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Kenso Soai
Kenso Soai (硤合憲三), born 1950 in Hiroshima, is a Japanese organic chemist and Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University of Science who shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering asymmetric autocatalysis.
Kentaro Yamaguchi
Kentaro Yamaguchi (山口 健太郎, born 1953) is a Japanese chemist and mass spectrometrist known for developing cold-spray ionization mass spectrometry, and a professor at Tokushima Bunri University since 2004.
Kenton Rodgers
Kenton R. Rodgers is an American bioinorganic chemist and professor at North Dakota State University in Fargo, known for spectroscopic studies of heme proteins and bacterial gas-sensing proteins.
Kevin Burgess (chemist)
Kevin Burgess is a chemist and Rachal Chair in Chemistry at Texas A&M University who designs peptidomimetics, small molecules imitating protein surfaces, targeting receptors like TrkC in metastatic cancer.
Kevin Pagel
Kevin Pagel is a German chemist and full professor at the Free University Berlin and the Fritz Haber Institute, known for ion mobility–mass spectrometry of carbohydrates.
Kieron Burke
Kieron Burke is a theoretical chemist and physicist at UC Irvine, best known as co-creator of the 1996 PBE density functional, a standard of computational chemistry.
Kilian Muñiz
Kilian Muñiz (1970–2020) was a German-Spanish organic chemist and ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia in Tarragona, known for catalytic alkene diamination.
Kim R. Dunbar
Kim R. Dunbar is an inorganic chemist at Texas A&M University since 1999 whose research spans molecule-based magnetic materials, anion–π interactions, and dirhodium compounds for cancer therapy.
Kimihiko Hirao
Kimihiko Hirao (平尾 公彦), born 1945 in Niihama, Japan, is a Japanese theoretical chemist known for the SAC method, multireference perturbation theory, and long-range-corrected density functionals.
Kimihisa Yamamoto
Kimihisa Yamamoto (山元 公寿) is a Japanese polymer and materials chemist, professor at Institute of Science Tokyo, known for phenylazomethine dendrimers and the atom hybrid method.
Kirk A. Peterson
Kirk A. Peterson is an American theoretical chemist at Washington State University known for developing correlation consistent Gaussian basis sets, including relativistic sets for heavy elements.
Kirk S. Schanze
Kirk S. Schanze is an American chemist at the University of Texas at San Antonio, known for conjugated polyelectrolytes and for founding ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
Kit H. Bowen
Kit H. Bowen, also known as Kit Bowen, is an American chemist at Johns Hopkins University known for negative-ion photoelectron spectroscopy of clusters, including uranium-containing anions.
Kiyotomi Kaneda
Kiyotomi Kaneda (金田 清臣) is a Japanese catalytic chemist and Osaka University professor emeritus known for hydroxyapatite-supported metal catalysts for green synthesis, winning the first Green Sustainable Chemistry Award in 2001.
Klaus Bechgaard
Klaus Bechgaard (1945–2017) was a Danish chemist and professor at the University of Copenhagen who, with Denis Jérôme, discovered the first organic superconductor in 1979.
Klaus Biemann
Klaus Biemann (1926–2016) was an Austrian-born American chemist at MIT who pioneered organic mass spectrometry, led the Viking molecular analysis experiment on Mars, and developed mass spectrometric protein sequencing that laid the groundwork for proteomics.
Klaus Clusius
Klaus Clusius (1903–1963) was a German physical chemist who invented the thermal diffusion column with Gerhard Dickel in 1938, a device for separating gases and stable isotopes.
Klaus H. Hofmann
Klaus Heinrich Hofmann was a German-born American biochemist and peptide chemist who spent five decades at the University of Pittsburgh and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1963.
Klaus Keil
Klaus Keil (1934–2022) was a German-American meteoriticist who co-developed the first energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometer and directed the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico.
Klaus Meerholz
Klaus Meerholz is a physical chemist who has held the chair of physical chemistry at the University of Cologne since 2002, working on OLEDs and organic photovoltaics.
Klaus Müllen
Klaus Müllen (born 1947) is a German polymer chemist known for bottom-up synthesis of nanographenes and graphene nanoribbons at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.
Klaus Ruedenberg
Klaus Ruedenberg, born 1920 in Germany, is a theoretical chemist at Iowa State University known for orbital localization, even-tempered basis sets, and his wave-mechanical theory of the covalent bond.
Klaus Schmidt‐Rohr
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, also known as K. Schmidt-Rohr, is a German-born solid-state NMR spectroscopist and professor of chemistry at Brandeis University, known for Nafion fuel-cell membrane research.
Koh Ming Joo
Koh Ming Joo is a Singapore-born organic chemist at the National University of Singapore known for sustainable catalysis with base metals such as iron and nickel.
Kohei Tamao
Kohei Tamao (玉尾 皓平), born 1942, is a Japanese organosilicon and organoboron chemist, professor at Kyoto University, known for the Tamao oxidation, the Kumada–Tamao coupling, and silole electron-transport materials.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka (田中 耕一), born 1959 in Toyama City, Japan, is a Japanese analytical chemist at Shimadzu who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for soft laser desorption.
Koichiro Oshima
Koichiro Oshima (大嶌 幸一郎) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Kyoto University known for cobalt-catalyzed cross-coupling of alkyl halides with Grignard reagents and triethylborane-initiated radical reactions.
Koji Nakanishi
Koji Nakanishi (1925–2019) was a Japanese organic chemist at Columbia University who determined structures of biologically active natural products and developed the exciton chirality method.
Konrad Tiefenbacher
Konrad Tiefenbacher is an organic chemist, professor at the University of Basel and ETH Zürich since 2016, known for running terpene cyclizations and β-selective glycosylations inside self-assembled molecular capsules.
Koop Lammertsma
Koop Lammertsma is a Dutch organophosphorus and computational chemist, professor emeritus at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, known for low-valent phosphorus chemistry and the 2021 International Arbuzov Prize.