| Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) | medicine, alchemy | | | | Johannes Trithemius (research scientist) |
| Otto Fritz Meyerhof | Biochemistry | | 1909 | 1912 | Otto Warburg (post-doc), Franz Nissl (grad student), Georg Bredig (post-doc), Ludolf von Krehl (post-doc), Ernst Hermann Wilke (post-doc) |
| Rudolf Magnus | pharmacology | | | 1898 | Wilhelm Kühne (grad student) |
| Friedrich Wöhler | Chemistry | | | 1823 | Leopold Gmelin (research assistant), Friedrich Tiedemann (research assistant), Franz Carl Nägele (grad student) |
| Jules Piccard | Nutritional chemistry | | | 1862 | Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (grad student), Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (research assistant) |
| Stefan W. Hell | | | | 1990 | Siegfried Hunklinger (grad student) |
| Fritz Vögtle | Supramolecular chemistry, dendrimers | | | 1965 | Heinz A. Staab (grad student) |
| Karl Friedrich von Auwers | | | | 1890 | Viktor Meyer (post-doc) |
| Hans Julius Anton Edward Hübner | organic chemistry | | | 1860 | Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (post-doc) |
| Matthew A. Parker | | | | 1897 | Viktor Meyer (post-doc) |
| Otto Warburg | Oxidative metabolism, biochemistry | | | 1911 | Ludolf von Krehl (grad student) |
| Albrecht Mannschreck | NMR spectroscopy | | | 1962 | Heinz A. Staab (grad student) |
| Ulrich Kölle | | | | 1969 | Albrecht Mannschreck (grad student) |
| Georg Lunge | | | | 1860 | Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (post-doc) |
| Carl Löwig | bromine chemistry, metallo organic chemistry | | | 1830 | Leopold Gmelin (grad student) |
| Moses Gomberg | organic chemistry | | 1896 | 1897 | Viktor Meyer (post-doc) |
| Max Ernst August Bodenstein | chemical kinetics | | | 1893 | Viktor Meyer (grad student) |
| James William McBain | | | | 1909 | Georg Hermann Quincke (grad student) |
| Louis Valentine Pirsson | Physical Geology | | 1891 | 1892 | Karl Heinrich (Harry) Ferdinand Rosenbusch (research scientist) |
| Harald Günther | | | | 1961 | Georg Friedrich Karl Wittig (grad student) |
| Reinhard W. Hoffmann | natural products synthesis, stereochemistry of reactive organometallic compounds | | 1960 | 1961 | Georg Friedrich Karl Wittig (post-doc) |
| F. W. Paul Götz | pioneered atmospheric ozone measurements | | | 1919 | Max Wolf (grad student) |
| Emil Knövenagel | Knoevenagel condensation | | | | |
| Daniel Nebel | medicine, pharmacy | | | | |
| August Kekulé | Organic chemistry | | | 1856 | Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (post-doc) |
| Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen | Inorganic chemistry | | | | |
| Andreas von Antropoff | physical chemistry | | | 1907 | Georg Bredig (grad student) |
| Daniel Beaudoin | Organic/Material Chemistry | | | | Michael Mastalerz (post-doc) |
| Hermann Braune | Electrochemistry | | | 1911 | Theodor Curtius (grad student) |
| Theodor Curtius | analytical chemistry | | | | |
| Michael Schmitt | | | | | Karl Kleinermanns (grad student) |
| Peter Uetz | Bioinformatics Biology, Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence | | | 1997 | Kai Simons (grad student), Ed C. Hurt (grad student) |
| Michael Mastalerz | | | | | |
| Karl Cäsar von Leonhard | Mineralogy | | | | |
| Carl Gräbe | Synthesis of the economically important dyes - alizarin, fundamental nomenclature of organic chemistry | | | 1862 | Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (grad student) |
| Charles Henry Smyth, Jr. | petrology | | 1890 | 1891 | Karl Heinrich (Harry) Ferdinand Rosenbusch (post-doc) |
| Manfred Schlosser | | | 1957 | 1960 | Georg Friedrich Karl Wittig (grad student) |
| Hanns-Peter Boehm | Graphene | | | | |
| Johann Carl (John) Vogel | geochemistry | | | 1959 | Otto Haxel (grad student) |
| Heinz Dürr | Photochromism, Artificial Photosynthesis, Solar Energy Conversion | | | 1961 | Georg Friedrich Karl Wittig (grad student) |
| Claus Kiefer | | | | | |
| Sven Doye | Catalysis | | | | |
| Fritz Viktor Lenel | Powder Metallurgy | | | 1931 | Karl Freudenberg (grad student) |
| Friedrich Krafft | physical chemistry | | | | |
| Gerhard Preuner | Physical chemistry | | | 1898 | Friedrich Krafft (grad student) |
| Robert Edward Lyons | | | | 1894 | Friedrich Krafft (grad student) |
| Wilhelm Kühne | Physiology, biochemistry | | | | |
| Gedu Satyanarayana | Green chemistry, asymmetric and transition metal catalysis, acid-promoted reactions | | 2008 | 2009 | Günter Helmchen (post-doc) |
| Carl J. Lovely | Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry | | 1990 | 1992 | Klaus Weinges (post-doc) |
| Klaus Weinges | Organic chemistry | | | 1962 | Karl Freudenberg (grad student), Georg Friedrich Karl Wittig (post-doc) |
| David M. Leitner | General Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, General Chemistry | | 1991 | 1994 | Lorenz S. Cederbaum (research scientist) |
| Alexander Yevgenyevich Fersman | Geochemistry, minerology | | 1908 | 1910 | Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (post-doc) |
| John Gibson | Analytical chemistry, physical chemistry | | | 1876 | Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (grad student) |
| Emil Wilhelm Cohen | Petrography | | | 1871 | Reinhard Joh. Blum (post-doc) |
| Hans Rudolf Grisebach | Biochemistry | | | 1951 | Friedrich Weygand (grad student) |
| Hans Pringsheim | Organic chemistry, Biochemistry | | | 1901 | Theodor Curtius (grad student) |
| Mithun Roy | Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry | | 2011 | 2012 | Andriy Mokhir (post-doc) |
| Andriy Mokhir | Controllable / switchable chemical catalysts, organic chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry | | | | |
| Sarah Jane Nelson | Biomedical Magnetic Resonance | | | 1982 | Hermann Rost (grad student) |
| Lars-Anders Carlson | virology, membrane dynamics, biochemistry, cryo-EM | | 2006 | 2009 | Hans-Georg Kräusslich (grad student) |
| Hans-Georg Kräusslich | | | | | |
| Shirin Faraji | | | | 2010 | Horst Köppel (grad student), Lorenz S. Cederbaum (grad student) |
| Horst Köppel | theoretical chemistry | | | | |
| Andreas Dreuw | | | | 2001 | Lorenz S. Cederbaum (grad student) |
| Michel Roberge | Biochemistry | | | 1985 | H. Chica Schaller (grad student) |
| Karol Stanisław Olszewski | analytical chemistry, Cascade method for liquefaction of gases | | | 1872 | Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (grad student), Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (grad student) |
| Tulika Gupta | | | 2016 | 2017 | Peter Comba (post-doc) |
| Oriol Vendrell | Theoretical Chemistry, Quantum Molecular Dynamics | | | | |
| Tiago Buckup | | | | | |
| Petra Tegeder | | | | | |
| Adalbert Maercker | | | | | |
| Wolfram Sander | Physical organic chemistry | | 1979 | 1982 | Rolf Gleiter (grad student), Hans Plieninger (grad student) |
| Hans Plieninger | | | | | |
| Partha Pratim Roy | | | | 2019 | Tiago Buckup (grad student) |
| Wilhelm Treibs | | | | | |
| Julius Lothar von Meyer | Periodic table of chemical elements | | 1854 | 1856 | Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (post-doc) |
| Robert M. Juza | | | | | |
| John Cannell Cain | | | 1893 | 1921 | Jocelyn F. Thorpe (collaborator) |
| Joachim Knappe | Metabolism, enzymology | | 1960 | 1964 | Georg Friedrich Karl Wittig (post-doc) |
| Günter Helmchen | Stereochemistry | | | | |
| Christian Limberg | Organometallic chemistry and catalysis | | | 1999 | Gottfried Huttner (post-doc) |
| Avijit Goswami | Synthetic organic and polymer chemistry, catalysis | | 2005 | 2005 | Walter Siebert (grad student), Günter Helmchen (post-doc) |
| Nirmalya Ballav | Interfacial materials chemistry | | 2005 | 2008 | Michael Zharnikov (post-doc) |
| Michael Zharnikov | Physical chemistry | | | | |
| William Dittmar | Analytical chemistry | | | 1857 | Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (research assistant) |
| Peter H. Seeburg | glutamate receptors | | | | |
| Everhart Percy Harding | Chemical technology | | 1899 | 1901 | Theodor Curtius (grad student) |
| Richard Kuhn | Organic chemistry, natural products chemistry | | | | |
| Gunasekaran Velmurugan | | | | | Peter Comba (post-doc) |
| Roland A. Fischer | Inorganic Chemistry | | | | |
| Hans Lettré | | | | | |
| Jan Konvalinka | | | | | Hans-Georg Kräusslich (post-doc) |
| Georg Friedrich Karl Wittig | | | | | |
| Ernst Hermann Wilke | Colloid chemistry, industrial chemistry | | | | |
| Sascha Feldmann | | | | 2017 | Petra Tegeder (research assistant) |
| S. Nagarajan | Physical chemistry | | 2011 | 2013 | Michael Zharnikov (post-doc) |
| Viktor Meyer | Organic chemistry | | | | |
| Andrew Hunter | Physiological chemistry | | 1906 | 1907 | Albrecht Kossel (research scientist) |
| George Herbert Bailey | Inorganic chemistry, metallurgical chemistry | | | 1885 | Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (grad student) |
| Wolfgang Sundermeyer | | | | | |
| Konrad Seppelt | | | | | Wolfgang Sundermeyer (grad student) |
| Robert E. Dinnebier | | | 1984 | 1993 | Walter Hans Eysel (grad student) |
| Walter Hans Eysel | Crystallography, Mineralogy | | | | |
| Reginald Oliver Herzog | | | | 1905 | Albrecht Kossel (post-doc) |
| Gottfried Huttner | X-ray crystallography, organometallic chemistry and main group chemistry | | | | |
| Lutz Greb | | Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut | 2008 | 2008 | Serge Thorimbert (research assistant) |
| Max Theodor Trautz | Physical chemistry | | | | |
| Robert William Coughlin | | Chemistry | 1960 | 1961 | Hanns-Peter Boehm (post-doc) |
| Emil F. Pai | Microbiology Biology, Biochemistry | Chemistry | | | Heinz A. Staab (grad student) |
| Walter Siebert | | | | | |
| Matthias Driess | Synthesis of novel molecular functions, Organometallic Chemistry | Department of Chemistry | | 1988 | Walter Siebert (grad student) |
| Thomas Cremer | molecular cytogenetics, fluorescent microscopy, chromatin dynamics | | | | |
| Julio Lloret-Fillol | Chemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalysis, Mechanism, water oxidation, artificial photosynthesis | Inorganic Chemistry | 2006 | 2010 | Lutz H. Gade (post-doc) |
| Peter Comba | | | | | |
| Frank Noé | | Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing | 2002 | 2006 | Jeremy C. Smith (grad student) |
| Ursula Kummer | | | | | |
| Selcan Aydin | Molecular Biology | Modeling of Biological Processes | 2009 | 2011 | Ursula Kummer (grad student) |
| Dirk Menche | | | | | |
| Jin Xie | organic synthesis | | | | |
| Rudolf Gottlieb | | | | | |
| Philipp Ellinger | Pharmacology, toxicology, nutrition | Pharmacology | | 1914 | Rudolf Gottlieb (grad student) |
| Albrecht Kossel | | | | | |
| Heinz Bodenmueller | | | | | |