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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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 G. Collier	Two-phase flow and nuclear power expert, head of UKAEA and CEGB.
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
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.	United States Department of Defense
John 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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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	Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918 for the fixation of nitrogen from the air, the Haber process	University of Karlsruhe (TH)
Vladimir Haensel	discovering of the "Platforming" (Platinum Reforming) process which led to the production of low cost high octane gasoline	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 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	Yale University
Hu Tsu Tau Richard	Former Minister for Finance (Singapore) (1985-2001)
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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
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
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Lars Onsager	Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968	Yale University
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
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Linus Pauling	Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1954, Nobel Peace Prize, 1962	California Institute of Technology
Ding-Yu Peng	Co-discoverer of the Peng-Robinson equation of state
Martin Perl	Nobel Prize in Physics, 1995	University of Michigan
Robert H. Perry	Author of Handbook in 1934, now Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook
Nicholas A. Peppas	Chaired Professor in Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology
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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
Jacob Rogers	Inventor who in collaboration with other well known engineers (Canty, Melzer, Morovic) developed a highly experimental process which converts water to wine.	YALE
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
Lanny Schmidt	Surface science and detailed chemistry
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
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
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Zara Salim Davidson	Wife of the of the Raja Muda (Crown Prince) of Perak