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.

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Mohammed Al Mady||Executive president of SABIC.|
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Mukesh Ambani||Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries.|
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Ramani Ayer||CEO of The Hartford.|
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Muhammad Al-Muzaini who is the section head of the chemical purchasing in the SMO DEPARTMENT IN SABIC

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Jay Bailey(? -2001)||pioneering work in metabolic engineering|
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Samuel Bodman||United States Secretary of Energy|
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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|
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Charles (Garry) Betty||President and Chief Executive Officer, EarthLink||Earthlink
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Henry Bessemer||manufacturing of steel|
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Frank Capra||Academy Award-winning film director.
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John Coulson||Co-author of what became the standard UK textbook set; Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering.
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Belle Cunningham (Future Chemical Engineer) Nobel prize winner in Chemistry and Mathematics

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Donald A. Dahlstrom||Inventor of the Hydrocyclone and related correlations, 1943|
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George E. Davis||Regarded as the 'founding father' of Chemical Engineering|
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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.|
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John Drosdick (1943-)||Chairman and CEO of Sunoco, Inc.|
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Richard Felder||Multiple award-winning engineering educator||North Carolina State University
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Ian Fells||Energy expert and popular science broadcaster||Newcastle University, UK
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John Bennett Fenn||Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2002||Virginia Commonwealth University
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Clifton C. Garvin||Chairman and CEO||Exxon
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Eugenio Garza Lagüera||Chairman and CEO||FEMSA
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Bruce C. Gates||Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering||University of California at Davis
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Roberto Goizueta||Former chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola|
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Robert W. Gore||The inventor of Gore-Tex|
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William Sealey Gosset||Brewer and Statistician|
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Andrew Grove||Intel Chief Executive Officer||Intel
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Kevin Greening||Radio Five Live Presenter|
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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|
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Vladimir Haensel||discovering of the "Platforming" (Platinum Reforming) process which led to the production of low cost high octane gasoline|
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Douglas Patrick Harrison||Carried out research for [http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/vision21/ 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.|
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Fred Hassan||CEO and Chairman of the Board of Schering-Plough Corporation; former chairman and CEO for the Pharmacia Corporation [http://www.schering-plough.com/schering_plough/about/hassan_bio.jsp] ||Schering-Plough
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Csaba Horváth||(1930-2004) considered as one of the pioneers of modern separation science|
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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
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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
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Trevor Kletz||author of books dealing with chemical engineering safety||Loughborough University|
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Charles G. Koch||CEO of Koch Industries|
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David H. Koch||Executive vice-president of Koch Industries|
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Robert Langer||Tissue Engineering and Controlled-Release Drug Delivery pioneer||MIT
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Frank Lees|| author and pioneer of Loss Prevention in the process industries||Loughborough University
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Warren K. Lewis||American chemical engineering professor; played a role in defining the field of chemical engineering during its early development||MIT
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Arthur Dehon Little||Consultant and co-founder, with William Walker, of Arthur D. Little, Inc., a major consulting firm|
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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|
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Victor Mills||Inventor of the disposal diaper|
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Luis E. Miramontes||Co-inventor of the progestin used in one of the first oral contraceptives|
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Mario Molina||Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995||UCSD
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Frank Morton||Namesake of Frank Morton Sports Day ||Birmingham University/Manchester University
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Manmohan Sharma||Padmshree, Padmabhushan, Padmavibhushan, And the Millinium man of the Indian Industries, Fellow of the Royal Society, London|
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Dr. R. mashelkar||Padmshree, Padmabhushan, Padmavibhushan, And the Millinium man of the Indian Industries, Fellow of the Royal Society, London|ex. director general of CSIR , NCL etc.|
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Giulio Natta||Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1963|
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Ogwal Emmanuel||famous for brewing technology at Parambot breweries Limited Uganda||Currently doing research in Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in China,China University of Geosciences(Wuhan)
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Lars Onsager||Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968|
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Adam Osborne||Introduced the first ever portable computer in 1981, the same year IBM launched the personal computer|
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Donald Othmer||(1904-1995) Co-creator of the "Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology"||Polytechnic University of New York|
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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|
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Martin Perl||Nobel Prize in Physics, 1995|
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Robert H. Perry||Author of Handbook in 1934, now Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook|
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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|
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Jack Richardson||Co-wrote the textbook which became UK standard "Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering"||Swansea University
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Norbert Rillieux||Inventor who is most noted for developing the process that turned sugar from a luxury to a common commodity|
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Ronald W. Rousseau||Along with Richard M. Felder, co-authored the textbook Elemental Principles of Chemical Processes||Georgia Institute of Technology, Louisiana State University
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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|
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Waldo L. Semon||Inventor who patented more than 116 inventions, including polyvinyl chloride (pvc)|
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Thomas Kilgore Sherwood||American chemical engineering professor, after whom the Sherwood number in mass transfer is named|
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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|
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Nathaniel C. Wyeth||inventor for DuPont
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Zara Salim Davidson||Wife of the of the Raja Muda (Crown Prince) of Perak|
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