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List of the most influential female people in Chemistry,

#851

Joanne Lemieux

#186753

Overall Influence

M. Joanne Lemieux is a Canadian scientist who is a Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Alberta. She studies the structures of membrane proteins that are critical to disease in an effort to identify novel therapeutic strategies. During the COVID-19 pandemic Lemieux worked to develop an antiviral drug that could protect people from coronavirus disease.

#852

Sandra Leal

#105758

Overall Influence

Sandra Leal is a pharmacist, a public health champion, an advocate, a healthcare executive, and the 166th President of the American Pharmacists Association. Early life and education Leal grew up in Nogales, Arizona, and attended the University of Arizona before graduating from the University of Colorado's School of Pharmacy in 1999. She obtained a Master of Public Health from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

#853

Julie Zimmerman

#157164

Overall Influence

Julie Beth Zimmerman is an American chemist and the editor in chief of Environmental Science & Technology. Early life and education Zimmerman was born to parents Shellie and Samuel Zimmerman in South Brunswick, New Jersey. Zimmerman completed her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia and her PhD from the University of Michigan.

#854

Betar Gallant

#180329

Overall Influence

Betar Maurkah Gallant is an American engineer who is an associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research investigates the development of new materials for batteries. She worked with Barack Obama on an educational initiative to train young Americans in clean energy.

#855

Michelle O'Malley

#166757

Overall Influence

Michelle O'Malley is an American chemical engineer and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is known for her work studying the use of anaerobic microbes in developing inexpensive biofuels. In 2015 she was named as one of MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators under 35, and in 2016 she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

#856

Helen Walden

#132150

Overall Influence

Helen Walden is an English structural biologist who received the Colworth medal from the Biochemical Society in 2015. She was awarded European Molecular Biology Organization membership in 2022. She is a Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Glasgow and has made significant contributions to the Ubiquitination field.

#857

Margaret Tolbert

#102140

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert is a biochemist who worked as a professor and director of the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee University, and was an administrative chemist at British Petroleum. From 1996 to 2002 she served as director of the New Brunswick Laboratory, becoming the first African American and the first woman in charge of a Department of Energy lab.

#858

Anitra Ingalls

#186770

Overall Influence

Anitra Eiding Ingalls is an American biogeochemist and oceanographer. In 2017, she was named an American Geophysical Union Outstanding Reviewer. Life She graduated from Reed College and from Stony Brook University. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Pearson Lab. She was a researcher at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She teaches at University of Washington. She attended Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia. She did research at the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology.

#859

Ulrike Kramm

#186980

Overall Influence

Ulrike I. Kramm is a German chemistry professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt. Her research considers the development and characterisation of metal catalysts for fuel cells, conversion and solar fuels.

#860

Jennifer Maynard

#184842

Overall Influence

Jennifer Maynard is an American chemist who is the Henry Beckman Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research considers the development of therapeutic targets for infectious diseases. She was elected a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors in 2023.

#861

Elaine Martin

#120520

Overall Influence

Elaine Barbara Martin OBE FREng FIChemE CEng is a chemical engineer and statistician and Head of School at the University of Leeds. She is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Royal Statistical Society and Royal Academy of Engineering.

#862

Nadine Unger

#97798

Overall Influence

Nadine Unger is a Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Exeter. She has studied the role of human activities and forests on the Earth's climate. Early life and education Unger earned her doctoral degree in atmospheric chemistry at the University of Leeds, where she worked on isoprene chemistry. The small molecule isoprene is a volatile organic compound that can react with nitrogen oxide to form the greenhouse gas ozone. Isoprene can also extend the lifetime of atmospheric methane. Whilst these two processes cause global warming, isoprene can also produce aerosol particles that block sunlight, resulting in a cooling effect.

#863

Akane Kawamura

#184080

Overall Influence

Akane Kawamura is a British chemist who is professor of chemistry at Newcastle University. Her research considers the chemistry of epigenetics. She was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Jeremy Knowles Award for her development of chemical probes to study biological processes.

#864

Debra Auguste

#162819

Overall Influence

Debra Auguste is an American chemical engineer and professor at Northeastern University in the department of chemical engineering. Auguste is dedicated to developing treatments for triple negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive and fatal cancers that disproportionately affects African American women. Her lab characterizes biomarkers of triple negative breast cancer and develops novel biocompatible therapeutic technologies to target and destroy metastatic cancer cells. Auguste received the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and in 2010 was named in the 50 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology.

#865

Hélène Olivier-Bourbigou

#119255

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Hélène Olivier-Bourbigou , is a French chemist. She is a research fellow in the field of homogeneous molecular catalysis at IFP Énergies Nouvelle, and her work aims to develop homogeneous catalytic processes that are more respectful of the environment. She received the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2014 in the category "Female Scientist of the Year."

#866

Joyce Waters

#180729

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

Joyce Mary Waters, Lady Waters is a New Zealand inorganic chemist and X-ray crystallographer, who is currently professor emeritus at Massey University. She was the second woman to receive a PhD in chemistry at the University of Auckland, and the first woman to serve as president of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry.

#867

Lois Jones

#143729

Overall Influence

1935 - 2000 (65 years)

Lois M. Jones was an American geochemist who led the first all-woman science team to Antarctica in 1969. They were also the first women to reach the South Pole. Jones was well regarded for her contribution to geological research in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, one of the few ice-free areas of Antarctica, and published many papers and abstracts.

#868

Alenka Luzar

#184759

Overall Influence

Alenka Luzar was a Slovenian-American physical chemist known for her research on the dynamics of hydrogen bonds in water. Education and career Luzar is originally from Ljubljana, and as a teenager was a member of the Slovenian junior national ski team at the Junior Olympic games associated with the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. She was educated at the University of Ljubljana, completing her Ph.D. there in 1983.

#869

Florence Gschwend

Florence Gschwend

#178886

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (34 years)

Florence Gschwend is a Swiss chemical engineer and Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow at Imperial College London. She is the founder and CEO of Lixea , a spin-out company that commercialises wood fractionation to enable a circular bioeconomy.

#870

Alison R. Fout

#184705

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Alison R. Fout is an American inorganic chemist at the Texas A&M University where she holds the rank of professor. She has contributed to the discovery of new catalysts with NHC ligands. She discovered a family of catalysts that reduce oxyanions such as nitrate, perchlorate to nitric oxide and chloride, respectively.

#871

Sarah Delaney

#186487

Overall Influence

Sarah Delaney is an American chemist who is a professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Brown University. Her research investigates DNA damage and how it is related to human disease. Early life and education Delaney was an undergraduate student at Middlebury College, where she majored in chemistry, researching cisplatin anti-cancer analogs. She moved to the California Institute of Technology for graduate research, where she worked alongside Jacqueline Barton on the role of DNA in charge-transfer reactions. In particular, she investigated whether the helical stack of base pairs in the...

#872

Krystle McLaughlin

#171558

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (124 years)

Krystle McLaughlin is a Caribbean-American structural biophysicist. She is an assistant professor of chemistry at Vassar College. Early life and education McLaughlin grew up in Tobago, where she met Joan and Jay Mandle, professors at Colgate University, who encouraged her to apply. She studied physics at Colgate University, graduating in 2006. She was the only woman of colour in her graduating physics class. At Colgate University she was a leader of the Society of Physics Students. She has since returned to Colgate University, to speak at their annual SophoMORE Connections event, introducing undergraduate students to alumni.

#873

Rebecca Jockusch

#182153

Overall Influence

Rebecca Ann Jockusch, Ph.D. , is a Canadian chemist; she is an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Toronto who is active in the field of mass spectrometry. Literature Adrian G. Brook, W. A. E. McBryde. Historical Distillates: Chemistry at the University of Toronto since 1843. — Dundurn, 2007. — P. 180, 192, 208. — 258 p. — .Kulesza et al. Excited States of Xanthene Analogues: Photofragmentation and Calculations by CC2 and Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory // ChemPhysChem. — 2016. — August . — P. 3129–3138. — ISSN 1439-4235. — DOI:10.1002/cphc.201600...

#874

Luisa Whittaker-Brooks

#186951

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Luisa Whittaker-Brooks is an American chemist who is an associate professor at the University of Utah. She was named a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science honouree in 2013 and one of Chemical & Engineering News' Talented 12 in 2017.

#875

Jennifer Waters

#176141

Overall Influence

Jennifer Waters is an American scientist who is a Lecturer on Cell Biology, the Director of the Nikon Imaging Center, and the Director of the Cell Biology Microscopy Facility at Harvard Medical School. She is an imaging expert and educator whose efforts to educate life scientists about microscopy and to systemize the education of microscopists in microscopy facilities serve as a blueprint for similar efforts worldwide.

#876

Delphine Lannuzel

Delphine Lannuzel

#158933

Overall Influence

Delphine Lannuzel is a sea ice biogeochemist and Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies , University of Tasmania. Early life and education Lannuzel completed her undergraduate degree at the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Brest, France in 2001. In 2006, Lannuzel was awarded her PhD in Biogeochemistry of iron in the Antarctic sea ice environment from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

#877

Emőke Szathmáry

#77061

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Emőke J.E. Szathmáry, is a physical anthropologist, specializing in the study of human genetics. Dr. Szathmáry served as the 10th President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manitoba, 1996–2008.

#878

Hilairy Hartnett

#186864

Overall Influence

Hilairy Ellen Hartnett is professor at Arizona State University known for her work on biogeochemical processes in modern and paleo-environments. Education and career Hartnett has an A.B. from Vassar College and an M.S. from the University of Washington . She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1998. Following her Ph.D. she did postdoctoral work at Rutgers University. She joined Arizona State University in 2003 and, as of 2022, is a professor at Arizona State University.

#879

Sophie Carenco

#174197

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Sophie Carenco is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research, working on nanochemistry at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Paris. Her research focuses on novel synthetic routes of exotic nanomaterials for energy application such as CO2 capture.

#880

Kelly Grindrod

#166668

Overall Influence

Kelly Grindrod is a Canadian pharmacist and associate professor at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy where she studies the impact of digital technology on the management of medications. Education Grindrod graduated with a BSCPharm from the University of Alberta and went on to complete a residency at the London Health Sciences Centre. She later received a PharmD and an MSc from the University of British Columbia.

#881

Linda Randall

#168736

Overall Influence

Linda Randall is a Professor Emerita of Biochemistry and Wurdack Chair Emerita of Biological Chemistry at the University of Missouri. Her research has shown unexpected and complex details of the movement of newly made proteins from the cytosol across membranes into the organelles of the cell. In particular, she found that the entire protein was kept unfolded by association with a chaperone and not just directed to cross membranes by its terminal leader sequence. In 1997, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA because of the excellence of this work. She has received a ...

#882

Emma Kendrick

#179379

Overall Influence

Emma Kendrick is Professor of Energy Materials at the University of Birmingham where her work is focused on new materials for batteries and fuel cells. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

#883

Helen J. Cooper

#88798

Overall Influence

Helen Jill Cooper is a British chemist who is Professor of mass spectrometry at the University of Birmingham. She serves as Deputy Head of the School of Chemistry and holds an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Established Career Fellowship. Her research considers the development of native ambient mass spectrometry to enable direct analysis of intact proteins and protein assemblies from tissue.

#884

Catherine Ulbricht

#91595

Overall Influence

Catherine Elizabeth Ulbricht is a co-founder of the Natural Standard Research Collaboration. She is a Senior Attending Pharmacist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She serves on the editorial board of Harvard Health Publications, the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association, and Pharmacy Practice News. She is editor in chief of the Journal of Dietary Supplements.

#885

Florence Bell

#59422

Overall Influence

1913 - 2000 (87 years)

Florence Ogilvy Bell , later Florence Sawyer, was a British scientist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA. She was an X-ray crystallographer in the lab of William Astbury. In 1938 they published a paper in Nature that described the structure of DNA as a "Pile of Pennies".

#886

Irina Belskaya

#126756

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Irina Belskaya is a Ukrainian astronomer, specialist in spectroscopy and polarimetry of Small Solar System bodies, head of the Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets of the Institute of Astronomy of Kharkiv National University, recipient of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology .

#887

Ann Chapman

#101849

Overall Influence

1937 - 2009 (72 years)

Margaret Ann Chapman was a limnologist, one of the first New Zealand women scientists to visit Antarctica, and the first woman to lead a scientific expedition to Antarctica. Lake Chapman, in Antarctica's Ross Dependency, was named for Chapman. Chapman spent most of her teaching career at the University of Waikato.

#888

Shelley Claridge

#184672

Overall Influence

Shelley Claridge is an American chemist who is an associate professor of chemistry at Purdue University. Her research considers the design of nanostructured materials and better understanding their physical and chemical properties. She was awarded a Schmidt Science Polymaths Award in 2022 and the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award in 2023.

#889

Magalí Lingenfelder

#188688

Overall Influence

Magalí Lingenfelder is an Argentinian chemist who is head of the Max Planck Laboratory for Molecular Nanoscience in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Her work looks to control atomic interfaces for energy conversion and antimicrobial surfaces. She was awarded the Max Planck Society Otto Hahn Medal in 2008.

#890

Ursula Bassler

#52082

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Ursula Rita Bassler was the President of the CERN Council from 2019 to 2021, and former deputy director of National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics , CNRS . Early life and education Bassler was born in Germany in 1965. She moved to France as an au-pair. She completed her PhD in particle physics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1993.

#891

Margaret Cribb

#143133

Overall Influence

1924 - 1993 (69 years)

Margaret Neville Catt Bridson Cribb was a lecturer in government and political science at the University of Queensland. Early life Margaret Neville Catt was born in 1924. She was the only child of Mr and Mrs E. Neville Catt of Rockhampton. She attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School from 1938 to 1941. Margaret enrolled at the University of Queensland in 1944, residing at the Women's College. She became active in the Student Union, was the first female editor of the Union magazine, Semper Floreat in 1946, and Vice President of the Student Union. She was also President of the Women's Students C...

#892

Rosalind Brewer

#173379

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Rosalind G. Brewer is an American businesswoman, and was the CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, before stepping down in September 2023. Brewer is the first woman to become CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, group president and COO of Starbucks, and CEO of Sam's Club.

#893

Lisa Welp

#180658

Overall Influence

Lisa Welp is a biogeochemist who utilizes stable isotopes to understand how water and carbon dioxide are exchanged between the land and atmosphere. She is a professor at Purdue University in the department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences.

#894

Susan Reutzel-Edens

#143755

Overall Influence

Susan Reutzel-Edens is an American chemist who is the Head of Science at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. Her work considers solid state chemistry and pharmaceuticals. She is interested in crystal structure predictions. She serves on the editorial boards of CrystEngComm and Crystal Growth & Design.

#895

Michelle Espy

#183684

Overall Influence

Michelle Anna Espy is an American physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory who studies ultra-low-field nuclear magnetic resonance magnetic resonance imaging using SQUIDs, with applications including magnetoencephalography and the detection of explosive materials and nerve agents in airline security screening. At Los Alamos, she has also worked on neutron imaging of stockpiled weapons and of the skull of the Bisti Beast, a fossil tyrannosaur.

#896

Miriam Rossi

#185943

Overall Influence

Miriam Rossi is an Italian-American chemist and the Mary Landon Sague Chair at Vassar College. She works on x-ray crystallography and chemistry education. Early life and education Rossi was born in Italy and moved to New York City as a child. She studied chemistry at Hunter College, where she worked with David Beveridge. She was the first in her family to have attained a PhD degree. In fact, her parents, in Italy, had a 4th grade education, the maxiumum available at the time. Her older brother, Egidio Rossi, is a nephrologist in Parma, Italy. She joined Johns Hopkins University for her doctoral studies, earning a PhD in inorganic chemistry under the supervision of Tom Kistenmacher.

#897

Roseanne Diab

#112854

Overall Influence

Roseanne Diab is a researcher, the Director of Gender in science, innovation, technology and engineering , a UNESCO's programme unit hosted by The World Academy of Sciences and former CEO of the Academy of Science of South Africa. She is Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Emeritus Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the same university.

#898

Rhiannon Braund

#90144

Overall Influence

Rhiannon Braund is a New Zealand academic and registered pharmacist. She is a professor in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago. Academic career Braund completed a BSc, BPharm and PhD at the University of Otago and is a registered pharmacist. In December 2019 she was promoted to full professor at Otago, with effect from 1 February 2020.

#899

Ellen Cohn

#79649

Overall Influence

Ellen R. Cohn is an associate dean and associate professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, with a secondary faculty appointment at University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She is a faculty member of the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine.

#900

Jocelyn Dela-Cruz

#128824

Overall Influence

Jocelyn Dela-Cruz is a Principal Environmental Scientist at the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Australia. She was educated at the University of Sydney and University of New South Wales .

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