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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.
See also
- Lists of notable engineers by discipline for lists of engineers by discipline.
- #Chemical engineers who became notable for other activities
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 | |
Ramani Ayer | CEO of The Hartford | The Hartford | |
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Jay Bailey (? -2001) | pioneering work in metabolic engineering | ETH Zurich | |
Samuel Bodman | United States Secretary of Energy (2005 - 2009) | U. S. 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 | |
Henry Bessemer (1813 - 1898) | Invented Bessemer process for manufacturing steel | Independent inventor | |
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John G. Collier | Two-phase flow and nuclear power expert, head of UKAEA and CEGB | UKAEA | |
John Coulson | 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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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 | Intel Chief Executive Officer | 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 overnment 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) | Invented 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 the Board 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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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 | |
Charles G. Koch | CEO of Koch Industries | Koch Industries | |
David H. Koch | Executive vice-president 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 | |
Arthur Dehon Little (1863 - 1935) | Consultant and co-founder, with William Walker, of Arthur D. Little, Inc., a major consulting firm | Arthur D. Little, Inc. | |
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John F. MacGregor | Use of latent variables in industrial processes | McMaster University | |
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 | |
Martin Perl | Nobel Prize in Physics, 1995 | University of Michigan | |
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 | |
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 | 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 | |
Jack Steinberger | Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988 | Columbia University | |
John E. Swearingen (1918 - 2007) | Graduated with B. S. in chemical engineering from U. of South Carolina and an M. S. from Carnegie Mellon University. He joined Standard Oil Company of Indiana as a research engineer. In 1960, became CEO of Amoco Corporation | Amoco Corporation | |
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Frank M. Tiller (1917 - 2006) | M. D. Anderson Distinguished Professor at University of Houston. Noted for research in solid-liquid separation and a founder of the American Filtration and Separation Society. | University of Houston | |
Haldor Topsoe | Founder of Haldor Topsoe Co. Awarded Winthrop-Sears Medal for 2008 by the Chemists' Club of New York. | ||
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A. J. V. Underwood | Developed a correlation to estimate the minimum reflux required to produce a specific concentration of a feed component in the distillate from a specified concentration in the feed. The Underwood equation is also known as the Underwood-Fenske equation. | University College of London | |
Lewis Urry | Invention of long-lasting alkaline batteries | Eveready Battery Co | |
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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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F. A. Zenz | Received award from AIChE in 1985 for outstanding chemical engineering contributions. Has published extensively on the topic of fluidized particles, including fluidized beds and pneumatic conveying. |
Chemical engineers who became notable for other activities
- Garry Betty, contributor to the design of the original personal computer, earned a chemical engineering degree at Georgia Tech.
- Frank Capra, movie director, earned a chemical engineering degree at Caltech.
- Kevin Greening, science presenter on Radio Five Live (UK), studied chemical engineering at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
- Pat Kenney, broadcaster, earned a chemical engineering degree from University College Dublin.
- 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.
- John von Neumann, mathematician and physicist, studied chemical engineering at ETH-Zurich.
- Seyi Olofinjana, football player for Hull City AFC, earned degree in chemical engineering from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology.