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

Name Known for Affiliation

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Mohammed Al Mady Executive president of SABIC.
Mukesh Ambani Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries.
Ramani Ayer CEO of The Hartford.

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Jay Bailey(? -2001) pioneering work in metabolic engineering
Samuel Bodman United States Secretary of Energy
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 manufacturing of steel

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Frank Capra Academy Award-winning film director.
John Coulson Co-author of what became the standard UK textbook set; Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering.

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Donald A. Dahlstrom Inventor of the Hydrocyclone and related correlations, 1943
Charles Davidson CEO of Noble Energy
George E. Davis Regarded as the 'founding father' of Chemical Engineering
Nguyet Anh Duong is a Vietnamese-American, she assisted in creating a new weapon called the Thermobaric weapon in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to assault tunnels and caves being used as hideouts by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Jack Drosdick (1943-) Chairman and CEO of Sunoco, Inc.

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Richard Felder Multiple award-winning engineering educator North Carolina State University
Ian Fells Energy expert and popular science broadcaster Newcastle University, UK
John Bennett Fenn Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2002 Virginia Commonwealth University

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Ahmed Gaber Professor of Chemical Engineering Cairo University
Clifton C. Garvin Chairman and CEO Exxon
Eugenio Garza Lagüera Chairman and CEO FEMSA
Bruce C. Gates Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering University of California at Davis
Roberto Goizueta Former chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola
Robert W. 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
Csaba Horváth (1930-2004) considered as one of the pioneers of modern separation science
Hu Tsu Tau Richard Former Minister for Finance (Singapore) (1985-2001)
Gary S. Huvard The creator of the only undergraduate chemical engineering consulting firm, ChemEngine.

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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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Pat Kenny Irish chatshow host
Trevor Kletz author of books dealing with chemical engineering safety Loughborough University
Charles G. Koch CEO of Koch Industries
David H. Koch Executive vice-president of Koch Industries

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Robert Langer Tissue Engineering and Controlled-Release Drug Delivery pioneer MIT
Frank Lees author and pioneer of Loss Prevention in the process industries Loughborough University
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
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
Omar K. Matar Professor of Chemical Engineering Imperial College London
Victor Mills Inventor of the disposal diaper
Luis E. Miramontes Co-inventor of the progestin used in one of the first oral contraceptives
Mario Molina Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995 UCSD
Frank Morton Namesake of Frank Morton Sports Day Birmingham University/Manchester University
Manmohan Sharma Padmshree, Padmabhushan, Padmavibhushan, And the Millinium man of the Indian Industries, Fellow of the Royal Society, London

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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
Donald Othmer (1904-1995) Co-creator of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology Polytechnic University of New York
David J. O'Reilly Chairman and CEO of Chevron Corporation
Linus Pauling Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1954, Nobel Peace Prize, 1962
Martin Perl Nobel Prize in Physics, 1995
Robert H. Perry Author of Handbook in 1934, now Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook

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K. B. Quinan Explosive manufacturing expert in World War I and first vice-president of the Institution of Chemical Engineers

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Lee Raymond ExxonMobil chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Jack Richardson Co-wrote the textbook which became UK standard Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering Swansea University
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, Louisiana State University
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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Albert Sacco US astronaut
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)
Thomas Kilgore Sherwood American chemical engineering professor, after whom the Sherwood number in mass transfer is named
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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