Chemists

Gregory N. Tew

Gregory N. Tew is an American polymer scientist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for pioneering biomimetic antimicrobial polymers that mimic host-defense peptides.

Sep 17, 2026

Gregory Neil Tew

Gregory Neil Tew is an American polymer scientist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a PECASE recipient known for synthetic mimics of antimicrobial peptides.

Gregory P. Baxter

Gregory P. Baxter (1876–1953) was an American analytical chemist at Harvard who determined the atomic weights of 29 elements and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1916.

Sep 17, 2026

Gregory S. Engel is an American chemist and ultrafast spectroscopist at the University of Chicago, known for his 2007 Nature paper reporting wavelike quantum coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer.

Greta R. Patzke

Greta R. Patzke (born 1974) is a German chemist, Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Zurich since 2016, researching water splitting catalysis.

Guangbin Dong

Guangbin Dong (董广彬) is an American-based organic chemist at the University of Chicago known for catalytic carbon–carbon bond activation and "cut & sew" ring construction.

Sep 17, 2026

Guibin Jiang (江桂斌)

Guibin Jiang (江桂斌) is a Chinese analytical and environmental chemist at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for research on persistent organic pollutants and mercury.

Guido H. Clever

Guido H. Clever is a German supramolecular chemist, professor of bioinorganic chemistry at TU Dortmund since 2015, known for palladium coordination cages and metal-base pairs in DNA.

Guillaume De Bo

Guillaume De Bo is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester, known for mechanophores, rotaxane molecular machines, and a 2024 Nature paper on force-controlled cargo release.

Guillermo C. Bazan

Guillermo C. Bazan is a chemist known for conjugated oligoelectrolytes, who taught at UC Santa Barbara from 1998 to 2019 and joined the National University of Singapore in 2020.

Günter Jung

Günter Jung is a German chemistry professor at the University of Tübingen, expert in liposomes and DNA transfection, named on the foundational European mRNA vaccine patent.

Günter Scheibe

Günter Scheibe (1893–1980) was a German physical chemist, professor at the Technical University of Munich from 1932 to 1961, whose 1936 discovery of ordered dye aggregates, the Scheibe effect, opened the study of exciton coupling.

Günther Balz

Günther Balz was a chemist who, with Günther Schiemann, discovered the Balz–Schiemann reaction for making aryl fluorides from aromatic amines at the Technische Hochschule Hannover in 1927.

Günther Rupprechter

Günther Rupprechter is an Austrian materials chemist and professor at TU Wien who studies heterogeneous catalysis with operando spectroscopy and microscopy, including single catalytic particles.

Günther Schiemann

Günther Schiemann (1899–1967) was a German chemist, born in Breslau, who described the Balz–Schiemann reaction in 1927, a two-step conversion of aryl amines into aryl fluorides still used industrially.

Günther Wilke

Günther Wilke (1925–2016) was a German organometallic chemist who discovered the selective cyclotrimerization of butadiene, demonstrated ligand control in nickel catalysis, and led the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung from 1969 to 1993.

Gustaf Komppa

Gustaf Komppa (1867–1949) was a Finnish chemist known for the total synthesis of camphoric acid, announced in 1903, and of camphor, published in 1908, and for the first industrial commercialization of such a synthesis.

Gustav Ehrhart

Gustav Ehrhart (1894–1971) was a German chemist who led I.G. Farben's pharmaceutical-scientific laboratories and, with Max Bockmühl, achieved the first synthesis of methadone, a heroin-substitute analgesic.

Gustav Heinrich Tammann

Gustav Heinrich Tammann (1861–1938) was a Baltic German physical chemist and metallurgist at Göttingen, counted among the founders of metallography and the science of metals.

Gustave Bémont

Gustave Bémont was a French chemist and head of experimental studies at ESPCI Paris, remembered as co-signatory with Pierre and Marie Curie of the 1898 note announcing radium.

Gustavo E. Scuseria

Gustavo E. Scuseria, born 1956 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine-born American theoretical chemist at Rice University known for the HSE and TPSS density functionals and coupled-cluster methods.

Guy Bertrand (French chemist)

Guy Bertrand (born 1952) is a French chemist and Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego, known for preparing the first stable carbene in 1988 and for cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene chemistry.

Guy C. Lloyd‐Jones

Guy C. Lloyd-Jones FRS is a British physical organic chemist, Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.

H. Bernhard Schlegel

H. Bernhard Schlegel is a theoretical chemist at Wayne State University in Detroit, known for reaction path following algorithms, the Berny geometry optimizer, and his role in developing Gaussian.

H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins

Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923–2004) was a British theoretical chemist who, in mid-career, became a founding figure of cognitive science, co-founding machine intelligence research at Edinburgh and coining the term "cognitive science" in 1973.

H. E. Carter

H. E. Carter, or Herbert Edmund Carter, was an American biochemist who pioneered sphingolipid research at the University of Illinois and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1953.

Hae Jung Son

Hae Jung Son (손해정) is a South Korean chemist and organic photovoltaics researcher who is a principal researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology.

Haeshin Lee

Haeshin Lee is a South Korean chemist and professor at KAIST known for inventing polydopamine, a mussel-inspired surface coating, and for bio-inspired adhesives and hemostatic medical devices.

Hailiang Wang

Hailiang Wang is an energy chemist and Yale professor of chemistry since 2014 who studies electrocatalysis and batteries, known for the 2019 molecular catalyst that converts carbon dioxide to methanol.