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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#1801

David Collison

#93237

Overall Influence

David Collison is a British chemist and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester. His research in general is based on inorganic chemistry and magnetochemistry, specifically on coordination chemistry, electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and f-block chemistry.

#1802

Andreas Albrecht

#101080

Overall Influence

1927 - 2002 (75 years)

Andreas Christoph Albrecht was an American physical chemist. Life Andreas Christoph Albrecht was born in California and raised in Washington, D.C., Baton Rouge and Vienna. His father was a German anthropologist. He studied chemistry at University of California, Berkeley, where he met Genia Solomon, who would later become his wife. He completed his studies in 1950. The pair moved to Washington state for graduate school. They both earned doctorates in 1954 from the University of Washington, his in chemistry under W. T. Simpson and hers in biochemistry. Subsequently, Andreas and Genia moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work as postdoctoral researchers.

#1803

Roberty J. Silbey

#102482

Overall Influence

#1804

Guillermo Bazan

#80864

Overall Influence

Guillermo Carlos Bazan is an American chemist, material scientist, and academic. Bazan earned a B.Sc with Honors in chemistry from the University of Ottawa in 1986, and a Ph.D in Inorganic Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991. From 1992 to 1998 he was on the faculty of the University of Rochester. In 1998 he was appointed as a professor in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department and the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In January 2020, he took a position at the National University of Singapore.

#1805

D. Fennell Evans

#102576

Overall Influence

#1806

Troy Van Voorhis

#67363

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Troy A. Van Voorhis is an American chemist. He is currently the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Early life and education Troy Van Voorhis graduated from North Central High School, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1994. He graduated with a B.A. from Rice University in 1997. While at Rice, Van Voorhis conducted research under Gus Scuseria, notably developing the first practical implementation of a Meta-GGA in Density Functional Theory . He went on to pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry under Martin Head-Gordon at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 2001.

#1807

Theophil Staehelin

#102634

Overall Influence

#1808

Kamil Kuča

#102661

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

#1809

Bernhard Lendl

#102671

Overall Influence

Ao Prof. Dr. Bernhard Lendl is an Austrian chemist, TU Vienna, Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, the head of the working group on Process Analysis & Vibrational Spectroscopy. Since 2001 he is professor of analytical chemistry, TU Vienna.

#1810

Laurence D. Barron

#87387

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Laurence David Barron has been Gardiner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow since 1998 . He is a chemist who has conducted pioneering research into the properties of chiral molecules — defined by Lord Kelvin as those that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror image. By extending this definition of chirality to include moving particles and processes that vary with time, he has made a fundamental theoretical contribution to the field. Chiral molecules such as amino acids, sugars, proteins, and nucleic acids play a central role in the chemistry of life, and many drug molecules are chiral.

#1811

Eishun Tsuchida

#102697

Overall Influence

#1812

Michelle Dickinson

Michelle Dickinson

#48673

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

Michelle Emma Dickinson , also known as Nanogirl, is a nanotechnologist and science educator based in New Zealand. Early life and education Dickinson grew up in Hong Kong, the USA, and the United Kingdom. She had a grandmother from Malta, a grandfather who was English, and a Hong Kong Chinese mother. This may have heightened her awareness of cultural differences. Her father was an English-Maltese soldier.

#1813

Han Zuilhof

#98756

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Han Zuilhof holds the chair of organic chemistry at Wageningen University. His interests focus on surface-bound organic chemistry and bionanotechnology. He obtained an MSc in chemistry and MA in philosophy from Leiden University . After a PhD in organic chemistry , and postdoctoral work at the University of Rochester, NY, and Columbia University, he joined the faculty at Wageningen University. He has been a professor of organic chemistry since 2007. He has written over 340 research papers, and more than 10 patents. He is a distinguished adjunct professor of chemical engineering at the King Ab...

#1814

Alfred P. Wolf

#96062

Overall Influence

1923 - 1998 (75 years)

Alfred P. Wolf was an American nuclear and organic chemist. Wolf was chairman of the Chemistry Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, research professor in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University a member of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Nuclear Medicine said that his "discoveries were instrumental in the development of positron emission tomography " and that he "made pioneering contributions over nearly 50 years in the field of organic radiochemistry". The New York Times said that Wolf "helped create some of today's most sophisticated diagnostic too...

#1815

Jeffrey Zink

#88759

Overall Influence

Jeffrey I. Zink is an American molecular biologist and chemist currently a Distinguished Professor at University of California, Los Angeles whose interests are in materials, nanoscience, physical and inorganic chemistry. His current research is examining molecules containing metal and nanomaterials. He worked with Fraser Stoddart to help develop machines that could be applied to deliver drugs. According to Google Scholar, his highest citations are 2,503, 2,131, 1,968, 1,873, and 1,150 .

#1816

Irwin "Tack" Kuntz

#75181

Overall Influence

Irwin Douglas "Tack" Kuntz is an important figure in the field of computer-aided drug design and molecular modeling. He is a pioneer in the development and conception of the area of study known as molecular docking. One of the first docking programs DOCK was developed in his group in 1982.

#1817

Tharwat Fouad Tadros

#102767

Overall Influence

#1818

Emiel J.M. Hensen

#99867

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Emiel Jan Maria Hensen is a Dutch chemist and professor of Inorganic Materials and Catalysis at Eindhoven University of Technology. Hensen's research has focused on developing novel heterogeneous catalysts, kinetics and mechanism, and energy conversion. He leads a team of over 50 researchers working to improve "clean and sustainable chemical conversion processes for the production of fuels and chemicals."

#1819

Brian Robinson

#91338

Overall Influence

1940 - 2016 (76 years)

Brian Harford Robinson was a New Zealand inorganic chemist. He is noted for his contribution to cluster chemistry and the design of organometallic compounds with biomedical applications. Early life and education Born in Christchurch on 24 April 1940, Robinson was the son of Jack Robinson and Lurline Robinson . He was educated at Christchurch Boys' High School, and then studied at the University of Canterbury, graduating Master of Science with second-class honours in chemistry in 1962. He completed a PhD at the same institution in 1964. His thesis, titled Studies in the coordination chemistry ...

#1820

Sara E. Skrabalak

#100402

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Sara E. Skrabalak is a James H. Rudy Professor at Indiana University. Skrabalak leads a research group in the department of chemistry which focuses on the development of new nanomaterials. She has an adjunct appointment in the department of intelligent systems engineering.

#1821

David Sherrill

#87124

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Charles David Sherrill is a professor of chemistry and computational science and engineering at Georgia Tech working in the areas of theoretical chemistry, computational quantum chemistry, and scientific computing. His research focuses on the development and application of theoretical methods for non-covalent interactions between molecules. He is the lead principal investigator of the Psi open-source quantum chemistry program.

#1822

Enrique Iglesia

#102936

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

#1823

Cyril Ponnamperuma

Cyril Ponnamperuma

#48166

Overall Influence

1923 - 1994 (71 years)

Cyril Ponnamperuna was a Sri Lankan scientist known internationally for his work promoting science and researching for distinguished organizations. Ponnamperuma obtained his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of Madras and his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the . He then moved to the United States where he pursued his doctorate in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation he began working for NASA and was influential with Project Apollo and the Viking and Voyager programs. Arthur C. Clarke had a great respect for Ponnamperuma and he was eventually named as the first director of the Arthur C.

#1824

Balz B. Frei

#102986

Overall Influence

#1825

Philip Skell

#79837

Overall Influence

1918 - 2010 (92 years)

Philip S. Skell was an American chemist, emeritus Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University, and from 1977 a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Biography Skell was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jacob and Molly Lipfriend Skell. He married Margo Fosse on December 25, 1948, in Taft.

#1826

Peter Dunnill

#49842

Overall Influence

1938 - 2009 (71 years)

Peter Dunnill, OBE, FREng , was a British pioneer in biochemical engineering and professor at the University College London , University of London. Life Dunnill was born in Harrow, London on 20 May 1938. He studied at the College of North West London. Dunnill self-learned French and German, and obtained his BSc in chemistry from the University College London.

#1827

John Isaiah Brauman

#101852

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

John Isaiah Brauman is an American chemist. Biography John Brauman was born in Pittsburgh on September 7, 1937. Brauman graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1955. He obtained a bachelor's degree in 1959 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley in 1963. He is married to Sharon K Brauman, also a chemist. Their daughter, Kate Brauman is the lead scientist for the Global Water Initiative at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment.

#1828

Claude Allègre

#28965

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Claude Allègre is a French politician and scientist. Scientific work The main scientific area of Claude Allègre was geochemistry. Allègre co-authored an Introduction to geochemistry in 1974. Since the 1980s, he mainly publishes popular science and political books.

#1829

Klaus Ruedenberg

#103089

Overall Influence

1920 - Present (105 years)

#1830

Paul B. Weisz

#73351

Overall Influence

1919 - 2005 (86 years)

Paul Burgan Weisz was a Czechoslovak-born American chemist, noted for his work on solid catalysts which had a major impact on petroleum refining. Life Weisz was born July 2, 1919, in Plzeň, Czechoslovakia, the son of Alexander and Amalia Weisz: they moved to Berlin and finally emigrated to the United States in 1939. He married, and was survived by his wife, Rhoda, and his son, Randy and daughter, Ingrid. He died September 25, 2012, in State College, Pennsylvania.

#1831

Barbara Ramsay Shaw

#77388

Overall Influence

Barbara Ramsay Shaw is the William T. Miller Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Duke University. She is known for her work on how DNA reacts with other compounds. Education and career Shaw earned her B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1965. She has an M.S. and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Washington. Her Ph.D. advisors were Michael Schurr, professor of chemistry at the University of Washington and Walter Kauzmann, professor of chemistry and member of the National Academy of Sciences at Princeton University. Shaw received her post-doctoral training from Kensa...

#1832

Tia Keyes

#77480

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Tia Emmetine Keyes is a professor of physical chemistry at the School of Chemical Sciences, and a member of the National Centre for Sensor Research at Dublin City University. Research Keyes specialises in photochemistry and molecular spectroscopy. Among her interests are molecular spectroscopy, supramolecular and interfacial chemistry, photophysics and applications in biology such as cell imaging and sensing, and membrane mimetics.

#1833

Abolghasem Jouyban

#103126

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

#1834

Mario P. Tosi

#103134

Overall Influence

#1835

Reiner Salzer

#84703

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Reiner Salzer is a German chemist and university teacher of Analytical Chemistry at the TU Dresden. Salzer studied chemistry from 1962 in Leipzig with a diploma in 1967. After his doctorate with Gerhard Geiseler 1971 on the intensity of infrared spectral bands he was a post-doc at the University of Ljubljana with Dušan Hadži . Salzer habilitated in 1979 in Leipzig . In 1990 he was appointed Full Professor of Analytical Chemistry at TU Dresden and Head of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry from 1991 – 2007.

#1836

Mark Holtzapple

Mark Holtzapple

#85140

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Mark Holtzapple is a chemical engineering professor at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on technologies that improve sustainability. Life Childhood In 1956, Mark Holtzapple was born to Joan Carol and Arthur Robert Holtzapple in Enid, Oklahoma. In his early years, Mark's father was an Air Force pilot, so the family moved frequently. After Enid, his family moved to Dover, Delaware, and then to Japan. In 1961, his father left the Air Force to become an architect and his family returned to the United States to live in York, Pennsylvania. In 1972, the family moved to Bloomington, Minne...

#1837

Gero Decher

#95526

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Gero Decher is a German chemist and Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of University of Strasbourg. He is best known for his seminal role in the development of polyelectrolyte multilayers, which is today known as “layer-by-layer assembly”, a simple yet powerful nanofabrication method that has enabled the development of entirely new technologies, such as biocompatible coatings on medical devices, ultrastrong nanocomposites, neural interfaces, charge-storage devices, gas separation, fire retardants, and gene delivery platforms. According to CNRS International Magazine, Decher's work has “sparked a small revolution in materials science”.

#1838

Samuel h. Gellman

#103184

Overall Influence

#1839

Michel Che

#92959

Overall Influence

1941 - 2019 (78 years)

Michel Che was a French chemist who completed his doctorate in 1968 at the University of Lyon and studied as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University . He was appointed professor at University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie in 1975 and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France in 1995.

#1840

Peter Trefonas

#70315

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Peter Trefonas is a retired DuPont Fellow at DuPont, where he had worked on the development of electronic materials. He is known for innovations in the chemistry of photolithography, particularly the development of anti-reflective coatings and polymer photoresists that are used to create circuitry for computer chips. This work has supported the patterning of smaller features during the lithographic process, increasing miniaturization and microprocessor speed.

#1841

David Parker

#87422

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

David Parker is an English chemist, Chair Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Durham. Early life and education David Parker was born in Leadgate, County Durham, the descendant of musical, mining families and the third child of a bank clerk and primary school teacher. He grew up in Durham, England and was educated at Durham Johnston School and briefly at King Edward VI High School, Stafford. Having gained an Open Exhibition to Christ Church, Oxford, he read Chemistry at the University of Oxford, where he gained a First Class degree in 1978, ...

#1842

Shigeru Ōae

#103309

Overall Influence

#1843

Geoffrey W. Coates

#74037

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Geoffrey "Geoff" William Coates is an American chemist and the Tisch University Professor in the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University. Early life and education Coates was born in 1966 in Evansville, Indiana. He received a B.A. degree in chemistry from Wabash College in 1989. He entered graduate school at Stanford University where he worked with Robert M. Waymouth as a Hertz Fellow. His thesis work investigated the stereoselectivity of metallocene-based Ziegler-Natta catalysts. He was awarded a Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1994. Coates then was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow with Robert H.

#1844

Tadeusz Patzek

#66939

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Tadeusz "Tad" W. Patzek is a Polish-American chemical engineer and physicist. Education Patzek was born in Gliwice, Poland, on 26 November 1951. Between 1969 and 1974, he studied chemical process engineering at the Department of Chemistry of The Silesian Technical University in Gliwice. In parallel, Patzek studied applied physics at the Department of Mathematics and Physics. After obtaining an MS degree in chemical engineering, Patzek started PhD work at the Chemical Engineering Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice. As a PhD student, Patzek won a Fulbright Scholarship to the US,...

#1845

Michael J. Krische

Michael J. Krische

#96347

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Michael J. Krische is an American chemist and Robert A. Welch Chair in Science at the Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin. Krische has pioneered a broad, new family of catalytic C-C bond formations that occur through the addition or redistribution of hydrogen. These processes merge the characteristics of catalytic hydrogenation and carbonyl addition, contributing to a departure from the use of stoichiometric organometallic reagents in chemical synthesis.

#1846

Philip Bourne

#14509

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Philip Eric Bourne is an Australian bioinformatician, non-fiction writer, and businessman. He is currently Stephenson Chair of Data Science and Director of the School of Data Science and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and was the first associate director for Data Science at the National Institutes of Health, where his projects include managing the Big Data to Knowledge initiative, and formerly Associate Vice Chancellor at UCSD. He has contributed to textbooks and is a strong supporter of open-access literature and software. His diverse interests have spanned structural biology, medical i...

#1847

Mark W. Grinstaff

#85346

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Mark W. Grinstaff is the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering and Medicine, at Boston University, Director of the National Institutes of Health's T32 Program in Translational Research in Biomaterials and Director of Nanotechnology Innovation Center. Grinstaff is an avid mentor and teacher who is always asking questions. In the laboratory, he has developed new paradigms for translating rigorous, academic work, which promotes intellectual progress, economic growth, and improved clinical outcomes.

#1848

Wilhelm Boland

#94104

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Wilhelm Boland is a German chemist. Scientific career After his dissertation and habilitation at the University of Cologne, Boland became associate professor of Organic Chemistry at Karlsruhe University in 1987. He was appointed Full Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry at Bonn University in 1994. Since 1996 he is Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and head of the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry . In 1998 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.

#1849

Michael T. Pope

#103577

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (92 years)

Michael Pope, was born and educated in England. He received B.A. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. He can be considered as one of the leading and most influential polyoxometalate chemists worldwide. His 1983 book entitled “Heteropoly and Isopoly Oxometalates” is the most cited reference in the field .

#1850

E. Bruce Nauman

#67669

Overall Influence

1937 - 2009 (72 years)

E. Bruce Nauman was a professor of chemical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He obtained his B.S. degree in nuclear engineering from Kansas State University, a M.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee, and a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Leeds.

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