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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#5201

Richard DiMarchi

#168132

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Richard D. DiMarchi is the current chairman in biomolecular sciences and professor of chemistry at Indiana University. He is most notable for his work as a former vice president at Eli Lilly and Company.

#5202

Maria C. Tamargo

Maria C. Tamargo

#109471

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Maria C. Tamargo is a leading Cuban-American scientist in compound semiconductors and materials science. She is a professor of chemistry at The City College of New York. Life and education Maria Tamargo was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1951 to Cuban parents. She lived in Havana, Cuba, from 1952 to 1962, at which time she moved with her family to the United States and has lived there ever since.

#5203

Raffaella Ocone

#121098

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Raffaella Ocone is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2006 she was awarded the title Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and in the 2019 New Year Honours she was appointed OBE.

#5204

Gábor Laurenczy

#125005

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Gábor Laurenczy is a Hungarian-Swiss chemist and academic. He is a Professor Emeritus at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He is academician, External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

#5205

Herbert Meier

#172110

Overall Influence

#5206

Ernst Homburg

#92895

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Ernst Homburg is a Dutch emeritus professor of History of Science and Technology at Maastricht University. He published on the History of Chemistry and Technology in the 19th and 20th century in the Netherlands and Europe.

#5207

Peter Rutledge

#85635

Overall Influence

Peter Jonathan Rutledge is a New Zealand chemist and professor at the School of Chemistry, University of Sydney. His research has focused on drug development for tuberculosis, antibiotics, and metal sensing. He has engaged in some research activity on catalysis.

#5208

Sławomir Podsiadło

Sławomir Podsiadło

#149060

Overall Influence

Sławomir Podsiadło is a Polish chemist. He studied chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology. After graduating in 1974, he joined the staff of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology. In 1980 he received a PhD degree and in 1990 he was granted a DSc degree. In 1991 he was appointed the head of the Laboratory of Non-oxygen Compounds at Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology. Sławomir Podsiadło is the author of 85 original scientific publications, 12 patents and three books in the area of non-oxygen compounds and nan...

#5209

Sabine Flitsch

#168836

Overall Influence

Sabine Flitsch is a German organic chemist and chemical biologist who holds a personal chair in Chemical Biology at the University of Manchester School of Chemistry, where she runs an active research glycobiology research group based in the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre.

#5210

Edwin Vedejs

#126111

Overall Influence

1941 - 2017 (76 years)

Edwin Vedejs was a Latvian-American professor of chemistry. In 1967, he joined the organic chemistry faculty at University of Wisconsin. He rose through the ranks during his 32 years at Wisconsin being named Helfaer Professor and Robert M. Bock Professor . In 1999, he moved to the University of Michigan and served as the Moses Gomberg Collegiate Professor of Chemistry for the final 13 years of his tenure. He was elected a fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2011. After his retirement in 2011, the University of Michigan established the Edwin Vedejs Collegiate Professor of Chemistry Chair.

#5211

Tom Hornbein

#20030

Overall Influence

1930 - 2023 (93 years)

Thomas Hornbein was an American mountaineer who made the first ascent of Everest via the west ridge; the Hornbein Couloir on Everest was named in his honour. Biography Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Hornbein developed an interest in geology as a teenager. His study of geology led to a fascination with mountains. Eventually, he also became interested in medicine; he received his MD in 1956 from Washington University School of Medicine and worked as an anesthesiologist. He also studied human physiological limits and performance at high altitudes. He was Professor and Chairman of the Department ...

#5212

Aaron Wheeler

#172064

Overall Influence

Aaron R. Wheeler is a Canadian chemist who is a professor of chemistry and biomedical engineering at the University of Toronto since 2005 with cross-appointment at Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research. His academic laboratory is located at Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories and Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at the University of Toronto. In 2005, Wheeler was appointed as assistant professor and Tier II Canada Research Chair then promoted to associate professor in 2010, full professor in 2013, and...

#5213

Mario Barbatti

#165236

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Mario Barbatti is a Brazilian physicist, computational theoretical chemist, and writer. He is specialized in the development and application of mixed quantum-classical dynamics for the study of molecular excited states. He is also the leading developer of the Newton-X software package for dynamics simulations. Mario Barbatti held an A*Midex Chair of Excellence at the Aix Marseille University between 2015 and 2019, where he is a professor since 2015.

#5214

Dwaine O. Cowan

#105143

Overall Influence

1935 - 2006 (71 years)

Dwaine O. Cowan was an American chemist. He was a professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University. He is best known for his pioneering work in the field of organic conductors. His other research interests included organometallic chemistry, organic photochemistry, organic chemistry, metallocenes and the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds containing sulfur, selenium, and tellurium.

#5215

Fakhreddin Jamali

Fakhreddin Jamali

#172332

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Fakhreddin Jamali is an Iranian-Canadian professor emeritus of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Alberta. He is the founding president of the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the editor-in-chief of Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

#5216

Nicholas Hud

#143243

Overall Influence

Nicholas V. Hud is a biophysicist, biochemist, origins of life researcher, and Regents’ Professor and Julius Brown Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

#5217

Donald Fleming

#170568

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Donald George Fleming is a Canadian chemist. He attended the University of British Columbia and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1961 and a Master of Science degree in 1961. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. He is currently a professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of British Columbia. In 1989 he published a paper theorizing a new kind of chemical bond, which he referred to as vibrational bonding. The existence of such a short-lived bond was confirmed using a reaction between bromine and the exotic atom muonium in January 2015. Fleming is als...

#5218

Phil Shevlin

#159004

Overall Influence

Professor Philip B. Shevlin is an American experimental chemist, based primarily at Auburn University. Professor Shevlin is an internationally recognized research scientist. His special field of expertise is centered on the chemistry of high energy reactive intermediates. These intermediates include atomic carbon, carbenes, monovalent carbon species and other energetic molecules.

#5219

Rolf Landsberg

#157370

Overall Influence

1920 - 2003 (83 years)

Rolf Landsberg was a German Professor of Physical Chemistry. Between 1961/2 and 1964 he served as rector of the Leuna-Merseburg "Carl Schorlemmer" Academy for Chemistry . Life Rolf Landsberg was the elder of two sons born to the architect Max Landsberg and his wife, the doctor Hedwig Landsberg. Theirs was a prosperous Berlin family. However, Max Landsberg, who had been diagnosed with epilepsy in 1890, died young, in 1930. Rolf began his schooling in Berlin, starting his secondary education at the Heinrich-Kleist-Gymnasium. However, in January 1933 there had been a change of government, and...

#5220

Inke Siewert

#170217

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Inke Siewert is a professor for Inorganic Chemistry at University of Göttingen. Her research focuses on activation of small molecules by transition metal complexes and molecular electrochemistry. Education and professional life She finished her Abitur in 1999. She then studied chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 1999 to 2004. From 2004 to 2009 she worked on her doctorate in the group of Christian Limberg at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The topic of her dissertation was "Activation of dioxygen at novel first row transition metal complexes for biomimetic oxidation reactions".

#5221

Melville Arnott

#62795

Overall Influence

1909 - 1999 (90 years)

Sir William Melville Arnott was a Scottish academic. Born in Edinburgh, the son of a Scottish minister, Rev Henry Arnott, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1931 and was awarded his MD on renal hypertension in 1937.

#5222

Hanadi Sleiman

#160263

Overall Influence

Hanadi Farouk Sleiman is a Canadian chemist who is Canada Research Chair in DNA Nanoscience at McGill University. Her research makes use of DNA as a template for nanomaterials. She was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Polanyi Award in 2021.

#5223

Richard W. Carlson

#172534

Overall Influence

#5224

Junwang Tang

#168311

Overall Influence

Junwang Tang, MAE, FRSC and FIMMM, is the Founding Director of Industrial Catalysis Center, and Carbon Neutrality Chair Professor of Materials Chemistry and Catalysis at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University and Visiting Professor at University College London . He also served as the Director of the University Material Hub at UCL .

#5225

Phillip Geissler

#169274

Overall Influence

1974 - 2022 (48 years)

Phillip L. Geissler was a theoretical chemist and the Aldo De Benedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. Geissler contributed to the theory and understanding of water, which he described as "a famously unusual liquid”. He was particularly interested in collective fluctuations that dictated kinetics in aqueous solutions, solvation, and ion-specific effects. He examined the vibrational spectra of water and the dynamical trajectories of water models and simulated air–water interfaces. He further studied the statistical mechanics of biological polymers and heterogeneous mat...

#5226

Shu-Kun Lin

#172631

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

#5227

Keiko Hattori

#172536

Overall Influence

Keiko Hattori is a geochemist and mineralogist. She is Distinguished University Professor of Geochemistry and Mineral Deposits in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Ottawa.

#5228

Elsa Lundanes

#172718

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Elsa Lundanes is a Norwegian chemist. She was born in Ålesund and took her cand.real. degree in 1978. After two years at Texas University she took the dr.scient. degree in 1986. She worked in the pharmaceutical industry for Nycomed before she was employed by the University of Oslo in 1988. Her specialty is analytical chemistry. She became professor in 1999 and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2009.

#5229

Susan Odom

#126736

Overall Influence

1980 - 2021 (41 years)

Susan A. Odom was a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky who developed redox active organic compounds for energy storage applications. Early life and education Odom was inspired to explore STEM fields by her father who was a metallurgical engineer. She studied chemistry at the University of Kentucky and graduated in 2003, working under the supervision of Geoffrey Coates at Cornell University and John Anthony at the University of Kentucky. She moved to Georgia Institute of Technology where she conducted graduate research under the supervision of Seth R. Marder. After graduating in 2008, she moved to the University of Illinois as a postdoctoral scholar under Jeffrey S Moore.

#5230

Chiara Neto

#103071

Overall Influence

Chiara Neto is an Italian Australian chemist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Sydney. Her research considers functional nanostructures and the design of new materials for sustainable technologies. She is the former President of the Australasian Colloid and Interface Society and was selected as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in 2018.

#5231

Samuel Kounaves

#104190

Overall Influence

Samuel Kounaves is an American scientist, academic and author. He is a Professor of Chemistry at Tufts University, a visiting professor at Imperial College London, and an affiliate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

#5232

Jadwiga Ostrowska-Czubenko

#130375

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Jadwiga Barbara Ostrowska-Czubenko is a Polish chemist at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Biography Ostrowska-Czubenko attended the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, majoring in chemistry. She graduated in 1972, defended her doctoral thesis eight years later, and completed her habilitation in 2002. She is associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, where she specializes in physical Chemistry and physicochemistry of polymers.

#5233

Bruce C. Gibb

#79907

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Bruce C. Gibb is a professor of chemistry at Tulane University. He is notable for his work in aqueous supramolecular chemistry, with particular emphasis on self-assembly leading to compartmentalization, and contributing to fundamental understandings of the hydrophobic effect and Hofmeister effect Bruce C. Gibb received both his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Robert Gordon University. His Ph.D. Synthesis and Structural Examination of 3a,5-cyclo-5a-Androstane Steroids was carried out under the direction of Philip J. Cox and Steve M. MacManus. He accepted a gratis appointment as a post-doctora...

#5234

Paul A. D. de Maine

#153661

Overall Influence

1924 - 1999 (75 years)

Paul Alexander Desmond de Maine was a leading figure in the early development of computer-based automatic indexing and information retrieval and one of the founders of academic computer science in the 1960s.

#5235

Ruth Blake

#138415

Overall Influence

Ruth E. Blake is an American geochemist and environmental scientist. She is a professor at Yale University in earth & planetary sciences, environmental studies, and chemical & environmental engineering. Blake's work focuses on marine biogeochemical processes, paleoclimate, astrobiology, and stable isotope geochemistry.

#5236

Markita del Carpio Landry

#128627

Overall Influence

Markita del Carpio Landry is a Bolivian-American chemist who is an assistant professor in the department of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research considers nanomaterials for brain imaging and the development of sustainable crops. She was a recipient of the 2022 Vilcek prize for creative promise. del Carpio Landry's work has been featured on NPR, popular mechanics, the San Francisco Chronicle, and C&E News.

#5237

Antonio Luiz Braga

#172965

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Antonio Luiz Braga was born in Herculândia, Brazil. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Federal University of São Carlos in 1981, master's degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of São Paulo in 1984, and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of São Paulo in 1989 under the guidance of Professor Comasseto.

#5238

YoungSoo Kim

#103838

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

YoungSoo Kim is a South Korean chemist. Kim is an associate professor in Department of Pharmacy at Yonsei University. Education Kim completed his B.A. degree in biochemistry from New York University in 2001, with Professor Young-Tae Chang as an undergraduate research advisor. He then studied bioorganic chemistry under the supervision of Professor Kim D. Janda at Scripps Research and obtained his Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 2006.

#5239

Jill Millstone

#170037

Overall Influence

Jill Millstone is a professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. She works on metal-ligand chemistry in nanoparticle synthesis. She is the American Chemical Society Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecturer for 2018.

#5240

Janet Hergt

#118080

Overall Influence

Janet Margaret Hergt is an Australian geochemist. She is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The main focus of her research has been in the chemical analysis of rocks and minerals to explore the exquisite record of Earth processes preserved within them. Hergt is best known for her geochemical investigations of magmatic rocks although she has employed similar techniques in interdisciplinary projects including areas of archaeological and biological science.

#5241

Aurora E. Clark

#159207

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Aurora Evelyn Clark is an American computational chemist. She is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#5242

Kevin Tate

#123931

Overall Influence

1943 - 2018 (75 years)

Kevin Russel Tate was a New Zealand soil chemist, ecologist and climate scientist. Early life and family Born in Lower Hutt on 8 April 1943, Tate was the son of Dudley Tate and Hazel Winifred Tate . He was educated at Hutt Valley High School from 1956.

#5243

Harry Nursten

#131972

Overall Influence

1927 - 2011 (84 years)

Harry Erwin Nursten was a British food chemist, specialising in flavour chemistry at the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Reading. Biography Harry Erwin Nursten was born in Czechoslovakia in August 1927, son of Sergius Nursten and Helene. The family managed to escape to England shortly before the Second World War. In the 1939 England and Wales Register the parents were living at Corringham Court, Golders Green; Sergius was listed as “Dental surgeon .” The family settled in Ilkley, Yorkshire, where Harry attended Ilkley Grammar School and gained his Higher School Certificate in 1944.

#5244

Per Johannes Kolsaker

#162099

Overall Influence

1931 - 2010 (79 years)

Per Johannes Kolsaker was a Norwegian chemist. He was born in Narvik as a son of book printer Johannes Fridtjof Olsen and Johanne Otelie Trondsen . He, and his family, changed their last name to Kolsaker in 1945. He finished his secondary education in 1950, enrolled at the University of Oslo and graduated with the cand.real. degree in 1958. He also participated in the Independent Norwegian Brigade Group in Germany in 1952.

#5245

Ju-Chin Chu

#46761

Overall Influence

1919 - 2000 (81 years)

Ju-Chin Chu was a Chinese-American chemical engineer. He was the father of Steven Chu. He was born in Liuhe, Taicang, Suzhou. Chu attended Suzhou High School, Tsinghua University and National Southwestern Associated University in China before he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Ph.D. education in 1946. After graduating from MIT, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis from 1946 to 1949, at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute from 1949 to 1966, and at Virginia Tech from 1967 to 1972. He became an Academia Sinica member in 1964.

#5246

Toshio Suzuki

#173195

Overall Influence

#5247

Tamara Minko

#109729

Overall Influence

Tamara Minko is a distinguished professor and chair of the department of pharmaceutics at Rutgers University, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. She has an H-index of 43 since 2016 and over 17,800 citations of her work.

#5248

Susannah Scott

#170951

Overall Influence

Susannah L. Scott is a Canadian-American chemist who is Professor of Surface Chemistry and the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Sustainable Catalysis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research considers the design of heterogeneous catalysts for the efficient conversion of feedstocks and catalysts that improve the environment. She serves as an Executive Editor of ACS Catalysis and is a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#5249

Francesco Ricci

#173238

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

#5250

Richard J. Puddephatt

#137352

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Richard John Puddephatt, was born 1943 in Aylesbury, England. He is a distinguished university professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario, Canada. Richard is a former holder of a Canada research chair in material synthesis. He has been studying the fundamental chemistry of gold and other precious metals in the development of new materials for potential applications in health care and electronics. Puddephatt's research interests involve organometallic chemistry related to catalysis and materials science, and he is considered a world expert on platinum and gold chemistry.

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