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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#2051

Alan Paul Kozikowski

#108694

Overall Influence

#2052

John R. Philip

#46108

Overall Influence

1927 - 1999 (72 years)

John Robert Philip AO FAA FRS was an Australian soil physicist and hydrologist, internationally recognised for his contributions to the understanding of movement of water, energy and gases. While he never performed his own experimental work, he was recognised for his skills in mathematics that could be used to explain physical processes and solve real world problems.

#2053

Raymond F. Ziessel

#108797

Overall Influence

#2054

Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson

#108799

Overall Influence

#2055

David Michael Patrick Mingos

#108859

Overall Influence

#2056

Dietmar Stalke

#108875

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

#2057

Richard A. Walton

#108898

Overall Influence

#2058

Richard A. Stone

#108903

Overall Influence

#2059

Henry H. Bauer

#28162

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

Henry Hermann Bauer is an emeritus professor of chemistry and science studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University . He is the author of several books and articles on fringe science, arguing in favor of the existence of the Loch Ness Monster and against Immanuel Velikovsky, and is an AIDS denialist. Following his retirement in 1999, he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration, a fringe science publication. Bauer also served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech, generating controversy by criticising affirmative action.

#2060

Adisa Azapagic

#98610

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Adisa Azapagić is a chemical engineer and academic. She has served as Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester since 2006. Early life and education Azapagic was born in 1961 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She attended the University of Tuzla, and graduated in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Surrey, and earned her PhD on Environmental System Analysis using Life-cycle assessmentin 1996.

#2061

Czesław Strumiłło

#45187

Overall Influence

1930 - 2018 (88 years)

Czesław Strumiłło was a Polish chemical engineer, a founder of a scientific theory in the field of drying processes and a former rector of the Lodz University of Technology. In 1952 he graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology. In 1960 he obtained the Doctor of Science degree, in 1966 his postdoctoral scientific qualifications and associate professor and professor degrees in 1974, and 1981, respectively.

#2062

Charles Shoppee

#104979

Overall Influence

1904 - 1994 (90 years)

Charles William Shoppee FAA FRS was a British-born organic chemist who performed major research into steroids. He was Professor of Chemistry at the University College of Swansea and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney .

#2063

Hans‐ulrich Schmincke

#108918

Overall Influence

#2064

Konrad Grob

#108922

Overall Influence

#2065

George Gray

#97626

Overall Influence

1926 - 2013 (87 years)

George William Gray was a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Hull who was instrumental in developing the long-lasting materials which made liquid crystal displays possible. He created and systematically developed liquid crystal materials science, and established a method of practical molecular design. Gray was recipient of the 1995 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology.

#2066

Nicola Pinna

#49334

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

Nicola Pinna is a chemist and professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Scientific career Pinna's doctoral studies were undertaken at Pierre and Marie Curie University with a focus on physical chemistry. His postdoctoral work at Fritz Haber Institute of the MPG saw him researching the catalytic properties of vanadium oxide nanoparticles. He has since worked at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces , Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, the University of Aveiro , and Seoul National University . He has been a professor of inorganic chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin since July 2012.

#2067

Keith Scott Keith Scott

#109070

Overall Influence

#2068

Lloyd A. Currie

#109103

Overall Influence

#2069

John N Weinstein

#109226

Overall Influence

#2070

C. Michael Roland

#96261

Overall Influence

1952 - 2021 (69 years)

Charles Michael Roland was Head of the Polymer Physics Section at the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC from 1989 to 2015. His research was concerned primarily with the dynamics of condensed matter, including polymers and liquid crystals, with applications to military armor and infrastructure protection. He is noted for his development of elastomeric coatings for blast protection, and for diverse accomplishments in the field of elastomer science. From 1991-1999, he served as the 8th editor of the scientific journal Rubber Chemistry and Technology, and a Fellow of the American Physical Soci...

#2071

Ai-ping Wang

#109258

Overall Influence

#2072

John Benedict Howard

#109268

Overall Influence

#2073

Alwyn Davies

#101960

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (99 years)

Alwyn George Davies FRS was a British chemist, emeritus professor, and Fellow of University College London. Life and career Alwyn George Davies was born on 13 May 1926. Alwyn came to UCL as an undergraduate in 1944. He was awarded a B.Sc. from University College London in 1946, and Ph.D. in 1949, where he studied with Christopher Kelk Ingold.

#2074

Luigi Cavallo

#109283

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

#2075

William Graham Hoover

#109320

Overall Influence

#2076

Yoshio Inoue

#109322

Overall Influence

#2077

Najat A. Saliba

#48225

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Najat Aoun Saliba is a Professor of Analytical Chemistry and an atmospheric chemist at the American University of Beirut . She was the Director of AUB's Nature Conservation Center from 2013 till 2020. Saliba is also the co-founder and director of Khaddit Beirut and the founder and director of the Environment Academy . She was appointed a laureate of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science program in 2019. In 2022 she was elected to the Lebanese parliament.

#2078

Elliott N. Shaw

#109386

Overall Influence

#2079

Viktorya Aviyente

#109397

Overall Influence

Viktorya Aviyente is a Turkish computational chemist. Aviyente is a professor emeritus at Boğaziçi University. Her research interests include computational chemistry and molecular modelling. Aviyente completed a B.S. , M.S. , and Ph.D. in chemistry at Boğaziçi University.

#2080

Robert Huggins

#59620

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (96 years)

Robert Alan Huggins is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the School of Engineering at Stanford University and Honorary Professor at the University of Kiel and the University of Ulm. He was previously Chief Scientist at the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research in Ulm. The International Society for Solid State Ionics held a symposium in his honor in 2009, in recognition of his work on fundamental properties and behavior of materials, solid state ionic probing techniques, catalytic behavior at gas–solid interfaces, and the development of elect...

#2081

John George Verkade

#109424

Overall Influence

#2082

Ralph O. Allen

#93266

Overall Influence

Ralph O. Allen is a professor of chemistry and environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. He received his BA from Cornell College in 1965 and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. He is a fellow of the Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and has been a Marshall Foundation Visiting Scholar in Norway.

#2083

Brian F. G. Johnson

#58387

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Brian Frederick Gilbert Johnson is a British scientist and emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He was also Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 1999 to 2005. Education Johnson was educated at Northampton Grammar School and the University of Nottingham where he was awarded Bachelor of Science and PhD degrees.

#2084

Robert Allen Koeppe

#109436

Overall Influence

#2085

Henry R. Wise

#109437

Overall Influence

#2086

Anton Amann

#16585

Overall Influence

1956 - 2015 (59 years)

Anton Amann was an Austrian chemist and Professor of chemistry at the Innsbruck Medical University. He worked in the area of physical chemistry, ECG analysis, and exhaled breath analysis. Amann was the head of the Breath Research Institute of the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck and editor in chief of the Journal of Breath Research.

#2087

Kenneth A. Dawson

#109524

Overall Influence

#2088

Luis Echegoyen

#109525

Overall Influence

Luis A. Echegoyen is a chemistry professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, and 2020 President of the American Chemical Society . Background Echegoyen was born in Havana, Cuba, and received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. He has served as a professor of chemistry at Clemson University, University of Puerto Rico, University of Maryland, College Park, and University of Miami, and has been with UTEP since 2010. Echegoyen has also served as a program officer and later director for the National Science Foundation's division of ...

#2089

Giridhar Madras

#109609

Overall Influence

#2090

Richard Yost

#97819

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Richard A Yost is an American scientist and a professor at the University of Florida. He is best known for his work inventing the triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. Yost received his BS degree in chemistry in 1974 from the University of Arizona, having performed undergraduate research in chromatography with Mike Burke and his PhD degree in Analytical Chemistry in 1979 from Michigan State University, having performed graduate research with Chris Enke.

#2091

Robert Hamada

#22557

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Robert Hamada is the former Edward Eagle Brown Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and former Dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Early life A third-generation Japanese American, Hamada was born in San Francisco, California in 1937. He and his family were sent to the Amache internment camp during World War II due to Executive Order 9066. Following their release, the Hamada family moved to New York.

#2092

Xiao-bo Ji

#109624

Overall Influence

#2093

Piotr Piecuch

#92674

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Piotr Piecuch is a Polish-born American physical chemist. He holds the title of university distinguished professor in the department of chemistry at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States. He supervises a group, whose research focuses on theoretical and computational chemistry as well as theoretical and computational physics, particularly on the development and applications of many-body methods for accurate quantum calculations for molecular systems and atomic nuclei, including methods based on coupled cluster theory, mathematical methods of chemistry and physics, and theory of intermolecular forces.

#2094

Jane Catherine Ngila

#88277

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Jane Catherine Ngila is the head of the Chemical Sciences Department at the University of Johannesburg, her work focuses on applying nanotechnology for water purification. She is Acting Executive Director of the African Academy of Sciences and member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.

#2095

Sean M. Decatur

#43290

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Sean M. Decatur is a chemist, college administrator and president, and has been appointed president of the American Museum of Natural History in December 2022. Decatur will be the first African-American to serve as the museum's president. Prior to this, he was president of Kenyon College from 2013 to 2022.

#2096

Leixin Song

#109678

Overall Influence

#2097

Lydia Makhubu

#61015

Overall Influence

1937 - 2021 (84 years)

Lydia Phindile Makhubu was a Swazi chemist and former professor of chemistry, dean and vice-chancellor of the University of Swaziland . Life She was born at the Usuthu Mission in Swaziland. Her parents were teachers, but her father also worked as an orderly in health clinics. Her early exposure to medicine had a great influence on her choice of career; she initially wanted to become a doctor, but then switched to chemistry.

#2098

Tony James

#76716

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Tony D. James FRSC is a chemist who is currently Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bath and recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He was educated at the University of East Anglia and the University of Victoria . He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2012 and received the Daiwa Adrian Prize in 2013.

#2099

Monte A. Greer

#109733

Overall Influence

#2100

Xile Hu

#108095

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

Xile Hu is a Swiss chemist specialized in catalysis. He is a professor in chemistry at EPFL and leads the Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis at the School of Basic Sciences. Career Hu studied chemistry at Peking University and received his Bachelor’s degree in 2000. During his undergraduate, he worked with Jianhua Lin. He then joined the lab of Karsten Meyer at University of California, San Diego as PhD student and graduated with a thesis on "Metal complexes of tripodal N-heterocyclic carbene ligands: synthesis, structure, bonding, and reactivity." In 2005, he went to work as postdoctoral researcher with Jonas C.

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