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Jannik Bjerrum
Jannik Bjerrum (1909–1992) was a Danish chemist at the University of Copenhagen whose formation function made stepwise complex formation measurable; his 1941 monograph Metal Ammine Formation in Aqueous Solution became a classic.
János Szanyi
János Szanyi, also published as Janos Szanyi, is a Hungarian-named American chemist and staff scientist in the Catalysis Science group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, known for single-atom catalysis.
Janusz Pawliszyn
Janusz Pawliszyn is a Canadian analytical chemist at the University of Waterloo who invented solid-phase microextraction (SPME), a solvent-free sampling technique used in environmental, food, forensic, and clinical analysis.
Jarad Mason
Jarad Mason is an American inorganic chemist and Harvard University associate professor known for metal-organic frameworks, permanently porous liquids that store gases, and solid-state refrigeration, and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist who founded polarography, an electrochemical analysis method using the dropping mercury electrode, and received the 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone.
Jason Love (chemist)
Jason B. Love is a British inorganic chemist, Professor of Molecular Inorganic Chemistry and Head of the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh.
Jaume Veciana
Jaume Veciana is a Spanish chemist and materials scientist who led the NANOMOL group at ICMAB-CSIC in Barcelona, known for molecular magnets, molecular electronics, and nanomedicine.
Jaume Vilarrasa
Jaume Vilarrasa, also Jaime Vilarrasa Llorens, born 1949 in Canet de Mar, Spain, is a Spanish organic chemist and full professor at the University of Barcelona, known for the Staudinger–Vilarrasa reaction.
Javier Pérez-Ramírez
Javier Pérez-Ramírez, born 1974 in Benidorm, Spain, is a Spanish chemist and Full Professor of Catalysis Engineering at ETH Zurich, known for hierarchical zeolites and CO2-to-methanol catalysts.
Javier Read de Alaniz
Javier Read de Alaniz is an American organic chemist and professor at UC Santa Barbara, known for donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts, visible-light photochromes his group first reported in 2014.
Jay A. Switzer
Jay A. Switzer is an American materials chemist and electrochemist at Missouri University of Science and Technology, known for growing single-crystal inorganic films by electrodeposition.
Jay K. Kochi
Jay K. Kochi (1927–2008) was an American physical organic and organometallic chemist known for establishing electron transfer as a central mechanism in organic and metal-mediated reactions, and for the Kochi Reaction.
Jay S. Siegel
Jay S. Siegel is an American organic chemist known for work on non-planar aromatic molecules like corannulene, now a vice-president at the University of Hong Kong.
Jayne C. Garno
Jayne Carol Garno is an American analytical chemist and professor at Louisiana State University, known for developing scanning probe microscopy methods for chemistry at the molecular level.
Jean M. J. Fréchet
Jean M. J. Fréchet, born 1944 in Burgundy, France, is a polymer chemist known for convergent dendrimer synthesis, chemically amplified photoresists for microchips, and the 2019 King Faisal Prize in Science.
Jean Manfred Grosheintz
Jean Manfred Grosheintz (1909–2003) was a Swiss carbohydrate chemist trained at ETH Zurich who worked in Toronto with Hermann O. L. Fischer and is known for the Grosheintz-Fischer-Reissert aldehyde synthesis.
Jean Roncali
Jean Roncali is a French CNRS emeritus research director at the University of Angers known for π-conjugated systems and organic photovoltaics, including the 2014 'Small is Beautiful' paper.
Jean Rouxel
Jean Rouxel (1935–1998) was a French chemist and professor at the University of Nantes, a founder of "chimie douce" whose intercalation chemistry of layered chalcogenides fed into lithium-battery cathodes.
Jean Servais Stas
Jean Servais Stas (1813–1891) was a Belgian analytical chemist who disproved Prout's hypothesis through precise atomic weight determinations and devised the Stas-Otto forensic toxicology method.
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802–1887) was a French agricultural chemist who showed that plants take nitrogen from soil nitrates rather than air, clarifying the nitrogen cycle; he ran an experimental farm in Alsace and taught in Paris.
Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884) was a French chemist, professor in Paris and perpetual secretary of the Académie des Sciences, known for the Dumas nitrogen method and substitution theory.
Jean-Baptiste Senderens
Jean-Baptiste Senderens (1856–1937) was a French Catholic priest and chemist who, in a two-decade collaboration with Paul Sabatier at Toulouse, co-founded direct catalytic hydrogenation and discovered the methanation reaction known as the Sabatier reaction.
Jean-François Fauvarque
Jean-François Fauvarque is a French chemist whose 1977 report with Anny Jutand on palladium-catalyzed coupling of Reformatsky reagents was cited in the Nobel Committee's 2010 background.
Jean-François Lutz
Jean-François Lutz is a French polymer chemist, a CNRS research director who studies sequence-controlled and informational polymers, and director of the ISIS institute in Strasbourg since 2024.
Jean-Louis Hérisson
Jean-Louis Hérisson is a French chemist who, as Yves Chauvin's student at the Institut Français du Pétrole, co-authored the 1971 paper first proposing the accepted mechanism of olefin metathesis.
Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas (born 1954) is a Belgian computational chemist known for his theory of the electronic structure of conjugated polymers, and a Regents Professor at the University of Arizona.
Jean-Marie Basset
Jean-Marie Basset is a French catalysis chemist, emeritus professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia, and founder of surface organometallic chemistry, known for discovering alkane metathesis.
Jean-Pierre Hansen
Jean-Pierre Hansen, born in Luxembourg in 1942, is a scientist known for work on the statistical mechanics of fluids and as co-author of Theory of Simple Liquids.
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, born in Paris in 1944, is a French supramolecular chemist known for template synthesis of interlocked molecules and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Jean‐Maríe Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn is a French chemist who founded the field of supramolecular chemistry and shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, born in 1939 in Rosheim, France.