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Michael A. Hickner

Michael A. Hickner is an American materials scientist who works on ion-containing polymers, electrochemical membranes, and additive manufacturing; he spent 2007 to 2022 at Penn State and joined Michigan State University in January 2023.

Michael A. Robb

Michael A. Robb, also published as M. A. Robb, is a theoretical and computational chemist who holds the Chair in Chemistry at Imperial College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Michael B. Hall

Michael B. Hall is an American theoretical and computational inorganic chemist who joined Texas A&M University in 1975 and is known for the Fenske-Hall molecular orbital method.

Michael Baer

Michael Baer is an Israeli theoretical chemist and physicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for wave-packet scattering methods and diabatization after nearly 40 years at Soreq.

Michael C. Willis

Michael C. Willis is a British organic chemist and professor at the University of Oxford whose research develops catalytic methods for building sulfur- and nitrogen-containing groups.

Michael Chabinyc

Michael Chabinyc is an American materials scientist who chairs the Materials Department at UC Santa Barbara, where he studies how conjugated polymer semiconductors conduct charge in transistors, solar cells, and thermoelectrics.

Michael D. Burkart

Michael D. Burkart is an American chemical biologist at UC San Diego who studies fatty acid, polyketide, and non-ribosomal peptide synthases and co-founded four biotech companies.

Michael D. Dickey

Michael D. Dickey is a chemical engineer at North Carolina State University who works on liquid metals, soft materials, and glassy gels introduced in 2024.

Michael D. Fayer

Michael D. Fayer, also known as M. D. Fayer, is an American physical chemist at Stanford University who pioneered ultrafast 2D IR spectroscopy to study molecular dynamics.

Michael D. Morse

Michael D. Morse is an American physical chemist at the University of Utah who measures metal–ligand bond dissociation energies by laser spectroscopy to about 0.004 eV accuracy.

Michael D. Pluth

Michael D. Pluth is an American chemist and professor at the University of Oregon since 2011, known for hydrogen sulfide donor molecules and fluorescent probes for reactive sulfur species.

Michael D. Ward

Michael D. Ward is an American materials chemist and crystal engineer known for the electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance, imaging crystal growth with atomic force microscopy, and molecular imposter inhibitors of cystine kidney stones.

Michael Elliott (chemist)

Michael Elliott (1924–2007) was a British chemist at Rothamsted Experimental Station who led the team that invented the major synthetic pyrethroid insecticides, including permethrin, cypermethrin, and deltamethrin.

Michael F. Lappert

Michael F. Lappert (1928–2014) was a British inorganic chemist, born in Brno, who fled to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 and pioneered low-valent main-group chemistry at Sussex.

Michael F. Toney

Michael F. Toney is an American electrochemist known for using synchrotron X-ray methods to study battery interfaces, and a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2020.

Michael Grätzel

Michael Grätzel is a Swiss chemist and professor at EPFL who directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces and co-invented the dye-sensitized solar cell, the Grätzel cell.

Michael Heidelberger

Michael Heidelberger (1888–1991) was an American immunologist and organic chemist, often called the father of modern immunology, who showed with Oswald Avery in 1923 that pneumococcal antigens are polysaccharides.

Michael J. Frisch

Michael J. Frisch is a computational chemist, president of Gaussian, Inc., and a Wesleyan University faculty member who trained under Nobel laureate John Pople at Carnegie Mellon.

Michael J. Krische

Michael J. Krische is an American chemist holding the Robert A. Welch Chair at the University of Texas at Austin, known for developing catalytic carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions driven by hydrogenation.

Michael J. MacCoss

Michael J. MacCoss is a University of Washington professor of genome sciences known for quantitative mass spectrometry and stable isotope-based protein measurement, and a 2007 PECASE recipient.

Michael J. S. Dewar

Michael J. S. Dewar (1918–1997) was a British-American theoretical chemist who made molecular orbital methods practical for organic chemistry, developing MINDO, MNDO, and AM1 and the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model.

Michael J. Sailor

Michael J. Sailor is an American materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego, best known for his research on porous silicon.

Michael J. Therien

Michael J. Therien, also known as Michael Therien, is a chemist who holds the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professorship of Chemistry at Duke University, appointed in 2009.

Michael J. Zaworotko

Michael J. Zaworotko, born in Wales in 1956, is a crystal engineer and Bernal Chair of Crystal Engineering at the University of Limerick, known as a pioneer of metal-organic frameworks.

Michael Karas

Michael Karas (born 1952) is a German physical chemist at Goethe University Frankfurt who, as a postdoc with Franz Hillenkamp, co-discovered MALDI, making mass spectrometry of proteins routine.

Michael Kasha

Michael Kasha (1920–2013) was a Ukrainian-American chemical physicist and photochemist at Florida State University, best known for the Kasha rule in molecular photophysics and the triplet-state origin of phosphorescence.

Michael L. Klein

Michael L. Klein is a British-born theoretical and computational chemist, Laura H. Carnell Professor at Temple University, known for molecular simulation and the TIP4P water model.

Michael M. Haley

Michael M. Haley, born 1965, is an American organic and materials chemist at the University of Oregon known for stable open-shell indenofluorene molecules and graphyne research.

Michael Mastalerz

Michael Mastalerz is a German organic chemist who has been professor of organic chemistry at Heidelberg University since 2013, known for porous organic cage compounds and giant interlocking cages.

Michael McCarthy (spectroscopist)

Michael C. McCarthy is an American spectroscopist and laboratory astrophysicist, Deputy Director and Senior Physicist at the Center for Astrophysics, whose laboratory spectroscopy enabled discoveries of molecules, including benzonitrile, in space.