List of chemical engineers
Encyclopedia : L : LI : LIS : List of chemical engineers
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.
| Name | Known for | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
A | |||
| Frances Arnold | Biotechnology | California Institute of Technology | |
B | |||
| 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 | ||
C | |||
| Cindy Crawford | American supermodel, studied for one semester under a scholarship to Northwestern University before becoming a model. She was the valedictorian of her high school class. | ||
| 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. | ||
D | |||
| Donald A. Dahlstrom | Inventor of the Hydrocyclone and related correlations, 1943 | ||
| John M. Deutch | former 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. | ||
E | |||
F | |||
| John Fenn | Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2002 | Virginia Commonwealth University | |
G | |||
| 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 | ||
H
| |||
| 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 | ||
| Fred Hassan | CEO and Chairman of the Board of Schering-Plough Corporation; former chairman and CEO for the Pharmacia Corporation [link] | 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 | ||
I | |||
J | |||
| 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 | ||
K | |||
| Bill Koch | Bankrolled and won the 1992 America's Cup in the boat America3 and sponsored a women's team in 1995 | ||
| Ashton Kutcher | Studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Iowa for a short time before being discovered as a model and actor in a local Iowa City bar. | ||
L | |||
| 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 | ||
M | |||
| 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 | |
N | |||
| Giulio Natta | Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1963 | ||
| Hai Binh Nguyen | Gold medal in International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), 2000 | ||
O | |||
| Kevin Olmstead | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire winner | ||
| 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 | ||
P | |||
| Linus Pauling | Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1954, Nobel Peace Prize, 1962 | ||
| Martin Perl | Nobel Prize in Physics, 1995 | ||
Q | |||
R | |||
| Lee Raymond | Exxon 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 | ||
S | |||
| 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 | ||
T | |||
| Edward Teller | the father of the H-bomb | ||
U | |||
| Lewis Urry | Invention of long-lasting alkaline batteries | ||
V | |||
| John von Neumann | Mathematician and Computer Scientist | ||
W | |||
| Jack Welch | General Electric chairman and Chief Executive Officer | ||
| Samuel W. Bodman | United States Secretary of Energy | ||
X | |||
Y | |||
Z | |||
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.