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Todd D. Krauss

Todd D. Krauss is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Rochester, known for work on carbon nanotube spectroscopy and quantum dots, including non-blinking nanocrystals.

Todd Emrick

Todd S. Emrick is an American polymer chemist, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and winner of the 2015 Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award.

Tomás Torres⊗

Tomás Torres (Tomás Torres Cebada) is a Spanish materials chemist known for phthalocyanines in solar cells, Emeritus Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and senior scientist at IMDEA Nanociencia.

Tomiki Ikeda

Tomiki Ikeda (池田 富樹) is a Japanese materials scientist at Chuo University known for photomobile polymers, liquid-crystalline polymer films that bend under light, first reported in a 2003 Nature paper.

Tomoki Ogoshi

Tomoki Ogoshi (生越 友樹) is a Japanese supramolecular chemist and professor at Kyoto University, formerly of Kanazawa University, known for the serendipitous 2008 discovery of pillar[n]arenes.

Tony Ryan

Tony Ryan (Anthony J. Ryan) is a British polymer chemist, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Sheffield and founding Director of the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.

Toshimi Shimizu

Toshimi Shimizu (清水 敏美) is a Japanese supramolecular chemist and Emeritus Researcher at AIST in Tsukuba who directed its Nanoarchitectonics Research Center and studies self-assembled lipid nanotubes for drug delivery and sensing.

Toyoki Kunitake

Toyoki Kunitake is a Japanese chemist known for the 1977 discovery that synthetic molecules can form bilayer membranes, honored with Japan's Order of Culture and the 2015 Kyoto Prize.

Trevor Douglas

Trevor Douglas is a biomimetic materials chemist who studies virus protein cages, and has been the Earl Blough Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University since 2014.

Ullrich Scherf

Ullrich Scherf is a polymer chemist and Senior Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Wuppertal, known for conjugated ladder polymers like MeLPPP used in polymer LEDs.

Ulrich S. Schubert

Ulrich S. Schubert, born 1969 in Tübingen, is a German polymer and supramolecular chemist, professor at Friedrich Schiller University Jena since 2007, known for an aqueous polymer redox-flow battery reported in Nature in 2015.

Uwe H. F. Bunz

Uwe H. F. Bunz is a German materials chemist known for work on conjugated polymers and fluorescent chemosensors, and a professor of organic chemistry at Heidelberg University since 2010.

Valentin Valtchev

Valentin Valtchev, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1959, is a Bulgarian-born chemist at the Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie in Caen, France, known for nanozeolites and the 2024 zeolite ZMQ-1.

Vincent M. Rotello

Vincent M. Rotello is an American chemist and bionanotechnologist, the Charles A. Goessmann Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, working on gold nanoparticles for sensing and drug delivery.

Virgil Boekelheide

Virgil Boekelheide (1919–2003) was an American organic chemist at the University of Oregon, known for the Boekelheide reaction and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1962.

Virgil Percec

Virgil Percec is a Romanian-born American supramolecular chemist who holds the P. Roy Vagelos Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, known for self-assembling dendrimers and SET-LRP.

Vladimir Prelog

Vladimir Prelog was a Swiss organic chemist at ETH Zurich, born in Sarajevo in 1906, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and created the CIP system for chiral molecules.

Vladimir Tsukruk

Vladimir V. Tsukruk is a Ukrainian-trained materials scientist and Regents Professor at Georgia Tech known for polymer nanocomposites and his 2004 Nature Materials nanomembrane sensors.

W. Mark Saltzman

W. Mark Saltzman is an American biomedical engineer and Sterling Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University since 2025, known for drug delivery and biomaterials research.

W. O. Baker

William Oliver Baker, known as W. O. Baker, was an American physical chemist who led Bell Laboratories research from 1955 to 1980, earning the National Medal of Science.

Wallace Carothers

Wallace Carothers (1896–1937) was an American organic chemist who led fundamental research at DuPont from 1928, invented neoprene and nylon, and founded condensation polymerization theory.

Walter H. Stockmayer

Walter H. Stockmayer (1914–2004) was an American physical chemist at Dartmouth College and a pioneer of polymer science, best known for his 1943 theory of gelation in branched polymers.

Walter Kaminsky

Walter Kaminsky (1941–2024) was a German chemist at the University of Hamburg who developed the metallocene/MAO catalysts named after him and a fluidized-bed process for recycling plastic waste.

Walter Lincoln Hawkins

Walter Lincoln Hawkins was an American polymer chemist at Bell Labs who developed stabilizers that let polyethylene replace lead as telephone cable sheathing, saving about $1.8 billion.

Wei You

Wei You (尤伟) is a chemist and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working on organic solar cells and 2D perovskites.

Wei Zhang (materials scientist)

Wei Zhang (张伟) is a polymer and materials chemist known for dynamic covalent chemistry and recyclable thermosets; he was a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Wenbin Lin

Wenbin Lin (林文斌) is a materials chemist, a pioneer of metal–organic frameworks and their use in catalysis and cancer nanomedicine, who joined Westlake University in 2025.

Werner M. Nau

Werner M. Nau, born 1968 in Fulda, Germany, is a German supramolecular and physical-organic chemist and professor at Constructor University Bremen, known for the chaotropic effect in host-guest chemistry.

Wilhelm Huck

Wilhelm T. S. Huck (born 1970) is a physical organic chemist and professor at Radboud University Nijmegen, known for droplet microfluidics, out-of-equilibrium reaction networks, and building a synthetic cell.

Will R. Dichtel

Will R. Dichtel, also known as William R. Dichtel, is a polymer chemist at Northwestern University known for covalent organic frameworks and winning a 2015 MacArthur Fellowship.