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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| 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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