List of Jewish American chemists

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


 * Bruce Alberts (born 1938), biochemist known for work on DNA replication
 * Sidney Altman (1939–2022), chemist, Nobel Prize (1989)
 * Christian B. Anfinsen (1916–1995), biochemist, Nobel Prize (1972) (convert to Judaism)
 * Julius Axelrod (1912–2004), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1970)
 * David Baltimore (born 1938), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975)
 * Allen J. Bard (1933–2024), electrochemist, inventor of scanning electrochemical microscope, Wolf Prize (2008)
 * Paul Berg (1926–2023), biochemist, Nobel Prize (1980)
 * Konrad Bloch (1912–2000), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1964)
 * Ronald Breslow (1931–2017), chemist known for work on chemical mechanisms
 * Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), biochemist known for discovering the Calvin cycle, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1961)
 * Carl Djerassi (1923–2015), pharmaceutical chemist known for development of oral contraceptive pills
 * Murray Eden (1920–2020), physical chemist
 * Gertrude B. Elion (1918–1999), biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1988)
 * Walter Gilbert (born 1932), biochemist, developed a method for DNA sequencing, Nobel Prize (1980)
 * Herbert A. Hauptman (1917–2011), chemist, Nobel Prize (1985)
 * Roald Hoffmann (born 1937), chemist and writer, Nobel Prize winner (1981)
 * Martin Kamen (1913–2002), chemist who introduced 14C as a tracer for biochemical reactions
 * Martin Karplus (born 1930), theoretical chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2013)
 * Arthur Kornberg (1918–2007), biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1959)
 * Daniel Koshland (1920–2007), biochemist known for induced fit
 * Fritz Lipmann (1899–1986) biochemist whose research on coenzyme A led to a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1953)
 * Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born 1923) chemist, theory of electron-transfer reactions, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1992)
 * Jacob A. Marinsky (1918–2005), chemist who co-discovered promethium
 * Matthew Meselson (born 1930) geneticist and molecular biologist, discovered semi-conservative DNA replication
 * George Olah (1927–2017) chemist, research on carbocations, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1994)
 * Alexander Pines (born 1945), physical chemist, expert in solid-state NMR, Wolf Prize (1991)
 * Martin Pope (1918–2022), physical chemist, Davy Medal (2006)
 * Stanley B. Prusiner (born 1942) neurologist and biochemist, discovered prions, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1997)
 * Efraim Racker (1913–1991), biochemist known for identifying and purifying Factor 1
 * Michael Rossmann (1930–2019), structural biologist who discovered the Rossmann fold protein motif.
 * William Stein (1911–1980), biochemist who worked on the ribonuclease sequence and catalytic activity, Nobel Prize (1972)
 * Gilbert Stork (1921–2017), organic chemist, known for making contributions to the total synthesis of natural products
 * Howard Martin Temin (1934–1994), geneticist and virologist who discovered reverse transcriptase, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975)
 * Ronald Vale (born 1959), biochemist and cell biologist, research on kinesin and dynein
 * Frank Westheimer (1912–2007), chemist known for pioneering work in physical organic chemistry
 * Richard Zare (born 1939), chemist known for the development of laser-induced fluorescence