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Ivan Horbachevsky

Ivan Horbachevsky (Ukrainian: Іван Горбачевський) was a Ukrainian-born chemist who achieved the first synthesis of uric acid in 1882 and later served as the first Minister for Public Health of Austria.

Ivan Huc

Ivan Huc (born 1969 in Besançon, France) is a French chemist known for aromatic oligoamide foldamers, helical synthetic molecules, and a professor at LMU Munich since 2017.

Ivan P. Parkin

Ivan P. Parkin is an inorganic materials chemist, Sir William Ramsay Professor of Chemistry at University College London, and Dean of its Mathematical and Physical Sciences faculty since 2016.

Ivan Stranski

Ivan Stranski (Иван Николов Странски) was a Bulgarian physical chemist who founded the molecular-kinetic theory of crystal growth and gave his name to the Stranski–Krastanov mechanism.

Izaak Kolthoff

Izaak Maurits Kolthoff was a Dutch-born American analytical chemist, professor at the University of Minnesota from 1927 to 1962, widely called the father of modern analytical chemistry.

J. Calvin Giddings

J. Calvin Giddings (1930–1996) was an American analytical chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah who invented field-flow fractionation and whose 1964 insight led to high-performance liquid chromatography.

J. Fraser Stoddart

Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (1942–2024) was a Scottish-born chemist who introduced the mechanical bond and won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for molecular machines.

J. Ilja Siepmann

J. Ilja Siepmann (Joern Ilja Siepmann) is a German-born chemist and professor at the University of Minnesota since 1994, known for the TraPPE force fields and Monte Carlo algorithms.

J. Justin Gooding

J. Justin Gooding, also known as John Justin Gooding, is an Australian electrochemist and biosensor researcher at UNSW Sydney and the inaugural editor-in-chief of ACS Sensors.

J. Larry Duda

J. Larry Duda (John Larry Duda, 1936–2006) was an American chemical engineer and Penn State professor who co-created the Vrentas-Duda free-volume theory of molecular transport in polymers.

J. Paul Attfield

J. Paul Attfield is a materials chemist at the University of Edinburgh known for solving the Verwey problem of magnetite in 2012 and elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2014.

J. Will Medlin

J. Will Medlin, also known as Will Medlin, is an American chemical engineer and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder known for controlling catalyst selectivity with organic monolayers.

Jacek Klinowski

Jacek Klinowski (born 1943 in Kraków) is a Polish-born chemist at the University of Cambridge, a pioneer of solid-state NMR studies of zeolites and editor of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

Jack Baldwin (organic chemist)

Sir Jack Edward Baldwin (1938–2020) was a British organic chemist and Waynflete Professor at Oxford whose 1976 Baldwin's rules predict which ring-forming reactions succeed; he also elucidated penicillin biosynthesis.

Jack D. Dunitz

Jack D. Dunitz (1923–2021) was a Scottish chemical crystallographer and professor of chemical crystallography at ETH Zurich from 1957 to 1990, known for the Bürgi–Dunitz angle.

Jack E. Taunton

Jack E. Taunton is a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF whose laboratory's reversible covalent chemistry produced the BTK inhibitor rilzabrutinib and who co-founded biotechnology companies including Terremoto Biosciences.

Jack F. Douglas

Jack F. Douglas is an American polymer physicist at NIST known for the string model of glass formation and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Jack Halpern (inorganic chemist)

Jack Halpern (1925–2018) was a Polish-born inorganic chemist at the University of Chicago, a founder of mechanistic organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis whose group made the first homogeneous transition-metal hydrogenation catalyst in 1961.

Jack L. Koenig

Jack L. Koenig (1933–2021) was an American polymer spectroscopist and founding faculty member of Case Western Reserve University's macromolecular science department, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.

Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham

Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham (1928 to 2014) was a British inorganic chemist who helped pioneer modern inorganic chemistry and was Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge from 1970 to 1995.

Jack Simons

Jack Simons (Jack Peter Simons, born 1945) is a theoretical chemist at the University of Utah known for his work on negative molecular ions and electron affinities.

Jack W. Szostak

Jack W. Szostak is a chemical biologist at the University of Chicago who studies the origin of life and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for telomere research.

Jacklyn Gates

Jacklyn M. Gates is an American nuclear chemist who leads the Heavy Element Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, studying the heaviest chemical elements.

Jacob Bigeleisen

Jacob Bigeleisen (1919–2010) was an American chemist who founded the field of isotope chemistry, known for the Bigeleisen–Mayer theory and his 1947 paper on isotopic exchange reactions.

Jacob Böeseken

Jacob Böeseken (1868–1949) was a Dutch chemist who held the chair of organic chemistry at Delft from 1907 to 1938 and determined the structure of the six-membered carbon ring.

Jacob Sagiv

Jacob Sagiv is an Israeli chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, best known for founding the field of self-assembled monolayers between 1978 and 1980.

Jacob Volhard

Jacob Volhard (1834–1910) was a German chemist at Halle known for the Volhard titration, the first synthesis of sarcosine, the synthesis of creatine, and the Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction.

Jacobus H. van 't Hoff

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was a Dutch physical chemist who received the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901 for chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure.

Jacqueline K. Barton

Jacqueline K. Barton (born 1952) is an American inorganic chemist at Caltech who pioneered DNA-mediated charge transport, winning the National Medal of Science in 2011.

Jacques Dubochet

Jacques Dubochet, born in 1942 in Aigle, Switzerland, is a Swiss biophysicist and emeritus professor at the University of Lausanne who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy.