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Researchers in chemical biology, analytical chemistry, and mass spectrometry

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Richard D. Cummings

Richard D. Cummings is a glycobiologist who directs the National Center for Functional Glycomics and the Harvard Medical School Center for Glycoscience at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Richard Kuhn

Richard Kuhn was an Austrian-born German biochemist who won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on carotenoids and vitamins, and directed the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut in Heidelberg.

Richard L.M. Synge

Richard L.M. Synge, full name Richard Laurence Millington Synge, was a British biochemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with A.J.P. Martin for inventing partition chromatography.

Richard N. Zare

Richard N. Zare, born in 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American physical chemist at Stanford known for laser-induced fluorescence and showing that reactions accelerate in microdroplets.

Richard Smith (chemist)

Richard D. Smith is an American chemist and mass spectrometry researcher who spent 1976 to 2024 at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, becoming a Battelle Fellow.

Robert A. Alberty

Robert A. Alberty (1921–2014) was an American physical chemist at MIT, dean of its School of Science from 1967 to 1982, known for enzyme kinetics and biochemical thermodynamics.

Robert M. Dickson

Robert M. Dickson is a chemist and the Vassar Woolley Professor at Georgia Tech since 1998, known for 1997 single-molecule GFP blinking work and photoactivated fluorescent silver nanoclusters.

Robert Milton Silverstein

Robert Milton Silverstein (1916–2007) was an American chemist and chemical ecologist known for the textbook Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds and bark beetle pheromone research.

Robert R. Williams

Robert R. Williams was an American chemist, a National Academy of Sciences member, best known for isolating vitamin B1 (thiamine), determining its structure, and synthesizing it.

Robert T. Kennedy

Robert T. Kennedy is an analytical chemist who holds the Hobart H. Willard Distinguished Professorship at the University of Michigan, developing microfluidics and capillary electrophoresis for bioanalysis.

Robert Tycko

Robert Tycko, also published as R. Tycko, is an American biophysical chemist at the NIH's NIDDK who uses solid-state NMR to determine the structures of amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer's disease.

Robin Hill (plant biochemist)

Robin Hill (1899–1991) was a British plant biochemist who spent his career in Cambridge, discovered the Hill reaction showing that isolated chloroplasts produce oxygen, and proposed the Z-scheme of photosynthesis with F. L. Bendall in 1960.

Roger J. Williams

Roger J. Williams (1893–1988) was an American biochemist at the University of Texas at Austin whose laboratory discovered several B vitamins, including pantothenic acid and folic acid.

Roman Zubarev

Roman A. Zubarev is a chemist and professor of medical proteomics at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, known as a pioneer of electron capture dissociation, a mass spectrometry fragmentation method.

Rowena Green Matthews

Rowena Green Matthews is an American biochemist at the University of Michigan known for her work on folate and vitamin B12 enzyme mechanisms, especially methionine synthase.

Rudi Fasan

Rudi Fasan is an Italian-born chemical biologist who joined UT Dallas in 2023 as a CPRIT Scholar, engineering myoglobin and P450 enzymes for carbene- and nitrene-transfer reactions useful in making pharmaceuticals.

Rudolph John Anderson

Rudolph John Anderson (1879–1961) was a Swedish-born American biochemist, professor of chemistry at Yale, best known for his chemical studies of the lipids of the tubercle bacillus.

Sambashiva Banala

Sambashiva Banala is a chemical biologist and Senior Scientist in Luke Lavis's group at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for photoactivatable compounds and co-authoring a widely cited 2018 Science paper.

Scott A Hilderbrand

Scott A Hilderbrand, born 1976, is a chemist who developed fluorescent nitric oxide and zinc sensors, near-infrared imaging probes, and tetrazine bioorthogonal chemistry at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Scott A. McLuckey

Scott A. McLuckey is an American analytical chemist at Purdue University, the John A. Leighty Distinguished Professor, known for gas-phase ion/ion reactions and protein-ion manipulation by mass spectrometry.

Sebastian Kruss

Sebastian Kruss is a German physical chemist who has been Professor of Physical Chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum since 2020, known for fluorescent carbon nanotube biosensors.

Shin-Ichiro Nishimura

Shin-Ichiro Nishimura (西村 紳一郎) is a Japanese glycoscientist and Specially Appointed Professor at Hokkaido University known for automated glycan synthesis, the artificial Golgi apparatus, and oncofetal fibronectin cancer biomarkers.

Shinsuke Sando

Shinsuke Sando (SANDO Shinsuke) is a Japanese chemical biologist, a professor at the University of Tokyo since 2014, known for molecular probes that image biological activity in living systems.

Shuming Nie

Shuming Nie is a chemist and bioengineer known for 1997 single-molecule SERS detection and 1998 quantum-dot bioconjugates, and now works on cancer nanomedicine at Illinois.

Sidney F. Velick

Sidney F. Velick (1913–2007) was an American biochemist known for fluorescence studies of how enzymes bind coenzymes and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.

Sidney P. Colowick

Sidney P. Colowick (1916–1985) was an American biochemist who worked on glucose metabolism, described hexokinase and NADH's structure, and co-founded the reference series Methods in Enzymology.

Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen

Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen was a Danish chemist who headed the Carlsberg Laboratory's chemical department from 1901 to 1938 and introduced the pH scale in 1909.

Stanley J. Opella

Stanley J. Opella is a chemist at the University of California, San Diego, known for developing solid-state NMR methods that determine membrane protein structures in lipid bilayers.

Stefan Kubicek

Stefan Kubicek (born 1978 in Vienna) is an Austrian chemical biologist who leads a chemical epigenetics group at CeMM in Vienna, studying small molecules that control cellular identity.

Stephen P. Cramer

Stephen P. Cramer (S. P. Cramer) is a chemist working in synchrotron x-ray spectroscopy and bio-inorganic chemistry, professor emeritus at UC Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.