Best Chemical Engineer
Calvin Souther Fuller was an American physical chemist at Bell Telephone Laboratories. In 1954, working with physicist Gerald Pearson and engineer Daryl Chapin, he developed the boron-diffusion process that created a p-n junction in silicon, an essential step in their first practical silicon solar c...
Robert Langer is a renowned chemical engineer specializing in biomedical applications. His innovative work at MIT focused on developing sophisticated methods for controlled drug release and targeted therapies. This research significantly impacted biotechnology and is particularly relevant to pharmac...
Andy Grove was a Hungarian-American chemical engineer, businessman, and author who played a foundational role in the growth of the modern semiconductor industry. After fleeing Hungary during the 1956 revolution, he earned a PhD in chemical engineering and joined Fairchild Semiconductor before co-fou...
George E. Davis was a British chemist who is widely regarded as one of the founding figures of chemical engineering. He delivered a landmark series of lectures in 1888 at the Manchester Technical School that systematically outlined the discipline's core principles. These lectures formed the basis fo...
Beatrice Hicks (1919–1979) was an American engineer who co-founded the Society of Women Engineers in 1950. She worked in telecommunications and aerospace, developing environmental sensing devices, proximity sensors, and switches used in aircraft. Her engineering work in the aerospace industry includ...
Man Mohan Sharma is an Indian chemical engineer who served as the director of the University Department of Chemical Technology at the University of Mumbai. He is recognized for his foundational research in multiphase reaction engineering, catalysis, and the application of biotechnology to chemical p...
Rakesh Agrawal is a computer scientist recognized for his foundational contributions to the field of data mining. While working at the IBM Almaden Research Center in the 1990s, he co-authored influential research that introduced association rule mining, a core technique for discovering patterns in l...
Nicholas Peppas is a chemical and biomedical engineer renowned for his foundational research in polymer science and hydrogels. He developed the Korsmeyer-Peppas equation, a widely used mathematical model for analyzing drug release from polymeric matrices. His work focuses on creating advanced biomat...
Trevor Kletz was a British chemical engineer and an influential specialist in industrial process safety. After a long career with Imperial Chemical Industries, he developed and communicated the principle of inherent safety: hazards should be eliminated or reduced through process design instead of be...
Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau was an American chemical engineer who made significant contributions to industrial process design. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in chemical engineering, receiving her Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1937. During World War II,...
Karen Gleason is an American chemical engineer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is known for her foundational research in the field of materials science, specifically pioneering the technique of chemically vapor deposited (CVD) polymers. Her work has enabled the...
Mae Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut who made history as the first African American woman to travel to space. She flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-47 in 1992, serving as a science mission specialist. Before joining NASA, she earned a medical...
