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Matthew Tirrell

Matthew Tirrell is an American polymer scientist who founded the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and led it as dean from 2011 to 2023.

Matthew W. Kanan

Matthew W. Kanan is a Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University who directed the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy from 2019 to 2025, working on CO2 conversion.

Matthias Arenz

Matthias Arenz, born 1973 in Aachen, Germany, is a German physical chemist and professor at the University of Bern known for benchmarking high-surface-area electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells and electrolyzers.

Matthias Beller

Matthias Beller, born 1962, is a German chemist known for homogeneous catalysis research in carbonylation and hydrogenation, and for leading the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Rostock.

Matthias Drieß

Matthias Drieß, born 1961 in Eisenach, is a German inorganic and materials chemist who heads the metalorganic chemistry chair at Technische Universität Berlin and studies heavier main-group elements.

Matthias Ernzerhof

Matthias Ernzerhof is a theoretical chemist and professeur titulaire at the Université de Montréal, co-developer of the PBE functional of 1996 and the HSE hybrid functional of 2003.

Matthias Scheffler

Matthias Scheffler, born 1951 in Berlin, is a German theoretical physicist known for work on density-functional theory and for directing the NOMAD Laboratory at the Fritz Haber Institute.

Matthias Selbach

Matthias Selbach (born 1971) is a German proteomics researcher who leads the Proteome Dynamics group at the Max Delbrück Center and is a professor at the Charité in Berlin.

Matthias Wagner

Matthias Wagner is a German inorganic and materials chemist who has been a full professor at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2000, known for boron-doped molecules for organic electronics.

Maurice Brookhart

Maurice Brookhart is an American organometallic chemist known for late-transition-metal olefin polymerization catalysts and the agostic bond, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.

Maurice Stacey

Maurice Stacey (1907–1994) was a British carbohydrate chemist who helped synthesize vitamin C in 1932 and led the chemical side of the Birmingham atomic-energy project in the Second World War.

Maurice-Marie Janot

Maurice-Marie Janot (1903–1978) was a French pharmacist and chemist who held Paris's chair of galenic pharmacy from 1941 to 1974 and co-founded the Institut de chimie des substances naturelles.

Maurizio Prato

Maurizio Prato is an Italian organic chemist known for the Prato reaction, the standard method for functionalizing fullerenes, and for work on carbon nanotubes and graphene.

Mauro Pasta

Mauro Pasta is Professor of Applied Electrochemistry at the University of Oxford, working on lithium metal anodes and solid-state batteries, and won the Royal Society of Chemistry's Corday-Morgan Prize in 2025.

Max Bodenstein

Max Bodenstein (1871–1942) was a German physical chemist regarded as a founder of chemical kinetics, who introduced the chain reaction, the steady-state approximation, and the Bodenstein number.

Max M. Hansmann

Max M. Hansmann (Max Martin Hansmann) is an organic chemist and full professor of organic chemistry at TU Dortmund University since 2023, known for isolating the first room-temperature stable diazoalkenes.

Max Tishler

Max Tishler (1906–1989) was an American industrial chemist who spent 32 years at Merck, developing commercial syntheses of penicillin, cortisone, and vitamins before teaching at Wesleyan University.

Max Volmer

Max Volmer (1885–1965) was a German physical chemist at the Technische Hochschule Berlin known for the Butler–Volmer equation, the Volmer–Weber growth mode, and classical nucleation theory.

May Nyman

May Nyman is an American materials chemist, the Terence Bradshaw Chemistry Professor at Oregon State University since 2012, known for polyoxometalates and the first niobium heteropolyanions.

Megan Cleveland

Megan Cleveland is an American research biologist at NIST's Applied Genetics Group who develops reference materials for clinical diagnostics and won a 2025 PECASE award.

Megan Thielges

Megan Thielges is an American analytical chemist at Indiana University Bloomington who develops two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to study protein dynamics and received a PECASE award.

Mei Hong

Mei Hong is an American biophysical chemist and MIT professor who uses solid-state NMR spectroscopy to study membrane proteins, including the influenza M2 proton channel and tau fibrils.

Meir Lahav

Meir Lahav (born 1936, Sofia, Bulgaria) is an Israeli chemist at the Weizmann Institute known for his work, with Leslie Leiserowitz, on the crystal forms of organic molecules.

Melanie S. Sanford

Melanie S. Sanford is an American organometallic and inorganic chemist who has spent her career at the University of Michigan, known for palladium-catalyzed C–H functionalization, new fluorination chemistry, and electrolytes for redox-flow batteries.

Melville Wolfrom

Melville Wolfrom was an American carbohydrate chemist who spent his career at Ohio State University and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1950.

Melvin Spencer Newman

Melvin Spencer Newman (1908–1993) was an American organic chemist at Ohio State University known for the Newman projection, a notation for viewing molecules down carbon–carbon bonds.

Menny Shalom

Menny Shalom (Hebrew: מני שלום) is an Israeli solid-state chemist and professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev who develops carbon nitride and nickel-based electrocatalysts for renewable energy.

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, born 1957 in Thessaloniki, Greece, is a Greek-born American inorganic chemist at Northwestern University known for thermoelectric materials, halide perovskite solar cells, and radiation detectors.

Metal-free electrocatalysis

Metal-free electrocatalysis is the acceleration of electrochemical reactions at electrodes made without metal atoms, usually carbon materials, begun in 2009 as an alternative to platinum catalysts.

Michael A. Duncan

Michael A. Duncan is an American physical chemist at the University of Georgia since 1983, known for infrared spectroscopy of metal ion complexes and laser vaporization cluster sources.