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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#5751

Mark P Jensen

#186303

Overall Influence

#5752

Zhang Tao

#155167

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Zhang Tao is a Chinese chemist. Zhang is a native of Shaanxi, born in 1963. Zhang earned a doctorate from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in 1989 and pursued postdoctoral research at the University of Birmingham before returning to DICP in 1990, where he was appointed to a full professorship in 1995. Zhang headed DICP as director from 2007 to 2017. In 2013, Zhang was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

#5753

Joanna Bauldreay

#134735

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Joanna Bauldreay is a British chemist and Aviation Fuel Development Manager at Shell Global Solutions. Early life and education Bauldreay studied Natural Sciences at Newnham College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1976. She was awarded a Half Blue for cricket, and continues to play sports. Bauldreay joined the University of Southampton for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in Electrochemical Science. She completed her PhD at Newnham College, Cambridge, under the supervision of Mary Archer.

#5754

Mark J. Poznansky

Mark J. Poznansky

#80808

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Mark J. Poznansky is a research scientist, science administrator and science blogger. He is the past president and CEO of the Ontario Genomics Institute and was previously chair of the board of OGI, and the founder of G2G Consulting Inc. He is a member of the Order of Canada, a member of the Order of Ontario and was CEO, president and scientific director of Robarts Research Institute.

#5755

Osama Badary

#183395

Overall Influence

Osama A. Badary is an Egyptian professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the British University in Egypt. He is the Vice Dean Pharmaceutical Research Faculty of Pharmacy, former Vice Dean Postgraduate Studies and Research, and the former Chairman of National Organization for Drug Control and Research , Cairo, Egypt.

#5756

Yu-Shan Lin

#185290

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Yu-Shan Lin is a computational chemist. She is an associate professor of chemistry at Tufts University in the United States. Her research lab uses computational chemistry to understand and design biomolecules, with topics focusing on cyclic peptides, protein folding, and collagen.

#5757

Francine Battaglia

#174578

Overall Influence

Francine Battaglia is an American aerospace engineer specializing in computational fluid dynamics, including the study of fluidized beds and of fire, fire whirls, and flame spread. Her other research interests include ventilation and energy usage in architectural design, and alternative and renewable energy systems. She is professor and chair in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University at Buffalo, where she directs the Computational Research for Energy Systems and Transport Laboratory.

#5758

Carla Meledandri

#185253

Overall Influence

Carla J. Meledandri is a New Zealand chemistry academic, and in 2020 was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Otago. Academic career After a 2009 PhD titled 'NMR studies of membrane-bound nanoparticles and nanoparticle assemblies' at the Dublin City University, Meledandri moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor.

#5759

Georgiy B. Shul'pin

#184503

Overall Influence

1946 - 2023 (77 years)

Georgiy Borisovich Shul’pin was born in 1946 in Moscow, Russia. He graduated with a M.S. degree in chemistry from the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University in 1969. Between 1969 and 1972, he was a postgraduate student at the Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds under the direction of Prof. A. N. Nesmeyanov and received his Ph.D. in organometallic chemistry in 1975. He received his Dr. of Sciences degree in 2013.

#5760

Kwabena Bediako

#115644

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (39 years)

Daniel Kwabena Dakwa Bediako is a Ghanaian-British chemist. He is currently assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the Cupola Era Professor in the college of chemistry. His research considers charge transport and interfacial charge transfer in two-dimensional materials and heterostructures. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of the American Chemical Society .

#5761

Nicolas H. Thomä

#183322

Overall Influence

Nicolas H. Thomä is a German researcher, full professor at the EPFL School of Life Sciences and Director of the Paternot Chair for Cancer Research in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a biochemist and structural biologist and a leading researcher in the fields of ubiquitin ligase biology and DNA repair.

#5762

Joanne Lemieux

#186753

Overall Influence

M. Joanne Lemieux is a Canadian scientist who is a Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Alberta. She studies the structures of membrane proteins that are critical to disease in an effort to identify novel therapeutic strategies. During the COVID-19 pandemic Lemieux worked to develop an antiviral drug that could protect people from coronavirus disease.

#5763

Sandra Leal

#105758

Overall Influence

Sandra Leal is a pharmacist, a public health champion, an advocate, a healthcare executive, and the 166th President of the American Pharmacists Association. Early life and education Leal grew up in Nogales, Arizona, and attended the University of Arizona before graduating from the University of Colorado's School of Pharmacy in 1999. She obtained a Master of Public Health from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

#5764

Julie Zimmerman

#157164

Overall Influence

Julie Beth Zimmerman is an American chemist and the editor in chief of Environmental Science & Technology. Early life and education Zimmerman was born to parents Shellie and Samuel Zimmerman in South Brunswick, New Jersey. Zimmerman completed her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia and her PhD from the University of Michigan.

#5765

John Simons

#113669

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

John Philip Simons is a British physical chemist known for his research in photochemistry and photophysics, molecular reaction dynamics and the spectroscopy of biological molecules. He was professor of physical chemistry at the University of Nottingham and Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford .

#5766

Alan G. Thomas

#107900

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Alan G. Thomas was an international authority on the mechanics of rubbery materials, in particular their fracture mechanics properties. Along with Ronald S. Rivlin, he published the Rupture of Rubber series of articles, beginning in 1953. He was the first to apply Griffith's energy release rate criterion to the analysis of rubber's strength and fatigue behavior.

#5767

Betar Gallant

#180329

Overall Influence

Betar Maurkah Gallant is an American engineer who is an associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research investigates the development of new materials for batteries. She worked with Barack Obama on an educational initiative to train young Americans in clean energy.

#5768

Michelle O'Malley

#166757

Overall Influence

Michelle O'Malley is an American chemical engineer and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is known for her work studying the use of anaerobic microbes in developing inexpensive biofuels. In 2015 she was named as one of MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators under 35, and in 2016 she received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

#5769

Helen Walden

#132150

Overall Influence

Helen Walden is an English structural biologist who received the Colworth medal from the Biochemical Society in 2015. She was awarded European Molecular Biology Organization membership in 2022. She is a Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Glasgow and has made significant contributions to the Ubiquitination field.

#5770

Margaret Tolbert

#102140

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Margaret Ellen Mayo Tolbert is a biochemist who worked as a professor and director of the Carver Research Foundation at Tuskegee University, and was an administrative chemist at British Petroleum. From 1996 to 2002 she served as director of the New Brunswick Laboratory, becoming the first African American and the first woman in charge of a Department of Energy lab.

#5771

Jayaraman Sivaguru

Jayaraman Sivaguru

#186965

Overall Influence

Jayaraman Sivaguru is the Antonia and Marshall Wilson Professor of Chemistry and the Associate Director, Center for Photochemical Sciences at the Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. He is a recipient of 2008 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2010 Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize from the Swiss Chemical Society, 2011 young-investigator award from the Inter-American Photochemical Society , and 2012-young investigator award from Sigma Xi. His honors also include Excellence in Research award, 2011 Excellence in Teaching award, and the 2012 PeltierAward for Innovation in Teaching.

#5772

William H. Riffee

#104787

Overall Influence

William H. Riffee was Dean of the University of Florida College of Pharmacy. Prior to his position at the UF College of Pharmacy, he was a professor at the University of Texas from 1975 until 1996.

#5773

Jing Kong

#186979

Overall Influence

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Anitra Ingalls

#186770

Overall Influence

Anitra Eiding Ingalls is an American biogeochemist and oceanographer. In 2017, she was named an American Geophysical Union Outstanding Reviewer. Life She graduated from Reed College and from Stony Brook University. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Pearson Lab. She was a researcher at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She teaches at University of Washington. She attended Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia. She did research at the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology.

#5775

Ulrike Kramm

#186980

Overall Influence

Ulrike I. Kramm is a German chemistry professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt. Her research considers the development and characterisation of metal catalysts for fuel cells, conversion and solar fuels.

#5776

Daniel Asua Wubah

#52803

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Daniel Asua Wubah is a Ghanaian-American president of Millersville University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that he was the Provost at Washington and Lee University. In his private life, Wubah is a tribal king, Nana Ofosu Peko III, Safohene of Breman Traditional Area in Ghana. He is the first Ghanaian-born president of an American university.

#5777

Jennifer Maynard

#184842

Overall Influence

Jennifer Maynard is an American chemist who is the Henry Beckman Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research considers the development of therapeutic targets for infectious diseases. She was elected a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors in 2023.

#5778

Elaine Martin

#120520

Overall Influence

Elaine Barbara Martin OBE FREng FIChemE CEng is a chemical engineer and statistician and Head of School at the University of Leeds. She is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Royal Statistical Society and Royal Academy of Engineering.

#5779

Nadine Unger

#97798

Overall Influence

Nadine Unger is a Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Exeter. She has studied the role of human activities and forests on the Earth's climate. Early life and education Unger earned her doctoral degree in atmospheric chemistry at the University of Leeds, where she worked on isoprene chemistry. The small molecule isoprene is a volatile organic compound that can react with nitrogen oxide to form the greenhouse gas ozone. Isoprene can also extend the lifetime of atmospheric methane. Whilst these two processes cause global warming, isoprene can also produce aerosol particles that block sunlight, resulting in a cooling effect.

#5780

Akane Kawamura

#184080

Overall Influence

Akane Kawamura is a British chemist who is professor of chemistry at Newcastle University. Her research considers the chemistry of epigenetics. She was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Jeremy Knowles Award for her development of chemical probes to study biological processes.

#5781

Debra Auguste

#162819

Overall Influence

Debra Auguste is an American chemical engineer and professor at Northeastern University in the department of chemical engineering. Auguste is dedicated to developing treatments for triple negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive and fatal cancers that disproportionately affects African American women. Her lab characterizes biomarkers of triple negative breast cancer and develops novel biocompatible therapeutic technologies to target and destroy metastatic cancer cells. Auguste received the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and in 2010 was named in the 50 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology.

#5782

Hélène Olivier-Bourbigou

#119255

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Hélène Olivier-Bourbigou , is a French chemist. She is a research fellow in the field of homogeneous molecular catalysis at IFP Énergies Nouvelle, and her work aims to develop homogeneous catalytic processes that are more respectful of the environment. She received the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2014 in the category "Female Scientist of the Year."

#5783

Joyce Waters

#180729

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

Joyce Mary Waters, Lady Waters is a New Zealand inorganic chemist and X-ray crystallographer, who is currently professor emeritus at Massey University. She was the second woman to receive a PhD in chemistry at the University of Auckland, and the first woman to serve as president of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry.

#5784

Lois Jones

#143729

Overall Influence

1935 - 2000 (65 years)

Lois M. Jones was an American geochemist who led the first all-woman science team to Antarctica in 1969. They were also the first women to reach the South Pole. Jones was well regarded for her contribution to geological research in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, one of the few ice-free areas of Antarctica, and published many papers and abstracts.

#5785

Saeid Esmaeilzadeh

Saeid Esmaeilzadeh

#176898

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Saeid Esmaeilzadeh, born 1974, is the co-founder of the business Serendipity Group, and adjunct professor in inorganic chemistry at Stockholm University. He was a board member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences’ Business Executives Council during . Since March 2015, Saeid Esmaeilzadeh is a member of the Swedish Government's reference group of Entrepreneurs.

#5786

Alenka Luzar

#184759

Overall Influence

Alenka Luzar was a Slovenian-American physical chemist known for her research on the dynamics of hydrogen bonds in water. Education and career Luzar is originally from Ljubljana, and as a teenager was a member of the Slovenian junior national ski team at the Junior Olympic games associated with the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. She was educated at the University of Ljubljana, completing her Ph.D. there in 1983.

#5787

Éric Postaire

#142398

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Éric Postaire, born 23 March 1957 in Cherbourg, is a French pharmacist. Member of the National Academy of Pharmacy. He works for the reenchantment of science. He was thus the key player in the creation of the Centre d'Interprétation du Patrimoine Terre de Louis Pasteur in the Jura in 2012.

#5788

Arthur Wilson

#96071

Overall Influence

1914 - 1995 (81 years)

Arthur James Cochran Wilson, FRS was a Canadian-British crystallographer known for his work on the statistical aspects of X-ray crystallography. Education and career He was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia. He was educated at King's Collegiate School, Windsor, Nova Scotia and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia where he was awarded a BSc in 1934 and an MSc in 1936. He then proceeded to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his first PhD in 1938 on the anomalous thermal behaviour of the ferro-electric Rochelle salt.

#5789

Krzysztof Wilmanski

Krzysztof Wilmanski

#113291

Overall Influence

1940 - 2012 (72 years)

Krzysztof Wilmanski was a Polish-German scientist working in the fields of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics. Main research fields axiomatic and kinetic foundations of continuum thermodynamics,mixture theory,phase transformations in solids,non-newtonian fluids,acoustic waves in continua,crystal plasticity and the evolution of textures,thermodynamics of porous materials.

#5790

Jin-Shan Wang

#186009

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Jin-Shan Wang , is a Chinese-American organic chemist and entrepreneur. Biography Wang was born in Jiangyan, Jiangsu, China in 1962. Wang obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees both in polymer science from the East China University of Science and Technology.

#5791

Pál Csokán

#180836

Overall Influence

1914 - 1995 (81 years)

Dr. Pál Csokán was a Hungarian chemistry professor, a well known researcher of corrosion science and protection. After receiving his degree from University of Szeged in 1938, he was employed there for a few years as an assistant professor. From 1943 he worked at Danuvia engine plant and armory as a lab manager in Budapest. Later he became the head of division at the Institute of Metal Research and then at the General Engineering Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in 1957 and his Doctor of Sciences degree in 1963, on the topic of anodic oxidation of aluminium. During his research work he disproved the Keller-Hunter-Robinson theory of anodic film formation on the surface of aluminium.

#5792

Iajuddin Ahmed

#50992

Overall Influence

1931 - 2012 (81 years)

Iajuddin Ahmed was the President of Bangladesh, serving from 6 September 2002 until 12 February 2009. From late October 2006 to January 2007, he also served as Chief Advisor of the caretaker government. From October 2006 to early 2008, his responsibilities as president included the Defense Ministry of the caretaker government.

#5793

James C Liao

#187289

Overall Influence

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Peter Atkins

#172673

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Peter J. Atkins is emeritus professor of geography at Durham University. He is a specialist in food history and the geography of food. Selected publications Atkins, P.J. A History of Uncertainty: Bovine Tuberculosis in Britain, 1850 to the Present. Winchester: Winchester University Press; 2016.Atkins, P.J. Animal Cities: Beastly Urban Histories Farnham: Ashgate; 2012.Atkins, P.J. Liquid materialities: a history of milk, science and the law. Farnham: Ashgate; 2010.Atkins, P.J. & Bowler, I.R. Food in Society, economy, culture, geography. London New York: Arnold; 2001.Atkins, P.J., Simmons, I.G. & Roberts, B.K.

#5795

Florence Gschwend

Florence Gschwend

#178886

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (34 years)

Florence Gschwend is a Swiss chemical engineer and Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow at Imperial College London. She is the founder and CEO of Lixea , a spin-out company that commercialises wood fractionation to enable a circular bioeconomy.

#5796

Manel del Valle

#186413

Overall Influence

Manel del Valle Zafra, Ph.D. , is a Spanish chemist, who is active in the field of analytical chemistry; he is a professor of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and founder of the university Group of sensors and biosensors.

#5797

Bambang Hidayat

#43374

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Bambang Hidayat is an Indonesian scientist known for promoting astronomy nationally and internationally. His work has focused on the study of binary stars and galactic structure. The minor star Hidayat , discovered in 1977, was named after him by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld. He has over forty papers published to his name and has written several astronomy textbooks.

#5798

Alison R. Fout

#184705

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Alison R. Fout is an American inorganic chemist at the Texas A&M University where she holds the rank of professor. She has contributed to the discovery of new catalysts with NHC ligands. She discovered a family of catalysts that reduce oxyanions such as nitrate, perchlorate to nitric oxide and chloride, respectively.

#5799

Sarah Delaney

#186487

Overall Influence

Sarah Delaney is an American chemist who is a professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Brown University. Her research investigates DNA damage and how it is related to human disease. Early life and education Delaney was an undergraduate student at Middlebury College, where she majored in chemistry, researching cisplatin anti-cancer analogs. She moved to the California Institute of Technology for graduate research, where she worked alongside Jacqueline Barton on the role of DNA in charge-transfer reactions. In particular, she investigated whether the helical stack of base pairs in the...

#5800

Krystle McLaughlin

#171558

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (124 years)

Krystle McLaughlin is a Caribbean-American structural biophysicist. She is an assistant professor of chemistry at Vassar College. Early life and education McLaughlin grew up in Tobago, where she met Joan and Jay Mandle, professors at Colgate University, who encouraged her to apply. She studied physics at Colgate University, graduating in 2006. She was the only woman of colour in her graduating physics class. At Colgate University she was a leader of the Society of Physics Students. She has since returned to Colgate University, to speak at their annual SophoMORE Connections event, introducing undergraduate students to alumni.

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