The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.
Students and researchers now have a fast and reliable way to find influential thinkers from 24 disciplines and 300 sub-disciplines (and growing). If you want to find history’s most influential philsosophers, or the world’s most influential mathematicians currently, now you can.
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,
#5001
Kiyomi Kikugawa
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David L. Vanderhart
#167091
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#5003
Kowichi Jimbow
#167101
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#5004
Nikhil Gupta
#167104
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#5005
Robert R. Squires
#144543
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1953 - 1998 (45 years)
Robert Reed Squires was an American chemist known for his work in gas phase ion chemistry and flowing afterglow mass spectrometry. Early life and education Squires was born in Northern California and grew up in Los Angeles. He received an A.A. degree at El Camino College in 1973 and then returned to Northern California where he received a B.A. at California State University, Chico. He then went on to Yale University where he worked in the laboratory of Kenneth B. Wiberg on the thermochemistry of organic compounds. He received his M.Phil. degree in 1977 and a Ph.D. in 1980. He took a postdocto...
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Mark R. Viant
#167120
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#5007
Miroslava Trchová
#167127
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1950 - Present (75 years)
#5008
Massimo Olivucci
#167135
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1958 - Present (67 years)
#5009
Takashi Hisatomi
#167142
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#5010
Daniel Jacob Ehrlich
#167198
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#5011
Matthew Linford
#103262
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1966 - Present (59 years)
Matthew R. Linford is an associate professor at Brigham Young University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry since September 2006. His lab is devoted towards synthesizing hydrophobic surfaces, diamond stationary phases for liquid chromatography and microfabricated TLC plates.
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Syma Khalid
#86770
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Syma Khalid is a British biophysicist who is a Professor of Computational Microbiology in at the University of Oxford. She was awarded the Suffrage Science award for engineering and physical sciences in 2021.
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Abraham A. Brouwer
#167265
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#5014
Gordon G. Birch
#167270
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#5015
Jess F. Adkins
#167279
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#5016
Theresa Windus
#119888
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Theresa Lynn Windus is an American chemist who is a distinguished professor at Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory. Her research involves the development and use of high performance computational chemistry methods to tackle environmental challenges, including the development of new catalysts and renewable energy sources. She was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2020.
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Jan C. J. Bart
#167285
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#5018
Deborah Leckband
#164822
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1959 - Present (66 years)
Deborah E. Leckband is an American chemist who is the Reid T. Milner Professor of Chemical Sciences and professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She works on biomaterials, tissue engineering and the nano mechanics of biomolecules. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Biomedical Engineering Society and the American Chemical Society.
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Zibiao Li
#167318
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#5020
Muhammad Naeem Ashiq
#167322
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#5021
Cheng-xin Wang
#167323
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#5022
Adam S. Veige
#107296
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Adam S. Veige is a professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida, his research focuses on the usage of inorganic compounds. Education Veige received a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Cornell University in 2003 under the direction of Peter T. Wolczanski. He pursued postdoctoral research under the direction of Daniel G. Nocera at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Simon G. Bott
#167334
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#5024
Roderick A. B. Devine
#167342
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#5025
Helen Megaw
#47553
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1907 - 2002 (95 years)
Helen Dick Megaw was an Irish crystallographer who was a pioneer in X-ray crystallography. She made measurements of the cell dimensions of ice and established the Perovskite crystal structure. Education and career Megaw was born in Dublin to mathematics teacher Annie McElderry and judge Robert Megaw, two graduates of Queen's University Belfast who were both originally from Ballymoney, Antrim. She was educated at first at Alexandra College in Dublin, and then briefly at Methodist College in Belfast after the family moved back there in 1921, and finally at the Roedean School in England. While still at school, Megaw read Bragg's X-rays and Crystal Structure.
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John M. Matsen
#167349
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Ulrich Dahmen
#167397
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#5028
Horst Böhme
#153945
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1908 - 1996 (88 years)
Horst Böhme, born Johann Friedrich Horst Böhme was a German chemist. He became an expert on mustard gas. During the war, he worked from 1943 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at Berlin-Dahlem. After the war, he became a professor of chemistry and a rector of the University of Marburg.
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C. Anthony J. Appelo
#167450
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#5030
Yuji Wada
#167453
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#5031
Robert J. Le Roy
#167459
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#5032
Dylan Jayatilaka
#167466
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#5033
Gadi Marom
#167471
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#5034
Andrew Frederick Hemphill
#167476
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#5035
John Edward Lupton
#167512
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#5036
Robert S. Markiewicz
#167545
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#5037
Jerry David Glickson
#167554
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#5038
Dennis Johnson
#167584
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#5039
Masahide Terazima
#167595
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#5040
Fernando Bernardi
#167599
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#5041
Bing-feng Shi
#167600
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#5042
Donald C. Reynolds
#167606
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#5043
Thomas Kirchartz
#167607
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#5044
Donald J. Plazek
#167610
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1931 - Present (94 years)
#5045
Elmar Hellwig
#167619
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#5046
David H. Petering
#167644
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#5047
Samy El-Shall
#39473
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Samy El-Shall is an Egyptian-American physical chemist and a researcher in nanoscience, heterogeneous catalysis, molecular clusters and cluster ions, nucleation and ion mobility. He is the Mary Eugenia Kapp Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Commonwealth Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University .
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Seinosuke Otsuka
#167674
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#5049
C. Daniel Mullins
#167687
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Paul B. Shepson
#167697
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