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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#1151

Fraser Armstrong

#72430

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Fraser Andrew Armstrong is a professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Early life and education Fraser Armstrong was born in Cambridge, England, in 1951. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in 1975 followed by a PhD in 1978 from the University of Leeds supervised by Geoff Sykes.

#1152

Richard S. Stein

#72531

Overall Influence

1925 - 2021 (96 years)

Richard S. Stein was an American scientist. Stein completed undergraduate at Brooklyn Polytechnic, where he performed some of the first studies of the dimensions of polymer molecules in solution using light scattering. Stein joined the faculty of University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1950 as an assistant professor and initiated its polymer program. He started the university's Polymer Research Institute, which evolved into the Polymer Science and Engineering Department. Stein later served as Emeritus Goessmann Professor of Chemistry. He was elected to membership in the National Academies of Sciences and of Engineering.

#1153

Mary Archer

#11301

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Mary Doreen Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare, is a British scientist specialising in solar power conversion. She is married to Jeffrey Archer, a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. Archer is the current Chancellor of the University of Buckingham.

#1154

Leonard Lerman

#20823

Overall Influence

1925 - 2012 (87 years)

Leonard Solomon Lerman was an American scientist most noted for his work on DNA. Life and career Lerman was born and raised in Pittsburgh, the son of Freamah and Meyer Lerman, Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. His father was a department store buyer. Lerman began attending the Carnegie Institute of Technology before graduating from high school and received his BS in five semesters. As a graduate student with Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology, Lerman discovered that antibodies have two binding sites. Later, perhaps his most important discovery was that certain molecules bind to DNA by intercalation.

#1155

Shuming Nie

#52848

Overall Influence

Shuming Nie is a Chinese-American chemist. He is the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Emory University. In 2007, Nie was elected as a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering . In 2012, Nie was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

#1156

Victor Snieckus

#80418

Overall Influence

1937 - 2020 (83 years)

Victor Snieckus was a synthetic organic chemist and professor emeritus at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He was known for his influential research on directed ortho metalation. Early life and education Snieckus was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1937. His family lived in Germany during World War II and in 1948 immigrated to Alberta, Canada. Snieckus received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from University of Alberta in 1959, his master's degree from University of California, Berkeley in 1961, and his PhD from the University of Oregon in 1965 under the supervision of Virgil Boekelheide.

#1157

David Schindler

#27339

Overall Influence

1940 - 2021 (81 years)

David William Schindler, , was an American/Canadian limnologist. He held the Killam Memorial Chair and was Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. He was notable for "innovative large-scale experiments" on whole lakes at the Experimental Lakes Area which proved that "phosphorus controls the eutrophication in temperate lakes leading to the banning of phosphates in detergents. He was also known for his research on acid rain. In 1989, Schindler moved from the ELA to continue his research at the University of Alberta in ...

#1158

Graham Richards

Graham Richards

#53839

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Graham Richards FLSW is a chemist and Emeritus Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. He served as head of the department of chemistry at the University of Oxford from 1997 to 2006. Richards is a pioneer in the field of computer-aided molecular design, in particular its application to the pharmaceuticals industry. He was the founding scientist of Oxford Molecular Ltd., and introduced a novel model for the funding of research at Oxford University, which has been copied elsewhere. Richards was one of the scientific co-founders of Oxford Molecular Limited . The company developed software for modelling of small molecules and proteins, and drug design.

#1159

Teri W. Odom

#57876

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Teri W. Odom is an American chemist and materials scientist. She is the chair of the chemistry department, the Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, and a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University. She is affiliated with the university's International Institute for Nanotechnology, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Graduate Program, and department of applied physics.

#1160

Jeffrey Schlom

#82732

Overall Influence

#1161

Jacob Adriaan Moulijn

#82738

Overall Influence

#1162

Geoffrey Bodenhausen

Geoffrey Bodenhausen

#72128

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Geoffrey Bodenhausen is a French chemist specializing in nuclear magnetic resonance, being highly cited in his field. He is a Corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is professeur émérite at the Department of Chemistry at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and professeur honoraire at the Laboratory of Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne . He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. He is the chair of ...

#1163

Eamonn Healy

#59712

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Eamonn Francis Healy is an Irish-American professor of chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, where his research focuses on the design of structure-activity probes to elucidate enzymatic activity. Targets include HIV-1 integrase, the c-Kit and src-abl proteins, and the metalloproteinases associated with CXCL16 shedding.

#1164

Hyeon Taeghwan

#67594

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Taeghwan Hyeon is a South Korean chemist. He is SNU distinguished professor in the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University, director of Center for Nanoparticle Research of Institute for Basic Science , and an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

#1165

Martin Gouterman

#60641

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Martin Paul Gouterman was an American chemist who was a professor of chemistry at the University of Washington. He is remembered for his seminal work on the optical spectra porphyrins, for which he developed a simple model generally referred to as Gouterman's four-orbital model.

#1166

Pappachan Ettoop Kolattukudy

#82846

Overall Influence

#1167

Robert J. Buenker

#82865

Overall Influence

#1168

Lloyd Noel Ferguson

#46684

Overall Influence

1918 - 2011 (93 years)

Lloyd Noel Ferguson was an American chemist. Early life As a child in Oakland, California, Ferguson had a backyard laboratory in which he developed a moth repellent, a silverware cleanser, and a lemonade powder. He graduated from Oakland Technical High School in 1934, at the age of 16. After working in construction and as a railway porter in order to earn enough money to pay for college, he did his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. from the same university in 1943, the first African American to earn a chemistry Ph.D. there. During his time a...

#1169

Werner Tochtermann

Werner Tochtermann

#65829

Overall Influence

1934 - 2021 (87 years)

Werner Tochtermann was a German chemist and emeritus professor. From 1976 till his retirement in 1999 he was full professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Kiel. His main areas of research were the chemistry of medium and large rings, the synthesis of cyclophanes, and the heteroquadricyclane→heteropin rearrangement, e.g. for the synthesis of oxepins from furans .

#1170

Graham Cairns-Smith

#25793

Overall Influence

1931 - 2016 (85 years)

Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith FRSE was an organic chemist and molecular biologist at the University of Glasgow. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he gained a Ph.D. in Chemistry . He was most famous for his controversial 1985 book Seven Clues to the Origin of Life.

#1171

Piet Lemstra

#31138

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

P.J. Lemstra , nicknamed Plem, is a Dutch professor of chemistry. Prof. Lemstra received his PhD from the University of Groningen in 1975. He then post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bristol under Professor Andrew Keller FRS. In 1985 Professor Lemstra became professor of Polymer Technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology . From 1990 to 1995 he was the first Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Technology. From 1994 to 1997 had been director of the graduate school and in 1997 he founded together with Professor Leen Struik the Dutch Polymer Institute , where he worked until 2004 as scientific director.

#1172

Michael J. Sofia

#61855

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Michael J. Sofia is a chemist whose main research focus is hepatitis C virus and hepatitis B virus drug discovery. He was a co-recipient of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for his work on hepatitis C in 2016 and of the Gertrude B. Elion Memorial Award from the International Society for Antiviral Research in 2017.

#1173

Eric V. Anslyn

#74254

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Eric V. Anslyn is an American chemist , University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously held the Norman Hackerman Professorship. Anslyn is co-author of Modern Physical Organic Chemistry, an introductory graduate textbook.

#1174

Omar Farha

#81276

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Omar K. Farha is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in Chemistry at Northwestern University, an Executive Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and President of NuMat Technologies.

#1175

Kôzo Kuchitsu

#83217

Overall Influence

#1176

Renato Zenobi

#82366

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Renato Zenobi is a Swiss chemist. He is Professor of Chemistry at ETH Zurich. Throughout his career, Zenobi has contributed to the field of analytical chemistry. Biography Zenobi received his M.Sc. degree from ETH Zurich in 1986 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1990. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Michigan . In 1992 he worked as Werner Fellow at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne . He became assistant professor at the ETH Zurich in 1995, was promoted to associate professor in 1997, and to full professor in 2000. Betwee...

#1177

Cynthia Burrows

#60506

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Cynthia J. Burrows is an American chemist, currently a distinguished professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Utah, where she is also the Thatcher Presidential Endowed Chair of Biological Chemistry. Burrows was the Senior Editor of the Journal of Organic Chemistry and became Editor-in-Chief of Accounts of Chemical Research in 2014., ,

#1178

Robert A. Plane

#50204

Overall Influence

1927 - 2018 (91 years)

Robert Allen Plane was an American retired chemistry professor and college administrator. He served as Provost of Cornell University from 1969 to 1973 and president and chief executive officer of Clarkson University from 1974 until 1985. From 1991 to 1995, he was president of Wells College.

#1179

Herbert O. House

#79676

Overall Influence

1929 - 2013 (84 years)

Herbert Otis House was an American organic chemist. House was born in Willoughby, Ohio, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1953 from the University of Illinois under the guidance of Reynold Fuson. Upon graduation, he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and remained there until 1970. During this time, he co-discovered the Corey-House alkane synthesis, an early example of a transition metal mediated cross-coupling reaction. In 1970, he joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology. House retired in 1990 and was the Vasser Woolley Professor Emeritus at Georgia ...

#1180

Robert West

#70695

Overall Influence

1928 - 2022 (94 years)

Robert Culbertson West Jr. was an American chemist. West was an E. G. Rochow Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; Director of the Organosilicon Research Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison 1999–20??; President, Silatronix, Inc. ; Distinguished Professor, Yonsei University, 2007–2011. He died in Madison, Wisconsin on October 12, 2022, at the age of 94.

#1181

Luis M. Campos

#57381

Overall Influence

Luis M. Campos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University. Campos leads a research team focused on nanostructured materials, macromolecular systems, and single-molecule electronics.

#1182

Bernd Michael Rode

Bernd Michael Rode

#75342

Overall Influence

1946 - 2022 (76 years)

Bernd Michael Rode was an Austrian professor of chemistry at the University of Innsbruck and founder of the Austrian-South-East-Asian Academic University Network . Prof. Rode retired in 2011 but remained actively involved in teaching and research as well as in the thesis supervision.

#1183

Steven Bachrach

#62824

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Steven M. Bachrach is an organic chemist who took up the position of Dean of Science at Monmouth University in 2016. Bachrach had previously been the Dr D. R. Semmes Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Bachrach is the author of the textbook Computational Organic Chemistry.

#1184

Hubert Schmidbaur

#83575

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

#1185

Dipankar Das Sarma

#40943

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Dipankar Das Sarma, popularly known as D.D. Sarma, is an Indian scientist and structural chemist, known for his researches in the fields of Solid State Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Science, and Nanoscience. He is a former MLS Chair Professor of Physics and Chairman of the Centre for Advanced Materials and the GAST Professor of Uppsala University, Sweden, A recipient of TWAS Physics Prize and the UNESCO Biennial Javed Husain Prize, Sarma was honored by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research , Government of India, in 1994, with the Shanti Swarup Bhatna...

#1186

Humphry Bowen

#43899

Overall Influence

1929 - 2001 (72 years)

Humphry John Moule Bowen was a British botanist and chemist. Early life and education Bowen was born in Oxford, son of the chemist Edmund Bowen and Edith Bowen . He attended the Dragon School, gaining a scholarship to Rugby School and then a demyship to Magdalen College, Oxford. He won the Gibbs Prize in 1949 and completed a DPhil in chemistry at Oxford University in 1953 before starting his professional career as a chemist. Bowen was also a proficient amateur actor in his early years, appearing with a young Ronnie Barker at Oxford.

#1187

John Davidson

#50299

Overall Influence

1926 - 2019 (93 years)

John Frank Davidson FRS FREng FIChemE was a British chemical engineer and former Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He is regarded as the founding father of the subject of Fluidization in Chemical Engineering.

#1188

Steve Granick

#44815

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Steve Granick is an American scientist and educator. In 2023 he joined the University of Massachusetts-Amherst as the Robert Barrett Endowed Chair of Polymer Science and Engineering, with joint appointment in the Chemistry, Physics, and Chemical Engineering Departments after serving as director of the Institute for Basic Science Center for Soft and Living Matter, an interdisciplinary blue-sky research center in Ulsan, South Korea that pursues basic science research. Until 2015 he was professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the U.S.

#1189

Vittorio Erspamer

Vittorio Erspamer

#20234

Overall Influence

1909 - 1999 (90 years)

Vittorio Erspamer was an Italian pharmacologist and chemist, known for the identification, synthesis and pharmacological studies of more than sixty new chemical compounds, most notably serotonin and octopamine.

#1190

G. A. Mansoori

#49755

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Gholam Ali Mansoori , G. Ali Mansoori also known as "GA Mansoori" is an Iranian-American scientist known for his research within energy, nanotechnology and thermodynamics. He is a professor at the Departments of Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering and also Physics at University of Illinois at Chicago.

#1191

Koen Binnemans

#83814

Overall Influence

#1192

Iwao Ojima

#76775

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Iwao Ojima is a Japanese-American chemist and university distinguished professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook . He has been widely recognized for his seminal contributions to a range of chemical research at the multifaceted interfaces of chemical synthesis and life sciences. As rare accomplishments, he has received four National Awards from the American Chemical Society in four different fields of research. He is also serving as the director of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery , as well as the president of the Stony Brook Chapter of the National Acade...

#1193

Hans Bock

#66905

Overall Influence

1928 - 2008 (80 years)

Hans Bock was a German chemist born in Hamburg and died in Königstein im Taunus. Career Hans Bock studied chemistry at the University of Munich, where he received his PhD in 1958 for his work on water-free hydrazine in the group of Egon Wiberg. In 1964 he received his post doctoral lecture qualification after work on phosphorus containing diacenes in the same research group. Subsequently, he had a three-year visit in the group of Edgar Heilbronner at ETH Zurich/Switzerland, where he worked on applications of the HMO-model, leading to the textbook: The HMO model and its application.

#1194

Jinhua Ye

#82616

Overall Influence

Jinhua Ye is a Chinese chemist who is a professor at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba. Her research considers high-temperature superconductors for photocatalysis. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2016 and has been included in the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher every year since then.

#1195

Bernard L. Shaw

#51265

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Bernard Leslie Shaw, FRS was an English chemist who made notable contributions to organometallic chemistry. He was Professor of Inorganic and Structural Chemistry at the University of Leeds. Early life Shaw was born on 28 March 1930 in Springhead then in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His parents were Tom and Vera Shaw. He was educated at Hulme Grammar School in Oldham.

#1196

William Fyfe

#32826

Overall Influence

1927 - 2013 (86 years)

William Sefton Fyfe, was a New Zealand geologist and Professor Emeritus in the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. He is widely considered among the world's most eminent geochemists.

#1197

Edward F. Hartree

#83973

Overall Influence

#1198

Günther Jung

#65000

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Günther Jung is a German chemist. He was professor for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen from 1973 to 2002. Career Günther Jung studied chemistry at the University of Tübingen and after his diploma thesis in 1965 he received his PhD in 1967. From 1967 to 1968 he was assistant professor at the University of Houston in Texas . In 1971 he was granted permission to teach organic chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Tübingen, where he held a permanent university professorship from 1973 to 2002. His successor in the department of organic chemistry is Steph...

#1199

Bertram Fraser-Reid

#46492

Overall Influence

1934 - 2020 (86 years)

Bertram Oliver "Bert" Fraser-Reid was a Jamaican synthetic organic chemist who has been widely recognised for his work using carbohydrates as starting materials for chiral materials and on the role of oligosaccharides in immune response.

#1200

Markku Leskelä

#44769

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Markku Leskelä is a Finnish chemist and professor emeritus at University of Helsinki, known for his leading research in atomic layer deposition . Markku Leskelä was the leader of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in ALD by the University of Helsinki and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.

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