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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#3851

Richard D. Cramer

#145700

Overall Influence

#3852

C. C. Cheng

#145710

Overall Influence

#3853

Michael N. Paddon-row

#145714

Overall Influence

#3854

Ron Naaman

#145735

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

#3855

Diana Aga

#142750

Overall Influence

Diana S. Aga is a Filipino-American chemist who is the Henry M. Woodburn Chair at the University at Buffalo. She was awarded the 2017 American Chemical Society Schoellkopf Medal in recognition of her work in environmental chemistry. The Schoellkopf Medal is a local section award of the American Chemical Society. Over the years, numerous University at Buffalo faculty have received this recognition.

#3856

Thomas G. Phillips

#145782

Overall Influence

#3857

C. Nick Pace

#145882

Overall Influence

#3858

Eduardo Rojas

#145918

Overall Influence

#3859

Wayne L. Mattice

#145945

Overall Influence

#3860

Adri. C. T. Van Duin

#145948

Overall Influence

#3861

Sheikha Abdulla Al-Misnad

#26777

Overall Influence

Sheikha Abdulla Al-Misnad is a Qatari academic who has occupied numerous positions in teaching, administration, and research for over three decades. She assumed presidency of Qatar University in 2003 serving to 2015 replaced by Hassan Rashid Al-Derham. Before assuming presidency, she served the university as Vice President for Research and Community Development , Head of the Department of Foundations of Education , and as a member of the University Council .

#3862

Leone Spiccia

#145968

Overall Influence

#3863

Andreas Hierlemann

#108399

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Andreas Hierlemann is a German chemist and professor of Biosystems Engineering at ETH Zurich. He is known for his work in the field of CMOS-based chemical and biomicrosensors and high-density microelectrode arrays.

#3864

Delia Milliron

#131219

Overall Influence

Delia J. Milliron is the T. Brockett Hudson Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Milliron leads a research team that focuses on developing and studying the properties of new electronic nanomaterials. Her team pursues studies on nanocrystals, nanoscale interfaces, and controlled assemblies of nanocrystals. Her team takes a systematic approach towards elucidating effects that arise at the nanoscale with a special focus on structure-property relationships.

#3865

Dwaine O. Cowan

#145996

Overall Influence

#3866

Ronald Woods

#146009

Overall Influence

#3867

Kresse

#146013

Overall Influence

#3868

Hideki Tanaka

#146031

Overall Influence

#3869

Edith Chen

#129751

Overall Influence

Edith Chen is a scientist known for researching the psychosocial and biological pathways that explain relationships between low socioeconomic status and physical health outcomes in childhood. She is currently a professor at Northwestern University. Scientific Award for an early career contribution within her first nine years of receiving her PhD. Chen was awarded the 2015 George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology for the article “Psychological stress in childhood and susceptibility to the chronic diseases of aging: Moving toward a model of behavioral and biological mechanisms” alongside authors Gregory E.

#3870

Martin Heeney

#146058

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Martin James Heeney is a professor of chemistry at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and professor of Organic Materials at Imperial College London. Heeney is a graduate of University of East Anglia, and received his PhD in organic materials chemistry from the same institution in 1999 under the supervision of Michael Cook.

#3871

Jean‐luc Veuthey

#146060

Overall Influence

#3872

Kimito Funatsu

#61630

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

is a Japanese chemist specializing in chemoinformatics and data-driven chemistry, a Professor Emeritus at University of Tokyo, and the research director of the Data Science Center at Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

#3873

H. Hoshmand Firouzabadi

#146071

Overall Influence

#3874

Herbert B. Hechtman

#146086

Overall Influence

#3875

Michael Louis Steigerwald

#146121

Overall Influence

#3876

Wei‐yin Sun

#146157

Overall Influence

#3877

Orlin D. Velev

#101894

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Orlin D. Velev is the INVISTA Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is best known for his work in soft matter, colloid science, and nanoscience.

#3878

Peter Grootenhuis

#137877

Overall Influence

1960 - 2019 (59 years)

Peter Grootenhuis was a Dutch-American Medicinal Chemist. Grootenhuis was the Project Leader and Co-Inventor of Ivacaftor , the first CFTR potentiator FDA approved drug to treat the underlying cause of Cystic Fibrosis in patients with certain mutations in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator gene , who account for 4-5% of CF cases. Grootenhuis also led the Vertex team to subsequent discovery of Orkambi, the combination of Ivacaftor and Lumacaftor, approved to treat CF in people with two copies of the F508del mutation . Most recently, Grootenhuis's team discovered Tezacaft...

#3879

David E. Bergbreiter

#146181

Overall Influence

#3880

Tomáš Zima

#100888

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Tomáš Zima is a Czech physician, chemist, and a teaching professor in the fields of biochemistry, clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine. He was the Rector of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic between 2014 - 2022 and was a candidate in the 2023 Czech presidential election.

#3881

Zvonimir S. Katuŝić

#146233

Overall Influence

#3882

Nigel. J. D. Graham

#146235

Overall Influence

#3883

John White

#56467

Overall Influence

John William White FAIP FRACI was a Professor of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Research School of Chemistry, at the Australian National University. He was a past president of Royal Australian Chemical Institute and president of Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. He held the Argonne Fellowship and was for many years a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Between 1975 and 1981 he was director of the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France. He was a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion

#3884

Milorad P. Duduković

#146255

Overall Influence

#3885

Ellen D. Williams

#57195

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Ellen D. Williams is an American scientist, best known for her research in surface properties and nanotechnology, for her engagement with technical issues in national security, as chief scientist of BP, and for government service as director of ARPA-E.

#3886

Eberhardt Herdtwecke. Herdtweck

#146280

Overall Influence

#3887

Gisbert F. Winnewisser

#146290

Overall Influence

#3888

J. John Pisano

#146370

Overall Influence

#3889

Ying‐wei Yang

#146373

Overall Influence

#3890

Charles Mioskowski

#146379

Overall Influence

#3891

Martinus Tels

#86115

Overall Influence

1926 - 2008 (82 years)

Martinus Tels was a Dutch physicist and chemical engineer. He was a professor of chemical engineering, dean of the department of chemical engineering and the ninth rector magnificus of the Eindhoven University of Technology.

#3892

Tsuneo Imamoto

#146406

Overall Influence

#3893

Bruce Arthur. Stone

#146446

Overall Influence

#3894

Michel Waroquier

#146488

Overall Influence

#3895

Ionel Haiduc

#41510

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Ionel Haiduc is a Romanian chemist who was elected to the Romanian Academy and Academy of Sciences of Moldova. He was the President of the Romanian Academy between 2006 and 2014. Honours National honours Romanian Royal Family: Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Crown Romanian Royal Family: Knight of the Royal Decoration of the Cross of the Romanian Royal House Romanian Republic: Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania

#3896

Robin Linhope Willson

#146506

Overall Influence

#3897

Russell P. Hughes

#86585

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Russell P. Hughes an American/British chemist, is the Frank R. Mori Professor Emeritus and Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Dartmouth College. His research interests are in organometallic chemistry, with emphasis on the chemistry of transition metal complexes interacting with fluorocarbons. His research group’s work in this area led to several creative syntheses of complexes of transition metal and perfluorinated hydrocarbon fragments.

#3898

Nathan C. Gianneschi

#99323

Overall Influence

Nathan C. Gianneschi is the Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University and the Associate Director for the International Institute for Nanotechnology. Gianneschi's lab takes an interdisciplinary approach to nanomaterials research, with a focus on multifunctional materials for biomedical applications, programmed interactions with biomolecules and cells, and basic research into nanoscale materials design, synthesis and characterization.

#3899

Belkheir Hammouti

#146543

Overall Influence

#3900

Michael McElroy

#63239

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

Michael Brendan McElroy is the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University. His research initially revolved around the origin and evolution of the planets to an emphasis on effects of human activity on the global environment of the Earth, especially climate change.

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