American chemical engineers

Samuel Wright Bodman III (born November 26, 1938) is the former 11th United States Secretary of Energy.

Harry George Drickamer (November 19, 1918 – May 6, 2002), born Harold George Weidenthal, was a pioneer experimentalist in high-pressure studies of condensed matter.

Lawrence Howland Knox (September 30, 1906–1966) was among the first African Americans to receive a PhD in chemistry, following his brother William Jacob Knox (1904–1995).

Rakesh K. Jain is the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Harvard Medical School and Director of the E.

Richard M. Felder (born 1939 in New York City) is the Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University.

Ted Ellis (born 1963) is an American artist and former environmental chemist.

Virgil L. Orr (born February 2, 1923) is a retired engineering professor and administrator at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, who served as a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 12 (Lincoln and Union parishes) from 1988-1992.

Waldo Lonsbury Semon (September 10, 1898 – May 26, 1999) was an American inventor born in Demopolis, Alabama.

Lee R. Raymond (born August 13, 1938) is an American businessman, and the chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman of ExxonMobil from 1999 to 2005.

Michel Boudart (born 18 June 1924 in Brussels, Belgium; died 2 May 2012) PhD was the William M.

John M. Prausnitz is a professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, a position he has held since 1955.

Helmut W. Schulz (1912 – 28 January 2006) is a German chemical engineer and professor at Columbia University known for his many works in disparate fields like nuclear physics, rocketry and waste-to-energy processes.

James R. Chelikowsky is a professor of physics, chemical engineering, chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin.

Cassie Mitchell (born 1981) is an American chemist and Paralympic athlete and cyclist.

Monroe Jackson Rathbone II (March 1, 1900 – August 2, 1976) was an American businessman who was the chairman, president, and CEO of Standard Oil of New Jersey.

Ralph Harper McKee (June 20, 1874 – February 24, 1967) was a professor at the department of chemical engineering at Columbia University.

Anil H. Lashkari (August 29, 1934 – November 1, 2007) was an international cricketer who represented the U.

Scott T. Milner is an American chemical engineer, currently the Joyce Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University and also a published author, being widely cited and widely held in libraries.

Albert Hanlin "Al" Crews, Jr.

Joe Wong (Chinese: 黄西; pinyin: Huáng Xī, born April 20, 1970), is a Chinese American comedian and chemical engineer.

John A. Quinn, Ph.

John Edgar Teeple (1874-1931) was a chemical engineer who received the Perkin Medal in 1927 for his work on potash during World War I.

Dr. John Van Nostrand Dorr (1872–1962) was an industrial chemist active in early to middle twentieth century.

Joseph J. Jacobs (1916–2004) was an American chemical engineer who founded Jacobs Engineering Group, one of the largest engineering and construction companies in the world.

Paul Weber (February 27, 1904 – June 1983) was the interim president of the Georgia Institute of Technology from previous president Blake Ragsdale Van Leer's death until a replacement was found in Edwin D.

John H. Dessauer, also known as Hans Dessauer, (13 May 1905 – 12 August 1993) was a German-American chemical engineer and an innovator in developing xerography.

Ju-Chin Chu (Chinese: 朱汝瑾; pinyin: Zhū Rǔjǐn; 14 December 1919 – 15 November 2000) was a Chinese American chemical engineer and father of Steven Chu.

Jeffrey Dean Lindsay is a former professor, author, apologist, chemical engineer, and patent agent.

Ian C. Read (born 1953) is a Scottish-born American businessman, a chartered accountant, and since 2010 the chief executive officer (CEO) of Pfizer, the world's largest drug company.

Ponisseril Somasundaran is a US mineral engineer of Indian origin and a LaVon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering of Columbia University, New York.

Wilbert Lee "Bill" Gore (January 25, 1912 – July 26, 1986) was an American businessman and entrepreneur who co-founded W.

Kenneth Harrison Keller (born October 19, 1934) is Senior Adjunct Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies' (SAIS).

Leslie Gary Leal (born 18 March 1943) is the Warren & Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Norman Gaylord (1923 – September 18, 2007) was an American industrial chemist and research scientist credited with playing a key role in the development of the gas-permeable rigid contact lens which allows oxygen to reach the wearer's cornea.

Warren Kendall Lewis (21 August 1882 – 9 March 1975) was an MIT professor who has been called the father of modern chemical engineering.

Thomas Flynn Edgar (born April 17, 1945) is an American chemical engineer.

Roger Elwood Batzel (December 1, 1921 – July 29, 2000) was an American nuclear scientist, best known as the director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for over sixteen years, from 1971 to 1988.

John J. McKetta Jr.

Naomi Shauna Ginsberg (born 1979 in Halifax, Nova Scotia), is a scientist at University of California, Berkeley.

David Hamilton Koch (/ˈkoʊk/; born May 3, 1940) is an American businessman, philanthropist, political activist, and chemical engineer.

John F. (Francis) Brady (born 8 January 1954) is the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering and Executive Officer of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology.

Daniel J. Terra (8 June 1911 – 28 June 1996) was a scientist, businessman, and art collector.

James Young Oldshue (April 1925 – January 16, 2007) was an internationally known chemical engineer with more than a hundred publications in scientific journals, numerous book chapters in textbooks and manuals, many patents, and an important textbook of his own, Fluid Mixing Technology (ISBN 0-07-047685-3, McGraw Hill, 1982).

William Wayne Keeler (1908 - 1989) is best known as the last appointed and first elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee nation in the 20th Century.

Rakesh Agrawal is a National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureate as well as the Winthrop E.

Esther Sans Takeuchi (born Esther Sans, Latvian: Estere Sāns) is a materials scientist and chemical engineer, working on energy storage systems and power sources for biomedical devices.

Michael S. Strano is an American chemical engineer.

Octave Levenspiel is an emeritus professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University.

William C. Pfefferle (April 24, 1923 – December 28, 2010) was an American scientist and inventor.

William Hultz Walker (April 7, 1869 – July 9, 1934) was born in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Eugène Jules Houdry (Domont, April 18, 1892 – Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1962) was a French, later naturalised American, mechanical engineer (graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers in 1911) who invented catalytic cracking of petroleum feed stocks.

Alvin J. Salkind (June 12, 1927 – June 9, 2015) was an American chemical engineer.

Mahmoud Reza Banki (Persian: محمود رضا بانکی; born 1976) is an Iranian-American scientist and management consultant.

Benjamin S. Hsiao (born August 12, 1958) is an American materials scientist and educator.

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Milton C. Whitaker was a noted 20th-century chemist.

Nance Dicciani (born 1947) is an American chemical engineer.

Neal R. Amundson (January 10, 1916 – February 16, 2011) was an American chemical engineer.

Nicholas (Nikolaos) A.

Robert H. Wentorf, Jr.

Robert Hamada is the former Edward Eagle Brown Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and former Dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Robert MacFarlan Cole (December 26, 1889 – January 18, 1986) was an American chemical engineer, inventor, and author.

Otto Redlich (November 4, 1896 – August 14, 1978) was an Austrian physical chemist and chemical engineer who is best known for his development of equations of state like Redlich-Kwong equation.

Patricia L. Brown (born October 1, 1928) was the first female chemical engineer to graduate from Southwestern Louisiana Institute.

John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952), better known as Jack Parsons, was an American rocket engineer and rocket propulsion researcher, chemist, and Thelemite occultist.

Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut.

Frances Hamilton Arnold (born 25 July 1956) is an internationally recognized American scientist and engineer.

Clifton C. Garvin Jr.

Othmer was born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 11, 1904.

Robert A. Brown (born July 22, 1951) is the 10th president of Boston University.

Mark Holtzapple is a chemical engineering professor at Texas A&M University.

Arthur Dehon Little (December 15, 1863 – August 1, 1935) was an American chemist and chemical engineer.

Arvind Varma (born October 13, 1947 in Firozabad, India) is the R.

Dennis E. Stowell (June 18, 1944 – April 17, 2011) was an American politician and chemical engineer from Utah.

Edward P Hardin (July 13, 1922-May 13, 2006) was the Vice President of U.

Edward Wilson Merrill (born in New Bedford, MA on August 31, 1923) is one of the leading biomaterials scientist of the 20th century and one of the founders of bioengineering and specifically the biomedical engineering field within chemical engineering.

Hoyt Clarke Hottel (1903–1998) was a professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at MIT.

James Rutherford Fair PhD P.

Samir Mitragotri (born May 28, 1971) is an Indian American Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an inventor, an entrepreneur, and a researcher in the fields of drug delivery and biomaterials.

Samuel Philip Sadtler, Ph.

Sherilyn S. McCoy (born 1959) is an American scientist and business executive.