Eminent organic chemist and "father of radical chemistry"

Spanish scientist, explorer, and naval officer credited with the first description of platinum

Element 94 was first produced and isolated at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory in 1940

Nobel Laureate Taube made major contributions to coordination chemistry

In 1965, Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann explained the stereospecificity of pericyclic reactions

Nobel Laureate Staudinger was the father of polymer chemistry and discovered the ketenes

Nobel Laureate, eminent immunologist, and founder of chemotherapy

Nuclear researcher and co-discoverer of 12 elements

Inventor of the eponymous aldol condensation

A role model for her pursuit of science in spite of obstacles and for her strong moral convictions