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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#1651

Alan Cowley

#78413

Overall Influence

1934 - 2020 (86 years)

Alan Herbert Cowley FRS was a British chemist, and Robert A. Welch Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a 1976 Guggenheim Fellow. Life He earned a BS in 1955, MS in 1956, and PhD in 1958, from University of Manchester. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin, from 1962 to 1998. He was the Sir Edward Frankland Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, at Imperial College, London, from 1988 to 1989.

#1652

Katsumi Yoshino

#98866

Overall Influence

#1653

Gerard Van Koten

#98871

Overall Influence

#1654

Roland Schauer

#98874

Overall Influence

#1655

Kim Kimoon

#72694

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Kim Kimoon is a South Korean chemist and professor in the Department of Chemistry at Pohang University of Science and Technology . He is the first and current director of the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity at the Institute for Basic Science. Kim has authored or coauthored 300 papers which have been cited more than 30,000 times and he holds a number of patents. His work has been published in Nature, Nature Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie, and JACS, among others. He has been a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in the field of chemistry in 2014, 2015, 2016.

#1656

Monroe E. Wall

#98891

Overall Influence

#1657

Steven G. Boxer

#98033

Overall Influence

Steven G. Boxer is an American biophysical chemist currently the Camille Dreyfus Professor at Stanford University, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Chemistry and Biophysical Society. He received many awards, including the NIH MERIT Award and the Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy.

#1658

Elizabeth Kujawinski

#44933

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Kujawinski is an American oceanographer who is Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where she works as Program Director of the Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet. Her research considers analytical chemistry, chemical oceanography, microbiology and microbial ecology. She is interested in what controls the composition of organic materials in aquatic systems.

#1659

Ying Di Dai

#98943

Overall Influence

#1660

James Nowick

#67973

Overall Influence

James Nowick is a professor of chemistry at University of California, Irvine. His research is focused on peptidomimetic molecules and their potential applications to the study of amyloid-like protein aggregates, which are associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. Nowick is well known for his interest in chemistry education and is the organizer of the Open Chemistry series of video lectures distributed by UCI. Nowick is openly gay and in 2009 received the Scientist of the Year award from the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Profess...

#1661

James J. K. Liao

#98966

Overall Influence

#1662

Jean Rouxel

#44699

Overall Influence

1935 - 1998 (63 years)

Jean Marcel Rouxel was a French synthetic chemist known for his work in solid state synthesis of low-dimensional materials. He pioneered the use of solid precursors in soft chemistry. Education and career Rouxel studied at the University of Rennes and the University of Bordeaux, where he received his PhD in 1961 under Paul Hagenmuller on two classes of aluminum compounds. After that he was an assistant in Bordeaux and after military service in Algeria between 1962 and 1963, he went to the newly founded laboratory for solid state chemistry at the University of Nantes. There he became an assistant professor in 1964 and a professor in 1968.

#1663

Benny D. Freeman

Benny D. Freeman

#92158

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Benny D. Freeman is a chemical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from NC State University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. Afterwards, during 1988–89, he served as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris in the Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Structurale et Macromoléculaire, Paris, France. He then returned to his undergraduate Alma Mater, NC State, where he served on the chemical engineering faculty from 1989–2001.

#1664

Carlos Simmerling

#52583

Overall Influence

Carlos Simmerling is a full professor of chemistry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is associate director of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology. Simmerling received his Bachelor of Arts in 1991 from the University of Illinois at Chicago and then his doctorate in 1994 from the same institution. His postdoctoral work was performed at the University of California, San Francisco under the direction of Peter Kollman. His primary field of interest is computational structural biology with a focus on methods of conformational sampling and protein structure prediction.

#1665

Evelyn Ebsworth

#60537

Overall Influence

1933 - 2015 (82 years)

Evelyn Algernon Valentine Ebsworth, was a British chemist and academic. He was the Crum Brown Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 1967 to 1990, and Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University from 1990 to 1998.

#1666

Robert J. Bodnar

#97147

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Robert "Bob" J. Bodnar is an American geoscientist. He is a University Distinguished Professor and C. C. Garvin Professor of Geochemistry at Virginia Tech. Early life and education Bodnar earned his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Pittsburgh, Master's degree from the University of Arizona, and his PhD at Pennsylvania State University.

#1667

Cornelia Gillyard

#73621

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Cornelia Denson Gillyard is an American organic chemist known for her work with chemicals in the environment. Early life and education The eldest of three children, Gillyard was born on February 1, 1941, in Talladega, Alabama to a steel worker and a nurse. When she was young, Gillyard was involved with the local 4-H club, singing in the school chorus, cheerleading, and taking part in science fairs. At one such fair Gillyard and her partner won a prize for a wooden replica they made of a human skeleton. While in high school, Gillyard became very interested in chemistry. After graduating as valedictorian, she received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Talladega College.

#1668

Joseph DeSimone

Joseph DeSimone

#97061

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Joseph M. DeSimone is an American chemist, inventor, and entrepreneur who has co-founded companies based on his research, including the American 3D printing technology company, Carbon, of which he was CEO from 2014 until November 2019.

#1669

José Barluenga

#27256

Overall Influence

1940 - 2016 (76 years)

José Joaquín Barluenga Mur was a Spanish chemist known for his research in organometallic chemistry. He was a professor of chemistry at Oviedo University until his retirement in 2014. Early life and education Barluenga was born in Tardienta , Spain, where he spent his childhood and attended primary school. He studied chemistry at the University of Zaragoza with Professor V. Gómez Aranda. In 1967, he moved to Germany and, after a postdoctoral appointment at the Max-Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr , he returned to Spain to hold research positions at the Spanish Cou...

#1670

Tuomas Knowles

#51409

Overall Influence

Tuomas Knowles is a British scientist and Professor of Physical Chemistry and Biophysics at the Department of Chemistry and at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He is the co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Misfolding Diseases and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Prof. Knowles is a co-founder of four biotechnology companies: Fluidic Analytics, Wren Therapeutics, Xampla and Transition Bio. He was also the Cambridge Enterprise Academic Entrepreneur of the year in 2019.

#1671

David Avnir

#91042

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Prof. David Avnir is an Israeli Professor of chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he also obtained all his academic training, and where he has held the positions of Head of the School of Chemistry, Head of the Institute of Chemistry, and Head of the Graduate School of the Experimental Sciences. His current scientific activities include sol-gel materials, molecularly doped metals, chirality and symmetry in experiments and theory. Earlier interests included fractals in chemistry and far-from-equilibrium phenomena. He has co-authored more than 400 papers , many of which are highly cited.

#1672

Robert H. Marchessault

#99239

Overall Influence

#1673

Yueh-Lin Loo

#35715

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Yueh-Lin Loo is a Malaysian-born chemical engineer and the Theodora D. '78 and William H. Walton III '74 Professor in Engineering at Princeton University, where she is also the Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. She is known for inventing nanotransfer printing. Loo was elected a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2020.

#1674

Lionel Goodman

#99266

Overall Influence

#1675

Pierre Braunstein

Pierre Braunstein

#91675

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Pierre Braunstein is a French chemist. He was director of the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination of Strasbourg and is a member of the French Academy of Science. Biography He graduated from the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Mulhouse in 1969 and then obtained his doctorate in inorganic chemistry from the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg in 1971. He spent the academic year 1971/72 as a post-doctoral fellow at University College London, with Professors Sir Ronald S. Nyholm and Robin J.H. Clark. After defending his state doctorate thesis at the ULP in 1974, he was awarded ...

#1676

Willie E. May

#35194

Overall Influence

Willie E. May is an American chemist who was director of the United States' National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology. He has been active in international organizations, collaborating with others in Brazil, China, and the European Union.

#1677

Sara Snogerup Linse

Sara Snogerup Linse

#77361

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Sara Snogerup Linse is a Swedish Professor of Biochemistry at Lund University. Her research considers the molecular mechanisms of protein self-assembly in Alzheimer's disease. She serves as Chair of the Committee for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She was awarded the 2019 European Molecular Biology Organization Women in Science Award.

#1678

Leslie Crombie

#98290

Overall Influence

1923 - 1999 (76 years)

Leslie Crombie FRS FRSC was a British chemist. He was educated at King's College London, where he completed his PhD. He was a lecturer at Imperial College London from 1950 to 1958, professor of organic chemistry at University College, Cardiff from 1963 to 1969, and Sir Jesse Boot Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Nottingham from 1969 to 1988, where he was later made an emeritus professor.

#1679

Shen Tianhui

#79244

Overall Influence

1923 - 2011 (88 years)

Shen Tianhui was a Chinese chemist. She was a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography Shen was born in Jiashan, Zhejiang Province, and graduated from the department of chemical engineering of Utopia University in Shanghai in 1949. From 1957 to 1959, She studied in the Soviet Union and her research focus was semiconductor materials. In the 1960s, she held a position at the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , studying the purification of silica material. From 1966 to 1986, she was in the No.

#1680

Ronald G. Harvey

#99379

Overall Influence

#1681

Heather C. Allen

#61880

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Heather Cecile Allen is a research chemist, who leads the Allen Group at Ohio State University. Allen's research focuses on interfacial phenomena, particularly those involving water and air. Her work has broad application ranging from medicine to climate change. She also develops nonlinear optical spectroscopy and microscopy instruments for the examination of interfacial surfaces.

#1682

John L. Wood

#81765

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

John L. Wood is a Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas Scholar; and Associate Editor for the Americas, Tetrahedron Letters at Baylor University.

#1683

Naomi Ginsberg

#43574

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (46 years)

Naomi Shauna Ginsberg , is an electrical engineer, physicist, and scientist. She is currently an associate professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Life and education Ginsberg earned her B.ASc. in engineering at the University of Toronto in 2000, and completed her PhD in physics at Harvard.

#1684

Miguel de La Guardia

#98239

Overall Influence

Miguel de La Guardia is a Spanish chemist, who is active in the field of analytical chemistry; he is a full professor of the University of Valencia . He is a member of the editorial board of Spectroscopy Letters, Ciencia , Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, Bioimpacts and SOP Transactions on Nano-technology, and editor-in-chief of Elsevier's Microchemical Journal.

#1685

Lin Jianhua

#62979

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Lin Jianhua is a Chinese chemist who served as president of Peking University from 2015 to 2018. Previously he was president of Chongqing University from December 2010 to June 2013, and president of Zhejiang University between June 2013 to February 2015.

#1686

Bai-biao Huang

#99506

Overall Influence

#1687

William Gelbart

William Gelbart

#54603

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

William Michael Gelbart is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a member of the California NanoSystems Institute and the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Harvard University in 1967, his Master's and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Paris and the University of California, Berkeley . After 30 years of research in theoretical physical chemistry, contributing notably to the fields of gas-phase photophysics, optical proper...

#1688

Richard A. Solano Beach Houghten

#99520

Overall Influence

#1689

Ian R. Kimber

#99555

Overall Influence

#1690

Richard A. Andersen

#90330

Overall Influence

1942 - 2019 (77 years)

Richard "Dick" A. Andersen was a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and faculty senior scientist at the chemical sciences division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

#1691

Paul Attfield

#59999

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

John Paul Attfield is a Professor of Materials science in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions . Education Attfield was educated at Durham Johnston School in Durham, England and the University of Oxford where he was a student at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1987 for his work on chemical crystallography supervised by Anthony Cheetham and Peter Battle.

#1692

Sukbok Chang

#83238

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Sukbok Chang is a South Korean organic chemist. He is a distinguished professor in the Department of Chemistry at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology . He is also the director of the Institute for Basic Science Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalizations . He was an associate editor on ACS Catalysis and has served on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Accounts of Chemical Research. His major research interest is transition metal catalyzed C-H bond functionalization for the carbon-carbon bond ...

#1693

R. J. Dwayne Miller

R. J. Dwayne Miller

#80057

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

R. J. Dwayne Miller is a Canadian chemist and a professor at the University of Toronto. His focus is in physical chemistry and biophysics. He is most widely known for his work in ultrafast laser science, time-resolved spectroscopy, and the development of new femtosecond electron sources. His research has enabled real-time observation of atomic motions in materials during chemical processes and has shed light on the structure-function correlation that underlies biology.

#1694

Claire Vallance

#79661

Overall Influence

Claire Vallance is a professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford, Tutorial Fellow in Physical Chemistry at Hertford College, and past President of the Faraday Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In collaboration with professor Mark Brouard and others, she created the PImMS sensor, used for time-of-flight particle imaging and recently featured in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Research Frontiers report. She is co-founder of the spin-out company Oxford HighQ, which is developing next-generation chemical and nanoparticle sensors based on optical microcavity technology. ...

#1695

Dionisios G. Vlachos

#99632

Overall Influence

#1696

Konrad F. W. Messmer

#99636

Overall Influence

#1697

Susan Band Horwitz

#99661

Overall Influence

#1698

G. Michael Bancroft

G. Michael Bancroft

#60713

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

George "G." Michael Bancroft, , is a Canadian chemist and emeritus professor at the University of Western Ontario. One of the world's leading experts in Mössbauer spectroscopy, he is also known as one of the driving forces behind the development of synchrotron science in Canada, becoming the first director of the Canadian Light Source synchrotron after a 30-year "Odyssey".

#1699

Harold Ernest Robinson

#99723

Overall Influence

#1700

Pratim Biswas

#52576

Overall Influence

Pratim Biswas is currently the Dean of Engineering, University of Miami, since January 2021. He was the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Professor of Environmental Engineering Science, Asst. Vice Chancellor for International Programs, and Chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also Director of MAGEEP, the McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environmental Partnership. He received his doctoral degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena in 1985, and his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1980.

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