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Rachel A. Segalman
Rachel A. Segalman is an American polymer chemist and chemical engineer, Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Santa Barbara since 2025, known for block copolymer self-assembly and polymer thermoelectrics.
Rachid Yazami
Rachid Yazami is a Moroccan electrochemist known for demonstrating reversible lithium intercalation in graphite, the anode of the modern lithium-ion battery, and for battery diagnostics.
Radoslav R. Adžić
Radoslav R. Adžić, also known as Radoslav Adzic, is a Serbian electrochemist who pioneered platinum monolayer and core-shell electrocatalysts that cut platinum use in hydrogen fuel cells.
Rafael Luque
Rafael Luque is a Spanish chemist in green chemistry and catalysis, known for converting biomass and waste into fuels, chemicals, and materials; he was suspended by the Universidad de Córdoba in 2022.
Rafal Klajn
Rafał Klajn is a Polish-born supramolecular chemist known for light-controlled self-assembly of nanoparticles and reactions in confined spaces; he won the 2021 Blavatnik Award in Israel.
Raffaella Buonsanti
Raffaella Buonsanti is an Italian chemist and full professor at EPFL, where she heads the Laboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy and is known for colloidal nanocrystal electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction.
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (रघुनाथ अनंत माशेलकर)
Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, also known as R A Mashelkar, is an Indian chemical engineer known for polymer research who led CSIR from 1995 to 2006.
Rahul Banerjee (chemist)
Rahul Banerjee is an Indian chemist, professor at IISER Kolkata since 2021, who works on metal-organic and covalent organic frameworks and won the 2018 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.
Rainer Haag
Rainer Haag, born 1968, is a German organic and macromolecular chemist, chair professor at Freie Universität Berlin since 2004, known for dendritic polyglycerol-based antiviral nanoinhibitors and multivalency research.
Rainer Herges
Rainer Herges (born 1955 in St. Ingbert) is a German organic chemist and professor at Kiel University, known for computer-aided reaction planning and the first stable Möbius aromatic hydrocarbon.
Rainer Ludwig Claisen
Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851–1930) was a German organic chemist, trained under Kekulé, known for the Claisen condensation and the Claisen rearrangement, the first recorded [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement.
Rajamani Gounder
Rajamani Gounder is a chemical engineer at Purdue University who studies zeolite catalysis, including how copper ions move through zeolite pores during emissions control reactions.
Rajeev Ahuja
Rajeev Ahuja is a computational materials scientist who uses density functional theory to study energy materials and high-pressure physics, professor at Uppsala University and Director of IIT Ropar since 2021.
Ralf I. Kaiser
Ralf I. Kaiser, born 1966 in Germany, is a physical chemist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa who directs the W. M. Keck Research Laboratory in Astrochemistry.
Ralf Ludwig
Ralf Ludwig is a German physical chemist and professor at the University of Rostock, known for his 2001 review "Water: From Clusters to the Bulk".
Ralph Dorfman
Ralph Dorfman (1911–1985) was an American biochemist who studied steroid hormone synthesis, directed the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, and helped develop the first oral contraceptive.
Ralph F. Hirschmann
Ralph F. Hirschmann (1922–2009) was a German-born American medicinal chemist at Merck who led the first solution synthesis of an enzyme, ribonuclease S, in 1969.
Ralph Pearson
Ralph Pearson (1919–2022) was an American physical inorganic chemist who developed the hard and soft acids and bases (HSAB) rule, taught at Northwestern and UC Santa Barbara, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.
Ralph Raphael
Ralph Alexander Raphael (1921–1998) was a British organic chemist who held senior chairs at Glasgow and Cambridge and published the 1955 monograph Acetylenic Compounds in Organic Synthesis.
Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff
Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff (1897–1994) was an American chemist and crystallographer whose 1922 tables introduced the Wyckoff positions, and who pioneered X-ray studies of proteins.
Ralph Weissleder
Ralph Weissleder is a physician scientist and Thrall Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School who directs the Center for Systems Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, developing molecular imaging technologies, nanoparticles, and miniaturized diagnostics for cancer.
Ram Seshadri
Ram Seshadri is a solid-state and materials chemist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who directs the Materials Research Laboratory and studies phosphors, thermoelectrics, and battery materials.
Ramanan Krishnamoorti
Ramanan Krishnamoorti is a chemical engineer and polymer scientist at the University of Houston, known for work on polymer nanocomposites and a leader in energy innovation there.
Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan
Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan is an Indian materials chemist at IISER Pune who studies metal-organic frameworks for carbon capture, known for a 2010 Science paper on CO2 binding.
Ramesh Giri
Ramesh Giri is a Nepali-born organic and organometallic chemist, born in Chitwan, Nepal, and a professor at Pennsylvania State University known for palladium-catalyzed C–H functionalization and nickel-catalyzed migratory alkene functionalization.
Randall Goldsmith
Randall H. Goldsmith is an American physical and analytical chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for detecting individual molecules without fluorescent labels using optical microcavities.
Randall Q. Snurr
Randall Q. Snurr is a chemical engineer and the John G. Searle Professor at Northwestern University, known for computationally designing nanoporous materials, especially metal–organic frameworks.
Rangaswamy Srinivasan
Rangaswamy Srinivasan, born 1929 in Madras, India, is a physical chemist who discovered ablative photodecomposition at IBM, the far-ultraviolet laser etching underlying LASIK and PRK eye surgery.
Raoult's law
Raoult's law is a law of solution thermodynamics stating that a component's vapor pressure above a liquid mixture is proportional to its mole fraction, exact for ideal solutions.
Ray Freeman
Ray Freeman (Raymond Freeman, 1932–2022) was a British chemist who pioneered advances in liquid-state NMR spectroscopy, inventing widely used pulse sequences including INEPT, INADEQUATE, and DANTE, and training a generation of NMR leaders.