Chemists

James L. Dye

James L. Dye (1927–2021) was an American inorganic chemist at Michigan State University who discovered alkalides and electrides, compounds with alkali metals or electrons as anions.

James L. Hedrick is an American polymer chemist and Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM's Almaden Research Center, known for pioneering metal-free organic catalysts for ring-opening polymerization.

James L. Skinner

James L. Skinner is an American theoretical chemist known for his theory of vibrational spectroscopy and line shapes in liquids, especially water, and in solids.

James Lupton Hedrick

James Lupton Hedrick is a polymer chemist at IBM's Almaden Research Center and a Stanford visiting scholar, known for metal-free organocatalytic polymerization, biodegradable antimicrobial polymers, and recyclable thermosets.

James Lynn Hoard

James Lynn Hoard (1905–1993) was an American chemist and X-ray crystallographer, a Cornell professor and National Academy of Sciences member known for boron and metalloporphyrin structures.

James M. Mayer

James M. Mayer is an American inorganic chemist, the Charlotte Fitch Roberts Professor at Yale University, known for proton-coupled electron transfer research and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

James P. Collman

James P. Collman, born 1932, is an American bioinorganic chemist, emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for picket fence porphyrins that mimic hemoglobin's oxygen-binding site.

James P. Ferris

James P. Ferris (1932–2016) was an American chemist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who worked on prebiotic chemistry, known for montmorillonite clay-catalyzed RNA oligomer synthesis and planetary photochemistry.

James P. Morken

James P. Morken is an American synthetic organic chemist, professor at Boston College since 2006, known for enantioselective diboration and stereospecific cross-coupling of boronic esters.

James R. Arnold

James R. Arnold (1923–2012) was an American nuclear chemist and cosmochemist who helped develop radiocarbon dating, discovered beryllium-10, and founded UC San Diego's chemistry department.

James R. Chelikowsky

James R. Chelikowsky is a computational materials scientist who held the Moncrief Chair at the University of Texas at Austin and introduced the finite-difference pseudopotential method in 1994.

James R. Durrant

James R. Durrant is a photochemist and Professor of Photochemistry and Sustainable Energy at Oxford, after professorial appointments at Imperial College London and Swansea University.

James R. Katzer

James R. Katzer (1941–2012) was an American chemical engineer in catalysis, a University of Delaware professor and Mobil research executive elected to the NAE in 1998.

James Ross MacDonald

James Ross MacDonald, born 1923 in Savannah, Georgia, is an American physicist who shaped impedance spectroscopy, led research at Texas Instruments, and won the IEEE Edison Medal.

James T. Hynes

James T. Hynes is an American theoretical chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for reaction rates and mechanisms in solution, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

James Tour

James M. Tour is an American synthetic organic chemist and nanotechnologist at Rice University, known for flash graphene and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

James W. Jorgenson

James W. Jorgenson, born in 1952, is an American analytical chemist who invented capillary zone electrophoresis, a method whose use in DNA sequencing enabled the Human Genome Project.

James Wilfred Cook

James Wilfred Cook (1900–1975) was a British organic chemist who prepared the first pure compound shown to cause cancer, isolated coal tar's carcinogen, and became Regius Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow.

Jan Czochralski

Jan Czochralski (1885–1953) was a Polish chemist and metallurgist who invented the crystal-pulling method in 1916, now used to grow roughly 95% of silicon for semiconductors.

Jan Feijén

Jan Feijén, also published as J. Feijen, is a Dutch polymer chemist who was professor of Polymer Chemistry and Biomaterials at the University of Twente from 1979.

Jan H. van Esch

Jan H. van Esch (Johannes Henricus van Esch) is a Dutch supramolecular chemist and professor at TU Delft, known for chemically fueled transient assembly of active materials.

Jan Hendrik de Boer

Jan Hendrik de Boer (1899–1971) was a Dutch physical chemist at Philips who co-invented the iodide process for pure ductile metals and advanced adsorption science.

Jan J. Weigand

Jan J. Weigand is an inorganic molecular chemist who has held the Chair of Inorganic Molecular Chemistry at TU Dresden since 2013, working on cationic phosphorus chemistry.

Jan Ketelaar

Jan Arnold Albert Ketelaar (1908–2001) was a Dutch physical chemist at Amsterdam, known for the bond-type triangle, the textbook De chemische binding, and molten-salt fuel cells.

Jan Peter Toennies

Jan Peter Toennies, born 1930 in Philadelphia, is a physical chemist who pioneered crossed molecular beams and helium nanodroplet isolation spectroscopy, directing a Max Planck Institute in Göttingen from 1969 to 1998.

Jan Theodor Gerard Overbeek

Jan Theodor Gerard Overbeek (1911–2007) was a Dutch physical chemist and professor at Utrecht University, the O in DLVO theory, the standard account of why colloidal suspensions stay dispersed or coagulate.

Jan van Hest

Jan van Hest is a Dutch bio-organic chemist at Eindhoven University of Technology, known as the first to produce polymersomes and a pioneer of artificial cells.

Jan Verlet

Jan R. R. Verlet is a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Durham University known for spectroscopy of molecular anions and the hydrated electron at the water/air interface.

Jan‐E. Bäckvall

Jan-E. Bäckvall (Jan-Erling Bäckvall), born 1947, is a Swedish organic chemist and professor at Stockholm University known for chemoenzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution, palladium-catalyzed allene carbocyclizations, and biomimetic oxidation.