# 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 $^{14}$C as a tracer for biochemical reactions
* Martin Karplus (1930–2024), 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