| Edgar Wedekind | | | | | |
| Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig | Discovered the pinacol coupling reaction, mesitylene, diacetyl and biphenyl | | | | |
| Oswald Schmiedeberg | Pharmacology | | | | |
| Friedrich August Flückiger | | | | | |
| Paul Ehrlich | Bacteriology | | | | Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz (research assistant) |
| Sydney Howard Vines | | | | | Heinrich Anton de Bary (post-doc) |
| Thomas Vipond Barker | | | | | Paul Heinrich von Groth (research assistant) |
| Hermann (Emil) Louis Fischer | Organic chemistry, biochemistry | | 1872 | 1874 | Adolf von Baeyer (grad student) |
| Otto Philipp Fischer | | | | 1874 | Adolf von Baeyer (grad student) |
| Emil Gabriel Warburg | | | | | |
| Fredrick Orpen Bower | | | 1879 | 1880 | Heinrich Anton de Bary (research assistant) |
| Frederick Belding Power | flavours | | | 1880 | Friedrich August Flückiger (grad student) |
| Léon Crismer | | | | 1880 | Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (post-doc) |
| Samuel Lewis Penfield | Geology and Geophysics | | | 1881 | Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (post-doc) |
| Albrecht Kossel | | | | 1881 | Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (research scientist) |
| Harry Marshall Ward | botany, mycology, and plant pathology. | | | 1882 | Heinrich Anton de Bary (post-doc) |
| Gottlob Eduard Linck | Mineralogy, Geology, Crystallography | | | 1883 | Emil Wilhelm Cohen (grad student) |
| Hugo Erdmann | | | | 1883 | Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (grad student) |
| Alfred Koch | nitrogen-fixing by soil bacteria | | | 1884 | Heinrich Anton de Bary (grad student) |
| Emil Wilhelm Cohen | Petrography | | | | |
| Harry F. Keller | Organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry | | | 1888 | Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (grad student) |
| John Jacob Abel | isolation and characterization of hormones | | 1887 | 1888 | Oswald Schmiedeberg (post-doc), Adolf Kussmaul (post-doc), Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (post-doc), Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (post-doc) |
| Rudolf Gottlieb | | | 1889 | 1890 | Oswald Schmiedeberg (post-doc) |
| Arthur Wilhelm Karl Heffter | Mescalin | | | 1892 | Oswald Schmiedeberg (research scientist) |
| Arthur Robertson Cushny | Pharmacology | | | 1892 | Oswald Schmiedeberg (post-doc) |
| Friedrich Fichter | Inorganic chemistry | | | 1894 | Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (grad student) |
| John Edwin Mackenzie | | | | 1894 | Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (grad student) |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch | physics | | | | |
| Otto Loewi | pharmacology | | 1891 | 1896 | Oswald Schmiedeberg (grad student) |
| Carl L. Alsberg | protein metabolism, maize deterioration, sea mussels nutritive value, cell activity mechanisms, mold metabolism, fermentation theories | | | 1901 | Oswald Schmiedeberg (post-doc) |
| Hamilton McCombie | | | | 1905 | Johannes Thiele (grad student) |
| Hermann Staudinger | Polymer Chemistry | | 1903 | 1907 | Johannes Thiele (post-doc) |
| Erwin Ott | | | | 1909 | Hermann Staudinger (grad student) |
| George B. Wallace | | | 1904 | 1909 | Oswald Schmiedeberg (research scientist) |
| Johannes Thiele | | | | | |
| Heinrich Rheinboldt | Chemistry | | | 1918 | Edgar Wedekind (grad student), Johannes Thiele (grad student) |