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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#5401

Anna Slater

#174172

Overall Influence

Anna Slater is a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow at the Materials Innovation Factory at the University of Liverpool. Education Anna Slater studied chemistry at the University of Nottingham, where she graduated in 2006. Slater completed a Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Professor Neil Champness in 2011.

#5402

Christopher Wathes

#121572

Overall Influence

1952 - 2016 (64 years)

Christopher Michael Wathes was a British research scientist who specialised in agricultural and veterinary science. Wathes was born in Birmingham in 1951 and graduated from the University of Birmingham with a BSc degree in physics in 1974. He graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1978 with a PhD in environmental physics.

#5403

Wolfgang Krätschmer

#177389

Overall Influence

#5404

Krishnaswamy Nandakumar

#172413

Overall Influence

Krishnaswamy Nandakumar is the Cain Endowed Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Louisiana State University, USA. Early life He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli in 1973, Master of Science from the University of Saskatchewan in 1975 and PhD from Princeton University in 1979 all in Chemical Engineering.

#5405

Ljiljana Paša-Tolić

#176826

Overall Influence

Ljiljana Paša-Tolić is a Croatian research scientist who is a research fellow in Functional and Systems Biology at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She is responsible for developing capability in mass spectrometry at the PNNL Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory. Her research looks to develop analytical techniques to modify protein abundance.

#5406

Koen Andries

#76539

Overall Influence

Koen Andries is a Belgian Janssen Pharmaceutica scientist and professor at the University of Antwerp. In 2005 he and his team published a discovery about a new di-Aryl-Quinoline-based drug , now called bedaquiline, which promises a shorter and simpler treatment for drug resistant Tuberculosis .

#5407

Leslie Schoop

#137816

Overall Influence

Leslie Mareike Schoop is a German materials chemist who is an associate professor at Princeton University. Her research considers the realization of new materials for quantum technologies. She has identified several new topological materials, including the non-toxic, air-stable topological semi-metal ZrSiS.

#5408

Sylvie Roke

#166606

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Sylvie Roke is a Dutch chemist and physicist specialized in photonics and aqueous systems. As a full professor she holds Julia Jacobi Chair of Photomedicine at EPFL and is the director of the Laboratory for fundamental BioPhotonics.

#5409

Christine Hrenya

#73908

Overall Influence

Christine M. Hrenya is an American chemical engineer and applied mathematician whose research involves computational fluid dynamics, especially of aerosols, multiphase flow, and fluidization of granular materials. She is a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado.

#5410

Yu Guocong

#161466

Overall Influence

1922 - 2022 (100 years)

Yu Guocong was a Chinese scientist who was a professor at Tianjin University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the China Association for Promoting Democracy. He was a member of the 6th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Standing Committee of the 7th and 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

#5411

Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg

#174470

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg is a German physicist and chemist. He is professor of physical chemistry at the department of chemistry of the University of Kaiserslautern. Since 2011 he acts as director of the DFG-funded transregional collaborative research center SFB/TRR 88 3MET.de.

#5412

Thomas J. Barton

#117158

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Thomas J. Barton is an American chemist who served as the president of the American Chemical Society in 2014. Biography He graduated from Lamar University, and from University of Florida in 1967. He was a post-doctoral fellow with National Institutes of Health at the Ohio State University.

#5413

Merton Sandler

#79064

Overall Influence

1926 - 2014 (88 years)

Merton Sandler was a British professor of chemical pathology and a pioneer in biological psychiatry. Education and career Sandler studied at the Manchester Grammar School and the University of Manchester. In 1959, he suggested a link between depression and monoamine deficiency in the brain, which led to the development of antidepressants. Sandler was Professor of Chemical Pathology at the University of London from 1973 to 1991.

#5414

Lu Ke

#127956

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Lu Ke is a Chinese materials scientist. He was born in Huachi County, Gansu, and received his bachelor's degree at East China Institute of Technology. In January 1990, he received a doctor's degree at the Institute of Metals Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and became a researcher there 3 years later. In 1993, he was awarded first class natural science prize of the CAS. In 2003, he was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the age of 38, making him one of the youngest academicians in the history of the CAS. He is mainly known for his work in the field of crystallization of...

#5415

George M. Murray

#69427

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

George Milton Murray is an academic in Chemistry and Material Science. He specializes in chemical analysis, sensors and molecularly imprinted polymers. Murray was born in Manchester, Tennessee. He spent a year at the University of the South before enlisting in the United States Navy. He served in the United States Navy from 1972 until 1979 achieving the rank of Machinists Mate Second Class. He received his B.A. in chemistry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1982 and the Ph.D. in chemistry from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1988. He performed Post-doctoral work in the Transuranium Research Laboratory at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

#5416

Sue Fletcher

#133935

Overall Influence

Sue Fletcher is a professor and lecturer at the University of Western Australia and a Senior Principal Research Fellow at Murdoch University. She studies the field of molecular and cell biology and holds the position of chief scientific officer at PYC therapeutics. Currently her research is focused on inherited retinal disease, the central nervous system and neurodegeneration. Alongside Professor Steve Winton she developed novel treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, including eteplirsen, which was the first of its kind to be approved by the FDA in 2016. In 2021 she was appointed an Offi...

#5417

Martin F. Jarrold

#172459

Overall Influence

Martin F. Jarrold is a physical and analytical chemist known for contributions to ion-mobility spectrometry, heat capacity measurements of metal clusters, and charge detection mass spectrometry. Martin is the Robert & Marjorie Mann Chair in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University.

#5418

Andrew deMello

#130794

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Andrew James deMello is a British chemist and Professor of Biochemical Engineering at ETH Zürich . Education deMello was born in London, and spent his formative years in Harrow, attending the John Lyon School. He was awarded an entrance scholarship to Imperial College London in 1988, subsequently obtaining a first-class bachelor's degree in Chemistry in 1991 and a PhD in Molecular Photophysics in 1995 .

#5419

Wang Hongfei

#137128

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Wang Hongfei is a physical chemist and chemical physicist. Since 2017, he is a professor in the department of chemistry of Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Biography After three years of primary school education at the affiliated school of the No. 106 Geological Survey Unit of the Bureau of Geological Service of the Sichuan Province in 1975–1978, in the deep mountainous area in the Panzhihua City, Wang was admitted to the first class of the middle school of the then newly established No. 3 Bingcaogang Secondary/High School at Panzhihua City. Before the new semester started, he moved with ...

#5420

Shari Forbes

#43977

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Professor Shari L. Forbes is an Australian and Canadian forensic scientist and researcher. She is a thanatology expert on the decomposition of human bodies. She created a body farm in Australia and between 2019 and 2022 established a similar facility in Canada, connected to the Forensic Science department at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières . As of January 2023, she is a full professor in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Windsor, and is hoping to start the first body farm in Ontario in the coming years.

#5421

Nancy E. Levinger

#104664

Overall Influence

Nancy E Levinger is a chemistry professor at Colorado State University. She has a variety of research interests including "Ultrafast laser spectroscopy for dynamics of molecules and assemblies in the condensed phase" In addition to her research, she has received many awards for her exemplary teaching and mentorship.

#5422

George R. Hill III

George R. Hill III

#106115

Overall Influence

1921 - 2001 (80 years)

George Richard Hill III was an American chemist and a world authority on coal. Hill was also a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1987 to 1992. Early life Hill was born in Ogden, Utah to George R. Hill, Jr. and Elizabeth McKay. Both his parents were college deans at Utah State University. Hill's uncle was David O. McKay, ninth president of the LDS Church.

#5423

Ping Zhu

#178016

Overall Influence

#5424

David J. Procter

#173522

Overall Influence

David John Procter is a British chemist and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester. His research is based on organic chemistry and catalysis, specifically on radical cascades, sulfonium cross-coupling and copper catalysis.

#5425

Debbie Silvester

#117392

Overall Influence

Debbie Silvester is a British-Australian chemist who is a professor at Curtin University. Her research considers electrochemical processes and sensing. She has explored room-temperature ionic liquids. In 2021, she was awarded the Australian Academy of Science Le Fèvre Medal.

#5426

Richard Grant Hiskey

Richard Grant Hiskey

#135504

Overall Influence

1929 - 2016 (87 years)

Richard G. Hiskey was an American chemist and Alumni Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hiskey joined the department of chemistry of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1958. He served in various capacities within the university, including director of graduate studies and chairman of the department , chairman of the division of natural sciences from 1975 to 1981, and faculty representative to the Atlantic Coast Conference and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics .

#5427

Alison Davenport

#128303

Overall Influence

Alison Jean Davenport is the Professor of Corrosion Science at the School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham. Education Davenport studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge where she was a member of King's College, Cambridge. She remained there for her graduate studies, earning her PhD in 1987. Her PhD was in metallurgy, investigating the oxide layers that form on top of metals.

#5428

Katrina Miranda

#123456

Overall Influence

Katrina Miranda is an associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Arizona. She works on nitric oxide and their role in diseases like breast cancer, stroke and chronic pain. Early life and education Miranda studied chemistry at Northern Arizona University. She moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara, and earned her PhD in 1996. Miranda was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

#5429

Antoinette Rodez Schiesler

#88221

Overall Influence

1934 - 1996 (62 years)

Mary Antoinette "Toni" Rodez Schiesler was an American chemist and director of research at Villanova University. She was also a former Roman Catholic nun and Episcopal deaconess. Early life Carole Virginia was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother, Gladyce Cunningham Rodez, was a singer from New Haven, Connecticut, who had moved to Chicago to search for work with the big bands. There, at the age of 26, she was raped by a "Cuban man named Rodriguez", and became pregnant. Gladyce raised her daughter as a single mother, choosing to move back to familiar New Haven rather than raise her daughter...

#5430

Colm O'Donnell

#176825

Overall Influence

Colm P. O'Donnell is an Irish chemist and engineer; he is a professor of biosystems and food engineering at the University College Dublin who is active in the field of process analytical technology ; he is also a head of university School of biosystems and food engineering — as well as a chairperson of the Dairy processing technical committee of International Federation for Process Analysis and Control .

#5431

Aoife Gowen

#86338

Overall Influence

Aoife Gowen is currently a professor in the University College Dublin School of Biosystems and Food Engineering. Her area of research covers topics such as applications of hyperspectral imaging and chemometrics to biological systems.

#5432

Vanessa Peterson

#173983

Overall Influence

Vanessa K. Peterson is a Neutron Instrument Scientist, at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation . She established an independent research program at ANSTO which specialised on improving understanding of energy systems and how they work. She manages the Echidna program, a high-resolution powder diffractometer, as well as Wombat - a high-intensity powder diffractometer. Peterson's expertise includes synchtron and laboratory x-ray techniques, as well as neutron powder diffraction, as well as single crystal x-ray diffraction.

#5433

Paul F. McMillan

#120226

Overall Influence

1956 - 2022 (66 years)

Paul Francis McMillan was a British chemist who held the Sir William Ramsay Chair of Chemistry at University College London. His research considered the study of matter under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure, with a focus on phase transitions, amorphisation, and the study of glassy states. He has also investigated the survival of bacteria and larger organisms under extreme compression, studies of amyloid fibrils, the synthesis and characterisation of carbonitride nanocrystals and the study of water motion in confined environments. He has made extensive use of Raman spectroscopy...

#5434

Joan B. Broderick

#174415

Overall Influence

Joan Blanchette Broderick is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Montana State University known for her work on bioinorganic chemistry, especially the chemistry of iron-sulfur interactions. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

#5435

Mehtap Oezaslan

#175583

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Mehtap Oezaslan is a full professor for technical electrocatalysis at TU Braunschweig. Education and professional life Oezaslan studied Chemistry at TU Berlin and finished her diploma in the group of R. Schomäcker. From January 2008 to February 2012, she did her PhD in the group of P. Strasser at TU Berlin. From November 2012 to July 2014, she was a scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute. In August 2014, she became a junior professor for Electrochemistry at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. Since June 2019, she is a full professor at TU Braunschweig.

#5436

Deborah Swackhamer

#165074

Overall Influence

1954 - 2021 (67 years)

Deborah Liebl Swackhamer was an environmental chemist and professor emerita at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Swackhamer applied her expertise in studying the effects of exposure to toxic chemicals, as well as the processes that spread those chemicals, to developing policies that address exposure risks.

#5437

Rufina Alamo

#175328

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Rufina G. Álamo Matesanz is a Spanish-American polymer scientist known particularly for her research on polyethylene and polypropylene and on sustainable polymers such as polyoxymethylene made from biomass. She is Simon Ostrach Professor of Engineering and distinguished research professor of chemical and biomedical engineering in the Florida A&M University – Florida State University College of Engineering.

#5438

I. Jonathan Amster

#174971

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Ives Jonathan Amster is an American chemist. He is a professor and head of the department of chemistry in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Georgia. His research focuses upon the use of mass spectrometry in analytical and biological chemistry. He was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010, "for distinguished contributions to the fields of analytical chemistry and mass spectrometry".

#5439

Alain Le Mehaute

Alain Le Mehaute

#27566

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Alain Le Mehaute is a French engineer-chemist and inventor. He has written numerous scientific researches and academic literature on Geometry, Physics and Chemistry. Alain Le Mehaute, Olivier de Witte and Jean Claude André were the first to file their patent for the stereolithography process, but officially the title of inventor of stereolithography and 3D printing technology on the whole belongs to Chuck Hull

#5440

Siddaramaiah

#178703

Overall Influence

#5441

William Jacob Knox Jr.

#161322

Overall Influence

1904 - 1995 (91 years)

William Jacob Knox Jr. was an American chemist at Columbia University in New York City and one of the African American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project. Knox held an unprecedented position, serving as the only African American supervisor for the Manhattan Project. Knox is credited for nuclear research of gaseous diffusion techniques used for the separation of uranium isotopes. Knox's efforts in the development of uranium contributed to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.

#5442

Kevin Burgess

#176957

Overall Influence

Kevin Burgess is a British chemist who has been Rachal Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University since 2004. He was educated at the University of Bath , the University of East Anglia and Darwin College, Cambridge . He received the Pedler Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013 and was made a Fellow in the same year. He has an h-index of 81 according to Google Scholar.

#5443

Katrina A. Jolliffe

#175807

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Katrina Anne Jolliffe is an Australian supramolecular and organic chemist and professor at the University of Sydney. In 2002 Jolliffe was awarded an ARC fellowship at the University of Sydney. She was made a senior lecturer in 2007, promoted associate professor in 2008 and full professor in 2009. From 2013 to 2016 she was head of the school of chemistry.

#5444

Sarah E. Reisman

#172697

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Sarah Elizabeth Reisman is a Chemistry Professor at the California Institute of Technology. She received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award and the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Organic Synthesis. Her research focuses on the total synthesis of complex natural products.

#5445

John Paul Vergara

#46734

Overall Influence

John Paul C. Vergara is a professor at the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, School of Science and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University. He is currently the Vice President for the Loyola Schools of the University, succeeding Ma. Assunta Caoile-Cuyegkeng, Ph.D.

#5446

Jan B. Talbot

#171830

Overall Influence

Jan B. Talbot is an American chemical engineer. She is a professor emerita at the Jacobs School of Engineering. She completed a bachelor and master of science in chemical engineering at Pennsylvania State University. From 1975 to 1981, Talbot was as a development engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She completed a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and materials science in 1986 from University of Minnesota. She joined the faculty at University of California, San Diego in 1986. She was the president of the Electrochemical Society from 2001 to 2002. In 2004, she became a fellow of the Electroc...

#5447

Albert Sun-Chi Chan

#132816

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Albert Sun-Chi Chan is a Hong Kong chemist. He is a professor of chemistry and traditional Chinese medicine. He has served as a vice-president of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the president of Hong Kong Baptist University .

#5448

Maurice Iwu

#23479

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Maurice Mmaduakolam Iwu is a Nigerian professor of pharmacognosy who was appointed Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission in June 2005, and was removed from office in April 2010.

#5449

Nilufar Mamadalieva

#95382

Overall Influence

Nilufar Mamadalieva is a biochemist from Uzbekistan. Biography Mamadalieva completed a Master's in science at Fergana State University and a PhD at the Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances in Tashkent. She is a scientific researcher at the institute. Her work focuses on the phytochemical and biological investigation of active compounds in the local medicinal plants of Central Asia.

#5450

Mark A. Ratner

#178973

Overall Influence

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