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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#1851

Francis J. Disalvo

#103691

Overall Influence

#1852

William Dichtel

#31490

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

William Dichtel is the Robert L. Letsinger Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University and a 2015 MacArthur Fellow who has helped pioneer the development of porous polymers known as covalent organic frameworks. Dichtel was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. In 2020, Dichtel was selected as the 2020 Laureate in Chemistry of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. He also founded Cylopure, a university spin-off that seeks to bring to market water filtration with cyclodextrin polymers.

#1853

Luis Oro

#91988

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Luis Antonio Oro Giral has been professor of chemistry at the University of Zaragoza since 1982. His main research interests are in organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis with a special interest in reaction mechanisms. He has coauthored well over 500 scientific papers being co-author or co-editor of several books. He has received numerous national and international awards and honors, and is member of several international scientific academies. He has been President of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences and President of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry .

#1854

Christina Moberg

#97976

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Christina Moberg is a Swedish chemist who is a professor of Organic Chemistry at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2017. Early life and education Moberg was born in Sweden. She attended Stockholm University for her graduate studies, where she studied chemistry and graduated in 1975. She completed her doctoral studies at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her doctorate considered nickelocene, cobaltocene and cyclopentadienyl -copper in organic synthesis. After earning her doctorate, Moberg moved to the Pierre and Marie Curie University , where she worked with Jean Normant.

#1855

Andrew B. Bocarsly

Andrew B. Bocarsly

#63371

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Andrew Bruce Bocarsly is currently a professor at Princeton University, New Jersey. His primary research interests lie in physical inorganic chemistry. He conducts research in electrochemistry, photochemistry, solids state chemistry, and fuel cells, and is known for his work on alternate energy solutions involving processes and materials for photo-reduction and electro-reduction.

#1856

Yitzhak Mastai

#91757

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Yitzhak Mastai is a Chemistry Professor at Bar Ilan University specializing in chirality at the nanoscale and in nanotechnology. Biography Mastai was born in 1966 in Tel Aviv-Yafo. He obtained his B.Sc. in physical chemistry from Bar-Ilan University in 1989, and in 1999, received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Prof. Gary Hodes on Nanomaterial Synthesis. He then spent three years as a post-doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, working with both Prof. Markus Antonietti and Prof. Helmut Cölfen on Biomimetic Chemistry and Chiral Polymers.

#1857

Meredith Thring

#48730

Overall Influence

1915 - 2006 (91 years)

Meredith Wooldridge Thring was a British inventor, engineer, futurologist, professor and author. Education and career Thring was born in Melbourne, Australia, but moved to England when he was four years old. His school was Malvern College. He obtained a double first class degree in Mathematics and Physics at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1937. He then joined the British Coal Utilisation Research Association, becoming Head of its Combustion Research Laboratory. In 1940, he married Margaret Hooley , and they had two sons and one daughter.

#1858

Wayne Levin

#103810

Overall Influence

#1859

Larry Dalton

#73382

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Larry Dalton is an American chemist best known for his work in polymeric nonlinear electro-optics. Early years Professor Larry Dalton was born on a farm near Belpre, Ohio on April 25, 1943. He attended Michigan State University from 1962 to 1966 earning B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemistry working with Professor James L. Dye and Professor Carl Brubaker. He attended Harvard University from 1966 to 1971 supported by an NIH Predoctoral Fellowship and pursued research on various aspects of magnetic resonance spectroscopy with Professor Alvin Kwiram.

#1860

Ben G. Davis

#65426

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Benjamin Guy Davis is Professor of Chemical biology in the Department of Pharmacology and a member of the Faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He holds the role of Science Director for Next Generation Chemistry and Deputy and Interim Director at the Rosalind Franklin Institute.

#1861

Frank E. Harris

#103948

Overall Influence

#1862

Loucas G. Christophorou

#103970

Overall Influence

#1863

Nilay Shah

#103988

Overall Influence

#1864

David Charles Hooper

#104027

Overall Influence

#1865

Richard Dronskowski

#98607

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Richard Dronskowski is a German chemist and physicist. He is a full professor at the RWTH Aachen University. Life Dronskowski studied chemistry and physics at the University of Münster from 1981 to 1986. He completed his chemistry diploma with Bernt Krebs and Arndt Simon in 1987. He finished his physics diploma with Ole Krogh Andersen and Johannes Pollmann in 1989. He received his doctorate under supervision of Arndt Simon at the University of Stuttgart. From 1991 to 1992, he was a visiting scientist in the group of Roald Hoffmann at Cornell University. In 1995, he finished his habilitation at the University of Dortmund.

#1866

Todd Martínez

#96808

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Todd J. Martínez is a David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and a Professor of Photon Science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Education He attended Carol Morgan School in the Dominican Republic before receiving his B.S. from Calvin College in 1989 and his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1994. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute for Molecular Dynamics at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel and later a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA.

#1867

Vicki Grassian

#100192

Overall Influence

Vicki H. Grassian is a distinguished professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. She also holds the distinguished chair in physical chemistry.

#1868

Evan C. Horning

#104106

Overall Influence

#1869

Emily Balskus

#73530

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (45 years)

Emily P. Balskus is an American chemical biologist, enzymologist, microbiologist, and biochemist born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1980. She has been on the faculty of the Chemistry and Chemical Biology department of Harvard University since 2011 and is currently the Morris Kahn Professor. She has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and three book chapters. Since 2012 she has been invited to give over 170 lectures, has held positions on various editorial boards, and served as a reviewer for ACS and Nature journals among others. Balskus also currently serves as a consultant for Novartis, Kint...

#1870

Yoshiharu Doi

#104234

Overall Influence

#1871

Xiao-ming Chen,

#104289

Overall Influence

#1872

María Vallet-Regí

#65131

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

María Vallet-Regí is a Spanish inorganic chemist. As of 2012, she heads the Smart Biomaterials group at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Early life María Vallet-Regí was born in Las Palmas, Spain. She studied chemistry at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and received her Ph.D. there in 1974.

#1873

Hans Martin Seip

Hans Martin Seip

#94727

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Hans Martin Seip is a Norwegian chemist. He is professor emeritus at the University of Oslo and Senior Research Scientist at CICERO. Career He was born in Oslo, and became civil engineer at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1961 and received the dr.philos. degree at the University of Oslo with the thesis Studies on the failure of the first Born approximation in electron diffraction. He was a research fellow at NTH from 1965 to 1969, worked as a university lecturer from 1969 to 195, researcher at Central Institute for Industrial Research from 1976 to 1988. He was appointed professor of chemistry in 1979.

#1874

Angelo Azzi

#104385

Overall Influence

#1875

Gavin E. Crooks

Gavin E. Crooks

#60764

Overall Influence

Gavin E. Crooks is known for his work on non-equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. He discovered the Crooks fluctuation theorem, a general statement about the free energy difference between the initial and final states of a non-equilibrium transformation.

#1876

Mark Brouard

#68113

Overall Influence

Mark Brouard is Helen Morag Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry at Jesus College, and is a professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford, where he is currently Head of the Department of Chemistry. He is a specialist in reaction dynamics. In collaboration with professor Claire Vallance, Brouard has created the PImMS sensor, claimed to be "the fastest camera in the world", which is used to detect particles.

#1877

David E. Clemmer

David E. Clemmer

#70221

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

David E. Clemmer is an analytical chemist and the Distinguished Professor and Robert and Marjorie Mann Chair of Chemistry at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he leads the Clemmer Group. Clemmer develops new scientific instruments for ion mobility mass spectrometry , including the first instrument for nested ion-mobility time-of-flight mass spectrometry. He has received a number of awards, including the Biemann Medal in 2006 "for his pioneering contributions to the integration of ion mobility separations with a variety of mass spectrometry technologies."

#1878

John E. Hearst

#92836

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

John E. Hearst was an American-Austrian chemist in the fields of chemistry and molecular biology and a Professor Emeritus at University of California Berkeley. He is known for his scientific work in molecular biology, especially in DNA modeling.

#1879

Magdalena Titirici

#88891

Overall Influence

Magdalena Titirici is a Professor of Sustainable Energy Materials at Imperial College London. Early life and education Titirici studied chemistry at the University of Bucharest. She earned her PhD at the Technical University of Dortmund in 2005, working on molecularly imprinted polymers for her undergraduate studies. Titirici also worked at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz during her postgraduate studies. She then completed her postdoctoral studies at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, where she then took on the job of group leader. She also received her habilitation in 2013 at the same university.

#1880

Durward William John Cruickshank

#49713

Overall Influence

1927 - 2007 (80 years)

Durward William John Cruickshank , often known as D. W. J. Cruickshank, was a British crystallographer whose work transformed the precision of determining molecular structures from X-ray crystal structure analysis. He developed the theoretical framework for anisotropic displacement parameters, also known as the thermal ellipsoid, for crystal structure determination in a series of papers published in 1956 in Acta Crystallographica.

#1881

Mark Bretscher

#39632

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Mark Steven Bretscher is a British biological scientist and Fellow of the Royal Society. He worked at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom and is currently retired.

#1882

John Joule

#83993

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

John Arthur Joule is a British academic and chemist. Joule took his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees at the University of Manchester, obtaining his PhD in 1961. He then undertook post-doctoral work at with Professor Richard K. Hill at Princeton University and Professor Carl Djerassi at Stanford University. In 1963 he joined the academic staff of the Chemistry Department at the University of Manchester, where he is currently an Emeritus Professor. In 1996 he received an RSC Medal for Heterocyclic Chemistry. In 2014, he received the Marie Curie Medal conferred by the Polish Chemical Society.

#1883

Wolfgang M. H. Sachtler

#104655

Overall Influence

#1884

Marek W. Urban

#53706

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Marek W. Urban is an American professor, polymer and materials scientist who works in the field of polymers, polymer spectroscopy, polymeric coatings and films, stimuli-responsive materials, and self-healing polymers.

#1885

Peter S Kim

#104745

Overall Influence

#1886

Sylvia T. Ceyer

#53344

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Sylvia Teresse Ceyer is a professor of chemistry at MIT, holding the John C. Sheehan Chair in Chemistry. Until 2006, she held the chemistry chair of the National Academy of Sciences. Early life and education Ceyer graduated from Hope College in Holland, Michigan in 1974 with an A.B. in chemistry. In 1979, she was awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Her advisors were Y. T. Lee and Gabor Somorjai. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Standards from 1979 to 1981.

#1887

Dermot H. Williamson

#104752

Overall Influence

#1888

David S. Sholl

#104756

Overall Influence

#1889

Nidal Hilal

#92727

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Nidal Hilal DSc PhD EurIng CEng FIChemE FLSW FRSC is an academic, engineering scientist and scientific adviser. He is a Global Network Professor at New York University, the Founding Director and Principal Investigator of NYUAD Water Research Center. He held professorships at the University of Nottingham and Swansea University in the United Kingdom. He is an Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Swansea University and the Founding Director of the Centre for Water Advanced Technologies and Environmental Research .

#1890

Marilyn Olmstead

#70609

Overall Influence

1943 - 2020 (77 years)

Marilyn Olmstead was an American chemist, an expert in small molecule crystallography and an international leader in the crystallographic study of fullerenes, or "Buckyballs." She held the position of professor emerita of chemistry at the University of California Davis.

#1891

Alexander Mcpherson

#104823

Overall Influence

#1892

Gisbert Schneider

#104863

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

#1893

Robert J. Harrison

#85880

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Robert J. Harrison is a distinguished expert in high-performance computing. He is a professor in the Applied Mathematics and Statistics department and founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University with a $20M endowment. Through a joint appointment with Brookhaven National Laboratory, Professor Harrison has also been named Director of the Computational Science Center and New York Center for Computational Sciences at Brookhaven. Dr. Harrison comes to Stony Brook from the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he was ...

#1894

Vincenzo Caglioti

#103665

Overall Influence

1902 - 1998 (96 years)

Vincenzo Caglioti was an Italian chemist and Academician. Career He graduated in Chemistry at University of Naples Federico II and became professor at the University of Florence in 1936. In 1938 became professor at University of Rome "La Sapienza, where he works until 1977.

#1895

Frank H. Field

#83598

Overall Influence

1922 - 2013 (91 years)

Frank Henry Field was an American chemist and mass spectrometrist known for his work in the development of chemical ionization. Early life and education Frank Field was born in Keansburg, New Jersey, on February 27, 1922. His father died two months after he was born and his mother died in 1933, after which he was raised by his aunt in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. He attended Duke University, where he studied chemistry, receiving his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1943, M.S. in 1944, and Ph.D. in 1948.

#1896

Mohamed Eddaoudi

#104940

Overall Influence

#1897

Robert F. Landel

#104949

Overall Influence

#1898

David Sayre

#11820

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

David Sayre was an American scientist, credited with the early development of direct methods for protein crystallography and of diffraction microscopy . While working at IBM he was part of the initial team of ten programmers who created FORTRAN, and later suggested the use of electron beam lithography for the fabrication of X-ray Fresnel zone plates.

#1899

Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni

#57292

Overall Influence

Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni is an Indian research scientist at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. He earned his PhD from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai in chemical engineering. His research expertise includes design and development of microreactors.

#1900

Douglas Winston Fuerstenau

#105012

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