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Marye Anne Fox

Marye Anne Fox (1947–2021) was an American physical organic chemist known for pioneering organic photo-electrochemistry and serving as chancellor of NC State and UC San Diego.

Mas Subramanian

Mas Subramanian (Munirpallam Appadorai Subramanian) is an Indian solid-state chemist who accidentally discovered YInMn blue in 2009, the first new inorganic blue pigment in more than two centuries.

Masahiro Irie

Masahiro Irie (入江 正浩) is a Japanese photochemist and specially appointed professor at Rikkyo University, known for inventing diarylethenes in 1985, photochromic molecules whose states last over 1,000 years.

Masahiro Miura

Masahiro Miura (三浦 雅博) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Osaka University known for palladium and copper catalysis that forms new bonds directly at aromatic C–H bonds.

Masahiro Murakami

Masahiro Murakami (村上 正浩) is a Japanese organic chemist who held the Chair of Synthetic Chemistry at Kyoto University until retiring in 2022, known for catalytic carbon–carbon bond cleavage.

Masahiro Terada

Masahiro Terada (寺田眞浩) is a Japanese synthetic organic chemist and professor at Tohoku University, known for chiral Brønsted acid organocatalysts and the 2010 Mukaiyama Award.

Masahito Ochiai

Masahito Ochiai (落合 正仁), born 1948, is a Japanese organic chemist and professor emeritus of Tokushima University, known for hypervalent organoiodine chemistry and the 2011 metal-free amination of alkanes.

Masakatsu Shibasaki

Masakatsu Shibasaki (柴崎正勝) is a Japanese synthetic organic chemist known for bifunctional asymmetric catalysis with heterobimetallic BINOL complexes, used in industrial routes to drugs including Tamiflu and sitagliptin.

Masaki Azuma

Masaki Azuma (東 正樹) is a Japanese solid state chemist, a professor at Institute of Science Tokyo known for high-pressure synthesis of functional transition-metal oxides.

Masanobu Uchiyama

Masanobu Uchiyama (内山 真伸) is a Japanese chemist, a professor at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences since 2010, known for hetero-bimetallic "ate" complex chemistry and deprotonative metalation.

Masaru Kuno

Masaru K. Kuno, known as Masaru Kuno, is an American materials chemist and professor at the University of Notre Dame who studies semiconductor nanocrystals, nanowires, and perovskite solar cells.

Masatake Haruta

Masatake Haruta (春田 正毅) was a Japanese chemist at Tokyo Metropolitan University who founded heterogeneous gold catalysis with his 1987 discovery that gold nanoparticles catalyze CO oxidation.

Masaya Sawamura

Masaya Sawamura (澤村 正也; 1961–2026) was a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Hokkaido University known for catalytic asymmetric synthesis, organometallic chemistry, and ligand design.

Masayoshi Watanabe

Masayoshi Watanabe (渡邉 正義), born 1954, is a Japanese electrochemist known for pioneering research on ionic liquids and solvate ionic liquids for battery electrolytes at Yokohama National University.

Masayuki Inoue

Masayuki Inoue (井上 将行) is a Japanese synthetic organic chemist and professor at the University of Tokyo since 2007, best known for the 2010 total synthesis of polytheonamide B.

Massimo Olivucci

Massimo Olivucci is an Italian computational photochemist, a professor at the University of Siena and Bowling Green State University, known for conical intersections and rhodopsin studies.

Masuzo Shikata

Masuzo Shikata (志方益三, 1895–1964) was a Japanese chemist who co-invented the polarograph with Jaroslav Heyrovský in Prague in 1924, then published the first polarographic study of an organic substance, nitrobenzene, in 1925.

Mathew Carey Lea

Mathew Carey Lea (1823–1897), usually published as M. Carey Lea, was an American chemist who worked from a private laboratory in Philadelphia, studied silver halide photography, and founded mechanochemistry.

Mathew M. Maye

Mathew M. Maye is an American chemist and nanoscientist who chairs chemistry at Syracuse University and won a 2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Mathieu Orfila

Mathieu Orfila, full name Mateu Josep Bonaventura Orfila i Rotger (1787–1853), was a Spanish-born, French-naturalized physician and chemist regarded as the father of modern toxicology.

Mats R. Andersson

Mats R. Andersson, also published as Mats Andersson, is a polymer chemist who designs conjugated polymers for organic solar cells and directs nanoscience at Flinders University in Adelaide.

Matteo Cargnello

Matteo Cargnello (born 1984) is an Italian-born chemical engineer, associate professor of chemical engineering at Stanford since 2023, known for work on catalyst deactivation and stability.

Matthew B. Francis

Matthew B. Francis, born 1971, is a chemist and distinguished professor at UC Berkeley, chair of chemistry since 2018, known for site-selective protein bioconjugation and virus-templated materials for drug delivery.

Matthew Bogyo

Matthew G. Bogyo is a Stanford professor of pathology and microbiology known for co-establishing activity-based protein profiling, which measures enzyme activity directly in living tissue.

Matthew D Disney

Matthew D Disney is an American chemical biologist and Chair of Chemistry at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute in Jupiter, Florida, known for designing small-molecule drugs that target RNA.

Matthew Gaunt

Matthew J. Gaunt is a chemist who holds the 1702 Yusuf Hamied Professorship of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, researching C–H activation and photoredox catalysis.

Matthew J. Rosseinsky

Matthew J. Rosseinsky is a materials chemist, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry since 1999, and Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Liverpool, working on solid-state and computational materials discovery.

Matthew Powner

Matthew W. Powner (born 1981) is a British organic chemist and Professor at University College London whose 2009 Nature paper synthesized activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides under prebiotically plausible conditions.

Matthew S. Platz

Matthew S. Platz, born 1951, is an American physical organic chemist, Emeritus Professor at Ohio State, known for time-resolved studies of carbenes and nitrenes, short-lived reactive intermediates.

Matthew S. Sigman

Matthew S. Sigman is an American organic chemist at the University of Utah, a Distinguished Professor known for enantioselective catalysis and machine-learning models of reaction selectivity.