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List of the most influential female people in Chemistry,

#101

Renata Reisfeld

Renata Reisfeld

#28109

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Renata Reisfeld is an Israeli Professor of Chemistry and D.H.C. Enrique Berman Professor of Solar Energy at Institute of Chemistry of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, author of 532 scientific papers cited more than 30,000 times.

#102

Marjorie Constance Caserio

#48785

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Marjorie Constance Caserio was an English chemist. In 1975, she was awarded the Garvan Medal by the American Chemical Society. Early life and education Caserio was born Marjorie Constance Beckett in Cricklewood, London, England. She attended the North London Collegiate School and began studying podiatry at Chelsea College, but soon developed a preference for chemistry and graduated with honors in the subject in 1950. She was awarded a Sir John Dill Fellowship by the English-Speaking Union which allowed her to study at Bryn Mawr College in the United States, she earned an M.A. in chemistry in 1951.

#103

Elsa Reichmanis

Elsa Reichmanis

#28004

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Elsa Reichmanis is an American chemist, who was the 2003 president of the American Chemical Society. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 for the discovery, development, and engineering leadership of new families of lithographic materials and processes that enable VLSI manufacturing. She was also inducted into the National Academy of Inventors in 2020. She is currently the Anderson Endowed Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh University. She previously served on the faculty at The Georgia Institute of Technology. Reichmanis is noted for h...

#104

Melanie Sanford

#36200

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Melanie Sarah Sanford is an American chemist, currently the Moses Gomberg Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. She is a Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016. She has served as an executive editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society since 2021, having been an associate editor of the since 2014.

#105

Angela K. Wilson

Angela K. Wilson

#62708

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Areas of Specialization: Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Inorganic Chemistry Angela K. Wilson was born on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She is currently John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Michigan State University (MSU), Director of the MSU Center for Quantum Computing, Science, and Engineering, and Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in MSU’s College of Natural Sciences. Wilson received her bachelor’s degree in 1990 from Eastern Washington University and her PhD in 1995 from the University of Minnesota. After graduating, Wilson held a postdoc ...

#106

Benedetta Mennucci

#74694

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Benedetta Mennucci is an Italian theoretical chemist who is professor at the University of Pisa. She is a developer of the Polarizable continuum model. Early life and education Mennucci obtained her Laurea in Chemistry in 1994 and her Ph.D. award in Chemistry in 1999. The PhD thesis had the title "Theoretical Models and Computational Applications of Molecular Phenomena Involving the Environment Effect".

#107

Jeehiun Lee

#69835

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Jeehiun Katherine Lee is an organic chemist and a professor in the department of chemistry at Rutgers University. She currently runs a research lab on the New Brunswick campus. Although she is an organic chemist by training, she has expanded her research field to biological chemistry, using mass spectrometry, computer modeling and other methods to characterize reactivity and catalysis.

#108

Araxie Babayan

#53512

Overall Influence

1906 - 1993 (87 years)

Araxie Tovmasovna Babayan was a Soviet and Armenian organic chemist. Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Armenian SSR and Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Armenian SSR . Life and Work Araxie Babayan was born on 5 May 1906 in Yerevan. As a student of Yerevan State University, Babayan worked in the chemical laboratory, performing demonstrative experiments of her teacher Stepan Gambaryan - founder of the school of organic chemistry in Armenia. She graduated the agricultural faculty of the Yerevan State University in 1928. Starting from 1928 until 1958 Babayan worked in Yere...

#109

Katharina Landfester

#74628

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Katharina Landfester is a German chemist who is a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. Her research considers the physical properties of droplets, polymerisation in emulsion and the synthesis of nanoparticles.

#110

Maki Kawai

#43570

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Maki Kawai is a Japanese chemist who developed spatially selective single-molecule spectroscopy. In 2018, she became the first woman to become president of the Chemical Society of Japan. Early life and education Kawai earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Tokyo in 1975. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Tokyo in 1980. Her PhD was supervised by Kenji Tamaru.

#111

Serena DeBeer

#60683

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Serena DeBeer is an American chemist. She is currently a W3-Professor and the director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany, where she heads the Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy. Her expertise lies in the application and development of X-ray based spectroscopic methods as probes of electronic structure in biological and chemical catalysis.

#112

Judith Howard

#47203

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Judith Ann Kathleen Howard is a British chemist, crystallographer and Professor of Chemistry at Durham University. Early life and education Judith Howard attended Salisbury Grammar School for girls, and later attended University of Bristol in 1963 to study chemistry.

#113

Judith Klinman

#50408

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Judith P. Klinman is an American chemist, biochemist, and molecular biologist known for her work on enzyme catalysis. She became the first female professor in the physical sciences at the University of California, Berkeley in 1978, where she is now Professor of the Graduate School and Chancellor's Professor. In 2012, she was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Philosophical Society.

#114

Clare Lloyd

#18787

Overall Influence

Clare Margaret Lloyd is a Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean for Institutional Affairs at Imperial College London. She investigates allergic immunity in early life. Early life and education Lloyd earned her BSc and PhD in immunology at King's College London. She earned her Bachelor's degree in 1987 and her PhD in 1991. She was awarded a National Kidney Research Fund Fellowship and joined the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. Her work considered mouse models of glomerulonephritis. She joined Harvard University to work on chronic inflammatory glomerulonephritis.

#115

Cynthia Larive

#35995

Overall Influence

Cynthia Larive is an American scientist and academic administrator serving as the chancellor of University of California, Santa Cruz. Larive's research focuses on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. She was previously a professor of chemistry and provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of California, Riverside. She is a fellow of AAAS, IUPAC and ACS, associate editor for the ACS journal Analytical Chemistry and editor of the Analytical Sciences Digital Library.

#116

Yvonne Libona Bonzi Coulibaly

#15228

Overall Influence

Yvonne Libona Bonzi Coulibaly is the first female doctor in chemistry in Burkina Faso, a full professor at the University of Ouagadougou, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Burkina Faso, the Director-General of the Institute of Sciences of Burkina Faso, and a laureate of the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Prize.

#117

Marsha I. Lester

Marsha I. Lester

#56195

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Marsha Isack Lester is an American physical chemist. She is currently the Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Lester uses both theoretical and experimental methods to study the physical chemistry of volatile organic compounds present in the Earth's atmosphere. Her current work focuses on the hydroxyl radical and Criegee intermediates.

#118

Gabriele Sadowski

#37812

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Gabriele Sadowski is a German chemist. Early life and education Sadowski studied Chemistry at the Technical University Leuna-Merseburg from 1982 to 1987. She finished her doctorate in 1991 at the Technical University Leuna-Merseburg. She completed her dissertation at the Technical University of Berlin in 2000.

#119

Marie Edmonds

#20352

Overall Influence

Marie Edmonds is a professor of volcanology and geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge whose research focuses on the physics and chemistry of volcanic eruptions and magmatism and understanding volatile cycling in the solid Earth as mediated by plate tectonics. She is interested in the social and economic impacts of natural hazards; and the sustainable use of Earth's mineral and energy resources. Professor Edmonds is the Vice President and Ron Oxburgh Fellow in Earth Sciences at Queens' College, Cambridge; and the Deputy Head of Department and Director of R...

#120

Gabriela Schlau-Cohen

#72141

Overall Influence

Gabriela S. Schlau-Cohen is a Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Associate Professor at MIT in the Department of Chemistry. Education and career Schlau-Cohen received a BS with honors in chemical physics from Brown University in 2003. She completed her PhD in chemistry in 2011 at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked with Professor Graham R. Fleming as an American Association of University Women fellow. From 2011 to 2014, Schlau-Cohen was a Center for Molecular Analysis and Design postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. She worked with Professor W.E. Mo...

#121

Aïssata Issoufou Mahamadou

Aïssata Issoufou Mahamadou

#15884

Overall Influence

Aissata Issoufou Mahamadou is a Nigerien chemist, chemical engineer, mining specialist, and healthcare advocate who served as First Lady of the Republic of Niger from 7 April 2011 to 2 April 2021. She is the first wife of former President Mahamadou Issoufou and shared the title of First Lady with Issoufou's second wife, Lalla Malika Issoufou. Issoufou Mahamadou is president of the Guri-Vie Meilleure Foundation.

#122

Leticia González

Leticia González

#80132

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Leticia González Herrero is a theoretical chemist, known for her work on molecular excited states, especially ultrafast dynamics of DNA nucleobases and highly accurate simulations of transition metal complexes.

#123

Marilyn E. Jacox

Marilyn E. Jacox

#39468

Overall Influence

1929 - 2013 (84 years)

Marilyn Esther Jacox was an American physical chemist. She was a National Institute of Standards and Technology Fellow and Scientist Emeritus in the Sensor Science Division. Education Jacox was born in Utica, New York, the daughter of Grant and Mary Jacox.

#124

Rosemary Murray

Rosemary Murray

#22060

Overall Influence

1913 - 2004 (91 years)

Dame Alice Rosemary Murray, was an English chemist and educator. She was instrumental in establishing New Hall, Cambridge, now Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, and was the first woman to hold the office of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

#125

Raychelle Burks

#60249

Overall Influence

Raychelle Burks is an associate professor of analytical chemistry at American University in Washington, D.C., and science communicator, who has regularly appeared on the Science Channel. In 2020, the American Chemical Society awarded her the Grady-Stack award for her public engagement excellence.

#126

Toshiko Mayeda

#79601

Overall Influence

1923 - 2004 (81 years)

Toshiko K. Mayeda was a Japanese American chemist who worked at the Enrico Fermi Institute in the University of Chicago. She worked on climate science and meteorites from 1958 to 2004. Early life and education Toshiko Mayeda was born in Tacoma, Washington. She grew up in Yokkaichi, Mie, and Osaka. When the United States entered World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she and her father Matsusaburo Kuki were sent to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center. Whilst there she met her future husband, Harry Mayeda. After the war, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemistry from...

#127

Wilma Olson

#25782

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Wilma K. Olson is the Mary I. Bunting professor at the Rutgers Center for Quantitative Biology at Rutgers University. Olson has her own research group on the New Brunswick campus. Although she is a polymer chemist by training, her research aims to understand the influence of chemical architecture on the conformation, properties, and interactions of nucleic acids.

#128

Mary Archer

#11301

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Mary Doreen Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare, is a British scientist specialising in solar power conversion. She is married to Jeffrey Archer, a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. Archer is the current Chancellor of the University of Buckingham.

#129

Teri W. Odom

#57876

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Teri W. Odom is an American chemist and materials scientist. She is the chair of the chemistry department, the Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, and a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University. She is affiliated with the university's International Institute for Nanotechnology, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, and department of applied physics.

#130

Cynthia Burrows

#60506

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Cynthia J. Burrows is an American chemist, currently a distinguished professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Utah, where she is also the Thatcher Presidential Endowed Chair of Biological Chemistry. Burrows was the Senior Editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry and became Editor-in-Chief of Accounts of Chemical Research in 2014., ,

#131

Jinhua Ye

#82616

Overall Influence

Jinhua Ye is a Chinese chemist who is a professor at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba. Her research considers high-temperature superconductors for photocatalysis. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2016 and has been included in the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher every year since then.

#132

Linda Nazar

#80940

Overall Influence

Linda Faye Nazar is a Senior Canada Research Chair in Solid State Materials and Distinguished Research Professor of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo. She develops materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. Nazar demonstrated that interwoven composites could be used to improve the energy density of lithium–sulphur batteries. She was awarded the 2019 Chemical Institute of Canada Medal.

#133

Tessy María López Goerne

Tessy María López Goerne

#51114

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Tessy María López Goerne is a Mexican solid-state chemist, professor, researcher, academic, and popular science communicator. She has specialized in the fields of nanotechnology and nanomedicine, as well as being a pioneer in catalytic nanomedicine. She directs the Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Laboratories at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco plant and the .

#134

Gloria Long Anderson

#58342

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Gloria Long Anderson is the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Chemistry at Morris Brown College, and its vice president for academic affairs. She has served as interim president of Morris Brown, and as vice chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She was a pioneer in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and is known for her studies of fluorine-19 and solid rocket propellants.

#135

Sarah O'Connor

#36335

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Sarah E. O'Connor is an American molecular biologist working to understand the molecular machinery involved in assembling important plant natural products – vinblastine, morphine, iridoids, secologanin – and how changing the enzymes involved in this pathway lead to diverse analogs. She was a Project Leader at the John Innes Centre in the UK between 2011 and 2019. O'Connor was appointed by the Max Planck Society in 2018 to head the Department of Natural Product Biosynthesis at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, taking up her role during 2019.

#136

Xiao Wang

#47210

Overall Influence

Xiao Wang is a Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor at MIT in the Department of Chemistry. She is the first Core Member of the Broad Institute with an academic appointment in the department of chemistry. Her work focuses on designing and producing new tools and methods for analyzing the brain.

#137

Rose Amal

#51889

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

#138

Margaret Brimble

Margaret Brimble

#45210

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Dame Margaret Anne Brimble is a New Zealand chemist. Her research has included investigations of shellfish toxins and means to treat brain injuries. Early life, family, and education Brimble was born in Auckland on 20 August 1961, the daughter of Mary Anne MacMillan and Herbert MacMillan, and was encouraged by her grandmother to value education. She attended Diocesan School for Girls, Auckland from 1972 to 1978, and was dux in her final year.

#139

Jacqueline Barton

Jacqueline Barton

#83868

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Jacqueline K. Barton , is an American chemist. She worked as a professor of chemistry at Hunter College , and at Columbia University before joining the California Institute of Technology. In 1997 she became the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and from 2009 to 2019, the Norman Davidson Leadership Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech. She currently is the John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry.

#140

Faiza Al-Kharafi

#22260

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Faiza Mohammed Al-Kharafi is a Kuwaiti chemist and academic. She was the president of Kuwait University from 1993 to 2002, and the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East. She is the vice president of the World Academy of Sciences.

#141

Sangeeta N. Bhatia

Sangeeta N. Bhatia

#26900

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Sangeeta N. Bhatia is an American biological engineer and the John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor at MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Bhatia's research investigates applications of micro- and nano-technology for tissue repair and regeneration. She applies ideas from computer technology and engineering to the design of miniaturized biomedical tools for the study and treatment of diseases, in particular liver disease, hepatitis, malaria ...

#142

Annemie Bogaerts

#86100

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Annemie Bogaerts is a Belgian chemist known for her work in plasma chemistry, plasma-based green chemistry, which include amongst others CO2 conversion, CH4 conversion for H2 synthesis or the synthesis of hydrocarbons and N2 fixation as basis for fertilizer production, as well as for her work in plasma medicine for cancer treatment, and the use of laser ablation to sample chemicals and form plasmas. She is a full professor of chemistry at the University of Antwerp.

#143

Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts

#69398

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts is a Canadian-American atmospheric chemist. She is a professor in the chemistry department at the University of California, Irvine and is the Director of AirUCI Institute. Finlayson-Pitts and James N. Pitts, Jr. are the authors of Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmosphere: Theory, Experiments, and Applications . She has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2006 and is the laureate for the 2017 Garvan–Olin Medal. In 2016 she co-chaired the National Academy of Science report "The Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research"

#144

Susan Trumbore

#34986

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Susan E. Trumbore is an earth systems scientist focusing on the carbon cycle and its effects on climate. She is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and a Professor of Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine. She is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Medal.

#145

Carol K. Hall

#29564

Overall Influence

Carol Klein Hall is an American chemical engineer, the Camille Dreyfus Distinguished University Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. Her research involves biomolecule simulation, self-assembly of soft materials, and the design of synthetic peptides.

#146

Jeanette Grasselli Brown

#60137

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (96 years)

Jeanette Grasselli Brown is an American analytical chemist and spectroscopist who is known for her work with Standard Oil of Ohio as an industrial researcher in the field of spectroscopy. Spectroscopy is a technique used to measure the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter. Her areas of expertise encompass fields such as vibrational spectroscopy, combined instrumental techniques, computerized spectroscopy, and environmental spectroscopy. She developed new techniques to solve problems like identifying contaminants in gasoline, analyzing the makeup of new plastics, and analyzing...

#147

Charlotte Williams

#74498

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Charlotte Williams is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the synthesis of novel catalysts with an expertise in organometallic chemistry and polymer materials chemistry.

#148

Brigitte Voit

#74095

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Brigitte Voit is a German chemist and professor of chemistry. She holds the chair Organic Chemistry of Polymers at the Faculty of Chemistry of the TU Dresden and is head of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden. From September 1, 2002, to July 31, 2022, she was also member of the Board of Management/CSO of the IPF Dresden.

#149

Bianxiao Cui

#67260

Overall Influence

Bianxiao Cui is the current Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of Chemistry and a fellow of the Stanford Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University. Education and academic career Education Bianxiao Cui graduated from University of Science and Technology of China in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in material science. She received her Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Chicago under Stuart Rice in physical chemistry. Between 2002 and 2007, she was a postdoctoral associate with Steven Chu at Stanford University. In 2008, she was appointed as the assistant professor in chemistry with Stanford U...

#150

Barbara Imperiali

#66242

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Barbara Imperiali is a Professor of Biology and Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Affiliate Member of the Broad Institute. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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