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.
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,
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Jurriaan Huskens
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Richard D. Pancost
#138551
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John George Haddad
#138554
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#3454
Jérôme Chappellaz
#60192
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1964 - Present (61 years)
Jérôme Chappellaz is a French glaciologist, geochemist and paleoclimatologist who is director of the French Polar Institute. A senior researcher at France's National Center for Scientific Research , he is a co-founder and chairman of the Ice Memory Foundation.
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Gemma Solomon
#109943
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1980 - Present (45 years)
Gemma C. Solomon is an Australian chemist who is a professor at the Nanoscience Centre in the University of Copenhagen. She serves as Deputy Editor of ACS Physical Chemistry Au. Her research considers quantum interference and molecular electronics.
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Gong-xuan Lu
#138635
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#3457
Yuriy Alexandrovich Knirel
#138636
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#3458
J. W. Netherlands De Leeuw
#138657
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#3459
Robert H. Hauge
#138694
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#3460
Souvik Maiti
#94863
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1971 - Present (54 years)
Souvik Maiti is an Indian chemist known for his studies in the fields of biophysical chemistry and chemical biology focusing on nucleic acids, DNA and RNA. He works at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. He is also visiting scientist at National Chemical Laboratory Pune.
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Hendrik N. W. Lekkerkerker
#138713
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#3462
Giulio Jori
#138714
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Elizabeth D. Getzoff
#138716
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Gilles Flamant
#138725
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Fabio Marchetti
#138740
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1974 - Present (51 years)
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Michael D. Guiver
#138751
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Celia White Tabor
#138793
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#3468
Cedric Hassall
#118055
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1919 - 2017 (98 years)
Cedric Herbert Hassall was a New Zealand chemist. Life Born in Auckland on 6 December 1919, Hassall was educated at Auckland Grammar School. He then studied at Auckland University College, graduating Master of Science in 1942, and took a course at Auckland Teachers' Training College. Hassall was married to Elisabeth, and had two children Peter and Maureen. Professor Hassall died on 5 September 2017.
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Christian Joachim
#138817
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Frank Marken
#138926
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#3471
Jesús Jiménez Barbero
#115466
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1960 - Present (65 years)
Jesús Jiménez Barbero is a Spanish scientist who has contributed to the advance of glycoscience by unraveling the conformational properties of carbohydrates and analogues and the molecular basis of their interactions with proteins, using a multidisciplinary approach that employs carbohydrate synthesis, molecular biology, molecular modelling and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy.
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James Arthur Davis
#138972
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Andrew James Mackinnon
#138974
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Norihiro Tokitoh
#138980
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Hans‐ullrich Reissig
#139000
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#3476
Da-wei Wang
#139008
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#3477
Norman Stewart Mcintyre
#139051
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#3478
Valeria Nicolosi
#111774
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1969 - Present (56 years)
Valeria Nicolosi is the Professor of Nanomaterials and Advanced Microscopy in the School of Chemistry in Trinity College Dublin. She is a nanotechnologist who specializes in low-dimensional nano-structures and high-end electron microscopy.
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Roberto Dovesi
#139101
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Jochen Küpper
#122276
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1971 - Present (54 years)
Jochen Küpper FRSC is a German chemist and physicist, group leader at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, and Professor of Physics and Professor by courtesy of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg, Germany.
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John Hugh David Eland
#139127
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Arne F. Haug
#139138
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Antonio Segura‐carretero
#139191
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Matthew Neurock
#139301
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Dr. David Vázquez
#139328
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#3486
Han-pin Chen
#139341
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Hans Paul Bonzel
#139349
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#3488
Takayuki Kitamura
#139392
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Martin Nov. Goldstein
#139432
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Jerome. J. Cuomo
#139435
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#3491
Barry Azzopardi
#104019
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1947 - 2017 (70 years)
Barry Azzopardi was a professor of chemical engineering specialising in multiphase flow research. He was a chartered engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Life Azzopardi was born in Gibraltar, obtained a BTech degree in chemical engineering at the University of Bradford in 1972 and a PhD in the same subject at the University of Exeter in 1977. He died 22 May 2017 due to cancer.
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Friedrich Liebau
#91983
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1926 - 2011 (85 years)
Friedrich Karl Franz Liebau was a German chemist, crystallographer, and mineralogist known for his research in silicates. Education and career Liebau grew up as the son of the upholsterer Otto Liebau and his wife Anna Liebau, née Hecklau, along with two sisters in Berlin. After graduating from high school, he was called up for military service and served in the war from 1944 to 1945. He experienced the end of the war with gunshot wounds in the hospital and thus escaped a longer period of imprisonment in Siberia.
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Alex Golden Oblad
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1909 - 2000 (91 years)
Alex Golden Oblad was a prominent chemist and chemical engineer principally recognized for his pioneering work in catalysis and catalytic chemistry. Early life and eeducation Oblad was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and raised in Sugar House, Utah. Educated first at the University of Utah and subsequently receiving a Ph.D. from Purdue University, he spent the bulk of his career working for energy and engineering companies developing innovative chemical processes.
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Naoto Tsukuba Hirosaki
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Viola Birss
#104586
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Viola Ingrid Birss is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Calgary. She works on electrochemistry and the development of nanomaterials for sustainable energy and sensing applications. She has demonstrated a metal oxide perovskite that can be used as the air and fuel electrode in solid oxide fuel cells, as well as creating nanoporous carbon scaffolds to be used in batteries and capacitors.
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Peter Heinz Dederichs
#139509
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F. Elizabeth Gibson
#139531
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Gergely Tóth
#119397
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1966 - Present (59 years)
Gergely Tóth is a theoretical chemist and university teacher of mathematical chemistry. He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science, Department of Theoretical Chemistry and obtained his PhD in 1993 from the same institution. From 1993–1995 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. From 1995–1997 he obtained Zoltán Magyary postdoctoral fellowship and from 1997–1999 Hungarian Scientific Research Fund postdoctoral fellowship at Eötvös Loránd University. From 1999 he has a position at Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
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Chun-ming Xu
#139552
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Thomas V. O’halloran
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