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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#1451

William O. Baker

William O. Baker

#14695

Overall Influence

1915 - 2005 (90 years)

William Oliver Baker was president of Bell Labs from 1973 to 1979 and advisor on scientific matters to five United States presidents. Biography He was born on July 15, 1915, in Chestertown, Maryland.

#1452

Hiroyoshi Hidaka

#92510

Overall Influence

#1453

Joseph J. Katz

#92535

Overall Influence

#1454

Terrance James Beveridge

#92539

Overall Influence

#1455

Jan Anderson

#28687

Overall Influence

1932 - 2015 (83 years)

Joan Mary "Jan" Anderson FAA FRS was a New Zealand scientist who worked in Canberra, Australia, distinguished by her investigation of photosynthesis. Life Joan Mary Anderson was born in 1932 in Queenstown, New Zealand. Her father Dr Bill Anderson was a country doctor. Her mother died, after a long illness, when Anderson was eight. Much to the disappointment of her father, who had wanted her to become a doctor, she studied organic chemistry at the University of Otago. At the time, degrees were issued by the University of New Zealand, and she obtained a BSc and MSc with first class honours.

#1456

Osamu Shimomura

#92624

Overall Influence

#1457

Elena Besley

#14582

Overall Influence

Elena Besley is a British scientist who is Professor of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. She holds a Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship and is Associate Editor of Nano Letters.

#1458

Noel Hush

#69560

Overall Influence

1924 - 2019 (95 years)

Noel Sydney Hush was an Australian chemist at the University of Sydney. Career Hush was born in Sydney on 15 December 1924 and obtained his BSc hons and MSc at the University of Sydney, where he worked as a research fellow in the Department of Chemistry . He then accepted an invitation from M. G. Evans FRS to work in England as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester in the department created by Michael Polanyi. He was subsequently lecturer and then reader in the Department of Chemistry, University of Bristol .

#1459

István T. Horváth

#78324

Overall Influence

1953 - 2022 (69 years)

István T. Horváth was a Hungarian American chemist, working on greener and more sustainable chemistry since its inception. In particular, he focuses on homogeneous transition metal catalysis and in situ spectroscopy. He was highly involved and very influential in the now enormous field of fluorous solvents and technologies.

#1460

Karl Wieghardt

#92240

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Karl Wieghardt is a German inorganic chemist and emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim. He was active in the preparation and detailed characterization of models for iron and manganese metalloenzymes, metal complexes of noninnocent ligands, and magnetic interactions in polynuclear metal complexes.

#1461

Gianfranco Pacchioni

#92869

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

#1462

Chunying Chen

#14078

Overall Influence

Chunying Chen is a Chinese chemist who is a professor at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology. Her research considers nanoscale biological interactions. She was awarded the 2021 Royal Society of Chemistry Environment, Sustainability and Energy Award. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

#1463

Iain Coldham

#89838

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Iain Coldham is an organic chemist and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge before moving to Austin, Texas, in 1989 for postdoctoral research. His areas of study have included intramolecular trapping of episulfonium ions with amine nucleophiles and the use of triisopropylsilyl enol ethers in organic synthesis.

#1464

Ajay Dalai

#83609

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Ajay Kumar Dalai is an Indian-Canadian chemical engineer. He is a professor and Canada Research Chair of Bioenergy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing at the University of Saskatchewan.

#1465

J. P. Quirk

#93046

Overall Influence

#1466

Jürgen Caro

#84827

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Jürgen Caro is a German chemist. Life and career Caro studied chemistry at Leipzig University from 1970 to 1974. His PhD work on diffusion in zeolites was done from 1975 to 1977 at the Physical Institute of the Leipzig University under the supervision of Jörg Kärger. After 1977, Caro was a postdoc at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin-Adlershof. He worked in different positions, by the end as Vice Director, in the fields of gas adsorption, heterogeneous catalysis and membrane permeation. In 1989 he earned the title Dr. sc. nat. with...

#1467

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin

#93103

Overall Influence

#1468

J. Laurence Kulp

#35585

Overall Influence

1921 - 2006 (85 years)

John Laurence Kulp was a 20th-century geochemist. He led major studies on the effects of nuclear fallout and acid rain. He was a prominent advocate in American Scientific Affiliation circles in favor of an Old Earth and against the pseudoscience of flood geology. Kulp died on September 25, 2006, at the age of 85.

#1469

Guido Busca

#93230

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

#1470

Sossina M. Haile

#34699

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Sossina M. Haile is an American chemist, known for developing the first solid acid fuel cells. She is a professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University, Illinois, US. Haile received the National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award , Humboldt Fellowship , Fulbright Fellowship , and AT&T Cooperative Research Fellowship . The Humboldt and Fulbright fellowships supported her research at the Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung [Institute for Solid State Research], Stuttgart, Germany . She earned the 2001 J.B. Wagner Award of the High Temperature ...

#1471

Robert Guy Griffin

#93243

Overall Influence

#1472

Peter Schwerdtfeger

Peter Schwerdtfeger

#56167

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Peter Schwerdtfeger is a German scientist. He holds a chair in theoretical chemistry at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand, serves as Director of the Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, is the Head of the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, and is a former president of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

#1473

Brian K. Shoichet

#93257

Overall Influence

#1474

James Sherwood Fritz

#93396

Overall Influence

#1475

Jay R. Winkler

#82124

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Jay Richmond Winkler, Ph.D. is an American physical chemist, currently director of the Beckman Institute Laser Resource Center at the California Institute of Technology. He has authored over two hundred twenty five articles on applications of inorganic spectroscopy, including the pioneering study of intramolecular electron transfer reactions in biological systems.

#1476

Murray B. Mcbride

#93493

Overall Influence

#1477

Philip A. Gale

#46757

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Philip Alan Gale is an Australian/British chemist, Deputy Dean of Science and Professor of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney. He is notable for his work on the supramolecular chemistry of anions.

#1478

Lennart Eberson

#86093

Overall Influence

1933 - 2000 (67 years)

Lennart Eugén Eberson, was a Swedish chemist. Eberson graduated with a Ph.D. degree in 1959 from Lund University with a thesis entitled "Studies in the Succinic and Glutaric Acid Series". From 1979 until his retirement in 1998, he was Professor of organic chemistry at Lund University. He authored several books, including the text books Introduktion till den organiska kemin and Organisk kemi . He was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1974, and to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1988.

#1479

Donald Sankey Farner

#93514

Overall Influence

#1480

Gareth A. Morris

Gareth A. Morris

#62659

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Gareth Alun Morris FRS is a Professor of Physical Chemistry, in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. Education Morris was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and the University of Oxford where he was a student of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was awarded a Master of Arts degree followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1978.

#1481

Yang Jinlong

#66371

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Yang Jinlong is a Chinese chemist currently serving as vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China. Biography Yang was born in the town of Xuefu, Yandu District of Yancheng, Jiangsu in January 1966. In 1981 he entered Nanjing Normal University, where he graduated in 1985. From 1985 to 1991, he studied at the University of Science and Technology of China , where he earned his master's and Ph.D. degrees.

#1482

W. Mark Saltzman

#50658

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

William Mark Saltzman was named the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Yale University on July 1, 2002 and became the founding chair of Yale's Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2003. Saltzman's research aims to promote new methods for drug delivery and develop new biotechnologies to combat human disease. A pioneer in the fields of biomaterials, nanobiotechnology, and tissue engineering, Saltzman has contributed to the design and implementation of a number of clinical technologies that have become essential to medical practice today. His popular course...

#1483

Helge Kragh

#16099

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Helge Stjernholm Kragh is a Danish historian of science who focuses on the development of 19th century physics, chemistry, and astronomy. His published work includes biographies of Paul Dirac, Julius Thomsen and Ludvig Lorenz, and The Oxford Handbook of the History of Modern Cosmology which he co-edited with Malcolm Longair.

#1484

Sigbritt Karlsson

#31586

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Sigbritt Karlsson was a Swedish chemical engineer and president of KTH Royal Institute of Technology between November 2016 and November 2022. Karlsson earned a master of science in chemical engineering with a specialization in biotechnology from KTH. She subsequently completed a PhD in polymer technology.

#1485

Douglas D. Perrin

#93727

Overall Influence

#1486

John Lee Prof Margrave

#93736

Overall Influence

#1487

Ian Hamley

#80750

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Ian Hamley is a British academic who is the Diamond Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Reading. He is a soft matter scientist and physical chemist with research expertise in self-assembling molecules including polymers, peptides and other biomolecules. He has more than 400 published scientific papers. He is the author of 'The Physics of Block Copolymers', 'Introduction to Soft Matter', 'Block Copolymers in Solution', 'Introduction to Peptide Science', and 'Small-Angle Scattering: Theory, Instrumentation, Data and Applications', as well as several edited texts.

#1488

B. Mario Pinto

#72855

Overall Influence

Dr. B. Mario Pinto is a Canadian chemical biologist, academic and the former President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada . Prior to his appointment at NSERC, Pinto served as a chemistry professor and as the Vice-President of Research at Simon Fraser University. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Chemical Institute of Canada and the American Chemical Society.

#1489

William Higuchi

#93812

Overall Influence

William Higuchi is an American chemist and pharmaceutical scientist and known figure in his field, currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of Utah and who was given an honorary degree from University of Michigan in 2013.

#1490

Sergio. Trasatti

#93837

Overall Influence

#1491

Huw Davies

#68333

Overall Influence

Huw M. L. Davies FRSC is a Welsh chemist who has been Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Organic Chemistry at Emory University since 2008. Born in Aberystwyth, Wales he graduated with a first-class degree in chemistry from Cardiff University in 1977 and completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 1980. After a post-doctoral position at Princeton University he joined the faculty at Wake Forest University where he became a full professor. He subsequently joined the University at Buffalo where he held the positions of UB Distinguished Professor and Larkin Professor of Organic Chemistry. In...

#1492

Armido Studer

#93918

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

#1493

Duward F. Shriver

#94005

Overall Influence

#1494

Stellan Hjertén

#94023

Overall Influence

#1495

David Archer

#65483

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

David Edward Archer is a computational ocean chemist, and has been a professor at the Geophysical Sciences department at the University of Chicago since 1993. He has published research on the carbon cycle of the ocean and the sea floor. He has worked on the history of atmospheric concentration, the expectation of fossil fuel over geologic time scales in the future, and the impact of on future ice age cycles, ocean methane hydrate decomposition, and coral reefs. Archer is a contributor to the RealClimate blog.

#1496

Alan Schriesheim

Alan Schriesheim

#21755

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (95 years)

Alan Schriesheim is the Director Emeritus and the retired CEO of Argonne National Laboratory, one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest research centers. In a January 2008 announcement issued by Penn State University upon the establishment of the Schriesheim Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, it was noted that "Schriesheim is an internationally acclaimed chemist and technology executive. With a career spanning 50 years in industry, academia, and government, Schriesheim was a pioneer in transforming large and highly complex research organizations to yield productive commercialized technolo...

#1497

Richard E. Marsh

#94189

Overall Influence

#1498

Peter B. Hitchcock

#94231

Overall Influence

#1499

Robert W. Parry

#93487

Overall Influence

1917 - 2006 (89 years)

Robert W. Parry was a professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan and the University of Utah. Parry served as the President of the American Chemical Society in 1982. Among his awards was the Priestley Medal in 1993.

#1500

Henry. Freiser

#94304

Overall Influence

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