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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#5051

Wataru Ueda

#167733

Overall Influence

#5052

Willem F. J. Vermaas

#167754

Overall Influence

#5053

Gareth G. Roberts

#167770

Overall Influence

#5054

William Thomas Pennington

#167776

Overall Influence

#5055

Alessio Ciulli

#151882

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Alessio Ciulli is an Italian British biochemist. Currently, he is the Professor of Chemical & Structural Biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, where he founded and directs Dundee' new Centre for Targeted Protein Degradation . He is also the scientific co-founder and advisor of Amphista Therapeutics.

#5056

Clifford P. Brangwynne

#137904

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Clifford P. Brangwynne is a professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton University, the director of the Princeton Bioengineering Initiative, and the June K. Wu ’92 Professor in Engineering. He is also a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

#5057

Dewan Singh Bhakuni

#138462

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (95 years)

Dewan Singh Bhakuni is an Indian natural product chemist, stereochemist and a former director general-grade scientist of the Central Drug Research Institute. He is known for his researches on the biogenesis of alkaloids and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, India and the Indian National Science Academy. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in ...

#5058

Giulia Grancini

#123257

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Giulia Grancini is an Italian physicist who is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pavia. Her work considers new materials for photovoltaic devices, including perovskites and polymer-based materials. In 2020, Grancini was named the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal of Materials Chemistry Lecturer.

#5059

Elisa Orth

#90456

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Dr. Elisa Orth works in the Department of Chemistry of the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil. She came to notice in 2015 when she won an award from L'Oreal and UNESCO for her work on artificial enzymes.

#5060

Peter Weinberger

#167939

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

#5061

Tito Scaiano

#116472

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Juan Cesar Scaiano, OC, FRSC first came to Canada in 1975 as a visiting scientist with the National Research Council from Argentina. Returning to the NRC in 1979, he developed an innovative new program studying organic reaction intermediates using laser techniques. He then joined the University of Ottawa in 1991 as professor of chemistry.

#5062

Norman C. Deno

#85385

Overall Influence

1921 - 2017 (96 years)

Norman C. Deno was an American chemist and plant scientist. He was a professor of chemistry at Penn State University and is known as one of the foremost researchers in seed germination theory. He researched the biochemical reactions that underlie the germination of all seeds, performing germination research on plant species from 150 families, 800 genera, and 2500 species over the course of his career. Deno authored 150 papers in chemistry and 20 papers in horticulture, and self-published a number of books that combined his scientific results.

#5063

Robert Walker Hay

#123868

Overall Influence

1934 - 1991 (57 years)

Robert Walker Hay FRSE FRCS was a British chemist. He held the chair in Chemistry at Stirling University and later St Andrews University. Life Hay went to Glasgow University to study Chemistry, graduating BSc in 1956 and then later receiving a doctorate in Carbohydrate Chemistry in 1959.

#5064

Ken Mills

#125704

Overall Influence

1935 - 2018 (83 years)

Kenneth Claughan Mills , was head of the Slags group at the National Physical Laboratory and a visiting professor in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. Career Early years Mills graduated in chemistry from the University of Newcastle in 1956 and, in 1960, was awarded a PhD by Sheffield University for work on carbides in steels and their effect on creep strength. From 1960 to 1962, he continued his research in the US, at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, working on the thermodynamics of alloys at high temperature. There then followed a short period at the US Steel, Edgar Bain Research Laboratories working with E.T.

#5065

Leonard R. Stephens

#150065

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Leonard R Stephens FRS is a molecular biologist, senior group leader and associate director at the Babraham Institute. Len Stephens has contributed much to the understanding of inositol lipids functions in eukaryotic cells, and in particular in neutrophils. Early highlights were the mapping of new pathways of inositol phosphate synthesis. Together with his long-time collaborator Phillip Thomas Hawkins, he established that PtdInsP2 is the main substrate of receptor-controlled Type 1 phosphoinositide 3-kinases , thus identifying PtdInsP3 as the key output signal produced by this enzyme. They i...

#5066

Samuel James Thomson

#137086

Overall Influence

1922 - 2006 (84 years)

Samuel James Thomson was a Scottish chemist and author, and was reader, titular professor and director of chemical laboratories at the University of Glasgow. Born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Thomson was educated at Hamilton Academy. He entered the University of Glasgow in 1940, interrupting his studies to join the army in 1943. Commissioned into the Royal Signals Thomson served as a lieutenant in India and Malaya and, returning to Glasgow in 1946, graduated BSc in 1947 and PhD in 1951, and later, DSc in 1966.

#5067

Warren Roper

#168270

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Warren Richard Roper FRS FRSNZ FNZIC is a New Zealand chemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Auckland. Roper was educated at Nelson College from 1952 to 1956, and was dux in his final year. He then studied chemistry at the University of Canterbury, and undertook his PhD under the supervision of CJ Wilkins. He completed his PhD in 1963, and spent three years undertaking postdoctoral research at the University of North Carolina in the United States before returning to New Zealand. At that point Roper was appointed as lecturer at the University of Auckland, where he remained until h...

#5068

Charles H. DePuy

Charles H. DePuy

#157791

Overall Influence

1927 - 2013 (86 years)

Charles Herbert DePuy was an American chemist known for his work in gas phase organic ion chemistry. Early life and education Charles H. DePuy was born in Detroit, Michigan, on September 10, 1927, but did not live there long. His father was an architectural engineer who supervised the construction of post office buildings throughout the southeastern United States and for a time in the US Virgin Islands. In 1942, his father was transferred to Oakland, California to supervise the fortification of government buildings against anticipated attack.

#5069

Alan S. Goldman

#74522

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Alan S. Goldman is an American chemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers University. He is a winner of the ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science, and received the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry in 2019 and the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2020. In 2021 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Goldman's research has focused on reactions of small molecules catalyzed by transition metal complexes, and the mechanisms of relevant reactions.

#5070

Leon Aarons

#121041

Overall Influence

Leon Aarons is an Australian chemist who researches and teaches in the areas of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. He lives in the United Kingdom and from 1976 has been a professor of pharmacometrics at the University of Manchester. In the interest of promoting the effective development of drugs, the main focus of his work is optimizing pharmacological models, the design of clinical studies, and data analysis and interpretation in the field of population pharmacokinetics. From 1985 to 2010 Aarons was an editor emeritus of the Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics and is a former...

#5071

Catherine Chauvel

#156221

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Catherine Chauvel is a geochemist at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris known for her research on the impact of volcanic activity on the chemistry of the mantle, continental crust, and island arc geochemistry.

#5072

Igor Larrosa

#157365

Overall Influence

Igor Guerrero Larrosa is a Spanish chemist and a professor in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester. His research in general is based on organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry, specifically on the areas of inorganic catalysis and organic synthesis including the application to C-H and decarboxylative activation.

#5073

Arash Ghorbani-Choghamarani

#168496

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (46 years)

Arash Ghorbani-Choghamarani is an Iranian chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Bu-Ali Sina University. He is also Deputy of Research and Technology at this university since November 2021. Ghorbani-Choghamarani is among the most-cited Iranian researchers and is known for his works on organic chemistry, nanochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, heterocyclic compounds and organic synthesis. Previously He was professor and Deputy of Education at Ilam University. Ghorbani-Choghamarani is a winner of Ilam Province Book of the Year for his book Drug Delivery Systems and Their Effectiveness Through Na...

#5074

Arlene Fiore

#133355

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Arlene M. Fiore is an atmospheric chemist whose research focuses on issues surrounding air quality and climate change. Education In 1997 Arlene M. Fiore graduated Harvard College magna cum laude with an A.B. in Environmental Geoscience. She continued her education at Harvard University, graduating in 2003 with a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Her thesis was titled “Linking regional air pollution with global chemistry and climate: The role of background ozone.” In this dissertation, Fiore discusses the importance of background ozone in connecting local air quality with global climate an...

#5075

Feng "Franklin" Tao

#163091

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Feng "Franklin" Tao is a chemical engineer who was a Miller Associate Professor at the University of Kansas. His research areas of specialization are heterogeneous catalysis, energy chemistry, nanoscience and surface science. He has published over 180 papers in international journals.

#5076

JoAnn Burkholder

#120186

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

JoAnn Marie Burkholder is an American professor of aquatic ecology at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh. She was responsible for identifying the cause, a dinoflagellate Pfiesteria piscicida and its toxins, of mass deaths of fish that posed a public health hazard. Her studies also helped in improving legislation to control pollution and eutrophication.

#5077

Clarice Phelps

#107078

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Clarice Evone Phelps is an American nuclear chemist researching the processing of radioactive transuranic elements at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory . She was part of ORNL's team that collaborated with the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research to discover tennessine . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry recognizes her as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a chemical element.

#5078

Muhammad Lutfar Rahman

#75524

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Muhammad Lutfar Rahman is a Bangladeshi professor, chemist and researcher. He was 6th vice chancellor of Islamic University, Bangladesh. He was professor of Rajshahi University at Chemistry department. He is now contract professor of Independent University, Bangladesh in Environmental Science and Management department.

#5079

Isabel Escobar

#55330

Overall Influence

Isabel C. Escobar is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. She is also associate director of the Center of Membrane Sciences and co-director of the College of Engineering Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, both at the University of Kentucky.

#5080

Karl-Ludwig Kratz

#139063

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Karl-Ludwig Kratz is a German nuclear chemist and astrophysicist. He is professor for nuclear chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

#5081

Anne McNeil

#86939

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Anne J. McNeil is an American chemist who currently works at the University of Michigan, where she holds the position of Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering. In 2017, McNeil was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

#5082

Valerie Sheares Ashby

Valerie Sheares Ashby

#76420

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Valerie Sheares Ashby is an American chemist and university professor who currently serves as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She was the Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University from 2015 to 2022 and formerly chair of the chemistry department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2012 to 2015. With her research group, she holds ten patents. On April 4, 2022, it was announced that Ashby would assume the position of president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

#5083

Debabrata Goswami

#53729

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Debabrata Goswami FInstP FRSC, is an Indian chemist and the Prof. S. Sampath Chair Professor of Chemistry, at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is also a professor of The Department of Chemistry and The Center for Lasers & Photonics at the same Institute. Goswami is an associate editor of the open-access journal Science Advances. He is also an Academic Editor for PLOS One and PeerJ Chemistry. He has contributed to the theory of Quantum Computing as well as nonlinear optical spectroscopy. His work is documented in more than 200 research publications. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the SPIE, and The Optical Society.

#5084

Mireille Kamariza

#105320

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (36 years)

Mireille Kamariza is a Burundian-born American bioscientist and an Assistant Professor in the Bioengineering Department at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Previously, Kamariza was appointed as a Harvard Junior Fellow for her postdoctoral studies and she completed her doctoral studies in Biology at Stanford University. Her research considers the development of chemical biosensing tools, low cost point-of-care diagnostics, infectious diseases, and global health. In 2020, she was named as one of Chemical & Engineering News's Talented 12.

#5085

James G. Anderson

#168947

Overall Influence

#5086

Zvi HaCohen

#114575

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Prof. Zvi HaCohen is an Israeli scientist who, since August 2010, has served as Rector of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev . Early life and education HaCohen was born in ClujRomania in 1947, immigrated to Israel in 1950 and was raised in Rehovot. He received a BSc Degree in chemistry in 1970, an MSc Degree in organic chemistry in 1974, both from Bar-Ilan University and a PhD in organic chemistry in 1978, from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Between 1978 and 1981, he was a post doctoral fellow in the Department of Radiology at Harvard Medical School.

#5087

Tadashi Sugawara

#168960

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

#5088

Natalia Shustova

Natalia Shustova

#99142

Overall Influence

Natalia B. Shustova is a Peter and Bonnie McCausland Professor of Chemistry at the University of South Carolina. She focuses on developing materials for sustainable energy conversion, metal-organic frameworks , covalent organic frameworks , and graphitic supramolecular structures.

#5089

Ellen Moons

#118218

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Ellen Moons is a Belgian materials scientist who is a professor at Karlstad University. Her research considers the organisation of molecules and materials in thin films. She is mainly interested in organic and hybrid materials for solution processed photovoltaics.

#5090

Wendy Lee Queen

#94523

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Wendy Lee Queen is an American chemist and material scientist. Her research interest focus on development design and production of hybrid organic/inorganic materials at the intersection of chemistry, chemical engineering and material sciences. As of 2020 she is a tenure-track assistant professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, where she directs the Laboratory for Functional Inorganic Materials.

#5091

Mariagrazia Pizza

#161007

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Mariagrazia Pizza is an Italian vaccine researcher who is a professor at Imperial College London. She worked as Senior Scientific Director for Bacterial Vaccines at GSK plc. She was involved with the development of the first pertussis vaccine. In 2023, she was awarded the IVI-SK bioscience Park MahnHoon Award.

#5092

Reiko Kuroda

#169037

Overall Influence

#5093

David Lloyd

#140277

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Professor David Lloyd is a Dublin-born and educated university executive and academic. His academic background was that of a chemist, specialising in computer aided drug design. He currently serves as Vice Chancellor and President of the University of South Australia;

#5094

Jack Hollander

#147771

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Jack Marvin Hollander was an American nuclear physicist. He held various positions in nuclear physics, energy, environmental research, and academic administration throughout his career. He was also the founding editor of the academic journal the Annual Review of Energy .

#5095

Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

#169057

Overall Influence

#5096

Göran Magnusson

#169119

Overall Influence

1942 - 2000 (58 years)

Hans Göran Magnusson was a Swedish chemist. Magnusson graduated with a Ph.D. in 1975 from Lund University with a thesis on sesquiterpene chemistry, and was simultaneously awarded the title as Docent. In 1978-79, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Rice University, USA, where he worked with natural products' chemist Ernest Wenkert on alkaloid synthesis. After his return to Sweden, he was first recruited to build a research unit in organic chemistry at the Swedish Sugar Corporation before returning to Lund University, where he was appointed Professor of organic chemistry in 1991 and whe...

#5097

Philip Bevilacqua

#151190

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Philip C. Bevilacqua is a biological chemist. He was born on September 7, 1965, in North Collins, NY. He currently serves as a distinguished professor at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science

#5098

François M. M. Morel

#169156

Overall Influence

#5099

Glenn Lipscomb

#101511

Overall Influence

Dr. G. Glenn Lipscomb is a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Toledo. He served as department chair from 2004 to 2019. Additionally, he is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He received his BS in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1981, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has a large volume of academic work including journals, conference proceedings, and patents.

#5100

Jenny Slaughter

#147042

Overall Influence

Jennifer Louise Slaughter is a British chemist and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. Her research is based on chemistry education and academic writing, specifically on laboratory chemical education, science communication, teaching and scholarship.

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