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Gary W. Brudvig
Gary W. Brudvig is an American chemist at Yale University who studies water oxidation in photosystem II and designs catalysts for artificial photosynthesis and solar fuels.
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.
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 Boons
Geert-Jan Boons is a chemical biologist and glycoscientist, professor at the University of Georgia and Utrecht University, known for chemoenzymatic methods that make complex glycans accessible in pure form.
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.
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.
Geoffrey A. Ozin
Geoffrey A. Ozin is a Canadian materials chemist at the University of Toronto, widely called the father of nanochemistry, and won the 2011 Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
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.
Geoffrey Eglinton
Geoffrey Eglinton (1927–2016) was a British chemist whose insights into the geological fate of organic compounds made him the father of modern organic geochemistry and pioneer of molecular-fossil research.
Geoffrey W. Coates
Geoffrey W. Coates (born 1966) is an American chemist, the Tisch University Professor at Cornell University, known for catalysts that make polymers from carbon dioxide and recyclable plastics.
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921–1996) was a British inorganic chemist at Imperial College London who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on organometallic sandwich compounds.
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 Bredig
Georg Bredig (1868–1944) was a German physical chemist regarded as the founder of catalysis research, known for Bredig's arc method, zwitterions, and asymmetric catalysis; driven from Karlsruhe by the Nazis, he died in New York.
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.
Georg Lunge
Georg Lunge (1839–1923) was a German-born chemist, professor of technical chemistry at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum in Zürich from 1876 to 1907, best known for the nitrometer that bears his name.
Georg Wittig
Georg Wittig (1897–1987) was a German organic chemist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing phosphorus reagents, including the Wittig reaction for making alkenes.
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 A. Olah
George A. Olah (1927–2017) was a Hungarian-born American chemist at the University of Southern California who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on carbocations in superacids.
George Barany
George Barany, born in Hungary in 1955, is an American chemist and University of Minnesota professor known for peptide chemistry, the Dts protecting group, and orthogonality in synthesis.
George Barger
George Barger (1878–1939) was a British chemist and biochemist, born in Manchester, who isolated tyramine and histamine and, with Henry Dale, laid the foundation for chemical neurotransmission.
George Büchi
George Büchi (1921–1998) was a Swiss-born organic chemist who spent his career at MIT and is known for the Paternò–Büchi reaction and natural product synthesis.
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 Christou
George Christou is a Cypriot-born synthetic inorganic chemist, University Distinguished Professor and Drago Chair holder at the University of Florida since 2001, and a pioneer of single-molecule magnetism.
George de Hevesy
George de Hevesy (Georg von Hevesy; Hungarian Hevesy György; 1885–1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist who invented the radioactive tracer method, winning the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and co-discovering hafnium.
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 K. H. Shimizu
George K. H. Shimizu is a Canadian inorganic materials chemist and University of Calgary professor known for CALF-20, a metal-organic framework for industrial-scale carbon dioxide capture.
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 M. Sheldrick
George M. Sheldrick (1942–2025) was a chemist and Fellow of the Royal Society, professor of structural chemistry at Göttingen, and author of the SHELX programs that refined most small-molecule structures.
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.