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Steven M. George

Steven M. George is an American chemist and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for pioneering work on atomic layer deposition and atomic layer etching.

Steven P. Armes

Steven P. Armes is a British polymer chemist at the University of Sheffield, known for polymerisation-induced self-assembly and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014.

Steven P. Nolan

Steven P. Nolan is a Canadian-born organometallic chemist and Senior Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Ghent University, known for establishing N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands in homogeneous catalysis.

Steven R. Kass

Steven R. Kass is an American physical organic chemist and professor at the University of Minnesota known for work on Brønsted acids, bases, and hydrogen-bond catalysis.

Steven Thomas Purucker

Steven Thomas Purucker, often published as Tom Purucker, is an American research ecologist at the EPA known for chemical risk-assessment modeling and amphibian pesticide exposure studies.

Steven V. Ley

Steven V. Ley is a British organic chemist at the University of Cambridge who completed over 100 total syntheses of natural products and pioneered machine-assisted flow chemistry.

Steven Van Slyke

Steven Van Slyke is an American chemist who co-invented the practical small-molecule OLED with Ching Wan Tang at Eastman Kodak in 1987, then served as Kateeva's chief technology officer.

Stig Claesson

Stig Claesson (1917–1988) was a Swedish physical chemist who led the Institute of Physical Chemistry at Uppsala University and worked on adsorption analysis, colloids, and fast reactions.

Stochastic density functional theory

Stochastic density functional theory, or sDFT, is a form of Kohn-Sham DFT that estimates the electron density statistically from random orbitals rather than computing every occupied orbital explicitly.

Stuart A. Rice

Stuart A. Rice (1932–2024) was an American physical chemist at the University of Chicago known for laser control of chemical reactions and the 1999 National Medal of Science.

Stuart L. Soled

Stuart L. Soled is an American industrial catalysis chemist who spent over 31 years at Exxon, co-discovered the NEBULA hydroprocessing catalyst, and holds more than 100 U.S. patents.

Stuart Rowan

Stuart Rowan, also known as Stuart J. Rowan, is a Scottish supramolecular and polymer chemist who is Interim Dean of the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.

Subi J. George

Subi J. George, also known as Subi George, is an Indian supramolecular chemist, a full professor at JNCASR, Bangalore, who won the 2020 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.

Suk Bong Hong

Suk Bong Hong (홍석봉) is a South Korean zeolite chemist and honorary professor at POSTECH, known for synthesizing new zeolites including the PST series and for zeolite catalysis.

Sukbok Chang

Sukbok Chang (장석복) is a South Korean organic chemist, professor at KAIST and director of an Institute for Basic Science center, known for catalytic C–H amination and the 2022 Ho-Am Prize.

Suljo Linic

Suljo Linic is a chemical engineer and Martin Lewis Perl Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, known for plasmon-mediated catalysis and predictive catalyst design combining computation and machine learning.

Sung‐Ho Jin

Sung-Ho Jin (진성호) is a South Korean polymer chemist and professor of chemistry education at Pusan National University, known for OLED light-emitting polymers and hole-transport materials for perovskite solar cells.

Sungho Park

Sungho Park (박성호) is a South Korean chemist and professor at Yonsei University in Seoul who designs plasmonic metal nanoframes for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, reaching attomolar detection limits.

Sungwoo Hong

Sungwoo Hong (홍승우) is a South Korean chemist and professor at KAIST in Daejeon, and an IBS associate director, known for catalytic C–H functionalization and medicinal chemistry.

Suning Wang

Suning Wang (1958–2020) was a materials chemist at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, known for organoboron chemistry of luminescent materials, OLED emitters, and fluorescent sensors.

Suresh Chandra Sengupta

Suresh Chandra Sengupta was an Indian chemist who, while a laboratory assistant at Presidency College and doctoral student of J. C. Bardhan, co-developed the Bardhan–Sengupta phenanthrene synthesis in 1932.

Susan M. Kauzlarich

Susan M. Kauzlarich is an American materials chemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UC Davis since 1987, known for work on Zintl phases, thermoelectrics, and silicon nanoparticles.

Susannah Scott

Susannah L. Scott, born in Tokyo in 1967, is a chemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara known for catalytically upcycling waste polyethylene into detergent-range alkylaromatics.

Susumu Kitagawa

Susumu Kitagawa (北川 進), born 1951 in Kyoto, is a Japanese chemist at Kyoto University who founded the chemistry of metal–organic frameworks, winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Suzanne Blum

Suzanne A. Blum is an American organic and organometallic chemist and professor at UC Irvine, known for dual gold/palladium catalysis, borylative heterocyclization, and single-molecule fluorescence microscopy of catalysis.

Suzie H. Pun

Suzie H. Pun, born Suzie Jean Hwang, is a bioengineer at the University of Washington who designs bio-inspired polymers for delivering drugs and genes to specific cells and tissues.

Svante Arrhenius

Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish physical chemist who won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his electrolytic theory of dissociation, the first Swede to win a Nobel Prize.

Sven Schneider

Sven Schneider is a German inorganic and coordination chemist, professor at the University of Göttingen since 2012, known for research on dinitrogen splitting and catalysis.

Svetlana A. Sukhishvili

Svetlana A. Sukhishvili (Сухишвили) is a polymer scientist and professor of materials science at Texas A&M University since 2015, known for erasable hydrogen-bonded polymer films and salogels.

Svetlana Mintova

Svetlana Mintova is a Bulgarian-born French chemist at CNRS in Caen who studies nanosized zeolites, won the Donald W. Breck Award in 2016, and led the International Zeolite Association from 2022 to 2025.