Top 5 lousy chemist graves

The great chemists deserve a great grave.

Dmitri Mendeleev, August Kekulé

Some had their graves a bit overdone.

Louis Pasteur

A chemist can die in a lousy way, but a chemist can have a lousy grave as well.

Top 5 lousy chemist graves

1) Rosalind Franklin

Deserved a Nobel Prize and a decent grave.

2) Lise Meitner
Deserved a Nobel Prize and a decent grave as well.

4) Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Received a Nobel Prize and a lousy grave.

4) Friedrich WöhlerWas elected number 1 of the dead chemists but has a simple and plain grave.

5) Sir William Henry Perkin

I have no picture. Simon Garfield was unable to locate the grave at the time he wrote the book Mauve. Someone found the neglected grave a few years later.