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László Zechmeister
László Zechmeister (1889–1972) was a Hungarian chemist who helped revive column chromatography, wrote the first handbook on the method, and studied carotenoid pigments at Caltech from 1940.
Laura Gagliardi
Laura Gagliardi is a theoretical and materials chemist who has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 2020, known for multireference quantum chemical methods such as MC-PDFT.
Laura L. Kiessling
Laura L. Kiessling is an American chemical biologist who studies how cells use carbohydrate coats, called glycans, to signal; she has been the Novartis Professor of Chemistry at MIT since 2017.
Laura Lee McConnell
Laura Lee McConnell is an American environmental chemist known for tracking pesticides through water, air, and soil, a 1997 PECASE recipient and later a Bayer Science Fellow.
Lawrence F. Dahl
Lawrence F. Dahl (1929–2021) was an American inorganic chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who determined the X-ray structures of transition-metal cluster compounds, from simple carbonyls to record palladium clusters.
Lawrence Grossman
Lawrence Grossman, born 1946 in Toronto, is a cosmochemist at the University of Chicago known for calculating mineral condensation sequences and showing CAIs are the Solar System's oldest solids.
Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Lawrence Joseph Henderson (1878–1942) was an American biochemist and physiologist at Harvard whose 1908 blood-buffering formula became the Henderson–Hasselbalch equation, and who wrote The Fitness of the Environment (1913).
Lawrence O. Brockway
Lawrence O. Brockway (Lawrence Olin Brockway, 1907–1979) was an American physical chemist who established gas-phase electron diffraction for determining molecular structures, first as a doctoral student of Linus Pauling at Caltech.
Lawrence Que
Lawrence Que, Jr. is an American bioinorganic chemist at the University of Minnesota known for work on nonheme iron oxygen activation and bio-inspired oxidation catalysis.
Lawrence R. Sita
Lawrence R. Sita is an American inorganic and materials chemist, a professor at the University of Maryland since 2002 known for nitrogen fixation catalysis and living polymerization of polyolefins.
Lawrence S. Bartell
Lawrence S. Bartell (1923–2017) was an American physical chemist at the University of Michigan who used electron diffraction and electron holography to determine the shapes of free molecules.
Lawrence T. Scott
Lawrence T. Scott, born 1944, is an American organic chemist and emeritus professor at Boston College who led the first rational chemical synthesis of buckminsterfullerene.
Lee Cronin (chemist)
Leroy "Lee" Cronin is Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, working on machine learning for chemistry, the Chemputer, assembly theory, and the origin of life.
Lee Greenawald
Lee Greenawald is an American occupational safety scientist and analytical chemist who led NIOSH's respirator testing branch, researched fentanyl protection through gloves, and received a PECASE in 2025.
Lee Irvin Smith
Lee Irvin Smith (1891–1973) was an American organic chemist who spent his forty-year career at the University of Minnesota and first synthesized the tocopherols, the vitamin E family.
Lee R. Cambrea
Lee R. Cambrea is an American research chemist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, California, who received a 2011 PECASE award.
Leeor Kronik
Leeor Kronik (ליאור קרוניק) is an Israeli theoretical chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for density functional theory and optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functionals.
Lei Wang
Lei Wang (Wang Lei) is a Singapore-based electrocatalysis researcher and assistant professor at the National University of Singapore who converts carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals.
Lei Zhu
Lei Zhu is a polymer scientist and professor at Case Western Reserve University known for high-dielectric-constant and ferroelectric polymers, including fluorine-free ferroelectric polymers reported in Science in 2025.
Leif Hammarström
Leif Hammarström, born 1964 in Uppsala, is a Swedish physical chemist and Professor of Chemical Physics at Uppsala University, known for proton-coupled electron transfer and artificial photosynthesis.
Leo A. Paquette
Leo A. Paquette (1934–2019) was an American organic chemist at Ohio State University best known for the first synthesis of dodecahedrane in 1982 and over 50 total syntheses.
Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland, also known as Leo Hendrik Baekeland, was a Belgian-born American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper and Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic.
Leo Brewer
Leo Brewer (1919–2005) was an American physical chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, regarded as the founder of modern high-temperature chemistry and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1959.
Leo C.M. de Maeyer
Leo C.M. de Maeyer (1927–2014) was a Belgian physical chemist who spent his career at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, developing chemical relaxation techniques with Manfred Eigen.
Leo Radom
Leo Radom, born 1944 in Shanghai, is an Australian computational quantum chemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney known for Gaussian theory extensions and radical thermochemistry.
Leon Marchlewski
Leon Marchlewski (1869–1946) was a Polish chemist who proposed a chemical kinship between chlorophyll and hemoglobin, helped found comparative biochemistry, and led the Jagiellonian University as rector.
Leonard J. Barbour
Leonard J. Barbour, born 1965 in Pretoria, is a South African supramolecular chemist and crystal engineer, formerly Distinguished Professor at Stellenbosch University and now at the University of Lincoln.
Leonard M. Tender
Leonard M. Tender is an American electrochemist who spent 24 years at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory studying microbial fuel cells and biofilm electron transport.
Leonard R. MacGillivray
Leonard R. MacGillivray is a Canadian supramolecular chemist and crystal engineer known for template-controlled solid-state reactions, and a Canada Excellence Research Chair at Sherbrooke since 2023.
Leone Spiccia
Leone Spiccia (1957–2016) was an Australian inorganic chemist, Professor of Chemistry at Monash University, known for dye-sensitized solar cell electrolytes, bioinspired water-oxidation catalysis, and nanomaterials for cancer imaging.