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List of the most influential female people in Chemistry,

#601

Tijana Rajh

#165534

Overall Influence

Tijana Rajh is a Serbian American materials scientist who is a professor and director of the Arizona State University School of Molecular Sciences. Her research considers the development of nanomaterials and materials for quantum technologies. She was awarded the Association for Women in Science Innovator Award in 2009, and named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014.

#602

Maria Tchernycheva

#138019

Overall Influence

Maria Tchernycheva born in St. Petersburg, Russia is working in the field of photonics and nanotechnology at both the Universite Paris-Sud XI and Centre national de la recherche scientifique. She has an h-index of 54 with the most cited work being Systematic experimental and theoretical investigation of intersubband absorption in Ga N/ Al N quantum wells which was published in 2006 and received 211 since that year.

#603

Ghislaine Crozaz

#140193

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Ghislaine Crozaz is a cosmochemist known for her research on the early history of the solar system through tracking trace elements in meteorites. Education and career Crozaz received a B.Sc. in 1961 and a Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of Brussels. In 1967, and from 1971 to 1972, she was a visiting associate in Geochemistry at California Institute of Technology. She moved to Washington University in St. Louis as a postdoctoral investigator in the lab of Robert M. Walker . As of 2021, she is professor emerita in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and lives i...

#604

Deanna D'Alessandro

#165720

Overall Influence

Deanna Michelle D'Alessandro is an Australian chemist who is a Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Sydney. Her research considers fundamental aspects of electron transfer in molecular coordination complexes and in nanoporous materials, and the development of metal–organic frameworks for environmental applications including carbon dioxide capture and conversion.

#605

Andrée Marquet

#108088

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Andrée Marquet , is a French chemist specializing in organic chemistry and chemical biology, professor emeritus at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and correspondent at the French Academy of sciences since 1993.

#606

Barbara Albert

#49237

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Barbara Ruth Albert is a German chemist and rector of the University of Duisburg-Essen. She was Professor of Solid State Chemistry at the Eduard-Zintl-Institute for Inorganic and Physical Chemistry of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. From 2012 to 2013 she was the president of the German Chemical Society.

#607

Liane Marcia Rossi

#76636

Overall Influence

Liane M. Rossi is a Brazilian chemist who is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of São Paulo. Her research considers nanomaterials and catalysis. She serves on the editorial boards of ChemistrySelect, ACS Catalysis and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

#608

Katherine Holt

#159977

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Katherine B. Holt is a British chemist who is a professor at University College London. She serves as Vice Dean for Education in the Department of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Her research investigates the development of carbon-based electrodes and electrocatalysis.

#609

Luz Oliveros-Belardo

#86517

Overall Influence

1906 - 1999 (93 years)

Luz Oliveros-Belardo was a Filipina pharmaceutical chemist, honored with the National Scientist of the Philippines award by the Philippine government in 1987. Early life Luz Oliveros was born in Navotas, then a municipality of Rizal, to Aurelio Oliveros and Elisa Belarmino. She held undergraduate and master's degrees in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of the Philippines in Manila. In 1957, she earned a PhD in Pharmacy at the University of Connecticut, with a dissertation involving molecular refraction in terpenes.

#610

Kristen Fichthorn

#117121

Overall Influence

Kristen A. Fichthorn is an American chemical engineer and condensed matter physicist whose research involves computational simulation, multiscale modeling, and molecular dynamics of interfaces, thin films, colloids, catalysis, nanostructures, and other material processes. She is Merrell Fenske Professor of Chemical Engineering and professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University.

#611

Sachiko Amari

#170173

Overall Influence

Sachiko Amari is a Japanese astrophysicist who focuses upon presolar grains. She developed the method for isolating presolar grains in primitive meteorites and also researched noble gases in meteorites. Amari was awarded the Urey Medal by the European Association of Geochemistry in 2021. She currently is a Research Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis.

#612

Marcey Waters

#151865

Overall Influence

Marcey Lynn Waters is the Glen H. Elder Jr., Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill . She is an organic chemist whose research is at the interface of chemical biology and supramolecular chemistry. Waters has received multiple awards for research, teaching, and advocating for women in science. She is serving the President of the American Peptide Society from 2017 to 2019.

#613

Helen Burt

#156427

Overall Influence

Helen M. Burt is a British-Canadian pharmaceutical scientist who is the Angiotech Professor of Drug Delivery at the University of British Columbia. She serves as Associate Vice President of Research and Innovation at UBC. Her research considers novel therapeutics based on nanotechnology, including drug delivery systems for the treatment of bladder cancer and coronary artery disease.

#614

Noelle Selin

#140479

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Noelle Eckley Selin is an atmospheric chemist and Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

#615

Ghodsi Mohammadi Ziarani

#170985

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Ghodsi Mohammadi Ziarani is an Iranian chemist and Professor of Organic Chemistry at Alzahra University. Mohammadi Ziarani is among the most-cited Iranian researchers and is known for her works on organic chemistry, nanochemistry, multi-component reactions, natural product synthesis, and asymmetric synthesis.

#616

Jennifer Schomaker

#54016

Overall Influence

Jennifer Schomaker is an American chemist who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research considers the total synthesis of natural and unnatural products. She was selected as an American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awardee in 2021.

#617

Mimi Hii

#163179

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

King Kuok "Mimi" Hii is a chemist whose fields of research include application of catalysis to organic synthesis. She is the Director of Imperial College London's Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions .

#618

Jerelle Joseph

#41319

Overall Influence

Jerelle A. Joseph is a computational chemist and academic from Dominica, who is also an advocate for representation and diversity in science. She is the founder of CariScholar, a network connecting students and academics from Caribbean countries.

#619

Brigid Heywood

#22043

Overall Influence

Brigid R. Heywood, born 1956 or 1957, is a British/Australian academic and biological scientist. She was Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England in Australia from 2019 until she resigned after criminal charges were laid against her in 2022.

#620

Audrey Moores

#169114

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Audrey Moores is a Professor of Chemistry and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry at McGill University. She was named an emerging investigator in 2017 by the RSC journal Green Chemistry.

#621

Carole A. Bewley

Carole A. Bewley

#113441

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Carole Ann Bewley is an American chemist. She is a senior investigator and Chief of the Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Bewley researches secondary metabolites and basic principles involved in protein-carbohydrate interactions and how these can be exploited to engineer therapeutics.

#622

Kathlyn A. Parker

#171142

Overall Influence

Kathlyn Ann Parker is a chemist known for her work on synthesis of compounds, especially organic compounds with biological roles. She is an elected fellow of the American Chemical Society and a recipient of the Garvan–Olin Medal in chemistry.

#623

Darja Lisjak

#154058

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Darja Lisjak is a Slovenian material scientist and professor at the Department for Material Synthesis at Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her work focuses on materials chemistry, nanotechnology, and solid-state chemistry.

#624

Judith Glynn

#145755

Overall Influence

Judith Glynn is a Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She worked on the Karonga Prevention Study on HIV and Tuberculosis in Malawi. She is also a sculptor. Education and early career Glynn completed an MSc in Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1990. She completed her PhD in infectious diseases in 1993.

#625

Susan Daniel

#87128

Overall Influence

Susan Daniel is an American chemical engineer who is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. Her research considers membrane biophysics and bioelectronic devices. During the COVID-19 pandemic Daniel used bioelectronic devices to develop COVID-19 disease drugs.

#626

Alison R. H. Narayan

#132882

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Alison Rae Hardin Narayan is an American chemist and the William R. Roush assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Additionally, she is a research assistant professor at University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute.

#627

Zhang Lina

#96083

Overall Influence

1940 - 2020 (80 years)

Zhang Lina was a Chinese physical chemist. She graduated from Wuhan University in 1963. She was a Chinese polymer physical chemist, a professor at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University. In 2011, she became the first female Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from Wuhan university. She was the editorial board member of Cellulose, Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy and Acta Polymerica Sinica.

#628

Connie C. Lu

#169625

Overall Influence

Connie C. Lu is a Taiwanese-American inorganic chemist and a professor of chemistry at the University of Bonn. She was previously a professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Lu's research focuses on the synthesis of novel bimetallic coordination complexes, as well as metal-organic frameworks. These molecules and materials are investigated for the catalytic conversion of small molecules like as N2 and CO2 into value-added chemicals like ammonia and methanol. Lu is the recipient of multiple awards for her research, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award ...

#629

Niveen Khashab

#120470

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Niveen M. Khashab is a Lebanese chemist and an associate Professor of chemical Sciences and engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia since 2009. She is a laureate of the 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science "for her contributions to innovative smart hybrid materials aimed at drug delivery and for developing new techniques to monitor intracellular antioxidant activity." She is also a fellow of the Royal Chemical Society, and a member of the American Chemical Society.

#630

Julie Kovacs

#161334

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Julia A. Kovacs is an American chemist specializing in bioinorganic chemistry. She is professor of chemistry at the University of Washington. Her research involves synthesizing small-molecule mimics of the active sites of metalloproteins, in order to investigate how cysteinates influence the function of non-heme iron enzymes, and the mechanism of the oxygen-evolving complex .

#631

Aline Miller

#98099

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Aline Fiona Miller is a Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Manchester. She specialises in the characterisation of polymer, biopolymer and peptides, using neutron and x-ray scattering, as well as the development of functionalised nanostructures for regenerative medicine and toxicology testing.

#632

Renã A. S. Robinson

#114257

Overall Influence

Renã A. S. Robinson is an associate professor and the Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor's Faculty Fellow in the department of chemistry at the Vanderbilt University, where she is the principal investigator of the RASR Laboratory.

#633

Maria C. Tamargo

Maria C. Tamargo

#109471

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Maria C. Tamargo is a leading Cuban-American scientist in compound semiconductors and materials science. She is a professor of chemistry at The City College of New York. Life and education Maria Tamargo was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1951 to Cuban parents. She lived in Havana, Cuba, from 1952 to 1962, at which time she moved with her family to the United States and has lived there ever since.

#634

Raffaella Ocone

#121098

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Raffaella Ocone is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2006 she was awarded the title Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and in the 2019 New Year Honours she was appointed OBE.

#635

Sabine Flitsch

#168836

Overall Influence

Sabine Flitsch is a German organic chemist and chemical biologist who holds a personal chair in Chemical Biology at the University of Manchester School of Chemistry, where she runs an active research glycobiology research group based in the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre.

#636

Inke Siewert

#170217

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Inke Siewert is a professor for Inorganic Chemistry at University of Göttingen. Her research focuses on activation of small molecules by transition metal complexes and molecular electrochemistry. Education and professional life She finished her Abitur in 1999. She then studied chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1999 to 2004. From 2004 to 2009 she worked on her doctorate in the group of Christian Limberg at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The topic of her dissertation was "Activation of dioxygen at novel first row transition metal complexes for biomimetic oxidation reactions".

#637

Hanadi Sleiman

#160263

Overall Influence

Hanadi Farouk Sleiman is a Canadian chemist who is Canada Research Chair in DNA Nanoscience at McGill University. Her research makes use of DNA as a template for nanomaterials. She was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Polanyi Award in 2021.

#638

Keiko Hattori

#172536

Overall Influence

Keiko Hattori is a geochemist and mineralogist. She is Distinguished University Professor of Geochemistry and Mineral Deposits in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Ottawa.

#639

Elsa Lundanes

#172718

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Elsa Lundanes is a Norwegian chemist. She was born in Ålesund and took her cand.real. degree in 1978. After two years at Texas University she took the dr.scient. degree in 1986. She worked in the pharmaceutical industry for Nycomed before she was employed by the University of Oslo in 1988. Her specialty is analytical chemistry. She became professor in 1999 and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2009.

#640

Susan Odom

#126736

Overall Influence

1980 - 2021 (41 years)

Susan A. Odom was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky who developed redox active organic compounds for energy storage applications. Early life and education Odom was inspired to explore STEM fields by her father who was a metallurgical engineer. She studied chemistry at the University of Kentucky and graduated in 2003, working under the supervision of Geoffrey Coates at Cornell University and John Anthony at the University of Kentucky. She moved to Georgia Institute of Technology where she conducted graduate research under the supervision of Seth R. Marder. After graduating in 2008, she moved to the University of Illinois as a postdoctoral scholar under Jeffrey S Moore.

#641

Chiara Neto

#103071

Overall Influence

Chiara Neto is an Italian Australian chemist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Sydney. Her research considers functional nanostructures and the design of new materials for sustainable technologies. She is the former President of the Australasian Colloid and Interface Society and was selected as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in 2018.

#642

Jadwiga Ostrowska-Czubenko

#130375

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Jadwiga Barbara Ostrowska-Czubenko is a Polish chemist at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Biography Ostrowska-Czubenko attended the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, majoring in chemistry. She graduated in 1972, defended her doctoral thesis eight years later, and completed her habilitation in 2002. She is associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, where she specializes in physical Chemistry and physicochemistry of polymers.

#643

Ruth Blake

#138415

Overall Influence

Ruth E. Blake is an American geochemist and environmental scientist. She is a professor at Yale University in earth & planetary sciences, environmental studies, and chemical & environmental engineering. Blake's work focuses on marine biogeochemical processes, paleoclimate, astrobiology, and stable isotope geochemistry.

#644

Markita del Carpio Landry

#128627

Overall Influence

Markita del Carpio Landry is a Bolivian-American chemist who is an assistant professor in the department of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research considers nanomaterials for brain imaging and the development of sustainable crops. She was a recipient of the 2022 Vilcek prize for creative promise. del Carpio Landry's work has been featured on NPR, popular mechanics, the San Francisco Chronicle, and C&E News.

#645

Jill Millstone

#170037

Overall Influence

Jill Millstone is a professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on metal-ligand chemistry in nanoparticle synthesis. She is the American Chemical Society Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecturer for 2018.

#646

Janet Hergt

#118080

Overall Influence

Janet Margaret Hergt is an Australian geochemist. She is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The main focus of her research has been in the chemical analysis of rocks and minerals to explore the exquisite record of Earth processes preserved within them. Hergt is best known for her geochemical investigations of magmatic rocks although she has employed similar techniques in interdisciplinary projects including areas of archaeological and biological science.

#647

Aurora E. Clark

#159207

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Aurora Evelyn Clark is an American computational chemist. She is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#648

Tamara Minko

#109729

Overall Influence

Tamara Minko is a distinguished professor and chair of the department of pharmaceutics at Rutgers University, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. She has an H-index of 43 since 2016 and over 17,800 citations of her work.

#649

Susannah Scott

#170951

Overall Influence

Susannah L. Scott is a Canadian-American chemist who is Professor of Surface Chemistry and the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Sustainable Catalysis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research considers the design of heterogeneous catalysts for the efficient conversion of feedstocks and catalysts that improve the environment. She serves as an Executive Editor of ACS Catalysis and is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#650

Jane Thomas-Oates

#173201

Overall Influence

Jane E. Thomas-Oates is a British chemist who is an emeritus professor at the University of York. Her research has considered the development of mass spectrometry for biological applications including proteomics, metabolomics, and glycomics.

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