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, sportspeople and authors. 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).

Name	Known for	Affiliation
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Rakesh Agrawal	National Medal of Technology and Innovation for Air separation.	Air Products and Chemicals,Inc. and now at Purdue University
Mohammed Al Mady	Executive president of SABIC.	SABIC
Mukesh Ambani	Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries	Reliance Industries
Neal Amundson (1916-2011)	Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of MN from 1949-1977. Professor, Chemical Engineering and Mathematics 1978-2011, and Provost (1987-1989) at University of Houston.	University of Minnesota and University of Houston
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(1999-2006) Chief Scientist of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Division of Mineral Engineering	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
Gordon Beveridge (1933-1999)	Former President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University of Belfast	Queen's University of Belfast
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	Raja Puan Besar 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	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
Maria das Graças Foster	CEO of Petrobras. First woman to head a major oil-and-gas company	Petrobras, Brazil
Arthur Fry	Inventor of Post-it note	3M, USA
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Clifton C. Garvin	Chairman and CEO	Exxon
Eugenio Garza Lagüera	Chairman and CEO	FEMSA
Karen Klincewicz Gleason	Namesake of Klincewicz method to predict critical values of pure components	MIT
Edwin R. Gilliland (1909–1963)	Namesake of the Gilliland correlation used in designing distillation columns	MIT
Roberto Goizueta	Former chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola	Coca-Cola
Bill Gore	Founder of W.L. Gore and Associates	W. L. Gore and Associates, DuPont
Robert W. Gore	The inventor of Gore-Tex	W. L. Gore and Associates
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
Judith Hackitt	Chair of UK Health and Safety Executive and President of IChemE.	Health and Safety Executive, IChemE
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
Beatrice Hicks	Co-founder and first president of the Society of Women Engineers	Society of Women Engineers
Csaba Horváth (1930–2004)	Pioneer of modern separation science	Yale University
Benjamin Hsiao	Vice- President for Research and Chief Research Officer at Stony Brook University; also the current spokesperson of the Advanced Polymers PRT Beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source located at Brookhaven National Laboratory	Stony Brook University DuPont Company Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hu Tsu Tau Richard	Former Minister for Finance (Singapore) (1985–2001)
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Sheldon E. Isakoff	Former director of DuPont and former president of American Institute of Chemical Engineers	DuPont & AIChE
Dan Itse	US Politician and holder of four patents on low-emission technology	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Lisa P. Jackson	Former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2009-2013)	Environmental Protection Agency
Joseph J. Jacobs (1916–2004)	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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W. W. Keeler (1908 - 1987)	President and CEO of Phillips Petroleum Company. Graduated in chemical engineering from University of Kansas	Phillips Petroleum Company
Trevor Kletz	Author of books dealing with chemical engineering safety	Loughborough University
Marius Kloppers	CEO of BHP Billiton	BHP Billiton
Riki Kobayashi (1924-2013)	Professor of Chemical Engineering; well known for his pioneering work in phase equilibrium, physical properties and transport properties which were highly important to the development of the natural gas processing industries.	Rice University
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
Nicolas Leblanc
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. He is also known as the "Father of Modern Chemical Engineering"	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.
Andrew Liveris	Chairman and CEO of Dow Chemical Company.	Dow Chemical Company
Yueh-Lin Loo	Inventor of nanotransfer printing; professor of engineering	Princeton University
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Ramesh Mashelkar	Leading architect of India's science and technology policies and current President of Global Research Alliance. Former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research.	CSIR India, Global Research Alliance
Sheri McCoy	Current CEO of Avon Products.	Avon Products
Victor Mills	Leading the team that created the modern disposable diapers and the Pampers brand	Procter & Gamble
Mario Molina	Co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in elucidating the threat of chlorofluorocarbon gases to the Earth's ozone layer
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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
Giulio Natta	Received Nobel Prize in 1963 for his works on high polymers	Professor at Politecnico di Milano
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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
Martin Lewis Perl	Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the tau lepton	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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. Previously worked for Shell Trinidad Oil Co. and taught chemical engineering at University of West Indies
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
Robert Satcher	US astronaut	NASA
Lanny Schmidt	Surface science and detailed chemistry	University of Minnesota
Man Mohan Sharma	Eminent Indian chemical engineering scientist and first Indian engineer to be elected as a Fellow of Royal Society, UK	Former director of Institute of Chemical Technology
Waldo L. Semon	Inventor who patented more than 116 inventions, including polyvinyl chloride (PVC)	B.F. Goodrich
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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
Gautam Thapar	CEO of Indian conglomerate Avantha Group	Avantha Group
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Lewis Urry	Invention of long-lasting alkaline batteries	Eveready Battery Co
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Bill Wakeham	Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton (2001-2009) and President of IChemE	University of Southampton
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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Andrew Yakuba	Former Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Office	Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
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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.
• Ray Davis (general), US General and recipient of the U.S. Medal of Honor, graduated with a degree in chemical engineering from Georgia School of Technology.
• 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.
• Pat Kenney, broadcaster, earned a chemical engineering degree from University College Dublin.
• Bill Koch, businessman and skipper of 1992 America's Cup winning yacht.
• 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 master's degree in chemical engineering from University of Leeds.
• E. E. Smith, science fiction author of the Lensman and Skylark series fame. Earned PhD in chemical engineering from George Washington University.
• Xi Jinping, current CPC General Secretary and President of China, studied chemical engineering at Tsinghua University.
• Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist, earned degree in chemical engineering from MIT.

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.
• In Alfred Hitchcock Presents, 1958 TV episode "The Motive", character Tom Greer kills a man he finds in the phone book, who happens to be a Chemical Engineer.
• 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
• Stanley Goodspeed played by Nicolas Cage in The Rock (film)
• Gunner Jensen by Dolph Lundgren in the 2012 film The Expendables 2
• Comic Book Guy in The Simpsons has a degree in chemical engineering

See also

• Lists of notable engineers by discipline for lists of engineers by discipline.