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List of the most influential female people in Chemistry,

#551

Paula Booth

#137481

Overall Influence

Paula Jane Booth is an English chemist who holds the Daniell Chair of Chemistry at King's College London and is Head of Department. Booth was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2003, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2008 and an ERC Advanced grant in 2012 for her novel work on investigating the mechanisms of biological self-assembly.

#552

Athina Anastasaki

#159108

Overall Influence

Athina Anastasaki is a Greek chemist who is a professor at ETH Zurich. Her research considers chemical synthesis and radical polymerisation. She was awarded the 2022 Ruzicka Prize in recognition of her research in chemistry.

#553

Staci Simonich

#98254

Overall Influence

Staci Simonich is an American environmental scientist who is a professor and dean for the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University. Her research considers how chemicals move through the environment. She was appointed Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021.

#554

Annia Galano

#164312

Overall Influence

#555

Meenakshi Wadhwa

#72639

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Meenakshi Wadhwa is a planetary scientist and educator who studies the formation and evolution of the Solar System through the analysis of planetary materials including meteorites, Moon rocks and other extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft missions. She is director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.

#556

Kristi Kiick

#123405

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Kristi Lynn Kiick is the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware. She studies polymers, biomaterials and hydrogels for drug delivery and regenerative medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and of the National Academy of Inventors. She served for nearly eight years as the deputy dean of the college of engineering at the University of Delaware.

#557

Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić

#110967

Overall Influence

Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2018 is a professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After an undergraduate at the University of Zagreb in Croatia and a PhD titled 'Study of the interactions and structure in polyelectrolyte copolymer gel systems based on acrylamide monomers' at the University of Auckland, Travaš-Sejdić joined the staff, rising to full professor.

#558

Stephanie Brock

#133951

Overall Influence

Stephanie Lee Brock is an American chemist who is professor of inorganic chemistry at Wayne State University. Her research considers transition metal pnictides and chalcogenide nanomaterials. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society.

#559

Ohyun Kwon

#153816

Overall Influence

Ohyun Kwon is a Korean-American chemist who is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research considers new methodologies for organic transformations and the development of chiral catalysts.

#560

Victoria Samanidou

#93717

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Victoria F. Samanidou is a Greek analytical chemist. She is a professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Thessaloniki, Greece. Early life She was born in Thessaloniki in 1963. Career She is a professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Thessaloniki, Greece.

#561

Katherine B. Hoffman

#112520

Overall Influence

1914 - 2020 (106 years)

Katherine "Kitty" Marie Blood Hoffman was an American chemist and academic administrator. Education and career Hoffman was born on August 1, 1914, in Winter Haven, Florida. She attended the Florida State College for Women for her undergraduate. She began her degree in 1932, and finished with a degree in bacteriology in 1936. She went on to Columbia University for a master's degree in chemistry, which she completed in 1938.

#562

Ann-Sofie Sandberg

#151707

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Ann-Sofie Sandberg is a Swedish professor in Food and Nutritional Science at Chalmers University of Technology. Biography Sandberg got her PhD in 1982. Her dissertation was on the 'Effects of Dietary Fibers on Ileostomy Patients'.

#563

Parisa Mehrkhodavandi

#47264

Overall Influence

Parisa Mehrkhodavandi is a Canadian chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia . Her research focuses on the design of new catalysts that can effect polymerization of sustainably sourced or biodegradable polymers.

#564

Andrea Armani

#78485

Overall Influence

Andrea Martin Armani is the Ray Irani Chair in Engineering and Materials Science and professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. She was awarded the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from Barack Obama and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

#565

Rachel Evans

#66010

Overall Influence

Rachel Claire Evans FLSW is a Welsh chemist based at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She works on photoactive polymer-hybrid materials for solar devices, including organic photovoltaics and stimuli-responsive membranes.

#566

Cristina Puzzarini

#166658

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

#567

Athanassia Athanassiou

#166733

Overall Influence

#568

Tashni-Ann Dubroy

#67294

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (40 years)

Tashni-Ann Dubroy is a Jamaican academic and university administrator in the United States. She has been executive vice-president and chief operations officer of Howard University since 2017, having previously served as president of Shaw University from 2015 to 2017.

#569

Paola Dugo

#167040

Overall Influence

#570

Miroslava Trchová

#167127

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

#571

Syma Khalid

#86770

Overall Influence

Syma Khalid is a British biophysicist who is a Professor of Computational Microbiology in at the University of Oxford. She was awarded the Suffrage Science award for engineering and physical sciences in 2021.

#572

Theresa Windus

#119888

Overall Influence

Theresa Lynn Windus is an American chemist who is a distinguished professor at Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory. Her research involves the development and use of high performance computational chemistry methods to tackle environmental challenges, including the development of new catalysts and renewable energy sources. She was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2020.

#573

Deborah Leckband

#164822

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Deborah E. Leckband is an American chemist who is the Reid T. Milner Professor of Chemical Sciences and professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She works on biomaterials, tissue engineering and the nano mechanics of biomolecules. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Chemical Society.

#574

Helen Megaw

#47553

Overall Influence

1907 - 2002 (95 years)

Helen Dick Megaw was an Irish crystallographer who was a pioneer in X-ray crystallography. She made measurements of the cell dimensions of ice and established the Perovskite crystal structure. Education and career Megaw was born in Dublin to mathematics teacher Annie McElderry and judge Robert Megaw, two graduates of Queen's University Belfast who were both originally from Ballymoney, Antrim. She was educated at first at Alexandra College in Dublin, and then briefly at Methodist College in Belfast after the family moved back there in 1921, and finally at the Roedean School in England. While still at school, Megaw read Bragg's X-rays and Crystal Structure.

#575

Giulia Grancini

#123257

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Giulia Grancini is an Italian physicist who is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pavia. Her work considers new materials for photovoltaic devices, including perovskites and polymer-based materials. In 2020, Grancini was named the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal of Materials Chemistry Lecturer.

#576

Elisa Orth

#90456

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Dr. Elisa Orth works in the Department of Chemistry of the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil. She came to notice in 2015 when she won an award from L'Oreal and UNESCO for her work on artificial enzymes.

#577

Catherine Chauvel

#156221

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Catherine Chauvel is a geochemist at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris known for her research on the impact of volcanic activity on the chemistry of the mantle, continental crust, and island arc geochemistry.

#578

Arlene Fiore

#133355

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Arlene M. Fiore is an atmospheric chemist whose research focuses on issues surrounding air quality and climate change. Education In 1997 Arlene M. Fiore graduated Harvard College magna cum laude with an A.B. in Environmental Geoscience. She continued her education at Harvard University, graduating in 2003 with a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Her thesis was titled “Linking regional air pollution with global chemistry and climate: The role of background ozone.” In this dissertation, Fiore discusses the importance of background ozone in connecting local air quality with global climate an...

#579

JoAnn Burkholder

#120186

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

JoAnn Marie Burkholder is an American professor of aquatic ecology at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh. She was responsible for identifying the cause, a dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida and its toxins, of mass deaths of fish that posed a public health hazard. Her studies also helped in improving legislation to control pollution and eutrophication.

#580

Clarice Phelps

#107078

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Clarice Evone Phelps is an American nuclear chemist researching the processing of radioactive transuranic elements at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory . She was part of ORNL's team that collaborated with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research to discover tennessine . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry recognizes her as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a chemical element.

#581

Isabel Escobar

#55330

Overall Influence

Isabel C. Escobar is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. She is also associate director of the Center of Membrane Sciences and co-director of the College of Engineering Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, both at the University of Kentucky.

#582

Anne McNeil

#86939

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Anne J. McNeil is an American chemist who currently works at the University of Michigan, where she holds the position of Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering. In 2017, McNeil was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

#583

Valerie Sheares Ashby

Valerie Sheares Ashby

#76420

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Valerie Sheares Ashby is an American chemist and university professor who currently serves as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She was the Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University from 2015 to 2022 and formerly chair of the chemistry department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2012 to 2015. With her research group, she holds ten patents. On April 4, 2022, it was announced that Ashby would assume the position of president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

#584

Mireille Kamariza

#105320

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (36 years)

Mireille Kamariza is a Burundian-born American bioscientist and an Assistant Professor in the Bioengineering Department at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Previously, Kamariza was appointed as a Harvard Junior Fellow for her postdoctoral studies and she completed her doctoral studies in Biology at Stanford University. Her research considers the development of chemical biosensing tools, low cost point-of-care diagnostics, infectious diseases, and global health. In 2020, she was named as one of Chemical & Engineering News's Talented 12.

#585

Natalia Shustova

Natalia Shustova

#99142

Overall Influence

Natalia B. Shustova is a Peter and Bonnie McCausland Professor of Chemistry at the University of South Carolina. She focuses on developing materials for sustainable energy conversion, metal-organic frameworks , covalent organic frameworks , and graphitic supramolecular structures.

#586

Ellen Moons

#118218

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Ellen Moons is a Belgian materials scientist who is a professor at Karlstad University. Her research considers the organisation of molecules and materials in thin films. She is mainly interested in organic and hybrid materials for solution processed photovoltaics.

#587

Wendy Lee Queen

#94523

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Wendy Lee Queen is an American chemist and material scientist. Her research interest focus on development design and production of hybrid organic/inorganic materials at the intersection of chemistry, chemical engineering and material sciences. As of 2020 she is a tenure-track assistant professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, where she directs the Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials.

#588

Mariagrazia Pizza

#161007

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Mariagrazia Pizza is an Italian vaccine researcher who is a professor at Imperial College London. She worked as Senior Scientific Director for Bacterial Vaccines at GSK plc. She was involved with the development of the first pertussis vaccine. In 2023, she was awarded the IVI-SK bioscience Park MahnHoon Award.

#589

Jenny Slaughter

#147042

Overall Influence

Jennifer Louise Slaughter is a British chemist and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. Her research is based on chemistry education and academic writing, specifically on laboratory chemical education, science communication, teaching and scholarship.

#590

Jennifer Hollingsworth

#152794

Overall Influence

Jennifer Ann Hollingsworth is a scientist and laboratory fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory . Education Hollingsworth received a B.A. in chemistry from Grinnell College in 1992 and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis in 1999.

#591

Paula Alves

#155326

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Paula Marques Alves is a Portuguese biochemical engineer who is a professor at the NOVA University Lisbon. She is the chief executive officer of the Instituto de Biology Experimental e Tecnológica. She was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

#592

Amy Hauck Newman

Amy Hauck Newman

#118886

Overall Influence

Amy Hauck Newman is an American medicinal chemist who is the scientific director of the intramural research program at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She researches the design, synthesis, and evaluation of central nervous system active agents as potential treatment medications for substance use disorders, with an emphasis on selective ligands for the dopaminergic system.

#593

Linda M. Field

#62497

Overall Influence

Linda M. Field FRES FRSB is a British scientist noted for her work on the insecticide mode of action and resistance. Biography Field was awarded a PhD on the molecular basis of insecticide resistance at Rothamsted Research in 1989. She became leader of the Insect Molecular Biology Group at Rothamsted in 2002, and then Head of the Department of Biological Chemistry in 2010 .

#594

Tami Bond

#44384

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Tami Bond holds the Walter Scott, Jr. Presidential Chair in Energy, Environment and Health at Colorado State University since 2019. For many years she was a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois, and an affiliate professor of Atmospheric Science. Bond has focused research on the effective study of black carbon or soot in the atmosphere. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. A MacArthur Fellowship was awarded to her in 2014.

#595

Kim Jelfs

#112714

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Kim E. Jelfs is a computational chemist based at Imperial College London who was one of the recipients of the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prizes in 2018. She develops software to predict the structures and properties of molecular systems for renewable energy.

#596

Kathryn Whitehead

#169386

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Kathryn Ann Whitehead is an American chemical engineer who is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research considers the development of nanomaterial-based drug delivery systems for gene therapy, oral macromolecular delivery systems, and maternal and infant therapeutics. She is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2021 and Fellow of the Controlled Release Society.

#597

Farah Naz Talpur

#155842

Overall Influence

Farah Naz Talpur, Ph.D. , is a Pakistani chemist, who is active in the fields of analytical chemistry and environmental science; she is an associate professor of the University of Sindh and sub-editor of Pakistan Journal of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry.

#598

Rosemarie Wesson

#137775

Overall Influence

Rosemarie Wesson is the Associate Dean of Research at City College of New York. She was the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. She has worked at the National Science Foundation, Louisiana State University and Dow Chemical Company.

#599

Blanca Renée Arrillaga

Blanca Renée Arrillaga

#159483

Overall Influence

1917 - 2011 (94 years)

Blanca Renée Arrillaga Oronoz de Maffei was a Uruguayan chemist, botanist, professor and agrostologist. Originally from the Uruguayan Department of Artigas, she began her studies there then moved to Montevideo where she earned a degree in pharmaceutical chemistry from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of the Republic . Her most important publications include 'Nuevas especies y notas taxonómicas en Uruguay y Paraguay' in collaboration; Plantas Medicinales and Gramíneas Uruguayas with B. Rosengurtt and P. Izaguirre de Artucio.

#600

Katheryn Emanuel Lawson

#146178

Overall Influence

1926 - 2008 (82 years)

Kathryn Lee Emanuel Lawson was one of the first few female African American chemists who worked in Sandia National Laboratories. She studied properties of irradiated materials in Crystal Physics research division. She earned her PhD from the University of New Mexico in radiochemistry in 1957.

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