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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#5151

Fu-you Li

#170515

Overall Influence

#5152

Liane Marcia Rossi

#76636

Overall Influence

Liane M. Rossi is a Brazilian chemist who is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of São Paulo. Her research considers nanomaterials and catalysis. She serves on the editorial boards of ChemistrySelect, ACS Catalysis and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

#5153

Peter K. Dorhout

#164684

Overall Influence

Peter Kenneth Dorhout is a professor of chemistry and the vice president for research at Iowa State University. He was the 2018 President of the American Chemical Society . As an advocate for science, he has had the opportunity to talk to United States congressional staff about the importance of basic science funding through the National Science Foundation.

#5154

Nediljko Budisa

Nediljko Budisa

#45883

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Nediljko "Ned" Budisa is a Croatian biochemist, professor and holder of the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair for chemical synthetic biology at the University of Manitoba. As pioneer in the areas of genetic code engineering and chemical synthetic biology , his research has a wide range of applications in biotechnology and engineering biology in general. Being highly interdisciplinary, it includes bioorganic and medical chemistry, structural biology, biophysics and molecular biotechnology as well as metabolic and biomaterial engineering. He is the author of the only textbook in his research field:...

#5155

Hilmi İbar

#144859

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Hilmi İbar is professor of chemistry, former dean of the pedagogic faculty and former head of the International Office at the Trakya University in Edirne. He is also vice president of the Balkan Universities Network.

#5156

Katherine Holt

#159977

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Katherine B. Holt is a British chemist who is a professor at University College London. She serves as Vice Dean for Education in the Department of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Her research investigates the development of carbon-based electrodes and electrocatalysis.

#5157

Luz Oliveros-Belardo

#86517

Overall Influence

1906 - 1999 (93 years)

Luz Oliveros-Belardo was a Filipina pharmaceutical chemist, honored with the National Scientist of the Philippines award by the Philippine government in 1987. Early life Luz Oliveros was born in Navotas, then a municipality of Rizal, to Aurelio Oliveros and Elisa Belarmino. She held undergraduate and master's degrees in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of the Philippines in Manila. In 1957, she earned a PhD in Pharmacy at the University of Connecticut, with a dissertation involving molecular refraction in terpenes.

#5158

Jim Pfaendtner

#149409

Overall Influence

Jim Pfaendtner is an American chemical engineer. He is currently serving as the Dean for the College of Engineering at NC State University. He was the Steve and Connie Rogel Professor and chair of chemical engineering and professor of chemistry at the University of Washington. He additionally served as the associate vice provost for research computing. Pfaendtner is also staff scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Beginning August 1, 2023, Pfaendtner will be the Louis Martin-Vega Dean of the college of engineering at North Carolina State University.

#5159

Charles E. Wicks

#78769

Overall Influence

1925 - 2010 (85 years)

Charles Edward Wicks was an American chemical engineer. He was a professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Oregon State University. His focus was mass transfer, which was the subject of the textbook he coauthored, Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer.

#5160

Larry Curtiss

#67347

Overall Influence

Larry A. Curtiss is an American chemist and researcher. He is a distinguished fellow and group leader of the Molecular Materials Group in the Materials Science Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. In addition, Curtiss is a senior investigator in the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research , a DOE Energy Storage Hub, and was the deputy director of the Center for Electrochemical Energy Science, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center.

#5161

Kristen Fichthorn

#117121

Overall Influence

Kristen A. Fichthorn is an American chemical engineer and condensed matter physicist whose research involves computational simulation, multiscale modeling, and molecular dynamics of interfaces, thin films, colloids, catalysis, nanostructures, and other material processes. She is Merrell Fenske Professor of Chemical Engineering and professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University.

#5162

Sachiko Amari

#170173

Overall Influence

Sachiko Amari is a Japanese astrophysicist who focuses upon presolar grains. She developed the method for isolating presolar grains in primitive meteorites and also researched noble gases in meteorites. Amari was awarded the Urey Medal by the European Association of Geochemistry in 2021. She currently is a Research Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis.

#5163

Shahid Jameel

#43347

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Shahid Jameel is an Indian virologist and academic. Dr. Jameel is the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. He serves as the Principal Investigator for the Centre's project on Public Health, Science and Technology in Muslim societies. Previously he was the director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences since its inception in the year 2020 at Ashoka University. He was formerly head of the scientific advisory group to the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortia established in December 2020, and the chief executive officer of Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance.

#5164

George Owen Mackie

#145289

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (96 years)

George Owen Mackie was a British–Canadian zoologist who was a professor emeritus of biology at the University of Victoria. Prior to this, he worked at the University of Alberta Department of Zoology, which he left in 1968. Much of his research focused on invertebrate behavioural physiology. He was born in Lincolnshire, England, on October 20, 1929, the youngest son of Frederick Percival Mackie. After obtaining a B.A. from the University of Oxford in 1953, he obtained an M.A. and a D. Phil from Oxford in 1957. In 1982, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1991, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of London.

#5165

Yang Yuliang

#103011

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Yang Yuliang is a Chinese chemist and educator. He is a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He formerly served as president of Fudan University between January 14, 2009 to October 24, 2014. Biography Yang was born and raised in Haiyan County, Zhejiang. After high school, he studied, then taught, at Fudan University. In 1986, he was a postdoctoral researcher under the direction of Spiess, at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.

#5166

Squire Booker

#74059

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Squire Booker is an American biochemist at Penn State University. Booker directs an interdisciplinary chemistry research program related to fields of biochemistry, enzymology, protein chemistry, natural product biosynthesis, and mechanisms of radical dependent enzymes. He is an associate editor for the American Chemical Society Biochemistry Journal, is a Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and an Eberly Distinguished Chair in Science at Penn State University.

#5167

Konrad Beyreuther

#92497

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Konrad Beyreuther is a German molecular biologist and chemist known for his work on neurodegenerative diseases. Life Konrad Bayreuther was the son of an evangelical pastor. He studied chemistry at the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. He wrote his PhD Thesis at the Max-Planck Institut für Biochemie in Munich. Until 1978 he was a scientific employee at the Institut for genetics at the university of Cologne.

#5168

Marcey Waters

#151865

Overall Influence

Marcey Lynn Waters is the Glen H. Elder Jr., Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill . She is an organic chemist whose research is at the interface of chemical biology and supramolecular chemistry. Waters has received multiple awards for research, teaching, and advocating for women in science. She is serving the President of the American Peptide Society from 2017 to 2019.

#5169

Helen Burt

#156427

Overall Influence

Helen M. Burt is a British-Canadian pharmaceutical scientist who is the Angiotech Professor of Drug Delivery at the University of British Columbia. She serves as Associate Vice President of Research and Innovation at UBC. Her research considers novel therapeutics based on nanotechnology, including drug delivery systems for the treatment of bladder cancer and coronary artery disease.

#5170

Anthony R. West

#102491

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Anthony Roy West FRSE, FRSC, FInstP, FIMMM is a British chemist and materials scientist, and Professor of Electroceramics and Solid State Chemistry at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

#5171

Richard Smithells

Richard Smithells

#137008

Overall Influence

1924 - 2002 (78 years)

Richard Worthington Smithells was a British paediatrician and Emeritus professor of paediatrics at the University of Leeds. Smithells was most notable for research into neural tube defects, congenital abnormality registers, genetic counselling, and rubella in pregnancy and for later suggesting direct examination of the foetus by photography using ultrasonography.

#5172

Noelle Selin

#140479

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Noelle Eckley Selin is an atmospheric chemist and Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

#5173

Bo Tang

#170902

Overall Influence

#5174

Ghodsi Mohammadi Ziarani

#170985

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Ghodsi Mohammadi Ziarani is an Iranian chemist and Professor of Organic Chemistry at Alzahra University. Mohammadi Ziarani is among the most-cited Iranian researchers and is known for her works on organic chemistry, nanochemistry, multi-component reactions, natural product synthesis, and asymmetric synthesis.

#5175

Jennifer Schomaker

#54016

Overall Influence

Jennifer Schomaker is an American chemist who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research considers the total synthesis of natural and unnatural products. She was selected as an American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awardee in 2021.

#5176

Mimi Hii

#163179

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

King Kuok "Mimi" Hii is a chemist whose fields of research include application of catalysis to organic synthesis. She is the Director of Imperial College London's Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions .

#5177

Stephen P. Marsden

#171053

Overall Influence

#5178

Jerelle Joseph

#41319

Overall Influence

Jerelle A. Joseph is a computational chemist and academic from Dominica, who is also an advocate for representation and diversity in science. She is the founder of CariScholar, a network connecting students and academics from Caribbean countries.

#5179

Brigid Heywood

#22043

Overall Influence

Brigid R. Heywood, born 1956 or 1957, is a British/Australian academic and biological scientist. She was Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England in Australia from 2019 until she resigned after criminal charges were laid against her in 2022.

#5180

Audrey Moores

#169114

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Audrey Moores is a Professor of Chemistry and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry at McGill University. She was named an emerging investigator in 2017 by the RSC journal Green Chemistry.

#5181

Katsunori Wakabayashi

#106593

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

is a physicist at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics , National Institute for Materials Science , Japan. He is an authority and leading researcher in nanotechnology in the area of energy states of single wall carbon nanotubes . His research is notable for the edge effects of the nanographene materials, which is a part of the single layer graphene. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2000 from University of Tsukuba in Japan. From 2000 to 2009 he was an assistant professor at Department of Quantum Matter in Hiroshima University, Japan. From 2009, he is an Independent Scientist at Int...

#5182

Charles E. Wyman

#113049

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Charles E. Wyman, is a Ford Motor Company Chair and a Distinguished Professor & Endowed Chair in Chemical & Environmental Engineering at University of California, Riverside. Wyman was also the Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering Design at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, Prior to joining UC Riverside. He is the co-founder and former Chief Development Officer and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Mascoma Corporation. He is one of the researchers responsible for the development of the Bioenergy, Biomass & Biofuel. He is an authoritative figure in the broad area of ethanol.

#5183

Carole A. Bewley

Carole A. Bewley

#113441

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Carole Ann Bewley is an American chemist. She is a senior investigator and Chief of the Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Bewley researches secondary metabolites and basic principles involved in protein-carbohydrate interactions and how these can be exploited to engineer therapeutics.

#5184

N. A. Ramaiah

#55690

Overall Influence

1923 - Present (102 years)

Nanduri Atchuta Ramaiah is an Indian physical chemist, sugar technologist and the director of National Sugar Institute, Kanpur. He was the founder director of Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune and was known for his studies on physicochemical processes involved in the processing of sugarcane juice which assisted in developing cost effective manufacturing techniques. He was an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Royal Institute of Chemistry. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Governmen...

#5185

Douglas Mitchell

#151747

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Douglas A. Mitchell is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Microbiology and is a faculty member of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. His research focuses on the chemical biology of natural products. He is known mainly for his work on the biosynthetic enzymology of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides and genome-guided natural product discovery.

#5186

Kathlyn A. Parker

#171142

Overall Influence

Kathlyn Ann Parker is a chemist known for her work on synthesis of compounds, especially organic compounds with biological roles. She is an elected fellow of the American Chemical Society and a recipient of the Garvan–Olin Medal in chemistry.

#5187

Darja Lisjak

#154058

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Darja Lisjak is a Slovenian material scientist and professor at the Department for Material Synthesis at Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her work focuses on materials chemistry, nanotechnology, and solid-state chemistry.

#5188

Judith Glynn

#145755

Overall Influence

Judith Glynn is a Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She worked on the Karonga Prevention Study on HIV and Tuberculosis in Malawi. She is also a sculptor. Education and early career Glynn completed an MSc in Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1990. She completed her PhD in infectious diseases in 1993.

#5189

Swadhin Kumar Mandal

#126113

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Swadhin Kumar Mandal is a Bengali Indian organometallic chemist and a professor at the department of chemical sciences of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. Mandal, an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, is known for his studies in the fields of catalysis, new drug development and material chemistry. 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, for his contributions to chemical sciences in 2018..

#5190

Susan Daniel

#87128

Overall Influence

Susan Daniel is an American chemical engineer who is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. Her research considers membrane biophysics and bioelectronic devices. During the COVID-19 pandemic Daniel used bioelectronic devices to develop COVID-19 disease drugs.

#5191

Alison R. H. Narayan

#132882

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Alison Rae Hardin Narayan is an American chemist and the William R. Roush assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Additionally, she is a research assistant professor at University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute.

#5192

Zhang Lina

#96083

Overall Influence

1940 - 2020 (80 years)

Zhang Lina was a Chinese physical chemist. She graduated from Wuhan University in 1963. She was a Chinese polymer physical chemist, a professor at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University. In 2011, she became the first female Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from Wuhan university. She was the editorial board member of Cellulose, Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy and Acta Polymerica Sinica.

#5193

Connie C. Lu

#169625

Overall Influence

Connie C. Lu is a Taiwanese-American inorganic chemist and a professor of chemistry at the University of Bonn. She was previously a professor of chemistry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Lu's research focuses on the synthesis of novel bimetallic coordination complexes, as well as metal-organic frameworks. These molecules and materials are investigated for the catalytic conversion of small molecules like as N2 and CO2 into value-added chemicals like ammonia and methanol. Lu is the recipient of multiple awards for her research, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award ...

#5194

Niveen Khashab

#120470

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Niveen M. Khashab is a Lebanese chemist and an associate Professor of chemical Sciences and engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia since 2009. She is a laureate of the 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science "for her contributions to innovative smart hybrid materials aimed at drug delivery and for developing new techniques to monitor intracellular antioxidant activity." She is also a fellow of the Royal Chemical Society, and a member of the American Chemical Society.

#5195

Julie Kovacs

#161334

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Julia A. Kovacs is an American chemist specializing in bioinorganic chemistry. She is professor of chemistry at the University of Washington. Her research involves synthesizing small-molecule mimics of the active sites of metalloproteins, in order to investigate how cysteinates influence the function of non-heme iron enzymes, and the mechanism of the oxygen-evolving complex .

#5196

Poul Bjørndahl Astrup

#57524

Overall Influence

1915 - 2000 (85 years)

Poul Bjørndahl Astrup was a Danish clinical chemist famous for inventing a CO2 electrode and co-inventing the concept of base excess. External links Astrup - blodgasser, syrer og baser Ugeskrift for Læger 2007;169:2896

#5197

Aline Miller

#98099

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Aline Fiona Miller is a Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Manchester. She specialises in the characterisation of polymer, biopolymer and peptides, using neutron and x-ray scattering, as well as the development of functionalised nanostructures for regenerative medicine and toxicology testing.

#5198

Chandre Dharma-wardana

#107447

Overall Influence

Chandre Dharma-wardana is a Sri Lankan-born academic and scientist. A former president of Vidyodaya Campus , he is currently a professor of theoretical physics at the Université de Montréal. He has retired and continues as a principal research scientist at the National Research Council of Canada.

#5199

Renã A. S. Robinson

#114257

Overall Influence

Renã A. S. Robinson is an associate professor and the Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor's Faculty Fellow in the department of chemistry at the Vanderbilt University, where she is the principal investigator of the RASR Laboratory.

#5200

Vikas Berry

#120164

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Vikas Berry is an Indian-American scientist, engineer, and academic. He is a professor and department head of chemical engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago. He conducts research and develops technologies in the areas of bionanotechnology and two-dimensional materials . He holds the Dr. Satish C. Saxena professorship at University of Illinois Chicago and held the William H. Honstead endowed professorship at the Kansas State University from 2011 to 2014.

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