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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#5801

Rebecca Jockusch

#182153

Overall Influence

Rebecca Ann Jockusch, Ph.D. , is a Canadian chemist; she is an associate professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Toronto who is active in the field of mass spectrometry. Literature Adrian G. Brook, W. A. E. McBryde. Historical Distillates: Chemistry at the University of Toronto since 1843. — Dundurn, 2007. — P. 180, 192, 208. — 258 p. — .Kulesza et al. Excited States of Xanthene Analogues: Photofragmentation and Calculations by CC2 and Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory // ChemPhysChem. — 2016. — August . — P. 3129–3138. — ISSN 1439-4235. — DOI:10.1002/cphc.201600...

#5802

Nicholas Turner

#180616

Overall Influence

Nicholas John Turner, is a British chemist and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester. His research in general is based on biochemistry and organic chemistry, specifically on biotechnology, cell biology, biocatalysis and organic synthesis.

#5803

Fan Ren

#115129

Overall Influence

Fan Ren is an American chemical engineer, focusing in wide energy bandgap electronic services and semiconductor device passivation, currently Fred and Bonnie Edie Professor, distinguished professor and UF Term Professor at University of Florida.

#5804

Luisa Whittaker-Brooks

#186951

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Luisa Whittaker-Brooks is an American chemist who is an associate professor at the University of Utah. She was named a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science honouree in 2013 and one of Chemical & Engineering News' Talented 12 in 2017.

#5805

Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus

#182769

Overall Influence

Gerd Ulrich "Uli" Nienhaus is a German physicist who is a professor and director of the Institute of Applied Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . At the KIT, he is also affiliated with the Institute of Nanotechnology, Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems, and Institute of Physical Chemistry, and he is an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

#5806

Slayton A. Evans Jr.

#141575

Overall Influence

1943 - 2001 (58 years)

Slayton A. Evans Jr. was an American chemist and professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was a leading researcher into organophosphorus chemistry. His research led to a greater understanding of the functions of organophosphate compounds and innovations in methods to produce chemical compounds for pharmaceutical drugs.

#5807

Jennifer Waters

#176141

Overall Influence

Jennifer Waters is an American scientist who is a Lecturer on Cell Biology, the Director of the Nikon Imaging Center, and the Director of the Cell Biology Microscopy Facility at Harvard Medical School. She is an imaging expert and educator whose efforts to educate life scientists about microscopy and to systemize the education of microscopists in microscopy facilities serve as a blueprint for similar efforts worldwide.

#5808

Bert Boyer

#75679

Overall Influence

Bert Boyer is an American molecular biologist who is the Professor of Molecular Biology for the Department of Biology and Wildlife at University of Alaska Fairbanks, Bob and Charlee Moore Endowed Professor, Director of Alaska Native Health Research, and OHSU Knight for the Cardiovascular Institute School of Medicine. He was instrumental in forming the Center for Alaska Native Health Research. Boyer's research group specifically focuses on genetic and environmental risk and prevention initiatives related to obesity and diabetes in Yup'ik Eskimos from Southwest Alaska.

#5809

William Kisaalita

#179677

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

William Ssempa Kisaalita is a chemical engineer and professor of engineering at the University of Georgia. Biography Kisaalita was born in Kampala, Uganda. He completed his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He obtained his Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 1987 from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. He joined the University of Georgia as a professor in 1991.

#5810

Delphine Lannuzel

Delphine Lannuzel

#158933

Overall Influence

Delphine Lannuzel is a sea ice biogeochemist and Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies , University of Tasmania. Early life and education Lannuzel completed her undergraduate degree at the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Brest, France in 2001. In 2006, Lannuzel was awarded her PhD in Biogeochemistry of iron in the Antarctic sea ice environment from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

#5811

Wei Zhou

#187888

Overall Influence

#5812

Graham Charles Wood

#164063

Overall Influence

1934 - 2016 (82 years)

Graham Charles Wood FRS was an English corrosion scientist. Born in Farnborough, he went on to study metallurgy at Cambridge. Following postdoctoral work at Cambridge, he moved to Manchester, where his career in corrosion science would be based, starting at the Manchester College of Science and Technology where he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering as a lecturer in corrosion science. In 1972 he established and led the Corrosion and Protection Centre at UMIST as professor of corrosion science. In 1973 he helped to establish a consulting organisation, Corrosion and Protection Centr...

#5813

Emőke Szathmáry

#77061

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Emőke J.E. Szathmáry, is a physical anthropologist, specializing in the study of human genetics. Dr. Szathmáry served as the 10th President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manitoba, 1996–2008.

#5814

Douglas Tobias

#188058

Overall Influence

Douglas James Tobias is an American chemist who is professor and chair of the department of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research is in the fields of biophysical, theoretical, and computational chemistry. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2006. He was elected a fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2013 and of the American Physical Society in 2014. In 2014, he received the Theoretical Chemistry Award from the American Chemical Society's Division of Physical Chemistry, and in 2017, he received the Soft Matter and...

#5815

Hilairy Hartnett

#186864

Overall Influence

Hilairy Ellen Hartnett is professor at Arizona State University known for her work on biogeochemical processes in modern and paleo-environments. Education and career Hartnett has an A.B. from Vassar College and an M.S. from the University of Washington . She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1998. Following her Ph.D. she did postdoctoral work at Rutgers University. She joined Arizona State University in 2003 and, as of 2022, is a professor at Arizona State University.

#5816

J. Michael Clarke

#139515

Overall Influence

Professor John Michael Clarke is Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studio at the University of Huddersfield. He graduated from St Chad's College, Durham. As a composer his works have received many performances and broadcasts throughout the world. In 1983 Soundings won the CIM France prize at Bourges, in 1984 Uppvaknande was awarded the Chandos Prize at Musica Nova in Glasgow and in 1997 he was awarded the Musica Nova Prize in Prague for the octophonic tape work Time.

#5817

Jin‐huai Liu

#188146

Overall Influence

#5818

Sophie Carenco

#174197

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (41 years)

Sophie Carenco is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research, working on nanochemistry at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Chemistry of Paris. Her research focuses on novel synthetic routes of exotic nanomaterials for energy application such as CO2 capture.

#5819

Michael Pitman

#81295

Overall Influence

1933 - 2000 (67 years)

Michael George Pitman OBE was an English-born Australian biologist, who was Chief Scientist of Australia from 1992 to 1996. Biography Early life Pitman was born in 1933, at the family home in Bristol, England to Percy George Pitman and Norma Ethel née Payne . His family lived in Bedminster where Michael attended Southville Primary School in an adjacent suburb. When World War II began, Michael and his mother and brother lived in the village of East Harptree which was relatively safer from the threat of German bombs. Returning to Bedminster, Michael attended Colston's School as his father and...

#5820

John H. Eicher

#143003

Overall Influence

1921 - 2016 (95 years)

John Harold Eicher was an organic chemist, philosopher of science, historian, and author. He was a Manhattan Project scientist who worked at Columbia University to develop the first atomic bomb, and taught chemistry at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, for 37 years. Eicher was the author of several chemistry publications and, with his son David J. Eicher, was coauthor of the reference book Civil War High Commands.

#5821

Fernando Gomes Martins

#180450

Overall Influence

Fernando Gomes Martins, Ph.D. in chemical engineering, is a Portuguese chemist, who is active in the field of multivariate statistical methods and models; he is an associate professor at the laboratory for process engineering, environment, biotechnology and energy of the University of Porto and senior researcher and coordinator of the research group "Process Systems Engineering".

#5822

Alan Campion

#174370

Overall Influence

Alan Campion is an American chemist, currently the Dow Chemical Company Endowed Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Education BA, New College of Florida, 1972C.Phil., UCLA, 1976PhD, UCLA, 1976

#5823

Paul Brumer

#179160

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Paul Brumer is a professor of chemistry at the University of Toronto in the field of chemical physics. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1993 for "the development of quantum and classical dynamics of isolated molecules and the coherent control of chemical reactions."

#5824

Martin Williams

#171089

Overall Influence

1947 - 2020 (73 years)

Martin Lloyd Williams was a Welsh chemist and environmental scientist who made important contributions to the science of air pollution and its incorporation into public policy in the United Kingdom. Williams was one of the first scientists to recognize the harmful health effects of ground-level ozone, in papers published in Nature in the mid-1970s, and one of the first to study vehicle emissions in the real world . He also established the first systematic programme to produce inventories of UK national air pollution emissions.

#5825

Kelly Grindrod

#166668

Overall Influence

Kelly Grindrod is a Canadian pharmacist and associate professor at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy where she studies the impact of digital technology on the management of medications. Education Grindrod graduated with a BSCPharm from the University of Alberta and went on to complete a residency at the London Health Sciences Centre. She later received a PharmD and an MSc from the University of British Columbia.

#5826

Linda Randall

#168736

Overall Influence

Linda Randall is a Professor Emerita of Biochemistry and Wurdack Chair Emerita of Biological Chemistry at the University of Missouri. Her research has shown unexpected and complex details of the movement of newly made proteins from the cytosol across membranes into the organelles of the cell. In particular, she found that the entire protein was kept unfolded by association with a chaperone and not just directed to cross membranes by its terminal leader sequence. In 1997, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA because of the excellence of this work. She has received a ...

#5827

Su Qiang

#185947

Overall Influence

1931 - 2017 (86 years)

Su Qiang was a Chinese inorganic chemist. A pioneer in rare earth research and applications, he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995. Su enrolled at Sun Yat-sen University in 1948, he transferred to Department of Chemical Engineering , Peking University two years later, and graduated in 1952. Then he went to Changchun, and became a professor there in 1983. He taught at Sun Yat-Sen University since 1999.

#5828

Alex Dodoo

#123853

Overall Influence

Alexander Nii Oto Dodoo, is a Ghanaian pharmacist and academic. He is a clinical pharmacologist and a professor at the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology, University of Ghana Medical School. He is also the director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Advocacy and Training in Pharmacovigilance. He has been serving as the Director-General of Ghana Standards Authority since 2017.

#5829

Hosea Nelson

#134300

Overall Influence

Hosea Nelson is an American chemist who is a professor at California Institute of Technology. His research investigates the design and total synthesis of complex molecules. He was a finalist for the 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

#5830

Emma Kendrick

#179379

Overall Influence

Emma Kendrick is Professor of Energy Materials at the University of Birmingham where her work is focused on new materials for batteries and fuel cells. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

#5831

Helen J. Cooper

#88798

Overall Influence

Helen Jill Cooper is a British chemist who is Professor of mass spectrometry at the University of Birmingham. She serves as Deputy Head of the School of Chemistry and holds an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Established Career Fellowship. Her research considers the development of native ambient mass spectrometry to enable direct analysis of intact proteins and protein assemblies from tissue.

#5832

Stephen Hecht

#173014

Overall Influence

Stephen S. Hecht is an American chemist and cancer researcher. He is the Wallin Land Grant Professor of Cancer Prevention in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota. He is also a member of the University of Minnesota's Medicinal Chemistry graduate program, as well as the Program Leader of the Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Program of the Masonic Cancer Center. Since January 2013, he has also been the editor-in-chief of Chemical Research in Toxicology.

#5833

Henry J. Eyring

#41399

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Henry Johnson Eyring is an American academic administrator who served as the 17th president of Brigham Young University–Idaho from 2017 to 2023. From 2019 to 2023, he also served as an area seventy in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He previously served as both the academic and the advancement vice president at BYU-Idaho, as well as director of the Marriott School of Business MBA program at Brigham Young University .

#5834

Catherine Ulbricht

#91595

Overall Influence

Catherine Elizabeth Ulbricht is a co-founder of the Natural Standard Research Collaboration. She is a Senior Attending Pharmacist at Massachusetts General Hospital. She serves on the editorial board of Harvard Health Publications, the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association, and Pharmacy Practice News. She is editor in chief of the Journal of Dietary Supplements.

#5835

Jacob Noel-Storr

#109463

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Jacob Noel-Storr is an astrophysics researcher and science education and outreach specialist researcher, Presently the lecturer for practical astronomy and X-Lab-PAM team leader at the University of Groningen and president of InsightSTEM, Inc. He was an assistant research professor and director of the Insight Lab for Science Outreach and Learning Research at Rochester Institute of Technology, and assistant staff scientist in the Steward Observatory and Flandrau Science Center at the University of Arizona. He is known for contributions to the study of Active Galactic Nuclei / Supermassive Black...

#5836

Dag Klaveness

#143089

Overall Influence

1945 - 2020 (75 years)

Dag Klaveness was a Norwegian limnologist. He was born in Sandefjord. After taking his cand.real. degree in marine botany at the University of Oslo in 1971, he was hired as a lecturer at the University of Oslo in 1974, and in 1992 promoted to professor. He died in October 2020 in Oslo.

#5837

Walter Voit

#181829

Overall Influence

Walter Voit is an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the CEO of Adaptive 3D, a company that was acquired by Desktop Metal in May 2021, and specialized in producing polymers for additive manufacturing. He was also inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is currently the head of the Advanced Polymer Research Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas, and his research into shape memory polymers allowed for the creation of flexible bioelectronic devices that passed an ...

#5838

Kevin Henke

#92961

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Kevin R. Henke is an American geochemist and former instructor at the University of Kentucky's department of Geology. He currently works as a senior research scientist at the University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Energy Research. He is well known for his criticism of young earth creationism and the scientific arguments they make for a young earth. In particular, he has been critical of the RATE project's results, which claim to show that zircons contain too much helium to be billions of years old, and has argued that Russell Humphreys, a young-earth creationist who was involved in the project, has made errors in his research.

#5839

Florence Bell

#59422

Overall Influence

1913 - 2000 (87 years)

Florence Ogilvy Bell , later Florence Sawyer, was a British scientist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA. She was an X-ray crystallographer in the lab of William Astbury. In 1938 they published a paper in Nature that described the structure of DNA as a "Pile of Pennies".

#5840

Fabian Dayrit

#188204

Overall Influence

Fabian M. Dayrit is a professor of chemistry of the Department of Chemistry, School of Science and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University. He served as the first dean of the Ateneo de Manila University's School of Science and Engineering.

#5841

Irina Belskaya

#126756

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Irina Belskaya is a Ukrainian astronomer, specialist in spectroscopy and polarimetry of Small Solar System bodies, head of the Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets of the Institute of Astronomy of Kharkiv National University, recipient of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology .

#5842

Ann Chapman

#101849

Overall Influence

1937 - 2009 (72 years)

Margaret Ann Chapman was a limnologist, one of the first New Zealand women scientists to visit Antarctica, and the first woman to lead a scientific expedition to Antarctica. Lake Chapman, in Antarctica's Ross Dependency, was named for Chapman. Chapman spent most of her teaching career at the University of Waikato.

#5843

Shelley Claridge

#184672

Overall Influence

Shelley Claridge is an American chemist who is an associate professor of chemistry at Purdue University. Her research considers the design of nanostructured materials and better understanding their physical and chemical properties. She was awarded a Schmidt Science Polymaths Award in 2022 and the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee Rising Star Award in 2023.

#5844

Michael J. O’connell

#189051

Overall Influence

#5845

David W. Wood

#174268

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

David W. Wood is an American chemical engineer who is Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio State University. Wood is also associated with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Training Program.

#5846

Magalí Lingenfelder

#188688

Overall Influence

Magalí Lingenfelder is an Argentinian chemist who is head of the Max Planck Laboratory for Molecular Nanoscience in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Her work looks to control atomic interfaces for energy conversion and antimicrobial surfaces. She was awarded the Max Planck Society Otto Hahn Medal in 2008.

#5847

Ursula Bassler

#52082

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Ursula Rita Bassler was the President of the CERN Council from 2019 to 2021, and former deputy director of National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics , CNRS . Early life and education Bassler was born in Germany in 1965. She moved to France as an au-pair. She completed her PhD in particle physics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1993.

#5848

E. Thomas Lawson

#20097

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

Ernest Thomas Lawson is an honorary professor at the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University Belfast. He is the executive editor of the Journal of Cognition and Culture and co-founder of the North American Association for the Study of Religion . He is a founding member and has served as the first President of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion .

#5849

Margaret Cribb

#143133

Overall Influence

1924 - 1993 (69 years)

Margaret Neville Catt Bridson Cribb was a lecturer in government and political science at the University of Queensland. Early life Margaret Neville Catt was born in 1924. She was the only child of Mr and Mrs E. Neville Catt of Rockhampton. She attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School from 1938 to 1941. Margaret enrolled at the University of Queensland in 1944, residing at the Women's College. She became active in the Student Union, was the first female editor of the Union magazine, Semper Floreat in 1946, and Vice President of the Student Union. She was also President of the Women's Students C...

#5850

Rosalind Brewer

#173379

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Rosalind G. Brewer is an American businesswoman, and was the CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, before stepping down in September 2023. Brewer is the first woman to become CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, group president and COO of Starbucks, and CEO of Sam's Club.

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