David Crich

David Crich (born July 21, 1959) is a British American organic chemist and a professor at the University of Georgia.

He is widely known for his involvement in the development of mechanistic and synthetic organic chemistry, carbohydrate chemistry and medicinal chemistry. He has supervised over 75 doctoral students and has published over 450 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals. The Crich beta-mannosylation reaction is named after him. He has made seminal contributions to understanding chemical glycosylation mechanisms.