List of chemical engineers

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This is a list of notable chemical engineers, people who studied or practiced chemical engineering.

See also List of engineers - for lists of engineers by discipline.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Name Known for Affiliation

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Frances Arnold Biotechnology California Institute of Technology

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Jay Bailey pioneering work in metabolic engineering
Carl Bosch From 1908 until 1913 developed the Haber-Bosch process together with Fritz Haber.His other notable work was for the introduction of high pressure chemistry. Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1931
Charles (Garry) Betty President and Chief Executive Officer, EarthLink Earthlink
Henry Bessemer manfacturing of steel
Kevin Brown Major League pitcher with the Marlins and Dodgers

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Frank Capra was an American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life.
Cindy Crawford Supermodel, not an engineer. She was valedictorian in her high school and had a Chemical Engineering scholarship at Northwestern University. Spent a semester there before leaving for New York and a modeling career.

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Donald A. Dahlstrom Inventor of the Hydrocyclone and related correlations, 1943
John M. Deutch former Director of the CIA
Nguyet Anh Duong is a Vietnamese-American, she was in charge of a special endeavor and assisted in creating an urgently needed new weapon called the Thermobaric weapon in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to effectively defeat tunnels and caves being used as terrorists hideouts, in order to spare United States Armed Forces from the bloody prospect of tunnel-to-tunnel combat against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Jack Drosdick Chairman and CEO of Sunoco, Inc.

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Richard M. Felder Along with Ronald W. Rousseau, co-authored the textbook Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes North Carolina State University
John Fenn Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2002 Virginia Commonwealth University

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Roberto Goizueta Former chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola
Bob Gore The inventor of Gore-Tex
William Sealey Gosset Brewer and Statistician
Andrew Grove Intel Chief Executive Officer Intel
Kevin Greening Radio Five Live Presenter
Pierre Gy developed theory of sampling

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Fritz Haber In 1918 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the fixation of nitrogen from the air, the Haber process. Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1918
Vladimir Haensel discovering of the "Platforming" (Platinum Reforming) process which led to the production of low cost high octane gasoline
Douglas Patrick Harrison Carried out research for DOE Vision 21 project as well research to remove CO2 from stack gas of coal-fired power generators and for production of pure Hydrogen from gasification of coal.
Fred Hassan CEO and Chairman of the Board of Schering-Plough Corporation; former chairman and CEO for the Pharmacia Corporation [1] Schering-Plough
Capt. Virgil 'The Cooler King' Hilts Fictional character played by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape
Csaba Horváth considered as one of the pioneers of modern separation science
Terrence Howard Actor

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Rakesh Jain Integrated bioengineering with tumor biology and imaging gene expression and functions in vivo for drug delivery in tumors. Harvard Medical School
Mae Jemison science mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavour and first black woman in space

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Bill Koch Bankrolled and won the 1992 America's Cup in the boat America3 and sponsored a women's team in 1995
Robert Langer Tissue Engineering and Controlled-Release Drug Delivery pioneer MIT
Arthur D. Little Consultant and co-founder, with William Walker, of Arthur D. Little, Inc., a major consulting firm
Alex Lowe One of the world's best climbers
Dolph Lundgren Actor

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John F. MacGregor Use of latent variables in industrial processes McMaster University
Victor Mills Inventor of the disposal diaper
Mario Molina Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995 UCSD
Frank Morton Namesake of Frank Morton Sports Day Birmingham University/Manchester University

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Giulio Natta Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1963
Hai Binh Nguyen Gold medal in International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), 2000

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Lars Onsager Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968
Adam Osborne Introduced the first ever portable computer in 1981, the same year IBM launched the personal computer

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Linus Pauling Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1954, Nobel Peace Prize, 1962
Martin Perl Nobel Prize in Physics, 1995

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Lee Raymond ExxonMobil chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Norbert Rillieux Inventor who is most noted for developing the process that turned sugar from a luxury to a common commodity
Ronald W. Rousseau Along with Richard M. Felder, co-authored the textbook Elemental Principles of Chemical Processes Georgia Institute of Technology

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J.D. Seader coauthor of "Distillation" section in Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook
Waldo L. Semon Inventor who patented more than 116 inventions, including polyvinyl chloride (pvc)
Daniel J. Shanefield Co-developer of the "tape casting" process for making ceramic capacitors; innovator of the double-blind audio comparison test for hi-fi electronics
Dan Smith President and CEO of Lyondell Chemical Company
Jack Steinberger Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988
Michael S. Strano Nanotechnology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Jules Thibault. Biochemical engineering; Process Simulation and Control; and Heat and Mass Transfer Professor : Department of Chemical Engineering, Université of Ottawa (January 2000 - today)

Professor : Department of Chemical Engineering, Université Laval (July 1984 - January 2000)

http://www.genie.uottawa.ca/~thibault/thib_en.htm

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Lewis Urry Invention of long-lasting alkaline batteries

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John von Neumann Mathematician and Computer Scientist

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Jack Welch Former General Electric chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Samuel W. Bodman United States Secretary of Energy

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