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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#1951

Hiizu Iwamura

#62721

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Hiizu Iwamura is a Japanese chemist and Professor of Chemistry, Nihon University, as well as Professor Emeriti of the Institute for Molecular Science in Okazaki, the University of Tokyo, and Kyushu University in Japan.

#1952

Michael W. W. Adams

#106257

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

#1953

Petros Koutrakis

#106285

Overall Influence

#1954

Juliet Gerrard

#67007

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Dame Juliet Ann Gerrard is a New Zealand biochemistry academic. She is a professor at the University of Auckland and the New Zealand Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor. Early life Gerrard was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, in 1967. Her family frequently moved around the United Kingdom when she was a child, living in various locations including Nottingham, Wales and Grimsby. She liked science and focused on chemistry in her studies.

#1955

H. M. Wynberg

#106302

Overall Influence

#1956

Gerard D. Wright

#106311

Overall Influence

#1957

Akira Takeshita

#106409

Overall Influence

#1958

Janne Blichert-Toft

Janne Blichert-Toft

#41027

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Janne Blichert-Toft is a geochemist, specializing in the use of isotopes with applications in understanding planetary mantle-crust evolution, as well as the chemical composition of matter in the universe. To further this research, Blichert-Toft has developed techniques for high-precision Isotope-ratio mass spectrometry measurements.

#1959

Rustem F. Ismagilov

#97335

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Rustem F. Ismagilov is a Russian-American chemist. He is the John W. and Herberta M. Miles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Early life and education Ismagilov was born in 1973 in Ufa, Russia. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1994 from the Higher Chemical College of the Russian Academy of Sciences before moving to the United States. In 1998, he received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison while working with Stephen F. Nelson. Following his PhD, Ismagilov was a Postdoctoral Fellow with t...

#1960

Peter T. Cummings

#90906

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Peter T. Cummings is an Australian-American chemical engineer, currently the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering and associate dean for research for the school of engineering at Vanderbilt University. He formerly held positions at the University of Virginia and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

#1961

Amiram Goldblum

#92506

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Amiram Goldblum is an Israeli chemist and activist in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He is Professor Emeritus of Computational Medicinal Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Pharmacy. He holds a PhD in organic chemistry from the Hebrew University. He is the head of the Molecular Modelling and Drug Design unit at the university's Institute for Drug Research.

#1962

Milo Gibaldi

#106539

Overall Influence

#1963

Núria López

#86631

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Núria López is a Spanish chemist who is Professor of Chemistry at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia . She was awarded the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry Prize for Excellence in 2015.

#1964

Ralph E. White

#106578

Overall Influence

#1965

Christer Halldin

#106611

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

#1966

Harry Anderson

#100232

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Harry Laurence Anderson is a British chemist in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford. He is well known for his contributions in the syntheses of supramolecular systems , exploration of the extraordinary physical properties of large pi-conjugated systems, and synthesis of cyclo[18]carbon. He is a Professor of Chemistry at Keble College, Oxford.

#1967

Gregorio Baro

#24506

Overall Influence

1928 - 2012 (84 years)

Gregorio Baró was an Argentine scientist. He was born in Santiago Temple, Córdoba and died in Buenos Aires. Biography The son of Spanish immigrants from the Province of León, more precisely from Cabreros del Río, Baró married the writer María Dhialma Tiberti. He completed his Associate of Science in Chemistry degree at the Otto Krause Technical School in Buenos Aires, in 1945. Afterward, he pursued his studies at Universidad de Buenos Aires from which he obtained a Bachelor of Science, followed by a PhD in Chemistry in 1961 at the Instituut voor Kernphysisch Onderzoek, in Amsterdam. In 1968,...

#1968

John Willard Porter

#106675

Overall Influence

#1969

David Klenerman

#42098

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Sir David Klenerman is a British biophysical chemist and a professor of biophysical chemistry at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.

#1970

Camille Sandorfy

Camille Sandorfy

#73758

Overall Influence

1920 - 2006 (86 years)

Camille Sandorfy, was a Hungarian - Canadian quantum chemist. Born in Budapest, Hungary, he received his Bachelor of Science in 1943 and Ph.D. in chemistry in 1946 from the University of Szeged. In 1949, he received his second doctorate, a D.Sc., from the Sorbonne.

#1971

René Schwarzenbach

#83997

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

René P. Schwarzenbach in Erlenbach is a Swiss chemist. He is professor emeritus of environmental chemistry and a former head of the department of environmental sciences at the ETH Zürich. Schwarzenbach received his Ph.D. 1973 at the department of chemistry at the ETH Zürich. In 1977 he has accepted a position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology , where he worked until 2006. Since 2000 he has been listed in the database of Highly Cited Researchers published by the Institute for Scientific Information . In 2001 he received the SETAC Environmental Education Award. In...

#1972

Zhiqun Lin

#106815

Overall Influence

#1973

Tom Welton

#102686

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Thomas Welton is a professor of sustainable chemistry at Imperial College London. He served as head of the department of chemistry from 2007 to 2014 and as dean of the faculty of natural sciences from 2015 to 2019. He is a Fellow and the current president of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Welton's research focuses on sustainable chemistry, with particular focus on ionic liquids and on solvent effects on chemical reactions. Welton is openly gay and is active in advocating for greater visibility for members of the LGBT community in the sciences. He is a member of the UKRI Equality, Diversity ...

#1974

James Jorgenson

James Jorgenson

#84438

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

James Wallace Jorgenson is an American academic who previously held the position of William Rand Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is best known for his work developing capillary zone electrophoresis, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

#1975

Donald Hornig

#90591

Overall Influence

1920 - 2013 (93 years)

Donald Frederick Hornig was an American chemist, explosives expert, teacher and presidential science advisor. He served as president of Brown University from 1970 to 1976. Life and career Hornig was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Chester Arthur Hornig and Emma Knuth. He attended Milwaukee Country Day School, then earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Harvard University. He was awarded his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1943, at the age of 23, with a dissertation on An Investigation of the Shock Wave Produced by an Explosion in Air. On July 17, 1943, he was married to scientist Lilli Hornig.

#1976

Stanley I. Sandler

#106881

Overall Influence

#1977

Howards S. Mason

#106896

Overall Influence

#1978

Bai-xia Yang

#106909

Overall Influence

#1979

Julian Goldsmith

#77586

Overall Influence

1918 - 1999 (81 years)

Julian Royce Goldsmith was a mineralogist and geochemist at the University of Chicago . Goldsmith, along with colleague Fritz Laves, first defined the crystallographic polymorphism of alkali feldspar . Goldsmith also experimented on the temperature dependence of the solid solution between calcite and dolomite . Goldsmith's research also led him to experiment with the determination of the stability of intermediate structural states of albite . For his outstanding contributions to the study of mineralogy and geochemistry, Goldsmith was awarded the prestigious Roebling Medal by the Mineralogical Society of America in 1988 .

#1980

Paul Hagenmuller

#98423

Overall Influence

1921 - 2017 (96 years)

Paul Hagenmuller was a French chemist. Hagenmuller founded the Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and he served as its Director until 1985. He is considered "one of the founders of solid-state chemistry."

#1981

Ramesh Jasti

#69929

Overall Influence

Ramesh Jasti is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Oregon. He was the first person to synthesize the elusive cycloparaphenylene in 2008 during post doctoral work in the laboratory of Professor Carolyn Bertozzi. He started his laboratory at Boston University where he was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award. His early lab repeatedly broke the record for the synthesis of the smallest cycloparaphenylene known. In 2014, he moved his laboratory to the University of Oregon where he expanded his focus to apply the molecules he discovered in the areas of organic materials, mechanically interlocked molecules, and biology.

#1982

Arne Jørgen Aasen

#90981

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Arne Jørgen Aasen is a Norwegian chemist and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo, School of Pharmacy. Aasen received his engineering degree in biochemistry and organic chemistry in 1964, and a doctorate in organic chemistry in August 1966 from The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim . In 1972 he defended his thesis for a doctorate at The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

#1983

Vladimir Sobyanin

#106996

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Sobyanin is a Russian/Soviet scientist, PhD, and professor. Vladimir Sobyanin was born in 1952. In 1969 he graduated from the Physico Mathematical school of Novosibirsk State University. He graduated from the Department of Natural Sciences of Novosibirsk State University in 1974. In 1991 he obtained his PhD.

#1984

Yoshihiko Ito

#106998

Overall Influence

#1985

Gerald Norman Wogan

#107060

Overall Influence

#1986

David Henry Solomon

David Henry Solomon

#91670

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (96 years)

David Henry Solomon is an Australian polymer chemist. He is best known for his work in developing Living Radical Polymerization techniques, and polymer banknotes. Education Solomon received an Associate of Sydney Technical College, in 1950 and went on to complete a Bachelor of Science in 1952 from the New South Wales University of Technology , a Master of Science from the same university in 1955, and a PhD from the University of New South Wales in 1959 with a thesis entitled Studies on the Chemistry of Carbonyl Compounds. In 1968 he was awarded a DSc from the University of New South Wales for his thesis Studies on the Chemistry of Coating Compounds.

#1987

Naoyuki Taniguchi

#107136

Overall Influence

#1988

Roger Parsons

#101089

Overall Influence

1926 - 2017 (91 years)

Roger Parsons was a British chemist . Biography Parsons studied chemistry at Imperial College London, obtaining a first class bachelor's degree in 1947. His doctorate, supervised by John Bockris, was awarded the following year. In 1951 he was appointed lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in Dundee , researching electrochemical kinetics and thermodynamics under Douglas Hugh Everett. In 1954, Parsons accompanied Everett to the University of Bristol, where he was appointed professor. In 1977 Parsons was appointed Directeur du Laboratoired'Electrochimie Interfaciale at the CNRS in France,...

#1989

Hou Jianguo

#46324

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Hou Jianguo is a Chinese chemist and politician. He served as party secretary of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine from 2017 to 2018. An accomplished research scientist, Hou is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences. He formerly served as president of the University of Science and Technology of China and has extensive international work experience.

#1990

Stefan Hecht

#80122

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Stefan Hecht is a German chemist. Life Hecht was born in 1974 in East Berlin. He studied chemistry from 1992 to 1997 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of California, Berkeley, where he carried out his diploma thesis research with the late William G. Dauben about "New Mechanistic Insight into the Lumiketone Rearrangement – Wavelength-Dependent Photochemistry of 4-Methoxybicyclo[3.1.0]hex-3-en-2-ones". After his diploma in chemistry, he carried out his graduate work from 1997 to 2001 on the "Synthesis and Application of Functional Branched Macromolecules – From Site Isol...

#1991

Michael Therien

#101544

Overall Influence

Michael J. Therien is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at Duke University. Career Therien received his B.S. in Chemistry from University of St. Andrews in 1982. He began his studies in organometallic chemistry at University of California, San Diego, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1987 working with William C. Trogler. Upon completion of his Ph.D. in 1987, he was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology under Harry B. Gray. In 1990, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at University of Pennsylvania, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996, full Professor in 1997, and named Alan G.

#1992

Dorothy Virginia Nightingale

#85348

Overall Influence

1901 - 2000 (99 years)

Dorothy Virginia Nightingale was an American organic chemist who is known for research on chemiluminescence and the Friedel-Crafts reaction. Nightingale directed the research of 24 PhD students and 26 Masters students and authored 56 scientific publications.

#1993

Cho Minhaeng

#34950

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Cho Minhaeng is a South Korean scientist in researching physical chemistry, spectroscopy, and microscopy. He was director of the National Creative Research Initiative Center for Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy and is founding director of the Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics in the Institute for Basic Science , located in Korea University.

#1994

R. Obert J. Kee

#107346

Overall Influence

#1995

Bakthan Singaram

#75233

Overall Influence

Bakthan Singaram is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California, where he has taught since 1989. Singaram's primary focus is in the area of boron-based organic chemistry. He gained his Ph.D. from the University of Madras, Tamil Nadu, India in 1977. Singaram also worked in and directed the laboratory of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Herbert Brown, who shared the 1979 Nobel prize in chemistry 1979 with Georg Wittig "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis".

#1996

Madhavi Krishnan

#72674

Overall Influence

Madhavi Krishnan is a British chemist who is an Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Krishnan invented an electrostatic fluidic trap which permits the spatial control and manipulation of nanoscale materials. These traps can permit the sensitive detection of biomarkers of disease, allowing for early diagnosis.

#1997

Hiroshi Nishihara

#68909

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Hiroshi Nishihara, born 21 March 1955, is a Japanese chemist and Professor of Chemistry at The University of Tokyo in Japan. Currently heading the department of Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory in The University of Tokyo, he is a distinguished professor, researcher and pioneer in the field of synthesis and electrochemistry of conductive metal complex polymers.

#1998

Hitosi Nozaki

#107440

Overall Influence

#1999

Andreas Lendlein

#107449

Overall Influence

#2000

Wei-min Liu

#107513

Overall Influence

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