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List of the most influential female people in Chemistry,

#501

Zaida Luthey-Schulten

#104955

Overall Influence

Zaida Ann "Zan" Luthey-Schulten is the William and Janet Lycan Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was promoted to professor in 2004. She is also involved with the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

#502

Emily A. Weiss

#129867

Overall Influence

Emily A. Weiss is the Mark and Nancy Ratner Professor of Chemistry and director of the Photo-Sciences Research Center at Northwestern University. Her research considers the optical and electronic properties of nanostructures, including hybrid organic–inorganic quantum dots. She was a two-time finalist in the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

#503

Eva Harth

#144869

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Eva M. Harth FRSC is a German-American polymer scientist and researcher, and a fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society. She is a full professor at the University of Houston and director of the Welch Center for Excellence in Polymer Chemistry.

#504

Karen Kidd

#58327

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Karen Ann Kidd is a Canadian aquatic ecotoxicologist. She is the Jarislowsky Chair in Environment and Health and Professor of Biology at McMaster University and member of the International Joint Commission.

#505

Roberta Hamme

#61759

Overall Influence

Roberta C. Hamme is a Canadian chemical oceanographer at the University of Victoria. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Ocean Carbon Dynamics . Education, research and career She did her Phd and MSc at University of Washington and BA at Pomona College.

#506

Elizabeth New

#103277

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Elizabeth Joy New is an Australian chemist and Professor of the School of Chemistry, University of Sydney. She won the 2018 Australian Museum 3M Eureka Prize. Early life and education New was born in Sydney in 1984. She represented Australia at the International Chemistry Olympiad in 2000 and 2001, winning bronze and gold medals respectively, and graduated from James Ruse Agricultural High School with a UAI of 100. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Sydney in 2005, where she completed her master's degree in 2006. During her graduate studies she worked on fluorescent tags to monitor the cellular uptake and metabolism of anti-tumor complexes.

#507

Zita Martins

#59063

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Zita Carla Torrão Pinto Martins , OSE, is a Portuguese astrobiologist, and an associate professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. She was a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Imperial College London. Her research explores how life may have begun on Earth by looking for organic compounds in meteorite samples.

#508

Celeste Nelson

#114334

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Celeste M. Nelson is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Director of the Program in Engineering Biology at Princeton University. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and was a finalist in the 2017 and 2018 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

#509

Perdita Barran

#95419

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Perdita Elizabeth Barran is a Professor of Mass Spectrometry at the University of Manchester. She is Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Collaborative Mass Spectrometry. She develops and applies ion-mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry to the study of molecule structure and is searching for biomarkers for Parkinson's disease. She is Associate Dean for Research Facility Development at the University of Manchester. In 2020 and 2021 she was seconded to work for the Department of Health and Social Care as an advisor on the use case for mass spectrometry as a diagnostic method for diagnosi...

#510

Allison Doerr

#133379

Overall Influence

Allison Doerr is an American chemist and the editor in chief of academic journal Nature Methods. Education Doerr has a bachelor's degree from Vassar College where she worked on polymer chemistry as well as a PhD in chemistry from Princeton University.

#511

Kristala Jones Prather

#98724

Overall Influence

Kristala Jones Prather is an American professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research is focused on using novel bioprocesses to design recombinant microorganisms to produce small molecules.

#512

Kathryn Uhrich

#100004

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Kathryn Uhrich is Dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, at The University of California, Riverside, and founder of Polymerix Corporation. She has received many awards for her research and work including the ACS Buck-Whitney Award and the Sioux Award. She was a fellow at both the National Academy of Inventors and the American Chemical Society in 2014.

#513

Josephine Forbes

Josephine Forbes

#102085

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Josephine Forbes is an Australian scientist specialising in the study of glycation and diabetes. She has been studying diabetes since 1999 and has worked at Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne and Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne Australia. Since 2012 she has led the Glycation and Diabetes team at Mater Research which is a world-class medical research institute based at South Brisbane, and part of the Mater Group. Josephine is program leader for Mater's Chronic Disease Biology and Care theme, building greater understanding of the biological basis of a broad range...

#514

Rebecca Goss

#41748

Overall Influence

Rebecca Jane Miriam Goss is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of St. Andrews who won the 2006 Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal. She is known for combining synthetic biology and chemistry for medicinal purposes.

#515

Florence Babonneau

#157754

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

#516

Nina Berova

#154367

Overall Influence

Nina D. Berova is a Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. She is recognised as a world leader in stereochemistry and chiroptical spectroscopy. Her contributions include the development of porphyrin tweezers. She was the 2007 winner of the Società Chimica Italiana Chirality Medal.

#517

Jenny Zhang

#75336

Overall Influence

Jenny Zhenqi Zhang is a Chinese-Australian chemist and BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellow of the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, where she is also a Fellow of Corpus Christi College . She was awarded the 2020 RSC Felix Franks Biotechnology Medal for her research into re-wiring photosynthesis to provide sustainable fuel sources.

#518

Katja Lindenberg

#152328

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Katja Lindenberg is an Ecuadorian-American theoretical chemical physicist whose research concerns statistical mechanics, stochastic processes, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and quantum thermodynamics. She is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.

#519

Susan M. Lunte

#120581

Overall Influence

Susan M. Lunte is an American chemist who is the Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas. She also works as director of the NIH COBRE Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways. She was awarded the 2023 ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry.

#520

Robin L. Garrell

#98007

Overall Influence

Robin L. Garrell is an American chemist, academic and former president of The Graduate Center, CUNY. Until 2020, Garrell served as vice provost for graduate education and dean of graduate division at University of California, Los Angeles . Prior to this role, Garrell was assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh from 1984 to 1991, then joined the faculty in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, where she became full professor and held a joint appointment in bioengineering. Garrell assumed her current position at The Graduate Center on August 1, 2020. </ref> On August ...

#521

Rommie Amaro

#96992

Overall Influence

Rommie E. Amaro is a professor and endowed chair of chemistry and biochemistry and the director of the National Biomedical Computation Resource at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on development of computational methods in biophysics for applications to drug discovery.

#522

Brandi Cossairt

Brandi Cossairt

#148561

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Brandi Michelle Cossairt is an American chemist specializing in synthetic inorganic and materials chemistry. She is the Lloyd E. and Florence M. West Endowed Professor of Chemistry at University of Washington.

#523

Gretchen Keppel-Aleks

#62985

Overall Influence

Gretchen Keppel-Aleks is an American scientist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the College of Engineering's department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering. She primarily focuses on Earth's climate and the effects of greenhouse gasses on Earth's atmosphere. Keppel-Aleks has been named a Kavli Fellow by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

#524

Donna Huryn

#158209

Overall Influence

Donna M. Huryn is an American medicinal and organic chemist. She received her B.A. from Cornell University, and Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. She is on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh’s school of pharmacy, holds an adjunct appointment in the department of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, is the principal investigator of the University of Pittsburgh Chemical Diversity Center, and was a visiting fellow in the summer of 2017 at the University of Bologna. She is a fellow of the American Chemical Society, recipient of the ACS Philadelphia ...

#525

Louise Heathwaite

#60766

Overall Influence

Louise Heathwaite is a British environmental scientist. She is Distinguished Professor in the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Research and Enterprise. She is a hydrochemist working on diffuse environmental pollution, especially the pathways of nitrogen and phosphorus loss from agricultural land to water.

#526

Webe Kadima

#74793

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Webe Celine Kadima is an associate professor of chemistry at the State University of New York at Oswego. Early life Kadima was born in Burundi and moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo when she was 4 years old. She had to get the support of a government official to be included in the chemistry program at the University of Kinshasa, and after a year there she transferred to the University of Montreal, from which she graduated with a degree in chemistry. Her father was a diabetic and died from complications from diabetes while she was at the University of Montreal. She eventually obtained a in bioanalytical chemistry from the University of Alberta.

#527

Katherine H. Freeman

#159712

Overall Influence

#528

Zuzanna S. Siwy

#133607

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Zuzanna Stefania Siwy is a Polish–American chemist at the University of California, Irvine. Her research considers synthetic nanopores and their application in ionic devices. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Foundation for Polish Science.

#529

Jennifer Roizen

#59456

Overall Influence

Jennifer Lyn Roizen is an American chemist who is a professor at Duke University. Roizen studies C-H functionalization, antibiotics and selective ion channel inhibitors. She joined the International Advisory Board of Angewandte Chemie in 2021.

#530

Lulu Qian

#47499

Overall Influence

Lulu Qian is a Chinese-American biochemist who is a professor at the California Institute of Technology. Her research uses DNA-like molecules to build artificial machines. Early life and education Qian is from China. She completed her bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering at Southeast University in Nanjing. Qian moved to Shanghai for her doctoral research, where she worked at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on biochemistry. She then moved to the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow. At Caltech, she worked alongside Erik Winfree on biochemical circuits. She used a rev...

#531

Leslie M. Hicks

Leslie M. Hicks

#115742

Overall Influence

Leslie Hicks is an American associate professor of analytical chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work primarily focuses on the study of proteomics and protein post-translational modifications using mass spectrometry, and identifying biologically active peptides in plants.

#532

Flower Msuya

#62551

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Flower Ezekiel Msuya is a Tanzanian phycologist. She specialises in algaculture and integrated aquaculture. Early life and education Flower Ezekiel Msuya was born in 1959 in Kifula , a division of Mwanga District in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. She earned her BSc in botany and statistics from the University of Dar es Salaam. She received an MSc in fisheries and aquaculture from the University of Kuopio in Finland. Based on a course in phycology , she developed an interest in seaweed farming. She earned her PhD in seaweed-integrated aquaculture from Tel Aviv University in 2004. Her the...

#533

Mónica Kräuter

#63348

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Mónica Kräuter is a Venezuelan chemist and professor of the Simón Bolívar University. Kräuter gained notability during the 2017 Venezuelan protests due to her study of tear gas canisters and her advice on how to protect against its effects.

#534

Priscilla Baker

#138328

Overall Influence

Priscilla Baker is a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of the Western Cape. She is the co-leader of SensorLab, a research platform in electrochemistry that deals with the electrodynamics of materials and sensors. She is an active member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, European Scientific Network for Artificial Muscles and the Marie Curie International staff exchange scheme .

#535

Lisa McElwee-White

#94493

Overall Influence

Lisa McElwee-White is currently the Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida. Career Lisa McElwee-White received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1979, and completed her Ph.D. degree at the California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Dennis A. Dougherty. After two years of postdoctoral work at Stanford University with James P. Collman, she joined the Stanford faculty as an assistant professor in Chemistry in 1985.

#536

Vicki H. Wysocki

#161262

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

#537

Bice Fubini

#161531

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

#538

Rachel McKendry

Rachel McKendry

#95946

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Rachel Anne McKendry is a British chemist. She is Director of i-sense, a UK-based interdisciplinary research collaboration developing early warning sensing systems for infectious diseases, and was part of the UK's Cross Council Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance. McKendry is also Professor of Biomedical Nanoscience at University College London, holding a joint appointment in the Division of Medicine and the London Centre for Nanotechnology.

#539

Vicki Wysocki

#143409

Overall Influence

Vicki Wysocki is an American scientist. She is a professor and an Ohio Eminent Scholar at Ohio State University, and also the director of the Campus Chemical Instrument Center. Education Vicki Wysocki received a BS in chemistry from Western Kentucky University in 1982. She received a PhD in chemistry at Purdue University in 1987, under the supervision of R. Graham Cooks. She did post-doctoral work at Purdue University and at the US Naval Research Laboratory as a National Research Council Fellow.

#540

Mary Jo Ondrechen

Mary Jo Ondrechen

#50215

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Mary Jo Ondrechen is an American chemist, educator, researcher, community leader and activist. She serves as Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Principal Investigator of the Computational Biology Research Group at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

#541

Margaret-Ann Armour

#121526

Overall Influence

1939 - 2019 (80 years)

Margaret-Ann Armour was a Scottish-born Canadian chemist based at the University of Alberta. She is best known for her expertise in developing guidelines for hazardous lab waste disposal, and for being a vocal advocate for women in science. Armour founded the Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science and Technology program, and served as the first and only Associate Dean of Science for Diversity at the University of Alberta. Among her many honors, she was named a member of the Order of Canada , a 3M Teaching Fellow and a Canada 150 ambassador .

#542

Cather Simpson

#101966

Overall Influence

Miriam Cather Simpson is a New Zealand-American physics/chemistry academic and entrepreneur. She is currently a professor at the University of Auckland, a joint appointment between the physics and chemistry departments. She is the founder of the Photon Factory laser lab at the University of Auckland and the chief science officer for two spin-off companies, Engender Technologies and Orbis Diagnostics. She is an Associate Investigator for the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies and an Emeritus Investigator for the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

#543

Heather Sheardown

#132070

Overall Influence

Heather Sheardown is a professor in the Chemical Engineering department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and holder of a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Ophthalmic Biomaterials and Drug Delivery System from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council . Her research has focused on biomaterials and eye health, including bioengineered contact lenses, and eye drops that can be used for targeted drug delivery. She was the student of Professor John Brash.

#544

Julia Chan

#93300

Overall Influence

Julia Y. Chan is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Baylor University. Chan is an expert in the area of intermetallic crystal growth with a focus on new quantum materials. Early life and education Chan moved to New York City at the age of eight and spent her childhood in North America. Chan studied at Baylor University and graduated in 1993. Initially a music majorspecialising in the violinshe soon became interested in chemistry. At Baylor, Chan worked under the supervision of Carlos Manzanares and Marianna Busch. She earned her doctoral degree under the supervision of Susan M. Kauzlarich at the University of California, Davis in 1998.

#545

Katherine A. Lathrop

#114826

Overall Influence

1915 - 2005 (90 years)

Katherine Austin Lathrop was an American nuclear medicine researcher, biochemist and member of the Manhattan Project. Lathrop conducted pioneer work on the effects of radiation exposure on animals and humans.

#546

Susmita Bose

#58475

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Susmita Bose is an Indian-American scientist and engineer, best known for her research on biomaterials, 3D printing or additive manufacturing of bone implants and natural medicine. She is the Herman and Brita Lindholm Endowed Chair Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University.

#547

Dominique Weis

#163150

Overall Influence

#548

Judit Puskas

#131975

Overall Influence

Judit Puskas is a Distinguished Ohio State University professor noted as co-inventor of the polymer used on the Taxus-brand coronary stent. She is the first woman to win the Charles Goodyear Medal, the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society's Rubber Division. Her research focuses on polymer engineering for breast reconstruction in cancer treatment, green polymer chemistry, biomimetic processes, biomaterials, living polymerization, polymerization mechanisms and kinetics, thermoplastic elastomers, polymer structure/property relationships, and polymer-bio interfaces.

#549

Petra Fromme

#147470

Overall Influence

Petra Fromme is a German-American chemist who is Director of the Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery and Regents Professor at the Arizona State University. Her research considers the structure-to-function relationship of the membrane proteins involved with infectious diseases and bio-energy conversion. In 2021, she was awarded the Protein Society Anfinsen Award.

#550

Sue Brannon Clark

#156404

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Sue Brannon Clark is an environmental radiochemist. Since receiving her doctorate in inorganic and radiochemistry from Florida State University in 1989, Clark has worked at Washington State University where she leads a research team on the chemistry and chemical engineering of processing nuclear materials. She has also held various leadership roles at WSU, including serving as interim vice chancellor for academic affairs and interim dean of the college of sciences.

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