Chemists

Hyo Jae Yoon

Hyo Jae Yoon (윤효재) is a South Korean chemist and professor at Korea University in Seoul, known for a 2010 Science paper on supramolecular catalysts and for molecular thermoelectricity.

Hyoyoung Lee is a South Korean materials chemist, professor at Sungkyunkwan University and Associate Director of the IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, known for graphene materials and single-atom electrocatalysis.

Hyunjoo Lee

Hyunjoo Lee (이현주) is a South Korean chemist and KAIST Endowed Chair Professor known for shape-controlled platinum and single-atom catalysts for fuel cells, electrolyzers, and exhaust treatment.

Iain McCulloch

Iain McCulloch is an organic semiconductor materials chemist and Fellow of the Royal Society who directs Princeton's Andlinger Center and designs semiconducting polymers like pBTTT.

Ian Heilbron

Sir Ian Morris Heilbron (1886–1959) was a Scottish organic chemist, a world authority on squalene who helped introduce DDT, contributed to penicillin chemistry, and won the Davy and Royal Medals.

Ian Manners

Ian Manners (1961–2023) was a British-Canadian chemist who pioneered organometallic polymers and crystallization-driven self-assembly, holding a Canada 150 Research Chair at the University of Victoria.

Ian W. Hamley

Ian W. Hamley, born 1965, is a soft-matter physical chemist and Diamond Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Reading, known for research on block copolymer and peptide self-assembly.

Ida Noddack

Ida Noddack, born Ida Eva Tacke, was a German chemist who co-discovered the element rhenium in 1925 and, in 1934, became the first to propose nuclear fission.

Ifan E. L. Stephens

Ifan E. L. Stephens is a professor of electrochemistry at Imperial College London, known for oxygen reduction catalysts in fuel cells, benchmarking iridium dissolution, and lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis.

Igor Larrosa

Igor Larrosa is a Spanish organic chemist who holds the Chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester, working on C–H activation and ruthenium and palladium catalysis.

Igor Lubomirsky

Igor Lubomirsky is an Israeli materials chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for showing in 2010 that water freezes differently on positively and negatively charged surfaces.

Igor V. Alabugin

Igor V. Alabugin is a Russian-born physical organic chemist at Florida State University since 2000, known for stereoelectronic effects, enediyne photochemistry, and the 2016 book Stereoelectronic Effects.

Ikuei Moritani

Ikuei Moritani, also recorded as Ichiro Moritani, was a chemist who with Yuzo Fujiwara observed in 1967 the palladium-catalyzed reaction of benzene with olefins now called the Fujiwara–Moritani reaction.

Ilan Marek

Ilan Marek (אילן מרק, born 1963 in Haifa) is a Franco-Israeli chemist at the Technion known for copper-mediated carbometalation and carbon–hydrogen bond activation, elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Ilona Stengel

Ilona Stengel is a chemist who researches materials for organic light-emitting diodes and has served as OLED Intellectual Property Liaison at Merck Electronics KGaA in Darmstadt since October 2023.

In Jae Chung

In Chung is a South Korean solid-state materials chemist and professor at Seoul National University, known for all-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells using CsSnI3 and for thermoelectric materials research.

In Su Lee

In Su Lee (이인수) is a South Korean materials chemist at POSTECH since 2011, known for silica nanoreactors controlling nanocrystal formation and for tiling silica onto living cells.

Ingo Krossing

Ingo Krossing is a German inorganic chemist, professor at the University of Freiburg since 2006, known for weakly coordinating anions and unified acidity and redox scales.

Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica

The Instituto de Tecnología Química (ITQ) is a Spanish catalysis research center in Valencia, created in 1990 as a joint center of CSIC and the Universitat Politècnica de València.

Insung S. Choi

Insung S. Choi (최인성) is a South Korean chemist and KAIST professor working in biomimetic chemistry, known for founding single-cell nanoencapsulation of living cells in artificial shells.

Ira A. Weinstock

Ira A. Weinstock is an American-born inorganic chemist and full professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, known for polyoxometalate cluster chemistry, green oxidation catalysis, and water oxidation research.

Ira Remsen

Ira Remsen (1846–1927) was an American chemist who codiscovered saccharin in 1879, founded the chemistry department at Johns Hopkins University, and later served as its president from 1901 to 1913.

Irene A. Chen

Irene A. Chen is an American chemical biologist and professor at UCLA who studies the origin of life, protocells, and bacteriophages, known for her 2004 Science paper on competition between model protocells.

Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie, also Irène Curie, was a French physicist and chemist who discovered artificial radioactivity with her husband Frédéric Joliot, winning the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Irving Langmuir

Irving Langmuir (1881–1957) was an American physical chemist who spent his career at General Electric in Schenectady and won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for surface chemistry.

Isabella Karle

Isabella Karle was an American X-ray crystallographer who spent 63 years at the US Naval Research Laboratory, turning direct methods into a working procedure for solving molecular structures.

Isadore Perlman

Isadore Perlman (1915–1991) was an American nuclear chemist who developed plutonium extraction for the Manhattan Project, first isolated curium, and later pioneered archaeological provenance studies.

Isidor Traube

Isidor Traube (1860–1943) was a German physical chemist, born in Hildesheim, who founded capillary chemistry, formulated Traube's rule, became a Berlin professor, and later settled in Edinburgh.

Israel E. Wachs

Israel E. Wachs is an American chemical engineer at Lehigh University known for pioneering operando spectroscopy of catalysts and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.