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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#5651

Tomasz Wiltowski

#175599

Overall Influence

1949 - 2018 (69 years)

Tomasz Wiltowski was a Polish-American chemical engineer, a professor of mechanical engineering and energy processes at Southern Illinois University and director of Advanced Coal and Energy Research Center in Carbondale, Illinois.

#5652

Supawan Tantayanon

#180235

Overall Influence

Supawan Tantayanon is a Thai chemist who is a professor at the Chulalongkorn University. She has previously served as President of the Science Society of Thailand, Council of Science and Technology Professionals of Thailand, and Federation of Asian Chemical Societies.

#5653

James K. Beattie

#111552

Overall Influence

James K. Beattie is an Australian chemist from University of Sydney and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Royal Society of Chemistry.

#5654

Clara W. Hall

#173727

Overall Influence

Clara E. Walke Hall was an American research chemist at the National Institutes of Health from 1959 to 1999. Hall and geneticist Elizabeth F. Neufeld's research on genetic conditions affecting lysosomes led to Neufeld receiving the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award in 1982.

#5655

Ester Vázquez

#183458

Overall Influence

Ester Vázquez Fernández-Pacheco is an expert in carbon nanostructures and sustainable synthesis. She is a full professor at the University of Castilla la Mancha and a group leader at the MSOC Nanochemistry group.

#5656

Alain Van Dorsselaer

#184228

Overall Influence

#5657

Rosa Muchnik de Lederkremer

#177184

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Rosa Muchnik de Lederkremer is an Argentine chemist. A doctor in chemical sciences, emeritus professor at the University of Buenos Aires , and senior researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council , she has received Konex Awards in the area of Organic Chemistry in 1983 and 2013. Her research includes major contributions in the area of glycobiology through investigating the inhibition of the key enzyme for the survival of Trypanosoma cruzi in the human body.

#5658

Neil Waters

#99122

Overall Influence

1931 - 2018 (87 years)

Sir Thomas Neil Morris Waters was a New Zealand inorganic chemist and academic administrator who served as vice-chancellor of Massey University from 1983 to 1995. He is noted for establishing the university's Albany campus near Auckland in 1993.

#5659

Michael Elliott

#110063

Overall Influence

1924 - 2007 (83 years)

Michael Elliott, was a chemist and Lawes Trust Senior Fellow at Rothamsted Experimental Station who invented and commercialised the development of novel insecticides known as pyrethroids. Education Elliott was educated at The Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells and the University of Southampton where he was awarded Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

#5660

Andrew Pelter

#184145

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Andrew Pelter FRSC FLSW was a British organic chemist. Life Pelter was born in London and studied chemistry at Bristol University, where he also gained his PhD degree under the supervision of Professor W. D. Ollis. He was married three times, most recently to Susan Smith on 22 January 1994.

#5661

Kenneth Sims

#90545

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Kenneth W. W. Sims is an American professor of isotope geology in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wyoming. Sims operates the University of Wyoming High Precision Isotope Laboratory.

#5662

Julie M. Harris

#146564

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Julie Marie Harris has been Director of Research in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience and a Professor of Vision Science at the University of St Andrews. Her research investigates visual systems and camouflage.

#5663

Roger Naslain

#92170

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Prof. Roger R. Naslain is French chemical and physical scientist. He has been a professor at the University of Bordeaux 1 since 1969. Professor Naslain received his master's degree in chemical and physical sciences from the University of Rennes and his doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of Bordeaux. He then did a postdoctoral work at the General Electric R&D Center. Dr. Naslain is the author or co-author of more than 300 papers, co-author of 17 patents, and editor or co-editor of eight books on composite materials and four special issues of scientific journals devoted to ceramic...

#5664

John Kelly

#111565

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

John J. Kelly is a senior Irish academic. A professor of chemical engineering, he was for a period dean of the Faculty of Engineering at University College Dublin . He was executive director of the Ireland Canada University Foundation, chairman of the Scholarship Board of the O'Reilly Foundation, and president of Independent College Dublin, and is chairman of the board of trustees of the Friends of Bethlehem University in Ireland.

#5665

Wiesław Ptak

#155703

Overall Influence

1941 - 2004 (63 years)

Wiesław Stanisław Ptak was a Polish chemist, professor of chemical sciences, professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków and Dean of the Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics at AGH . Ptak was a member of the Polish Chemical Society and the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics .

#5666

María Escudero-Escribano

#165563

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

María Escudero-Escribano is a Spanish chemist and Director of the Nano-Electrochemical group at the University of Copenhagen. Her research considers the design of materials for catalysis, fuel cells and sustainable chemistry.

#5667

William Hale

#64807

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

#5668

Laura K. Boyer

#65431

Overall Influence

Laura Kate Boyer is a clinical assistant professor at the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Background In 1991, Boyer received her BA in Geography and Psychology at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She received her MA in Human Geography at the University of British Columbia in 1994. In 2001, Boyer received her PhD in Human Geography at McGill University. In 2014 she became a lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Planning and Human Geography at Cardiff University.; As a professor, she specializes in urban studies, public policy, ...

#5669

Chen Jiayong

#151705

Overall Influence

1922 - 2019 (97 years)

Chen Jiayong was a Chinese metallurgist and chemical engineer. He was a research professor and Vice President of the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . A pioneer in the development of hydrometallurgy in China, he was elected an academician of the CAS in 1980. He was awarded the State Science and Technology Prizes five times and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in 1996.

#5670

Russell J. Boyd

#181249

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Russell Jaye Boyd is a Canadian computational and theoretical chemist. He is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Biography Early life and education Russell Jaye Boyd was born in Kelowna, British Columbia, on September 11, 1945. He attended Lester Pearson High School in New Westminster and subsequently enrolled in the Bachelor of Science program at the University of British Columbia. Boyd graduated in 1967 from the University of British Columbia with First-Class Honours in Chemistry and the Lefevre Gold Medal. Upon receiving his PhD in 1971 in Theoretical Chem...

#5671

Pan Ming Huang

#184514

Overall Influence

#5672

Douglas Keszler

#182696

Overall Influence

Douglas A. Keszler is a distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry at Oregon State University, adjunct professor in the Physics Department at OSU and adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry at University of Oregon. He is also the director of the Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry, and a member of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute leadership team.

#5673

Ding Kuiling

#180993

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Ding Kuiling is a Chinese organic chemist. He has been Executive Vice President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University since October 2018, and formerly served as President of the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

#5674

Gerhard Erker

#184612

Overall Influence

#5675

Linda Peteanu

#183810

Overall Influence

Linda A. Peteanu is an American chemist who is a professor and head of the department of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research considers the steady state and transient photophysics of conjugated molecules.

#5676

Cooper H. Langford

#175856

Overall Influence

1934 - 2018 (84 years)

Cooper Harold Langford III was an American-born Canadian chemist. He was born to the philosopher Cooper Harold Langford and his first wife, Susan Coffman, in Ann Arbor, Michigan on October 14, 1934. He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate, and Northwestern University for graduate studies. His work at Northwestern and his postgraduate work at University College London and Columbia University resulted in the publication of Ligand Substitution Processes . The Langford-Gray classification remains an important tool to describe the mechanics of inorganic chemical reactions.

#5677

Lisa Rohan

#174314

Overall Influence

Lisa Cencia Rohan is an American chemist and pharmaceutical scientist. Biography She obtained a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from West Virginia University and a Ph.D. in pharmaceutics from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the department of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences in the area of mucosal immunology at the University of Pittsburgh. So far, Rohan has 169 publications with over 3,000 citations. Prior to her academic career, Rohan held leadership positions in the pharmaceutical industry.

#5678

Erika Marín-Spiotta

Erika Marín-Spiotta

#143419

Overall Influence

Erika Marín-Spiotta is a biogeochemist and ecosystem ecologist. She is currently Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is best-known for her research of the terrestrial carbon cycle and is an advocate for underrepresented groups in the sciences, specifically women.

#5679

Kathryn McGrath

#181601

Overall Influence

Kathryn McGrath is a New Zealand chemical scientist. She is deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Biography McGrath was educated at Burnside High School in Christchurch, and went on to study at the University of Canterbury, where she completed a BSc degree in chemistry. She then earned a PhD at the Australian National University in Canberra. Her thesis focused on the properties of liquid crystals. After completing her doctoral studies, she held postdoctoral positions at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, and Princeton University in the United State...

#5680

Annie Kersting

#182691

Overall Influence

Annie Bernadette Kersting is a chemist known for her work on the movement of compounds such as plutonium in the environment. She was the 2016 recipient of the Garvan–Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society.

#5681

David Hall

#113534

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

David Hall was a New Zealand chemist, best known as an X-ray crystallographer. Biography A student at Auckland University College, Hall graduated Master of Science in 1950 and a PhD in 1955. The title of his thesis was The Crystal Structure of Formamidoxine. He was one of the first research students in New Zealand in the area of X-ray crystallography, following the establishment of that research area at Auckland University College by John Llewellyn in 1948. The subject of both his master's and doctoral theses was the crystal structure of formamidoxine.

#5682

Kevin Downard

#132382

Overall Influence

Kevin Downard is a British - Australian academic scientist whose research specialises in the improving responses to infectious disease through the application and development of mass spectrometry and other molecular approaches in the life and medical sciences. Downard has over 35 years of experience in the field and has written over 145 lead-author scientific peer-reviewed journal publications, and two books including a textbook for the Royal Society of Chemistry and the first book to be published on the role of mass spectrometry in the study of protein interactions.

#5683

Joseph Alper

#158313

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Joseph Seth Alper is a former professor of chemistry at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is known for his work analyzing genetic discrimination and other issues related to human genetics research. He is a founding member of the Genetic Screening Study Group. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. He did his postdoc in the laboratory of Robert Silbey at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1968 to 1970.

#5684

Philippa Wiggins

#178833

Overall Influence

1925 - 2017 (92 years)

Philippa Marion Wiggins was a New Zealand academic, who made significant contributions to the understanding of the structure of water in living cells. Academic career Wiggins studied science at the University of Canterbury, but although she wanted to continue in physics, women at the university were not allowed to progress past stage one. Having switched to chemistry, Wiggins then won a scholarship to research at the Davy-Faraday Laboratory at the Royal Institution in London. She then completed a PhD at King's College London. Wiggins took time off to have a family and did not return to full...

#5685

Gerard Van Koten

#184794

Overall Influence

#5686

Günter Petzow

#122586

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Günter Petzow is a German materials scientist and former director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research. Biography He studied Chemistry and Physical Metallurgy at the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research. He received his master's degree in 1956 and finished his dissertation on Phase Equilibria of Quarternary Metallic Systems in 1959. Afterwards, he took over as the head of two research groups: phase diagrams of metallic systems and metallography in Stuttgart. Furthermore, he built up the Powder Metallurgical Laboratory in Stuttgart-Büsnau as a place of interdisciplinary research, which attracted guest researchers from all over the world.

#5687

Guy B. Marin

#181380

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Guy B. Marin is professor emeritus of chemical engineering at the Ghent University, Belgium. He is founding member of the Laboratory for Chemical Technology and the Center of Sustainable Chemistry at Ghent University. Prior to that, he has been teaching at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry of Eindhoven University of Technology. His research on chemical kinetics and chemical reaction engineering led in 2015 to a spinoff company. He co-authored two books, Kinetics of Chemical Reactions: Decoding Complexity and Advanced Data Analysis and Modelling in Chemical Engineering.

#5688

Clara Brink Shoemaker

#182711

Overall Influence

1921 - 2009 (88 years)

Clara Brink Shoemaker was a Dutch-born American crystallographer and a senior research professor at Oregon State University. As a postdoctoral researcher, she worked on the structure determination of vitamin B12 in the group of Dorothy Hodgkin. Together with her husband, David Shoemaker, she contributed to the research on transition metal phases and intermetallic compounds. They were the first to recognize that interstices in tetrahedrally close-packed metal crystals are exclusively tetrahedral and only have four types of coordination polyhedra.

#5689

Ian Croudace

#159521

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Ian Croudace is a British geochemist, academic, researcher and entrepreneur. He is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Radioactivity and Environmental Geochemistry at the University of Southampton and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Croudace has published over 200 research articles and has supervised 32 PhD projects over his career. He is director at Raddec International Limited. He is the author of the book Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores: Applications of a non-destructive tool for the environmental sciences and Executive Editor for the Quaternary International Special Issue entitled "Advances in Data Quantification and Application of High Resolution XRF Core Scanners".

#5690

Austin L. Wahrhaftig

#182331

Overall Influence

1917 - 1997 (80 years)

Austin Levy Wahrhaftig was an American chemist and mass spectrometrist known for his development of the quasi-equilibrium theory of fragmentation of molecular ions. The Wahrhaftig diagram that illustrates the relationship between internal energy and unimolecular ion decomposition is named after him.

#5691

Xiaolin Cui

#184964

Overall Influence

#5692

Hanoch Senderowitz

#180708

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Hanoch Senderowitz is an Israeli chemist specializing in the fields of Computational Chemistry, Molecular modelling, Computer-Aided Drug Design, and Chemoinformatics. Biography Hanoch Senderowitz received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Benzion Fuchs. He then spent four years as a Post Doctorate Fulbright fellow at Columbia University, working with Prof. W. Clark Still. After returning to Israel in 1997, he joined the pharmaceutical industry, working first at Peptor Ltd. for six years and then at Epix Pharmaceuticals until 2008. In 2009, he joined Ba...

#5693

Hagit Eldar-Finkelman

#184867

Overall Influence

Hagit Eldar-Finkelman is an Israeli scientist and a principal investigator of an active research laboratory at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Eldar-Finkelman’s research is focused on the signal transduction field and drug development targeting protein kinases. She is well known for her pioneering work on the functions of GSK-3 and its contribution to diabetes and other pathogenies, including depressive behavior, Alzheimer’s diseases, and Huntington’s diseases. Novel findings also include the unique evolution of GSK-3 isozymes. Eldar-Finkelman is a leading figure in dev...

#5694

Chung-Hsuan Winston Chen

#184990

Overall Influence

Chung-Hsuan Winston Chen is a Taiwanese chemist. Chen earned a degree in chemistry from National Taiwan University in 1969, then pursued further study in the United States. After he completed a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Chicago in 1974, Chen began working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1976 as a research scientist. He was promoted to senior scientist in 1989 and remained in that role until 2005. Concurrently, Chen held adjunct professorships at Vanderbilt University from 1990, and the University of Tennessee–Knoxville from 1993. In 2005, Chen returned to Taiwan, for a position with Academia Sinica's Genomics Research Center.

#5695

Michael O'Keeffe

#178937

Overall Influence

Michael O’Keeffe is a British-American chemist. He is currently Regents’ Professor Emeritus in the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University. As a scientist, he is particularly known for his contributions to the field of reticular chemistry. In 2019, he received the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

#5696

Karl M. Kadish

#181133

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Karl M. Kadish is an American chemist. He is currently Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor at the University of Houston. Career Dr. Kadish received his B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1967 and his PhD from Pennsylvania State University in 1970. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Louisiana State University, New Orleans , he spent one year as Chargé de Research at the University of Paris VI in France. He was an assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton from 1972 to 1976 and has been at the University of Houston since 1976, where he holds...

#5697

Montserrat Soliva Torrentó

Montserrat Soliva Torrentó

#46374

Overall Influence

1943 - 2019 (76 years)

Montserrat Soliva Torrentó was a Catalan doctor of chemistry. She served as a professor of the Higher School of Agriculture of Barcelona of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and had been a leading authority in Spain on the subject of composting. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Environment Award for the research career.

#5698

Edwin Mervyn Patterson

#171850

Overall Influence

1920 - 1997 (77 years)

Edward Mervyn Patterson FRSE FRGS FGS FSAScot was an Irish-born research chemist and geologist. He was president of the Geological Society of Glasgow from 1964 to 1967. Early life and education He was born in Northern Ireland on 14 March 1920, the son of John Wilson Patterson, a civil servant, and his wife, Dorothy Mary Ekin. He was educated at Bangor Grammar School. He then studied chemistry at Queen's University Belfast, earning a BSc in 1941.

#5699

George Lof

#168796

Overall Influence

1913 - 2009 (96 years)

George Oscar Löf was an American engineer and inventor who was best known for his contributions to solar energy research. "Nobody played a more enduring role in the 20th century solar house movement than George Löf."

#5700

Marina Guenza

#178725

Overall Influence

Marina Guenza is an Italian theoretical physical chemist who studies the fluid dynamics of macromolecules. She is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Oregon. Education and career Guenza earned a master's degree at the University of Genoa in 1985, and completed her Ph.D. in 1989 through a consortium of the University of Genoa, University of Turin, and University of Pavia.

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