| Bruce Alberts | DNA replication, cell cytoskeleton | | | 1966 | Alfred Tissières (post-doc) |
| Alexandre Alexakis | | | | | |
| Werner Arber | | | | 1958 | Eduard Kellenberger (grad student) |
| Nicolaas Pieter Badenhuizen | biopolymers, starch | | | 1937 | Kurt Heinrich Meyer (research assistant) |
| Eric Bakker | Analytical Chemistry | | | | |
| Rafael Ballesteros-Garrido | Organic Chemistry | | 2009 | 2011 | Jerome Lacour (post-doc) |
| Marc Ballivet | Visual system, Acetylcholine receptor, retina | | | | Harvey Eisen (grad student) |
| Natalie Banerji | | | 2005 | 2009 | Eric Vauthey (grad student) |
| Sofia Barluenga | Organic Chemistry, Chemical Biology | | | | |
| Tomás Batuecas Marugán | Physical Chemistry | | 1920 | 1922 | Philippe-Auguste Guye (grad student), Philippe-Auguste Guye (research scientist) |
| Rajesh Bhosale | | | 2005 | 2009 | Stefan Matile (grad student) |
| Sheshanath Bhosale | | | 2006 | 2010 | Stefan Matile (post-doc) |
| Christian Bindschaedler | | | | | |
| Vincent Bizet | organic chemistry, fluorine, catalysis | Organic chemistry | 2014 | 2016 | Clément Mazet (post-doc) |
| Roger Boissonas | | | 1949 | 1953 | Kurt Heinrich Meyer (collaborator) |
| Daniel Bovet | | | | 1929 | Émile Guyénot (grad student) |
| Emile Briner | | Chemistry | | 1902 | Philippe-Auguste Guye (grad student) |
| Pierre Brodard | | | 1999 | 2004 | Eric Vauthey (grad student) |
| Marta Bruka | | Department of organic chemistry | | | Damien Jeannerat (grad student) |
| Jacques Buffle | | Chemistry | | | Werner Haerdi (grad student) |
| Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon | Mathematics, naturalist, cosmology | | 1728 | 1732 | Gabriel Cramer (grad student) |
| Ulrich Burger | | | | | |
| Thomas Bürgi | | | | | |
| Paul Emil Cherbuliez | | | | | |
| Axelle Cotte | | Department of organic chemistry | | | Damien Jeannerat (grad student) |
| James E. Dahlberg | snRNA, mRNA splicing | | | | Richard H. Epstein (post-doc) |
| Jef De Brabander | | | 1994 | 1995 | Wolfgang Oppolzer (post-doc) |
| Robert J. DeVita | | | | | Wolfgang Oppolzer (post-doc) |
| Romain Duwald | | Department of Organic Chemistry | 2015 | | Jerome Lacour (post-doc) |
| Richard H. Epstein | bacterial genetics | | | | |
| Edmond H. Fischer | structure and regulation of enzymes, control of cellular processes by hormones and growth factors, role of protein tyrosine phosphatases in signal transduction, cell cycle, and transformation | | 1949 | 1953 | Kurt Heinrich Meyer (grad student), Kurt Heinrich Meyer (collaborator) |
| Mohammadali Foroozandeh | | Department of organic chemistry | | | Damien Jeannerat (grad student) |
| Katharina M. Fromm | Coordination Chemistry | Department of Chemistry | 1998 | 2003 | Alan F. Williams (research scientist) |
| Alois Fuerstner | | | 1990 | 1991 | Wolfgang Oppolzer (post-doc) |
| Alois Fürstner | organometallic reagents and catalysts | | 1990 | 1991 | Wolfgang Oppolzer (post-doc) |
| Valérie Gabelica | | | | | |
| Raymond F. Gesteland | gene expression | | | 1967 | Alfred Tissières (post-doc) |
| Ashraf Ghanem | | Organic Chemistry | 2002 | 2005 | Paul Mueller (post-doc) |
| Holly V. Goodson | microtubule cytoskeleton | | | | Thomas E. Kreis (post-doc) |
| Thomas Gregor | Biophysics, Developmental Biology | | 1998 | 2001 | Roberto Car (research assistant) |
| Karla Gualito | | Department of organic chemistry | | | Damien Jeannerat (post-doc) |
| Eduard Sistaré Guardiola | | Department of organic chemistry | | | Damien Jeannerat (grad student) |
| Philippe-Auguste Guye | Physical Chemistry | | | | |
| Werner Haerdi | | Chemistry | | 1958 | Denys Monnier (grad student) |
| Joe Hedgpeth | | | | | Marc Ballivet (grad student) |
| Julio Hernandez | Biochemistry, vision, transcription | | | | Marc Ballivet (grad student) |
| Tomas Hudlicky | synthetic organic chemistry | | | 1978 | Wolfgang Oppolzer (post-doc) |
| Rodolphe Jazzar | Catalysis, Inorganic, Organic, Carbene | | 2003 | 2005 | E. Peter Kündig (post-doc) |
| Roger W. Jeanloz | glycobiology | | | 1943 | Kurt Heinrich Meyer (grad student) |
| Damien Jeannerat | NMR methodology of small molecules | Department of organic chemistry | | | Ulrich Burger (post-doc) |
| Pavel Jungwirth | | | | | Jacques Weber (research assistant) |
| Eduard Kellenberger | Molecular Biology | | | 1953 | Jean-Jacques Weigle (grad student) |
| Thomas E. Kreis | cytoskeleton and organelles in both living and fixed cells | | | | |
| Jerome Lacour | | | | | |
| Roman Lagoutte | | Department of Organic Chemistry Department of Organic Chemistry | 2014 | 2017 | Alexandre Alexakis (post-doc), Nicolas Winssinger (post-doc) |
| Guillaume Levitre | Organic Chemistry, Photocatalysis, asymmetric catalysis | | 2019 | 2021 | Jerome Lacour (post-doc) |
| Houhua LI | Total synthesis, Cellular Targets Identification, Elucidation of the Mechanism of Action (MoA) of Natural Products | Department of Organic Chemistry | 2011 | 2016 | Clément Mazet (grad student) |
| Canwei Mao | membrane science, desalination, surface chemistry, electrochemistry, analytical chemistry, ion transfer study | | | | |
| Jean-Marc Matter | retina, transcription | | | | Marc Ballivet (research scientist) |
| Clément Mazet | | | | | |
| Kurt Heinrich Meyer | polysaccharides, particularly starch and glycogen | | 1933 | 1935 | Heinrich Hauptmann (collaborator) |
| Yavor Mitrev | | Department of organic chemistry | | | Damien Jeannerat (post-doc) |
| Frank Moffatt | Synthetic organic chemistry, separation science, capillary electrochomatography, environmental science | Chemistry | 1980 | 1981 | Wolfgang Oppolzer (post-doc) |
| Omar F. Mohammed | | | 2006 | 2007 | Eric Vauthey (post-doc) |
| Denys Monnier | | Chemistry | | 1932 | Emile Briner (grad student) |
| Peter B. Moore | X-ray crystallography | | | | Alfred Tissières (post-doc) |
| Laurence Moran | | | 1974 | 1978 | Alfred Tissières (post-doc) |
| Pierre Morrieux | | | | | Nicolas Winssinger (post-doc) |
| Paul Mueller | | | | | |
| Wittaya Ngeontae | | Chemistry | | | Eric Bakker (research assistant) |
| Olivier Nicolet | | | 2000 | 2005 | Eric Vauthey (grad student) |
| Bayaha Ba Njock, | | Department of organic chemistry | | | Damien Jeannerat (grad student) |
| Harry F. Noller | Ribosome | | | 1968 | Alfred Tissières (post-doc) |
| Alexandre Novoa | | | | | Nicolas Winssinger (post-doc) |
| Wolfgang Oppolzer | synthetic organic chemistry | | | | |
| Vincent Ossipow | Molecular biology, NECL, neuroscience | | | | Marc Ballivet (research scientist) |
| Simon Pascal | | Department of Organic Chemistry | 2014 | 2016 | Jerome Lacour (post-doc) |
| Martin K. Patel | Energy Science | | | | |
| François Pellissier | Neuroscience, Biochemistry | | | | Marc Ballivet (grad student) |
| Claude Piguet | | Chimie inorganique | | | Alan F. Williams (grad student) |
| Alexandre Pinkus | | | | 1918 | Philippe-Auguste Guye (grad student) |
| Placidus Andreas Plattner | | | | 1931 | Paul Emil Cherbuliez (grad student) |
| Amalia Isabel Poblado-Bahamonde | computational chemistry, reactions mechanisms, organometallic chemistry | | | | |
| Dorigondla Kumar Reddy | | Department of Organic Chemistry | | | Nicolas Winssinger (post-doc) |
| Aurélien Roux | | | | | |
| Bernard Lucien Roy | Organic Chemistry, Neuroscience,Microbiome | | 1986 | 1988 | Wolfgang Oppolzer (post-doc) |
| Kalyan K. Sadhu | New synthetic routes of gold nanomaterials | | 2013 | 2014 | Nicolas Winssinger (post-doc) |
| Joana Santos | | | | | Dominique Soldati-Favre (grad student) |
| Wen Shao | | | | | Clément Mazet (grad student) |
| Rupali Shivapurkar | | Department of organic chemistry | | | Damien Jeannerat (grad student) |
| Dominique Soldati-Favre | | | | | |
| Alan C. Spivey | Synthetic Chemistry | | 1991 | 1993 | Wolfgang Oppolzer (post-doc) |
| Irena Stara | | | 1993 | 1994 | Wolfgang Oppolzer (post-doc) |
| Alfred Tissières | ribosomal proteins | | | | |
| Antoine J.A. Van der Wijk | | | 1940 | 1953 | Kurt Heinrich Meyer (collaborator) |
| Eric Vauthey | | | | | |
| Pragya Verma | | | 2018 | | Eric Vauthey (grad student) |
| Mahesh Vishe | Organic Chemistry | Organic Chemistry | 2010 | 2015 | Jerome Lacour (grad student) |
| Bruno Vitorge | | Department of organic chemistry | | | Damien Jeannerat (grad student) |
| Antoine Wallabregue | Chemical biology | Chemistry | 2010 | 2015 | Jerome Lacour (grad student) |
| Jean-Jacques Weigle | bacteriophage λ | | | 1923 | Charles-Eugène Guye (grad student) |
| Alan F. Williams | | | | | |
| Nicolas Winssinger | chemical biology, templated reaction, molecular evolution | | 2012 | | Sofia Barluenga (collaborator) |
| Yaotian Wu | Chemical Sensors | | | | |
| Xiaojiang Xie | | Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry | 2011 | 2015 | Eric Bakker (grad student) |
| Claudio A. Zambaldo | Synthetic Chemistry, Chemical Biology | | | | Nicolas Winssinger (grad student) |