Chemists

John Lennard-Jones

John Edward Lennard-Jones (1894–1954) was a British theoretical chemist who created the Lennard-Jones potential, brought quantum chemistry to Britain, and held the world's first chair of theoretical chemistry at Cambridge from 1932.

John M. Bremner

John M. Bremner, known as Jack, was a Scottish-born soil chemist and Iowa State agronomy professor who in 1984 became the first soil chemist elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

John M. Herbert

John M. Herbert is an American theoretical and computational chemist, professor at Ohio State University, who received a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

John M. Warman

John M. Warman (J.M. Warman) is a Dutch-based physical and radiation chemist known for developing time-resolved microwave conductivity, a contact-free technique measuring charge movement in ice and organic semiconductors.

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John Meurig Thomas

Sir John Meurig Thomas (1932–2020) was a Welsh solid-state chemist and pioneer of heterogeneous catalysis, known for single-site catalysts, the Davy Medal, and directing the Royal Institution.

John Monteath Robertson

John Monteath Robertson (1900–1989) was a Scottish chemist who pioneered X-ray determination of organic molecular structures, held Glasgow's Gardiner Chair of Chemistry from 1942 to 1970, and won the Davy Medal in 1960.

John Montgomery (organic chemist)

John Montgomery is an American organic chemist at the University of Michigan, known for nickel-catalyzed reductive coupling reactions and for boron-catalyzed iterative glycosylation, a method for assembling carbohydrates.

John P. McTague

John P. McTague (1938–2013) was an American physical chemist who directed Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source and served as acting science advisor to President Reagan.

John P. Richard

John P. Richard is an American physical organic chemist and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, known for research on enzyme-catalyzed reaction mechanisms and transition-state stabilization.

John Philip Simons

John Philip Simons is a British chemist known for pioneering laser-based techniques in photochemistry and molecular reaction dynamics, and winner of the Royal Society's Davy Medal.

John R. Huizenga

John R. Huizenga (1921–2014) was an American nuclear chemist at the University of Rochester who co-discovered einsteinium and fermium and led the 1989 DOE cold fusion review.

John R. Johnson

John R. Johnson (1900–1983) was an American organic chemist at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1945, known for organoborane oxidation and gliotoxin structure work.

John R. Kitchin

John R. Kitchin is an American chemical engineer and professor at Carnegie Mellon University who designs alloy and oxide catalysts using density functional theory and machine learning.

John Ross (physical chemist)

John Ross (1926–2017) was an Austrian-born American physical chemist and Stanford professor known for chemical reaction dynamics and far-from-equilibrium systems, receiving the National Medal of Science.

John S. Waugh

John S. Waugh (1929–2014) was an American physical chemist at MIT known as the founder of high-resolution solid-state NMR spectroscopy, honored with the Wolf Prize in 1983.

John Schellman

John Anthony Schellman (1924–2014) was an American biophysical chemist and University of Oregon professor, elected to the National Academy of Sciences, who established the thermodynamic study of protein folding.

John Shipley Rowlinson

John Shipley Rowlinson (1926–2018) was a British physical chemist who held the Dr Lee's Professorship at Oxford, wrote Liquids and Liquid Mixtures, and was knighted in 2000.

John Stuart Anderson

John Stuart Anderson (1908–1990) was a British and Australian inorganic chemist who held posts at Imperial College, Harwell, Melbourne, and Oxford, known for non-stoichiometry and crystallographic shear planes.

John Sutherland (chemist)

John D. Sutherland (born 1962) is a chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who studies the chemical origins of life, including prebiotic ribonucleotide synthesis.

John T. Groves

John T. Groves is a bioorganic and bioinorganic chemist who has held the Hugh Stott Taylor Chair at Princeton since 1985, known for the oxygen rebound mechanism and C-H fluorination.

John Tileston Edsall

John Tileston Edsall (1902–2002) was an American protein scientist at Harvard who proved amino acids exist as zwitterions and co-authored the textbook Biophysical Chemistry with Jeffries Wyman.

John Ulric Nef (organic chemist)

John Ulric Nef (1862–1915) was a Swiss-born American organic chemist, professor at the University of Chicago from 1892, and pioneer of theoretical organic chemistry in the United States.

John V. Badding

John V. Badding was an American chemist and materials scientist, a professor at Pennsylvania State University from 1991, known for carbon nanothreads and microstructured optical fibers as high-pressure reactors.

John W. Lyons

John W. Lyons was an American physical chemist known for fire-retardant chemistry who led NIST from 1990 to 1993 and was the first permanent director of the Army Research Laboratory.

John Warner (scientist)

John Christian Warner was an American chemist who coordinated Manhattan Project plutonium research and served as president of Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1950 to 1965.

John William Draper

John William Draper was an English-born American chemist, physician, and photographer who spent his career at New York University and took the first photograph of the Moon.

John William Goodby

John William Goodby is a British chemist known for synthesizing and classifying liquid crystals, elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2011 and awarded the Royal Medal in 2016.

John Woodland Hastings

John Woodland Hastings, known as Woody Hastings, was an American biochemist at Harvard who pioneered bioluminescence research and discovered bacterial autoinduction, later called quorum sensing.