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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#5501

Joan C. Sherman

#52225

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (93 years)

Joan Czerniejewski Sherman is a scientist and Professor of Chemistry. She was considered a pathbreaker by becoming one of the first professors at Florida Institute of Technology and one of the first women hired by Radiation Incorporated She became the first woman technical director at Harris Corporation. In 1994, the Society of Women Engineers named her Space Coast Outstanding Woman Engineer. The Town of Indialantic, Florida designated July 21, 2021 as “Joan C. Sherman Day”.

#5502

Samira Siahrostami

#179119

Overall Influence

Samira Siahrostami is an Iranian computational chemist who is an associate professor at the University of Calgary. She designs new materials for catalysis, and develops computer simulations to understand electrochemical reactions. She was awarded the 2023 Canadian Society for Chemistry Tom Zeigler Award.

#5503

Joseph Schlenoff

#134065

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Dr. Joseph B. Schlenoff is a distinguished research professor and Leo Mandelkern Professor of Polymer Science of the department of chemistry and biochemistry at Florida State University. He graduated with his doctorate in chemistry from UMass-Amherst in 1987 and became a professor at Florida State University in 1988. A leading scientist in the field of water-soluble polymers and biocompatible polymer composites and blends, Dr. Schlenoff has discovered a process for creating biomaterials that can be used in surgical implants designed for the extended release of certain medications and holds 30 issued and many pending patents.

#5504

Priyabatra Mukherjee

#171450

Overall Influence

Priyabrata Mukherjee is an American, academic researcher and professor. He is a Presbyterian Health Foundation presidential professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and associate director for translational research at Stephenson Cancer Center at the OU Health Sciences Center. He also holds the Peggy and Charles Stephenson endowed chair in cancer laboratory research at the OU Health Sciences Center.

#5505

Esther A. Hopkins

#82514

Overall Influence

1926 - 2021 (95 years)

Esther Arvilla Hopkins was an American chemist and environmental attorney. Hopkins was best known for her career as a biophysicist and research chemist at American Cyanamid along with research in the Polaroid Corp Emulsion Coating and Analysis Laboratory. She also pursued a career working as an attorney with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection following her time as a chemist.

#5506

Leodis Davis

#166477

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (92 years)

Leodis Davis is a retired professor of chemistry at the University of Iowa. Early life and education Leodis Davis was born on September 25, 1933, in Stamps, Arkansas, the oldest of two sons. He was raised primarily in Kansas City, Missouri, where his parents relocated in search of work. He was interested in science from an early age and cited his high school teachers' influence as inspiring. After graduating from high school, Davis was offered several college scholarships and chose to attend the University of Kansas City , where desegregation had recently made admission available to black students.

#5507

Neil Vasdev

#178311

Overall Influence

Neil Vasdev is a Canadian and American radiochemist and expert in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, particularly in the application of PET. Radiotracers developed by the Vasdev Lab are in preclinical use worldwide, and many have been translated for first-in-human neuroimaging studies. He is the director and chief radiochemist of the Brain Health Imaging Centre and director of the Azrieli Centre for Neuro-Radiochemistry at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health . He is the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Radiochemistry and Nuclear Medicine, the endowed Azrieli Chair in Brain and Behaviour and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

#5508

Derek Fisher

#180201

Overall Influence

#5509

Sandrine Heutz

#171248

Overall Influence

Sandrine Elizabeth Monique Heutz is a Professor of Functional Molecular Materials at Imperial College London. She works on organic and magnetically coupled molecular materials for spintronic applications. In 2008 Heutz was awarded the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Silver Medal.

#5510

Terry Slater

#76801

Overall Influence

Terry Slater is an honorary senior research fellow in Historical Geography at the University of Birmingham, UK. Born in Bromley but raised in Charlton he was educated at Hull University, University College, London and the University of Birmingham.

#5511

Elizabeth Roboz Einstein

Elizabeth Roboz Einstein

#50565

Overall Influence

1904 - 1995 (91 years)

Elizabeth Roboz-Einstein was a biochemist and neuroscientist known for purifying and characterizing myelin basic protein , investigating its potential role in the neurodegenerative disease multiple sclerosis , and helping pioneer the field of neurochemistry.

#5512

Hope Weiler

#145221

Overall Influence

Hope A. Weiler is a Canadian nutritionist and associate professor in the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at the McGill University Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. She holds a B.A.Sc. in Applied Human Nutrition from the University of Guelph and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences, Cell Biology and Metabolism, from McMaster University. As of 2018, she is a Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Nutrition and Health Across the Lifespan at McGill University. Her research specialty is the prevention of osteoporosis.

#5513

Ryan Julian

#180397

Overall Influence

Ryan Julian is an American chemist and Professor at the University of California, Riverside. His research uses mass spectrometry to study proteins and protein structure. His work has resulted in over 85 publications and he has been recognized with numerous honors including the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Biemann Medal in 2017.

#5514

Tao Xie

#180463

Overall Influence

#5515

Bettina G. Keller

#173849

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Bettina G. Keller is a professor for Theoretical Chemistry at Freie Universität Berlin. Life and education Keller did her Abitur at the Remstal-Gymnasium Weinstadt in 2000. In October 2000, she started her diploma studies at University of Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2002, she continued her diploma studies at ETH Zürich. She received her diploma in 2005. The title of her diploma thesis was "Estimating the absolute entropy of a liquid based on a single molecular dynamics simulation under periodic boundary conditions." In 2005, she started her PhD studies in Chemistry at ETH Zürich. She finished her P...

#5516

Peter Charles Taylor

#180490

Overall Influence

#5517

Claudine Stirling

#176159

Overall Influence

Claudine Helen Stirling is a New Zealand isotope geochemistry academic. As of 2018, she is a full professor at the University of Otago. Academic career After a 1996 PhD titled 'High-precision U-series dating of corals from Western Australia : implication for last interglacial sea-levels' at the Australian National University, Stirling worked at University of Michigan and ETH Zürich before moving to the University of Otago in 2006, rising to full professor in 2018. Prof Stirling is a member of the Department of Geology with current research interests including: isotope geochemistry, biogeoche...

#5518

Baltasar Mena Iniesta

Baltasar Mena Iniesta

#55778

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Baltasar Mena Iniesta is a Spanish-born Mexican mechanical engineer specialized in Rheology. He has been laureated with Mexico's National Prize for Arts and Sciences , UNESCO Science Prize , and has chaired both the International Committee on Rheology and the Mexican Society of Rheology .

#5519

Sumit Bhaduri

#171710

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Sumit Bhaduri is an Indian organometallic chemist and was a senior scientific advisor to Reliance Industries. He is known for his studies on metal-carbonyl clusters and to the polymer-supported catalysis and is credited with the development of technology for the manufacture of Ziegler-Natta polypropylene catalyst which is in use with Reliance Industries.

#5520

Ryan C. Bailey

#90040

Overall Influence

Ryan C. Bailey is an American professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan. Bailey joined the department of chemistry in 2006 as assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2012. In 2011, he was received the Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

#5521

Spiridoula Matsika

#180143

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Spiridoula Christos Matsika is a Greek theoretical chemist. She was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014. Education Spiridoula Christos Matsika was born in 1971 in Greece; she attended the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for her bachelor's degree in chemistry, graduating in 1994. She completed her PhD at the Ohio State University, graduating in 2000 under the advisorship of Russell M. Pitzer. Following the completion of her PhD, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University under David Yarkony for three years.

#5522

Joseph Fairweather Lamb

#59949

Overall Influence

1928 - 2015 (87 years)

Joseph Fairweather Lamb FRSE was a 20th-century Scottish physician, who was emeritus Professor of the Chandos Chair of Physiology at the University of St Andrews. Life He was born at Balnacake Farm near Brechin on 18 July 1928 the son of Joseph Lamb, a tenant farmer, and his wife, Agnes Fairweather.

#5523

David R. Williams

#180608

Overall Influence

#5524

Richard D. Smith

#180614

Overall Influence

#5525

Sally-Ann Poulsen

#171552

Overall Influence

Sally-Ann Poulsen is an Australian chemical biologist who is a Professor and Director at Griffith University. Her research considers medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. She is Chair of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology Division.

#5526

Roland Boer

#31917

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Roland Boer is an Australian theologian and scholar of Marxism. He was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2014. Career Boer obtained a bachelors degree in divinity from the University of Sydney. He was a professor at University of Newcastle .

#5527

Kirk Schanze

#106936

Overall Influence

Kirk S. Schanze is an American chemist previously at the University of Florida and currently the professor and Robert A. Welch Distinguished University Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas at San Antonio and Editor-in-Chief of ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

#5528

Steve Wharton

#51427

Overall Influence

Steve Wharton is Associate Professor of French and Communication at the University of Bath's Department of Politics, Language and International Studies, where he has worked since 1990. He was appointed to a consultancy rôle as Interim Head of Governance from mid-February to the end of July 2019.

#5529

Ying E. Zhang

#119266

Overall Influence

Ying E. Zhang is a Chinese-American biochemist specialized in TGF-beta signaling and functions of ubiquitin E3 ligase Smurfs to better understand cancer cells and metastasis. She is a senior investigator in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the National Cancer Institute.

#5530

Jama Musse Jama

Jama Musse Jama

#44295

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Jama Musse Jama is a prominent Somali ethnomathematician and author. He is notable for his research on traditional Somali boardgames such as Shax. Biography Jama was born in 1967 in Hargeisa, Somalia, where he had his primary and secondary education. He then left for Mogadishu and attended the Somali National University, where he studied mathematics for four and half years. Fluent in Italian, Jama left Hargeisa to study as a mathematician at Pisa University, in Italy and he went on to obtain a PhD in Computational linguistics at Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale". He has a partic...

#5531

Antonio Brú

#72788

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Antonio Brú Espino is Theoretical physicist and permanent professor in the Departament of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Brú received his PhD in 1995 from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in physics, with advisor Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. He began his research career in 1989 at the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas in the field of anomalous transport and complex systems. In 1993, he established his own research group to study tumor growth. In 2002, he moved to the Spanish National Research Council .

#5532

Chuan He

#180927

Overall Influence

#5533

Paula Diaconescu

#180936

Overall Influence

Paula L. Diaconescu is a Romanian-American chemistry professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is known for her research on the synthesis of redox active transition metal complexes, the synthesis of lanthanide complexes, metal-induced small molecule activation, and polymerization reactions. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#5534

Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler

#115513

Overall Influence

1907 - 1997 (90 years)

Gwendolyn Wilson Fowler was an African-American pharmacist, the first black woman licensed in Iowa. She also became the first African-American woman from Iowa to serve in the United States Foreign Service, when she was posted to Vietnam in the 1950s. She was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1987.

#5535

Alaa Abd-El-Aziz

#76340

Overall Influence

Alaa Abd-El-Aziz is a Canadian academic and former president of the University of Prince Edward Island. Early life Abd-El-Aziz completed his bachelor's and master's at the Ain Shams University in 1985 and 1989 respectively. He completed a PhD at the University of Saskatchewan in 1989.

#5536

Joseph Tonzetich

#130504

Overall Influence

Dr. Joseph Tonzetich is considered the modern-day pioneer in bad breath research. During the 1960s and 1970s in particular, Tonzetich and colleagues established that volatile sulfur-containing compounds were key identifiable gases in oral malodor. He also provided quantitative support for the hypothesis proposed by G.L.Grapp in the early 1930s that the back of the tongue is the major source of oral malodor.

#5537

Paweł Urban

#176276

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Paweł Urban is a chemist and is a professor of Chemistry in the National Tsing Hua University . He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of York . Urban's research interests include mass spectrometry and biochemical analysis.

#5538

Ian McDougall

#101348

Overall Influence

1935 - 2018 (83 years)

Ian McDougall was an Australian geologist and geochemist. McDougall was born in Hobart and studied at the University of Tasmania and Australian National University, before taking up a research position at ANU. He was a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Australian Academy of Science, and the American Geophysical Union. McDougall also served as Vice President of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior.

#5539

Trista Vick-Majors

#67990

Overall Influence

Trista Vick-Majors is an American Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences at Michigan Tech. She is an Antarctic biogeochemist and microbial ecologist, best known for her work showing that microorganisms are present under the Antarctic ice sheet.

#5540

Anna Hirsch

#181048

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Anna Katharina Herta Hirsch is a German-Luxembourg chemist and professor of medicinal chemistry at Saarland University. Since 2017, she has headed the Department of Drug Design and Optimization at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland .

#5541

Ryszard Słomski

#108539

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Ryszard Slomski is a Polish professor and lecturer at the Poznań University of Life Sciences. Education Ryszard Słomski attended the Karol Marcinkowski Secondary School in Poznań, known as “Marcinek.” He graduated in 1973 from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where he studied biology in the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences. He undertook PhD studies at the Poznań University of Medical Sciences and beginning in 1974 worked under the supervision of Professor Antoni Horst in the newly opened Institute of Human Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1986 he has been the deputy...

#5542

Hind Al-Abadleh

#152050

Overall Influence

Hind Al-Abadleh is a professor of chemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She studies the physical chemistry of environmental interfaces, aerosols and climate change. Early life and education Al-Abadleh grew up in the United Arab Emirates, where she became interested in chemistry during high school. She was excited that science could be used to protect the environment. She eventually studied chemistry at the United Arab Emirates University, graduating in 1999. She joined the University of Iowa in 1999 for her doctoral studies, earning her PhD in 2003. She was awar...

#5543

Gordana Dukovic

#173592

Overall Influence

Gordana Dukovic is a physical chemist. She is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder. Life and education Gordana Dukovic earned her B.A. at Rutgers University in 2001, majoring in chemistry and minoring in Italian. In her PhD studies, she did research at Columbia University on the spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes with Louis Brus as her advisor. She was awarded a PhD in chemistry with distinction in 2006 for her thesis entitled "Electronic spectra of carbon nanotubes: excitonic states, chemical doping, and chiral interactions." After her PhD, ...

#5544

Daiana Capdevila

#181128

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (38 years)

Daiana Andrea Capdevila is an Argentine chemist, winner of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards for her studies to measure water pollution. She is an assistant researcher at CONICET of the Institute of Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires and head of laboratory of the Leloir Institute.

#5545

Joel Bowman

#181138

Overall Influence

Joel Mark Bowman is an American physical chemist and educator. He currently serves as the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Emory University. Publications, awards and affiliations Bowman is the author or co-author of more than 600 publications and is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#5546

Jukka Mönkkönen

#41461

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Jukka Mönkkönen is a Finnish Professor of Biopharmacy and Rector of the University of Eastern Finland. Jukka Mönkkönen served as the Academic Rector of the University of Eastern Finland in 2012–2014, he was then elected Rector for a five-year term in 2015 and re-elected for another five-year period starting on 1 January 2020. The decision was taken unanimously by the board of the University of Eastern Finland on 21 May 2019.

#5547

Chen Yu-chie

#181237

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Chen Yu-chie is a Taiwanese chemist and is a Professor of Chemistry in the National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. from Montana State University . Research Chen's research interests include biological mass spectrometry, analytical nanotechnology, and nanobiotechnology.

#5548

Albin Owings Kuhn

#53325

Overall Influence

1916 - 2010 (94 years)

Albin Owings Kuhn was a prominent figure in the University of Maryland system during the mid-twentieth century. He became the first chancellor of Baltimore Campuses in 1965, and is most notable for being the first chancellor of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County during its planning and early stages of operation. The main library, Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery at UMBC is named after Kuhn.

#5549

Mamoru Watanabe

#181262

Overall Influence

#5550

Mary Galvin

#121436

Overall Influence

Mary E. Galvin is an American scientist and the former Dean of the University of Notre Dame College of Science. She earned her BA in chemistry at Manhattanville College and her MSc and PhD degrees in polymers and materials science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Galvin worked at Bell Laboratories following the completion of her doctorate work until 1998, when she joined the faculty at the University of Delaware. In 2005, Galvin entered the private sector as a technical lead in new technology development at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. In 2013, she became the director of the M...

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