The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,
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Graham William Burton
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Danielle-claude Bélanger
#134816
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#3253
Alireza Nezamzadeh‐ejhieh
#134825
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#3254
William J. Pitz
#134830
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Eva Hevia
#116698
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (49 years)
Eva Hevia is a Professor of Organometallic Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the University of Bern. Education Hevia was born in Gijón in 1976. She became interested in a science at a very young age. She earned her Masters and PhD from the University of Oviedo in 2002.
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Arnd Vogler
#134878
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#3257
Thuc-quyen Nguyen
#134879
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#3258
Jordi Arbiol
#134884
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (50 years)
#3259
Dian-zeng Jia
#134889
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#3260
Constantinos C. Stoumpos
#134918
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#3261
Dennis A. Torchia
#134924
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#3262
Simon J. Teat
#134965
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#3263
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis
#134971
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#3264
Derek G. Smyth
#135021
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#3265
Manfred Regitz
#135066
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#3266
Koichi Hatada
#135071
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Michael F. Doherty
#108522
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (74 years)
Michael Francis Doherty is a British chemical engineer. He is the Duncan & Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Process Systems Engineering and University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2016, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the design of methods for complex distillation and crystallization processes.
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Sharon Ashbrook
#120765
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (25 years)
Sharon Elizabeth Marie Ashbrook is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. Her research is focused on the application of multinuclear solid-state NMR spectroscopy techniques as well as the combination of these techniques with first-principles calculations to investigate structure, order and dynamics of solid state materials.
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Patricia Nicholls
#135154
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M. Carmen Galan
#133507
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M. Carmen Galan is a Spanish chemist and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bristol. Her research considers bioinspired probes for the targeting and regulation of cellular processes. She was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Jeremy Knowles Award in 2021.
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Timothy A. Keiderling
#135221
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Brendan J. R. Whittle
#135259
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Diane Grob Schmidt
#78165
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (80 years)
eDiane Grob Schmidt is an American chemist, who was the executive at Procter & Gamble Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1981 to 2014. In 2015, she served as president of the American Chemical Society . As of 2022, she was serving as the chair of the board of visitors for the department of chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Krist V. Gernaey
#135283
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#3275
Srinivasa Sourirajan
#135296
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#3276
Alfons Penzkofer
#135298
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#3277
Emily V. Fischer
#96911
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (45 years)
#3278
Jan Ketelaar
#111253
Overall Influence
1908 - 2001 (93 years)
Jan Arnold Albert Ketelaar was a Dutch chemist and author of the textbook Chemical Constitution: an Introduction to the Theory of the Chemical Bond . Van Arkel–Ketelaar triangles are named after him.
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Gerard Kleywegt
#78441
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (63 years)
Gerard Jacob Kleywegt is a Dutch X-ray crystallographer and the former team leader of the Protein Data Bank in Europe at the EBI; a member of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank. Education Kleywegt obtained his PhD from the University of Utrecht in 1991.
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Domenic A. Sica
#135452
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Richard 1. Watts
#135461
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Raymond Schaak
#133095
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Raymond E. Schaak is an American chemist and currently a DuPont Professor of Materials and Chemistry at Penn State University. He assumed his position at Penn State in 2007. Prior to this, he was an assistant professor of chemistry at Texas A&M University since 2003. In 2017 he was named a fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Andreas Mortensen
#135506
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Gilles Horowitz
#135508
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Athelstan Beckwith
#108125
Overall Influence
1930 - 2010 (80 years)
Athelstan Laurence Johnson Beckwith AO, FRS was an Australian chemist. He was a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Life He earned a BSc, from the University of Western Australia in 1952, and DPhil, from the University of Oxford in 1956. In 1960, he won the Rennie Memorial Medal. In 1961, he won a Nuffield Scholarship to study with Sir Derek Barton.
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Rudolf Hoppe
#135524
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Dawn Bonnell
#100019
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Dawn Austin Bonnell is the Senior Vice Provost for Research at the University of Pennsylvania. She has previously served as the Founding Director of the National Science Foundation Nano–Bio Interface Center, Vice President of the American Ceramic Society and President of the American Vacuum Society.
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Gordon M. Brown
#135542
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Jan Genzer
#135553
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Gerd Multhaup
#135581
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Chulabhorn
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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (68 years)
Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand, the Princess Srisavangavadhana is a princess of Thailand, the youngest daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit, and the younger sister of King Vajiralongkorn. She is officially styled Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn, which corresponds to her full Thai title Somdet Phrachao Nong Nang Thoe Chaofa Chulabhorn Walailak Agrarajakumari . In 2019, she was bestowed the second-highest of royal ranks by appointment – "Krom Phra" by King Vajiralongkorn. She also received a first-class King Rama X Royal Cypher Medal.
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Michael G. Simic
#135583
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Alice Motion
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Overall Influence
1984 - Present (41 years)
Alice Elizabeth Motion is a British chemist, science communicator, and associate professor at the School of Chemistry, University of Sydney. She is the founder of the Breaking Good project which encourages high school and undergraduate students to take part in research that can benefit human health. In 2018, the Breaking Good project was a finalist on the Google.org Impact Challenge.
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Rudolph A. Abramovitch
#135619
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J. R. D. Mitchell
#135674
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Charles Thomas Beer
#63016
Overall Influence
1915 - 2010 (95 years)
Charles Thomas Beer was a Canadian organic chemist who helped in the discovery of vinblastine. Born in Leigh, Dorset, England, he received a D.Phil. in chemistry from Oxford in 1948. He came to North America in the early 1950s to the department of medical research at the University of Western Ontario to work with Robert L. Noble. Together they isolated the anti-cancer drug vinblastine from the leaves of the Madagascar periwinkle plant at the University of Western Ontario in 1958. The discovery of vinblastine is generally considered a milestone in the development of chemotherapy.
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Richard E. Ernst
#135751
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (70 years)
#3298
Puthugraman C. Hariharan
#135756
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#3299
Suddhasatwa Basu
#126732
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (62 years)
Sudhhasatwa Basu is an Indian chemical engineer. He is director of Council of Scientific Industrial Research - Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology in Bhubaneswar, India, and is Professor of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and Professor of AcSIR. His research interests include electrokinetic and electrochemical phenomena in fuel cells.
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Eduardo A. Lissi
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