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Frieder Jäkle

Frieder Jäkle, born 1969, is a German-born materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University–Newark whose group develops boron-doped conjugated polymers for organic electronics and sensing.

Fritz Hofmann (chemist)

Fritz Hofmann (Friedrich Carl Albert Hofmann; 1866–1956) was a German chemist at Bayer who first made synthetic rubber on a technical scale, receiving a patent in 1909.

Fritz Vögtle

Fritz Vögtle (1939–2017) was a German organic chemist, professor and director of the Kekulé Institute at Bonn, whose 1978 cascade molecules opened dendrimer chemistry and whose group templated catenanes, rotaxanes, and knots.

Gaetano Guerra

Gaetano Guerra is an Italian polymer scientist and professor emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Salerno, internationally known for work on co-crystalline and nanoporous-crystalline phases of syndiotactic polystyrene.

Galen D. Stucky

Galen D. Stucky (G. D. Stucky) is an American inorganic and materials chemist at UC Santa Barbara, known for synthesizing mesoporous silicas such as SBA-15.

Gautam R. Desiraju

Gautam R. Desiraju, born 1952, is an Indian chemist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, a founder of crystal engineering who introduced the supramolecular synthon.

Geoff W. Coates

Geoffrey W. Coates, born 1966, is an American polymer chemist and Tisch University Professor at Cornell known for catalysts that turn carbon dioxide into recyclable polymers.

George M. Whitesides

George M. Whitesides, born 1939, is an American chemist at Harvard known for molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, and microfluidics, and a winner of the Kavli Prize.

George William Gray

George William Gray (1926–2013) was a British organic chemist at the University of Hull whose stable cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals, invented in 1972, made the modern LCD industry possible.

George Zografi

George Zografi is a pharmaceutical scientist and former dean of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Pharmacy, elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1989.

Georges Hadziioannou

Georges Hadziioannou is a Greek-born French polymer scientist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Bordeaux, known for semiconducting polymers for printable electronics and solar cells.

Gérard Férey

Gérard Férey (1941–2017) was a French inorganic chemist and CNRS research director who pioneered metal-organic frameworks, designing the MIL family of porous materials for gas storage.

Gerhard Wegner

Gerhard Wegner, born 1940, is a German polymer chemist known for the "hairy-rod" macromolecule design and for founding the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.

Giovanna Barbarella

Giovanna Barbarella is an Italian chemist at the CNR Institute of Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity in Bologna who introduced oligothiophene S,S-dioxides in 1998 and applied thiophene-based materials to light-emitting devices and fluorescent probes.

Giulio Natta

Giulio Natta was an Italian chemist at the Politecnico di Milano who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Karl Ziegler for polymer chemistry.

Goran Ungar

Goran Ungar is a polymer and liquid crystal scientist and Emeritus Professor of Polymers and Organic Materials at the University of Sheffield, known for discovering the first liquid quasicrystals.

Graeme Moad

Graeme Moad is an Australian chemist and CSIRO Fellow who co-invented RAFT polymerization at CSIRO in 1996, a controlled radical technique used by over 100 companies worldwide, and was elected to the Royal Society in 2023.

Greg G. Qiao

Greg G. Qiao, also known as Greg Qiao, is an Australian polymer scientist and professor at the University of Melbourne, leading its Polymer Science Group.

Gregory A. Sotzing

Gregory A. Sotzing, also published as G.A. Sotzing, is an American polymer chemist and professor at the University of Connecticut working on electrochromic polymers and dielectric energy storage.

Gregory N. Tew

Gregory N. Tew is an American polymer scientist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for pioneering biomimetic antimicrobial polymers that mimic host-defense peptides.

Gregory Neil Tew

Gregory Neil Tew is an American polymer scientist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a PECASE recipient known for synthetic mimics of antimicrobial peptides.

Guido H. Clever

Guido H. Clever is a German supramolecular chemist, professor of bioinorganic chemistry at TU Dortmund since 2015, known for palladium coordination cages and metal-base pairs in DNA.

Guillermo C. Bazan

Guillermo C. Bazan is a chemist known for conjugated oligoelectrolytes, who taught at UC Santa Barbara from 1998 to 2019 and joined the National University of Singapore in 2020.

Hae Jung Son

Hae Jung Son (손해정) is a South Korean chemist and organic photovoltaics researcher who is a principal researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology.

Han Young Woo

Han Young Woo is a South Korean polymer chemist, a full professor of chemistry at Korea University in Seoul, known for semi-crystalline polymer donors for organic solar cells.

Han‐Yue Zhang

Han-Yue Zhang (张含悦) is a Chinese materials chemist at Southeast University in Nanjing who designs biodegradable molecular ferroelectrics for biomedical uses, co-leading a 2024 Science paper.

Hans Fischer

Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for working out the structure of haemin and chlorophyll and synthesizing haemin in 1929.

Hans G. Börner

Hans G. Börner, also known as Hans Börner, is a German polymer chemist and materials scientist who has been a professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2009, known for sequence-defined biohybrid polymers.

Harm‐Anton Klok

Harm-Anton Klok, born 1971 in the Netherlands, is a polymer chemist and full professor at EPFL, where he leads the Polymers Laboratory and studies polymer brushes, biologically inspired polymers, and precision polymerization.

Harold Hibbert

Harold Hibbert (1877–1945) was an English-born chemist, E. B. Eddy Professor at McGill from 1925 to 1943, whose ethanolysis work yielded the Hibbert Bausteine, lignin building units still named for him.