Famous Alchemists in History
Famous Alchemists In History is a structured people dataset with 15 entries. Its fields include Alchemist, Country, Era. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 15 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Apr 10, 2026
Included fields: Alchemist, Country, Era, Famous Work / Pursuit, Known For.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Country groups
- 10 distinct values
- Across 15 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Alchemist, Country, and Era across people entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 15 downloadable records
Alchemist↕ | Country↕ | Era↕ | Famous Work / Pursuit↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber) | Persia / Arabia | c.721-815 | Corpus alchemicum | Father of Arab chemistry, systematic lab methods, invented distillation and crystallization techniques |
| Paracelsus | Switzerland | 1493-1541 | Opus Paramirum | Founder of iatrochemistry, pioneered medical alchemy, burned traditional medical texts in Basel |
| Nicolas Flamel | France | c.1330-1418 | Book of Abraham the Jew (legend) | Legend of turning lead to gold and finding the Philosopher's Stone, real-life wealthy Paris scribe |
| Isaac Newton | England | 1643-1727 | Index Chemicus | Secret lifelong alchemy research in parallel with physics, wrote more on alchemy than on gravity |
| John Dee | England | 1527-1608 | Monas Hieroglyphica | Elizabethan mage, sought the stone and angelic conversations with Edward Kelley |
| Edward Kelley | England | 1555-1597 | Enochian magic records | John Dee's scryer, claimed to have made transmutations at Rudolf II's court in Prague |
| Zosimos of Panopolis | Roman Egypt | c.300 AD | Cheirokmeta | Oldest named Greek alchemist with surviving texts, dream visions of transmutation |
| Maria the Jewess | Hellenistic Egypt | 1st-2nd century | Lost treatises | Among the first named alchemists, invented the bain-marie (Mary's bath) still used in cooking |
| Mary the Jewess Rival: Cleopatra the Alchemist | Hellenistic Egypt | 3rd century | Chrysopoeia | Illustrated the ouroboros, developed distillation apparatus used for centuries |
| Albertus Magnus | Holy Roman Empire | c.1200-1280 | De Mineralibus | Dominican friar, teacher of Thomas Aquinas, credited with isolating arsenic |
| Roger Bacon | England | c.1220-1292 | Opus Majus | Franciscan friar, early advocate of experimental method mixed with alchemical theory |
| Basil Valentine | Germany (legendary) | 15th-17th century | The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony | Possibly pseudonymous Benedictine monk, antimony medicine and mineral chemistry |
| Hennig Brand | Germany | c.1630-1710 | Discovery of phosphorus | Searching for the Philosopher's Stone in urine and accidentally discovering phosphorus |
| Michael Sendivogius | Poland | 1566-1636 | Novum Lumen Chymicum | Court alchemist of Rudolf II, hinted at the discovery of oxygen a century before Lavoisier |
| Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa | Holy Roman Empire | 1486-1535 | De Occulta Philosophia | Occult philosopher who linked alchemy, astrology and magic into a unified esoteric system |
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How is Famous Alchemists in History organized?
The table starts in the source data's default order. You can sort and filter the loaded rows by the displayed fields.
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This dataset contains 15 entries, and every row is available in the table and in the downloadable files.
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