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James Ibers
James Ibers (1930–2021) was an American inorganic chemist and crystallographer who spent more than 55 years at Northwestern University, edited Inorganic Chemistry, and determined the crystal structure of buckminsterfullerene.
Jarad Mason
Jarad Mason is an American inorganic chemist and Harvard University associate professor known for metal-organic frameworks, permanently porous liquids that store gases, and solid-state refrigeration, and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.
Jay A. Switzer
Jay A. Switzer is an American materials chemist and electrochemist at Missouri University of Science and Technology, known for growing single-crystal inorganic films by electrodeposition.
Jean Rouxel
Jean Rouxel (1935–1998) was a French chemist and professor at the University of Nantes, a founder of "chimie douce" whose intercalation chemistry of layered chalcogenides fed into lithium-battery cathodes.
Jeffrey R. Long
Jeffrey R. Long, born 1969, is an American chemist and UC Berkeley professor, a National Academy of Sciences member known for metal–organic frameworks for carbon capture and gas separations.
Jeffrey S. Beck
Jeffrey S. Beck (1962–2012) was an American industrial chemist at Mobil and ExxonMobil who co-discovered M41S mesoporous molecular sieves and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011.
Jin‐Ho Choy
Jin-Ho Choy (최진호), born in 1948, is a South Korean inorganic and materials chemist known for two-dimensional nanohybrid materials and drug and gene delivery research.
Joachim Maier
Joachim Maier (born 1955) is a German physical chemist known for pioneering nanoionics and for leading solid-state research at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart.
John Meurig Thomas
Sir John Meurig Thomas (1932–2020) was a Welsh solid-state chemist and pioneer of heterogeneous catalysis, known for single-site catalysts, the Davy Medal, and directing the Royal Institution.
John Stuart Anderson
John Stuart Anderson (1908–1990) was a British and Australian inorganic chemist who held posts at Imperial College, Harwell, Melbourne, and Oxford, known for non-stoichiometry and crystallographic shear planes.
Joshua E. Goldberger
Joshua E. Goldberger is the Charles H. Kimberly Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Ohio State, a leader in two-dimensional materials known for germanane and goniopolar materials.
Kang Min Ok
Kang Min Ok (옥강민) is a South Korean inorganic solid-state chemist and professor of chemistry at Sogang University in Seoul, known for ultraviolet birefringent crystals.
Karl O. Christe
Karl O. Christe (1936–2026) was a German-born American inorganic and fluorine chemist at the University of Southern California, known for the first chemical synthesis of elemental fluorine.
Kazuhiko Maeda
Kazuhiko Maeda (前田 和彦) is a Japanese chemist and professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, known for oxynitride photocatalysts that split water into hydrogen and oxygen with visible light.
Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier
Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier is an inorganic solid-state chemist, the Morrison Professor at Northwestern University, known for his 1998 review Noncentrosymmetric Oxides and oxide fluoride synthesis.
Leslie Leiserowitz
Leslie Leiserowitz, born 1934 in Johannesburg, is an Israeli chemist and crystallographer at the Weizmann Institute whose work showed how molecular chirality controls crystal shape and nucleation.
Mark Edward Thompson
Mark Edward Thompson is an American inorganic chemist at the University of Southern California whose phosphorescent iridium OLED materials, developed with Stephen Forrest, are used in displays worldwide.
Markus Niederberger
Markus Niederberger is a materials chemist who has been a full professor at ETH Zurich since 2017, known for the benzyl alcohol route to metal oxide nanoparticles.
Martin Jansen
Martin Jansen (born 1944) is a German solid-state chemist and director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, known for predictive materials discovery and non-toxic pigments.
Mas Subramanian
Mas Subramanian (Munirpallam Appadorai Subramanian) is an Indian solid-state chemist who accidentally discovered YInMn blue in 2009, the first new inorganic blue pigment in more than two centuries.
Masaki Azuma
Masaki Azuma (東 正樹) is a Japanese solid state chemist, a professor at Institute of Science Tokyo known for high-pressure synthesis of functional transition-metal oxides.
Matthew J. Rosseinsky
Matthew J. Rosseinsky is a materials chemist, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry since 1999, and Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Liverpool, working on solid-state and computational materials discovery.
Menny Shalom
Menny Shalom (Hebrew: מני שלום) is an Israeli solid-state chemist and professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev who develops carbon nitride and nickel-based electrocatalysts for renewable energy.
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, born 1957 in Thessaloniki, Greece, is a Greek-born American inorganic chemist at Northwestern University known for thermoelectric materials, halide perovskite solar cells, and radiation detectors.
Ou Chen
Ou Chen (陈鸥) is a materials chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Brown University, known for building the first single-component quasicrystalline nanocrystal superlattice, reported in Science in 2018.
P. Shiv Halasyamani
P. Shiv Halasyamani is an inorganic and materials chemist at the University of Houston, known for the 1998 review "Noncentrosymmetric Oxides" and for designing beryllium-free deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals.
Peter P. Edwards
Peter P. Edwards, born 1949, is a British inorganic and materials chemist, Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford, known for metal–nonmetal transitions and microwave routes to hydrogen.
Ram Seshadri
Ram Seshadri is a solid-state and materials chemist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who directs the Materials Research Laboratory and studies phosphors, thermoelectrics, and battery materials.
Raymond E. Schaak
Raymond E. Schaak is an American solid-state chemist, the DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry at Penn State, known for cation-exchange synthesis of vast nanoparticle libraries.
Richard Barrer
Richard Barrer (1910–1996) was a New Zealand-born chemist who spent his career in Britain, called the founding father of zeolite chemistry and a dominant figure in membrane science.