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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#2501

Akira E. Takemori

#118894

Overall Influence

#2502

Sueharu Horinouchi

#118939

Overall Influence

#2503

Rena Bizios

#66713

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Irene Rena Bizios is an American bioengineer. She is the Peter Flawn Professor at University of Texas at San Antonio and the Lutcher Brown Chair Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Bizios is an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Inventors, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Her current interests are cellular and tissue engineering, biocompability and tissue-biomaterial relationships.

#2504

David G. Whitten

#118948

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

#2505

Robert Duce

#94077

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

Robert A. Duce is a pioneer in the study of atmospheric chemistry, and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University. He has made significant contributions to the understanding of chemical exchanges between the atmosphere and the oceans, and the global cycle of trace elements. Duce received a BS, chemistry from Baylor University and a PhD in the subject of inorganic and nuclear chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was also a post-doctoral fellow. His thesis title was "Determination of iodine, bromine, and chlorine in the marine atmosphere by neutron ...

#2506

Katherine Franz

#94908

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Katherine J. Franz is the chair of the department of chemistry at Duke University. She studies metal ion coordination in biological systems and looks to use the insight to manage species such as copper and iron. Franz was awarded the American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences.

#2507

Philip Albert James Gorin

#119070

Overall Influence

#2508

Marek Trojanowicz

#89970

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Marek Andrzej Trojanowicz is a Polish chemist, professor of chemical sciences with specialization in analytical chemistry, academic staff member, and head of the Laboratory for Flow Analysis and Chromatography, University of Warsaw, Poland.

#2509

George W. Flynn

#117768

Overall Influence

1938 - 2020 (82 years)

George W. Flynn was an American physical chemist and professor, known for his work in laser spectroscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy. Early life and career In 1938, Flynn was born and raised in Hartford, CT. Following the death of his father while he was still in high school, he was admitted to Yale University on a full scholarship. As an undergraduate he worked on research in the laboratory of Julian Sturtevant in the chemistry department at Yale. He received his bachelor's degree in 1960 and went to Harvard University to pursue a doctorate in chemistry. His thesis was supervised jointly by E.

#2510

Stanley J. Opella

#119095

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#2511

Jillian Lee Dempsey

Jillian Lee Dempsey

#87217

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Jillian Lee Dempsey is an American inorganic chemist and the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently, her work focuses on proton-coupled electron transfer, charge transfer events, and quantum dots. She is the recipient of numerous awards for rising stars of chemistry, including most recently a 2016 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a 2016 Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program .

#2512

Silvia Braslavsky

#42692

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Silvia Elsa Braslavsky is an Argentine chemist. She is the daughter of educationist and biochemist Lázaro Braslavsky, and the sister of Cecilia Braslavsky, educationist and erstwhile director of the International Bureau of Education of UNESCO. She has two daughters, sociologist Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky and Carolina Klockow.

#2513

Susan Perkin

#93287

Overall Influence

Susan Perkin is a British chemist who is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Her research considers the physics of liquids and soft matter. She was awarded the 2016 Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize and named the Soft Matter Lecturer of 2018. In 2015 Perkin was awarded a European Research Council starting grant and in 2020 she was awarded a European Research Council consolidator grant.

#2514

Fiona Meldrum

#114037

Overall Influence

Fiona C. Meldrum is a British scientist who is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Leeds where she works on bio-inspired materials and crystallisation processes. She won the 2017 Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize.

#2515

Curt R. Enzell

#119154

Overall Influence

#2516

Eva-Maria Neher

Eva-Maria Neher

#36973

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Eva-Maria Neher is a German scientist in the fields of biochemistry and microbiology. She founded the Göttingen Xlab and has been its Executive Director since 2000. The Göttingen Xlab is an experimental laboratory for training young people from student to scientist level. She is married to Erwin Neher who is a Nobel laureate for his Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She is the recipient of many awards including the Lower Saxony State Prize.

#2517

Catherine E. Costello

#115482

Overall Influence

Catherine E. Costello is the William Fairfield Warren distinguished professor in the department of biochemistry, Cell Biology and Genomics, and the director of the Center for Biomedical Mass Spectrometry at the Boston University School of Medicine.

#2518

Hartmut Fuess,

#119193

Overall Influence

#2519

Milton Harris

#88198

Overall Influence

1906 - 1991 (85 years)

Milton Harris was an American chemist. Harris founded the Harris Research Laboratories, which later merged with Gillette, and was chairman of the board of directors for the American Chemical Society from 1966 to 1972.

#2520

Jennifer S. Brodbelt

#112109

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Jennifer S. Brodbelt is an American chemist known for her research using mass spectrometry to characterize organic compounds, especially biopolymers and proteins. Education and career Brodbelt has an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and earned her Ph.D. from Purdue University where she worked on gas phase ion chemistry using mass spectrometry. Following her Ph.D. she was a postdoc at the University of California, Santa Barbara before joining the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. As of 2016, she is the Roland Pettit Centennial Chair in the Department of Chemistry.

#2521

David M. Golden

#119343

Overall Influence

#2522

Jorge Gascon

#116347

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Jorge Gascon is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, director of the KAUST Catalysis Center. and a group leader of Advanced Catalytic Materials group

#2523

Kyoung-Shin Choi

#88194

Overall Influence

Kyoung-Shin Choi is a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Choi's research focuses on the electrochemical synthesis of electrode materials, for use in electrochemical and photoelectrochemical devices.

#2524

Kenneth G. Caulton

#54457

Overall Influence

Kenneth G. Caulton is an inorganic chemist who works on, and has made significant contributions to, projects dealing with transition metal hydrides. He is currently Distinguished Professor at Indiana University. Specifically, Caulton has worked on the chemistry of paramagnetic organometallic complexes, metal polyhydride complexes and the dihydrogen ligand, catalytic activation of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, and alkoxide chemistry. Caulton's work with transition metal complexes is ultimately aimed to create complexes that exhibit unexpected and novel reactivities.

#2525

Bruno Chaudret

#114346

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Bruno Chaudret, born on 25 December 1953, is a French chemist and director of research at the CNRS. His research is in organometallic chemistry, particularly the interactions between hydrogen and transition metals.

#2526

Tejal A. Desai

#44094

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Tejal Ashwin Desai is Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering at Brown University. Prior to joining Brown, she was the Deborah Cowan Endowed Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at University of California, San Francisco, Director of the Health Innovations via Engineering Initiative , and head of the Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. She was formerly an associate professor at Boston University and an assistant professor at University of Illinois at Chicago . She is a researcher in the area of therapeutic micro and nanotechnology and has authored ...

#2527

H.ti. Tien

#119450

Overall Influence

#2528

John Henry Sinfelt

#119464

Overall Influence

#2529

Tadahiko Mizuno

Tadahiko Mizuno

#40006

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

is a Japanese nuclear-chemist known for his work on cold fusion. He was a former assistant professor teaching the Atomic Power Environmental Materials program at Hokkaido University. He was also a member of Energy Environmental Institute of Engineering at Hokkaido University until 2009.

#2530

Patrick Herschel Mcmurry

#119594

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#2531

Graham A. Palmer

#119595

Overall Influence

#2532

Jean‐paul Malrieu

#119630

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#2533

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede

#107988

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede is a Swedish biophysical chemist, born in 1968, who is a professor of chemical biology at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. In 2019 she was named by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry as a Distinguished Woman in Chemistry.

#2534

Robert Coombe

#71383

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Robert Coombe is a chemist and an educator. He has been a faculty member at the University of Denver since 1981. From 2005 until 2014 he was chancellor. Education and Work Background Robert Coombe was born in 1948 in Kansas City, Missouri, lived in Colorado for the majority of his life. He graduated in 1970 at Williams College, and in 1973 with a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Coombe then was a postdoctorate at the University of Toronto, and later worked at Rockwell International in California for seven years as a researcher.

#2535

Jonathan F. Stebbins

#119724

Overall Influence

#2536

Richard M. Lambert

#119752

Overall Influence

#2537

Anthony John Kirby

#119754

Overall Influence

#2538

Olivier Schwartz

#32546

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Olivier Schwartz is a French pharmacist who, since 2018, has served as scientific director of the Institut Pasteur. Schwartz received his Ph.D. in virology from Paris 7 University and later joined the Institut Pasteur's Virus and Immunity Unit, where he studied HIV and the Zika virus, prior to his 2018 appointment as the institute's scientific director. He has also served on the scientific advisory board of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and on the external advisory board of the University of Cardiff's Systems Immunity Research Institute.

#2539

Robert Owen Hutchins

#105712

Overall Influence

1939 - 2009 (70 years)

Robert Owen Hutchins was an American organic chemist and educator. Born in Danville, Illinois, Hutchins earned a B.S. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961, an M.A. degree in phytochemistry from California State University, Long Beach in 1962, and a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Purdue University under Joseph Wolinsky in 1967. He then completed a two-year post-doctoral research position with Ernest L. Eliel at Notre Dame University,

#2540

Meindert Danhof

#119795

Overall Influence

#2541

William Leander Davison

#119806

Overall Influence

#2542

Raymond Kapral

#119865

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

#2543

Alexander King

#30646

Overall Influence

1909 - 2007 (98 years)

Alexander King was a British chemist and pioneer of the sustainable development movement who co-founded the Club of Rome in 1968 with the Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei. The Club was one of the first institutions to voice concerns about the impact on the environment of unprecedented economic growth in the 20th century. "Peccei and King were lonely prophets at a time of overwhelming optimism," who did much to push environmental issues on to the political agenda. At the time of the Club's founding, King was Director-General for Scientific Affairs at the Paris-based Organisation for Econo...

#2544

Philippe Guyot-Sionnest

#107076

Overall Influence

Philippe Guyot-Sionnest is a professor at the University of Chicago appointed jointly in the departments of physics and chemistry. He works in the field of colloidal semiconductors and metal nanocrystals.

#2545

Shigeru Terabe

#119928

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#2546

Jean‐marie Ruysschaert

#119936

Overall Influence

#2547

Lesser Blum

#119972

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#2548

Frigyes Solymosi

#119992

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#2549

J. H. Wood Engraver Morse

#120000

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#2550

Zuhair A. Munir

#120043

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