Famous chemists
Badger chemist genealogy (J Chem Ed, 56, 93 (1979))
Biographies in the Journal of Chemical Education
JD Bernal - Known to the world's brightest people as "sage", crystallographer and socialist
Robert Boyle - Early modern scientist
Antoine Lavoisier
Henry Eyring (more) - reaction rate theory
Melvin Calvin - Photosynthesis
Wilhelm Ostwald - heterogeneous catalysis, founder of physical chemistry
Svante Arrhenius - ionization, greenhouse effect
Walther Nernst, more - electrochemisty, thermochemistry
Britton Chance - Enzyme kinetics
James Bryant Conant (more) - Organic chemist, Harvard president and educational reformer.
Michael Faraday - the relationship between chemistry and electricity
Paul Flory - Polymer chemistry
Louis Hammett - founder of physical organic chemistry
TW Richards - America's first Nobel prize winning chemist
Gilbert Newton Lewis - at wikipedia
Herman Mark - Polymer chemistry
George Olah - Nobel prizewinning chemist who popularized superacids including magic acid, which dissolves candles forming a solution which gives a single NMR peak.
Roger Adams - influential American organic chemist
Linus Pauling - Polymath
Glenn Seaborg - Heavy isotopes
The Svedberg - The ultracentrifuge
Harold Urey - Deuterium, origin of life
The Guardian reports John Dalton's death