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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#3551

Enge G. Wang

#140414

Overall Influence

#3552

Håkan Wennerström

#140423

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

#3553

Ulrich Kortz

#134742

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Ulrich "Uli" Kortz is a German chemist and professor, working in the area of synthetic polyoxometalate chemistry. Biography Ulrich Kortz obtained his education in Chemical Engineering in the period 1982–1989 and was awarded his Diplom from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. In the period of 1989–1995 he was working on his doctorate degree at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, under close supervision of Michael T. Pope. He spent his postdoctoral years with Dante Gatteschi at Florence University, Italy, from 1995 to 1996, and with Andre Tézé and Gilbert Hervé at Versailles University, France, from 1996 to 1997.

#3554

Branko S. Jursic

#140456

Overall Influence

#3555

Sibel Erduran

#140495

Overall Influence

#3556

Peter Hildebrandt

#140501

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

#3557

Gordon Ed Guroff

#140511

Overall Influence

#3558

Brice Bosnich

#118251

Overall Influence

1936 - 2015 (79 years)

Brice Michael Bosnich was an Australian inorganic chemist. He gained recognition for the design of complex ligands useful in homogeneous catalysis. Education He graduated from University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1958, and from Australian National University with a PhD in 1962, where he studied with Francis Patrick Dwyer. Contemporaries included Alan Sargeson.

#3559

J. Michael Janda

#140547

Overall Influence

#3560

Kaoru Toyota-shi Aichi-ken Fujimoto

#140548

Overall Influence

#3561

Benedikt Kessler

#125497

Overall Influence

Benedikt Kessler is a Swiss researcher and academic. He is Professor of Biochemistry and Mass Spectrometry at the Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford. Kessler's research has been focused on ubiquitin and protease biology. Some of his work has dealt with defining the molecular signatures in human disease processes and accelerating target discovery in translational research. He holds one patent.

#3562

Ulrike Holzgrabe

#140598

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

#3563

Nikolaos S. Thomaidis

#140606

Overall Influence

#3564

Li

#140619

Overall Influence

#3565

Murali Sastry

#79160

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Murali Sastry is an Indian material chemist, nanomaterial scientist and the chief executive officer of IITB-Monash Research Academy. He is a former chief scientist and Tata Chemicals and a former senior scientist at National Chemical Laboratory. He is known for his studies on surfaces, films and materials chemistry and is an elected fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences and the Indian Academy of Sciences The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Techno...

#3566

Irvin M. Krieger

#140660

Overall Influence

#3567

Hironori Arakawa

#140667

Overall Influence

#3568

John D. Henion

#140702

Overall Influence

#3569

Walter Jacob Chazin

#140745

Overall Influence

#3570

Phillip Edward Fanwick

#140749

Overall Influence

#3571

Koichi Narasaka

#140765

Overall Influence

#3572

Henry Cecil McBay

#66767

Overall Influence

1914 - 1995 (81 years)

Henry Ransom Cecil McBay was an American chemist and teacher. McBay won numerous awards for his teaching and mentoring, including the American Chemical Society Award . McBay also co-founded the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers .

#3573

Brian Halton

#129609

Overall Influence

1941 - 2019 (78 years)

Brian Halton was a New Zealand organic chemist. He is noted for his investigation of highly strained and fused aromatic compounds, and was also active as an historian of chemistry. Early life, family and education Born in Accrington, Lancashire, England, on 9 March 1941, Halton was the only child of John Henry Halton and Mary Halton . He contracted bovine tuberculosis as a young child and consequently missed two years of his early education. Later he attended St Joseph's College, Blackpool, and St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath. After winning a state scholarship, Halton studied chemistry at the University of Southampton, graduating BSc in 1963.

#3574

Kurt Kyser

#117424

Overall Influence

1951 - 2017 (66 years)

T. Kurtis Kyser was an American and Canadian geologist and geochemist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, professor of the University of Saskatchewan and Queen's University, founder and director of the Queen's Facility for Isotope Research . Kyser served as a president of the Mineralogical Association of Canada and as an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis .

#3575

Josef Prof Dr Dr Krieglstein

#140839

Overall Influence

#3576

Mian Chin

#106363

Overall Influence

Mian Chin is a Chinese atmospheric chemist. She is a physical scientist in the atmospheric chemistry and dynamics laboratory in the earth science division at Goddard Space Flight Center. Her research includes aerosol-cloud-chemistry-climate interactions. She received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal in 2005.

#3577

Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu

#140857

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (38 years)

#3578

Nils G. Walter

#90624

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Nils G. Walter, Dr. Ing., is the Francis S. Collins Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biological Chemistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Research in the Nils Walter Lab focuses on non-coding RNA through the lens of single molecule techniques. He is the Founding Director of the Single Molecule Analysis in real-Time Center at Michigan. In addition, Walter is the Founding Co-Director for the University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine whose mission is to enrich the university’s intellectual and training environment around RNA Biomedicine. He is currently an Ass...

#3579

Ivars Neretnieks

#140929

Overall Influence

#3580

Kenneth M. Evenson

#140935

Overall Influence

#3581

Dieter Mecke

#108864

Overall Influence

1933 - 2013 (80 years)

Dieter Mecke was a German biochemist and chemist. Life Dieter Mecke was the fourth of nine children of the physicist Reinhard Mecke, after whom Mecke's symbols have been named. He studied chemistry until 1959 in Freiburg. In his biochemical doctorate he was supervised by Kurt Wallenfels. He worked for one year for Fritz Kaudewitz at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin and returned 1964 to the biochemical institute of the medical faculty, where he habilitated in 1969 in biochemistry. From 1970 to 1971 he was dean and from 1973 professor in Freiburg.

#3582

Giuseppe Cilento

#96098

Overall Influence

1923 - 1994 (71 years)

Giuseppe Cilento was a Brazilian chemist who was born in Italy. He held a professorship at the University of São Paulo and was Professor Emeritus at the State University of Campinas. Early life and education Cilento attended the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Philosophy, Science and Letters, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

#3583

Gary Glish

#130742

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Gary Glish is an American analytical chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a leading researcher in the fields of mass spectrometry, ion chemistry, and biomolecule analysis.

#3584

Martin Kaupp

#141057

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

#3585

Isao Yamazaki

#141071

Overall Influence

#3586

Khalil Amine

#55764

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Khalil Amine is a materials scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, an Argonne distinguished fellow, and group leader of the Battery Technology group. His research team is focused on the development of advanced battery systems for transportation applications. In addition to his Argonne appointment, he is an adjunct professor at Stanford University, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Hanyang University, and Peking University.

#3587

Hiroyasu Iwahara

#141082

Overall Influence

#3588

Veronique Van Speybroeck

#141119

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (51 years)

#3589

Jan Christiaan Wilschut

#141136

Overall Influence

#3590

Shuj‐jiang Tu

#141145

Overall Influence

#3591

Alfredo Pasquarello

#141147

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

#3592

Victor W. Day

#141150

Overall Influence

#3593

Jin Gui Qin

#141169

Overall Influence

#3594

Olof Vesterberg

#141180

Overall Influence

#3595

Roderick E. Wasylishen

#141185

Overall Influence

#3596

Piet Hartman

#108017

Overall Influence

1922 - 2021 (99 years)

Piet Hartman was a Dutch crystallographer, who worked as professor at Leiden University and Utrecht University between 1973 and 1987. Career Hartman was born in Veendam on 11 April 1922. He studied physical chemistry at the University of Groningen. Hartman subsequently obtained his title of doctor under professor P. Terpstra at the same university on 18 December 1953, with a dissertation titled: "Relations between structure and morphology of crystals". He became a lector of crystallography at Leiden University in 1959. In 1973 he was named full professor and he continued to work at Leiden University until 1980.

#3597

Kenzie Tamaru

#141197

Overall Influence

#3598

Petra Pötschke

#141204

Overall Influence

#3599

Ioannis Sotirios Arvanitoyannis

#141233

Overall Influence

#3600

Jaap J. Boon

#141241

Overall Influence

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