Chemists

Jinwoo Cheon

Jinwoo Cheon (천진우) is a South Korean inorganic chemist and nanomedicine researcher who works on magnetic nanoparticles for imaging, therapy, and wireless cell control, and founded magnetogenetics.

Jiong Lu (吕炯) is a Singapore-based chemist and professor at the National University of Singapore known for atomically precise work on graphene nanoribbons, quantum antidots, and single-atom catalysts.

Jiri Jonas

Jiri Jonas is a Czech-born physical chemist, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who pioneered high-pressure NMR spectroscopy and directed the Beckman Institute from 1993 to 2001.

Jiro Abe

Jiro Abe (阿部二朗) is a Japanese materials chemist and professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, known since 2005 for the world's first high-speed photochromic molecule, decolorizing in about 180 milliseconds.

Joachim Maier

Joachim Maier (born 1955) is a German physical chemist known for pioneering nanoionics and for leading solid-state research at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart.

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Joachim Sauer

Joachim Sauer, born 1949, is a German quantum chemist at Humboldt University known for applying quantum chemical methods to heterogeneous catalysis, especially zeolites, and for his marriage to Angela Merkel.

JoAnne Stubbe

JoAnne Stubbe is an American chemist and biochemist, the Novartis Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus at MIT, known for establishing how radical intermediates drive enzyme catalysis in ribonucleotide reductases.

Job Boekhoven

Job Boekhoven is a Dutch chemist and professor at the Technical University of Munich, known for chemically fueled self-assembly and the 2015 Science paper on transient assembly.

Jocelyn Field Thorpe

Jocelyn Field Thorpe (1872–1940) was an English organic chemist, professor at Imperial College London from 1914, who discovered the Thorpe reaction and, with Christopher Ingold, the Thorpe–Ingold effect.

Jochen Autschbach

Jochen Autschbach is a theoretical and computational chemist who is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, known for density functional theory calculations of NMR parameters and chiroptical properties of heavy-element compounds.

Jochen Blumberger

Jochen Blumberger is a chemical physicist and Professor of Chemical Physics at University College London, known for molecular simulation of charge transport in organic semiconductors and electron transfer in proteins.

Joel Henry Hildebrand

Joel Henry Hildebrand (1881–1983) was an American physical chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for regular solution theory, the Hildebrand solubility parameter, and teaching about 40,000 students.

Joel M. Bowman

Joel M. Bowman is an American theoretical chemist and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emeritus at Emory University, known for reaction dynamics, permutationally invariant potential energy surfaces, and the roaming atom mechanism.

Joel S. Miller

Joel S. Miller is an American chemist known for molecule-based magnets and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah who reported an organic magnet ordering at room temperature in 1991.

Joel Schneider

Joel P. Schneider is an American chemist at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, known for self-assembling beta-hairpin peptide hydrogels that deliver drugs and cells.

Joerg Lahann

Joerg Lahann is a chemist and biomedical engineer at the University of Michigan, known for reactive polymer coatings by chemical vapor deposition, switchable surfaces, and founding its Biointerfaces Institute.

Jogendra Chandra Bardhan

Jogendra Chandra Bardhan (1896–1964) was an Indian organic chemist at the University of Calcutta, co-creator of the Bardhan–Sengupta phenanthrene synthesis, a standard named reaction first published in 1932.

Johan A. Martens

Johan A. Martens is a Belgian chemist at KU Leuven known for work on zeolites and nanoporous materials in catalysis, adsorption, and molecular separation, and founder of five spin-off companies.

Johan Arvid Hedvall

Johan Arvid Hedvall (1888–1974) was a Swedish chemist at Chalmers who showed that solids react below their melting points, giving his name to the Hedvall effect.

Johan Pieter Wibaut

Johan Pieter Wibaut (1886–1967) was a Dutch organic chemist, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Amsterdam from 1925 to 1956 and wartime rector magnificus.

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Johannes A. Lercher

Johannes A. Lercher is an Austrian catalysis scientist who directs the Institute for Integrated Catalysis at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and holds a chemistry chair at the Technische Universität München.

Johannes C. Mol

Johannes C. Mol is a Dutch chemist at the University of Amsterdam whose 1968 isotope-labeling experiments on olefin metathesis are cited by the Nobel Committee.

Johannes Martin Bijvoet

Johannes Martin Bijvoet (1892–1980) was a Dutch crystallographer who in 1951 determined the first absolute configuration of an organic molecule by X-ray diffraction, using anomalous scattering.

Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted

Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted was a Danish physical chemist and professor at Copenhagen who defined acids as proton donors and bases as proton acceptors in 1923.

Johannes van Laar

Johannes Jacobus van Laar (1860–1938) was a Dutch mathematical chemist who, with Bakhuis Roozeboom, founded phase theory and derived the van Laar equation for activity coefficients.

Johannes Wislicenus

Johannes Adolf Wislicenus (1835–1902) was a German chemist and founder of stereochemistry who first synthesized lactic acid in 1862 and later led the chemical institute at Leipzig.

John A. Gladysz

John A. Gladysz (J. A. Gladysz), born 1952, is an American organometallic chemist and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University, known for molecular gyroscopes and recoverable fluorous catalysts.

John A. Pickett

John A. Pickett, born 1945, is a British chemical ecologist at Cardiff University known for pioneering semiochemical pest control and the push-pull cropping system used across East Africa.

John A. Pople

Sir John Anthony Pople (1925–2004) was a British theoretical chemist who developed the computational methods and GAUSSIAN program that made quantum chemistry practical, winning the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.