemist, Davy Medal (2006)[10]
• Murray Eden, physical chemist (1920-2020)
• William Stein, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972)[11]

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6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-01-19. Retrieved 2007-10-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Roald Hoffmann was born in a Polish Jewish family in Zloczow, Poland"
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8. "Jacob Marinsky, 87, Dies; Isolated Promethium Ions". New York Times.
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11. "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1972". Nobel Prize.