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Norman Allinger
Norman Allinger (1928–2020) was an American computational chemist at the University of Georgia, senior author of the MM2, MM3, and MM4 molecular mechanics force fields for organic molecules.
Norman Hackerman
Norman Hackerman (1912–2007) was an American electrochemist known for corrosion science, who served as president of the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University.
Norman Haworth
Norman Haworth, or Walter Norman Haworth, was a British organic chemist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on carbohydrates and vitamin C.
Norman J. Dovic̀hi
Norman J. Dovic̀hi is an American bioanalytical chemist and Emeritus Professor at Notre Dame whose capillary array electrophoresis instruments sequenced the human genome; he edits Analyst.
Norman Sutin
Norman Sutin (1928–2022) was a chemist who spent his career at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for the theory and measurement of electron-transfer reactions and for early work on artificial photosynthesis.
Normand Voyer
Normand Voyer is a Canadian chemist and full professor at Université Laval in Quebec City, known for artificial ion channels, antimicrobial peptides, and northern natural products.
Notker Rösch
Notker Rösch is a German theoretical chemist and emeritus professor at the Technical University of Munich, known for density functional studies of metal clusters and catalysis.
Nuno Maulide
Nuno Maulide, born 1979 in Lisbon, is a Portuguese organic chemist who has held the Chair of Organic Synthesis at the University of Vienna since 2013.
O. Anatole von Lilienfeld
O. Anatole von Lilienfeld, also known as Anatole von Lilienfeld, is a computational chemist at the University of Toronto known for machine learning models of molecular properties.
Odd Hassel
Odd Hassel was a Norwegian physical chemist at the University of Oslo who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing that molecules take several interconverting three-dimensional shapes.
Odile Eisenstein
Odile Eisenstein, born 1949, is a French theoretical and computational chemist, a CNRS research director emeritus in Montpellier known for computational studies of transition-metal and lanthanide complexes.
Ohyun Kwon
Ohyun Kwon is an American-based organic chemist and UCLA professor known for deconstructive radical chemistry cleaving alkene C–C bonds, including hydrodealkenylation and aminodealkenylation published in Science.
Olaf M. Magnussen
Olaf M. Magnussen is a professor of solid-state physics at the University of Kiel who studies electrode surfaces at the atomic scale, using video-STM and synchrotron X-ray scattering.
Olafs Daugulis
Olafs Daugulis is a Latvian-born chemist and Robert A. Welch Chair at the University of Houston, known for introducing the widely used 8-aminoquinoline directing group in 2005.
Ole Lamm
Ole Lamm (1902–1964) was a Swedish physical chemist, professor at KTH, who derived the 1929 Lamm equation governing sedimentation, still central to protein analysis by ultracentrifugation.
Oleg V. Ozerov
Oleg V. Ozerov is an organometallic chemist at Texas A&M University known for pincer-ligand catalysis and carbon–fluorine bond activation, recognized by the 2012 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry.
Oleg V. Prezhdo
Oleg V. Prezhdo, also published as Oleg Prezhdo, is a Ukrainian-born theoretical chemist at USC known for surface-hopping methods and the PYXAID code for solar materials.
Olga Smirnova (theoretical physicist)
Olga Smirnova (Ольга Смирнова) is a theoretical physicist who leads the Strong Field Theory Group at the Max Born Institute in Berlin and works on attosecond physics.
Oliver Fiehn
Oliver Fiehn is a German-trained analytical chemist, professor at the UC Davis Genome Center since 2004, known for GC-MS metabolomics, the FiehnLib spectral library, and spectral entropy methods.
Oliver Reiser
Oliver Reiser is a German organic chemist and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Regensburg since 1997, known for copper photoredox catalysis and C–H functionalization.
Oliver S. Wenger
Oliver S. Wenger (born 1974) is a Swiss inorganic chemist and professor at the University of Basel whose research group studies photoactive coordination complexes and photoredox catalysis.
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, known as Wolcott Gibbs, was an American analytical and inorganic chemist, Rumford Professor at Harvard from 1863 to 1887, remembered for introducing electrogravimetry.
Olivier Baudoin
Olivier Baudoin is a French chemist working in organic synthesis and organometallic catalysis, Full Professor at the University of Basel since 2015 and head of its chemistry department since 2021, known for palladium-catalyzed C(sp3)–H activation.
Omar Azzaroni
Omar Azzaroni, born in 1974, is an Argentine chemist at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata known for supramolecular materials, polymer thin films, and solid-state nanopores.
Omar K. Farha
Omar K. Farha is a Palestinian-born chemist at Northwestern University, chair of its chemistry department since 2024, known for record-setting metal–organic frameworks for gas storage and destroying chemical warfare agents.
Omar Yaghi
Omar M. Yaghi (عمر ياغي), born 1965 in Amman, Jordan, is a chemist at UC Berkeley who founded reticular chemistry and won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for metal-organic frameworks.
Ora Mendelsohn Rosen
Ora Mendelsohn Rosen (1935–1990) was an American biochemist who showed the insulin receptor is an insulin-activated tyrosine kinase, helped clone its gene in 1985, and led research at Einstein and Sloan Kettering.
Oren Scherman
Oren A. Scherman is a professor of supramolecular and polymer chemistry at the University of Cambridge, known for self-healing cucurbituril-based materials and directing the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis.
Orville L. Chapman
Orville L. Chapman, born Orville Lamar Chapman (1932–2004), was an American organic chemist and UCLA professor who pioneered low-temperature trapping of reactive intermediates and synthesized carpanone in one step.
Osamu Ishitani
Osamu Ishitani (石谷治) is a Japanese photochemist known for rhenium and ruthenium–rhenium photocatalysts that convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide or formic acid, and a professor at Hiroshima University.