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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#5851

Lisa Welp

#180658

Overall Influence

Lisa Welp is a biogeochemist who utilizes stable isotopes to understand how water and carbon dioxide are exchanged between the land and atmosphere. She is a professor at Purdue University in the department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Sciences.

#5852

Joseph Nagyvary

#68722

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Joseph Nagyvary, born April 18, 1934, is retired professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Texas A&M University. He is also a violin maker, and has spent years studying and analyzing violins made by Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri.

#5853

Susan Reutzel-Edens

#143755

Overall Influence

Susan Reutzel-Edens is an American chemist who is the Head of Science at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. Her work considers solid state chemistry and pharmaceuticals. She is interested in crystal structure predictions. She serves on the editorial boards of CrystEngComm and Crystal Growth & Design.

#5854

Michelle Espy

#183684

Overall Influence

Michelle Anna Espy is an American physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory who studies ultra-low-field nuclear magnetic resonance magnetic resonance imaging using SQUIDs, with applications including magnetoencephalography and the detection of explosive materials and nerve agents in airline security screening. At Los Alamos, she has also worked on neutron imaging of stockpiled weapons and of the skull of the Bisti Beast, a fossil tyrannosaur.

#5855

Kenneth D. Jordan

#167863

Overall Influence

Kenneth D. Jordan is an American chemist. He is currently the Richard King Mellon Professor and Distinguished Professor of Computational Chemistry at University of Pittsburgh and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry and American Physical Society.

#5856

Melvin I. Simon

#87444

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Melvin Isaac Simon is an American molecular biologist, molecular geneticist, and microbiologist. Biography After secondary education at Manhattan's Yeshiva University High School for Boys, he graduated in 1959 with a B.S. from City College of New York and in 1963 with a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. From 1963 to 1965 he was a postdoc at Princeton University. From 1965 to 1982 he was a faculty member of the biology department of the University of California, San Diego . In 1982 he and UCSD professor John Abelson founded the Agouron Institute. In 1982 Simon and Abelson both moved to California Institute of Technology .

#5857

Miriam Rossi

#185943

Overall Influence

Miriam Rossi is an Italian-American chemist and the Mary Landon Sague Chair at Vassar College. She works on x-ray crystallography and chemistry education. Early life and education Rossi was born in Italy and moved to New York City as a child. She studied chemistry at Hunter College, where she worked with David Beveridge. She was the first in her family to have attained a PhD degree. In fact, her parents, in Italy, had a 4th grade education, the maxiumum available at the time. Her older brother, Egidio Rossi, is a nephrologist in Parma, Italy. She joined Johns Hopkins University for her doctoral studies, earning a PhD in inorganic chemistry under the supervision of Tom Kistenmacher.

#5858

Roseanne Diab

#112854

Overall Influence

Roseanne Diab is a researcher, the Director of Gender in science, innovation, technology and engineering , a UNESCO's programme unit hosted by The World Academy of Sciences and former CEO of the Academy of Science of South Africa. She is Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Emeritus Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the same university.

#5859

Rhiannon Braund

#90144

Overall Influence

Rhiannon Braund is a New Zealand academic and registered pharmacist. She is a professor in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago. Academic career Braund completed a BSc, BPharm and PhD at the University of Otago and is a registered pharmacist. In December 2019 she was promoted to full professor at Otago, with effect from 1 February 2020.

#5860

Saiful Islam

#186922

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Saiful Islam is a British chemist and professor of materials science at the University of Oxford. Previously, he was professor of materials chemistry at the University of Bath. Saiful is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining . In 2020, he received the American Chemical Society Award for Energy Chemistry for his major contributions to the fundamental atomistic understanding of new materials for lithium batteries and perovskite solar cells.

#5861

Bo Dahlin

#78851

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Bo Dahlin is a Swedish educationalist. He is Professor of Education at Karlstad University and Professor II at Rudolf Steiner University College in Oslo. Dahlin's research is focused on didactics, especially philosophical and phenomenographic studies of learning in different contexts, e.g. how people in different cultures perceive learning, knowledge and understanding. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the international academic journal Research on Steiner Education.

#5862

Ellen Cohn

#79649

Overall Influence

Ellen R. Cohn is an associate dean and associate professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, with a secondary faculty appointment at University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She is a faculty member of the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine.

#5863

Coen Hemker

#159696

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Hendrik Coenraad "Coen" Hemker is a Dutch biochemist and academic administrator. He was one of the founders of Maastricht University and was its rector magnificus from 1982 to 1984. He was a professor of biochemistry from 1975 until 1999. In his research he has mainly studied thrombosis and hemostasis.

#5864

Terkel Rosenqvist

#50558

Overall Influence

1921 - 2011 (90 years)

Terkel Nissen Rosenqvist was a Norwegian chemist and metallurgist. Biography He was born in Aker. His parents were businessman Einar Rosenqvist and Julia Marija Kos . His brother was Ivan Th. Rosenqvist. From 1945 to 1963 he was married to Tone Barth , the sister of Professor of Social Anthropology Fredrik Barth . He later married Siri Sverdrup Lunden .

#5865

Jocelyn Dela-Cruz

#128824

Overall Influence

Jocelyn Dela-Cruz is a Principal Environmental Scientist at the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Australia. She was educated at the University of Sydney and University of New South Wales .

#5866

Suhad Bahajri

#115969

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Suhad Bahajri is a Saudi chemist. She is a medical scientist and educator presently working as a professor of clinical biochemistry and clinical nutrition at the faculty of medicine at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah. Her research centers on diet, lifestyle and chronic diseases.

#5867

Liang Shuquan

#183724

Overall Influence

1912 - 2006 (94 years)

Liang Shuquan was a Chinese chemist. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

#5868

Andrea Volkamer

#189246

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Andrea Volkamer is a German bioinformatician and professor of “Data-Driven Drug Design” at Saarland University and an associated researcher at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland . Her research focuses on data-driven drug design, with an emphasis on method development and application.

#5869

Sarah Trimpin

#189895

Overall Influence

Sarah Trimpin is a German/American chemist and Professor at the Wayne State University. Her research interests revolve around ionizing methods in mass spectrometry. Her work has resulted in the formation of a company which aims to bring advanced ionization methods to industry. Her work has been recognized by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry with the Research Award in 2010, and the Biemann Medal in 2019.

#5870

John A. Dawson

#99289

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

John Alan Dawson is Professor of Marketing at the University of Edinburgh; he is a Geographer, and specialist in retail innovation, Dawson graduated in Geography from University College London in 1965 with an interest in urban geography. He then studied for an MPhil on central place theory and the work of the early economists, completing his formal education in 1970 with a PhD from the University of Nottingham with a thesis on the post-war changes in retailing in selected European regions.

#5871

Mark Allinson

#116460

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Mark Allinson is an academic at the University of Bristol, where he is currently associate pro vice-chancellor . He has previously served as undergraduate dean of arts between 2013 and 2019, head of the School of Modern Languages from 2006 to 2010, and head of the German department between 2003 and 2006.

#5872

Maria Helena Braga

Maria Helena Braga

#54979

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Maria Helena Sousa Soares de Oliveira Braga is an associate professor at the Engineering Physics Department of University of Porto, Portugal. She is currently focused on research areas in Materials Science and Materials Engineering at University of Porto and University of Texas at Austin. She is credited with expanding the understanding of glass electrolyte and glass batteries with colleague John B. Goodenough. Braga is a senior research fellow in the Materials Institute headed by Goodenough.

#5873

David Fenyő

#168055

Overall Influence

David Fenyö is a Swedish-American physicist and mass spectrometrist. He is currently professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at NYU Langone Medical Center. Fenyö's research focuses on the development of methods to identify, characterize and quantify proteins and in the integration of data from multiple modalities including mass spectrometry, sequencing and microscopy.

#5874

John J. Gilman

#190168

Overall Influence

#5875

Michael R. Baer

#190199

Overall Influence

#5876

Arthur Campbell

#179967

Overall Influence

1925 - 2020 (95 years)

Arthur Derek Campbell was a New Zealand analytical chemist. He was a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Otago from 1948 to 1988, becoming a professor emeritus on his retirement.

#5877

Robert Gilliard

#190000

Overall Influence

Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. is an American chemist and researcher who is the Novartis Associate Professor of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research involves the synthesis of molecules for energy storage, molecular materials, and main-group element mediated bond activation. He is a member of the editorial advisory board at Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Communications, and Angewandte Chemie, among other scientific journals.

#5878

Dorrit Jacob

#175397

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Dorrit E. Jacob is a German-born Australian geochemist. She is the first woman to serve as Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University where she is a full professor.

#5879

Tana Wood

#98793

Overall Influence

Tana Elaine Wood is a biogeochemist and ecosystem scientist with a focus in land-use and climate change. Her research is focused on looking into how these issues affect tropical forested ecosystems and particularly focuses on soil science and below ground research efforts.

#5880

Pratiwi Sudarmono

Pratiwi Sudarmono

#17500

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Pratiwi Pujilestari Sudarmono is an Indonesian scientist. She is currently a professor of microbiology at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta. Early life and education Pratiwi Sudarmono received a master's degree from the University of Indonesia in 1977, and the Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Osaka, Japan, in 1984.

#5881

Gary J. Van Berkel

#178065

Overall Influence

Gary J Van Berkel, born in 1959, is the research scientist who led the Organic and Biological Mass Spectrometry Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until his retirement from there in 2018. He is currently owner and CSO of Van Berkel Ventures, LLC, an analytical measurement science, innovation, research, consulting and writing firm in Oak Ridge, TN.

#5882

Chuck Staben

#88740

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Charles Alan Staben is an American academic professor who served as the 18th president of the University of Idaho from 2014 to 2020. Selected by the State Board of Education on November 18, 2013, Staben succeeded interim president Donald Burnett on March 1, 2014. He was previously provost at the University of South Dakota and the acting vice president for research at the University of Kentucky.

#5883

Michelle C. Chang

#187161

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Michelle C. Y. Chang is a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a recipient of several young scientist awards for her research in biosynthesis of biofuels and pharmaceuticals.

#5884

Xiaoming Sun

#190360

Overall Influence

#5885

Hartmut Derendorf

#116410

Overall Influence

1953 - 2020 (67 years)

Hartmut Derendorf was a German-American pharmacist and clinical pharmacologist, a distinguished emeritus professor of pharmaceutics at University of Florida. A significant figure in his field, Derendorf published over 20 papers each with over 100 citations.

#5886

Melissa Hanna-Brown

#186854

Overall Influence

Melissa Hanna-Brown is a British pharmacologist. She works for Pfizer UK and is a visiting professor at the University of Warwick. Early life and education Hannah-Brown became interested in pharmacy as a child, when she worked at her local chemists on the weekend. She studied Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Sunderland, spending a year at GlaxoSmithKline and graduating in 1995. She completed a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council SmithKline Beecham sponsored PhD in pharmaceutical analysis at King's College London in 1998.

#5887

Per-Edvin Persson

#120193

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Per-Edvin Persson is Director of Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre, since 1991. Before that he was the Director of Science at Heureka and the Director of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies . Earlier he was a research scientist at the University of Helsinki, including a fellowship year at the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

#5888

Ted Corbett

#124079

Overall Influence

1923 - 2018 (95 years)

Robert Edward Corbett was a New Zealand organic chemist. He is noted for his contribution to natural product chemistry through the isolation and structural elucidation of compounds from New Zealand native plants.

#5889

Eva Regnier

#155004

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Eva Dorothy Regnier is a decision scientist whose research concerns the interaction between human decision-making and environmental prediction. She is a professor of decision science in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy of the Naval Postgraduate School.

#5890

Gregor Luthe

#189332

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Gregor Luthe is a German chemist, toxicologist, nanotechnologist, inventor and entrepreneur. He is known for his work on toxicology of PCBs and PBDEs. Early life Luthe was born in Epe on 19 October 1970, the only child of bricklayer and stove fitter Ewald Luthe and spinning mill worker Käthe Luthe, née Böcker. Luthe had a hard start at school as he stammered until 9th grade, when he learned to manage this, and leaped forward, leaving the lower education Hauptschule to enter the Gymnasium in Bardel, finishing it 1989 as best in class.

#5891

Digambara Patra

#185494

Overall Influence

Digambara Patra is a professor of Chemistry at the American University of Beirut. Education Digambara earned a PhD degree in Chemistry working with Professor A. K. Mishra at Indian Institute of Technology Madras. Subsequently, he spent in University of Basel, Switzerland, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany and Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan for his postdoctoral studies before joining American University of Beirut. He is a recipient of Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship and JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship. His research focuses on nanochemistry and optical sensing. He was listed among the...

#5892

Charles Craik

#180534

Overall Influence

Charles S. Craik is an American chemist, currently at University of California, San Francisco and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

#5893

Velmer A. Fassel

#90737

Overall Influence

1919 - 1998 (79 years)

Velmer A. Fassel was an American chemist who developed the inductively coupled plasma and demonstrated its use as ion source for mass spectrometry. Early life and education 1941 B.A. Southeast Missouri State College1947 Ph.D. Iowa State University

#5894

Takashi Taniguchi

#190739

Overall Influence

#5895

Zidong Wang

#190749

Overall Influence

#5896

Albert H. Owens Jr.

#99112

Overall Influence

1926 - 2017 (91 years)

Albert H. Owens, Jr. was the director of the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center in Baltimore, MD. Owens earned his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University and graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1949.

#5897

Matthias Meyer

#190768

Overall Influence

#5898

Barry French

#168575

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

Barry French, born August 22, 1931, is a Canadian scientist and entrepreneur. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1961. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. French was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2007 and is co-founder of SCIEX, a mass spectrometer company now owned by Danaher Corporation.

#5899

Michael Brenner

#190807

Overall Influence

#5900

Martina Havenith-Newen

#174864

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Martina Havenith-Newen is a German chemist. Education and career She studied physics and mathematics at the University of Bonn from 1981 to 1987. She finished her doctorate in physics in 1990 and completed her habilitation in 1997.

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