let's get elemental
N
nitrogen
PPE
morally grey, yearned too much, Russian, periodic table.
Dmitri Mendeleev
pi
3.14...
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, 1997-1999
PhD, Stanford University, 1998
BS, University of Nebraska, 1992
Metal-catalyzed Reactions
Kevin Shaughnessy
GCMS
gas chromatography–mass spectrometry
eugenicist, big fan of vitamin C, The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Shares a first name with a Charlie Brown character.
Linus Pauling
c
3.0 x 10^8 m/s
6.7 x 10^8 mph
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1975-1977
PhD, Harvard University, 1976
BS, California Institute of Technology, 1971
Computational Chemistry
David Dixon
Zn
zinc
EAS
electrophilic aromatic substitution
married a 13-year old, committed tax fraud, named Oxygen and Hydrogen. The O.G. chemist
Antoine Lavoisier
mol
6.022 x 10^23
Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, 1986-1988
Postdoctoral Associate, University of Houston, 1985-1986
PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1985
BS, Baylor University, 1979
Physical Organic Chemistry and Synthesis
Silas Blackstock
Rb
Rubidium
LUMO
lowest unoccupied molecular orbital
reported goofball, lived to 88, discovered cesium and rubidium. Chemistry tool named after him (hot!)...
Robert Bunsen
R
8.314 J/mol K
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Texas at Austin, 2006-2008
PhD, Chemistry, University of Rochester, 2006
BS, Chemistry, Lanzhou University, 1998
Electrochemistry
Shanlin Pan
Sn
Tin
NMR
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
had a nervous breakdown in 1839, declined knighthood, F=96500 C/mol. Shocking...
Michael Faraday
kB
1.38 x 10^-23 J/K
BS, Wuhan University, 1990
PhD, Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1995
Post-doctoral Associate, University of Alabama-Birmingham, 1997-1999
Photo-activated complexes and organic synthesis
Wenfang Sun