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Frederick Kaufman

Frederick Kaufman (1919–1985) was an Austrian-born American chemist at the University of Pittsburgh, a leader in gas-phase chemical kinetics whose measurements informed the US ban on CFC aerosol propellants.

Frederick Rossini

Frederick Rossini (1899–1990) was an American chemical thermodynamicist best known for directing the American Petroleum Institute's hydrocarbon research projects and compiling the reference tables that became design data for the oil industry.

Fumio Hirata

Fumio Hirata (平田 文男) is a Japanese theoretical chemist known for the RISM family of liquid-state theories describing solvation by statistical mechanics, implemented in software such as AMBER.

Gábor Csányi

Gábor Csányi is a Hungarian-born computational scientist and Professor of Molecular Modelling at Cambridge, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2025, known for machine-learned interatomic potentials like Gaussian approximation potentials.

Gabriel van Oordt

Gabriel van Oordt, published as G. van Oordt, was a student of Fritz Haber at Karlsruhe and co-author of the 1905 paper on the formation of ammonia from the elements.

Gang Wu (chemist)

Gang Wu is a Professor of Chemistry at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, known for developing NMR methods for quadrupolar nuclei, especially oxygen-17, and for 2014 work on N-heterocyclic carbene monolayers on gold.

Garnet K. L. Chan

Garnet K. L. Chan, also known as Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, is a Hong Kong-born theoretical chemist at Caltech known for tensor-network methods in quantum chemistry.

Gary Douberly

Gary Douberly is an American physical chemist at the University of Georgia who studies short-lived molecules by helium nanodroplet spectroscopy and received a 2012 PECASE award.

Gary E. Maciel

Gary E. Maciel was an American chemist known for solid-state NMR spectroscopy, who taught at Colorado State University from 1971 and directed its NMR Center.

Gavin E. Crooks

Gavin E. Crooks is an English chemist working in America on nonequilibrium thermodynamics and the physics of information, known for the 1999 Crooks fluctuation theorem.

Geert–Jan Kroes

Geert-Jan Kroes (born 1961) is a Dutch theoretical chemist and full professor at Leiden University, known for computer simulations of molecule–surface reaction dynamics and SRP-DFT.

Geoffrey Bodenhausen

Geoffrey Bodenhausen (born 1951) is a Dutch-born French NMR spectroscopist, a pioneer of multidimensional NMR and professor emeritus at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Geoffroy Hautier

Geoffroy Hautier is a computational materials scientist, Trustee Professor at Rice University, co-developer of the Materials Project database, and a 2025 fellow of the American Physical Society.

Georg Kresse

Georg Kresse, born in Vienna in 1967, is an Austrian theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Vienna, known as the main author of the VASP simulation package.

George A. Hulett

George A. Hulett was an American physical chemist and Princeton's first professor of physical chemistry, from 1909 to 1935, known for osmotic pressure and stable standard cells.

George C. Pimentel

George C. Pimentel, also known as G. C. Pimentel, was an American physical chemist at UC Berkeley who developed matrix isolation spectroscopy and discovered the first chemically pumped laser.

George E. Kimball

George E. Kimball (1906–1967) was an American quantum chemist and Columbia professor who became a founder of operations research, co-authoring Methods of Operations Research and winning the Navy's Presidential Citation of Merit.

George Flynn

George W. Flynn (1938–2020) was an American physical chemist at Columbia University known for laser studies of molecular energy flow and pioneering scanning tunneling microscopy of graphene.

George Kistiakowsky

George Kistiakowsky was a Ukrainian-born American physical chemist, a Harvard professor from 1930, who designed the explosive lenses for the first atomic bomb and later advised President Eisenhower.

George S. Hammond

George S. Hammond (1921–2005) was an American physical organic chemist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1963, known for the Hammond postulate and as a founder of organic photochemistry.

George Scatchard

George Scatchard (1892–1973) was an American physical chemist at MIT who studied the physical chemistry of solutions and protein binding; the Scatchard equation and plot still bear his name.

George Schatz

George C. Schatz, born in 1949, is an American theoretical chemist at Northwestern University known for quantum scattering of gas-phase reactions and metal nanoparticle optics, including SERS.

Gerhard Herzberg

Gerhard Herzberg was a German-Canadian physical chemist at the National Research Council of Canada who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on free radicals.

Gerhard L. Closs

Gerhard L. Closs, born Gerhard Ludwig Closs, was a German-born American physical organic chemist at the University of Chicago known for carbene chemistry and the radical-pair interpretation of CIDNP.

Gernot Frenking

Gernot Frenking is a theoretical chemist and professor emeritus at Philipps University of Marburg, known for energy decomposition analysis and bonding studies of unusual molecules.

Gershom Martin

Gershom Martin, who publishes as Jan M. L. Martin, is a Belgian-born computational quantum chemist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for the Wn thermochemistry methods.

Giacinto Scoles

Giacinto Scoles (1935–2024) was an Italian-born physical chemist who pioneered molecular beams, cryogenic bolometer detectors, and helium nanodroplet spectroscopy, and was Donner Professor of Science at Princeton from 1987.

Gianfranco Pacchioni

Gianfranco Pacchioni is an Italian theoretical chemist and full professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca whose computational work on oxide surfaces and supported metal atoms anticipated single-atom catalysis.

Gilbert N. Lewis

Gilbert N. Lewis, also known as Gilbert Newton Lewis, was an American physical chemist at Berkeley who created Lewis structures, the electron-pair bond, and Lewis acids and bases.

Gisbert Schneider

Gisbert Schneider is a Swiss-based biochemist and bioinformatician, Full Professor of Computer-Assisted Drug Design at ETH Zurich since 2010, credited with introducing AI-based drug design and coining "scaffold hopping".