James L. Kinsey (October 15, 1934, in Paris, Texas – December 20, 2014, in Houston, Texas)[1] was an American chemist, and D. R. Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor at Rice University.
[2] He won the 1995 Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy.
[4] He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He graduated from Rice University, with a B.A.
He taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1962 to 1988.