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