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,
#3401
Robert A. Schoonheydt
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Yoshimasa Kyōgoku
#137617
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#3403
Willy Maenhaut
#137625
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1945 - Present (80 years)
#3404
Sabine Szunerits
#137674
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1971 - Present (54 years)
#3405
Nigel T. Roulet
#137706
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1955 - Present (70 years)
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Owen T. G. Jones
#137709
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#3407
Ann E. Hagerman
#104393
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Ann E. Hagerman is an American chemist. She is a professor of biochemistry at Miami University and an expert on Tannin chemistry. In 1998, she published High Molecular Weight Plant Polyphenolics as Biological Antioxidants, one of the most highly cited papers in the field.
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Shiro Saka
#137742
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Tapio O. Salmi
#137757
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#3410
Jin-hua Sun
#137760
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#3411
Börje Wickberg
#137777
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1926 - 2013 (87 years)
Börje Wickberg was a Swedish chemist. Wickberg graduated with a PhD in 1960 from the Royal Institute of Technology with a thesis on carbohydrate chemistry and was simultaneously awarded the title as Docent. In 1960–61, he was a research associate at lowa State University, USA, and in 1961–62 at Indiana University, USA. During part of this time, he worked with natural products' chemist Ernest Wenkert. In 1966 he was appointed Professor of organic chemistry at Lund University where he stayed until his retirement in 1991. He was elected to the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund in 1967, and to ...
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Abraham E. Dukler
#137794
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#3413
Alain Walcarius
#137804
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (58 years)
#3414
Michele Aresta
#137814
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (85 years)
#3415
O. James Vogl
#137825
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#3416
Philippe-h. Quevauviller
#137832
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#3417
Jerome D. Swalen
#137865
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#3418
Hafner
#137874
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#3419
Per‐erik Jansson
#137898
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#3420
Angelo Albini
#137905
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (79 years)
#3421
Vincenzo Aquilanti
#128996
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (86 years)
Vincenzo Aquilanti is an Italian chemist, emeritus professor at the University of Perugia. Career He graduated in Chemistry with Vincenzo Caglioti and Giangualberto Volpi at Sapienza University of Rome in 1963, where he started his career of scientist. In 1967–1968 he had been working in Dudley Herschbach's group at Harvard University. At the University of Perugia from 1968, he became full professor of general and inorganic chemistry in 1980. He is emeritus professor at the Università degli Studi di Perugia since 2010. He had been invited professor at the Federal University of Bahia from 2012 to 2016.
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Georges C. Benson
#137932
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#3423
Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha
#61711
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (75 years)
Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha is an Indian quantum chemist and a former Dean of the Faculty of Science at the Indian Institute of Science. He is a former chair of the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit and Amrut Modi Chair professor of Chemical Sciences at IISc. He is known for his studies on conjugated organic systems and low-dimensional solids and is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the Indian Academy of Sciences and The World Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific rese...
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Steven R. Hanna
#137957
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#3425
Adrian G. Brook
#137991
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#3426
Alexander Bismarck
#138008
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#3427
Johann Goldammer
#98428
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (76 years)
Johann Georg Goldammer is director of the Global Fire Monitoring Center , hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Freiburg University . Early life Goldammer was born in Marburg , first son of Kurt Goldammer, professor for religious studies and history of religion and religious art at Philipps University of Marburg, and Inge Rodewald. His godfather Friedrich Heiler, was theologian and predecessor of his father. With his sisters Anna Katharina and Magdalena and his brother Christopher, he grew up in Marburg and Amöneburg and graduated at the Gymnasium Philippinum in Marburg in 1968.
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Hartmut Oschkinat
#95026
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (68 years)
Hartmut Oschkinat is a German structural biologist and professor for chemistry at the Free University of Berlin. His research focuses on the study of biological systems with solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance.
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Bernhard Welz
#138072
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Gao Ke Zhang
#138096
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#3431
Michael R. Zalutsky
#138120
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Manfred M. Kappes
#138127
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (68 years)
#3433
Roya Maboudian
#113876
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Roya Maboudian is an American academic and researcher in the field of chemical engineering. She is professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a co-director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, and an editor of the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. She was one of the first women to earn tenure in the chemical engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Zoltán Géza Soos
#138166
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Douglas E. Coplen
#138173
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Ingrid del Carmen Montes González
#97784
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (67 years)
Ingrid Montes , also known as Ingrid del Carmen Montes González is a full professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus. She attained tenure in 1998. Her research focus is on chemical education and organometallic chemistry. Montes has been Director-at-large at the American Chemical Society since 2013. Montes founded the "Festival de Química" in 2005, this program was then adopted by the ACS in 2010.
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Daniel R. Gamelin
#138217
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Wilfred F. Van Gunsteren
#138219
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Stig Hagström
#28459
Overall Influence
1932 - 2011 (79 years)
Stig B. Hagström was a Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Career He was trained at Uppsala University under the Nobel Laureate Kai Siegbahn. He received his B.Sc. in 1957, his M.Sc. in 1958, his licentiate in 1961 and his Ph.D. in 1964. After a period in 1964–1966 as a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he was appointed university lecturer and docent at Chalmers University of Technology in 1966. In 1969 he was appointed as a chaired full professor in Physics and vice chancellor at Linköping Ins...
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Bernhard Breit
#138283
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (59 years)
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Clémence Corminboeuf
#126316
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (48 years)
Clémence Corminboeuf is a Swiss chemist who is Professor of Computational chemistry at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She was awarded the Swiss Chemical Society 2021 Heilbronner-Hückel Award.
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Donald Edward Woessner
#138337
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Kunio Sendai-shi Ogasawara
#138346
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#3444
Francesco Visioli
#138357
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#3445
Hans Ulrich Güdel
#138407
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#3446
Chris Abell
#138454
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#3447
Garry Rempel
#132225
Overall Influence
1944 - 2018 (74 years)
Garry L. Rempel was a Canadian scientist specializing in chemical engineering, applied catalysis and polymer science, and known for his pioneering work on hydrogenation of nitrile rubbers. He was a professor at the University of Waterloo, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1992 and President of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001–2003. In 2015 he was created a Member of the Order of Canada.
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Michael McAlpine
#68829
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Michael McAlpine is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he researches 3D printing functional materials. He was formerly an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Princeton University, where he conducted research on materials capable of generating power from human motion. He has a BS from Brown University, an MA and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, all in chemistry. In 2010 he was included in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list.
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Christer Hogstrand
#138479
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George Havenith
#138531
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