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John A. Ripmeester
John A. Ripmeester is a Canadian materials chemist at the National Research Council Canada in Ottawa, known for the structural chemistry of clathrate hydrates and solid-state NMR methods.
John Alfred Valentine Butler
John Alfred Valentine Butler (1899–1977) was a British physical chemist whose 1924 kinetic theory of electrode potentials underlies the Butler–Volmer equation; he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
John Anthony Osborn
John Anthony Osborn was a chemist who, as a doctoral student of Geoffrey Wilkinson at Imperial College London, was first author of the 1966 paper announcing Wilkinson's catalyst.
John Arnold (chemist)
John Arnold is a synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, whose laboratory was known for actinide chemistry with thorium and uranium.
John B. Fenn
John B. Fenn, also known as John Fenn, was an American chemist who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing electrospray ionization, which made proteins measurable by mass spectrometry.
John Bower
John F. Bower is an organic chemist working on metal-catalyzed asymmetric catalysis, known for aza-Heck reactions and stereodefined amino acid synthesis, and Regius Professor of Chemistry at Liverpool since 2020.
John C. Sheehan
John C. Sheehan (1915–1992) was an American organic chemist at MIT who in 1957 achieved the first total synthesis of a natural penicillin, penicillin V.
John C. Tully
John C. Tully is a theoretical chemist and Professor Emeritus at Yale University who created surface hopping, the standard method for simulating chemical reactions with electronic transitions.
John Chaput
John C. Chaput is an American chemical biologist and professor at UC Irvine whose laboratory engineers polymerases for xeno-nucleic acids and evolved the TNA-synthesizing enzyme 10-92.
John Corbett (chemist)
John Corbett (1926–2013) was an American inorganic chemist and Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, known for six decades of work on metal-rich solid-state compounds, Zintl phases, and metal clusters.
John Cornforth
John Cornforth, also known as Sir John Warcup Cornforth, was an Australian organic chemist who won half of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on enzyme stereochemistry.
John D. Baldeschwieler
John D. Baldeschwieler, born 1933 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is an American chemist and emeritus Caltech professor known for spectroscopic methods, entrepreneurship, and the 2000 National Medal of Science.
John D. Corbett
John D. Corbett (1926–2013) was an American inorganic chemist, Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory scientist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.
John D. Ferry
John D. Ferry (1912–2002) was a Canadian-born American polymer chemist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Williams-Landel-Ferry equation and viscoelasticity research.
John D. Hoffman
John D. Hoffman (1922–2004) was an American polymer physicist who co-developed the Lauritzen–Hoffman theory of polymer crystallization, a standard model, during a career at the National Bureau of Standards.
John D. Roberts
John D. Roberts (1918–2016) was an American physical organic chemist at Caltech who used carbon-14 tracers and NMR spectroscopy to work out how organic reactions proceed.
John E. Bercaw
John E. Bercaw (born 1944, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American inorganic chemist at Caltech, Centennial Professor Emeritus, known for organometallic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, and C–H bond activation.
John F. Berry
John F. Berry is an American inorganic chemist and Lester R. McNall Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on metal–metal multiple bonds and high-valent iron.
John F. Hartwig
John F. Hartwig is an American organic and organometallic chemist at UC Berkeley, best known for the Buchwald–Hartwig amination, a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction he reported in 1995.
John F. Stanton
John F. Stanton (1961–2025) was an American quantum chemist, William R. Kenan Professor at the University of Florida, known for coupled-cluster theory and the CFOUR quantum chemistry package.
John Fries Frazer
John Fries Frazer, known as John F. Frazer, was an American chemist and University of Pennsylvania professor, a charter member of the National Academy of Sciences.
John Gamble Kirkwood
John Gamble Kirkwood (1907–1959) was an American theoretical chemist who helped found the statistical mechanics of liquids, known for Kirkwood–Buff solution theory and the BBGKY hierarchy.
John H. Northrop
John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute who shared the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for preparing enzymes and virus proteins in pure form.
John H. Sinfelt
John H. Sinfelt (1931–2011) was an American chemist and chemical engineer who spent his career at Esso, later Exxon, and pioneered bimetallic cluster catalysts, including a platinum–iridium reforming catalyst that made lead-free gasoline practical.
John I. Brauman
John I. Brauman (1937–2024) was an American physical organic chemist at Stanford University who pioneered gas-phase ion chemistry and made SN2 reactions a model system for reaction dynamics.
John Irvine (chemist)
John T. S. Irvine is a solid state chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews, known for solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysers.
John J. Boland
John J. Boland is an Irish surface and materials chemist, a professor at Trinity College Dublin since 2002, known for his work on silicon surfaces and nanoscale materials.
John Kenneth Stille
John Kenneth Stille was an American chemist at Colorado State University whose studies of palladium-catalyzed organotin coupling gave organic chemistry the Stille reaction; he died in a 1989 airline crash.
John L. Margrave
John L. Margrave (1924–2003) was an American inorganic and fluorine chemist at Rice University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974, who pioneered direct fluorination.
John Lawrence Oncley
John Lawrence Oncley (1910–2004) was an American biophysical chemist at Harvard and Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1947, known for protein dielectric studies and the LDL/HDL distinction.