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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#1501

Jillian Buriak

#76099

Overall Influence

Jillian M. Buriak FRSC is a Canadian chemist, currently a Canada Research Chair in Nanomaterials at University of Alberta and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Royal Society of Chemistry. She is known for her work developing flexible, lightweight solar cells made from nanoparticles. By spraying a plastic surface with nanomaterials, she's able to fabricate a transparent layer of electrode that acts as solar cells. Due to the flexibility, they could be incorporated onto different surfaces.

#1502

Theresa M. Reineke

#88511

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Theresa M. Reineke is an American chemist and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. She designs sustainable, environmentally friendly polymer-based delivery systems for targeted therapeutics. She is the associate editor of ACS Macro Letters.

#1503

Keiji Maruoka

#94513

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

#1504

Nancy B. Jackson

Nancy B. Jackson

#60914

Overall Influence

1956 - 2022 (66 years)

Nancy Beth Jackson was an American chemist. She did energy research on heterogeneous catalysis and the development of alternative fuels. She also worked in the field of chemical nonproliferation, educating chemical professionals on the importance of safe and secure chemical practice in research, teaching and business, in an effort to prevent the misuse of chemicals as "weapons, poisons, explosives or environmental pollutants". She was the first implementer in developing the international Chemical Security Engagement Program. She was active in promoting diversity in STEM fields. She was presi...

#1505

Sohrab Rohani

#19379

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Sohrab Rohani is a professor and former chairman of the University of Western Ontario's Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. His main areas of research are crystallization of pharmaceuticals and process control.

#1506

Piotr Szczęsny

#56753

Overall Influence

1963 - 2017 (54 years)

Piotr Paweł Szczęsny was a Polish chemist and a Mensa member who committed suicide by immolation in protest against the policies of the ruling Law and Justice government. He studied chemistry at Jagiellonian University and became a member of the Independent Students' Union. He worked in the 1980s in the "Solidarność" union federation. After graduation, he remained as an assistant at the university, began his doctoral thesis. After 1989, he left the university and became co-founder of a publishing house, which edited manuals on chemistry. For ten years, he held the post of Chairman of a Society for Continuing Vocational Training.

#1507

Daniel Neumark

#94555

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Daniel M. Neumark is an American chemist focusing in physical chemistry and molecular structure and dynamics. He specializes in the use of ultra-high vacuum techniques and photochemistry to characterize the quantum states of elusive or short-lived chemical entities in the gas phase.

#1508

Roeland Nolte

#91823

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Roeland J. M. Nolte is a Dutch chemist, known for his work in the fields of organic chemistry, biochemistry, polymer chemistry, and supramolecular chemistry. He is an emeritus Royal Netherlands of Arts and Sciences professor and an emeritus professor of Organic Chemistry at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Currently, he holds a special chair, i.e. professor of Molecular Nanotechnology, at this university. Nolte is considered to be one of the pioneers of the field of supramolecular chemistry, which encompasses the design and synthesis of new chemical structures from low molecular weight compounds and biopolymers using so-called non-covalent interactions.

#1509

Ruth Lynden-Bell

#55162

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Ruth Marion Lynden-Bell, FRS is a British chemist, emeritus professor of Queen's University Belfast and the University of Cambridge, and acting President of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge from 2011 to 2013.

#1510

James White

#78723

Overall Influence

1938 - 2009 (71 years)

James Lindsay White was an American polymer scientist. White was a key figure in defining the field of polymer engineering. He founded two polymer engineering programs, one at the University of Tennessee and the other at the University of Akron. He also founded the International Polymer Processing Society and two scholarly journals: the Journal of Polymer Engineering and the International Polymer Processing Journal. He authored the textbook Rubber Processing, which was long popular among engineers. He published more than 500 papers and eight books based on his studies of flow in internal mix...

#1511

Dawn Shaughnessy

Dawn Shaughnessy

#58973

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Dawn Angela Shaughnessy is an American radiochemist and principal investigator of the heavy element group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She was involved in the discovery of five superheavy elements with atomic numbers 114 to 118.

#1512

Martin Banwell

#90052

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Martin Gerhardt Banwell , Hon.FRSNZ is an organic chemist specialising in biotransformations and natural product synthesis. His research interests involve the enzymatic preparation of organic molecules as synthons or building blocks for complex natural products. This technology/methodology is then applied to the synthesis of complex marine natural products from the Great Barrier Reef.

#1513

George R. Pettit

#83839

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

George Robert Pettit II was a Regents’ Professor in Chemistry in the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University. He was an internationally renowned and respected researcher in the field of natural anticancer compounds throughout his career of over six decades. Pettit has been honored by the International Cancer Advocacy Network, the American Society of Pharmacognosy, and Washington State University, his alma mater. A special edition of the Journal of Natural Products is dedicated to Pettit, and the French journal Médicine Sciences paid tribute to him. Pettit’s achievements earn...

#1514

Michelle Coote

#87241

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Michelle Louise Coote FRSC FAA is an Australian polymer chemist. She has published extensively in the fields of polymer chemistry, radical chemistry and computational quantum chemistry. She is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science .

#1515

Lucy Weston Pickett

Lucy Weston Pickett

#63683

Overall Influence

1904 - 1997 (93 years)

Lucy Weston Pickett was a Mary Lyon Professor and Camille and Henry Dreyfus Chair in Chemistry at Mount Holyoke College. Her research on X-ray crystallography and ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy of organic molecules received numerous honors and was supported by grants from the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation and the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society.

#1516

Ursula Röthlisberger

Ursula Röthlisberger

#92564

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Ursula Röthlisberger is a professor of computational chemistry at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She works on density functional theory using mixed quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical methods. She is an associate editor of the American Chemical Society Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#1517

Gregory Stephanopoulos

#43836

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Greg N. Stephanopoulos is an American chemical engineer and the Willard Henry Dow Professor in the department of chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked at MIT, Caltech, and the University of Minnesota in the areas of biotechnology, bioinformatics, and metabolic engineering especially in the areas of bioprocessing for biochemical and biofuel production. Stephanopoulos is the author of over 400 scientific publications with more than 35,000 citations as of April 2018. In addition, Greg has supervised more than 70 graduate students and 50 post-docs whose research has led to more than 50 patents.

#1518

Michael M. Thackeray

#85681

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Michael Makepeace Thackeray is a South African chemist and battery materials researcher. He is mainly known for his work on electrochemically active cathode materials. In the mid-1980s he co-discovered the manganese oxide spinel family of cathodes for lithium ion batteries while working in the lab of John Goodenough at the University of Oxford. In 1998, while at Argonne National Laboratory, he led a team that first reported the NMC cathode technology. Patent protection around the concept and materials were first issued in 2005 to Argonne National Laboratory to a team with Thackeray, Khalil Amine, Jaekook Kim, and Christopher Johnson.

#1519

Yurii Gun'ko

#88540

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Yurii Gun'ko , born in USSR, Belarusian scientists, professor of Inorganic Chemistry at School of Chemistry of Trinity College Dublin , head of the International research and education centre for physics of nanostructures.

#1520

Jairton Dupont

#49023

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Jairton Dupont is a Brazilian chemist whose research concerns ionic liquids, organometallic catalysis, and metallic nanoparticles. Currently, he is a professor at UFRGS. Since 2014 he has been Professor of Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Nottingham.

#1521

Junes Ipaktschi

Junes Ipaktschi

#94958

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Junes Ipaktschi is an Iranian organic chemist and professor of the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Giessen. Life Junes Ipaktschi grew up in Tehran / Iran. After graduation in June 1958 at the Razi School in Tehran, he studied chemistry from 1958 to 1966 at the Heidelberg University. His doctoral thesis dealt with the field of Organic Chemistry under the direction of Heinz Staab. He then conducted research as an assistant in the same working group and habilitated in 1972 for the Organic Chemistry with a thesis on the photochemistry of unsaturated ketones. From 1972 to 1974 he did research as a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor in the laboratory of William G.

#1522

Joseph F. Bunnett

#94974

Overall Influence

#1523

Bolaji Aluko

#24910

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Mobolaji E. Aluko is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Howard University. He was appointed as the inaugural vice-chancellor of Federal University, Otuoke by the Federal Government of Nigeria from 2011 till the expiration of his tenure in 2016.

#1524

Jerzy Kroh

#34988

Overall Influence

1924 - 2016 (92 years)

Jerzy Kroh was a Polish chemist, the founder of a radiation chemistry school in Łódź, and the author or co-author of about 400 publications and several books. From 1981–1987, Kroh was rector of the Technical University of Lodz, and from 1962-1994 was in charge of the Interministerial Institute of Applied Radiation, of which he was a founder. From 1996–1998, Kroh was Vice President of Łódź, responsible for science and education. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Leeds and the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom, the University of Pavia in Italy, and the Technic...

#1525

Alexander J. Wokaun

#95003

Overall Influence

#1526

Sever Sternhell

#78526

Overall Influence

1930 - 2022 (92 years)

Severyn Marcel Sternhell was a Polish-born Australian academic and organic chemist. He was professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. His research focused on the induction of chirality into mesophases, aspects of steric hindrance and the mechanochemistry of organic compounds.

#1527

Jesse L. Beauchamp

#78272

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Jesse L. Beauchamp is the Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. Early life and education 1964 B.S. California Institute of Technology1967 Ph.D. Harvard University

#1528

Robert Shapiro

#20343

Overall Influence

1935 - 2011 (76 years)

Robert Shapiro was professor emeritus of chemistry at New York University. He is best known for his work on the origin of life, having written two books on the topic: Origins, a Skeptic’s Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth and Planetary Dreams . He opposed the RNA world hypothesis, and held that the spontaneous emergence of a molecule as complicated as RNA is highly unlikely. Instead, he proposed that life arose from some self-sustaining and compartmentalized reaction of simple molecules: "metabolism first" instead of "RNA first". This reaction would have to be able to reproduce and evolve, eventually leading to RNA.

#1529

Lars Walløe

#41902

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Lars Walløe is a Norwegian academic, chemist, physiologist, and scientific adviser to the Norwegian government. He was Head of Norwegian Delegation to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission ; and he was honored by the government of Japan for having "Contributed to the promotion of Japan’s policy in the field of fisheries." From 2002 to 2008 Walløe served as the president of Academia Europaea.

#1530

Denis Evans

#31458

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Denis James Evans , is an Australian scientist who is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University and Honorary Professor at The University of Queensland. He is widely recognised for his contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and the simulation of nonequilibrium fluids.

#1531

Martin L. Fleischmann

#95152

Overall Influence

#1532

Uwe Meierhenrich

#76387

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Uwe Meierhenrich is a German Physico-Chemist. He is professor of Analytical and Physical Chemistry at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France. Academic life Meierhenrich was raised in a family of teachers and professors. He studied chemistry at the Philipps-University Marburg and obtained a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry at the University of Bremen by Thiemann. He did postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau and at the French Synchrotron Center LURE. In 2003 he earned his habilitation with the publication of The Origin of Biomolecular Asymmetry at the University of Bremen.

#1533

Thure E. Cerling

#71914

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Thure E. Cerling is a Distinguished Professor of Geology and Geophysics and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Utah. Cerling is a leading expert in the evolution of modern landscapes including modern mammals and their associated grassland ecologies and stable isotope analyses of the atmosphere. Cerling lives in Salt Lake City, Utah."A single hair can determine a person's location during the past weeks or even years" – Thure E. CerlingCerling's research interests are primarily focused on Earth surface geochemistry processes and on the geological record of ecological change.

#1534

Bassam Shakhashiri

Bassam Shakhashiri

#67207

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Bassam Z. Shakhashiri is a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is the holder of the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair. An active advocate for science education, he is the author of multiple books of chemical demonstrations. He was the 2012 president of the American Chemical Society and has received numerous awards and honors.

#1535

Bruce A. Finlayson

#78579

Overall Influence

Bruce A. Finlayson is an American chemical engineer and applied mathematician. He is the Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington, United States. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering . He is known for his contributions to chemical engineering in general and for the development and application of computational methods engineering problems in particular.

#1536

Carlo Patrono

#95293

Overall Influence

#1537

Melvin I. Simon

#95300

Overall Influence

#1538

Michael P. Doyle

#89267

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Michael P. Doyle is a professor of chemistry at University of Texas at San Antonio. Doyle was awarded the George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education by the American Chemical Society in 2002. and elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1995.

#1539

Polly Arnold

#59018

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Polly Louise Arnold is director of the chemical sciences division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. She previously held the Crum Brown chair in the School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh from 2007 to 2019 and an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council career fellowship.

#1540

John Goodby

#60913

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

John William Goodby is a British materials chemist. He is the chairman of materials chemistry at the University of York. He studies liquid crystals, complex fluids and self-organising systems. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011 and received their Royal Medal in 2016 "for his major advances and discoveries of new forms of matter and materials, in particular the development of chiral liquid crystals."

#1541

John David Kennedy

#82139

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

John David Kennedy is a chemist and emeritus professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Leeds. He works in the area of polyhedral borane chemistry. Biography John D Kennedy was born in 1943. He was educated at Scarborough High School for Boys between 1954 and 1962 and received his BSc from University College London in 1965. After receiving his PhD from University College London in 1968, he was a research associate at State University of New York at Albany until 1971. He then returned to University College London as a research fellow. From 1971 to 1972 he served as a temporary lect...

#1542

Thunderf00t

#87728

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Philip E. Mason is a British chemist and YouTuber with the online pseudonym Thunderf00t . He is best known for his critiques of religion, pseudoscience and creationism. He works at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

#1543

William G. Scott

#95559

Overall Influence

#1544

James Andrew Harris

James Andrew Harris

#51736

Overall Influence

1932 - 2000 (68 years)

James Andrew Harris was an American radiochemist who was involved in the discovery of elements 104 and 105 . Harris was the head of the Heavy Isotopes Production Group, part of the Nuclear Chemistry Division of University of California-Berkeley. Harris is known for being the first African American to contribute to the discovery of new elements.

#1545

Maksym Kovalenko

#91869

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (43 years)

Maksym V. Kovalenko is a full professor of inorganic chemistry and the head of the Functional Inorganic Materials group at ETH Zurich. A part of the research activities of the group are conducted at Empa . He is working in the fields of solid-state chemistry, quantum dots and other nanomaterials, surface chemistry, self-assembly, optical spectroscopy, optoelectronics and energy storage.

#1546

Yannís G. Kevrekidis

#53632

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Ioannis George Kevrekidis is currently the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering within the Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University. He holds secondary appointments in the Whiting School's Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Department of Urology.

#1547

Tony Orchard

#73719

Overall Influence

1941 - 2005 (64 years)

Anthony "Tony" Frederick Orchard was a pioneer of inorganic chemistry. His research contributed to laying the foundations of much modern consumer electronic technology. Tony Orchard was born in Carmarthen, Wales, and moved to Swansea. He studied Chemistry first at Wadham College, Oxford as an undergraduate and then towards a DPhil doctoral degree in theoretical inorganic chemistry at Merton College, Oxford. He left Merton College before he had completed his doctorate at the age of 26 to become a Fellow in Inorganic Chemistry at University College in Oxford. He stayed at University College unt...

#1548

Joseph B. Lambert

#94210

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Joseph B. Lambert is an educator, organic chemist, archaeological chemist, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopist. He grew up in the San Antonio, Texas, area and graduated from Alamo Heights High School in 1958. He was educated at Yale University , where he worked for William von Eggers Doering, and at California Institute of Technology , where he worked for John D. Roberts. In 1965, he joined the faculty of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he rose through the ranks and in 1991 became Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry. In 2010, he retired after 45 years...

#1549

David Garner

#88140

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Christopher David Garner FRSC FRS is a British retired chemist, whose research work was in the growing field of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. His research primarily focussed on the role of transition metal elements in biological processes, for which he published over 400 original papers and reviews on the topic. His specific interests lie in the roles of Molybdenum and Tungsten as the metal centres in various enzyme cofactors based on the molybdopterin molecule.

#1550

Urs von Gunten

#94260

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Urs von Gunten is a Swiss environmental chemist and a professor at EPFL . He is known for his research in the fields of drinking water quality and water treatment. Career Urs von Gunten obtained a diploma in chemistry in 1983 and a PhD in inorganic chemistry in 1989 from ETH Zurich. He then performed post-doctoral work at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science , where he became head of the chemistry department and of the Water Resources and Drinking Water department . He then took the lead of the cross-disciplinary project 'Drinking Water for the 21st century' until 2008, was the hea...

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