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Jerome Berson

Jerome Berson (1924–2017) was an American physical organic chemist at Yale University who studied reactive intermediates, especially diradicals and non-Kekulé molecules, and later wrote on chemistry's history.

Jérôme Faist

Jérôme Faist is a Swiss physicist, born in Geneva, who co-invented the quantum cascade laser at Bell Laboratories and has been a professor at ETH Zurich since 2007.

Jerome Karle

Jerome Karle (1918–2013) was an American crystallographer at the US Naval Research Laboratory who shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing direct methods for determining crystal structures.

Jérôme Waser

Jérôme Waser, born 1977 in Sierre, is a Swiss organic chemist and full professor at EPFL, known for hypervalent-iodine EBX alkynylation reagents and redox gold catalysis.

Jerrold Meinwald

Jerrold Meinwald (1927–2018) was an American organic chemist at Cornell University who co-established chemical ecology, the study of the chemicals organisms use to defend themselves and communicate.

Jerry L. Atwood

Jerry L. Atwood (born 1942) is an American supramolecular chemist and Curators' Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, known as a founder of host-guest chemistry and for his work on calixarenes.

Jerzy Ciosłowski

Jerzy Ciosłowski is a Polish theoretical chemist, professor of physics at the University of Szczecin since 2004, known for endohedral fullerenes and density-matrix functional theory.

Jesper V. Olsen

Jesper V. Olsen is a Danish mass spectrometrist and proteomics researcher, professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for quantitative phosphoproteomics and the TiO2 enrichment method.

Jesse L. Beauchamp

Jesse L. Beauchamp is an American chemist at Caltech known for ion cyclotron resonance spectroscopy and gas-phase ion chemistry, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jiali Gao

Jiali Gao, born 1962, is a Chinese American theoretical and computational chemist who holds the L. I. Smith Professorship at the University of Minnesota and pioneered QM/MM methods for enzyme catalysis.

Jianghong Rao

Jianghong Rao is a Chinese-American chemical biologist and Professor of Radiology at Stanford University, known for molecular imaging probes and copper-depleting nanoparticles against triple-negative breast cancer.

Jianguo Mei

Jianguo Mei is an organic and materials chemist at Purdue University who designs organic semiconductors for printed electronics and became head of Purdue's chemistry department in 2024.

Jianping Xie

Jianping Xie (谢建平) is a Provost's Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore who works on atomically precise metal nanoclusters for biomedical and catalytic applications.

Jianrong Steve Zhou

Jianrong Steve Zhou (周建荣, born 1975) is a Chinese organic chemist at Peking University Shenzhen who works on nickel- and cobalt-catalyzed asymmetric reductive cross-coupling, after a decade at Nanyang Technological University.

Jianshu Cao

Jianshu Cao (曹建树) is a Chinese-American theoretical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at MIT, known for the centroid molecular dynamics method, the 2020 review Quantum biology revisited, and work on condensed-phase quantum dynamics.

Jianwen Jiang

Jianwen Jiang is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the National University of Singapore who uses molecular simulation to study metal-organic frameworks and polymer membranes.

Jiaxing Huang

Jiaxing Huang is a materials chemist known for crumpled graphene balls and graphene oxide surfactants, who joined Westlake University in 2021 after fourteen years at Northwestern University.

Jiayin Yuan

Jiayin Yuan is a materials chemist and Professor of Materials Chemistry at Stockholm University since 2019, working on poly(ionic liquid)s and porous carbons for carbon capture.

Jie Wu

Jie Wu is a professor of chemistry at the National University of Singapore who develops light-driven methods converting feedstocks into medicinal molecules and founded the NUS spin-off PhloSyn.

Jie Zheng

Jie Zheng is a materials chemist and Distinguished Chair at the University of Texas at Dallas, known for showing that the kidney filters gold nanoclusters atom by atom.

Jieping Zhu

Jieping Zhu (朱杰平) is a Chinese-born organic chemist and professor at EPFL in Switzerland since 2010, known for total synthesis of natural products and multicomponent reactions.

Jin Kon Kim

Jin Kon Kim (김진곤) is a Korean polymer scientist and Professor Emeritus at POSTECH known for block copolymer self-assembly, mesoporous materials, and more than 300 papers.

Jin Z. Zhang

Jin Z. Zhang, also published as Jin Zhong Zhang, is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz known for ultrafast laser spectroscopy of semiconductor and metal nanomaterials.

Jin-Quan Yu

Jin-Quan Yu (余金权) is a synthetic chemist at Scripps Research known for palladium-catalyzed C–H activation with directing groups and bifunctional ligands, widely used in drug discovery.

Jin‐Ho Choy

Jin-Ho Choy (최진호), born in 1948, is a South Korean inorganic and materials chemist known for two-dimensional nanohybrid materials and drug and gene delivery research.

Jing Li

Jing Li (李静) is a solid-state inorganic chemist who is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers, known for metal–organic frameworks and hybrid semiconductors for clean-energy applications.

Jing‐Li Luo

Jing-Li Luo (骆静利), also published as Jingli Luo, is a Canadian electrochemist known for solid oxide fuel cells, formerly a professor at the University of Alberta and now a distinguished professor at Shenzhen University.

Jingguang G. Chen

Jingguang G. Chen is an American chemical engineer and Thayer Lindsley Professor at Columbia University who studies bimetallic and carbide catalysts for hydrogen production and CO2 conversion.

Jingrong Jean Cui

Jingrong Jean Cui, known as J. Jean Cui, is a medicinal chemist who led the design of the FDA-approved cancer drugs crizotinib, lorlatinib, and repotrectinib.

Jinsang Kim

Jinsang Kim is a materials chemist at the University of Michigan, where he holds the Raoul Kopelman Collegiate Professorship and works on metal-free organic phosphors and biosensors.