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Richard E. P. Winpenny
Richard E. P. Winpenny (Richard Eric Parry Winpenny) is a British inorganic chemist, Professor at the University of Manchester since 2000, known for polymetallic cage complexes and molecular qubits.
Richard Eisenberg
Richard Eisenberg is an American inorganic chemist at the University of Rochester known for metal complex photochemistry and noble-metal-free systems that generate hydrogen from water using sunlight.
Richard F. Heck
Richard F. Heck was an American chemist at the University of Delaware who shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.
Richard G. Compton
Richard G. Compton (born 1955) is a British electrochemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford, known for hydrodynamic microelectrode voltammetry and pioneering single nanoparticle collision detection; he won the 2025 Frumkin Medal.
Richard G. Finke
Richard G. Finke is an American inorganic and materials chemist and professor at Colorado State University, known for the 1997 Finke–Watzky two-step mechanism of nanocluster formation.
Richard H. Holm
Richard H. Holm (1933–2021) was an American inorganic and bioinorganic chemist, Higgins Professor at Harvard University, known for building synthetic analogs of iron-sulfur proteins and molybdenum enzymes.
Richard Hoogenboom
Richard Hoogenboom (born 1978 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch polymer and supramolecular chemist, senior full professor at Ghent University since 2022, known for work on poly(2-oxazoline)s and founding spin-off Avroxa.
Richard J. Payne
Richard J. Payne is an Australian chemical biologist and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney, working on peptide synthesis and drug leads.
Richard J. Saykally
Richard J. Saykally (R. J. Saykally), born 1947 in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, is an American physical chemist at UC Berkeley known for laser spectroscopy of water clusters and molecular ions.
Richard J. Spontak
Richard J. Spontak is an American polymer scientist and Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University, known for work on nanostructured polymers and polymer membranes for carbon capture.
Richard Kuhn
Richard Kuhn was an Austrian-born German biochemist who won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on carotenoids and vitamins, and directed the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut in Heidelberg.
Richard L. Brutchey
Richard L. Brutchey is an American inorganic and materials chemist, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California, known for low-temperature, solution-phase synthesis of functional nanocrystals.
Richard L. McCreery
Richard L. McCreery, also known as Richard McCreery, is an American electrochemist and emeritus professor at Ohio State known for carbon electrodes, Raman spectroscopy, and molecular electronics.
Richard L.M. Synge
Richard L.M. Synge, full name Richard Laurence Millington Synge, was a British biochemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with A.J.P. Martin for inventing partition chromatography.
Richard Layfield
Richard A. Layfield is a British inorganic chemist and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Sussex, known for lanthanide and uranium single-molecule magnetism.
Richard M. Crooks
Richard M. Crooks is an American electrochemist and Robert A. Welch Chair Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, known for nanoscale catalysts, bipolar electrochemistry, and paper sensors.
Richard M. Laine
Richard M. Laine is an American materials chemist at the University of Michigan known for converting silica into reactive silicon compounds and for flame spray pyrolysis.
Richard M. Lambert
Richard M. Lambert is a surface chemist and heterogeneous catalysis researcher at the University of Cambridge, known for his 2008 Nature work on gold nanoparticle oxidation catalysts.
Richard M. Noyes
Richard M. Noyes (1919–1997) was an American physical chemist at the University of Oregon who explained oscillating chemical reactions and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977.
Richard Martel
Richard Martel is a Canadian chemist and professor at Université de Montréal who helped build the first carbon nanotube transistors at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.
Richard McLean Badger
Richard McLean Badger (1896–1974) was an American physical chemist at Caltech known for molecular spectroscopy and Badger's rule, relating bond length to bond strength; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1952.
Richard N. Zare
Richard N. Zare, born in 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American physical chemist at Stanford known for laser-induced fluorescence and showing that reactions accelerate in microdroplets.
Richard P. Evershed
Richard P. Evershed is a British chemist at the University of Bristol known for organic residue analysis of archaeological pottery and direct radiocarbon dating of ceramics.
Richard R. Ernst
Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021) was a Swiss physical chemist at ETH Zurich who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing Fourier transform and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy.
Richard R. Schrock
Richard R. Schrock, born in 1945, is an American organometallic chemist who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing olefin metathesis catalysts at MIT.
Richard Robson (chemist)
Richard Robson, born 1937, is an Australian coordination chemist at the University of Melbourne who founded coordination polymers and won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Richard Smalley
Richard Errett Smalley (1943–2005) was an American chemist at Rice University who co-discovered the fullerenes, sharing the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and pioneering carbon nanotechnology.
Richard Smith (chemist)
Richard D. Smith is an American chemist and mass spectrometry researcher who spent 1976 to 2024 at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, becoming a Battelle Fellow.
Richard Wilker Korsmeyer
Richard Wilker Korsmeyer is an American pharmaceutical scientist and drug-delivery researcher who spent about 31 years at Pfizer and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Richard Willstätter
Richard Martin Willstätter was a German chemist who won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll, showing it is a mixture of two components.