Chemists

Kai Xiao

Kai Xiao is a materials chemist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who studies the synthesis of two-dimensional materials and has been on its staff since 2008.

Kálmán J. Szabó is a Swedish-based organic chemist, professor, and Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry at Stockholm University, working in catalysis for organoboron and organofluorine compounds.

Kamara Vrandečić

Kamara Vrandečić, also recorded as Qamarniso or Kamarniso, is an Uzbek-American chemist and Uzbek Wikipedia administrator whose first name gave Wikidata its Q item prefix.

Kana M. Sureshan

Kana M. Sureshan is a professor of chemistry at IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India, known for developing topochemical azide–alkyne cycloaddition, used to synthesize crystalline polymers and sugar polymers.

Kang Min Ok

Kang Min Ok (옥강민) is a South Korean inorganic solid-state chemist and professor of chemistry at Sogang University in Seoul, known for ultraviolet birefringent crystals.

Karen Chan

Karen Chan is a computational electrochemist at the Technical University of Denmark known for microkinetic modeling of electrochemical CO2 reduction to carbon monoxide, ethylene, and acetate.

Karen I. Goldberg

Karen I. Goldberg is an inorganic chemist, the Vagelos Professor of Energy Research at the University of Pennsylvania since 2017, known for C–H activation and catalysis.

Karen I. Winey

Karen I. Winey is an American materials scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, the Harold Pender Professor, known for carbon-nanotube polymer composites and proton-conducting polymers.

Karen K. Gleason

Karen K. Gleason is an American chemical engineer and MIT professor, emerita, known for developing initiated chemical vapor deposition, a dry method for growing polymer films on surfaces.

Karen L. Wooley

Karen L. Wooley is an American polymer chemist, a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University since 2009, known for degradable polymers built from natural products.

Karena W. Chapman

Karena W. Chapman is an Australian-born materials chemist, a professor at Stony Brook University since 2018, known for developing X-ray pair distribution function methods for energy materials.

Karin Öberg

Karin Öberg is a Swedish astrochemist, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor at Harvard University, known for observations of molecules in protoplanetary disks and laboratory experiments on interstellar ices.

Karl A. Scheidt

Karl A. Scheidt is an American organic chemist, professor at Northwestern University since 2002, known for N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis, cooperative carbene and Lewis acid catalysis, and cofounding therapeutics startups.

Karl Anker Jørgensen

Karl Anker Jørgensen (born 1955 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a Danish organic chemist and professor at Aarhus University, known for asymmetric organocatalysis and for the Jørgensen–Hayashi catalyst.

Karl August Folkers

Karl August Folkers was an American organic chemist who isolated vitamin B12, the treatment for pernicious anemia, at Merck and later devoted his career to coenzyme Q10.

Karl Engler

Karl Engler, born Carl Oswald Viktor Engler (1842–1925), was a German chemist who founded petroleum science, invented the Engler viscometer, and achieved the first complete synthesis of indigo.

Karl F. Freed

Karl F. Freed, also known as Karl Frederick Freed, was an American theoretical chemist and polymer physicist at the University of Chicago, known for the lattice cluster theory of polymer blends.

Karl Freudenberg

Karl Johann Freudenberg (1886–1983) was a German organic chemist, trained in Emil Fischer's laboratory, who established cellulose as a linear glucose polymer and spent over forty years on lignin's constitution.

Karl Leo

Karl Leo is a German physicist at TU Dresden known for organic semiconductor doping, OLEDs, and organic solar cells, and winner of the 2021 European Inventor Award.

Karl Miescher

Karl Miescher (1892–1974) was a Swiss chemist who spent his career at the pharmaceutical company Ciba in Basel and led the 1948 total synthesis of estrone.

Karl O. Christe

Karl O. Christe (1936–2026) was a German-born American inorganic and fluorine chemist at the University of Southern California, known for the first chemical synthesis of elemental fluorine.

Karl Paul Link

Karl Paul Link (1901–1978) was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who isolated dicumarol from spoiled sweet clover and developed the anticoagulant warfarin.

Karl von Auwers

Karl Friedrich von Auwers (1863–1939) was a German organic chemist who coined the term stereochemistry in 1888 and directed the chemical institutes at Greifswald and Marburg.

Karl Wieghardt

Karl Wieghardt is a German inorganic and bioinorganic chemist, a Max Planck director in Mülheim from 1994, known for high-valent iron and manganese complexes, metalloenzyme models, and noninnocent ligands.

Karl Ziegler

Karl Ziegler was a German chemist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Giulio Natta for polymer discoveries and directed the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim.

Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer

Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer (1899–1957) was a German physical chemist who discovered the spin isomers of hydrogen with Paul Harteck in 1929 and became the first director of the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry in Göttingen.

Karl-Hermann Geib

Karl-Hermann Geib (1908–1949) was a German physical chemist who in 1943 developed the dual-temperature Girdler sulfide process for producing heavy water, developed in parallel with Jerome S. Spevack.

Karlheinz Schwarz

Karlheinz Schwarz is an Austrian quantum chemist and professor at TU Wien, co-developer of WIEN2k, a widely used code for calculating the electronic structure of solids.

Karol Grela

Karol Grela (born 1970, Warsaw) is a Polish chemist at the University of Warsaw known for designing ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts, including the commercially sold Grela catalyst.