Chemists

José M. Goicoechea

José M. Goicoechea is an inorganic chemist working on reactive main-group compounds, professor at Indiana University since 2023 after sixteen years at the University of Oxford.

José Ramón Galán‐Mascarós

José Ramón Galán-Mascarós is a Spanish chemist and ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, known for magnetic enhancement of electrocatalytic water oxidation.

Josef Breu

Josef Breu is a German materials chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, known for synthetic layered silicates and polymer nanocomposites.

Josef Ferdinand Arens

Josef Ferdinand Arens (1914–2001) was a Dutch organic chemist who co-authored the first synthesis of vitamin A with David van Dorp and held chairs at Bandung, Groningen, and Utrecht.

Josef Fried (1914–2001) was an American organic chemist at Squibb and the University of Chicago, elected to the National Academy of Sciences, whose fluorosteroids and prostaglandin syntheses produced the first superpotent anti-inflammatory drugs.

Josef Klarer

Josef Klarer (1898–1953) was a German chemist at IG Farben in Elberfeld who synthesized the azo dye Prontosil in 1932, opening the sulfonamide era of antibacterial chemotherapy.

Josef Maria Eder

Josef Maria Eder (1855–1944) was an Austrian chemist and photochemist credited with the gelatin dry plate, orthochromatic sensitization, and the Eder-Hecht sensitometer, and who founded Europe's first photography school in Vienna.

Josef Michl

Josef Michl (1939–2024) was a Czech physical organic chemist, professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for photochemistry, molecular rotors, and editing Chemical Reviews for 30 years.

Josef Paldus

Josef Paldus (1935–2023) was a Czech-born theoretical chemist who emigrated to Canada and became a distinguished professor at the University of Waterloo, known for foundational work on coupled-cluster theory and unitary group methods.

Josep Cornella

Josep Cornellà, born in 1985, is a Spanish organometallic chemist who directs catalysis research at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung and is known for bismuth catalysts and air-stable nickel precatalysts.

Josep Puigmarti

Josep Puigmartí-Luis is a Spanish chemist and ICREA Research Professor who leads the ChemInFlow group at the University of Barcelona, working on flow chemistry and microfluidics.

Joseph B. Schlenoff

Joseph B. Schlenoff is an American materials chemist at Florida State University in Tallahassee, known for polyelectrolyte multilayers and saloplastics, materials processed with salt water instead of heat.

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Joseph C. Salamone

Joseph C. Salamone (1939–2019) was an American polymer chemist and entrepreneur elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for advances in contact lenses and wound healing therapies.

Joseph Chatt

Joseph Chatt (1914–1994) was a British inorganic chemist who co-created the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model of metal–olefin bonding and opened the chemistry of metal–dinitrogen complexes, founding molecular nitrogen fixation research.

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Joseph E. Subotnik

Joseph E. Subotnik is an American theoretical chemist, the David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, known for work on nonadiabatic dynamics and electron transfer.

Joseph Edward Mayer

Joseph Edward Mayer (1904–1983) was an American physical chemist known for the virial theory of condensing gases, Mayer graphs, and the 1940 textbook Statistical Mechanics.

Joseph Francisco

Joseph S. Francisco is an American theoretical and atmospheric chemist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for discovering that single water molecules catalyze gas-phase radical reactions.

Joseph Henry Gilbert

Joseph Henry Gilbert (1817–1901) was an English chemist who joined John Bennet Lawes at Rothamsted in 1843, co-founding the world's first agricultural experiment station and proving the value of nitrogenous fertilizers.

Joseph Hupp

Joseph T. Hupp is an American chemist known for work on metal–organic frameworks, chemical sensing, and solar energy conversion, and Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University since 2000.

Joseph J. Katz

Joseph J. Katz (1912–2008) was an American chemist at Argonne National Laboratory who worked on the Manhattan Project and pioneered the chemistry of photosynthesis and chlorophyll.

Joseph M. DeSimone

Joseph M. DeSimone (born 1964) is an American chemist and chemical engineer known for PRINT particle fabrication and CLIP 3D printing, and a Stanford professor since 2020.

Joseph M. Fox

Joseph M. Fox, also known as Joseph Fox, is an American chemist at the University of Delaware known for developing the tetrazine ligation, the fastest bioorthogonal reaction.

Joseph M. Ready

Joseph M. Ready is an American organic chemist and Professor of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for natural products synthesis and iridium-catalyzed allylation reactions.

Joseph Needham

Joseph Needham (1900–1995) was a British biochemist and historian of science at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, known for Science and Civilisation in China and the Needham Question.

Joseph O. Hirschfelder

Joseph O. Hirschfelder (1911–1990) was an American theoretical chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked on the Manhattan Project and won the 1975 National Medal of Science.

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Joseph T. Kummer

Joseph T. Kummer (1919–1997) was an American chemical engineer and electrochemist at Ford Motor Company's research laboratories, known for inventing the sodium-sulfur battery and pioneering beta-alumina ionic conductors.

Joseph W. Kennedy

Joseph W. Kennedy (1916–1957) was an American chemist who co-discovered plutonium at Berkeley in 1941, led Los Alamos' Chemistry and Metallurgy Division, and chaired chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis.

Joseph W. Ziller

Joseph W. Ziller is an American X-ray crystallographer and staff scientist who has directed UC Irvine's X-ray Crystallography Facility since 1986, co-authoring actinide and lanthanide structures.

Joseph Wang

Joseph Wang, born 1948, is an electrochemist and nanoengineer who holds the SAIC Endowed Chair at UC San Diego, known for wearable chemical sensors, synthetic nanomotors, and on-body energy systems.