| Helmut Behrens | Inorganic chemistry | | | 1940 | Walter Otto Hieber (grad student) |
| Avinoam Ben-Shaul | Theoretical Physical Chemistry | | | | G. Ludwig Hofacker (post-doc) |
| Scott Bottoms | Archaea, Yeast, Chemical Genomics, Enzyme Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology | | | | |
| Lorenz S. Cederbaum | | | | 1976 | Georg Hohlneicher (grad student), Wilhelm Brenig (research scientist) |
| Susannah C. Coote | | Chemistry | 2012 | 2014 | Thorsten Bach (post-doc) |
| Johann Deisenhofer | Biochemistry, structural chemistry | | | 1974 | Robert Huber (grad student), Klaus Dransfeld (research assistant) |
| Geerd H. F. Diercksen | quantum chemistry | | | | |
| Barnali Dutta | | | | | |
| Martin Elsner | | | | | |
| Jörg Eppinger | | | | | |
| Sighart F. Fischer | Theoretical chemical physics | | | | |
| Roland A. Fischer | Inorganic Chemistry | | 1987 | 1989 | Wolfgang A. Herrmann (grad student) |
| Helmut Fischer | | | | 1973 | Ernst Otto Fischer (grad student) |
| Heinz Gerischer | Physical chemistry | | | | |
| Malte Gersch | | | | | Stephan Sieber (grad student) |
| Wolfgang A. Herrmann | Organometallic chemistry and catalysis | | | | |
| Georg Hohlneicher | | | | 1962 | Günter Scheibe (grad student) |
| Evgeny Katz | Bioelectronics & Bionanotechnology | | 1992 | 1993 | Hanns-Ludwig Schmidt (post-doc) |
| Gregor Kieslich | | Chemistry | 2010 | 2014 | Wolfgang Tremel (grad student) |
| Horst Köppel | theoretical chemistry | | | 1979 | Wilhelm Brenig (grad student), Lorenz S. Cederbaum (grad student) |
| Friedhelm Korte | | | | | |
| Christine Kranz | scanning probe microscopy, scanning electrochemical microscopy, microbiosensors, Focused Ion Beam (FIB)-based microfabrication | | | 1996 | Hermann E. Gaub (grad student), Wolfgang Schuhmann (grad student) |
| Katharina Krischer | self-organization in physical and physicochemical systems; electrocatalysis | | | | |
| Thomas Kruck | | | | 1961 | Walter Otto Hieber (grad student) |
| Fritz Elmar Kühn | | | | 1994 | Wolfgang A. Herrmann (grad student) |
| Daniel D. Lam | | | | | |
| Johannes A. Lercher | Heterogeneous Catalysis, Physical Chemistry | | | | |
| Ekkehard Lindner | Supramolecular chemistry, inorganic chemistry, polymers | | | 1962 | Walter Otto Hieber (grad student) |
| Yefei Liu | | Lehrstuhl I für Technische Chemie | 2011 | 2014 | Kai-Olaf Hinrichsen (grad student) |
| Robert J Mayer | Physical Organic Chemistry, Origin of Life, Catalysis | | | | |
| Kevin H. Mayo | Biochemistry | | | | Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (post-doc) |
| Karl Mayrhofer | | | 2006 | 2009 | Matthias Arenz (post-doc), Ueli Heiz (post-doc) |
| Norbert W. Mitzel | Inorganic Chemistry and Structural Chemistry | | 1993 | 1994 | Stanislav Veprek (research scientist) |
| Padmabati Mondal | Excited state quantum chemistry | | 2008 | 2012 | Wolfgang Domcke (grad student) |
| Klaus Müller-Dethlefs | | | | | |
| Erwin Neher | | | | 1970 | H Dieter Lux (grad student) |
| Maximilian Pitscheider | | | | | Stephan Sieber (grad student) |
| Hans Plieninger | | | | 1941 | Hans Fischer (grad student) |
| Dieter W. Pohl | | | 1964 | 1968 | Wolfgang Kaiser (grad student) |
| Stephan Rauschenbach | Ion-Beam Deposition, Mass Spectrometry, Imaging, Structural Biology | | 2001 | 2002 | Erich Sackmann (grad student) |
| Peter W. Roesky | | | 1992 | 1994 | Wolfgang A. Herrmann (grad student) |
| Hanns-Ludwig Schmidt | General chemistry and biochemistry | | | | |
| Wolfgang Schuhmann | | | 1983 | 1986 | Friedhelm Korte (grad student) |
| Darrell G. Schulze | soil chemistry, mineralogy, and pedology. | | | 1982 | Udo Schwertmann (grad student) |
| Udo Schwertmann | Soil Science | | | | |
| Gerhard Stock | | | | 1990 | Wolfgang Domcke (grad student) |
| Christoph Stock | | | | | Thorsten Bach (grad student) |
| Marc Taillefer | | | 1990 | 1991 | Wolfgang A. Herrmann (post-doc) |
| Stanislav Veprek | | | | | |
| Wolfgang von Niessen | | | | 1970 | Friedrich Dörr (grad student), G. Ludwig Hofacker (post-doc) |
| Helmut Werner | Organometallic Chemistry | | | | Ernst Otto Fischer (grad student) |
| Friedrich Weygand | biosynthesis of natural products | | | | |
| Megan H. Wright | | | | | Stephan Sieber (post-doc) |
| Yan-Gang Yan | | | | | Ulrich Stimming (post-doc) |
| Alexander Zapf | Catalysis | | | 1999 | Matthias Beller (grad student) |
| Wei Zhang | Heterogeneous catalysis, Sustainable chemistry | Lehrstuhl II für Technische Chemie | 2020 | | Johannes A. Lercher (post-doc) |