The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,
#3301
Godfrey Stuart Pawley
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Yukio Fujiki
#135793
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1948 - Present (77 years)
#3303
James S. Pankow
#135813
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#3304
I. D. Zhitomirsky
#135818
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#3305
Georg. Will
#135824
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#3306
Nicholas S. Fisher
#135855
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#3307
Marian Asantewah Nkansah
#90180
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (46 years)
Marian Asantewah Nkansah is a Ghanaian environmental chemist. Her research work focuses on finding solutions to environmental problems associated with levels and fate of toxic substances such as heavy/trace metals, persistent organic pollutants and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in food, water, soil, rocks, sediments and other environmental samples. She also researches on the interaction of these pollutants with each other in the environment. In 2016, together with some scientists from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, she led a research which led to the confirmation that edible white clay poses potential cancer risk.
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Thomas William Keenan
#135874
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#3309
Theodore Cohen
#131358
Overall Influence
1929 - 2017 (88 years)
Theodore Cohen was an American organic chemist and chemistry professor at University of Pittsburgh. He is known for his research on organic chemistry, and particularly on organosulfur compounds, on organometallic chemistry, and on the synthesis of phenols.
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Walther Burchard
#136040
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1930 - Present (95 years)
#3311
Brian Shorland
#103554
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1909 - 1999 (90 years)
Francis Brian Shorland was a New Zealand organic chemist. Biography After a BSc and a MSc in organic chemistry he worked for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, before earning a scholarship to go to the University of Liverpool for a PhD under Thomas Percy Hilditch, studying fish liver oils and fats from farm animals.
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Guy. Ourisson
#136133
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Gert Due Billing
#136148
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#3314
Penelope Brothers
#49982
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (25 years)
Penelope Jane Brothers is a New Zealand chemistry academic. She is currently Director of the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University, specializing in inorganic chemistry. Academic career Brothers completed a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science at the University of Auckland, in 1978 and then 1979. Later that year, she traveled to Stanford University after receiving a Fulbright Program fellowship. There, she studied under James P. Collman and completed a 1985 PhD titled 'The organometallic chemistry of ruthenium and osmium porphyrin complexes. The next year, Bro...
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Tsuguo Fukuda
#136188
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#3316
R. Lance Miller
#136212
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#3317
Abhay S. Pandit
#136226
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#3318
Shuryo Nakai
#136267
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#3319
Clemens Burda
#136274
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#3320
Christos Georgakis
#81909
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Christos Georgakis is an American chemical engineer, currently a distinguished professor at Tufts University and also a Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Federation of Automatic Control and American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He was previously the du Pont Professor, 1975–76, and Edgerton Professor, 1977–79, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Iacocca Professor at Lehigh University from 2001 to 2002, Othmer Professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering from 2002 to 2003.
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Peter J. Schoenmakers
#136310
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#3322
Nathalie Carrasco
#84526
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1977 - Present (48 years)
Nathalie Marie Carrasco is a French chemist and professor of astronomy and astrophysics. She is a specialist in atmospheric chemistry at the Atmosphere, Environments and Space Observations Laboratory at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. In 2016, she was awarded the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in the category Young Woman Scientist.
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Peter Coveney
#78212
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (67 years)
Peter V. Coveney is a Professor of Physical Chemistry, Honorary Professor of Computer Science, and the Director of the Centre for Computational Science and Associate Director of the Advanced Research Computing Centre at University College London . He is also a Professor of Applied High Performance Computing at University of Amsterdam and Professor Adjunct at the Yale School of Medicine, Yale University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Member of Academia Europaea. Coveney is active in a broad area of interdisciplinary research including condensed matter physics and che...
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Gilbert Daniel Nessim
#35198
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (59 years)
Gilbert Daniel Nessim is a chemistry professor at Bar-Ilan University specializing in the synthesis of 1D and 2D nanomaterials for electronic, mechanic, and energy applications. Biography Gilbert Daniel Nessim was born in Milan, in 1966. He earned two Master of Sciences in Electrical Engineering , the first in 1989 from the Polytechnic University of Milan , Italy and the second in 1991 from École Centrale Paris, France within the Erasmus / T.I.M.E. program . He completed D.E.A. in optoelectronics in 1991 from the Pierre and Marie Curie University , France with distinction. After graduation, ...
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Zdeněk Hubálek
#136359
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#3326
Anders Ehrenberg
#136372
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#3327
Berk Hess
#136388
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#3328
Piet Gros
#87470
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (63 years)
Piet Gros is a Dutch chemist and professor biomacromolecular crystallography at Utrecht University. In 2010 he received the NWO Spinoza Prize for the elucidation of the three-dimensional structure of the C3 protein, which plays a central role in the complement system and contributes to innate immunity.
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Xiulei Ji
#136411
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#3330
John Murray Gibson
#136425
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Ralph. G. Wilkins
#136432
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#3332
Francis Verpoort
#136436
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (62 years)
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Martin Caffrey
#136453
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#3334
Kiitiro Utimoto
#136498
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#3335
Harold I. Schiff
#136511
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#3336
Sidney Arthur Williams
#136514
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#3337
Kai Grjotheim
#97404
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1919 - 2003 (84 years)
Kai Gudbrand Grjotheim was a Norwegian chemist. He was born in Åsnes as a son of school manager Erland Gudbrandson Grjotheim and domestic science teacher Kaya Johanne Haarbye . He was married to Jorunn Synnøve Andersen since 1944. He finished his secondary education at Hamar Cathedral School in 1940, graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology with the siv.ing. degree in 1950. He was a research fellow from 1952 to 1955 and docent from 1955 to 1956 and 1957 to 1959. In 1956 he took the dr.techn. degree on the thesis Contribution to the Theory of the Aluminum Electrolysis, and from 19...
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Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff.
#136542
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José Miguel Aguilera
#136547
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#3340
Wing‐tak Wong
#136557
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#3341
Takao Ikariya
#136569
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#3342
Richard D. Braatz
#67087
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (59 years)
Richard D. Braatz is the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology known for his research in control theory and its applications to chemical, pharmaceutical, and materials systems.
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David. Husain
#136625
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Sergey V. Dorozhkin
#136629
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#3345
Chris Ballentine
#109291
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Dr. Chris Ballentine is the chair of geochemistry and head of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. He uses properties of the noble gases to understand the origin and evolution of Earth's atmosphere and mantle.
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Donald John Birkett
#136653
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#3347
Dong-bo Wang
#136660
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#3348
Ai-jun Wang
#136671
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#3349
Nikolai Serafimovich Zefirov
#136680
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#3350
H. J. Matzke
#136681
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