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List of the most influential female people in Chemistry,

#401

Clémence Corminboeuf

#126316

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Clémence Corminboeuf is a Swiss chemist who is Professor of Computational chemistry at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She was awarded the Swiss Chemical Society 2021 Heilbronner-Hückel Award.

#402

Gemma Solomon

#109943

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Gemma C. Solomon is an Australian chemist who is a professor at the Nanoscience Centre in the University of Copenhagen. She serves as Deputy Editor of ACS Physical Chemistry Au. Her research considers quantum interference and molecular electronics.

#403

Valeria Nicolosi

#111774

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Valeria Nicolosi is the Professor of Nanomaterials and Advanced Microscopy in the School of Chemistry in Trinity College Dublin. She is a nanotechnologist who specializes in low-dimensional nano-structures and high-end electron microscopy.

#404

Viola Birss

#104586

Overall Influence

Viola Ingrid Birss is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Calgary. She works on electrochemistry and the development of nanomaterials for sustainable energy and sensing applications. She has demonstrated a metal oxide perovskite that can be used as the air and fuel electrode in solid oxide fuel cells, as well as creating nanoporous carbon scaffolds to be used in batteries and capacitors.

#405

Kliti Grice

#44955

Overall Influence

Kliti Grice , is a chemist and geochemist known for her work in identifying geological and environmental causes for mass extinction events. Her research integrates geological information with data on molecular fossils and their stable carbon, hydrogen and sulfur isotopic compositions to reconstruct details of microbial, fungal and floral inhabitants of modern and ancient aquatic environments and biodiversity hot spots. This information expands our understanding of both the Earth's history and its current physical state, with implications ranging from energy and mineral resource exploration st...

#406

Mary Garson

#106411

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Mary Jean Garson is an organic chemist and academic in Australia. She currently works for the University of Queensland. Early life Garson was born in Rugby, England, the daughter of an engineer and botanist. She took her B.A with Honours from the University of Cambridge, Newnham College in 1974. Garson's focus was the natural sciences, specializing in chemistry. She obtained an MA in Natural Sciences and she took her PhD in organic chemistry from Cambridge in 1977.

#407

Cristina Nevado

#61930

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Cristina Nevado is a Spanish chemist who is a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Zurich. Her research considers chemical synthesis and organometallic reactions. She received the 2021 Margaret Faul Women in Chemistry Award.

#408

Sibel Erduran

#140495

Overall Influence

#409

Ulrike Holzgrabe

#140598

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

#410

Mian Chin

#106363

Overall Influence

Mian Chin is a Chinese atmospheric chemist. She is a physical scientist in the atmospheric chemistry and dynamics laboratory in the earth science division at Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research includes aerosol-cloud-chemistry-climate interactions. She received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal in 2005.

#411

Veronique Van Speybroeck

#141119

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

#412

Petra Pötschke

#141204

Overall Influence

#413

Maria D Luque de Castro

#141455

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

#414

Claire J. Carmalt

#139998

Overall Influence

Claire Jane Carmalt is a British chemist who is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Head of the Department of Chemistry at University College London. Her research considers the synthesis of molecular precursors and the development of thin film deposition techniques.

#415

Emilie Ringe

#105361

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Emilie Ringe is an American chemist who is an assistant professor at the University of Cambridge. She was selected by Chemical & Engineering News as one of its "Talented Twelve" young scientists in 2021.

#416

Sidney Hemming

#123431

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Sidney Hemming is an analytical geochemist known for her work documenting Earth's history through analysis of sediments and sedimentary rocks. She is a professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University.

#417

Noemí Zaritzky

#120475

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Noemí Elisabet Zaritzky is an Argentine chemistry professor and researcher. She holds a degree in chemical engineering by the Engineering Faculty of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata . In addition, she has a PhD in chemistry from the University of Buenos Aires and is senior lecturer at the Engineering Faculty of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and the director of the CIDCA.

#418

Sylvaine Neveu

#41982

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Sylvaine Neveu, born on 6 January 1968, is a French chemist and scientific director of the Solvay group. She received an Irène-Joliot-Curie Prize in 2016. Life and work Born in Rennes, France, Neveu attended Châteaubriand high school before enrolling at the ParisTech School of Chemistry. She went on to earn her doctorate in process engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure des mines in Paris and joined the Belgian company Solvay group in 1994. There, she is works at the Research and Innovation organization in charge of the development of products and processes for the Group’s Global Busi...

#419

Lilli Hornig

#66552

Overall Influence

1921 - 2017 (96 years)

Lilli Hornig was a Czech-American scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project, as well as a feminist activist. Early life Hornig was born in Ústí nad Labem in 1921 to Erwin Schwenk, an organic chemist, and the former Rascha Shapiro, a pediatrician.

#420

Emīlija Gudriniece

#88084

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Emīlija Gudriniece was a Soviet and Latvian chemist who specialized in organic synthesis. She focused on the practical use of substances and synthesized furacilin, for which she won a state prize. She was one of the first to recognize the potential of using vegetable oils as biofuels and initiated the study of rapeseed oil refining in Latvia. She was a prolific publisher, edited the Latvian Journal of Chemistry, and published a Latvian language textbook on organic synthesis methods. She was awarded multiple prizes and recognition for her work.

#421

Akiko Kobayashi

#142572

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Professor is a Japanese chemist born in Tokyo. She is the designer and creator of Ni2, the world's first single-component molecular metal. Biography Kobayashi was born in 1943. Her mother was a musician and her father was a physicist. Kobayashi graduated with a B.Sc from the University of Tokyo, Department of Chemistry in 1967 and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo in 1972. Staying at the university, she became a research associate , associate professor , and full professor . In 2006, Kobayashi became a Professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and accepted a position at Nihon ...

#422

Claire E. Eyers

#93967

Overall Influence

Claire Eyers is a British biological mass spectrometrist who is professor of biological mass spectrometry at the University of Liverpool, where she heads up the Centre for Proteome Research. Her research publications list her either as Claire E Haydon or Claire E Eyers .

#423

Julia Rice

#132296

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Julia Elizabeth Rice is a British-American computational chemist who works for IBM Research at their Almaden Research Center in San Jose California. Her work their involves the study of nonlinear optics in the simulation of organic molecules, the development of the Mulliken software package for quantum chemistry, the management of scientific data, and connections to statistical mechanics.

#424

Myrna Simpson

#60735

Overall Influence

Myrna Simpson is a Canadian research chemist who is the Canada Research Chair in Integrative Molecular Biogeochemistry at the University of Toronto. She is also Director of the Environmental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Centre. Her research consider the molecular level mechanisms that underpin environmental processes, and the development of advanced analytical tools to better understand environmental health.

#425

Katharina Lodders

#137823

Overall Influence

Katharina Lodders is a German-American planetary scientist and cosmochemist who works as a research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where she co-directs the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory. Her research concerns the chemical composition of solar and stellar environments, including the atmospheres of planets, exoplanets, and brown dwarfs, and the study of the temperatures at which elements condense in stellar environments.

#426

Kathleen J. Stebe

#113554

Overall Influence

Kathleen Stebe is a scientist with areas of expertise in Nanostructured Materials, as well as Surface and Colloidal Science. She is also a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The University of Pennsylvania.

#427

Amy Prieto

#73861

Overall Influence

Amy Prieto is a Professor of Chemistry at Colorado State University and the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Prieto Battery. Education and early career Prieto received her Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry and philosophy from Williams College in 1996. There, she undertook an honors thesis entitled "The Synthesis and Characterization of Precursors to Zirconium-Containing Liquid Crystals" under the mentorship of Lee Young Park. Before beginning her doctoral work, she was a summer research fellow at Bell Labs, which she credits with fostering an appreciation for cross-disciplinary collaboration.

#428

Cristina Nerín

#143122

Overall Influence

#429

Pauline Harrison

#111087

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (98 years)

Pauline May Harrison is a British protein crystallographer and professor emeritus at the University of Sheffield. She gained her chemistry degree from Somerville College, Oxford in 1948, followed by a DPhil in X-ray crystallography in 1952 supervised by Dorothy Hodgkin. After 3 years at King's College London she moved to the University of Sheffield in 1955 as a demonstrator in the Biochemistry department , obtaining an MRC grant to study the iron storage protein Ferritin, publishing preliminary X-ray diffraction data in the 1st volume of the Journal of Molecular Biology in 1959. The molecule which became her life's work.

#430

Liane G. Benning

#123202

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Liane G. Benning is a biogeochemist studying mineral-fluid-microbe interface processes. She is a Professor of Interface Geochemistry at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany. Her team studies various processes that shape the Earth Surface with a special focus on two aspects: the nucleation, growth and crystallisation of mineral phases from solution and the role, effects and interplay between microbes and minerals in extreme environments. She is also interested in the characterisation of these systems, developing in situ and time resolved high resolution imaging and...

#431

Maria Daglia

#143450

Overall Influence

#432

So-Jung Park

#52522

Overall Influence

So-Jung Park 박소정 is a professor of chemistry at Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea. Her research considers the self-assembly of nanoparticles and functional molecules for biomedical and optoelectronic devices. She serves as Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and Nanoscale.

#433

Claire Adjiman

#108395

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Claire Sandrine Jacqueline Adjiman is a professor of Chemical Engineering at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Early life and education Claire Sandrine Jacqueline Adjiman was raised in France and relocated to London in 1988. Adjiman received a master's degree in chemical engineering from Imperial College London in 1993. She completed a PhD under Christodoulos A. Floudas at Princeton University in 1998 and her thesis was titled 'Global optimization Techniques for Process Systems Engineering' .

#434

Miia Rannikmäe

#106887

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Miia Rannikmäe is an Estonian chemist specializing in cognitive learning and scientific literacy. Biography Born in Tartu, Rannikmäe graduated in chemistry and as a chemistry teacher from the University of Tartu in 1975. She went on to gain a master's degree in education there in 1996 with a thesis on Phenomenographic analyses of students concept of chemical reaction. In 2001, she earned a PhD in Life and Earth Sciences Education from the same university. As of November 2015, she is Professor of Science Education, heading the Science Education Centre at the University of Tartu.

#435

Evamarie Hey-Hawkins

#144126

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Evamarie Hey-Hawkins is a German inorganic chemist and professor at Leipzig University. Her research is focused on main group and transition metal chemistry. Biography She received her diploma and doctoral degree at the University of Marburg, Germany, with Kurt Dehnicke. After stays at the University of Sussex, UK , the University of Western Australia and the ANU , she returned to Germany and completed her habilitation in Marburg . From 1988 to 1990 she was a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart. Evamarie Hey-Hawkins has been a Full Professor of...

#436

Janina Kneipp

#139140

Overall Influence

Janina Kneipp is a German scientist who is Professor of Physical Chemistry Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research considers surface enhanced Raman scattering and plasmonic enhancement in multi-modal micro spectroscopy.

#437

Daria Mochly-Rosen

#23946

Overall Influence

Daria Mochly-Rosen is a Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where she also holds the George D. Smith Chair for Translational Medicine. She is in addition the founder of Mitoconix Bio, a startup company whose goal is to produce drugs that treat Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative illnesses.

#438

Luisa Torsi

#94905

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Luisa Torsi is an Italian chemist who is a professor at the Università degli Studi di Bari. She was the first woman to serve as President of the European Materials Research Society . In 2019 she was named by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry as one of the world's most Distinguished Women in Chemistry.

#439

Eula Bingham

#47981

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Eula Bingham was an American scientist, best known as an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health during the Presidency of Jimmy Carter. During her tenure as the head of OSHA, she eliminated more than 1,000 pedantic regulations and shifted the agency's focus to health and safety risks, establishing strict standards for workers' rights to know about their exposure to hazardous substances.

#440

Dorothea Fiedler

#120406

Overall Influence

Dorothea Fiedler is a chemical biologist and also the first female director of the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie in Berlin, Germany. Early life and education Fiedler grew up in Hamburg. She studied inorganic chemistry at the University of Würzburg, then carried out doctorate research on organometallic chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley.

#441

Barbara H. Stuart

#67939

Overall Influence

Barbara Stuart is a specialist in spectroscopy. Background Stuart studied her B.Sc. at the University of Sydney in 1987, tutoring at the university for 3 years, then studied a M.Sc. biophysical chemistry, graduating in 1990. Stuart then moved to the UK and studied a PhD in polymer engineering at Imperial College London, graduating in 1993. Stuart then began lecturing in Physical Chemistry at the University of Greenwich for 2 years before returning to Australia to lecture at the University of Technology Sydney.

#442

Jodie Lutkenhaus

#129635

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Jodie L. Lutkenhaus is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University who develops redox active polymers for energy storage and smart coatings. In 2019 Lutkenhaus and Karen L. Wooley demonstrated the world's first biodegradable peptide battery. Lutkenhaus is a World Economic Forum Young Scientist.

#443

Blanka Wladislaw

#115314

Overall Influence

1917 - 2012 (95 years)

Blanka Wladislaw was a Brazilian chemist of Polish-Jewish descent. Biography Wladislaw was born Blanka Wertheim on 3 June 1917, in Warsaw, Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire. Her family emigrated to Brazil when she was 14, where they have faced great financial difficulty on their arrival in São Paulo. She decided to dedicate herself to her studies in order to enter the University of São Paulo and in 1937 accomplished this, entering the university's Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters and graduated in 1941. Wladislaw's professional career began when she was hired by , but she was determined to go to graduate school.

#444

Nathalie Katsonis

#48386

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Nathalie Helene Katsonis is a Professor of Active Molecular Systems at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen. In 2016 she was awarded the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society Gold Medal.

#445

Diana Aga

#142750

Overall Influence

Diana S. Aga is a Filipino-American chemist who is the Henry M. Woodburn Chair at the University at Buffalo. She was awarded the 2017 American Chemical Society Schoellkopf Medal in recognition of her work in environmental chemistry. The Schoellkopf Medal is a local section award of the American Chemical Society. Over the years, numerous University at Buffalo faculty have received this recognition.

#446

Sheikha Abdulla Al-Misnad

#26777

Overall Influence

Sheikha Abdulla Al-Misnad is a Qatari academic who has occupied numerous positions in teaching, administration, and research for over three decades. She assumed presidency of Qatar University in 2003 serving to 2015 replaced by Hassan Rashid Al-Derham. Before assuming presidency, she served the university as Vice President for Research and Community Development , Head of the Department of Foundations of Education , and as a member of the University Council .

#447

Delia Milliron

#131219

Overall Influence

Delia J. Milliron is the T. Brockett Hudson Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Milliron leads a research team that focuses on developing and studying the properties of new electronic nanomaterials. Her team pursues studies on nanocrystals, nanoscale interfaces, and controlled assemblies of nanocrystals. Her team takes a systematic approach towards elucidating effects that arise at the nanoscale with a special focus on structure-property relationships.

#448

Edith Chen

#129751

Overall Influence

Edith Chen is a scientist known for researching the psychosocial and biological pathways that explain relationships between low socioeconomic status and physical health outcomes in childhood. She is currently a professor at Northwestern University. Scientific Award for an early career contribution within her first nine years of receiving her PhD. Chen was awarded the 2015 George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology for the article “Psychological stress in childhood and susceptibility to the chronic diseases of aging: Moving toward a model of behavioral and biological mechanisms” alongside authors Gregory E.

#449

Ellen D. Williams

#57195

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Ellen D. Williams is an American scientist, best known for her research in surface properties and nanotechnology, for her engagement with technical issues in national security, as chief scientist of BP, and for government service as director of ARPA-E.

#450

Marika Geldmacher-von Mallinckrodt

#119115

Overall Influence

1923 - 2016 (93 years)

Marika Geldmacher-von Mallinckrodt, nee von Mallinckrodt-Haupt was a German chemist, physician and professor at the University of Erlangen. Her main focus in research was on forensic toxicology, forensic and clinical-toxicological analytics and ecogenetics.

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