List of chemical engineers

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.

Name	Known for	Affiliation
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Frances Arnold	Biotechnology	California Institute of Technology
Mohammed Al Mady	Executive president of SABIC.
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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	manufacturing 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.
John Coulson	Co-author of what became the standard UK textbook set; Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering.
Edward Cussler	professor and consultant. Textbooks on Diffusion and Product Engineering	University of Minnesota
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Donald A. Dahlstrom	Inventor of the Hydrocyclone and related correlations, 1943
George E. Davis	Regarded as the 'founding father' of Chemical Engineering
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 Felder	Multiple award-winning engineering educator	North Carolina State University
Ian Fells	Energy expert and popular science broadcaster	Newcastle University, UK
John 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
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
Sady Homrich	Brazilian musician. He is the drummer for Nenhum de Nós band
Csaba Horváth	considered as one of the pioneers of modern separation science
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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
Robert H. Perry	Author of Handbook in 1934, now Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook
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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, 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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Trivia

• Cindy Crawford is noted supermodel who was valedictorian in her high school and had a full chemical engineering scholarship at Northwestern University. Spent a semester there before leaving for New York and a modeling career.
• Sharon Stone, who is known to have one of the highest IQ's (154) of females the film industry, told Playboy magazine (in reference to her high school days): “I had a high IQ and was predisposed to do technical things, science, engineering, math. I’m sure a career as a chemical engineer would have been appropriate for me, though my personality is more fitting for a lawyer.”