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.
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,
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Giuseppe Battaglia
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C. Caballero Roy
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Jochen Hoefs
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Evamarie Hey-Hawkins
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1957 - Present (68 years)
Evamarie Hey-Hawkins is a German inorganic chemist and professor at Leipzig University. Her research is focused on main group and transition metal chemistry. Biography She received her diploma and doctoral degree at the University of Marburg, Germany, with Kurt Dehnicke. After stays at the University of Sussex, UK , the University of Western Australia and the ANU , she returned to Germany and completed her habilitation in Marburg . From 1988 to 1990 she was a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart. Evamarie Hey-Hawkins has been a Full Professor of...
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James Derek Birchall
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1930 - 1995 (65 years)
James Derek Birchall was an English inorganic chemist, materials scientist, and inventor who spent most of his career working for Imperial Chemical Industries. He is known for his research on the health effects of exposure to silica and alumina.
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Gary E. Martin
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1949 - Present (76 years)
Gary Martin is an American chemist and expert in the fields of both NMR spectroscopy and medicinal chemistry. He is a distinguished fellow at the Merck Research Laboratories. He is also a photographer specializing in the capture of images of lighthouses, especially under conditions of extreme weather.
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Alexis Pappas
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1915 - 2010 (95 years)
Alexis Constantin Georg Pappas was a Norwegian chemist. Born in London to Greek expatriates in 1915, he moved to Norway a few years later together with his parents. He specialized in nuclear chemistry, and was a professor from 1957 to 1985.
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R. Terry Hopkinton Baker
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Zenon Steplewski
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Umesh Varshney
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1957 - Present (68 years)
Umesh Varshney is an Indian molecular biologist, academician and the head of a laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He is a J. C. Bose National Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology and is known for his studies on protein synthesis and DNA repair in Escherichia coli and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. An elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Sciences , he is also a recipient of the National Bioscience Award for Career Development of the Government of India. The Council of Scientific and Indus...
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Yinon Rudich
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Ivan Cibulka
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Lawrence T. Scott
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Janina Kneipp
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Janina Kneipp is a German scientist who is Professor of Physical Chemistry Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research considers surface enhanced Raman scattering and plasmonic enhancement in multi-modal micro spectroscopy.
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Chen-guo Hu
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J. R. Blanco White
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Bert L. De Groot
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Jing-quan Liu
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Brooks Pate
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Brooks H. Pate is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1987, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1992. He was a NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST from 1992 to 1993. He heads the Pate Research Group.
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Joan Solà
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Joachim Walter Prof. Dr. Schultze
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Marco Fraaije
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1968 - Present (57 years)
Marco Wilhelmus Fraaije is a Dutch scientist whose research concerns enzymology of redox enzymes, enzyme discovery & engineering and biocatalysis at the Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute at the University of Groningen.
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Bernard A. Boukamp
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Peter Skeldon
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Claudio Minero
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1956 - Present (69 years)
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Daria Mochly-Rosen
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Daria Mochly-Rosen is a Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where she also holds the George D. Smith Chair for Translational Medicine. She is in addition the founder of Mitoconix Bio, a startup company whose goal is to produce drugs that treat Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative illnesses.
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Luisa Torsi
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1964 - Present (61 years)
Luisa Torsi is an Italian chemist who is a professor at the Università degli Studi di Bari. She was the first woman to serve as President of the European Materials Research Society . In 2019 she was named by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry as one of the world's most Distinguished Women in Chemistry.
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Daniel Blankschtein
#144606
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Susumu Hizukuri
#144609
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Bernard Tribollet
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Yasuteru Urano
#144654
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Peter C. Stair
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Ioannis Vassilios Yannas
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Nancy j. Dudney
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John Thomas Wei
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Alan Grossman
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Alan D. Grossman, is an American microbiologist; he is currently the Praecis Professor of Biology and served head of the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2014-2022. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Lee Raymond White
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Tian Xia
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Frieder W. Lichtenthaler
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Giorgio S. Soave
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Joshua Coon
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Joshua Coon is a professor of chemistry and biomolecular chemistry and the inaugural holder of the Thomas and Margaret Pyle Chair at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and an affiliate of the Morgridge Institute for Research.
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Yuji Sugita
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J. Martyn Bailey
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Ali Said Faqi
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Ali Said Faqi is a Somali scientist specializing in toxicology and a diplomat. A leading researcher in his field, he has numerous scientific papers and also authored a book entitled A Comprehensive Guide to Toxicology in Preclinical Drug Development. In 2013, he was appointed as the Somali Ambassador to Benelux and European Union.
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Ingemar Wadsö
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1930 - Present (95 years)
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Michael H. Gold
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David R. Mertens
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Hans Kuzmany
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Yuji Taketani,
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Nikola Mollov
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1926 - 2014 (88 years)
Professor Nikola Mikhaylov Mollov was a Bulgarian organic chemist, researcher and university lecturer. Life and career Nikola Mollov graduated from high school in his hometown of Bourgas, Bulgaria. He obtained his degree in chemistry from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Sofia State University in 1951. He became an assistant professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry in 1952 and worked there until 1962. In 1957 he acquired his Ph.D. degree called "candidate of chemical sciences" and was the first scientist nominated with this title. In 1962, he obtained a senior research fello...
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