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Uwe H. F. Bunz
Uwe H. F. Bunz is a German materials chemist known for work on conjugated polymers and fluorescent chemosensors, and a professor of organic chemistry at Heidelberg University since 2010.
Uwe Manthe
Uwe Manthe is a German theoretical chemist and professor at Bielefeld University known for work on quantum dynamics of chemical reactions and the MCTDH method.
Vadim Ivanov (Russian chemist)
Vadim Ivanov, or Vadim Tikhonovich Ivanov, was a Russian bioorganic chemist, born in Feodosia in 1937, who led the Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry from 1988 to 2017.
Valentin Valtchev
Valentin Valtchev, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1959, is a Bulgarian-born chemist at the Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie in Caen, France, known for nanozeolites and the 2024 zeolite ZMQ-1.
Valentine P. Ananikov
Valentine P. Ananikov (Валентин Анаников) is a Russian chemist who heads a catalysis laboratory at the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow and is an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Valeria Molinero
Valeria Molinero is an Argentine-born theoretical and computational chemist at the University of Utah, known for the mW water model and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Valery Legasov (Валерий Алексеевич Легасов)
Valery Legasov, also known as Valery Alekseyevich Legasov, was a Soviet inorganic chemist and academician who reported on the Chernobyl disaster in Vienna in 1986.
Valery V. Fokin
Valery V. Fokin (born 1971) is an organic chemist known for co-discovering CuAAC, the copper-catalyzed reaction that defined click chemistry, and is a professor at the University of Southern California.
Varinder Kumar Aggarwal
Varinder Kumar Aggarwal FRS, born 1961 in India, is a British organic chemist and Alfred Capper Pass Professor at the University of Bristol, known for asymmetric sulfur ylide chemistry.
Vartkess A. Apkarian
Vartkess A. Apkarian, who publishes as V. Ara Apkarian, is an American physical chemist at UC Irvine known for ultrafast spectroscopy and for the 2019 first images of a single molecule's vibrational modes.
Vern L. Schramm
Vern L. Schramm, born 1941, is an American enzymologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for transition-state analysis and forodesine, a T-cell cancer drug.
Veronica Augustyn
Veronica Augustyn is a materials scientist who works on electrochemical energy storage, known for intercalation pseudocapacitance research; she is the Hooks Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University.
Veronica M. Bierbaum
Veronica M. Bierbaum is an American mass spectrometrist and professor emerita at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for flowing afterglow studies of gas-phase ion–molecule chemistry.
Véronique Gouverneur
Véronique Gouverneur FRS is a Belgian chemist and Oxford's Waynflete Professor of Chemistry since 2022, known for fluorination methods, fluorine-18 PET radiochemistry, and circular fluorochemistry.
Vicki H. Wysocki
Vicki H. Wysocki, also known as Vicki Wysocki, is an analytical chemist known for developing surface-induced dissociation, a mass spectrometry method revealing protein complex architecture. In 2025 she became chair of chemistry at Georgia Tech.
Victor Grignard
Victor Grignard (1871–1935) was a French chemist who discovered the preparation and use of organomagnesium reagents, known as Grignard reagents, and shared the 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Victor Henri
Victor Henri (1872–1940) was a French scientist working in physical chemistry, physiology, and experimental psychology, who derived the enzyme-kinetics equation now credited to Michaelis and Menten.
Victor La Mer
Victor La Mer (1895–1966) was an American colloid chemist at Columbia University, known for the LaMer model of particle formation and higher order Tyndall spectra.
Viktoria H. Gessner
Viktoria H. Gessner is a German inorganic and organometallic chemist who has held the chair of Inorganic Chemistry II at Ruhr University Bochum since 2016, known for YPhos ligands.
Ville Kaila
Ville R. I. Kaila is a Finnish computational biochemist and professor of biochemistry at Stockholm University who studies biological energy conversion, especially proton-coupled electron transfer in respiratory complex I.
Vincent Artero
Vincent Artero, born 1973, is a French chemist and CEA Research Director in Grenoble who designs bioinspired catalysts modeled on hydrogenase enzymes for hydrogen production.
Vincent L. Pecoraro
Vincent L. Pecoraro is an American bioinorganic and inorganic chemist at the University of Michigan, known for discovering metallacrowns and for de novo metallopeptide design.
Vincent M. Rotello
Vincent M. Rotello is an American chemist and bionanotechnologist, the Charles A. Goessmann Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, working on gold nanoparticles for sensing and drug delivery.
Vincent McKoy
Vincent McKoy (1938–2020) was a theoretical chemist born in the British West Indies who spent his Caltech career, 1964 to 2016, developing computational methods for low-energy electron–molecule scattering.
Vincenzo Barone
Vincenzo Barone, born in Ancona in 1952, is an Italian theoretical and computational chemist at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, known for the PBE0 density functional.
Viresh H. Rawal
Viresh H. Rawal is an American organic chemist and professor at the University of Chicago known for chiral squaramide hydrogen-bond-donor catalysts, used in nearly two thousand papers on asymmetric synthesis.
Virgil Boekelheide
Virgil Boekelheide (1919–2003) was an American organic chemist at the University of Oregon, known for the Boekelheide reaction and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1962.
Virgil Percec
Virgil Percec is a Romanian-born American supramolecular chemist who holds the P. Roy Vagelos Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, known for self-assembling dendrimers and SET-LRP.
Vitalii Goldanskii (Виталий Иосифович Голданский)
Vitalii Goldanskii (Виталий Голданский) was a Soviet and Russian physical chemist at the Academy of Sciences, known for the Goldanskii–Karyagin effect and tunneling reaction rates.
Vladimir Gevorgyan
Vladimir Gevorgyan is an organic chemist and Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair at the University of Texas at Dallas, known for aliphatic C–H functionalization, triazole transannulation, and visible-light-driven transition metal catalysis.