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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#5351

Steven Cliff

#138188

Overall Influence

Steven Scott Cliff is an American chemist and transportation official who last served as administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. He also served as deputy executive officer of the California Air Resources Board and assistant director of sustainability in the California Department of Transportation.

#5352

Peter Nemes

#156917

Overall Influence

Peter Nemes is a Hungarian-American chemist, who is active in the fields of bioanalytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, cell/developmental biology, neuroscience, and biochemistry. Biography Nemes has been an associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park since January 2018. Prior to his appointment there, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry at George Washington University , where he taught bioanalytical chemistry. Nemes graduated with summa cum laude with a Master's of Science from the Eötvös Loránd University in 2004. His original thesis research w...

#5353

Nina Thornhill

#169117

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Nina Frances Thornhill is a British chemical engineer specialising in process automation. She is a professor emerita in the Imperial College London Department of Chemical Engineering, where she formerly held the ABB/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of Process Automation.

#5354

Tatiana Budtova

#173954

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Tatiana Budtova is a chemical researcher. She works at MINES ParisTech and specialises in the chemical physics of polymers, particularly bio-based polymers and bio-based aerogels. In 2020, she was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal.

#5355

Arnold Guloy

#173533

Overall Influence

Arnold Guloy is an American chemist who is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston. He is an expert in the area Zintl phases chemistry, crystal growth, materials discovery, and superconductivity.

#5356

Terence Coderre

#34961

Overall Influence

Terence J. Coderre is Professor of Medicine and the Harold Griffith Chair in Anaesthesia Research at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an investigator at the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain at McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute in Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience Program.

#5357

Thomas Loerting

#174980

Overall Influence

Thomas Loerting is an Austrian chemist and associate professor at the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses on amorphous systems, the physics and chemistry of ice and chemistry at low temperatures.

#5358

Abraham Badu-Tawiah

#172956

Overall Influence

Abraham Badu-Tawiah is a Ghanaian scientist who is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Ohio State University. His research considers the development of mass spectrometry for the detection of disease. In 2017 he was awarded the American Chemical Society Arthur F. Findeis prize and in 2020 a Sloan Research Fellowship.

#5359

Michael Jones

#46095

Overall Influence

Michael J. Jones is an American computer scientist and inventor working as a computer vision researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. Education Jones earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 under Tomaso Poggio.

#5360

Alexandru Cecal

Alexandru Cecal

#95049

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Alexandru Cecal was a chemist, professor at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania, known especially for his contributions in the field of radiochemistry. Education Cecal was born in Cahul, Moldavian SSR and attended the primary school in Pianu, Alba County , continuing his studies at the Boys' Middle School from Alba Iulia.

#5361

Quintin McKellar

#22369

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Quintin McKellar is a British veterinary surgeon and academic. In the 2011 New Year Honours list, he was appointed a CBE for services to science during his tenure as principal of the Royal Veterinary College. Since January 2011 he has been vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.

#5362

Warren Chan

#92533

Overall Influence

Professor Warren Chan is a full professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at the University of Toronto. He received his B.S. and PhD degree, and post-doctoral training from the University of Illinois, Indiana University, and University of California, San Diego.

#5363

David Taylor

#108212

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

David Taylor FFRPS FRPharmS is a British professor. He is the head of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Clinical Academic Group within King's Health Partners. Taylor has been lead author and editor of the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry since 1994. In 2014, Taylor was named as one of the top 100 clinical leaders in the UK National Health Service.

#5364

Adah Almutairi

#170830

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Adah Almutairi is a scientist and professor at the University of California, San Diego . Her work focuses on nanomedicine, nanotechnology, chemistry and polymer science. Early life and education Almutairi was born on November 1, 1976, in Portland, Oregon, United States to Saudi parents.

#5365

Oded Hod

#173196

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Oded Hod is an Israeli chemist. He is a full professor at the School of Chemistry of Tel Aviv University, and is the Heinemann Chair of Physical Chemistry. Education and career In 1991-1994 Hod did his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University in chemistry and physics as part of the academic reserve officers' training corps . Upon completing his degree, he commenced his army service in the IAF, where he served during 1994-1998. He then moved to the Ministry of Defense, continuing his service until 2000.

#5366

Xiaoming Wang

#176362

Overall Influence

#5367

Christa Brosseau

#86623

Overall Influence

Christa L. Brosseau is a Canadian chemist, currently a Canada Research Chair at Saint Mary's University . Brosseau's research focus is on Electrochemical Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Early career and education Brosseau was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and received a B.Sc. degree in chemistry from Dalhousie University and a MSc degree in 2003 under the supervision of Prof. Sharon Roscoe at Acadia University for studying the adsorption of proteins on metallic surfaces using electrochemical methods.

#5368

Thomas H. Epps III

#91463

Overall Influence

Thomas H. Epps, III is an American chemist and the Thomas & Kipp Gutshall Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has a joint appointment in Materials Science & Engineering, and an affiliated appointment in Biomedical Engineering. He serves as the director of the Center for Research in Soft Matter & Polymers, the director of the Center for Hybrid, Active, and Responsive Materials , and the co-director of the Center for Plastics Innovations . His research considers the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of nanostructure-containing p...

#5369

Richard M. Crooks

#176382

Overall Influence

Richard M. Crooks is an American material chemist, currently the Robert A. Welch Foundation Chair of Materials Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin.

#5370

P. L. Thibaut Brian

#157779

Overall Influence

1930 - 2018 (88 years)

Pierre Leonce Thibaut Brian was an American chemical engineer. He was born in New Orleans and attended Louisiana State University. Upon graduation in 1951, Brian pursued a ScD in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under doctoral adviser Edwin R. Gilliland. Brian taught at MIT from graduation in 1956 to 1972, when he left for Air Products & Chemicals, where he served as vice president of engineering and on the company's board of directors. In 1975, Brian was named a member of the National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to both theory and engineering ...

#5371

Alyssa Panitch

#156800

Overall Influence

Alyssa Panitch is an American biomedical engineer. She is a Professor and Department Chair in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Panitch focuses on designing biopolymers that improve tissue healing and regeneration by researching intracellular and extracellular approaches to direct molecular and cellular processes.

#5372

Kay Brummond

#169544

Overall Influence

Kay Michille Brummond is an American synthetic chemist who is Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Her interests consider cycloaddition reactions that can realise molecules and natural products for organic photovoltaics and targeted covalent inhibitors. She was elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2010, a Fellow of the AAAS in 2021, and awarded the ACS National Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences in 2021.

#5373

Roland Boese

#176461

Overall Influence

#5374

Gábor Fodor

#97499

Overall Influence

1915 - 2000 (85 years)

Gábor Béla Fodor was a Hungarian-American chemist, medical research scientist, and professor of chemistry. His work in academia, which spanned six decades in Europe and later in North America, specialized in research of antidotes, painkillers, tropane alkaloids, and derivatives of vitamin C. His research helped in finding treatments for cancer, strokes, Alzheimer's disease, and other illnesses.

#5375

Daniel McGillivray Brown

#112273

Overall Influence

1923 - 2012 (89 years)

Daniel McGillivray Brown FRS was a Scottish nucleic acid chemist. Early life and career Daniel McGillivray Brown was born in Giffnock on 3 February 1923, son of David Cunninghame Brown, a restaurateur, and Catherine Stewart , a teacher. After Giffnock Primary School he attended Glasgow Academy and then, at age 17, Glasgow University where he studied chemistry, and received an honours degree.

#5376

Harry Friedmann

#94425

Overall Influence

1931 - 2018 (87 years)

Harry Friedmann was a professor of chemistry who specialized in theoretical nonlinear optics and lasers in biology. Biography Harry Friedmann was born in Frankfurt am Main to Miriam and Moshe Friedmann. Soon after his birth, the family fled to Czechoslovakia to the area that was called the Sudetenland and from there to Belgium. He studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles from 1951, gaining a Ph.D. with distinction in 1964 under the supervision of Nobel prize winner Ilya Prigogine. He was a research associate at the Weizmann Institute of Science , a senior lecturer at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and then a professor at Bar-Ilan University in the Chemistry Department.

#5377

Tsuyoshi Tanaka

#158474

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Tsuyoshi Tanaka is a Japanese chemist, who is active in the fields of nanotechnology and environmental science; he is a professor of the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology . Works Biological Magnetic Materials and Applications / eds. Tadashi Matsunaga, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, David Kisailus, Springer, 2018, 260 p. , .

#5378

Elizabeth Sattely

#134152

Overall Influence

Elizabeth S. Sattely is an American scientist and biotechnology engineer. She is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering, an HHMI investigator, and a ChEM-H Faculty Fellow at Stanford University.

#5379

Paul Wine

#176711

Overall Influence

Paul Wine is an American chemist currently at Georgia Tech and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Chemical Society.

#5380

Francis S. Mair

#175377

Overall Influence

Francis S. Mair is a British chemist and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester. His research is based on synthetic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, catalysis and polymer chemistry.

#5381

Priyadarshi R. Shukla

#176334

Overall Influence

Priyadarshi R Shukla is an Indian academician and along with James Skea is the co-chair for Working Group III of IPCC. He is a distinguished professor at Ahmedabad University and the chair of the Global Center for Environment and Energy.

#5382

Jeffrey Weidenhamer

#92721

Overall Influence

Jeffrey D. Weidenhamer is a Trustees’ Distinguished Professor at Ashland University and professor of chemistry. He is also chair of the department of chemistry, geology and physics and a member of the environmental science faculty.

#5383

Ekkehard Lindner

#176806

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

#5384

Roland Levinsky

Roland Levinsky

#25083

Overall Influence

1943 - 2007 (64 years)

Professor Roland Levinsky was an academic researcher in biomedicine and a university senior manager. His last post, which he held at the time of his death, was as vice-chancellor of the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom.

#5385

Robin Stokes

#141828

Overall Influence

1918 - 2016 (98 years)

Robert Harold Stokes FAA was an Australian chemist and Foundation Professor of Chemistry at the University of New England, from 1955 to 1979. His research interests included solution thermodynamics and electrolytes.

#5386

Serena Corr

#124797

Overall Influence

Serena Corr is a chair in Functional Materials and Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield. She works on next-generation battery materials and advanced characterisation techniques for nanomaterials.

#5387

Leonard Katz

#176918

Overall Influence

#5388

Shaden Kamhawi

#173443

Overall Influence

Shaden Kamhawi a Jordanian scientist and the co-Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases academic journal. She is a specialist in vector-borne diseases. Personal life Kamhawi was born in Jordan.

#5389

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

#100906

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Colonel Hamish Stephen de Bretton-Gordon is a chemical weapons expert and was a director of SecureBio Limited until its dissolution on 17 August 2017. He was formerly a British Army officer for 23 years and commanding officer of the UK's Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Regiment and NATO's Rapid Reaction CBRN Battalion. He is a visiting lecturer in disaster management at Bournemouth University. He attended Tonbridge School and has a degree in agriculture from the University of Reading .

#5390

Harold Friedman

#91538

Overall Influence

1923 - 2005 (82 years)

Harold Leo Friedman was an American physical chemist who contributed to the study of thermodynamic properties of fluids with applications in oceanography and physiology. He received his undergraduate degree and Ph.D in chemistry from the University of Chicago.

#5391

Yongfang Li

#176963

Overall Influence

#5392

Yang Dan

#172330

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Yang Dan is a Hong Kong-Chinese chemist and chemical biologist. She is the chair professor in both School of Life Sciences and School of Science in the Westlake University. She was awarded the TWAS Prize for Chemistry in 2010 and the Young Woman Scientist Prize of China in 2011.

#5393

Nazira Karodia

#133577

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Nazira Karodia is a chemist, Professor of Science Education and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Regional Development at the University of Wolverhampton. She works on organic synthesis, green chemistry, heterocyclic compounds and science education.

#5394

Selin Kara

#71080

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Selin Kara is a Turkish-born chemist and biotechnologist. She is currently a full professor and head of Industrial Biotechnology section at Aarhus University. She studies biocatalysis and has been recognized for her work about deep eutectic solvents and her research regarding cofactor regeneration in biotransformations.

#5395

Kenneth Roux

#58124

Overall Influence

Kenneth Roux is an American academic biologist whose research addresses structural analysis of the AIDS viruses HIV-1 and SIV, and the antibodies that neutralize them, as well as food-allergen characterization and immunoassay development. He is the Kurt G. Hofer Professor of Biological Science at Florida State University , where he is affiliated with the Institute of Molecular Biophysics. He has been a member of FSU's biological science faculty since 1978. Roux received his B.S. degree from Delaware Valley College in 1970 and then attended Tulane University, from which he received his M.S. in 1972 and his Ph.D.

#5396

Lara Estroff

#168463

Overall Influence

Lara Ann Estroff is an American materials scientist who is a professor at Cornell University. Her research considers the study and design of biomaterials. Early life and education Estroff was an undergraduate student at Swarthmore College, where she majored in chemistry and anthropology. As a college student, she played soccer. Estroff then worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science, alongside Lia Addadi, where she started investigating biomineralization and how chemical approaches could be used to solve challenges in archaeology. Estroff returned to the United States for doctoral research, joining the laboratory of Andrew D.

#5397

Judy Raper

#127002

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Judy Agnes Raper is an Australian chemical engineer and was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Wollongong. She has served as a National Science Foundation Director and led the Atomic Energy Research Establishment. She has been Dean & CEO of TEDI-London, a new engineering higher education provider since its incorporation in June, 2019.

#5398

Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami

#142597

Overall Influence

1945 - 2015 (70 years)

Sethunathasarma Krishnaswami , popularly known as Swami, was an Indian geochemist and an honorary scientist at the geosciences division of the Physical Research Laboratory. He was known for his studies on low temperature geochemistry and was an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, The World Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, India, American Geophysical Union, Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry . The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific res...

#5399

Amanda Sainsbury-Salis

#95660

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Amanda Sainsbury-Salis is an Australian medical researcher, educator and author. Her research interests are hypothalamic control of body weight, famine reaction, metabolism, body composition, anorexia, obesity, eating disorders.

#5400

Laura Kaufman

#169528

Overall Influence

Laura Jill Kaufman is an American chemist who is a professor of chemistry at Columbia University. Her research considers the dynamics of crowded systems, including biopolymer gels, supercooled liquids and conjugated polymers.

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