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Michael R. Buchmeiser
Michael R. Buchmeiser (born 1967) is an Austrian polymer chemist, professor at the University of Stuttgart since 2009, working on metathesis catalysis, carbon fibers, and battery cathodes.
Michael R. Hoffmann
Michael R. Hoffmann is an environmental chemist at Caltech, known for identifying hyperacidic urban fogs and for applying semiconductor photocatalysis and electrochemistry to water treatment.
Michael R. Wasielewski
Michael R. Wasielewski is an American photochemist and Northwestern University chemistry professor, trained at the University of Chicago, known for artificial photosynthesis, molecular electronics, and quantum information science.
Michael S. McLachlan
Michael S. McLachlan is an environmental chemist who has been Professor of Organic Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University since 2003, known for the forest filter effect model.
Michael Schmittel
Michael Schmittel (born 1956) is a German organic chemist who works on molecular nanoswitches, nanomachines, and metallosupramolecular self-sorting, and was a professor at the University of Siegen.
Michael Szwarc
Michael Szwarc (1909–2000) was a Polish-born polymer chemist who worked in England and the United States and discovered living polymerization, the anionic polymerization of styrene in which growing chains never terminate, winning the 1991 Kyoto Prize.
Michael T. Bowers
Michael T. Bowers is an American physical chemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara known for developing ion mobility mass spectrometry, applied to fullerenes and amyloid peptides.
Michael Tsapatsis
Michael Tsapatsis is a chemical engineer working on zeolites and molecular sieve membranes, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Distinguished Professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
Michael V. Mirkin
Michael V. Mirkin is an electrochemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Queens College, CUNY, where he has taught since 1993, known for scanning electrochemical microscopy and nanoelectrochemistry.
Michal Szostak
Michal Szostak is an organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers University–Newark, known for developing acyclic twisted amide bond activation and metal-free amide conversion methods.
Michel Armand
Michel Armand (born 1946) is a French electrochemist known for the rocking-chair battery concept behind lithium-ion cells and for pioneering solid polymer electrolytes; he leads polymer electrolyte research at CIC energiGUNE in Spain.
Michel Boudart
Michel Boudart (1924–2012) was a Belgian-born chemical engineer at Stanford and a leading authority on heterogeneous catalysis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
Michel Che
Michel Che (1941–2019) was a French chemist who originated the concept of molecular surface reactivity in heterogeneous catalysis, using electron spin resonance to study solid surfaces.
Michel Eugène Chevreul
Michel Eugène Chevreul was a French chemist who isolated fatty acids, discovered cholesterol, and formulated the law of simultaneous contrast of colors at the Gobelins.
Michel Orrit
Michel Orrit (born 1956) is a French physicist, professor emeritus at Leiden University, who in 1990 first detected a single molecule by fluorescence, founding single-molecule optical spectroscopy.
Michel R. Gagné
Michel R. Gagné is an organic chemist and Mary Ann Smith Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, known for silylium-ion late-stage functionalization of natural products.
Michelle C. Chang
Michelle C. Y. Chang is an American chemical and synthetic biologist, the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry at Princeton since 2024, after 17 years on the UC Berkeley faculty.
Michinori Suginome
Michinori Suginome (杉野目 道紀, born 1966) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Kyoto University known for organoboron chemistry, the boron-masking strategy, and chirality-switchable helical polymer catalysts.
Michito Yoshizawa
Michito Yoshizawa (吉沢 道人, born 1974) is a Japanese supramolecular chemist and professor at Institute of Science Tokyo, known for molecular flasks that bind guests in water.
Mietek Jaroniec
Mietek Jaroniec, also known as Mieczysław Jaroniec, is a Polish-born materials chemist and professor emeritus at Kent State University known for research on adsorption and ordered nanoporous materials.
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Dean of Physical Sciences at UCLA, known for amphidynamic crystals and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Miguel Costas
Miguel Costas, also known as Miquel Costas, is a Spanish inorganic chemist and full professor at the University of Girona known for bioinspired iron and manganese oxidation catalysis.
Mihail Barboiu
Mihail Barboiu is a Romanian-born French chemist, CNRS research director at the Institut Européen des Membranes in Montpellier, known for artificial water channels and the 2024 Prix André Collet.
Mikiko Sodeoka
Mikiko Sodeoka is a Japanese organic chemist and chemical biologist known for asymmetric catalysis with palladium and nickel, fluorination methods, and alkyne-tag Raman imaging; she directs RIKEN CSRS since 2025.
Miklós Kertész
Miklós Kertész (Miklos Kertesz) is a computational chemist and professor at Georgetown University known for carbon materials research and the 1999 carbon nanotube actuators paper.
Milan Mrksich
Milan Mrksich is an American chemist and bioengineer, the Henry Wade Rogers Professor at Northwestern University, known for SAMDI mass spectrometry and self-assembled monolayer surfaces for drug discovery.
Milko E. van der Boom
Milko E. van der Boom is a materials chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, known for electrochromic films and chiral metal-organic framework crystals.
Millard H. Alexander
Millard H. Alexander, born 1943 in Boston, is an American theoretical chemist who spent 50 years at the University of Maryland studying quantum dynamics of molecular collisions.
Miloš V. Novotný
Milos V. Novotny, born 1942 in Brno, is a Czech-born analytical chemist at Indiana University known for capillary separation science, glycoscience, and identifying the first mammalian pheromones.
Milton Harris (chemist)
Milton Harris (1906–1991) was an American chemist who developed shrink-proof wool and wrinkle-resistant cotton, founded the Harris Research Laboratory, and won the 1980 Priestley Medal.