See also Lists of notable engineers by discipline for lists of engineers by discipline.
| Name | Known for | Affiliation
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| Leanne Roche | Biotechnology | California Institute of Technology
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| Jimoh K. Adewole | Separation Process Technology and Software Development. Developed Quality Control Software for Lube Blending Processes | Obafemi Awolowo University
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| Mohammed Al Mady | Executive president of SABIC. |
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B
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| Jay Bailey | pioneering work in metabolic engineering |
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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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C
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John Coulson||Co-author of what became the standard UK textbook set; Coulson & Richardson's Chemical Engineering.||
| Edward Cussler | professor and consultant. Textbooks on Diffusion and Product Engineering | University of Minnesota |
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D
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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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| Jack Drosdick | Chairman and CEO of Sunoco, Inc. |
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E
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F
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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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G
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| Ahmed Gaber | Professor of Chemical Engineering | Cairo University
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| Clifton C. Garvin | Chairman and CEO | Exxon
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| Roberto Goizueta | Former chairman and chief executive of Coca-Cola |
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| Bob 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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H
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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 |
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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 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 [1] | Schering-Plough
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| Csaba Horváth | (1930-2004) considered as one of the pioneers of modern separation science |
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| Gary S. Huvard | The creator of the only undergraduate chemical engineering consulting firm, ChemEngine.
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I
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| Javed Iqbal (serial killer) | Pakistani serial killer who was a chemical engineer |
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J
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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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K
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| Trevor Kletz | author of books dealing with chemical engineering safety | Loughborough University |
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L
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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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M
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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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| 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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| John Miller | Principal bassoonist in the Minnesota Orchestra. Received an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from MIT. |
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| Giulio Natta | Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1963 |
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O
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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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P
| 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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R
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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
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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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| J.D. Seader | coauthor of "Distillation" section in Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook |
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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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| Dan Smith | President and CEO of Lyondell Chemical Company |
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| Jack Steinberger | Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988 |
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U
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| Lewis Urry | Invention of long-lasting alkaline batteries |
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V
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| John von Neumann | Mathematician and Computer Scientist |
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W
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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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| Samuel W. Bodman | United States Secretary of Energy |
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Y
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Z
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| Arthar Zual
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Trivia
- Cindy Crawford is noted supermodel who was valedictorian in her high school and had a full chemical engineering scholarship at Northwestern University. Spent a semester there before leaving for New York and a modeling career.
- Sharon Stone, who reported that she has one of the highest IQ's (154) of females the film industry, told Playboy magazine (in reference to her high school days): “I had a high IQ and was predisposed to do technical things, science, engineering, math. I’m sure a career as a chemical engineer would have been appropriate for me, though my personality is more fitting for a lawyer.”[1]
References
- ^ Biography Magazine, January 1998
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