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This is a list of notable chemical engineers, people who studied or practiced chemical engineering.

See also List of engineers - for lists of engineers by discipline.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Name	Known for	Affiliation
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Frances Arnold	Biotechnology	California Institute of Technology
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Jay Bailey	pioneering work in metabolic engineering
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	manfacturing of steel
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Frank Capra	was an American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life.
Cindy Crawford	Supermodel, not an engineer. She was valedictorian in her high school and had a Chemical Engineering scholarship at Northwestern University. Spent a semester there before leaving for New York and a modeling career.
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Donald A. Dahlstrom	Inventor of the Hydrocyclone and related correlations, 1943
John M. Deutch	former Director of the CIA
Nguyet Anh Duong	is a Vietnamese-American, she was in charge of a special endeavor and assisted in creating an urgently needed new weapon called the Thermobaric weapon in support of Operation Enduring Freedom to effectively defeat tunnels and caves being used as terrorists hideouts, in order to spare United States Armed Forces from the bloody prospect of tunnel-to-tunnel combat against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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Richard M. Felder	Along with Ronald W. Rousseau, co-authored the textbook Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes	North Carolina State University
John Fenn	Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2002	Virginia Commonwealth University
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Roberto Goizueta	Former chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola
Bob 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	In 1918 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the fixation of nitrogen from the air, the Haber process. Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1918
Vladimir Haensel	discovering of the "Platforming" (Platinum Reforming) process which led to the production of low cost high octane gasoline
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.
Fred Hassan	CEO and Chairman of the Board of Schering-Plough Corporation; former chairman and CEO for the Pharmacia Corporation [1]	Schering-Plough
Capt. Virgil 'The Cooler King' Hilts	Fictional character played by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape
Csaba Horváth	considered as one of the pioneers of modern separation science
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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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Bill Koch	Bankrolled and won the 1992 America's Cup in the boat America3 and sponsored a women's team in 1995
Robert Langer	Tissue Engineering and Controlled-Release Drug Delivery pioneer	MIT
Arthur D. Little	Consultant and co-founder, with William Walker, of Arthur D. Little, Inc., a major consulting firm
Alex Lowe	One of the world's best climbers
Dolph Lundgren	Actor
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John F. MacGregor	Use of latent variables in industrial processes	McMaster University
Victor Mills	Inventor of the disposal diaper
Mario Molina	Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1995	UCSD
Frank Morton	Namesake of Frank Morton Sports Day	Birmingham University/Manchester University
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Giulio Natta	Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1963
Hai Binh Nguyen	Gold medal in International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO), 2000
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Lars Onsager	Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1968
Adam Osborne	Introduced the first ever portable computer in 1981, the same year IBM launched the personal computer
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Linus Pauling	Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1954, Nobel Peace Prize, 1962
Martin Perl	Nobel Prize in Physics, 1995
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Lee Raymond	ExxonMobil chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Norbert Rillieux	Inventor who is most noted for developing the process that turned sugar from a luxury to a common commodity
Ronald W. Rousseau	Along with Richard M. Felder, co-authored the textbook Elemental Principles of Chemical Processes	Georgia Institute of Technology
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J.D. Seader	coauthor of "Distillation" section in Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook
Waldo L. Semon	Inventor who patented more than 116 inventions, including polyvinyl chloride (pvc)
Daniel J. Shanefield	Co-developer of the "tape casting" process for making ceramic capacitors; innovator of the double-blind audio comparison test for hi-fi electronics
Dan Smith	President and CEO of Lyondell Chemical Company
Jack Steinberger	Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988
Michael S. Strano	Nanotechnology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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
Samuel W. Bodman	United States Secretary of Energy
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