Theodore Goodson III

Theodore G. Goodson III
Born (1969-04-05) April 5, 1969
Alma materUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln
Wabash College
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
University of Chicago
University of Oxford
ThesisSecond and third order nonlinear optical properties of organic polymeric materials (1996)
WebsiteGoodson Group

Theodore Goodson III (born April 5, 1969) is an American chemist who is the Richard Barry Bernstein Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. He studies the non-linear optical properties of novel organic materials. He was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012 and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2021. As of 2025, he became a co-editor of the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry.