In Memoriam

Claudio Alvarez-Tostado

(1912–1980)
Professor in Physical Sciences and Chemistry

Francis William Bergstrom

(1897–1946)
Professor of Chemistry

William Bonner

(1919–2007)
Professor of Chemistry

John Brauman

(1937-2024)
J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry
Department Chair, Department of Chemistry (1979-1983; 1995-1996)

Carl Djerassi

(1923-2015)
Professor of Chemistry

Richard Hallenbeck Eastman

(1918–2000)
Professor of Chemistry

Paul John Flory

(1910–1985)
J. C. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Chemistry
Department Chair, Department of Chemistry (1969-1972)

Edward Curtis Franklin

(1862–1937)
Professor of Organic Chemistry

Eric Hutchinson

(1920–2005)
Professor of Chemistry

William Summer Johnson

(1913–1995)
Jackson-Wood Professor of Chemistry
Executive Head, Department of Chemistry (1960-1969)

Frederick Otto Koenig

(1902–1974)
Professor of Chemistry

Philip Albert Leighton

(1897–1983)
Professor of Chemistry
Executive Head, Department of Chemistry (1940-1951)

Lionel Remond Lenox

(1865–1927)
Professor of Chemistry

Hubert Scott Loring

(1908–1974)
Professor of Chemistry

James Murray Luck

(1899–1993)
Professor of Chemistry

Bob Madix, 1938-2023 | Photo courtesy of Stanford Chemical Engineering

Robert Madix

1938-2023
Courtesy Professor, Chemistry

David Malcolm Mason

(1921–1988)
Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Department Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering

James William McBain

(1882–1953)
Professor of Chemistry

Harden Marsden McConnell

(1927–2014)
Robert Eckles Swain Professor of Chemistry
Department Chair, Department of Chemistry (1989-1993)

John Pearce Mitchell

(1880–1973)
Professor of Chemistry

Harry Stone Mosher

(1915–2001)
Professor of Chemistry

Carl Robert Noller

(1900–1980)
Professor of Chemistry

Richard Andrew Ogg, Jr.

(1909–1962)
Professor of Chemistry

George Sutton Parks

(1894–1966)
Professor of Chemistry
Executive Head, Department of Chemistry (1951-1960)

Linus Carl Pauling

(1901–1994)
Professor of Chemistry

Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer

(1914–1997)
Stanford University President

George Mann Richardson

(1863–1902)
Professor of Organic Chemistry

John Ross

1926-2017
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry
Department Chair, Department of Chemistry (1983-1989)

Pierre Van Rysselberghe

(1905–1955)
Professor of Chemistry

Douglas Arvid Skoog

(1918–2008)
Professor of Chemistry

William Henry Sloan

(1877–1950)
Professor of Chemistry

John Maxson Stillman

(1852–1923)
Professor of Chemistry
Executive Head, Department of Chemistry (1891-1917)
Stanford University Vice President

Robert Eckles Swain

(1875–1961)
Professor of Chemistry
Executive Head, Department of Chemistry (1917-1940)
Stanford University Acting President

Henry Taube

(1915–2005)
Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Chemistry
Department Chair, Department of Chemistry (1978-1979)

Eugene Earle Van Tamelen

(1925–2009)
Professor of Chemistry

Walsh in 2010. Image: Gretchen Ertl

Christopher T. Walsh

(1944-2023)
Adjunct Professor, Chemistry

Stewart Woodford Young

(1869–1931)
Professor of Physical Chemistry