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List of the most influential female people in Chemistry,

#651

Kelly Falkner

#87274

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Kelly Kenison Falkner is an American chemical oceanographer and educator. She is the Director of the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs . Her work in the position led her NSF colleagues to name the Falkner Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica, after her.

#652

Krista S. Walton

Krista S. Walton

#122858

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Krista Shereé Walton is an American chemical engineer. She is the Robert "Bud" Moeller Faculty Fellow and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and the Associate Vice President for research operations and infrastructure at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

#653

Joanna Sułkowska

#117744

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Joanna Ida Sułkowska is a Polish physicist and chemist who specializes in biophysics and protein molecular biophysics and theory. She is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Chemistry and the Center of New Technologies at the University of Warsaw.

#654

Tatyana Polenova

#151391

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Tatyana Polenova is a professor in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Delaware. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance since 2021. Her research interest involves using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, combined with computational and other biophysical methods, to understand the structure, dynamics, and function of complex macromolecular assemblies, both biological and inorganic.

#655

Deborah Zamble

#156293

Overall Influence

1971 - 2020 (49 years)

Deborah Beth Zamble was a Canadian chemist and Canada Research Chair in Biological Chemistry at the University of Toronto. Her research considered how bacteria processed metal nutrients. Early life and education Zamble was born in Kingston, Ontario. She attended the University of Toronto for her undergraduate studies, where she worked in the lab of the Bibudhendra Sarkar. Zamble was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked with Stephen J. Lippard on cisplatin, an anti-cancer drug. Her research considered the role of p53 in the cellular response to the drug.

#656

Hilkka I. Kenttämaa

#173190

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Hilkka Inkeri Kenttämaa is a researcher in organic and bioorganic mass spectrometry, and the Frank Brown Endowed Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University. She is a pioneer in distonic radical cation research and laser-induced acoustic desorption.

#657

Arthi Jayaraman

#133467

Overall Influence

Arthi Jayaraman is an Indian-American scientist who is the Centennial Term Professor for Excellence in Research and Education at the University of Delaware. Her research considers the development of computational models to better understand polymer nanocomposites and biomaterials. Jayaraman was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2020.

#658

Jill Venton

#173294

Overall Influence

B. Jill Venton is a professor of chemistry at University of Virginia, where she serves as the department chair since 2019. Venton's research focuses on developing analytical chemistry methods to enable detection of molecules in the brain.

#659

Eloisa Biasotto Mano

#90937

Overall Influence

1924 - 2019 (95 years)

Eloisa Biasotto Mano was a Brazilian chemist and full university professor. She was a specialist in polymers, and enjoyed worldwide recognition for her work. She was a recipient of the National Order of Scientific Merit.

#660

Eva Zurek

#172481

Overall Influence

Eva Dagmara Zurek is a theoretical chemist, solid-state physicist and materials scientist. As a Professor of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, Zurek studies the electronic structure, properties, and reactivity of a wide variety of materials using quantum mechanical calculations. She is interested in high pressure science, superhard, superconducting, quantum and planetary materials, catalysis, as well as solvated electrons and electrides. She develops algorithms to predict the structures of crystals, interfaces them with machine learning models, and applies them in materials discovery.

#661

Miray Bekbölet

#169418

Overall Influence

Miray Bekbölet is a Turkish environmental chemist researching oxidation techniques, photocatalytic and photolytic reactions, adsorption/bio-oxidation processes in aquatic systems, and drinking water quality. She is a professor of environmental chemistry at the Boğaziçi University Institute of Environmental Sciences.

#662

Ann Marie Carlton

#106591

Overall Influence

Ann Marie Grover Carlton is an American academic working as a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, with expertise in atmospheric chemistry. She is a reviewing editor for the journal Science, and the winner of multiple awards and fellowships, notably the quadrennial Roger Revelle Fellowship for Global Stewardship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In this fellowship, she advised the Biden administration on climate and the environment in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, beginning in September 2021. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

#663

Maria-Elisabeth Michel-Beyerle

#114604

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Maria-Elisabeth Michel-Beyerle is a German chemist. From 1974 to 2000, she was a professor of Physical Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich. Among other awards, she has received the 2000 Bavarian Order of Merit , the highest service order bestowed by the Free State of Bavaria, for her work on photosynthesis.

#664

Hui Wu

#128950

Overall Influence

Hui Wu is a Chinese materials chemist and engineer. She is a senior scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research. Wu researches the synthesis, structure, solid state chemistry, and properties of complex oxides and hydrides. She received the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for producing an entirely new route to synthesizing hydrogen-storage materials for fuel cells based on the complex chemistry of amines and boranes.

#665

Marcy Towns

#114620

Overall Influence

Marcy Hamby Towns is an American chemist who is Professor of Chemistry Education at Purdue University. Her research considers the development of innovative ways to teach undergraduate chemistry. She was awarded the IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry Award in 2021.

#666

Alison Hulme

#153684

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Alison Hulme is a Scottish chemist and Professor of Synthesis and Chemical Biology. Her research considers natural products and synthesis. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Bader Award in 2021.

#667

Camille Petit

#110086

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Camille Petit is a Reader in Materials Engineering at Imperial College London. She designs and characterises functional materials for environmental sustainability. Early life and education Petit completed her MSc in chemistry at the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier in 2007. She earned her PhD at Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2011, working with Teresa Bandosz. She was awarded the Springer Nature thesis award in 2012, for her dissertation Factors Affecting the Removal of Ammonia from Air on Carbonaceous Materials.

#668

Halina Abramczyk

Halina Abramczyk

#139031

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Halina Abramczyk is a Polish physicist and chemist, a specialist in molecular spectroscopy and laser spectroscopy professor employed at the Lodz University of Technology. She is the daughter of Edward Chachuła and Salomea Kryszak . She studied in 1969–1974 at the University of Łódź, where she earned a master's degree in physics and received a doctorate in 1982 at the Lodz University of Technology for work "Molecular Dynamics in two-component solutions containing benzene ". After obtaining her doctorate in chemistry she continued scientific research in the Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry of Technical University of Lodz, headed by prof.

#669

Siv G. E. Andersson

#91958

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Siv Gun Elisabeth Andersson is a Swedish evolutionary biologist, professor of molecular evolution at Uppsala University. She is member of both the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of Engineering. She is also Head of basic research at the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and has been co-director of the Swedish national center for large-scale research Science for Life Laboratory between 2017 and 2021. Her research focuses on the evolution of bacteria, mainly on intracellular parasites.

#670

Katalin Hangos

#137237

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Katalin M. Hangos is a Hungarian chemical engineer whose research concerns control theory and chemical process modeling. She is a research professor in the Systems and Control Laboratory of the Institute for Computer Science and Control of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a professor of electrical engineering and information systems at the University of Pannonia.

#671

Karoliina Honkala

#133820

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Karoliina Honkala is a Finnish chemist who is a professor at the University of Jyväskylä. Her research considers heterogeneous and electro-catalysis. She was awarded the 2015 Berzelius Award of the Nordic Catalysis Society and elected to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 2022.

#672

Julia Goodfellow

Julia Goodfellow

#44223

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Dame Julia Mary Goodfellow is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent, and Chair of the British Science Association. She was the president of Universities UK from 1 August 2015 until July 2017.

#673

Efrat Lifshitz

#120029

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Efrat Lifshitz is an Israeli chemist at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and the Solid-State Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology . Lifshitz's research is known for pioneering advances in developing and studying low-dimensional semiconductors by exploring the relationship between their optical properties and magnetism.

#674

Emily Cranston

#116021

Overall Influence

Emily D. Cranston is a Canadian chemist who is a professor at the University of British Columbia and President’s Excellence Chair in Forest Bioproducts. She investigates nanocellulose and hybrid bio-based materials. Cranston is an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie fellow and was awarded the Kavli Emerging Leader in Chemistry lectureship in 2018 and the Tappi NanoDivision Technical Award in 2021.

#675

Maree Smith

#169320

Overall Influence

Maree Therese Smith is an Australian researcher, inventor and innovator based at the University of Queensland. She is executive director of the Centre for Integrated Preclinical Drug Development, and TetraQ , head of the Pain Research Group in the UQ School of Pharmacy, and the inventor and developer of a potential novel treatment for chronic pain, EMA401.

#676

Melinda Beck

#91248

Overall Influence

Melinda Annetta Beck is an American nutritionist and professor at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she also serves as interim department chair. Her research investigates the relationship between nutrition and immune response to infectious disease. She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2022.

#677

Anwesha Sarkar

#174812

Overall Influence

Anwesha Sarkar is an Indian food scientist who is a professor of colloids and surfaces at the University of Leeds. Her research considers the mechanisms that underpin biolubrication in soft biological interfaces. She was awarded the 2019 Royal Society of Chemistry Food Group Early Career Medal.

#678

Gabriella Morreale de Escobar

#35797

Overall Influence

1930 - 2017 (87 years)

Gabriella Morreale de Escobar was an Italian-born Spanish chemist who specialised in the thyroid. She and her husband showed that thyroid hormones cross the placenta during pregnancy and are essential for fetal brain development. She established a national newborn screening program for congenital hypothyroidism in Spain and helped to introduce iodised salt to prevent thyroid problems caused by iodine deficiency.

#679

Marinella Mazzanti

#142015

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Marinella Mazzanti is an Italian inorganic chemist specialized in coordination chemistry. She is a professor at EPFL and the head of the group of Coordination Chemistry at EPFL's School of Basic Sciences.

#680

Martha Grover

#65193

Overall Influence

Martha Anne Grover is an American chemical engineer who is a professor and chair of graduate studies at the Georgia Tech School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Her research considers molecular self assembly and the emergence of biological functions.

#681

Christy Landes

#171531

Overall Influence

Christy F. Landes is an American physical chemist who is the Jerry A. Walker Endowed Chair in chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She previously was the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Chair at Rice University. She seeks to understand the structure-function relationships in biological processes and materials. She was appointed a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow in 2019.

#682

Gesa Weyhenmeyer

#169377

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer is a Swedish limnologist who is working as a professor and distinguished teacher at Uppsala University in Sweden. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and known for her pioneering research on the role and response of lake ecosystems in the Earth's climate system. Her research requires a holistic and global perspective, for which she collaborates with members of the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network . In addition to GLEON, Weyhenmeyer is actively engaged in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , both as official reviewer and contributi...

#683

Ana Denicola

#165952

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Ana Denicola , is an Uruguayan pharmacist and chemical researcher and professor in the science faculty at the University of the Uruguayan Republic, from 2005 to 2010 she was head of the faculty there. She is a Grade 5 teacher at that faculty and she also works as a first-level researcher in the Basic Sciences Developmental Program and the National Research System of the Uruguayan Agency of Research and Innovation, SNI level III. From 2000 to 2002, Denicola was president of the Uruguayan Society for the Biosciences and she is a full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Uruguay.

#684

Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova

#174440

Overall Influence

Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova is a French Canadian chemist who is a Professor and Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Kentucky. Her research considers the development of new molecules that can combat bacterial resistance.

#685

Ferhan Çeçen

#127184

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Ferhan Çeçen is a Turkish environmental engineer and chemist researching wastewater treatment, environmental biotechnology, and adsorption processes. She is a professor at the Boğaziçi University Institute of Environmental Sciences.

#686

Sofía Calero

#172145

Overall Influence

Sofía Calero Diaz is a Spanish chemist who is a professor and Vice Dean of the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research considers computational modelling of functional materials for applications in renewable energy. She was awarded the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Scientific Excellence in 2018.

#687

Katherine Mirica

#148073

Overall Influence

Katherine A. Mirica is an American chemist who is an associate professor at Dartmouth College. Her research considers materials chemistry, with a particular focus on environmental science and microelectronics.

#688

Raffaella Buonsanti

#173292

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Raffaella Buonsanti is an Italian chemist and material scientist. Her research is at the interface between materials chemistry and catalysis as she focuses on the synthesis of nanocrystals to drive various energy-related reactions, such as CO2 reduction. She is currently a tenure-track assistant professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and director of the Laboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy located at EPFL's Valais campus.

#689

Suzanne Bart

#174909

Overall Influence

Suzanne Cathleen Bart an American chemist who is a professor of inorganic chemistry at Purdue University. Her group's research focuses on actinide organometallic chemistry, and especially the characterization of low-valent organouranium complexes, actinide complexes with redox-active ligands, and discovery of new reactions that utilize these compounds. Bart's research has applications in the development of carbon-neutral fuel sources and the remediation of polluted sites.

#690

Melinda Duer

#162259

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Melinda Jane Duer is Professor of Biological and Biomedical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and was the first woman to be appointed to an academic position in the department. Her research investigates changes in molecular structure of the extracellular matrix in tissues in disease and during ageing. She serves as Deputy Warden of Robinson College, Cambridge. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance.

#691

Yasmine Motarjemi

#93792

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Yasmine Motarjemi is a food safety specialist and whistleblower. Biography Motarjemi studied chemistry and biology at the Claude-Bernard University in Lyon and food industry techniques at the University of Montpellier, before doing PhD studies in food technology at the University of Lund. She then worked as a research assistant at the same university.

#692

Line Rochefort

#105170

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Line Rochefort is a Canadian scientist specializing in peatland ecology. Life She grew up in a small town near Chicoutimi and earned a BSc in biology from Laval University, a MSc in botany from the University of Alberta and a PhD in botany from the University of Cambridge . Her master's work included research into the impact of acid rain in Canada's Experimental Lakes Area. She is a professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at Laval University. Rochefort has held the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's Industrial Research chair for Peatland Management since 2003.

#693

Salma Al Kindi

#175847

Overall Influence

Salma bint Mohammed al Kindi is an Omani chemist. She is professor of Analytical Chemistry and dean of the College of Sciences at the Sultan Qaboos University . In 2017 she received a Lifetime Achievement in Chemistry Award from the Venus International Foundation based in Chennai.

#694

Jennifer G. Murphy

#99001

Overall Influence

Jennifer G. Murphy is a Canadian environmental chemist and an associate professor at the University of Toronto. She is known for her research how air pollutants such as increased reactive nitrogen affect the global climate.

#695

Nina Thornhill

#169117

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Nina Frances Thornhill is a British chemical engineer specialising in process automation. She is a professor emerita in the Imperial College London Department of Chemical Engineering, where she formerly held the ABB/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of Process Automation.

#696

Tatiana Budtova

#173954

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Tatiana Budtova is a chemical researcher. She works at MINES ParisTech and specialises in the chemical physics of polymers, particularly bio-based polymers and bio-based aerogels. In 2020, she was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal.

#697

Adah Almutairi

#170830

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Adah Almutairi is a scientist and professor at the University of California, San Diego . Her work focuses on nanomedicine, nanotechnology, chemistry and polymer science. Early life and education Almutairi was born on November 1, 1976, in Portland, Oregon, United States to Saudi parents.

#698

Christa Brosseau

#86623

Overall Influence

Christa L. Brosseau is a Canadian chemist, currently a Canada Research Chair at Saint Mary's University . Brosseau's research focus is on Electrochemical Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Early career and education Brosseau was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and received a B.Sc. degree in chemistry from Dalhousie University and a MSc degree in 2003 under the supervision of Prof. Sharon Roscoe at Acadia University for studying the adsorption of proteins on metallic surfaces using electrochemical methods.

#699

Alyssa Panitch

#156800

Overall Influence

Alyssa Panitch is an American biomedical engineer. She is a Professor and Department Chair in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Panitch focuses on designing biopolymers that improve tissue healing and regeneration by researching intracellular and extracellular approaches to direct molecular and cellular processes.

#700

Kay Brummond

#169544

Overall Influence

Kay Michille Brummond is an American synthetic chemist who is Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Her interests consider cycloaddition reactions that can realise molecules and natural products for organic photovoltaics and targeted covalent inhibitors. She was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2010, a Fellow of the AAAS in 2021, and awarded the ACS National Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences in 2021.

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