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.
Students and researchers now have a fast and reliable way to find influential thinkers from 24 disciplines and 300 sub-disciplines (and growing). If you want to find history’s most influential philsosophers, or the world’s most influential mathematicians currently, now you can.
We also provide custom rankings of people by discipline as well as interviews with influential academics who are currently active.
To use this tool, select the discipline (and optional subdiscipline) relevant to your research, and specify influential academics by history, world, or US. Even results that are counterintuitive are often enlightening (our algorithm always picks up a signal).
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,
#3351
Brian George Gardiner
#136683
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#3352
Jesús J. Jiménez-barbero
#136691
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#3353
Yu-liang Zhao
#136693
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#3354
Arno Kwade
#136704
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#3355
Philip L. Fuchs
#136723
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#3356
Twan Lammers
#136730
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#3357
Yvan Vander Heyden
#136744
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (61 years)
#3358
Bruno Glaser
#136772
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1966 - Present (59 years)
#3359
William Dowhan
#136774
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#3360
Erwin Buncel
#136778
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#3361
Michi‐ie Sakamoto
#136781
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#3362
Eiko Ohtsuka
#136789
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#3363
Steven J. Sibener
#106255
Overall Influence
Steven J. Sibener is a scientist at the University of Chicago who studies surface chemistry, physics, and materials research, as well as thin film polymer dynamics and AFM imaging studies of bacterial cell wall structure. He is also a Faculty member of the Center for Bright Beams.
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Fritz Hartmann. Frimmel
#136841
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#3365
John C. Bevington
#136865
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#3366
Vasant Ramchandra Choudhary
#136870
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#3367
Paul K. Calaway
#80294
Overall Influence
1910 - 1993 (83 years)
Paul Kenneth Calaway was an American chemical engineer and the director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 1954 to 1957. Education Born in Bethesda, Arkansas, Calaway received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Arkansas College, a Master of Science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1933, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas.
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Dieter Rehder
#136924
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#3369
Hemendra N. Bhargava
#136972
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#3370
Shantikumar Vasudevan Nair
#136979
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#3371
Qing-hong Zhang
#136997
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#3372
Geoffrey Allen
#49838
Overall Influence
1928 - Present (97 years)
Sir Geoffrey Allen was a British chemist who also served as a Vice-President of the Royal Society. He was primarily known for his work on the physics and chemistry of polymers. Allen was especially well known for his work on the thermodynamics of rubber elasticity. He inspired a generation of physical chemists as a result of his research interests, and he had a passion for fostering links between academia and industry.
Go to Profile#3373
Victor John Morris
#137033
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#3374
Alessandro Trovarelli
#137044
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#3375
Lynne Regan
#81003
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Lynne Regan is a Professor of Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, she was a Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. She was the president of the Protein Society for the 2013–2014 term and has earned many awards throughout her career. Her research mainly concerns interactions between proteins and nucleic acids.
Go to Profile#3376
Steven Holdcroft
#137068
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#3377
Richard Robson
#137069
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#3378
Martin Malmsten
#137072
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (61 years)
#3379
Martyn P. Chipperfield
#137082
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#3380
Valery V. Fokin
#137106
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (54 years)
#3381
Masanori Baba
#137158
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#3382
Nathan R. Morris
#137175
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#3383
James A. Joseph
#137180
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#3384
Reinhard Schinke
#137183
Overall Influence
#3385
Erich Franz Prof Dr Elstner
#137185
Overall Influence
#3386
Mojisola Adeyeye
#18554
Overall Influence
Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye is a Nigerian pharmacist and professor. She was appointed the Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on 3 November 2017 by the President of The Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. Before her appointment as NAFDAC boss, she was the founding Chair of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and a Professor of Pharmaceutics, Manufacturing Science and Drug Product Evaluation at the College of Pharmacy, Roosevelt University in Schaumburg, Illinois, where she spent 7 years. She was also a Professor of Pharmaceutics and Manufacturing for 21 years at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Karen Faulds
#112785
Overall Influence
Karen Jane Faulds is a Scottish academic and Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde. She develops surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for bioanalysis, and has won several awards for her research, including the Coblentz Society Craver Award.
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Zha Quanxing
#124718
Overall Influence
1925 - 2019 (94 years)
Zha Quanxing was a Chinese electrochemist who served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry of Wuhan University. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.
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Cassandra Fraser
#86840
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Cassandra L. Fraser is an American synthetic chemist with an interest in biomedicine and sustainable design. She is a Full Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia. Early life and education Fraser completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at Kalamazoo College in 1984 and her master's degree at Harvard Divinity School. Following her PhD at the University of Chicago in 1993, she accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. Fraser conducted her postdoctoral studies under the guidance of Robert H. Grubbs.
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Mario Pagliaro
#137274
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#3391
Douglas J. Tobias
#137333
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#3392
Lambert Brandsma
#137364
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#3393
Frank De Proft
#137382
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (56 years)
#3394
Venkataraman Thangadurai
#137386
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#3395
Martin Koltzenburg
#137466
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (63 years)
#3396
Birgitta Whaley
#137482
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#3397
Edmund Storms
#137489
Overall Influence
1931 - Present (94 years)
Edmund Storms is a nuclear chemist known for his work in cold fusion. Career He is a nuclear chemist who worked at Los Alamos National Lab for more than 30 years. He established Kiva Labs in Santa Fe where he continues exploration of evidence of his model of cold fusion. Storms is also a Science Advisor to Cold Fusion Now.
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Angelo Gavezzotti
#137511
Overall Influence
#3399
Javier Perez-Capdevila
#51208
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (62 years)
Javier Perez-Capdevila is a Cuban scientist, mathematician and professor, known for the introduction of the operation mixed mixtures of fuzzy sets, among other theoretical contributions to fuzzy mathematics, as well as to introduce a concept of labor competencies with a method to measure them.
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Wolfgang Bensch
#137580
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (72 years)
