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