What chemist should I write about for a reasearch paper

I have looked at a bunch and I can't find one I want to do. Any ideas and what did they do?

Lavoisier. What he discovered and had to go through during the French Revolution is astounding. He basically described what happens during the burning process. But alas, he was beheaded. Research him.

"Robert Burns Woodward"

That's a very, very good one.

Others:

Elias James Corey - retrosynthesis (only one word, but a BIG idea)

Linus Carl Pauling

Gilbert Newton Lewis

Robert Burns Woodward: Cholesterol total synthesis
Woodward-Hoffman rules for electrocyclic reactions