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Ron Naaman

Ron Naaman is an Israeli physical chemist and professor emeritus at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for discovering the chirality-induced spin selectivity effect in chiral molecules.

Scott L. Anderson

Scott L. Anderson is a chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, known for size-selected cluster catalysis and for a 2009 Science paper linking catalyst particle size to reactivity.

Svetlana A. Sukhishvili

Svetlana A. Sukhishvili (Сухишвили) is a polymer scientist and professor of materials science at Texas A&M University since 2015, known for erasable hydrogen-bonded polymer films and salogels.

Sylvia T. Ceyer

Sylvia T. Ceyer is an American physical chemist at MIT, the John C. Sheehan Professor of Chemistry, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.

The Svedberg

Theodor (The) Svedberg was a Swedish physical chemist at Uppsala University who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on disperse systems.

Thierry Verbiest

Thierry Verbiest is a full professor in the Faculty of Science at KU Leuven, known for two 1990s Science papers on nonlinear optical polymers and supramolecular chirality.

Thomas W. Healy

Thomas W. Healy, born 1937, is an Australian physical chemist and professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne, known for colloid and interface science and mineral processing.

Victor La Mer

Victor La Mer (1895–1966) was an American colloid chemist at Columbia University, known for the LaMer model of particle formation and higher order Tyndall spectra.

Wolfgang Ostwald

Wolfgang Ostwald (1883–1943), son of Nobel laureate Wilhelm Ostwald, was a German chemist at Leipzig who established colloid science in Germany and wrote its most famous book, The World of Neglected Dimensions (1914).

Yousoo Kim

Yousoo Kim (金 有洙) is a Korean surface and interface chemist who leads a RIKEN laboratory in Japan, the first Korean Chief Scientist there since 2015.