9 lives in this collection worked in physical chemistry, from 1834 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: chemistry, electrochemistry, radiochemistry. All fields
Russian chemist who formulated the periodic law in 1869 and used it to predict gallium, scandium and germanium.
chemistry, periodic law, physical chemistry
Yale physicist who founded chemical thermodynamics, created the ensemble formulation of statistical mechanics and introduced modern vector analysis.
thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, physical chemistry
Scottish chemist who discovered argon with Lord Rayleigh and then helium, neon, krypton and xenon, completing a new group of the periodic table.
chemistry, physical chemistry, noble gases
Founder of stereochemistry with the tetrahedral carbon atom and a founder of physical chemistry, awarded the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure.
stereochemistry, physical chemistry, chemical kinetics
Founder of physical chemistry as a discipline, author of the dilution law and the modern definition of catalysis, and 1909 Nobel laureate in chemistry.
physical chemistry, electrochemistry, catalysis
Swedish founder of physical chemistry who proposed ionic dissociation, the Arrhenius equation for reaction rates, and the first quantitative estimate of carbon-dioxide warming.
physical chemistry, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics
French physicist whose Brownian-motion and sedimentation experiments established the reality of molecules, Nobel laureate in 1926, and founder of the CNRS and the Palais de la découverte.
physical chemistry, experimental physics, brownian motion
Radiochemist who with Rutherford explained radioactivity as atomic transmutation, formulated the displacement law and the concept of isotopes, and later wrote on monetary economics and the geometry of tangent circles.
radiochemistry, physical chemistry, economics
Dutch-American physicist and chemist who created the Debye model of specific heat, the theory of polar molecules, powder X-ray diffraction and the Debye–Hückel theory of electrolytes, and whose Berlin directorship under the Nazi regime remains disputed.
theoretical physics, physical chemistry, solid-state physics