Chemists

Patrick Unwin

Patrick Unwin is a British electrochemist at the University of Warwick who invented scanning electrochemical cell microscopy and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.

Patrik Schmuki

Patrik Schmuki, born 1960 in Winterthur, Switzerland, is a Swiss electrochemist and professor at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg known for self-organized TiO2 nanotube layers used in photocatalysis.

Paul A. Wender is an American organic and medicinal chemist, the Francis W. Bergstrom Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, known for function-oriented synthesis and practical syntheses of bryostatin 1 and prostratin.

Paul D. Beer

Paul D. Beer, born 1958 in Totnes, Devon, is a British supramolecular chemist and professor at Oxford known for anion recognition and sensing and for using anions as templates to build rotaxanes and catenanes.

Paul Doughty Bartlett

Paul Doughty Bartlett (1907–1997) was an American physical organic chemist at Harvard, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1947 and known for showing that reaction mechanisms can be determined experimentally.

Paul Dyson (chemist)

Paul J. Dyson is an inorganic and organometallic chemist, professor at EPFL in Switzerland since 2002, known for RAPTA ruthenium anticancer compounds and sustainable catalysis, and EPFL Dean of Basic Sciences since 2021.

Paul F. Barbara

Paul F. Barbara (1953–2010) was an American physical chemist known for ultrafast spectroscopy of electron and proton transfer reactions and single-molecule spectroscopy of conjugated polymers, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.

Paul F. McMillan

Paul F. McMillan (1956–2022) was a Scottish-born British materials chemist who studied matter at high pressures, working at Arizona State University and later University College London.

Paul F. Nealey

Paul F. Nealey is an American chemical engineer, the Brady W. Dougan Professor at the University of Chicago, known for directed self-assembly of block copolymers for nanolithography.

Paul Fenter

Paul Fenter is a physicist and Argonne Distinguished Fellow who leads the Interfacial Processes Group at Argonne National Laboratory, pioneering synchrotron X-ray studies of mineral-water interfaces.

Paul Harteck

Paul Harteck (1902–1985) was an Austrian-German physical chemist who co-produced tritium in the first fusion reaction and pioneered uranium centrifuge enrichment in Germany's nuclear project.

Paul Heinrich von Groth

Paul Heinrich von Groth (1843–1927) was a German mineralogist and crystallographer who founded Zeitschrift für Kristallographie in 1877 and explained how chemical composition relates to crystal structure.

Paul Hess

Paul Hess is a French chemist credited, alongside Georges Claude, with the 1896 discovery that acetone dissolves large quantities of acetylene and that the solution is not explosive.

Paul Hugh Emmett

Paul Hugh Emmett (1900–1985) was an American chemist whose gas adsorption studies laid the foundation for the BET theory and the standard method for measuring catalyst surface areas.

Paul J. Chirik

Paul J. Chirik, also known as Paul Chirik, is an organometallic chemist at Princeton University known for building catalysts from earth-abundant metals like iron and cobalt.

Paul J. Dauenhauer

Paul J. Dauenhauer is an American chemical engineer at the University of Minnesota known for converting biomass into chemicals and winning a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship.

Paul J. Flory

Paul J. Flory was an American polymer chemist who won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the physical chemistry of macromolecules.

Paul J. Hergenrother

Paul J. Hergenrother is an American chemical biologist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for discovering the antibiotic lolamicin and the anticancer drug candidate PAC-1.

Paul Karrer

Paul Karrer was a Swiss organic chemist who established the first known structures of a vitamin and a provitamin, winning the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Paul Knochel

Paul Knochel (born 1955 in Strasbourg, France) is a French organic chemist, professor of organic chemistry at LMU Munich from 1999, known for the Knochel metallizations.

Paul L. Kirk

Paul L. Kirk (1902–1970) was an American chemist at UC Berkeley who founded the first academic criminalistics program in the United States and testified in the Sam Sheppard case.

Paul Läuger

Paul Läuger (1896–1959) was a Swiss chemist who spent his career at J. R. Geigy in Basel, rising to general director and leading the research program behind the insecticide DDT.

Paul Lebeau

Paul Lebeau (Paul Marie Alfred Lebeau, 1868–1959) was a French inorganic chemist known for fluorine chemistry, including sulfur hexafluoride, discovered with Henri Moissan in 1900, and bromine trifluoride.

Paul Mulvaney

Paul Mulvaney is an Australian physical and colloid chemist at the University of Melbourne, recognized as a pioneer of surface plasmon spectroscopy of metal nanoparticles.

Paul Niggli

Paul Niggli (1888–1953) was a Swiss crystallographer, mineralogist, and petrologist who, as professor at the ETH Zurich from 1920 until his death, founded the Zürich crystallographic school and originated space-group determination from X-ray data.

Paul O. Wennberg

Paul O. Wennberg is an American atmospheric chemist, the R. Stanton Avery Professor at Caltech since 1998, known for radical measurements and greenhouse-gas tracking systems.

Paul Pascal

Paul Pascal (1880–1968) was a French chemist considered the father of magnetochemistry, known for the Pascal constants, an additive scheme for diamagnetic susceptibility still in routine use.

Paul Rabe

Paul Rabe (1869–1952) was a German alkaloid chemist and professor in Hamburg, known for the 1918 partial synthesis of quinine from quinotoxine with Karl Kindler.

Paul S. Anderson

Paul S. Anderson, born 1938 in Vermont, is an American medicinal chemist who led discovery of the HIV drugs Crixivan and Sustiva at Merck and DuPont.