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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#1751

Armin De. Meijere

#101137

Overall Influence

#1752

Doug Worsnop

#100669

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Douglas R. Worsnop is an American atmosphere and hydrospheric scientist, a significant figure in his field, currently at Aerodyne Research and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters.

#1753

Caro Lucas

#4530

Overall Influence

1949 - 2010 (61 years)

Caro Lucas Ghukasian ; was an Iranian Armenian scientist. His many areas of contribution to Iranian scientific society include biological computing, computational intelligence, uncertain systems, intelligent control, fuzzy systems, neural networks, multiagent systems, swarm intelligence, data mining, business intelligence, financial modeling, knowledge management, systems science, and general design theory. He was honored as an Eternal Figure by the Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame, which is a distinguishing honor offered to prominent Iranian chancellor scholars..

#1754

Ajayan Vinu

#60604

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Ajayan Vinu is a material scientist. He is currently the Global Innovation Chair Professor for Advanced Nanomaterials and the director of Global Innovative Centre for Advanced Nanomaterials , The University of Newcastle since October 2017 which houses more than 60 researchers including PhD students and staff. Before moving to the University of Newcastle, he was a professor of Nanomaterials at the University of South Australia from 2015-2017. and also worked at the University of Queensland as a Professor and ARC Future Fellow from 2011-2015. He is well known in the field of mesoporous carbon ni...

#1755

Hans-Jürgen Quadbeck-Seeger

#74541

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Hans-Jürgen Quadbeck-Seeger is a German chemist, inventor, and author. He was Research Director at BASF , and President of the German Chemical Society. Career Hans-Jürgen Quadbeck-Seeger studied chemistry, physics and anthropology in Munich. In 1967 he received a PhD for his thesis in the field of organic chemistry. In the same year he started working at BASF in the synthesis of precursors for dyes department. In 1969 he became head of the research group in the dye and pharmaceutical sector. In addition to his research activities, he coordinated the company's connection to scientific institutions.

#1756

Bin Liu

#99734

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Bin Liu is a chemist who is Professor and Provost's Chair at the National University of Singapore. Her research considers polymer chemistry and organic functional materials. She was appointed Vice President of Research and Technology in 2019. She was awarded the 2021 Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize.

#1757

Linda Griffith

#24914

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Linda Gay Griffith is an American biological engineer, and Professor of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also directs the Center for Gynepathology Research.

#1758

Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

#95231

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Marcetta York Darensbourg is an American inorganic chemist. She is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University. Her current work focuses on iron hydrogenases and iron nitrosyl complexes.

#1759

Robert Dirks

#66112

Overall Influence

1978 - 2015 (37 years)

Robert Dirks was an American chemist known for his theoretical and experimental work in DNA nanotechnology. Born in Thailand to a Thai Chinese mother and American father, he moved to Spokane, Washington at a young age. Dirks was the first graduate student in Niles Pierce's research group at the California Institute of Technology, where his dissertation work was on algorithms and computational tools to analyze nucleic acid thermodynamics and predict their structure. He also performed experimental work developing a biochemical chain reaction to self-assemble nucleic acid devices. Dirks later worked at D.

#1760

Jason A Burdick

#101356

Overall Influence

#1761

Harry L. Tuller

#59186

Overall Influence

Harry L. Tuller is an American materials scientist. He is the R. P. Simmons Professor of Ceramics and Electronic Materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biography Tuller received his B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in solid state engineering from Columbia University under Arthur Nowick. He did his postdoctoral research at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and joined the MIT faculty in 1975. His research has focused on the defects, diffusion and electronic structure of metal oxides and their integration into sensors as well as the microelectromechanical effects in solar cells and fuel cells.

#1762

You Xiaozeng

#48341

Overall Influence

1934 - 2016 (82 years)

You Xiaozeng was a Chinese inorganic chemist. He was an educator and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . You died on 19 November 2016 at the age of 83 in Nanjing.

#1763

George Büchi

#39795

Overall Influence

1921 - 1998 (77 years)

George Hermann Büchi was a Swiss organic chemist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Paternò's reaction", known since the early twentieth century, was renamed to the "Paternò–Büchi reaction" based on enhancements made to it by Büchi's research group.

#1764

Yvonne Connolly Martin

#77922

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Yvonne Connolly Martin is an American cheminformatics and computer-aided drug design expert who rose to the rank of Senior Volwiler Research Fellow at Abbott Laboratories . Trained in chemistry at Northwestern University, she became a leader in collaborative science aimed at discovering and developing bioactive molecules as therapeutic agents, with her contributions proceeding from application of methods to understand how descriptors of molecular shapes and physicochemical properties relate to their biological activity. She is the author of a seminal volume in cheminformatics, Quantitative D...

#1765

Ted Baker

#50965

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Edward Neill Baker is a New Zealand scientist specialising in protein purification and crystallization and bioinformatics. He is currently a distinguished professor at the University of Auckland. Born at Port Stanley in 1942 to New Zealanders Harold and Moya Baker, he spent his early life in the Falkland Islands, where his father was the superintendent of education. The family returned to New Zealand in 1948. He was educated at King's College, Auckland from 1956 to 1960. After studying chemistry at the University of Auckland, completing his PhD in 1967, he conducted postdoctoral research on the structure of insulin with Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin at the University of Oxford.

#1766

Michael Y. Aviram

#101488

Overall Influence

#1767

Dino Moras

#87378

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Dino Moras, born on 23 November 1944, is a French biochemist, research director at the CNRS and co-director of the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Illkirch-Graffenstaden until 2010.

#1768

Santanu Bhattacharya

#36592

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Santanu Bhattacharya is an Indian chemical biologist and former professor at the Indian Institute of Science. At, present he is the Director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati . He is known for his studies of unnatural amino acids, oligopeptides, designed and natural lipids and biologically active natural products and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy 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, aw...

#1769

John L. Provis

#101581

Overall Influence

#1770

Eugenio Coronado

#101591

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

#1771

San Thang

#66587

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Thang Hoa San is an Australian chemist of Chinese-Vietnamese background. Thang was born in Saigon in 1954 to Chinese parents who migrated to Vietnam in the 1930s. He completed his Bachelor of Science at Saigon University in 1976, and worked as a chemist at SINCO, a sewing machine manufacturer. In 1979, Thang left Vietnam as a refugee from the Vietnam War, and spent five months in a refugee camp in Malaysia before arriving in Brisbane, Australia later in the year. He enrolled at Griffith University where he completed an Honours degree in chemistry and a PhD in organic chemistry.

#1772

Murray Goodman

#101646

Overall Influence

#1773

Jan van Hest

#63242

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Jan Cornelis Maria van Hest is a Dutch scientist of organic chemistry, best known for his research regarding polymersomes and nanoreactors. He currently holds the position of professor of bioorganic chemistry at Eindhoven University of Technology and is scientific director at the Institute of Complex Molecular Systems. Among the awards he has received, he was one of the recipients of the 2020 Spinoza Prize.

#1774

Mikhail Anisimov

Mikhail Anisimov

#60810

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Mikhail Alexeevich Anisimov is a Russian and American interdisciplinary scientist. Early life Anisimov received a degree in petroleum engineering from Grozny Petroleum Institute in 1964, a doctorate in physical chemistry from Moscow State University in 1969, and a doctor of science degree in molecular and thermal physics from the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow in 1976.

#1775

Wolfgang Domcke

#101675

Overall Influence

#1776

Bruce Ganem

#101679

Overall Influence

#1777

Sybil P. Seitzinger

#33192

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Sybil P. Seitzinger is an oceanographer and climate scientist at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. She is known for her research into climate change and elemental cycling, especially nitrogen biogeochemistry.

#1778

Pramod P. Wangikar

#51996

Overall Influence

Pramod P. Wangikar is an Indian chemical engineer and a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Known for his studies in the field of bioenergy, Wangikar is a recipient of the Sartorius India Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2006.

#1779

Frank Alden Bovey

#101838

Overall Influence

#1780

J J Lagowski

#97099

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

Joseph John Lagowski was an American chemist working at The University of Texas at Austin. Lagowski studied chemistry at the University of Illinois and received bachelor's degree in 1952. Later he studied at the University of Michigan to become Master of Science in 1954. In 1957 he finished graduate studies and received Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Lagowski continued studying in the University of Cambridge in England on a Marshall Scholarship with a title of D.Phil. received in 1959. He was a professor at The University of Texas from 1959 until his retirement in 2008.

#1781

Robert J. Angelici

#101942

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

#1782

Thomas J. Katz

#81202

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Thomas Joseph Katz is an American organic chemist known for his experimental work with prismane, olefin metathesis, and enyne metathesis. He is an emeritus professor at Columbia University. Training Katz earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1956 and received his doctoral thesis in chemistry at Harvard in 1959.

#1783

Xing Qiyi

#55222

Overall Influence

1911 - 2002 (91 years)

Xing Qiyi was a Chinese organic chemist who contributed to the total synthesis of bovine insulin, Xing is still well-known nowadays in China as the main editor of a highly-influential organic chemistry textbook. He was a member of China Democratic League since 1952.

#1784

Tetsuji Kametani

#101970

Overall Influence

#1785

Stuart L. Cooper

#101991

Overall Influence

#1786

Gabriele Centi

#102010

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

#1787

Siva Umapathy

#46846

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Siva Umapathy is a Professor of the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and also in the department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics at the Indian Institute of Science and was the Director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal. He is known for his studies of molecular dynamics using Raman spectroscopy and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and also The National Academy of Science of India, The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India...

#1788

Stefan Bräse

#102107

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

#1789

Mark Wightman

#70504

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Robert Mark Wightman is an electrochemist and professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is best known for his work in the areas of ultramicroelectrodes, electrochemistry, and neurochemistry. One of Wightman's most notable achievements is the development of the ultramicroelectrode and microelectrode voltammetry. At the same time as Wightman's innovations, the microelectrode was developed independently by Martin Fleischmann at the University of Southampton. In 2011, Wightman had the 192nd highest h-index, 74, of any living chemist. As of 2018, Wightm...

#1790

Michael John Weaver

#102127

Overall Influence

#1791

Michael Ashfold

#102144

Overall Influence

Michael Norman Royston Ashfold FRS is a British chemist and Professor of Physical Chemistry at University of Bristol. He is a 2011 Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow. He graduated B.Sc in 1975 and Ph.D in 1978 from Birmingham University.

#1792

Arne Magnéli

#72967

Overall Influence

1914 - 1996 (82 years)

Arne Magnéli was a Swedish chemist and crystallographer known for his work on the structure determination of transition metal oxides and alloys, including the study into their homologous series and nonstoichiometric phenomenon.

#1793

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

#323

Overall Influence

1925 - 2013 (88 years)

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher , was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime minister and the longest-serving of the 20th century. As prime minister, she implemented economic policies that became known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.

#1794

Jennifer M. Heemstra

Jennifer M. Heemstra

#49966

Overall Influence

Jennifer Margaret Heemstra is a Professor of Chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research makes use of the ability of nucleic acids to self-assemble and recognise other molecules. Alongside her research, Heemstra is a science communicator and writes a regular column for Chemical & Engineering News.

#1795

Shana O. Kelley

#73776

Overall Influence

Shana O. Kelley is a scientist and Neena B. Schwartz Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. She is affiliated with Northwestern's International Institute for Nanotechnology and was previously part of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Pharmacy and Faculty of Medicine. Kelley's research includes the development of new technologies for clinical diagnostics and drug delivery. In 2023, she was chosen as president of Chicago's new Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.

#1796

Hugh Felkin

#70882

Overall Influence

1922 - 2001 (79 years)

Hugh Felkin was a research chemist in France from 1950 to 1990 and a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 1967, he proposed a model to predict the stereochemical outcome of the addition of nucleophiles to carbonylic compounds. This model differs slightly from Cram's rule and it is one of the most accepted rules to predict the outcome of these reactions.

#1797

Howard Colquhoun

#40939

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Howard Colquhoun is Emeritus Professor of Materials Chemistry in the University of Reading. He was born in County Durham and was educated at Washington Grammar School and at the University of Cambridge , before moving to the University of London as a postgraduate student in chemistry . At Cambridge he was a member of the University athletics team and was awarded a half-blue for throwing the discus. He carried out postdoctoral work at the University of Warwick, and was then a researcher at the ICI Corporate Laboratory in Cheshire where he and Fraser Stoddart developed a successful collaboration.

#1798

Kelly Chibale

#99663

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Kelly Chibale PhD, FRSSAf, FRSC is professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cape Town, and the founder and director of H3D research center. In 2018 he was recognized as one of Fortune magazine's top 50 World's Greatest Leaders. His research focuses on target-directed inhibitors.

#1799

Howard Charles Clark

#74446

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (96 years)

Howard Charles Clark, is a Canadian chemist and university administrator. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Clark was educated at Takapuna Grammar School and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1951, a Master of Science degree in 1952, and a PhD in 1954 from the University of Auckland. He then received a second PhD in 1958 from University of Cambridge. From 1954 to 1955, he was a lecturer at the University of Auckland. From 1955 to 1957, he was a Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He emigrated to Canada in 1957 as an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. He became ...

#1800

Paul G. Gassman

#86055

Overall Influence

1935 - 1993 (58 years)

Paul Gassman was an American chemist. He is best known for his research in the field of organic chemistry and his service as president of the American Chemical Society and is listed among notable alumni by the Cornell University Graduate School.

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