Chemists

Raymond A. Dwek

Raymond A. Dwek, born 1941, is a British biochemist at the University of Oxford who founded and directed the Oxford Glycobiology Institute and coined the term glycobiology.

Raymond Dean Astumian is a professor of physics at the University of Maine known for his work on Brownian motors and the thermodynamics of molecular machines, including a 1997 Science paper cited more than 1,400 times.

Raymond Dingledine

Raymond Dingledine is an American neuropharmacologist known for discovering that glycine acts with glutamate at NMDA receptors, and for epilepsy research that spawned two biotech companies.

Raymond E. Schaak

Raymond E. Schaak is an American solid-state chemist, the DuPont Professor of Materials Chemistry at Penn State, known for cation-exchange synthesis of vast nanoparticle libraries.

Raymond Lemieux

Raymond Urgel Lemieux was a Canadian organic chemist who made the first chemical synthesis of sucrose in 1953 and won the 1999 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.

Raymond M. Fuoss

Raymond Matthew Fuoss (1905–1987) was an American physical chemist who worked on electrolytes, dielectrics, and polymers, and held the first Sterling professorship in Yale's chemistry department.

Raymond Ziessel

Raymond Ziessel is a French materials chemist, a CNRS research director at the Université de Strasbourg, known for luminescent BODIPY dyes, artificial light harvesting, and organic solar cells.

Reginald M. Penner

Reginald M. Penner, also published as Reginald Penner, is an American electrochemist at UC Irvine known for the LPNE nanowire fabrication method and nanowire sensors.

Rei Kinjo

Rei Kinjo (金城玲, born 1979) is a Japanese chemist at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for his 2011 Science paper on tricoordinate organoboron compounds.

Reiner Anwander

Reiner Anwander is a German inorganic chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Tübingen since 2008, working on organolanthanide chemistry and olefin polymerization catalysis.

Reinhard Schinke

Reinhard Schinke is a German theoretical physicist who spent his career at Göttingen's Max Planck institutes, known for photodissociation dynamics, ozone theory, and the 1993 monograph Photodissociation Dynamics.

Reinhart Ahlrichs

Reinhart Ahlrichs (1940–2016) was a German theoretical chemist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, best known as the founder of the TURBOMOLE quantum chemistry program package.

Ren‐Gen Xiong

Ren-Gen Xiong (熊仁根, born 1961) is a Chinese chemist at Southeast University who founded ferroelectrochemistry and was elected a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician in 2023.

Renato Zenobi

Renato Zenobi, born 1961 in Zurich, is a Swiss analytical chemist and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, known for pioneering tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and winning the Thomson Medal.

René Peters (German organic chemist)

René Peters (born 1971) is a German organic chemist and associate professor at the University of Stuttgart known for cooperative asymmetric catalysis and planar chiral palladacycle catalysts.

Rex Richards (physical chemist)

Sir Rex Edward Richards (1922–2019) was a British physical chemist who pioneered nuclear magnetic resonance for determining molecular structure, held Oxford's chemistry chair from 1964, and served as Vice-Chancellor.

Reynold C. Fuson

Reynold C. Fuson (1895–1979) was an American organic chemist at the University of Illinois, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1944 and known for the principle of vinylogy.

Richard A. Friesner

Richard A. Friesner is a computational chemist and the William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University who co-founded Schrödinger, Inc. in 1990 and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Richard A. Keller

Richard A. Keller was an American analytical chemist and Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow who pioneered single-molecule detection in solution and applied it to DNA sequencing in the Human Genome Project.

Richard A. Mathies

Richard A. Mathies, born in Seattle in 1946, is an American chemist and emeritus UC Berkeley professor known for femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy and capillary array electrophoresis DNA sequencing.

Richard Abegg

Richard Abegg (1869–1910) was a German chemist who formulated the rule that an element's maximum positive and negative valences sum to eight, a forerunner of the octet rule.

Richard B. Kaner

Richard B. Kaner is an American materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA known for rapid solid-state synthesis, conducting polymers, graphene supercapacitors, and founding four technology companies.

Richard B. Turner

Richard Baldwin Turner (1916–1971) was an American organic chemist and professor of chemistry at Rice University from 1951 to 1971, known for total synthesis and tracer studies of steroid rearrangements.

Richard Barrer

Richard Barrer (1910–1996) was a New Zealand-born chemist who spent his career in Britain, called the founding father of zeolite chemistry and a dominant figure in membrane science.

Richard Bersohn

Richard Bersohn (1925–2003) was an American physical chemist and longtime Columbia University professor known for experimental and theoretical work on how molecules break apart when they absorb light.

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Richard C. Alkire

Richard C. Alkire is an American chemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for research on electrodeposition and corrosion.

Richard D. Cummings

Richard D. Cummings is a glycobiologist who directs the National Center for Functional Glycomics and the Harvard Medical School Center for Glycoscience at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Richard D. McCullough

Richard D. McCullough (born 1959) is an American chemist who invented practical syntheses of regioregular polythiophenes for plastic electronics and became Florida State University's 16th president in 2021.

Richard D. Tilley

Richard D. Tilley is a materials chemist and professor at UNSW Sydney, previously at Victoria University of Wellington, known for single-atom electrocatalysts, nanoparticle synthesis, and MRI contrast agents.