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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#2351

Ralf Riedel

#115677

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

#2352

David J. Mooney

#30083

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

David James Mooney is Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is also a founding core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.

#2353

Reinhold Carle

#115736

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

#2354

Motoo Shiro

#115749

Overall Influence

#2355

Juri Rappsilber

#98392

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (54 years)

Juri Rappsilber is a German chemist in the area of mass spectrometry and proteomics. Career Rappsilber studied chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin, University of Strathclyde, and with Tom Rapoport, Harvard Medical School. In 2001, he earned his Ph.D. in Proteomics jointly from EMBL Heidelberg and the Goethe University Frankfurt working in the laboratory of Matthias Mann on the mass spectrometric analysis of protein complexes, externally supervised by Michael Karas. He followed Mann to the University of Southern Denmark and completed a postdoctoral fellowship before starting his independent career at IFOM - FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology, Milan in 2003.

#2356

Gerald S. Frankel

#115772

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

#2357

Bogumił Brzezinski

Bogumił Brzezinski

#55344

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Bogumił Kazimierz Brzezinski is a Polish chemist, professor of chemistry science who specialises in the field of infrared spectroscopy and hydrogen bonds. Co-worker of Prof. Georg Zundel. He is co-author of nearly 400 original scientific publications.

#2358

Michael E. Himmel

#115821

Overall Influence

#2359

Todd B. Marder

#115900

Overall Influence

#2360

Geoffrey Cloke

#55003

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Geoffrey Nethersole Cloke FRS is a British chemist, and professor at University of Sussex. Honours and awards 1988 Corday-Morgan Prize of the Royal Institute of Chemistry1998 Tilden Prize of the Royal Institute of Chemistry2007 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

#2361

Yi‐mei Zhu

#115937

Overall Influence

#2362

Shigeo Ted Oyama

#115974

Overall Influence

#2363

Jonathan S. Lindsey

#116000

Overall Influence

#2364

Brian Thrush

#115859

Overall Influence

1928 - Present (97 years)

Brian Arthur Thrush was a British physical chemist. He was an Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Emmanuel College. Research Thrush studied the atom and free radical reactions in the gas phase of spectroscopic methods. He made the first comprehensive examination of the absorption spectra of free radicals in homogeneous explosions using flash photolysis. He discovered the absorption spectra of several free radicals , and he determined the ionisation potential of the tropyl radical.

#2365

Richard Winfield Hanson

#116016

Overall Influence

#2366

Lilia Ann Abron

#72451

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Lilia Ann Abron is an entrepreneur and chemical engineer. In 1972, Abron became the first African American woman to earn a PhD in chemical engineering. Early life Abron was born in Memphis, Tennessee, was the second of four daughters. She was born prematurely, at home, and had to be rushed to the hospital by her aunt in a cab, as ambulances were not available for African Americans at the time.

#2367

Alan Soper

#103605

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Alan Kenneth Soper FRS is an STFC Senior Fellow at the ISIS neutron source based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. Education Soper was educated at the Campion School, Hornchurch and the University of Leicester where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree followed by a PhD in 1977 for research into the structure of aqueous solutions conducted at the Institut Laue–Langevin in Grenoble supervised by John Enderby.

#2368

Kristin Persson

#78738

Overall Influence

Kristin Aslaug Persson is a Swedish/Icelandic American physicist and chemist. She was born in Lund, Sweden, in 1971, to Eva Haettner-Aurelius and Einar Benedikt Olafsson. She is a faculty senior staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. Currently, she is also the director of the Molecular Foundry, a national user facility managed by the US Department of Energy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Persson is the director and founder of the Materials Project, a multi-national effort to compute the properties of all inorganic materials.

#2369

Howard M. Prof. Goodman

#116107

Overall Influence

#2370

Norbert De Kimpe

#116126

Overall Influence

#2371

Hal Helgeson

#115481

Overall Influence

1931 - 2007 (76 years)

Harold C. Helgeson was an American scientist and educator. A pioneering theoretical geochemist, he was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Early life Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he grew up in St. Paul. He received a B.S. in geology at Michigan State University in 1953. Helgeson went to Harvard University for graduate school, supervised by Robert M. Garrels. Helgeson received his Ph.D. in 1962.

#2372

Millard H. Alexander

#108199

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Millard Henry Alexander is an American theoretical chemist. He is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, with appointments in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology. He is the author of over 300 publications and an active researcher in the fields of molecular collision dynamics and theoretical chemistry.

#2373

Athanasios Nenes

#116232

Overall Influence

#2374

Otto. Hutzinger

#116289

Overall Influence

#2375

Ed Harlow

#58093

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Ed Harlow is an American molecular biologist. Harlow received the Ph.D. degree from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories in London. Harlow is professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.

#2376

Morteza Mahmoudi

#74182

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (46 years)

Morteza Mahmoudi is an Iranian-American nanotechnologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at Michigan State University. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Harvard University. Mahmoudi is a winner of 2018 BRIght Futures Prize, 2018 IGNITE Award, and 2016 USERN Prize. He is best known for his works on academic bullying; he is also a co-founder of a non-profit organization called the Academic Parity Movement which is focused on addressing academic bullying issue in various disciplines.

#2377

Michael Tsapatsis

#92155

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Michael Tsapatsis is an American chemical engineer and materials scientist. Tsapatsis is the 36th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Prior to this position he was the Amundson Chair , professor , and McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in the department of chemical engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his appointment at the University of Minnesota, Tsapatsis was an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

#2378

Nguyen TK Thanh

#45712

Overall Influence

Nguyễn Thị Kim Thanh is a professor of Nanomaterials at University College London. She was awarded the 2019 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her research and efforts toward gender equality.

#2379

Rachel O'Reilly

#60472

Overall Influence

Rachel O'Reilly is a British chemist and Professor at the University of Birmingham. She works at the interface of biology and materials, creating polymers that can mimic natural nanomaterials such as viruses and cells. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and of the Royal Society.

#2380

Anthony F. Hill

#88647

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Anthony F. Hill is a Professor of Chemistry at the Research School of Chemistry of the Australian National University. He specializes in synthetic, organometallic and coordination chemistry. He is the author of a textbook on the subject of the organometallic chemistry of the transition metals and since 1995 has been an editor of the scientific journal/book series Advances in Organometallic Chemistry. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

#2381

Tatiana Birshtein

#37852

Overall Influence

1928 - 2022 (94 years)

Tatiana Birshtein or Tat'yana Maksimovna Birshtein was a Russian molecular scientist. Birshtein specialised in the physics of polymers. In 2007 she was given the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science.

#2382

William Glenn Gray

#116486

Overall Influence

#2383

Magnus Berggren

#45966

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Magnus Berggren , is a Swedish professor of organic electronics at Linköping University. Magnus Berggren was born in Skara, Sweden. In 1991 he received a master’s degree in physics and in 1996 a doctoral degree in physics at Linköping University. He then joined Bell Laboratories in the United States, for a one-year post doc research period. In 2001 he was appointed as a professor of organic electronics at Linköping University.

#2384

Wilfred F. Van. Gunsteren

#116515

Overall Influence

#2385

Simon Gaskell

#66182

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Simon James Gaskell is the previous president and principal of Queen Mary University of London, and current chair of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. and chair of the board of governors of the University of Plymouth. He previously served as the vice-president for research at the University of Manchester.

#2386

Imre Gyula Csizmadia

#114169

Overall Influence

1932 - 2022 (90 years)

Imre Gyula Csizmadia was a Canadian Hungarian chemist, university professor, external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Early life and education His early studies were determined by Márton Sain, who taught at the Lónyai Street Grammar School in Budapest, and Károly Benkő, a chemistry teacher from Szeghalom who fled from the Royal Hungarian Franz Joseph University in Cluj. During his university years at the Technical University of Budapest, he was most influenced by András Messmer, who taught theoretical chemistry at the university. He graduated as a chemical engineer in 1956, but continued his studies in physical organic chemistry at the University of British Columbia in Canada .

#2387

Hiromichi Kataura

Hiromichi Kataura

#32198

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

is a Japanese scientist known for his work on synthesis and characterization of single-wall and double-wall carbon nanotubes and on encapsulation of water, fullerenes and other organic molecules into carbon nanotubes.

#2388

Garth Leroy Wilkes

#116551

Overall Influence

#2389

Ian Harvey Hillier

#116559

Overall Influence

#2390

Johnny Huard

#116579

Overall Influence

#2391

Edward J. Land

#116582

Overall Influence

#2392

Joseph Ambrose Loo

#116668

Overall Influence

#2393

Joshua D Rabinowitz

#116674

Overall Influence

#2394

Terry A. Miller

#116706

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

#2395

Christian Griesinger

#116739

Overall Influence

#2396

Kozo Tanabe

#116768

Overall Influence

#2397

Kimihiko Hirao

#116780

Overall Influence

#2398

Narayan Sadashiv Hosmane

Narayan Sadashiv Hosmane

#91804

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Narayan S. Hosmane is an Indian-born cancer research scientist who made the featured article in NRI Achievers magazine and is currently distinguished research professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He received the Humboldt Research Award for senior scientists twice. This award is presented annually to scientists worldwide as a tribute to their lifelong accomplishments by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany.

#2399

Yushan S. Yan

#116829

Overall Influence

#2400

Emil Paleĉek

#116847

Overall Influence

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