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 Lists of notable engineers by discipline 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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| 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. | ||
| Edward Cussler | Successful professor and consultant. Authored the textbook "Diffusion." | ||
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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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| Clifton C. Garvin | Chairman and CEO | Exxon | |
| 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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| Trevor Kletz | author of books dealing with chemical engineering safety | ||
| Bill Koch | Bankrolled and won the 1992 America's Cup in the boat America3 and sponsored a women's team in 1995 | ||
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| Robert Langer | Tissue Engineering and Controlled-Release Drug Delivery pioneer | MIT | |
| Warren K. Lewis | American chemical engineering professor; played a role in defining the field of chemical engineering during its early development | MIT | |
| Arthur Dehon 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 with master's degree in chemical engineering | ||
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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 | |
| John Miller | Principal bassoonist in the Minnesota Orchestra. Received an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from MIT. | ||
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| Giulio Natta | Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1963 | ||
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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 | |
| R. Kumar | Ex. Professor of Chemical Engineering, who described bubble formation. Received Padam Bhushana (by Govt. of India) | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | |
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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 | ||
| Thomas Kilgore Sherwood | American chemical engineering professor | ||
| Dan Smith | President and CEO of Lyondell Chemical Company | ||
| Jack Steinberger | Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988 | ||
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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 | ||
| Nathaniel C. Wyeth | inventor for DuPont | ||
| Samuel W. Bodman | United States Secretary of Energy | ||
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