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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#1351

Paul M. Treichel

#78620

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Paul M. Treichel, Jr. dedicated his time to research and the advancement in academic studies. He received his B.S. degree form the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1958 and then a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1962. After a year of postdoctoral study in London, he assumed a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

#1352

Christian Hertweck

Christian Hertweck

#46117

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Christian Hertweck is a German chemist, deputy director and head of the department of biomolecular chemistry at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology. Career Hertweck studied chemistry at the University of Bonn and did his doctorate under Wilhelm Boland at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in 1996–1999. After a research stay with Heinz G. Floss and Bradley S. Moore at the University of Washington, Seattle, US, funded by a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers , he started his independent research as head of a junior resea...

#1353

Dr. D. W. Urry

#89331

Overall Influence

#1354

Christopher J. Schofield

#68842

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Christopher Joseph Schofield is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society. Chris Schofield is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Oxford, Department of Chemistry and a Fellow of Hertford College. Schofield studied functional, structural and mechanistic understanding of enzymes that employ oxygen and 2-oxoglutarate as a co-substrate. His work has opened up new possibilities in antibiotic research, oxygen sensing, and gene regulation.

#1355

Douglas Hugh Everett

#58222

Overall Influence

1916 - 2002 (86 years)

Douglas Hugh Everett FRS FRSE MBE was a British chemist and academic author. His most pertinent contributions to science were in the field of thermodynamics. He famously said: There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality: and then there are some who turn one into the other.

#1356

David Wayne Goodman

#89369

Overall Influence

#1357

Thomas F. Edgar

#57825

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Thomas Flynn Edgar is an American chemical engineer. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2014 for contributions to mathematical modeling, optimization, and automatic control of chemical and microelectronics processes, and for professional leadership.

#1358

Esmaiel Jabbari

#54430

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Esmaiel Jabbari is a full professor of chemical engineering at the University of South Carolina. Education Jabbari obtained his B.S. in chemical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1982 and then got his master's degree in chemistry and chemical engineering from the same place in 1986 and 1989 respectively. He then continued his education at Purdue University, where, after spending five years under the supervision from Nicholas A. Peppas, he received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering.

#1359

Brigitte Voit

#74095

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Brigitte Voit is a German chemist and professor of chemistry. She holds the chair Organic Chemistry of Polymers at the Faculty of Chemistry of the TU Dresden and is head of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden. From September 1, 2002, to July 31, 2022, she was also member of the Board of Management/CSO of the IPF Dresden.

#1360

Bianxiao Cui

#67260

Overall Influence

Bianxiao Cui is the current Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of Chemistry and a fellow of the Stanford Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University. Education and academic career Education Bianxiao Cui graduated from University of Science and Technology of China in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in material science. She received her Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Chicago under Stuart Rice in physical chemistry. Between 2002 and 2007, she was a postdoctoral associate with Steven Chu at Stanford University. In 2008, she was appointed as the assistant professor in chemistry with Stanford U...

#1361

Barbara Imperiali

#66242

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Barbara Imperiali is a Professor of Biology and Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Affiliate Member of the Broad Institute. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

#1362

Charles P. Casey

#87624

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Charles P. Casey is an organometallic chemist who was the 2004 President of the American Chemical Society. He is currently the Homer Adkins Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.

#1363

Tang Aoqing

#31756

Overall Influence

1915 - 2008 (93 years)

Tang Aoqing , or Au-Chin Tang, was a Chinese theoretical chemist and educator, known as the "Father of Quantum Chemistry" in China. He established the Department of Chemistry of Jilin University, and served as President of the university from 1978 to 1986. He was a founding member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science . He established the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 1986 and served as its first president.

#1364

Anton Burg

#86968

Overall Influence

1904 - 2003 (99 years)

Anton Behme Burg was an American chemist. He was chairman of the University of Southern California chemistry department and an expert on boron. Burg joined USC in 1939 as an assistant professor. He built up USC's chemistry department, making it one of the best chemistry departments in the United States by the 1950s. Burg retired in 1974.

#1365

Mei Hong

#70600

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Mei Hong is a Chinese-American biophysical chemist and professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is known for her creative development and application of solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to elucidate the structures and mechanisms of membrane proteins, plant cell walls, and amyloid proteins. She has received a number of recognitions for her work, including the American Chemical Society Nakanishi Prize in 2021, Günther Laukien Prize in 2014, the Protein Society Young Investigator award in 2012, and the American Chemical Society’s Pure Chemistry...

#1366

Roger Alder

#77070

Overall Influence

Roger William Alder, FRS is an Emeritus Professor of organic chemistry at the University of Bristol. His research involves the study of novel compounds with unusual properties, such as proton sponges and stable carbenes.

#1367

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

#47287

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie is a Chinese biophysicist well known for his contributions to the fields of single-molecule biophysical chemistry, coherent Raman Imaging and single-molecule genomics. In 2023, Xie renounced his U.S. citizenship in order to reclaim his Chinese citizenship.

#1368

Yuri Lvov

#78043

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Yuri Lvov is a micromanufacturing specialist, a chemistry professor, and the Tolbert Pipes Eminent Endowed Chair on Micro and Nanosystems at the Institute for Micromanufacturing . He earned his B.S. in 1974 and his Ph.D. in 1979 in Physical Chemistry from Moscow State University, Russia. He worked at the Max Planck Institute, on the Japanese ERATO Supramolecule Project, and at the USA Naval Research Laboratory before moving to Louisiana Tech in 1999. Love was named to his professorship in 2004.

#1369

George W. Huber

#74749

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

George W. Huber is an American chemical engineer. He is the Richard L. Antoine Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. His research focus is on developing new catalytic processes for the production of renewable liquid fuels and chemicals.

#1370

Gregory L. Verdine

#57366

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Gregory L. Verdine is an American chemical biologist, biotech entrepreneur, venture capitalist and university professor. He is a founder of the field of chemical biology, which deals with the application of chemical techniques to biological systems. His work has focused on mechanisms of DNA repair and cell penetrability.

#1371

Joseph F. Heremans

#89822

Overall Influence

#1372

Makhluf Haddadin

#70115

Overall Influence

Makhluf J. Haddadin was a Jordanian chemistry professor at the American University of Beirut. Biography Haddadin was born in Ma'in, Jordan in 1935. He won a full scholarship from the Jordanian Ministry of Education, to study chemistry at the American University of Beirut from which he graduated with a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. under the direction of Costas H. Issidorides. He then left for the University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA where he received a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry under the direction of Alfred Hassner. After two years of postdoctoral work under Louis Fieser at Harvard Univ...

#1373

J. J. Hermans

#89873

Overall Influence

#1374

Gideon Davies

#60148

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Gideon John Davies is a professor of chemistry in the Structural Biology Laboratory at the University of York, UK. Davies is best known for his ground-breaking studies into carbohydrate-active enzymes, notably analysing the conformational and mechanistic basis for catalysis and applying this for societal benefit. In 2016 Davies was appointed the Royal Society Ken Murray Research Professor at the University of York.

#1375

Stephen Kent

#58240

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Stephen B. H. Kent is a professor at the University of Chicago. While professor at the Scripps Research Institute in the early 1990s he pioneered modern ligation methods for the total chemical synthesis of proteins. He was the inventor of native chemical ligation together with his student Philip Dawson. His laboratory experimentally demonstrated the principle that chemical synthesis of a protein's polypeptide chain using mirror-image amino acids after folding results in a mirror-image protein molecule which, if an enzyme, will catalyze a chemical reaction with mirror-image stereospecificity....

#1376

Helen Vaughn Michel

#66197

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (93 years)

Helen Vaughn Michel is an American chemist best known for her efforts in fields including analytical chemistry and archaeological science, and specific processes such as neutron activation analysis and radiocarbon dating. Her work with Frank Asaro at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California is particularly noteworthy as it includes the dating of Drake's Plate of Brass as well as the Alvarez hypothesis, the hypothesis that posits the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

#1377

Vicki Colvin

#65582

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Vicki Leigh Colvin is a professor of engineering and molecular pharmacology at Brown University. She is the director of the Centre for Biomedical Engineering. Her work focuses on the synthesis and characterisation of nanomaterials. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

#1378

Roy A. Periana

#51173

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Roy A. Periana is a Guyanese-American organometallic chemist. Biography Early life He was born in Georgetown, Guyana in 1957. After moving to the United States after high school, Periana studied and received a B.S. in chemistry at the University of Michigan in 1979. He then worked in industry at the Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan. In 1981, he returned to graduate school at the University of California Berkeley where he received his Ph.D. in 1985 under Robert G. Bergman. His work with Bergman focused on the development of novel rhodium complexes that undergo C-H and C-C bond activation of alkanes.

#1379

Morris Ziff

#90074

Overall Influence

#1380

Peter Strasser

#89297

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Peter Strasser is a German chemist. He is the winner of the 2021 Faraday Medal. Career Strasser studied chemistry at the University of Tübingen, at Stanford University , and at the University of Pisa and obtained his Diplom in Physical Chemistry in 1995. He conducted his doctoral research under the direction of Gerhard Ertl and obtained his PhD in Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in 1999. He joined Symyx Technologies, Silicon Valley as a postdoctoral associate and was later promoted to Senior Member of staff and served as project leader in Electrocatalysis and Heterogeneous Catalysis.

#1381

Gerhart Friedlander

#76958

Overall Influence

1916 - 2009 (93 years)

Gerhart Friedlander was an American nuclear chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project. Friedlander was born in Munich, and fled Nazi Germany for the United States in 1936. After emigrating, he studied with Glenn Seaborg at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a PhD in 1942. In 1943, he joined the Manhattan Project, and in 1944 became the leader of the radioactive lanthanum group in the Chemistry Division.

#1382

Pavel Hobza

#90297

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

#1383

Roy Goodacre

#41289

Overall Influence

Royston "Roy" Goodacre is Chair in Biological Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. With training in both Microbiology and Pyrolysis-Mass Spectrometry, Goodacre runs a multidisciplinary Metabolomics and Raman spectroscopy research group in the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology , and leads ISMIB's Centre for Metabolomics Research and the Laboratory for Bioanalytical Spectroscopy.

#1384

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar

#34814

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Vadapalli Chandrasekhar is an Indian inorganic and organometallic chemist and is currently a distinguished professor and the centre director of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad. He is known for his studies on the chemistry of inorganic clusters and rings and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy National Academy of Sciences, India, The World Academy of Sciences and the Indian Academy of Sciences The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar...

#1385

John A. Tainer

#90329

Overall Influence

#1386

Jan C. A. Boeyens

#58125

Overall Influence

1934 - 2015 (81 years)

Jan C. A. Boeyens was a South African chemist and educator. Boeyens was educated at the University of Pretoria. He worked at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of South Africa and at Stanford University. He became a professor of chemistry at the University of the Witwatersrand and Extraordinary Professor at UNISA.

#1387

Edward Yeung

#87884

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Edward S. Yeung is a Chinese-American chemist who studies spectroscopy and chromatography. Yeung is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry from 2008 to 2014 and has served on the editorial committees of a number of other journals.

#1388

Hans Kuhn

#52629

Overall Influence

1919 - 2012 (93 years)

Hans Kuhn was a Swiss chemist. He was professor emeritus for physical chemistry and former scientific director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. Biography Curriculum Hans Kuhn was born in Bern, Switzerland. He studied chemistry at the ETH Zürich and worked for his doctorate at University of Basel under the guidance of Werner Kuhn . He received his habilitation in 1946. From 1946 until 1947 he worked as a post doctoral fellow with Linus Pauling at Caltech in Pasadena and in 1950 with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. In 1951, he became professor at the University of Basel.

#1389

Loney Gordon

#46380

Overall Influence

1915 - 1999 (84 years)

Loney Clinton Gordon was an African-American chemist and laboratory researcher who assisted doctors Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering with bacteriological virulence research leading to the creation of the pertussis vaccine.

#1390

Alireza Khataee

#90463

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

#1391

Metin Sitti

#90465

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

#1392

Thomas H. Maren

#66788

Overall Influence

1918 - 1999 (81 years)

Thomas H. Maren was an American professor of medicine at the University of Florida. He was the founding father for the University of Florida College of Medicine, and he invented Trusopt to help people with glaucoma.

#1393

Khristo Ivanov

#63986

Overall Influence

1916 - 2004 (88 years)

Khristo Ivanov was a Bulgarian organic chemist. Life and career Khristo Ivanov was born on 3 May 1916 in the town of Dobrich, Bulgaria. His father Ivan Khristov was a hardware man, who died in 1918 after having fought in World War I, when Khristo Ivanov was just two. His mother, Elena Khristova, took care of her one and only son. Khristo Ivanov obtained his degree in chemistry from the Physico-Mathematical Faculty of Sofia University in 1939. After teaching Chemistry at school level in the towns of Popovo and Karlovo for a few years, he acquired the position of regular Assistant Professor at the same faculty in 1946.

#1394

Anthony Ledwith

#81698

Overall Influence

1933 - 2015 (82 years)

Anthony Ledwith was a British chemist. Biography Anthony Ledwith was born on 14 August 1933 in Goose Green, Greater Manchester to Thomas Ledwith and Mary Clare Thomas Ledwith was killed in a railway accident when Anthony was four and his brother Thomas was two.

#1395

Albrecht W. Hofmann

#90519

Overall Influence

#1396

Larry Kevan

#90539

Overall Influence

1938 - 2002 (64 years)

Larry James Kevan was an American chemist. Kevan was born in Kansas City, Missouri on December 12, 1938, and attended the University of Kansas to study chemistry. Upon completing his undergraduate degree in 1960, Kevan pursued doctoral study at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the direction of Willard Libby. After obtaining his doctorate in 1963, Kevan became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Newcastle, then returned to the United States later that year to serve as a chemistry instructor at the University of Chicago. Between 1965 and 1969, Kevan taught at the University of Kansas.

#1397

Eric Westhof

#73490

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Éric Westhof is a French biochemist born in Uccle on July 25, 1948. He is a member of the Academie des sciences, head of Education and Training and a member of the Board of Directors of the "La Main à la pâte" Foundation. He is professor emeritus of structural biochemistry at the University of Strasbourg at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

#1398

Alan Wayne Jones

#25790

Overall Influence

Alan Wayne Jones is a researcher and scholarly writer on the subject of forensic toxicology and human physiology relating to alcohol consumption. Jones was born in Pontypridd, Wales, UK, but worked for most of his career in Sweden.

#1399

Thomas J. Pinnavaia

#90660

Overall Influence

#1400

Manfred Baerns

#70345

Overall Influence

1934 - 2021 (87 years)

Manfred Baerns was a German chemist. Career After a 2-years postdoctoral fellowship at the Argonne National Laboratory , a further 5 years in academia and a 5-year career in industry, was a full professor for chemical technology and reaction engineering at Ruhr-University Bochum from 1974–1995. He then acted as scientific director of the "Institute of Applied Chemistry Berlin-Adlershof" until 2003. He was lately a guest scientist as Professor Emeritus at the "Fritz-Haber-Institute" of the Max-Planck-Society at Berlin.

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