July 20 - Tadeus Reichstein (died 1996), Nobel Prize-winning chemist.

Irving Langmuir (1881-1957), an American Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist known for:

June 13 - William Standish Knowles, Nobel chemist (b. 1917)

Richard Smalley, 62, Nobel Prize-winning chemist, co-discoverer of fullerenes.

Herbert A. Hauptman, 94, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1985).

June 17 - Donald J. Cram, Nobel chemist (b. 1919)

Herbert C. Brown, 92, British Nobel Prize-winning chemist (Chemistry, 1979), heart attack.

His thesis advisor was Fritz Haber, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist.

Sir Harry Kroto, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist, also announced that he would return his honorary doctorate from the university to protest the cuts.

December 10 - John Bennett Fenn, Nobel chemist (b. 1917)