James Ibers

James A. Ibers was an American inorganic chemist and long-time professor at Northwestern University who brought X-ray crystallography to inorganic chemistry, enabling precise structural determination of metal complexes and driving new synthetic methods. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and received the American Crystallographic Association's Buerger Award. He is listed among Jewish figures in Jewish biographical compilations; mainstream biographies do not detail his religious background.