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Jacques Lalevée
Jacques Lalevée, born 1976 in Remiremont, France, is a French photochemist and professor at the Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse, known for NHC-borane radical photoinitiators and visible-light photopolymerization.
Jacques Tréfouël
Jacques Tréfouël (1897–1977) was a French chemist who showed in 1935 that the antibacterial action of Prontosil comes from its sulfanilamide portion, and directed the Institut Pasteur from 1940 to 1964.
Jacques U. Baenziger
Jacques U. Baenziger is a Swiss-born American biochemist and physician-scientist, Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for defining the liver receptors that clear glycoprotein hormones from blood.
Jae Sung Lee
Jae Sung Lee (이재성) is a South Korean chemical engineer and catalysis researcher at UNIST known for photoelectrochemical water splitting using sunlight to make hydrogen fuel.
Jaephil Cho
Jaephil Cho (조재필) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology since 2009, known for subnano-sized silicon anodes, reactive boride-infused cathodes, and founding the cathode maker SMLAB.
Jagadese J. Vittal
Jagadese J. Vittal is an Indian-born solid-state chemist and Emeritus Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for the solid-state [2+2] photocycloaddition and metal–organic frameworks.
Jaime C. Grunlan
Jaime C. Grunlan is a materials scientist and professor at Texas A&M University, known for layer-by-layer polymer nanocoatings that serve as gas barriers, flame retardants, and thermoelectrics.
Jake MacMillan
Jake MacMillan (1924–2014) was a British organic chemist at Bristol who became the world authority on gibberellin plant hormones, isolating them from runner bean seeds.
Jakob Kibsgaard
Jakob Kibsgaard is a Danish electrocatalysis researcher, Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark since 2022, known for molybdenum sulfide and transition-metal phosphide catalysts for hydrogen evolution.
Jakob Magolan
Jakob Magolan is a medicinal chemist and professor at McMaster University who leads research in synthetic methodology and antibiotic drug discovery, including AI-guided discovery of the antibiotic enterololin.
James A. Miller (scientist)
James A. Miller (1915–2000) was an American biochemist who, with his wife and collaborator Elizabeth C. Miller, established the electrophilic-metabolite theory of chemical carcinogenesis at the University of Wisconsin.
James B. Sumner
James B. Sumner, also known as James Batcheller Sumner, was an American biochemist at Cornell University who in 1926 crystallized urease, the first enzyme ever crystallized.
James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant was an American organic chemist and president of Harvard University from 1933 to 1953 who organized US scientific research during World War II.
James C. Stevens
James C. Stevens is an American industrial chemist who joined Dow in 1979, discovered the Insite constrained-geometry catalysts behind polymer families like ENGAGE and INFUSE, and won the 2006 Perkin Medal.
James Crafts
James Mason Crafts (1839–1917) was an American chemist who, with Charles Friedel, described the Friedel–Crafts reaction in 1877, and who served as president of MIT from 1897 to 1900.
James D. D'Ianni
James D. D'Ianni was an American polymer and rubber chemist who spent his career at Goodyear in Akron, Ohio, retiring as director of research in 1978.
James Dewar
Sir James Dewar (1842–1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist, professor at the Royal Institution in London, who first liquefied hydrogen in 1898 and invented the vacuum flask.
James E. Hutchison
James E. Hutchison is an American materials chemist at the University of Oregon who joined the faculty in 1994, known for DNA-scaffolded gold nanoparticle assemblies and founding greener nanoscience.
James E. McGrath
James E. McGrath (1934–2014) was an American polymer scientist and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech who worked on block copolymers, fuel-cell materials, and desalination membranes.
James Economy
James Economy (1929–2021) was an American polymer chemist known for liquid crystalline aromatic copolyesters and boron nitride composites, who led the University of Illinois materials science department.
James F. Roth
James F. Roth (1925–2021) was an American industrial chemist who discovered the low-pressure rhodium-catalyzed process for making acetic acid from methanol, the basis of the Monsanto process.
James Feast
William James Feast is a British polymer chemist at Durham University, best known for the 1980 Durham precursor route to polyacetylene and for applying ROMP to functional polymers.
James Flack Norris
James Flack Norris (1871–1940) was an American organic chemist, professor of organic chemistry at MIT, and a pioneer in the systematic study of structure–reactivity relationships.
James G. Anderson
James G. Anderson is an American atmospheric chemist at Harvard whose measurements of chlorine radicals from CFCs helped establish their link to Antarctic ozone depletion.
James Ibers
James Ibers (1930–2021) was an American inorganic chemist and crystallographer who spent more than 55 years at Northwestern University, edited Inorganic Chemistry, and determined the crystal structure of buckminsterfullerene.
James Irvine (chemist)
James Colquhoun Irvine (1877–1952) was a Scottish organic chemist who developed the methylation method for determining sugar structures and served at the University of St Andrews.
James J. Watkins
James J. Watkins is an American materials chemist and polymer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for supercritical-fluid processing and block-copolymer self-assembly as nanoscale templates.
James K. Gimzewski
James K. Gimzewski is a physical chemist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA who pioneered use of the scanning tunneling microscope to manipulate single molecules and discovered single-molecule rotors.
James K. McCusker
James K. McCusker, born in 1965, is a physical-inorganic chemist at Michigan State University whose work on excited-state dynamics of first-row transition metal complexes underpins solar fuels and photoredox catalysis.
James Kendall (chemist)
James Pickering Kendall was a British physical chemist, professor at the University of Edinburgh from 1928 to 1959, known for work on heats of vaporization.