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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#851

Jonathan V. Sweedler

#64119

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Jonathan V Sweedler is an American chemist specializing in bioanalytical chemistry, neurochemistry and cell to cell biology and behavior. He is the James R. Eiszner Family Endowed Chair in Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Additionally, he holds a faculty appointment in the Beckman Institute. He is also an Elected Fellow to the American Chemical Society, for which he is also the society's Editor in Chief for the journal Analytical Chemistry.

#852

Goverdhan Mehta

#22699

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Goverdhan Mehta FNA, FASc, FTWAS, FRS, FRSC is an Indian researcher and scientist. Career Mehta received his BSc and MSc from the BITS Pilani and PhD from Pune University. His post-doctoral research was at the Michigan State University under Prof. Don Farnum and at the Ohio State University under Prof. Paul G. Gassman. He joined IIT Kanpur in 1969 and remained there until 1977. From 1977 to 1998, he was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Hyderabad and from 1998 to 2010, he was a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. Since 2010, he is University Distinguished Professor and holds the Dr.

#853

A. Ian Scott

#57336

Overall Influence

1928 - 2007 (79 years)

Alastair Ian Scott was a British-American organic chemist who achieved international renown for elucidating the biosynthetic pathway of vitamin B12. He occupied successive chairs of organic chemistry at the universities of British Columbia, Sussex, and Yale before moving to Texas A&M University in 1977. In 1980 he occupied the Forbes chair of organic Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. He was named a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry in 1981 at Texas A&M University, and remained there until the end of his career.

#854

J. Macgregor Smith

#70606

Overall Influence

#855

Gu Yidong

#61715

Overall Influence

1903 - 1996 (93 years)

Gu Yidong was a Chinese chemist, considered a founder of inorganic chemistry in China. He was an academician and founding member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Gu received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from University of Chicago in 1935.

#856

Jean-Marie Basset

#28906

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Jean-Marie Basset is a French chemist, and is currently the director of KAUST catalysis research center. Biography Jean Marie Basset is an engineer from the École Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon. He is doing a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Professor Marcel Prettre, a corresponding member of the institute. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto in Toronto and Imperial College in London , he joined the CNRS Catalytic Institute, where he became deputy director. He was then a founding member, along with Jean Claude Charpentier, of the École de Chimie Physique et Électronique de Lyon , where he became scientific director.

#857

Don Tilley

#55546

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

T. Don Tilley is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Career In 1977, Tilley received his B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Texas. In 1982, he earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley for his research on organolanthanide chemistry with Professor Richard A. Andersen.

#858

Steven Armes

#68753

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Steven Peter Armes is a Professor of polymer chemistry and colloid chemistry at the University of Sheffield. Education Armes was educated at Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School in Coventry and the University of Bristol where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1983 followed by a PhD in 1987 for research supervised by Brian Vincent.

#859

Martin Pope

#26256

Overall Influence

1918 - 2022 (104 years)

Martin Pope was an American physical chemist and professor at New York University. His discoveries of ohmic contacts and research in the fields of organic insulatorss and semiconductors led to techniques enabling organic semiconductors to carry relatively large currents, and to convert electricity into light and vice versa. These discoveries have had application in electrophotography, organic light-emitting diodes , photovoltaic cells, biological sensors, transistors, molecular electronics, and batteries.

#860

Robert W. Taft

#70799

Overall Influence

#861

Ronald G. Larson

#52797

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Ronald G. Larson is George G. Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering and Alfred H. White Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan, where he holds joint appointments in macromolecular science and engineering, biomedical engineering, and mechanical engineering. He is internationally recognized for his research contributions to the fields of polymer physics and complex fluid rheology, especially in the development of theory and computational simulations. Notably, Larson and collaborators discovered new types of viscoelastic instabilities for polymer molecules and developed predictive theories for their flow behavior.

#862

Thaddeus Mann

#33923

Overall Influence

1908 - 1993 (85 years)

Thaddeus Robert Rudolph Mann CBE FRS was a biochemist who made significant contributions to the field of reproductive biology. Mann was born in Lwow, Austria-Hungary and was educated at Lwow University. He studied medicine at the Johannes Casimirus University in Lwow, obtaining the degrees of Physician in 1932 and Doctor of Medicine in 1934.

#863

Gottfried von Droste

#46155

Overall Influence

1908 - 1992 (84 years)

Gottfried Freiherr von Droste , a.k.a. Gottfried Freiherr von Droste zu Vischering-Padberg, was a German physical chemist. He worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry . He independently predicted that nuclear fission would release a large amount of energy. During World War II, he participated in the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranverein . In the latter years of the war, he worked at the Reich's University of Strassburg. After the war, he worked at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

#864

Reed McNeil Izatt

#57944

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (99 years)

Reed McNeil Izatt was an American chemist who was emeritus Charles E. Maw Professor of Chemistry at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His field of research was macrocyclic chemistry and metal separation technologies.

#865

Alfred Hassner

#70138

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (95 years)

Alfred Hassner is an internationally known organic chemist. Biography Alfred Hassner was born in Czernowitz and spent WWII in hiding while he lost his father; after the war, he returned to study in Vienna and then immigrated to the USA where he continued his studies. In 1983 he moved with his wife Cyd and two children to Israel. Hassner is currently Emeritus Professor at Bar Ilan University.

#866

Duane D. Johnson

#71056

Overall Influence

#867

David Phillips

#21577

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

David Phillips, is a British chemist specialising in photochemistry and lasers, and was president of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2010 to 2012. Education and early life Phillips was born 3 December 1939 in Kendal, lived in South Shields and attended the Grammar School. He studied at the University of Birmingham attaining a BSc and PhD.

#868

Robert Wolke

#38100

Overall Influence

1928 - 2021 (93 years)

Robert L. Wolke was an American chemist, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a food columnist for The Washington Post, and had written multiple books, which aim to explain everyday phenomena in non-technical terms:

#869

Martin Quack

#62731

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Martin Quack is a German physical chemist and spectroscopist; he is a professor at ETH Zürich. Life and work Martin Quack started his chemistry studies at the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1966 and continued as fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service between 1969 and 1970 at the University of Grenoble and then he obtained his diploma as chemist in 1971 at the University of Göttingen. In 1972 he moved to the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, where he obtained his doctoral degree in 1975 working with Jürgen Troe on the statistical theory of unimolecular and complex forming bimolecular reactions.

#870

Michael L. Gross

#63336

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Michael L. Gross is Professor of Chemistry, Medicine, and Immunology, at Washington University in St. Louis. He was formerly Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1968–1994. He is recognized for his contributions to the field of mass spectrometry and ion chemistry. He is credited with the discovery of distonic ions, chemical species containing a radical and an ionic site on different atoms of the same molecule.

#871

John Garside

#40971

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Professor John Garside is a British chemical engineer who was the last Vice-Chancellor of UMIST. Life Garside was born 9 October 1941, and studied chemical engineering at University College, London , gaining BSc in 1963 and PhD in 1966. He then worked for ICI in Teesside before becoming a lecturer, then later a reader in chemical engineering at UCL. During this time he was Fulbright Senior Scholar at Iowa State University in 1976. In 1982 he was appointed professor and head of the Chemical Engineering Department at UMIST. In 2000 Garside became the Vice-Chancellor of UMIST, and oversaw its merger with the University of Manchester in 2004.

#872

Hartmuth C. Kolb

#61631

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Hartmuth Christian Kolb is a German chemist. He is considered one of the founders of click chemistry. Early life and career After graduating from high school in Marsberg in 1983, Kolb studied at the University of Hanover. He received his doctorate as an academic student of Steven Ley at Imperial College London with a thesis on preparative organic chemistry . As a postdoctoral fellow he worked with Barry Sharpless at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. He then worked in the research department of Ciba-Geigy in Basel from 1993 to 1997 before taking up a managerial position at Coelacanth Corporation, founded by Sharpless and A.

#873

Eva Philbin

#37425

Overall Influence

1914 - 2005 (91 years)

Eva Philbin was an Irish chemist who became the first woman president of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland. Early life and education Born Eva Maria Ryder in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland, Philbin the elder of two daughters of Kate and George Ryder. She attended the Convent of Mercy in Ballina, and received her B.Sc in 1936 with first class honors and M.Sc from University College Galway. While at University College Galway she worked under Tom Dillon where they worked on identifying carbohydrates in seaweed.

#874

George Tilton

#44653

Overall Influence

1923 - 2010 (87 years)

George Tilton was an American geochemist who specialized in uranium-lead geochronology. He was the first to measure a U-Pb date on zircon and was instrumental in developing analytical techniques for the measurement of U, Th, and Pb in minerals and rocks, using isotope dilution and mass spectrometry.

#875

John Ugelstad

#40781

Overall Influence

1921 - 1997 (76 years)

John Ugelstad was a Norwegian chemical engineer and inventor, known for discovering a process to manufacture monodisperse micropellets or microbeads and dynabeads. He was a professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology and consultant for DuPont.

#876

Richard P. Van Duyne

#71121

Overall Influence

1945 - 2019 (74 years)

Richard P. Van Duyne was an American chemist and professor of chemistry at Northwestern University. He was known for his development of surface-enhanced Raman scattering and nanoplasmonics initially for analytical and physical chemistry, but the high sensitivity of these methods resulted in numerous applications in chemistry, material science, physics, and medicine. He definitively demonstrated the single molecule sensitivity of SERS.

#877

Vincent Rotello

#37866

Overall Influence

Vincent Rotello is an American materials scientist and engineer currently the Charles A. Goessmann Professor of Chemistry and a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the current Editor-in-Chief of American Chemical Society's Bioconjugate Chemistry. He joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts in 1993, and has been the recipient of the NSF CAREER and Cottrell Scholar awards, as well as the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, the Sloan Fellowships. More recently, he has received the Langmuir Lectureship , and in 2016 he received the Transfo...

#878

Andrzej Waksmundzki

#70664

Overall Influence

1910 - 1998 (88 years)

Andrzej Waksmundzki was a Polish chemist who became well known for his work in the field of chromatography. Biography Andrzej Waksmundzki was born in the village of Waksmund, in Nowy Targ County as the son of a farmer. In 1935 he took his MSc in Chemistry at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where he presented his PhD thesis in 1939. After the closure of the Jagiellonian University by the Nazis, Dr. Waksmundzki found employment as a teacher of chemistry at the secondary Commercial School in Nowy Targ. Simultaneously Dr. Waksmundzki was involved in the local anti-nazi underground for which he was arrested by the Gestapo in February 1942.

#879

M.G. Finn

#58906

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

M. G. Finn is an American chemist and professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Early life and education Finn was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on October 23, 1958. He studied chemistry at California Institute of Technology while receiving a Eastman Kodak scholarship and performing undergraduate research under the direction of electrochemist Fred C. Anson. After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in June 1980, Finn spent the summer performing research at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York before joining the group of future Nobel prize winner, Barry Sharpless, that fall at...

#880

Edgar Heilbronner

#56579

Overall Influence

1921 - 2006 (85 years)

Edgar Heilbronner was a Swiss German chemist. In 1964 he published the concept of Möbius cyclic annulenes, but the first Möbius aromatic was not synthesized until 2003. Edgar Heilbronner was a professor at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland for many years but then was offered a professorship in Basel, Switzerland where he spent the remainder of his career.

#881

Brian Stoltz

#65348

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Brian M. Stoltz is currently a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of his research is chemical synthesis with an emphasis on expanding the scope of allylic alkylation for the preparation of complex molecules possessing unique structural, biological, and physical properties. His research involves the total synthesis of natural products such as dragmacidin F and -cyanthiwigin F, and development of synthetic reactions to access quaternary stereocenters. Specifically, he has focused on the allylic alkylation of enolates, developing an enantioselecti...

#882

Roger James Parsons

#71575

Overall Influence

#883

Julia Higgins

#16384

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Dame Julia Stretton Higgins is a British polymer scientist. Since 1976 she has been based at the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, where she is professor and senior research investigator.

#884

Wolfgang Kaim

#63948

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Wolfgang Kaim is a German chemist who held the chair of coordination chemistry at the University of Stuttgart. He is co-author of the internationally recognized book, Bioinorganic Chemistry which was awarded with the Literature Award of the German Chemical Industry.

#885

Thomas D. Schmittgen

#71634

Overall Influence

#886

Frank L. Lambert

#22944

Overall Influence

1918 - 2018 (100 years)

Frank L. Lambert was an American academic who was Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He is known for his advocacy of changing the definition of thermodynamic entropy as "disorder" in US general chemistry texts to its replacement by viewing entropy as a measure of energy dispersal. He died in December 2018 at the age of 100.

#887

Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary

#35375

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary is a scientist in the field of organic chemistry from Pakistan. He is known for his research in various areas relating to natural product chemistry. He has more than 800 research publications. In 2015 he was recognised as the second most productive scientist in Pakistan.

#888

Nathanael Gray

#46739

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Nathanael S. Gray is a Krishnan-Shah Family Professor of chemical and systems biology at Stanford University and director of cancer therapeutics programme at Stanford University School of Medicine. Previously he was a Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School and professor of cancer biology at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. Gray is also co-founder, science advisory board member and equity holder in C4 Therapeutics, Gatekeeper, Syros, Petra, B2S, Aduro, Jengu, Allorion, Inception Therapeutics, and Soltego . C4 Therapeutics, which of...

#889

Chuan He

#32793

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Chuan He is a Chinese-American chemical biologist. He currently serves as the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is best known for his work in discovering and deciphering reversible RNA methylation in post-transcriptional gene expression regulation. He was awarded the 2023 Wolf Prize in Chemistry for his work in discovering and deciphering reversible RNA methylation in post-transcriptional gene expression regulation in addition to his contributions to the invention of TAB-seq, a biochemica...

#890

John D. Baldeschwieler

John D. Baldeschwieler

#54352

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (92 years)

John D. Baldeschwieler is an American chemist who has made significant contributions in molecular structure and spectroscopy. Born on November 14, 1933, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, he was an alumnus of Cornell University and the University of California, Berkeley . He has taught at Harvard University, Stanford University and currently is the J. Stanley Johnson Professor and professor of chemistry, emeritus at Caltech.

#891

Christodoulos Floudas

#59132

Overall Influence

1959 - 2016 (57 years)

Christodoulos Achilleus Floudas was a Greek–American chemical engineer. Floudas completed a diploma in chemical engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1982, and received his Ph.D. in 1986 at Carnegie Mellon University under the guidance of Ignacio Grossmann. Floudas began teaching at Princeton University upon earning his doctorate, and was later named the Stephen C. Macaleer ’63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science. From February 2015, he was the director of the Energy Institute at Texas A&M University, as well as the Erle Nye ’59 Chair Professor for Engineering Ex...

#892

James Kay Graham Watson

#47365

Overall Influence

Jim Watson, FRS, who published under the name J.K.G. Watson, was a molecular spectroscopist most well known for the development of the widely used molecular Hamiltonians named after him . These Hamiltonians are used to describe the quantum dynamics of molecules.

#893

Meir Lahav

#49373

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Meir Lahav is an Israeli chemist and materials scientist. He is an emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Biography Lahav emigrated to Israel in 1948. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he obtained a master's degree in polymer chemistry in 1962. With Gerhard Schmidt at the Weizmann Institute of Science, he obtained a Ph.D. in solid state chemistry. As a postdoctoral fellow, Lahav worked with Paul Doughty Bartlett at Harvard University, among others, before returning to Israel in 1971. Since 1985 he has held a full professorship at the Weizmann Institute.

#894

Stephen F. Martin

Stephen F. Martin

#64585

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Stephen F. Martin is an American chemist and professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Regents Chair in Chemistry. Martin is a native of New Mexico, and received his B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of New Mexico in 1968, where he worked with R.N. Castle, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1972 with Professor Edward C. Taylor. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Munich with Professor Rudolf Gompper, and further work with Professor George Büchi at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; after which, he...

#895

Martina Stenzel

#49792

Overall Influence

Martina Heide Stenzel is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales . She is also a Royal Australian Chemical Institute University Ambassador. She became editor for the Australian Journal of Chemistry in 2008 and has served as Scientific Editor and as of 2021, as Editorial Board Chair of RSC Materials Horizons.

#896

Charles C. Price

Charles C. Price

#62536

Overall Influence

1913 - 2001 (88 years)

Charles C. Price was an American chemist and president of the American Chemical Society . He taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Pennsylvania.

#897

James R. Arnold

James R. Arnold

#19436

Overall Influence

1923 - 2012 (89 years)

James Richard Arnold was the Harold C. Urey Professor of Chemistry , and a noted pioneer in the field of planetary and space chemistry at the University of California at San Diego , where an endowed lectureship has been established in his name.

#898

Vincenzo Di Marzo

#72235

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

#899

Jeffrey L. Bada

#44099

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Jeffrey L. Bada is an American chemist known for his works in the study of the origin of life. He is distinguished research professor of marine chemistry and former director of the NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training in Exobiology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. Bada has played a pioneering role in the development of the Mars Organic Detector instrument package that is designed to search for amino acids and other organic compounds directly on the surface of Mars during future ESA and NASA missions.

#900

David J. Wales

#33633

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

David John Wales is a professor of chemical physics in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Education Wales was educated at Newport Free Grammar School followed by the University of Cambridge where he was awarded an open scholarship to study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge receiving his BA degree in 1985. He went on to complete a PhD on cluster chemistry, awarded in 1988 for research supervised by Anthony J. Stone. In 2004 he was awarded a ScD degree from Cambridge.

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