Chemists

Fritz Kögl

Fritz Kögl was a German organic chemist (1897–1959) who spent his career at Utrecht University, where he identified the plant growth hormone heteroauxin as indole-3-acetic acid in 1934 and crystallized biotin in 1936.

Fritz Kröhnke

Fritz Kröhnke (1903–1981) was a German chemist and professor in Berlin and Freiburg whose Kröhnke pyridine synthesis, discovered with Wilfried Zecher at Giessen in 1961, remains in use.

Fritz Plato

Fritz Plato (1858–1938) was a German chemist and director of the German Institute of Weights and Measures whose 1900 tables gave brewing the degrees Plato scale.

Fritz Pregl

Fritz Pregl (1869–1930) was an Austrian chemist and physician at Graz University who founded quantitative organic microanalysis, analyzing milligram samples, and won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Fritz Schönhöfer

Fritz Schönhöfer (1892–1965) was a German industrial chemist who worked at Bayer and is documented in the German biographical record only through the malaria-research circle of the pharmacologist Werner Schulemann.

Fritz Strassmann

Fritz Strassmann (1902–1980) was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn, identified barium in neutron-irradiated uranium in December 1938, the decisive step in the discovery of nuclear fission.

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.

Fritz Weigert

Fritz Weigert (1876–1947) was a German-British photochemist, professor of photochemistry at Leipzig from 1914 until his 1935 dismissal, known for the Weigert effect of photo-induced anisotropy.

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.

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G. Alexander Mills

G. Alexander Mills, born George Alexander Mills (1914–2004), was a Canadian-born American chemist in industrial catalysis who worked with Eugene Houdry and led the University of Delaware's catalysis center.

G. Julius Vancsó

G. Julius Vancsó (Vancsó Gyula) is a Hungarian-born Dutch materials scientist who held the polymer chair at the University of Twente from 1995, now emeritus.

G. K. Surya Prakash

G. K. Surya Prakash, born in Bangalore in 1953, is an Indian-born American organofluorine chemist at USC known for the Prakash reagent and the Methanol Economy.

Gábor A. Somorjai

Gábor A. Somorjai (1935–2025) was a Hungarian-born American chemist at UC Berkeley who founded the molecular surface science of heterogeneous catalysis and won the Wolf, Priestley, and Fermi awards.

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 Stein

Gabriel Stein (1920–1976) was a physical chemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known as a pioneer in the radiation chemistry of nucleotides and radiobiology.

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.

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.

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.

Garret Miyake

Garret M. Miyake is an American chemist at Colorado State University known for developing organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization (O-ATRP), which makes polymers with organic catalysts and visible light.

Sep 17, 2026

Gary A. Baker

Gary A. Baker is an American analytical chemist at the University of Missouri who studies ionic liquids, carbon nanodots, and SERS, and received a 2008 PECASE award.

Gary A. Molander

Gary A. Molander is an American organic chemist, Hirschmann-Makineni Professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 1999, known for organotrifluoroborate reagents and photoredox/nickel dual catalysis.

Gary B. Schuster

Gary B. Schuster is a photochemist and Vasser Woolley Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech, known for the CIEEL chemiluminescence mechanism and for long-distance charge transport in duplex DNA.

Sep 17, 2026

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.

Gary J. Patti

Gary J. Patti is an American chemist at Washington University in St. Louis who works in metabolomics and lipidomics, measuring small molecules by mass spectrometry.

Gary Keck

Gary E. Keck is an American organic chemist at the University of Utah known for the Keck asymmetric allylation and the first total synthesis of bryostatin 1.

Gary M. Hieftje

Gary M. Hieftje is an American analytical chemist who spent his career at Indiana University, known for atomic spectrometry, chemical instrumentation, aptamer biosensors, and the first ICP time-of-flight mass spectrometer.