Floyd Earl Bartell (1883-1961) was a chemist who spent his entire academic career at the University of Michigan.

[1] After finishing his Ph.D., Bartell remained at the University of Michigan as faculty, reaching full professorship in 1924.

Bartell's research and teaching were focused on colloid chemistry and included the development of one of the first courses on the topic in United States universities, first offered in 1913.

[1][2][3] Among those undergraduate chemistry students recruited to assist with Bartell's courses was future biochemist Albert Baird Hastings.

Their daughter died young in 1946; their son Lawrence Bartell eventually became a noted professor of chemistry in his own right, serving on the faculty of Iowa State University and later as the Philip J. Elving Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Michigan.