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Károly Than
Károly Than (Carl von Than, Than Károly) was a Hungarian chemist who discovered carbonyl sulfide and is regarded as the founder of modern Hungarian scientific chemistry.
Karsten Meyer (chemist)
Karsten Meyer is a German inorganic and coordination chemist who has held the Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2006, after serving at UC San Diego.
Karsten Reuter
Karsten Reuter (born 1970) is a theoretical chemist known for first-principles multiscale modeling of heterogeneous catalysis, directing the Fritz-Haber-Institut Theory Department in Berlin since 2020.
Karthish Manthiram
Karthish Manthiram is a chemical engineer and Bren Professor at Caltech known for electrocatalysis and lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction to ammonia, recognized by the 2025 Infosys Prize.
Kary B. Mullis
Kary B. Mullis (1944–2019) was an American biochemist who invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for copying DNA, winning half of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Kasper Moth‐Poulsen
Kasper Moth-Poulsen (born 1978 in Copenhagen) is a Danish-Swedish chemist known for molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage, and an ICREA research professor in Barcelona since 2021.
Kateri A. Ahrendt
Kateri A. Ahrendt is an American organic chemist, first author of the 2000 paper documenting the first highly enantioselective organocatalytic Diels–Alder reaction, cited by the 2021 Nobel Prize background.
Katharina Landfester
Katharina Landfester, born 1969 in Bochum, is a German chemist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, known for the miniemulsion process.
Katherine Mirica
Katherine A. Mirica is a Ukrainian-born chemist and tenured associate professor at Dartmouth College who designs conductive metal–organic frameworks for portable, low-power detection of gases and biomolecules.
Kathleen C. Taylor
Kathleen C. Taylor is an American physical chemist who joined General Motors in 1970, researched automotive exhaust catalysis, and received the American Chemical Society's 1989 Garvan Medal.
Katsuhiko Ariga
Katsuhiko Ariga (有賀 克彦) is a Japanese supramolecular chemist and materials scientist. He is known for pioneering layer-by-layer assembly and nanoarchitectonics at NIMS and the University of Tokyo.
Katsumi Kaneko
Katsumi Kaneko (金子克美) is a Japanese materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at Shinshu University since 2014, known for adsorption science, nanoporous carbons, and energy storage research.
Kay Severin
Kay Severin (born 1967) is a German supramolecular and inorganic chemist who has been a full professor at EPFL in Lausanne since 2009, leading its Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry.
Kayvan R. Keshari
Kayvan R. Keshari, also published as Kayvan Rahimi Keshari, is a biochemist and professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who studies cancer metabolism and hyperpolarized MRI.
Kazimierz Fajans
Kazimierz Fajans, also known as Kasimir Fajans, was a Polish-born radiochemist who co-formulated the radioactive displacement laws and discovered the first isotope of element 91 in 1913.
Kazuaki Ishihara
Kazuaki Ishihara (石原一彰), born 1963, is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Nagoya University known for asymmetric catalysis, including hafnium-catalyzed esterification and hypoiodite catalysis reported in Science.
Kazuhiko Maeda
Kazuhiko Maeda (前田 和彦) is a Japanese chemist and professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, known for oxynitride photocatalysts that split water into hydrogen and oxygen with visible light.
Kazuhiko Takai
Kazuhiko Takai (髙井 和彦, born 1954 in Tokyo) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Okayama University since 2005, known for the Takai olefination and organosodium cross-coupling chemistry.
Kazuhiro Takanabe
Kazuhiro Takanabe (高鍋和広) is a Japanese catalysis researcher, professor of chemical system engineering at the University of Tokyo since 2018, known for quantitative photocatalysis and green hydrogen work.
Kazuhito Hashimoto
Kazuhito Hashimoto (橋本和仁, born 1955) is a Japanese materials chemist at the University of Tokyo known for titanium dioxide photocatalysis and self-cleaning surfaces, and president of the Japan Science and Technology Agency since 2022.
Kazunari Domen
Kazunari Domen (堂免 一成, born 1953) is a Japanese chemist, a University Professor at the University of Tokyo, known for particulate photocatalysts that split water into hydrogen using sunlight.
Kazunari Yoshizawa
Kazunari Yoshizawa (吉澤一成) is a Japanese theoretical and computational chemist at Kyoto University's Fukui Institute, known for an orbital rule for molecular electron transport and catalyst design.
Kazunori Kataoka (片岡一則)
Kazunori Kataoka (片岡一則) is a Japanese polymer chemist known for block copolymer micelles for drug delivery, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Kazuo Akagi
Kazuo Akagi (赤木 和夫) is a Japanese polymer chemist at Ritsumeikan University, known for synthesizing helical polyacetylene and winning the Chemical Society of Japan Award.
Kazuo Takimiya
Kazuo Takimiya (瀧宮 和男) is a Japanese organic materials chemist, professor at Tohoku University and a RIKEN group director, known for the high-mobility semiconductors BTBT and DNTT.
Kazushi Mashima
Kazushi Mashima (真島和志), born 1957, is a Japanese organometallic chemist and Specially Appointed Professor at Osaka University, known for cerium cluster catalysis and asymmetric hydrogenation.
Kazuya Kikuchi
Kazuya Kikuchi (菊地 和也) is a Japanese chemical biologist and Distinguished Professor at Osaka University, known for fluorogenic no-wash protein-labeling tags and core-shell nanoparticle 19F MRI probes.
Kazuyuki Kuroda
Kazuyuki Kuroda (黒田 一幸) is a Japanese inorganic materials chemist at Waseda University in Tokyo, known for mesoporous silica, oriented mesoporous films, and his nanotectonics design program.
Keary M. Engle
Keary M. Engle is an American chemist and professor at Scripps Research known for palladium-catalyzed C–H functionalization and alkene dicarbofunctionalization, and dean of graduate studies since 2024.
Kees Posthumus
Kees Posthumus, full name Kornelis Posthumus (1902–1972), was a Dutch chemist and second rector magnificus of Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven whose 1968 'nota Posthumus' shaped Dutch higher-education reform in the 1970s.