Editing List of chemists (section)

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*[[Richard Abegg]] (1869–1910), German chemist
*[[Frederick Abel]] (1827–1902), English chemist
*[[Friedrich Accum]] (1769–1838), German chemist, advances in the field of [[gas lighting]]
*[[Homer Burton Adkins]] (1892–1949), American chemist, known for work in [[hydrogenation]] of [[organic compounds]]
*[[Peter Agre]] (born 1949), American chemist and doctor, 2003 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Georgius Agricola]] (1494–1555), German scholar known as "the father of mineralogy"
*[[Natalie Ahn]], American chemist
*[[Arthur Aikin]] (1773–1855), English chemist and mineralogist
*[[Adrien Albert]] (1907–1989), Australian medicinal chemist
*[[John Albery]] (1936–2013), English physical chemist
*[[Kurt Alder]] (1902–1958), German chemist, 1950 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Jerome Alexander (chemist)|Jerome Alexander]] (1876–1959), American expert on the chemistry of [[colloid]]s
*[[Ivan Alimarin]] (1903-1989), Soviet chemist, one of the leaders of [[analytical chemistry]] in 20's century
*[[Elmer Lucille Allen]] (born 1931), American chemist and ceramic artist
*[[Heather C. Allen]] (born 1960), American chemist
*[[Adah Almutairi]] (born 1976), American chemist
*[[Sidney Altman]] (1939–2022), Canadian-American biologist, 1989 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Faiza Al-Kharafi]] (born 1946), Kuwaiti chemist, academic and the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East
*[[Lisa Alvarez-Cohen]], American chemist
*[[Gloria Long Anderson]] (born 1938), American chemist
*[[Christian B. Anfinsen]] (1916–1995), American chemist, 1972 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Angelo Angeli]] (1864–1931), Italian chemist
*[[Octavio Augusto Ceva Antunes]], Brazilian chemist
*[[Anthony Joseph Arduengo, III]] (born 1952), American chemist
*[[Johan August Arfwedson]] (1792–1841), Swedish chemist
*[[Anton Eduard van Arkel]] (1893–1976), Dutch chemist
*[[Svante Arrhenius]] (1859–1927), Swedish chemist, one of the founders of [[physical chemistry]]
*[[Valerie Ashby]] (born 1965/1966), American chemist
*[[Barbara Askins]] (born 1939), American chemist
*[[Larned B. Asprey]] (1919–2005), American nuclear chemist
*[[Alán Aspuru-Guzik]] (born 1976), computational chemist 
*[[Francis William Aston]] (1877–1945), British chemist and physicist, 1922 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Karin Aurivillius]] (1920–1982), Swedish chemist and crystallographer
*[[Amedeo Avogadro]] (1776–1856), Italian chemist and physicist, discovered [[Avogadro's law]]