This year our Ten Things column each month is concentrating on science and scientists.
Where a group is described as “great” or “important” this is not intended to imply these necessarily the greatest or most important, but only that they are up there amongst the top flight.
Great Chemists
- Marie Curie
- William Perkin
- Rosalind Franklin
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- Amedeo Avogadro
- Robert Boyle
- Antoine Lavoisier
- Democritus
- Alessandro Volta
- Linus Pauling
I’m a little shocked that John Boot didn’t make the list ?
That’s an interesting thought. I guess in some circles he would be classed as a “scientist” but in others as merely a “retail pharmacist”, even if at that date retail pharmacy did involve a lot of compounding and few ready prepared medicines.