- Vera Wang
Vera Wang (born June 27, 1949) is an American fashion designer based in New York, NY, USA. She is known for her wedding gown collection, among other specialties. She was raised in an affluent family and attended The Chapin School as well as the Sorbonne in Paris. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in art history. Her mother often took her to fashion shows in Paris. Her father started and owned a chemical company.
- Alan Caruba
Alan Caruba is a public relations counselor and a free-lance writer who is a frequent critic of environmentalism and Islam and a global warming skeptic. In the late 1970s Caruba founded his public relations firm, The Caruba Organization, and in 1990, the National Anxiety Center, a "clearinghouse" whose "original purpose was to debunk the many claims made by environmental and consumer organizations ... engaged in deliberately false, …
- Wouter Basson
Wouter Basson (b. July 6, 1950) is a South African cardiologist and former head of the country's secret chemical and biological warfare project, Project Coast, during the Apartheid era.
- Midhat Mursi
Midhat Mursi (also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri or Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar) was born April 29 1953 in Egypt. He is an alleged top bomb maker for al-Qaeda, and is considered to be in Osama bin-Laden's inner circle. The United States has a $5 million bounty on his head. He is believed by U.S. authorities to have run the infamous Derunta training camp in Afghanistan where he is reported to have used dogs and other animals for his chemical experiments.
- Matthew Meselson
Matthew Stanley Meselson (b. May 24, 1930) is an American geneticist and molecular biologist whose research was important in showing how DNA replicates, recombines and is repaired in cells. In his mature years, he has been an active chemical and biological weapons activist and consultant. He is married to the medical anthropologist and biological weapons writer Jeanne Guillemin.
- Robert Kraft
Robert Paul "Bob" Kraft (born June 16, 1927) is an American astronomer. He has done pioneering work on Cepheid variables, novae, and the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. Kraft served as director of the Lick Observatory (1981-1991), president of the American Astronomical Society (1974-1976), and president of the International Astronomical Union (1997-2000).
- Mario J. Molina
Mario José Molina Henríquez was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in elucidating the threat to the Earth's ozone layer of chlorofluorocarbon gases (or CFCs). This Nobel Prize was shared with Paul J. Crutzen and F. Sherwood Rowland. Mario Molina became the first and only Mexican to ever receive a Nobel Prize for science. Until recently he was an Institute Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT.
- John Hutchinson
John Hutchinson (1825 - 14 March 1865) was a chemist and industrialist who established the first chemical factory in Widnes, Lancashire, England. He moved from working in a chemical factory in St Helens and built his own chemical factory in 1847 in the Woodend area of Widnes near to the junction of the Sankey Canal and the River Mersey. In this factory he manufactured alkali by the Leblanc process.
- George C. Pimentel
George C. Pimentel (1922-1989) was the inventor of the chemical laser. He started teaching at UC Berkeley in 1949 until he died in 1989. The main chemistry lecture hall at Berkeley, 1 Pimentel Hall, was named in honor of him. Pimentel Hall is unique in that it features a rotating stage which allows for one professor to teach class, one to set up, and one to clean up, thus allowing the room to be used continuously despite the long setup times involved in chemistry lectures.
- Friedrich Bayer
Friedrich Bayer was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. He founded the paint factory "Friedrich Bayer" along with Johann Friedrich Weskott in 1863 in Elberfeld. His son, Karl Bayer, developed the Bayer process for chemical extraction of aluminum from bauxite.
- Sylvester Graham
Sylvester Graham (July 5, 1794 - September 11, 1851) was born in Suffield, Connecticut, and was ordained in 1826 as a Presbyterian minister. He was an early advocate of dietary reform in United States most notable for his emphasis on vegetarianism, and the temperance movement, as well as sexual and dietary habits. In 1829 he invented Graham bread, and the recipe first appeared in "The New Hydropathic Cookbook" (New York, 1855).
- Randell Mills
Randell L. Mills (born September 3, 1957) is a U.S. scientist and inventor best known as the chief proponent of the controversial hydrino theory. This theory introduces a new model of atomic chemistry which predicts another form of the hydrogen atom called a "hydrino"; according to this theory forcing a hydrogen atom from its conventional state into the hydrino state would liberate intense amounts of energy (1,000 times more heat than conventional fuel, according to Mills).
- Dermot Diamond
Professor Dermot Diamond is an author and academic at Dublin City University
- Arnon Milchan
Arnon Milchan (December 6, 1944 in Israel) is film producer and businessman. Milchan produced many successful films such as "The War of the Roses", "Pretty Woman", "The Devil's Advocate" and "L.A. Confidential". He is an Israeli citizen. Milchan started his business career by turning his family's failing fertilizer company into a successful chemical business. He also earned a degree from the London School of Economics.
- Chris Mack
Chris Mack is an expert in photolithography. He received multiple undergraduate degrees from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1982, a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1989, and a PhD in chemical engineering from The University of Texas in 1998. He became acquainted with lithography while working at the NSA.
- Ewine van Dishoeck
Ewine van Dishoeck (born June 13 1955, Leiden) is a Dutch astronomer and chemist. She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics and the director of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Laboratory for Astrophysics at the Leiden University. She is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences.
- John McClellan
John McClellan was a chemist and industrialist who established one of the first chemical factories in Widnes, Lancashire, England. John McClellan was born in Liverpool, the younger son of Alexander McClellan, a Scottish draper, and his wife Jane née Charlton. He started in business in Liverpool as a drysalter and in 1847 described himself as a merchant, borax manufacturer and ashes refiner. That year he moved to Widnes and started to manufacture borax there.
- James Muspratt
James Muspratt (August 12, 1793 - May 4, 1886) was a British chemical manufacturer who was the first to make alkali by the Leblanc process on a large scale in the United Kingdom. James Muspratt was born in Dublin, the youngest of the three children of Evan and Sarah Muspratt. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a wholesale druggist, but his father died in 1810 and his mother soon afterwards.
- Sergio Cofferati
Sergio Cofferati (born 30 January 1948 in Sesto ed Uniti, Cremona) is an Italian politician, and mayor of Bologna as of 2004 for the Democrats of the Left. Initially an employee for the Milan's Pirelli and member of CGIL, Cofferati rise up on the major Italian trade union, up to becoming leader of Filcea (the chemical labour wing of CGIL) in 1988, and leader of CGIL itself in 1990, succeeding to Bruno Trentin.
- Joseph Crosfield
Joseph Crosfield was a businessman who established a soap and chemical manufacturing business in Warrington, which was formerly in Lancashire but is now in the county of Cheshire. This business was to become the firm of Joseph Crosfield & Sons, Limited.
- Henry Deacon
Henry Deacon was a chemist and industrialist who established a chemical factory in Widnes, Lancashire, England. Henry Deacon's father was also named Henry Deacon and his mother was Esther Deacon, his father's cousin. The family were members of the Sandemanian church, one of whose members, Michael Faraday, was a friend of the Deacon family. Faraday played an important part in the development of Henry junior's life and development.
- William Gossage
William Gossage (12 May 1799 - 9 April 1877) was a chemical manufacturer who established a soap making business in Widnes, Lancashire, England.
- David W. Murhammer
David W. Murhammer is Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of Iowa, specializing in biochemical engineering. He is also a member of the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing there. Dr. Murhammer received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Oregon State University, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Houston in 1989. Professor Murhammer was a grad student under Charles F. Goochee.
- Miranda Yap
Miranda Yap is an internationally known chemical engineer and Foreign Associate to the United States National Academy of Engineering. She is a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of the National University of Singapore, and the Executive Director of the Bioprocessing Technology Institute at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research of Singapore (A*STAR).
- Mohamed Moumou
Mohamed Moumou (born July 30, 1965) is a Swedish citizen of Moroccan descent who on December 7, 2006, was put on the United Nations list of foreign terrorists. He is the fourth Swedish citizen to be put on the list. His is also known as Mohamed Mumu, Abu Shrayda, Abu Amina, Abu `Abdallah and Abou Abderrahman. Moumou was born in Fez, Morocco.
- James Sheridan Muspratt
James Sheridan Muspratt Ph.D., FRSE (8 March 1821 - 3 February 1871) was an Irish research chemist and teacher. James Sheridan Muspratt was born in Dublin, Ireland, the eldest son of James Muspratt and his wife Julia Josephine née Connor. In 1822 the family moved to Liverpool, England, to establish a chemical manufacturing business. He attended private schools in Bootle and then with tutors to travel on the continent.
- Edmund Knowles Muspratt
Edmund Knowles Muspratt (6 November 1833 - 1 September 1923) was a chemical industrialist.
- Holbrook Gaskell II
Holbrook Gaskell II (born 1846) was a chemical industrialist in Widnes, Lancashire, England. He was the eldest son of Holbrook Gaskell, founder of Gaskell, Deacon & Co. and became a partner in this business. In 1879 he was chairman of The Widnes Workman's Public House Co. Ltd., whose establishments provided only non-alcoholic drinks.
- Holbrook Gaskell III
Sir Holbrook Gaskell was a chemical industrialist in Widnes, Lancashire, England. He was the grandson of Holbrook Gaskell, founder of Gaskell, Deacon & Co. He became chief engineer of the United Alkali Company in 1914. He visited USA with Dr. J. T. Conroy to investigate the electrolytic chlorine processes in use there. With E. M. Hollingsworth he designed West Bank Power Station in the 1920s to supply power to the factories of the United Alkali Company.
- David Garst
David Garst (born September 10, 1926, Coon Rapids, Iowa, died January 9, 2006), was a seed industry leader, farmer, and former Executive President of Garst Seed Company. He also worked in the livestock, fertilizer, and chemical businesses, and contributed to foreign agricultural development projects in Eastern Europe, Central America, and the Caribbean. Garst believed that farming in the United States is fettered by governmental and environmental regulation.
- Frederic Muspratt
Frederic Muspratt was a chemist and industrialist who established a chemical factory in Widnes, Lancashire, England. He was born in Liverpool, the 3rd son of James Muspratt and his wife Julia Josephine née Connor. His father was also a chemical industrialist who had established factories in Liverpool, St Helens and Newton-le-Willows. Richard was sent by his father to study chemistry under Justus von Liebig at the University of Giessen in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany.
- Nicolas Terry
Nicolas Terry is an origamist born in France in 1974 and currently lives in Grenoble. Between his studies fits to highlight engineer diplomat, Dr. in chemical and psychoterapeutic. At present forms part of the association MFPP,. It has an infinity of complexes figures of paper.
- Judson Dunaway
S. Judson Dunaway, 1890-1976, was an inventor, entrepreneur, and to the community of Dover, New Hampshire, a philanthropist. Judson's family appears to be from Virginia: He wrote a chapter on the Dunaway coat of arms in the book "The Dunaways of Virginia", by Anna Elizabeth Clendening. Dunaway manufactured a number of household specialty chemicals, including Delete rust and stain remover, Vanish toilet bowl cleaner, Elf drain cleaner, Expello moth crystals and insecticide, …
- Richard Muspratt
Richard Muspratt was a chemical industrialist. Richard Muspratt was born in Liverpool, England, the second son of James Muspratt and his wife Julia Josephine née Connor. His father was also a chemical industrialist who had established factories in Liverpool, St Helens and Newton-le-Willows. Richard was sent by his father to study chemistry under Justus von Liebig at the University of Giessen in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany.
- William Graves Sharp
'William Graves Sharp' (1859-1922) was an American lawyer, manufacturer, and diplomat, born at Mount Gilead, Ohio. He graduated LL.B. from the University of Michigan in 1881 and then practiced law in Elyria, Ohio. He also engaged in the manufacture of charcoal, pig iron, and chemicals. In 1885-88 he was prosecuting attorney of Lorain Co., Ohio. He was a Democratic presidential elector in 1892, a Democratic candidate for Congress in 1900, …
- Allaire Du du Pont
Allaire du Pont (May 4, 1913 - January 6 2006) was an American sportswoman and a member of the prominent French-American Du Pont family of chemical manufacturers who is most remembered as the owner of the Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame champion, Kelso. Born Helena Allaire Crozer, in 1934 she married Richard C. du Pont with whom she had a son, Richard Jr. and a daughter Helena. An avid sports person, she was an Olympic Trap shooter and a champion tennis player.
- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee
- Jack Welch
John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. (born November 19 1935) was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. Welch gained a solid reputation for uncanny business acumen and unique leadership strategies at GE. During his tenure, GE increased its market capitalization by over $400 billion. He remains a highly-regarded figure in business circles due to his innovative management strategies and leadership style. His net-worth is estimated at $720 million.
- Ali Hassan Al-Majid
Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (born 1941) is a former Ba'athist Iraqi Defense Minister and military commander. A first cousin of former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, he became notorious in the 1980s and 1990s for his role in the Iraqi government's campaigns of deportations and mass killings against its Kurdish and Shi'ite populations. He was captured following the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was charged with war crimes.
- Lorne Greene
Lorne Hyman Greene O.C., LL.D. (February 12, 1915 - September 11, 1987) was a Canadian actor, best known in the United States for his roles on two American television programs: the long-running western "Bonanza" and the shorter-lived cult classic science fiction program "Battlestar Galactica".