Provides brief biographies of twenty-five diverse chemists past and present, explains the importance of their work, and pairs each profile with a chemistry experiment or hands-on activity designed for kids. Features full-color illustrations and photographs, step-by-step instructions, a glossary, the periodic table, and further resources.

Tapputi-Belatikallim : fragrance distillation -- Galen : soap -- Jabir ibn Hayyan : evaporation -- Joseph Priestley : carbonation -- Antoine Lavoisier : oxidation -- Alessandro Volta : chemical batteries -- William Henry Perkin : synthetic dyes -- Dmitri Mendeleev : the periodic table -- Svante August Arrhenius : temperature and chemical reactions -- Agnes Pockels : surface tension -- Marie Curie : elemental extraction -- S.P.L. Sorensen : The PH scale -- Mikhail Tsvet : chromatography -- Alice Ball : organic oil extraction -- Gerty Cori : the Cori Cycle -- Maria Goeppert-Mayer : the nuclear shell model -- Rachel Carson : dispersion of environmental contaminants -- Anna Jane Harrison : organic compounds and ultraviolet light -- Rosalind Franklin : DNA structure -- Edith Flanigen : molecular sieves -- Tu Youyou : medicinal plant compounds -- Ada Yonath : ribosome structure -- Margaret Cairns Etter : crystallography -- Linda Buck : olfactory chemistry -- Raychelle Burks : colormetric sensors.