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George Malcolm Dyson
George Malcolm Dyson (1902–1978) was a British organic chemist and information scientist who developed Dyson Notation, a linear coding system for organic compounds adopted by IUPAC in 1961.
George Murphy (American chemist)
George Moseley Murphy (1903–1968) was an American chemist who codiscovered deuterium, the heavy isotope of hydrogen, with Harold Urey and Ferdinand Brickwedde at Columbia University in 1931.
George O. Curme, Jr.
George O. Curme, Jr. (1888–1976) was an American industrial chemist at Union Carbide, called the father of ethylene for building the commercial chemistry that launched the petrochemical industry.
George Oliver Curme
George Oliver Curme was an American industrial chemist, research chief at Union Carbide, known as the father of ethylene for building a chemical industry on petroleum-derived ethylene.
George P. Smith (chemist)
George P. Smith, born 1941 in Connecticut, is an American molecular biologist who invented phage display at the University of Missouri, sharing the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
George Parshall
George Parshall (1929–2019) was an American organometallic chemist at DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware, known for homogeneous catalysis, catalytic hydrocarbon activation, and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1984.
George Porter
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, was a British photochemist who invented flash photolysis, shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and championed solar energy.
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.
George W. Huber
George W. Huber is a chemical engineer, the Richard L. Antoine Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, known for converting biomass into liquid fuels and co-founding Anellotech and Pyran.
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 Chaudron
Georges Chaudron (Georges Léon Chaudron) was a French chemist who devised the Chaudron diagram for iron-oxide reduction and led the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris.
Georges Guiochon
Georges Guiochon (1931–2014) was a French-born analytical chemist known for the theory of nonlinear chromatography and preparative separations, and a Distinguished Scientist at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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.
Georges Urbain
Georges Urbain (1872–1938) was a French chemist who discovered lutetium by separating ytterbium in 1907, won a 1909 priority ruling over Auer von Welsbach, and taught mineral chemistry at the Sorbonne.
Georgiy Shulpin
Georgiy Borisovich Shul'pin (Георгий Борисович Шульпин, 1946–2023) was a Russian chemist at the Semenov Institute in Moscow who developed vanadium and manganese systems for oxidizing alkane C–H bonds with hydrogen peroxide.
Gerald J. Meyer
Gerald J. Meyer is an American chemist at UNC-Chapel Hill known for research on electron transfer in dye-sensitized solar cells and director of the DOE solar hub CHASE since 2020.
Gerald R. Crabtree
Gerald R. Crabtree is a Stanford professor of pathology and developmental biology, a National Academy of Sciences member known for the calcineurin–NFAT pathway, BAF chromatin remodeling complexes in cancer, and chemically induced proximity.
Geraldine L. Richmond
Geraldine L. Richmond is an American physical chemist at the University of Oregon known for laser studies of water surfaces, who served as Under Secretary for Science at the Department of Energy from 2021 to 2025.
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.
Gerard Parkin
Gerard Parkin, known informally as Ged Parkin, is an inorganic and organometallic chemist at Columbia University since 1988, known for synthetic models of zinc enzymes and cleaving carbon-carbon bonds.
Gerard van Koten
Gerard van Koten, born 1942 in Haarlem, is a Dutch organometallic chemist, emeritus professor at Utrecht University, known for the NCN-pincer ligand platform used in catalysis.
Gerbrand Ceder
Gerbrand Ceder is a computational materials scientist, professor at UC Berkeley and Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for computational materials design, battery cathode discoveries, and co-founding The Materials Project.
Gerhard Erker
Gerhard Erker (born 1946) is a German organic and organometallic chemist, a long-time professor at the University of Münster known for frustrated Lewis pair chemistry, the metal-free activation of dihydrogen.
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.
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.
Gerhart Friedlander
Gerhart Friedlander, born Gerhart Friedländer, was a German-born American nuclear chemist, a Manhattan Project veteran at Los Alamos who later chaired the Chemistry Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory.