Chemists

Marston T. Bogert

Marston Taylor Bogert (1868–1954) was an American organic chemist at Columbia University, its first professor of organic chemistry, president of the American Chemical Society, and winner of the Priestley Medal.

Martin D. Burke

Martin D. Burke, born 1976, is a chemical biologist and physician-scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for MIDA boronates, automated small-molecule synthesis, and molecular prosthetics.

Martin D. Smith

Martin D. Smith is a British organic chemist and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, known for asymmetric catalysis and the 2023 discovery of a molecule whose only stereogenic center is oxygen.

Martin Elsner

Martin Elsner (born 1972 in Hamburg) is a German environmental chemist who uses isotope analysis to trace how pesticides and other pollutants degrade in groundwater.

Martin F. Jarrold

Martin F. Jarrold, also published as M. F. Jarrold, is a physical and analytical chemist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, known for ion mobility spectrometry and charge detection mass spectrometry.

Martin H. Studier

Martin H. Studier was an American chemist who spent 35 years at Argonne National Laboratory, known for selective-oxidation studies of coal and for Fischer-Tropsch-type hypotheses on meteorite organic matter.

Martin Hanczyc

Martin Michael Hanczyc is a chemist at the University of Trento who builds protocells, including self-moving oil droplets that show chemotaxis like primitive living cells.

Martin Head-Gordon

Martin Head-Gordon, born in Canberra in 1962, is a theoretical chemist and Kenneth S. Pitzer Professor at UC Berkeley, known for the ωB97X density functionals and Q-Chem.

Martin Heeney

Martin Heeney is a chemist known for conjugated polymers and organic semiconductors, a professor at KAUST since 2022 after Imperial College London, and a winner of the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize.

Martin J. Buerger

Martin J. Buerger (1903–1986) was an American crystallographer and mineralogist at MIT who invented the X-ray precession camera in 1937 and wrote the textbooks that taught crystallography to generations of students.

Martin Jansen

Martin Jansen (born 1944) is a German solid-state chemist and director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, known for predictive materials discovery and non-toxic pigments.

Martin Kamen

Martin Kamen was an American chemist who co-discovered carbon-14 with Sam Ruben at Berkeley in 1940, enabling radiocarbon dating and tracer biochemistry, and won the 1995 Enrico Fermi Award.

Martin Kaupp

Martin Kaupp is a German theoretical chemist who holds the Theoretical Chemistry chair at Technische Universität Berlin, known for density functional theory and NMR and EPR calculations.

Martin Laurberg

Martin Laurberg is a structural biologist who, in Harry Noller's laboratory at UC Santa Cruz, led the 3.2 Å crystal structure of the ribosome with release factor RF1.

Martin Möller

Martin Möller is a German polymer and materials chemist who led the DWI Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Aachen and won the Hermann-Staudinger-Preis in 2014.

Martin Moskovits

Martin Moskovits is a physical chemist known for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and plasmonics, and for the 2013 autonomous plasmonic water-splitting device reported in Nature Nanotechnology.

Martin Oestreich

Martin Oestreich (born 1971 in Pforzheim) is a German organic chemist and Einstein Professor at Technische Universität Berlin, known for silylium-ion chemistry and silicon-based Lewis acid catalysis.

Martin Onslow Forster

Martin Onslow Forster (1872–1945) was a British organic chemist who devoted his career to camphor chemistry, was elected to the Royal Society in 1905, and was knighted in 1933.

Martin Pope

Martin Pope, born Isidore Poppick, was an American physical chemist at New York University whose experiments on organic molecular crystals established the physical basis of OLED displays.

Martin Pumera

Martin Pumera is a Czech chemist who leads the Future Energy & Innovation Lab at CEITEC Brno and studies two-dimensional nanomaterials, nanorobots, and graphene electrocatalysis.

Martin R. Bryce

Martin R. Bryce is a British materials chemist at Durham University, a Professor of Chemistry since 1995, known for organic conductors, OLED materials, and single-molecule electronics.

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Martin Saunders (chemist)

Martin Saunders is an American chemist who spent 67 years on the Yale faculty, pioneered NMR methods, and trapped noble gases and small molecules inside fullerene cages.

Martin Schröder (chemist)

Martin Schröder is a British coordination and materials chemist at the University of Manchester, where he was dean from 2015 to 2025, known for porous metal-organic frameworks for gas capture.

Martin Z. Bazant

Martin Z. Bazant is an American chemical engineer, mathematician, and physicist at MIT known for theories of electrochemical transport, including coupled ion–electron transfer in lithium iron phosphate batteries.

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Martin Zdenek Bazant

Martin Zdenek Bazant is a chemical engineer and applied mathematician at MIT, known for theoretical electrochemistry, battery modeling, and a 2021 indoor COVID-19 transmission guideline.

Martina H. Stenzel

Martina H. Stenzel, Professor Martina Stenzel, is an Australian polymer chemist and ARC Laureate Fellow at UNSW Sydney known for complex polymer architectures and nanoparticles for cancer drug delivery.

Martyn Poliakoff

Sir Martyn Poliakoff is a British chemist at the University of Nottingham who pioneered supercritical fluids as cleaner solvents and fronts the Periodic Table of Videos.

Mary B. Chan‐Park

Mary B. Chan-Park (Chan Bee Eng, Mary) is a Singapore-based materials chemist at Nanyang Technological University known for antimicrobial polymers, hydrogels, and carbon nanotube composites.

Mary L. Good

Mary L. Good (Mary Lowe Good, 1931–2019) was an American inorganic chemist who led industrial research at AlliedSignal and served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology.