DuPont Central Research and Development Sandia National Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Galen D. Stucky (born 17 December 1936) is an American inorganic materials chemist who is a Distinguished Professor and the Essam Khashoggi Chair In Materials Chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

[6] Stucky pursued graduate studies at Iowa State University, where he worked under Prof. Robert E. Rundle on the synthesis and characterization of the diethyl ether-solvated phenylmagnesium bromide Grignard reagent,[8][9] and an oxidation product formed from its exposure to oxygen.

[6] In 1980, he left UIUC to work at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he led the Solid State Materials Group there.

[13] According to another publication by Thomson in late 2006, his work involving SBA was the most-cited paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[21] In late 2006, former and current group members and colleagues gathered for a Symposium on Recent Advances in Nanoscale Materials Research at UCSB to celebrate Stucky's 70th birthday.