- William Standish Knowles
- William Lipscomb Nunn, Jr.
- William Howard Stein
- William Francis Francis Giauque
- Willard Frank Libby
- Wilhelm Ostwald Ostwald
- Wendell Meredith Stanley
- Walther Nernst
- Walter Norman Haworth Haworth
- Wallace Hume Carothers Carothers
- Vladimir Prelog
- Theodore William Richards
- Theodor Svedberg
- Tadeus Reichstein
- Sune Karl Bergstrom
- Stanley Cohen Cohen
- Stanislao Cannizzaro
- Sir William Ramsay Ramsay
- Sir James Dewar Dewar
- Sir Humphry Davy Davy
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