1. Ira Remsen (1846)

American Chemist

Chemist who became an accidental co-inventor of the artificial sweetener saccharin.

2. Leo Baekeland (1863)

American Chemist

Chemist who invented the first synthetic plastic, which he called Bakelite.

3. Farrington Daniels (1889)

American Chemist

Pioneer in the use of solar power, who made the earliest serious research into practical solar energy application. He won the Priestley Medal for his work in solar energy in...

4. Harold Urey (1893)

American Chemist

An American physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for discovering the isotope deuterium. He also did important work in uranium enrichment and isotope separation through...

5. Lloyd Hall (1894)

American Chemist

Remembered for his significant innovations in the realm of food preservation, this twentieth-century chemist patented close to sixty of his food processes. Most notably, he further developed chemist Karl Seifert's...

6. Alfred Hershey (1908)

American Chemist

Bacteriologist who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for making discoveries on the replication of viruses and their genetic structure. He also conducted the Hershey-Chase experiment where...

7. Myrtle Bachelder (1908)

American Chemist

Chemist remembered for her secret work on the development of the atomic bomb. Later in her career, she made important discoveries related to the metallic elements of indium and tellurium.

8. Jerome Karle (1918)

American Chemist

An American physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985 for his work analyzing crystal structures. He was also the president of the American Crystallographic Association in...

9. Tracy Hall (1919)

American Chemist

Chemist who became the first person to grow a synthetic diamond according to a reproducible process and using a press of his own design while working at GE. The company...

10. William Lipscomb (1919)

American Chemist

An American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1976 for his studies on the structure of boranes. He was also a member of the United States National...

11. Rudolph Pariser (1923)

American Chemist

Polar chemist who worked at DuPont in the Central Research Department at the Experimental Station. He is known for his work on molecular orbital computation known as the Pariser–Parr–Pople method.

12. Richard Smalley (1943)

American Chemist

Physicist and astronomer who is considered the father of nanotechnology. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for his discovery of fullerenes.

13. Tim Scully (1944)

American Chemist

California man who, in 1974, was convicted for his role in the production of the hallucinogenic drug LSD during the 60's. He was originally sentenced to 20 years in prison...

14. Eric Jacobsen (1960)

American Chemist

American organic chemist and Harvard University professor. He became known for his work on the chemical and physical catalysts for organic processes.

15. Rodney H. Banks (1953)

American Chemist

Chemist whose invention TRASAR won a United States Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award and helped improve the control of industrial water treatment.

16. George I. Fujimoto (1920)

American Chemist

George I. Fujimoto is an American chemist of Japanese descent. During his studies at Harvard his family was imprisoned in an American internment camp Minidoka in Idaho. He discovered the...

17. George Parshall (1929)

American Chemist

George W. Parshall is a distinguished member of the organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis communities and has played a key role in advising the U. S. Army in its ongoing...

18. Alan Schriesheim (1930)

American Chemist

Dr. Alan Schriesheim PhD is The Director Emeritus and the retired CEO of Argonne National Laboratory one of the U. S. Department of Energy's largest research centers. In a January...

19. Robert Curl (1933)

American Chemist

Robert Floyd Curl Jr. is an emeritus professor of chemistry at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of fullerene. Born...

20. Harry B. Gray (1935)

American Chemist

Harry Barkus Gray is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. He won the Priestley Medal in 1991 Harvey Prize in 2000 The Benjamin Franklin...

21. M Stanley Whittingham (Unknow)

American Chemist

M. Stanley Whittingham is an American chemist. He is currently a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program...

22. John E. McMurry (1942)

American Chemist

John McMurry born July 27 1942 in New York City is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. He received his Ph. D. working...

23. Rodney J. Bartlett (1944)

American Chemist

Rodney J. Bartlett born March 31 1944 in Memphis Tennessee U. S. is Graduate Research Professor of Chemistry and Physics University of Florida Gainesville USA. He received his B. Sc....

24. Peter B. Armentrout (1953)

American Chemist

Peter B. Armentrout is a researcher in thermochemistry kinetics and dynamics of simple and complex chemical reactions. He is a Chemistry Professor at the University of Utah.

25. Paul Barbara (1953)

American Chemist

Paul Frank Barbara was an American chemist. His research interests focused on the understanding of the molecular structure and dynamics of complex chemical systems including organic semi-conductors for photovoltaic applications...

26. Peter Guy Wolynes (1953)

American Chemist

Peter Guy Wolynes is an American theoretical chemist and physicist. Since 2011 he has been a Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Science and Professor of Chemistry at the Rice University. He...

27. Gary Schuster (1946)

American Chemist

Gary Benjamin Schuster was the interim president of the Georgia Institute of Technology a position he held from July 1 2008 when former president G. Wayne Clough stepped down until...

28. Ronnie Kosloff (1948)

American Chemist

Ronnie Kosloff is a professor of theoretical chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry and Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel. He is a member of...

29. Peter T. Wolczanski (1954)

American Chemist

Peter Thomas Wolczanski is the George W. and Grace L. Todd professor ofChemistry at Cornell University.

30. Ralph Nuzzo (1954)

American Chemist

Ralph G. Nuzzo born February 23 1954 in Paterson New Jersey is an American chemist and professor. Nuzzo is a prominent researcher in the chemistry of materials including processes that...

31. Robert A. Brown (1951)

American Chemist

This page is about the university president. For the mining industry person see Robert A. Volcanic Brown. Robert A. Brown is the 10th president of Boston University. He was formerly...

32. Charles M. Lieber (1959)

American Chemist

Charles M. Lieber is an American chemist and pioneer in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. In 2011 Lieber was recognised as the leading chemist in the world by Thomson...

33. Dennis A. Dougherty (1952)

American Chemist

Dennis A. Dougherty is the George Grant Hoag Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. His research applies physical organic chemistry to systems of biological importance. Dougherty utilizes a...

34. Richard A. Friesner (1952)

American Chemist

Richard A. Friesner is an American theoretical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

35. James L. Leighton (1964)

American Chemist

James Lincoln Leighton is a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is a leading figure in the field of organic chemistry best known for...

36. Jacqueline Barton (1952)

American Chemist

Jacqueline K. Barton New York City NY is an American chemist. She is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. The primary focus...

37. Holden Thorp (1964)

American Chemist

Herbert Holden Thorp is a chemist inventor musician professor and entrepreneur. He served as the tenth chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thorp assumed the position...

38. Bhanu Pratap Jena (1955)

American Chemist

Bhanu Pratap Jena is an American cell biologist and the George E. Palade University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Physiology at the Wayne State University School of Medicine who in...

39. Kevin K. Lehmann (1955)

American Chemist

Kevin K. Lehmann is an American chemist and spectroscopist at the University of Virginia best known for his work in the area of intramolecular and collisional dynamics and for his...

40. Nicholas A. Kotov (1965)

American Chemist

Nicholas A. Kotov FRSC is the Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor MI. He is best known for...

41. Joseph Francisco (1955)

American Chemist

Joseph S. Francisco was President of the American Chemical Society from 2009-2010. He currently serves as the William E. Moore Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry at...

42. Jonathan Sessler (1956)

American Chemist

Jonathan Sessler is a professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin. He is notable for his pioneering work on expanded porphyrins and their applications to biology and...

43. Babatunde Ogunnaike (1956)

American Chemist

Babatunde Ayodeji Ogunnaike is an American Chemical Engineer of Nigerian descent and the William L. Friend Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University Of Delaware

44. Stuart Schreiber (1956)

American Chemist

Stuart L. Schreiber is a scientist at Harvard University and the Broad Institute. He has been a pioneer in a field of research named chemical biology for over 20 years....

45. Todd Martinez (1968)

American Chemist

Todd J. Martínez is a David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and a Professor of Photon Science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory....

46. Jeffery W. Kelly (1960)

American Chemist

Jeffery W. Kelly is the former Dean of Graduate Studies and Vice President of Academic Affairs and currently is the Chairman of Molecular and Experimental Medicine and the Lita Annenberg...

47. Brian Coppola (1957)

American Chemist

Brian P. Coppola is a chemistry professor at the University of Michigan. Raised in Methuen Massachusetts and Derry New Hampshire Coppola is the eldest of four children of Frank and...

48. Walter Cooper (scientist) (1928)

American Chemist

Cooper PhD is an American scientist humanitarian activist and educator. Primarily a research scientist he was also heavily involved in civil rights work both in Rochester New York and in...

49. Weitao Yang (1961)

American Chemist

Yang is a Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry in Duke University. Yang's main contributions to chemistry include density functional theory development and its applications to chemistry.

50. Kim Janda (1957)

American Chemist

Kim D. Janda is an American chemist who studies on medicinal chemistry molecular biology immunology and neuropharmacology. Janda currently holds the rank of the Ely R. Callaway Jr. Chaired Professor...