| Robert Heinz Abeles | mechanistic enzymology | | | 1957 | Frank H. Westheimer (post-doc) |
| Lawrence Hugh Aller | planetary nebulae, stellar atmospheres, and the chemical composition of stars and nebulae | | | 1943 | Donald Howard Menzel (grad student) |
| Ioan Andricioaei | Theoretical Chemistry and Biophysics | | | 2003 | Martin Karplus (post-doc) |
| Seymour M. Blinder | Theoretical Chemistry | | | 1961 | William E. Moffitt (grad student), John H. van Vleck (grad student) |
| Charles L. Brooks | computational biophysics | | 1982 | 1985 | Martin Karplus (post-doc) |
| Seok-ki Choi | biologic nanotechnology | | 1994 | 1997 | George M. Whitesides (post-doc) |
| Halvor N. Christensen | | | | 1940 | A. Baird Hastings (grad student) |
| Ward Edwards | Decision-making | | | 1952 | Frederick Mosteller (grad student), John Gilbert Beebe-Center (grad student) |
| Donald Frazier Eschman | geomorphology | | | 1953 | Kirk Bryan (grad student) |
| Gary D. Glick | anti-DNA autoantibody structure and function, and the identification of novel molecular targets and small molecules for the treatment of autoimmune diseases and cancer | | | 1990 | Jeremy R. Knowles (post-doc) |
| Felix Gustafson | plant physiology | | | 1921 | Winthrop J. V. Osterhout (grad student) |
| Joseph Olney Halford | physical organic chemistry | | 1930 | 1931 | James Bryant Conant (post-doc) |
| George L. Kenyon | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | | | 1965 | Frank H. Westheimer (grad student) |
| Raoul Kopelman | Nanobiology and Nanomedicine | | 1960 | 1962 | William Klemperer (post-doc) |
| Robert L. Kuczkowski | Microwave Spectroscopy of Weakly Bonded Complexes | | | 1964 | Edgar Bright Wilson (grad student) |
| Lawrence L. Lohr | Theoretical Studies of Molecular Structure and Reactivity | | | 1963 | William N. Lipscomb (grad student) |
| Martha L. Ludwig | structural biology | | | 1967 | William N. Lipscomb (post-doc) |
| Joseph P. Marino | Synthetic Chemistry | | 1967 | 1969 | Roy Arne Olofson (grad student), Robert B. Woodward (post-doc) |
| Rowena Green Matthews | Mechanisms of B12- and folate dependent enzymes | | | 1965 | George Wald (research assistant) |
| Michael Mayer | transport and signaling processes across biological membranes | | 2001 | 2003 | George M. Whitesides (post-doc) |
| Freeman Devold Miller | Astronomy | | | 1934 | Bart J. Bok (grad student) |
| David J. Mooney | Angiogenesis, drug delivery, mechanotransduction, immune therapies and cancer, musculoskeletal tissue engineering, new biomaterials | | | | |
| Michael D. Morris | Raman spectroscopy and spectroscopically resolved two and three dimensional imaging to chemical and biomedical problems, high speed video microscopy | | | 1964 | James J. Lingane (grad student) |
| Sumner Byron Myers | | | | 1932 | H. C. Marston Morse (grad student) |
| Pavel Nagorny | Total Synthesis, Chemical Glycobiology | | | 2007 | David A. Evans (grad student) |
| William R. Roush | Medicinal Chemistry | | | 1977 | Robert B. Woodward (grad student) |
| Margaret J. Shih | | | | 2000 | Nalini Ambady (grad student) |
| Frederick E. Smith | ecosystems | | | | |
| Richard Glenn Teske | | | | 1962 | Charles Allen Whitney (grad student) |
| Hisashi Umemori | Synapse formation | | | | Joshua R. Sanes (post-doc) |
| Edwin Vedejs | organic synthesis | | 1966 | 1967 | Elias James Corey (post-doc) |
| Walter J. Weber | environmental process dynamics and system sustainability | | | 1962 | J. Carrell Morris (grad student) |
| Hobart Hurd Willard | Analytical Chemistry | | | 1909 | Theodore William Richards (grad student) |
| Omar M. Yaghi | inorganic | | 1990 | 1992 | Richard Hadley Holm (post-doc) |