David Crich (born July 21, 1959) is a British American organic chemist and a professor at the University of Georgia.
Born in the town of Chesterfield England, Crich received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Surrey in 1981 before joining the group of Sir Derek Barton, Nobel Laureate, at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles (ICSN) in France.
Crich stayed at the ICSN as a postdoctoral fellow with Derek Barton and Pierre Potier from 1984 to 1985.
After five years at UCL, Crich moved to the University of Illinois (UIC) in Chicago where he rose through the ranks to become Distinguished Professor of Organic Chemistry.
In 2007, Crich relocated to Wayne State University in Detroit as the Schaap Professor of Chemistry, before returning to the ICSN, where he was appointed the institute's director.