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Ann E. McDermott

Ann E. McDermott is a chemist at Columbia University, where she holds the Breslow Professorship, known for solid-state NMR of proteins and dynamic nuclear polarization, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Anna I. Krylov

Anna I. Krylov, born 1967 in Donetsk, is a theoretical and computational chemist at the University of Southern California known for equation-of-motion coupled-cluster and spin-flip methods, and president of Q-Chem.

Annabella Selloni

Annabella Selloni, born in Italy in 1951, is an Italian-born theoretical chemist who was the David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, known for first-principles studies of oxide surfaces.

Anny Jutand

Anny Jutand is a French chemist, emeritus research director at CNRS, working at the École normale supérieure in Paris on electrochemistry applied to organometallic catalysis.

Ante Tocilj

Ante Tocilj, born 1971 in Split, Croatia, is a crystallographer who was first author of a 1999 4.5 Å structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit in Ada Yonath's Hamburg group.

Anthony K. Cheetham

Sir Anthony Kevin Cheetham is a British materials chemist known for solving unknown crystal structures from powder diffraction data, a Fellow of the Royal Society knighted in 2020.

Anthony L. Turkevich

Anthony L. Turkevich (1916–2002) was an American nuclear radiochemist and University of Chicago professor who first determined the Moon's chemical composition with instruments on NASA's Surveyor landers.

Anton Eduard van Arkel

Anton Eduard van Arkel (1893–1976) was a Dutch chemist who devised the van Arkel–Ketelaar triangle for classifying chemical bonding and the iodide process for refining high-purity metals.

Antoni Llobet

Antoni Llobet, born in Sabadell in 1960, is a Spanish inorganic chemist who leads a research group at ICIQ in Tarragona and works on catalysts for artificial photosynthesis.

Antonio Facchetti

Antonio Facchetti is an Italian materials chemist working on organic and printable electronics, Hightower Professor at Georgia Tech and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Antonio M. Echavarren

Antonio M. Echavarren is a Spanish organic chemist, born in Bilbao, who leads a group at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia and is known for gold(I)-catalyzed alkyne activation.

Arben Merkoçi

Arben Merkoçi is an ICREA Research Professor who leads the Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors Group at ICN2 in Barcelona, developing DNA, protein, and cell biosensors and low-cost point-of-care diagnostics.

Archer J.P. Martin

Archer J.P. Martin (Archer John Porter Martin) was a British biochemist who co-invented partition, paper, and gas–liquid chromatography and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Arie Jan Haagen-Smit

Arie Jan Haagen-Smit was a Dutch-born chemist at Caltech who identified the photochemical origin of Los Angeles smog and became the first chairman of the California Air Resources Board.

Arjan J. Houtepen

Arjan J. Houtepen (born 1979) is a materials chemist and full professor of Colloidal Nanomaterials at Delft University of Technology, where he leads the NCFun group on semiconductor nanomaterials.

Arjan W. Kleij

Arjan W. Kleij (born 1971 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch chemist and ICREA research professor leading a group at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia since 2011.

Armand de Waele

Armand de Waele was an industrial research chemist at the D. Gestetner laboratory in Tottenham Hale, London, known for the Ostwald–de Waele power-law model of viscous flow.

Armand Gautier (chemist)

Armand Gautier (1837–1920) was a French chemist and physician who held the chair of medical chemistry at the Faculté de médecine de Paris and discovered the isonitriles in 1866.

Armen Zakarian

Armen Zakarian is an organic chemist and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for total syntheses of marine and plant natural products and asymmetric methods.

Armido Studer

Armido Studer (born 1967) is a Swiss organic chemist and professor at the University of Münster known for radical chemistry, photocatalysis, and skeletal editing, awarded the 2026 Leibniz Prize.

Arne Fredga

Arne Fredga (1902–1992) was a Swedish organic chemist and professor of organic chemistry at Uppsala University from 1939 to 1969, known for work on organosulfur and organoselenium compounds and stereochemistry.

Arne Thomas

Arne Thomas, born 1975, is a German materials chemist working on nanoporous materials and covalent organic frameworks, professor at TU Berlin from 2009 to 2026 and then TUM.

Arne Tiselius

Arne Tiselius was a Swedish biochemist at Uppsala University who won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for electrophoresis and adsorption analysis of serum proteins.

Arne Westgren

Arne Westgren (1889–1975) was a Swedish metallographer and chemist who determined the crystal structures of iron and steel phases with X-ray diffraction and later chaired the Nobel chemistry committee.

Arnim Henglein

Arnim Henglein (1926–2012) was a German chemist, professor of Physical Nuclear Chemistry at TU Berlin and director of radiochemistry at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut, whose work on colloidal nanoparticles and quantum dots laid foundations for nanoscience.

Arnold Balls

Arnold Kent Balls (1891–1966) was a Canadian-born American enzyme chemist who crystallized papain, located the active-site serine of chymotrypsin, and taught biochemistry at Purdue University.

Arnold Eucken

Arnold Thomas Eucken (1884–1950) was a German physical chemist who held the Göttingen chair from 1930, measured hydrogen's low-temperature specific heat in 1912, and gave his name to the Eucken factor.

Arnold F. Holleman

Arnold F. Holleman (Arnold Frederik Holleman, 1859–1953) was a Dutch organic chemist, professor at Groningen and Amsterdam, known for the Holleman rule and textbooks in sixteen Dutch editions.

Arnold L. Rheingold

Arnold L. Rheingold (1940–2024) was an American inorganic chemist and X-ray crystallographer who deposited more structures to the Cambridge Structural Database than any other author.

Arnold Reissert

Arnold Reissert (1860–1945) was a German chemist and professor at the University of Marburg whose name attaches to the Reissert indole synthesis and the Reissert compounds, acylamino nitriles used in alkaloid synthesis.