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List of the most influential female people in Chemistry,

#751

Mary Rakowski DuBois

#178467

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Mary Rakowski DuBois is an inorganic chemist, now retired from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory . She made multiple contributions to inorganic and organometallic chemistry, focusing on synthetic and mechanistic studies. In recognition of her scientific contributions, she received several awards.

#752

Joan C. Sherman

#52225

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (93 years)

Joan Czerniejewski Sherman is a scientist and Professor of Chemistry. She was considered a pathbreaker by becoming one of the first professors at Florida Institute of Technology and one of the first women hired by Radiation Incorporated She became the first woman technical director at Harris Corporation. In 1994, the Society of Women Engineers named her Space Coast Outstanding Woman Engineer. The Town of Indialantic, Florida designated July 21, 2021 as “Joan C. Sherman Day”.

#753

Samira Siahrostami

#179119

Overall Influence

Samira Siahrostami is an Iranian computational chemist who is an associate professor at the University of Calgary. She designs new materials for catalysis, and develops computer simulations to understand electrochemical reactions. She was awarded the 2023 Canadian Society for Chemistry Tom Zeigler Award.

#754

Esther A. Hopkins

#82514

Overall Influence

1926 - 2021 (95 years)

Esther Arvilla Hopkins was an American chemist and environmental attorney. Hopkins was best known for her career as a biophysicist and research chemist at American Cyanamid along with research in the Polaroid Corp Emulsion Coating and Analysis Laboratory. She also pursued a career working as an attorney with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection following her time as a chemist.

#755

Sandrine Heutz

#171248

Overall Influence

Sandrine Elizabeth Monique Heutz is a Professor of Functional Molecular Materials at Imperial College London. She works on organic and magnetically coupled molecular materials for spintronic applications. In 2008 Heutz was awarded the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Silver Medal.

#756

Elizabeth Roboz Einstein

Elizabeth Roboz Einstein

#50565

Overall Influence

1904 - 1995 (91 years)

Elizabeth Roboz-Einstein was a biochemist and neuroscientist known for purifying and characterizing myelin basic protein , investigating its potential role in the neurodegenerative disease multiple sclerosis , and helping pioneer the field of neurochemistry.

#757

Hope Weiler

#145221

Overall Influence

Hope A. Weiler is a Canadian nutritionist and associate professor in the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at the McGill University Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. She holds a B.A.Sc. in Applied Human Nutrition from the University of Guelph and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences, Cell Biology and Metabolism, from McMaster University. As of 2018, she is a Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Nutrition and Health Across the Lifespan at McGill University. Her research specialty is the prevention of osteoporosis.

#758

Bettina G. Keller

#173849

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Bettina G. Keller is a professor for Theoretical Chemistry at Freie Universität Berlin. Life and education Keller did her Abitur at the Remstal-Gymnasium Weinstadt in 2000. In October 2000, she started her diploma studies at University of Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2002, she continued her diploma studies at ETH Zürich. She received her diploma in 2005. The title of her diploma thesis was "Estimating the absolute entropy of a liquid based on a single molecular dynamics simulation under periodic boundary conditions." In 2005, she started her PhD studies in Chemistry at ETH Zürich. She finished her P...

#759

Claudine Stirling

#176159

Overall Influence

Claudine Helen Stirling is a New Zealand isotope geochemistry academic. As of 2018, she is a full professor at the University of Otago. Academic career After a 1996 PhD titled 'High-precision U-series dating of corals from Western Australia : implication for last interglacial sea-levels' at the Australian National University, Stirling worked at University of Michigan and ETH Zürich before moving to the University of Otago in 2006, rising to full professor in 2018. Prof Stirling is a member of the Department of Geology with current research interests including: isotope geochemistry, biogeoche...

#760

Spiridoula Matsika

#180143

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Spiridoula Christos Matsika is a Greek theoretical chemist. She was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014. Education Spiridoula Christos Matsika was born in 1971 in Greece; she attended the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for her bachelor's degree in chemistry, graduating in 1994. She completed her PhD at the Ohio State University, graduating in 2000 under the advisorship of Russell M. Pitzer. Following the completion of her PhD, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University under David Yarkony for three years.

#761

Sally-Ann Poulsen

#171552

Overall Influence

Sally-Ann Poulsen is an Australian chemical biologist who is a Professor and Director at Griffith University. Her research considers medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. She is Chair of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology Division.

#762

Ying E. Zhang

#119266

Overall Influence

Ying E. Zhang is a Chinese-American biochemist specialized in TGF-beta signaling and functions of ubiquitin E3 ligase Smurfs to better understand cancer cells and metastasis. She is a senior investigator in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the National Cancer Institute.

#763

Paula Diaconescu

#180936

Overall Influence

Paula L. Diaconescu is a Romanian-American chemistry professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is known for her research on the synthesis of redox active transition metal complexes, the synthesis of lanthanide complexes, metal-induced small molecule activation, and polymerization reactions. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#764

Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler

#115513

Overall Influence

1907 - 1997 (90 years)

Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler was an African-American pharmacist, the first black woman licensed in Iowa. She also became the first African-American woman from Iowa to serve in the United States Foreign Service, when she was posted to Vietnam in the 1950s. She was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1987.

#765

Trista Vick-Majors

#67990

Overall Influence

Trista Vick-Majors is an American Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences at Michigan Tech. She is an Antarctic biogeochemist and microbial ecologist, best known for her work showing that microorganisms are present under the Antarctic ice sheet.

#766

Anna Hirsch

#181048

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Anna Katharina Herta Hirsch is a German-Luxembourg chemist and professor of medicinal chemistry at Saarland University. Since 2017, she has headed the Department of Drug Design and Optimization at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland .

#767

Hind Al-Abadleh

#152050

Overall Influence

Hind Al-Abadleh is a professor of chemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She studies the physical chemistry of environmental interfaces, aerosols and climate change. Early life and education Al-Abadleh grew up in the United Arab Emirates, where she became interested in chemistry during high school. She was excited that science could be used to protect the environment. She eventually studied chemistry at the United Arab Emirates University, graduating in 1999. She joined the University of Iowa in 1999 for her doctoral studies, earning her PhD in 2003. She was awar...

#768

Gordana Dukovic

#173592

Overall Influence

Gordana Dukovic is a physical chemist. She is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder. Life and education Gordana Dukovic earned her B.A. at Rutgers University in 2001, majoring in chemistry and minoring in Italian. In her PhD studies, she did research at Columbia University on the spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes with Louis Brus as her advisor. She was awarded a PhD in chemistry with distinction in 2006 for her thesis entitled "Electronic spectra of carbon nanotubes: excitonic states, chemical doping, and chiral interactions." After her PhD, ...

#769

Daiana Capdevila

#181128

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (38 years)

Daiana Andrea Capdevila is an Argentine chemist, winner of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards for her studies to measure water pollution. She is an assistant researcher at CONICET of the Institute of Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires and head of laboratory of the Leloir Institute.

#770

Chen Yu-chie

#181237

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Chen Yu-chie is a Taiwanese chemist and is a Professor of Chemistry in the National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. from Montana State University . Research Chen's research interests include biological mass spectrometry, analytical nanotechnology, and nanobiotechnology.

#771

Mary Galvin

#121436

Overall Influence

Mary E. Galvin is an American scientist and the former Dean of the University of Notre Dame College of Science. She earned her BA in chemistry at Manhattanville College and her MSc and PhD degrees in polymers and materials science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Galvin worked at Bell Laboratories following the completion of her doctorate work until 1998, when she joined the faculty at the University of Delaware. In 2005, Galvin entered the private sector as a technical lead in new technology development at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. In 2013, she became the director of the M...

#772

JoAnn Slama Lighty

#175849

Overall Influence

JoAnn Slama Lighty is an American chemical engineer who is a professor at Boise State University. Her research considers carbon capture, chemical looping and black carbon emissions. In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for her air quality research.

#773

Marilyn Fogel

#152513

Overall Influence

1952 - 2022 (70 years)

Marilyn L. Fogel was an American geo-ecologist and Professor of Geo-ecology at UC Riverside in Riverside, California. She is known for her research using stable isotope mass spectrometry to study a variety of subjects including ancient climates, biogeochemical cycles, animal behavior, ecology, and astrobiology. Fogel served in many leadership roles, including Program Director at the National Science Foundation in geobiology and low-temperature geochemistry.

#774

Ester H. Segal

#74885

Overall Influence

Ester H. Segal is an Israeli nanotechnology researcher and professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where she heads the Laboratory for Multifunctional Nanomaterials. She is also affiliated with the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Segal is a specialist in porous silicon nanomaterials, as well as nanocomposite materials for active packaging technologies to extend the shelf life of food.

#775

Emily Parker

#154238

Overall Influence

Emily J. Parker is a New Zealand bio-organic chemist and academic. She is Professor of Chemical Biology at Victoria University of Wellington. Academic career Parker has a BSc from the University of Canterbury. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1996 and stayed on there as a research fellow. Parker then returned to New Zealand to take up a position at Massey University. In 2006 she transferred to the University of Canterbury and remained there until June 2017 when she was appointed as full professor at the Ferrier Research Institute within the Victoria University of Wellin...

#776

Dorthe Ravnsbæk

#114848

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (42 years)

Professor Dorthe Bomholdt Ravnsbæk is an inorganic / materials chemist who has been internationally recognized for her work in battery technology. Background Ravnsbæk received her Ph.D. from the iNANO branch of Aarhus University in 2011, and was a postdoctoral researcher with Yet-Ming Chiang at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ravnsbæk was appointed to the faculty of University of Southern Denmark in 2014. Her research focuses on different Metal hydride combinations that could potentially power batteries from cheap, abundant sodium ions in place of Lithium-ion battery materials. She ...

#777

Vanesa Gottifredi

Vanesa Gottifredi

#144814

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Vanesa Gottifredi is an Argentine chemist and biologist. She works as a researcher in the Principal Investigator category of the Scientific and Technological Researcher Program of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council . She is also head of the Leloir Institute's Cell Cycle and Genomic Stability Laboratory. She specializes in the mechanisms of tumor cell response to chemotherapy, work for which she was awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and L'Oreal-UNESCO.

#778

Nicola Gaston

#99456

Overall Influence

Nicola Gaston is a Professor and a former President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists. She is a materials scientist who has worked on nanoparticles, and has spoken out on sexism in the scientific research establishment. In 2023 she was awarded the Thomson Medal.

#779

Padmasree Warrior

Padmasree Warrior

#152003

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Padmasree Warrior is an Indian-American businesswoman and technology executive. She is known for her leadership roles in technology firms like Cisco where she served as the CTO for seven years, and at Motorola where she was the CTO for five years. She also served as the CEO of Nio USA, an electric car maker. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of Fable, a curated reading platform focused on mental wellness. She also serves on the board of directors of Microsoft and Spotify.

#780

Linda Columbus

#173797

Overall Influence

Linda Columbus is an American chemist who is Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Physiology at the University of Virginia. Her research considers the structure-function properties of membrane proteins.

#781

Lynette Cegelski

#141495

Overall Influence

Lynette Cegelski is an American physical chemist and chemical biologist who studies extracellular structures such as biofilms and membrane proteins. She is an associate professor of chemistry and, by courtesy, of chemical engineering at Stanford University. She is a Stanford Bio-X and Stanford ChEM-H affiliated faculty member.

#782

Amanda Morris

#180893

Overall Influence

Amanda Morris is an American chemist who is the Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellow and professor of inorganic and energy chemistry at Virginia Tech. Her research considers next-generation materials for catalysis and light-harvesting. She was elected chair of the American Chemical Society Gay and Transgender Chemists and Allies committee in 2021.

#783

Jing Li

#107364

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Jing Li is a professor at Rutgers University. She and her team are engaged in solid-state, inorganic and inorganic-organic hybrid materials research. Her current research focuses on designing and developing new materials for applications in the field of renewable and sustainable energy.

#784

Adriana Lita

#65696

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Adriana Eleni Lita is a materials scientist. She works in the Faint Photonics Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where her research has included Bell test experiments and the practical implementation of quantum key distribution. She completed a Ph.D. at University of Michigan in 2000. Her dissertation was titled Correlation between microstructure and surface structure evolution in polycrystalline films. Her doctoral advisor was John E. Sanchez, Jr.

#785

Pilar González i Duarte

#42071

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Pilar González i Duarte is a Spanish chemist. She is a member of the Institute for Catalan Studies . In 2004, she was the recipient of the Jaume Vicens i Vives distinction awarded by the Government of Catalonia.

#786

Kristin Bowman-James

#181585

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Kristin Susan Bowman-James is an American chemist who is a distinguished professor at the University of Kansas. Her research makes use of host–guest chemistry to design new molecules for biology and the environment. She was awarded the 2021 American Chemical Society Award in Inorganic Chemistry.

#787

Jennifer Love

#181961

Overall Influence

Jennifer Ann Love is an American professor of chemistry at the University of Calgary. She is a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada. Early life and education Love was born in New England. She grew up in Rochester, New York. Love realized she was interested in science whilst at high school, but it was not until the second year of college that she realized her favourite science was chemistry. She was an undergraduate student at Allegheny College, and graduated magna cum laude. She moved to Stanford University for graduate studies, where she studied metal-catalyzed reactions to generate seven membered rings.

#788

Hayat Sindi

#10243

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Dr. Hayat Al Sindi is a Saudi Arabian medical scientist and one of the first female members of the Consultative Assembly of Saudi Arabia. She is famous for making major contributions to point-of-care medical testing and biotechnology. She was ranked by Arabian Business as the 19th most influential Arab in the world and the ninth most influential Arab woman. In 2018, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.

#789

Kristina Håkansson

#177200

Overall Influence

Kristina Håkansson is an analytical chemist known for her contribution in Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry for biomolecular identification and structural characterization. Currently, she holds the position of Professor of Chemistry at University of Michigan. Her research focuses on mass spectrometry, primarily identification and characterization of protein posttranslational modifications by complementary fragmentation techniques such as electron-capture dissociation /negative ion ECD and infrared multiphoton dissociation at low levels.

#790

Kirsty Penkman

#83320

Overall Influence

Kirsty Elizabeth Helena Penkman is a biochemist and geochemist known for her research in biomolecular archaeology, the use of ancient DNA, amino acid dating, and other biomolecules in order to date fossils and learn about the world as it was in prehistoric times. She is a reader in chemistry at the University of York.

#791

Susan K. Gregurick

#117010

Overall Influence

Susan Kathryn Gregurick is an American computational chemist. She is the associate director for data science at the National Institutes of Health . Gregurick is the director of the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy.

#792

Delphine Farmer

#180454

Overall Influence

Delphine Farmer is a Canadian chemist who is a professor at the Colorado State University. Her research considers the development of scientific instruments for atmospheric science. She was awarded the American Geophysical Union Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award in 2022.

#793

Anne Baranger

#164060

Overall Influence

Anne Michelle Baranger is an American chemist who is professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her research considers the experiences of chemistry students and ways to increase the number of students studying STEM subjects.

#794

Carla Molteni

#168482

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Carla Molteni is an Italian Professor of Physics at King's College London. She works on computer simulations of materials and biomolecules. Education and early career Molteni studied physics at the University of Milan. She remained there for her graduate studies. She was originally interested in particle physics, but became more fascinated by material science as she became aware of its impact in designing materials of the future.

#795

Amanda Bryant-Friedrich

#180699

Overall Influence

Amanda Cordelia Bryant-Friedrich is the dean of the graduate school and a professor in the college of pharmacy and health sciences at Wayne State University. She was awarded the 2014 American Chemical Society Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society. Her research considers modified nucleic acids and biomarkers of disease.

#796

Lilo Pozzo

#174472

Overall Influence

Lilo Danielle Pozzo is an American chemical engineer who is a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Washington. Her research considers the development, measurement and control of molecular self-assembly. She is interested in the realization of materials for energy storage and conversion. Pozzo serves on the editorial board of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Digital Discovery.

#797

Chinedum Peace Babalola

Chinedum Peace Babalola

#127677

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Chinedum Peace Babalola , is a Nigerian Professor of Pharmaceutical chemistry and Pharmacokinetics. She is the first female Professor of Pharmacy in the University of Ibadan, FAS and FAAS and the second female Nigerian FAAS. She is the incumbent Vice Chancellor of Chrisland University, Nigeria.

#798

Jeanne Hardy

#174906

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Jeanne A. Hardy is an American professor of biological and biophysical chemistry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her group's work is best known for designing allosteric binding sites and control elements into human proteases.

#799

Brigitte Eisenmann

#183569

Overall Influence

1942 - 2011 (69 years)

Brigitte Eisenmann was a German chemist and a professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. She was the first woman professor for Chemistry at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Together with Herbert Schäfer, she extended the definition of Zintl phases.

#800

Munira Khalil

#182303

Overall Influence

Munira Khalil is an American chemist who is the Leon C. Johnson Professor of Chemistry and department chair at the University of Washington. Early life and education Khalil attended Colgate University, where she majored in chemistry and English and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for doctoral research, where she developed coherent two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to study the molecular structure of coupled vibrations on a picosecond timescale. Khalil moved to the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral researcher, where ...

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