List of chemical engineers

This is a list of notable chemical engineers, people who studied or practiced chemical engineering. The main list is those who achieved status in chemical engineering or a closely related field such as management or science. At the foot of the page is a list of people with chemical engineering qualifications who are notable for other reasons, such as actors. These are people sufficiently notable to have an article in Wikipedia. Further articles on chemical engineers would be welcome. See the talk page for suggestions of people who should be added to the encyclopedia (and then to this list).

See also

• Lists of notable engineers by discipline for lists of engineers by discipline.
• #Chemical engineers who became notable for other activities
• #Chemical engineers in fiction

Name	Known for	Affiliation
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Mohammed Al Mady	Executive president of SABIC.	SABIC
Mukesh Ambani	Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries	Reliance Industries
Leonid Andrussow (1896–1988)	Developed process to make hydrogen cyanide from ammonia and methane	I. G. Farben (now BASF)
Ramani Ayer	CEO of The Hartford	The Hartford
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Robin Batterham	Former Chief Scientist of Australia	Office of the Chief Scientist (Australia)
Jay Bailey (1944–2001)	Pioneer in metabolic engineering	ETH Zurich
Henry Bessemer (1813–1898)	Invented Bessemer process for manufacturing steel	Independent inventor
Samuel Bodman	United States Secretary of Energy (2005–2009)	US Government
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	BASF and I. G. Farben
Jerzy Buzek	Former Prime Minister of Poland, current President of the European Parliament	European Parliament
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John G. Collier (1935–1995)	Two-phase flow and nuclear power expert, head of UKAEA and CEGB	UKAEA
John Coulson (1910–1990)	Co-author of what became the standard UK textbook set; Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering	Newcastle University, UK
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Donald A. Dahlstrom (1920–2005)	Inventor of the Hydrocyclone and related correlations, 1943. Elected to National Academy of Engineering in 1975 for, "Contributions to liquid-solids separation processes in mineral recovery and waste disposal"".	University of Utah
Zara Salim Davidson	Wife of the Raja Muda (Crown Prince) of Perak. Heads petroleum and petrochemical consulting firm in Malaysia.
George E. Davis (1850–1907)	Regarded as the 'founding father' of Chemical Engineering	University of Manchester
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.	United States Department of Defense
John Drosdick (1943–)	Chairman and CEO of Sunoco, Inc.	Sunoco
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James R. Fair (1920 - 2010)	Notable authority on process design, equipment design and separations. Practiced in both industry and academia. Elected to National Academy of Engineers in 1974 for “Contributions to mass transfer technology and computer simulation of chemical processes.” Long time participant in Fractionation Research Inc.	Monsanto Company, University of Texas
Richard Felder	Multiple award-winning engineering educator	North Carolina State University
Ian Fells	Energy expert and popular science broadcaster	Newcastle University, UK
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Clifton C. Garvin	Chairman and CEO	Exxon
Eugenio Garza Lagüera	Chairman and CEO	FEMSA
Edwin R. Gilliland (1909–1963)	Professor of chemical engineering. Noted for research into distillation and fluid bed catalytic cracking. Namesake of the Gilliland correlation used in designing distillation columns. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1948, and the National Academy of Engineering in 1965.	MIT
Roberto Goizueta	Former chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola	Coca-Cola
Robert W. Gore	The inventor of Gore-Tex
Andrew Grove	former Chairman and CEO	Intel
Pierre Gy	developed theory of sampling
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Fritz Haber (1868–1934)	Received Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918 for the fixation of nitrogen from the air, the Haber process; also developed chemical warfare agents for the German government during World War I. Received the Rumford Medal in 1932 for, "... the outstanding importance of his work in physical chemistry, especially in the application of thermodynamics to chemical reactions".	University of Karlsruhe (TH)
Vladimir Haensel (1914–2002)	Inventor of the "Platforming" (Platinum Reforming) process, which led to the production of low cost high octane gasoline, and contributed to development of catalytic converters for automobiles.	University of Massachusetts Amherst
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.	Louisiana State University
Fred Hassan	CEO and Chairman of Schering-Plough Corporation; former chairman and CEO for the Pharmacia Corporation	Schering-Plough
Csaba Horváth (1930–2004)	considered as one of the pioneers of modern separation science	Yale University
Hu Tsu Tau Richard	Former Minister for Finance (Singapore) (1985–2001)
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Dan Itse	US Politician and holder of four patents on low-emission technology	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Joseph J. Jacobs (1916–2004)	Graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnic and founder of Jacobs Engineering Group	Jacobs Engineering Group
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	NASA
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Trevor Kletz	author of books dealing with chemical engineering safety	Loughborough University
Marius Kloppers	CEO of BHP Billiton	BHP Billiton
Charles G. Koch	CEO of Koch Industries	Koch Industries
David H. Koch	Executive vice-president of Koch Industries	Koch Industries
Fred C. Koch (1900–1967)	Founder of Koch Industries	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 (1882–1975)	American chemical engineering professor; played a role in defining the field of chemical engineering during its early development. Co-developer (with E. R. Gilliland) of Houdry process for petroleum refining.	MIT
Bodo Linnhoff (b. 1948)	Author of a 1977 thesis that formed the basis for pinch analysis, a methodology to optimize energy usage in processes.	Linnhoff March Ltd.
Arthur Dehon Little (1863–1935)	Consultant and co-founder, with William H. Walker, of Arthur D. Little, Inc., a major consulting firm	Arthur D. Little, Inc.
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Victor Mills (1897–1997)	Inventor of the disposal diaper	Procter & Gamble
Luis E. Miramontes	Co-inventor of the progestin used in one of the first oral contraceptives	UNAM, Mexico
Mario Molina	Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995	UCSD
Frank Morton	Namesake of Frank Morton Sports Day	Birmingham University/Manchester University
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Dudley Maurice Newitt (1894–1980)	Scientific director of Special Operations Executive developing gadgets for spies during World War II – a real life Q (James Bond). Received Rumford Medal, in 1962 for "... his distinguished contributions to chemical engineering.	Professor at Imperial College
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Lars Onsager	Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968	Yale University
Adam Osborne (1939–2003)	Introduced the first ever portable computer in 1981, the same year IBM launched the personal computer	Osborne Computer Corporation
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	Chevron Corporation
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Linus Pauling	Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1954, Nobel Peace Prize, 1962	California Institute of Technology, Oregon State University
Robert H. Perry	Author of Handbook in 1934, now Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook	University of Oklahoma
Nicholas A. Peppas	Pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology	University of Texas at Austin
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K. B. Quinan (1878–1948)	Explosive manufacturing expert in World War I and first vice-president of the Institution of Chemical Engineers	De Beers
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Lee Raymond	ExxonMobil chairman and Chief Executive Officer	ExxonMobil
Dan Reneau	President of Louisiana Tech University	Louisiana Tech University
George Maxwell Richards	President of Trinidad and Tobago
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
Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau (1911–2000)	designed the first commercial penicillin production plant
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Albert Sacco	US astronaut	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Lanny Schmidt	Surface science and detailed chemistry	University of Minnesota
Waldo L. Semon	Inventor who patented more than 116 inventions, including polyvinyl chloride (PVC)	B.F. Goodrich
Thomas Kilgore Sherwood (1903–1976)	American chemical engineering professor, after whom the Sherwood number in mass transfer is named. Published the textbook, Absorption and Extraction in 1937. Was a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering	MIT
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Edward Teller	Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist and "father of the hydrogen bomb"	University of Göttingen Bohr Institute University College London George Washington University Manhattan Project University of Chicago UC Davis UC Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Hoover Institution
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Lewis Urry	Invention of long-lasting alkaline batteries	Eveready Battery Co
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William Hultz Walker (1869–1934)	Pioneer in teaching chemical engineering. Co-authored, with W. K. Lewis and W. H. McAdams, the first American textbook of chemical engineering, Principles of Chemical Engineering, published in 1924.	MIT
Jack Welch	Former chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GE	General Electric
Nathaniel C. Wyeth	inventor of PET plastic bottles	DuPont
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Chemical engineers who became notable for other activities

• Najma Akhtar, English actress and singer, earned a masters in chemical engineering from Aston University.
• Jacques Bergier, French writer, graduated in chemical engineering from ENSCP and worked on early nuclear engineering
• Garry Betty, contributor to the design of the original personal computer, earned a chemical engineering degree at Georgia Tech.
• Harsha Bhogle,famous Indian international cricket commentator, chemical engineering degree from Osmania University.
• Frank Capra, movie director, earned a chemical engineering degree at Caltech.
• Thierry Dusautoir, captain of the French National Rugby Union team, studied chemical engineering at the École Nationale Supérieure in Bordeaux.
• Vilma Espin, Cuban revolutionary and former wife of Raul Castro, studied chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Gallagher, stand up comedian, earned a chemical engineering degree at the University of South Florida.
• Kevin Greening, science presenter on Radio Five Live (UK), studied chemical engineering at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
• Sheldon E. Isakoff, former director of DuPont, former chairman of Chemical Heritage Foundation, graduate of Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science
• Pat Kenney, broadcaster, earned a chemical engineering degree from University College Dublin.
• Ashok Kumar, Indian-born British Labour politician, BSc, MSc, PhD in chemical engineering at Aston University
• Dolph Lundgren, actor and karateka, earned an undergraduate chemical engineering degree from the Royal Institute of Technology and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney.
• Khalid Masud, Muslim scholar from Pakistan, obtained a master's degree in chemistry from the University of the Punjab and a chemical engineering diploma from King's College, Cambridge.
• John von Neumann, mathematician and physicist, studied chemical engineering at ETH-Zurich.
• Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School, gained BTech in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
• Seyi Olofinjana, Nigerian international footballer, earned degree in chemical engineering from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology.
• Michael Ruffin, American professional basketball player, earned degree in chemical engineering from University of Tulsa.
• Laura Shields, English-Sri Lankan model and actress, earned masters degree in chemical engineering from University of Leeds.
• Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist, earned degree in chemical engineering from MIT.
• Xi Jinping Vice-President of China, studied chemical engineering at Tsinghua University.

Chemical engineers in fiction

• In the Charlie Chan film, "The Shanghai Cobra" (1945), "H.R. Jarvis, Chemical Engineer" is stenciled on the laboratory door rented by the eponymous villain who had been using that alias while he schemed to steal radium from a nearby bank vault.
• In the CBS radio thriller,"The House in Cypress Canyon" which aired live on December 5, 1945 on "Suspense Radio," the character "James A. Woods, Chemical Engineer" was the perpetrator of a murder-suicide and the narrator/protagonist of the supernatural yarn found in a shoebox, the basis of the story.
• Captain Virgil "The Cooler King" Hilts, as portrayed by Steve McQueen in the 1963 film The Great Escape.
• Graeme Miller by Ewen Bremner in the 2004 film AVP: Alien vs. Predator
• Nicolas Cage, "the rock" Stanley Goodspeed, Chemical Engineer -ErTam