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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David R. Spring
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Mohyee E. Eldefrawi
#146605
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Larry Lee Miller
#146606
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#3904
Ekkehard Prof. Dr. Lindner
#146630
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#3905
Klaus Meerholz
#146635
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#3906
Nial J. Wheate
#97585
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1976 - Present (49 years)
Nial J. Wheate is an Australian pharmaceutical chemist and author at the University of Sydney. Career After completing high school at Copland College in Canberra, Australia, Wheate was appointed an officer in the Royal Australian Navy. He attended the Australian Defence Force Academy, where he studied for a Bachelor of Science degree double majoring in chemistry, graduating in 1997 with Honours Class I for his degree. After a short appointment as a Visiting Military Scholar, Wheate undertook a PhD under the supervision of Associate Professor J. Grant Collins within the School of Physical, Env...
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James Penner-Hahn
#125039
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1957 - Present (68 years)
James Penner-Hahn is the George A. Lindsay Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics at the University of Michigan. He completed a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors at Purdue University in 1979 and a PhD at Stanford University in 1984 under Keith Hodgson; his dissertation was titled X-ray Absorption Studies of Metalloprotein Structure: Cytochrome P-450, Horseradish Peroxidase, Plastocyanin, and Laccase. Penner-Hahn's research involves biophysical chemistry and inorganic spectroscopy including EXAFS and synchrotron radiation techniques which he helped to develop in his doctoral and post-doctoral work with Edward Solomon and Hodgson.
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Sandro Cacchi
#146667
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#3909
Ganesh Dattatraya Saratale
#146732
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#3910
John Alan Winchester
#146749
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#3911
Rüdiger Kniep
#146790
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1945 - Present (80 years)
#3912
Cortlandt G. Pierpont
#146812
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#3913
Robin Ferrier
#112158
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1932 - 2013 (81 years)
Robert John Ferrier FRSNZ, FNZIC, was an organic chemist who discovered two chemical reactions, the Ferrier rearrangement and the Ferrier carbocyclization. Originally from Edinburgh, he moved to Wellington, New Zealand, in 1970.
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Yong‐bing Tang
#146822
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#3915
Allen Hill
#80913
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1937 - 2021 (84 years)
Hugh Allen Oliver Hill FRSC FRS , usually known as Allen Hill, was Professor, and later Emeritus Professor, of Bioinorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, and Wadham College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1990 and was awarded the 2010 Royal Medal of the Royal Society "for his pioneering work on protein electrochemistry, which revolutionised the diagnostic testing of glucose and many other bioelectrochemical assays.".
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Nicholas F. Chilton
#135949
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Nicholas Frederick Chilton is an Australian chemist and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. His research is in the areas of magnetochemistry and computational chemistry, and includes the design of high-temperature single molecule magnets, molecular spin qubits for quantum information science, methods and tools for modelling magnetic calculations.
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Juli Feigon
#146836
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Chester J. Mirocha
#146870
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#3919
Marika Geldmacher-von Mallinckrodt
#119115
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1923 - 2016 (93 years)
Marika Geldmacher-von Mallinckrodt, nee von Mallinckrodt-Haupt was a German chemist, physician and professor at the University of Erlangen. Her main focus in research was on forensic toxicology, forensic and clinical-toxicological analytics and ecogenetics.
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Aubrey Paul Altshuller
#146915
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#3921
Olaf Deutschmann
#146928
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#3922
Ali Esmail Al-snafi
#146933
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#3923
Jianliang. Xiao
#147003
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#3924
Fulvio Ursini
#147006
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#3925
Marianne Kärrholm
#44745
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1921 - 2018 (97 years)
Ebba Marianne Kärrholm née Hellsten was a Swedish chemical engineer and educator. Conducting research from 1945 at the Swedish Textile Research Institute at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, she collaborated with textile companies. The year 1971 saw publication of a major study she coordinated for the Swedish Consumer Council on consumer-oriented technology, which was also published in English. After earning a Ph.D. in 1960, she became the first woman to be appointed senior lecturer at Chalmers. She became professor of the university's newly established Consumer Technology Department in 1984 until her retirement in 1989.
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Yu-kui Zhang
#147043
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James T. Muckerman
#147082
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Nicole Grobert
#111580
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2000 - Present (25 years)
Nicole Grobert FRSC FYAE is a German-British materials chemist. She is a professor of nanomaterials at the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a Royal Society industry fellow at Williams Advanced Engineering. Grobert is the chair of the European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors.
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Abdullah G. M. Al-sehemi
#147136
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#3930
Sandra J. Rosenthal
#122788
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1966 - Present (59 years)
Sandra J. Rosenthal is the Jack and Pamela Egan Professor of Chemistry, professor of physics and astronomy, pharmacology, chemical and biomolecular engineering, and materials science at Vanderbilt University. She is a joint faculty member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Materials Science and Technology Division and the director of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.
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Andreas Luttge
#100241
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Andreas Lüttge is Professor of Earth Science and Professor of Chemistry at Rice University in Houston, Texas . He was also director of the National Corrosion Center until 2010. The primary concerns of his research are surface chemical processes at minerals and rocks from low-temperature conditions up to the pressure and temperature conditions throughout the Earth's crust.
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Matthew Fuchter
#117557
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Matthew John Fuchter is a British chemist who is a Professor of Chemistry at Imperial College London. His research focuses on the development and application of novel functional molecular systems to a broad range of areas; from materials to medicine. He has been awarded both the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize and the Corday–Morgan Prizes of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2020 he was a finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
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Roberto Cammi
#147188
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1954 - Present (71 years)
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Bojja Hyderabad Sreedhar
#147218
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Kuzhikalail. M. Abraham
#147274
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#3936
Shizuo Tokito
#147277
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#3937
Chun‐gu Xia
#147289
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#3938
Sarah Tolbert
#108499
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Sarah Helen Tolbert is an American chemist who is a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research considers self-assembled nanomaterials, which includes inorganic phases and colloidal materials.
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Chuan Zhao
#147337
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D. John Mitchell
#147339
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#3941
Claudio Bianchini
#147344
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#3942
David Harrow Gelfand
#147376
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#3943
Carl E. Frasch
#147379
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#3944
Diane J. Burgess
#147402
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#3945
Larry Kay Keefer
#147450
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#3946
Walther Vogt
#147466
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#3947
Martin Egli
#147468
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#3948
John D. Simon
#147484
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#3949
Ivo Glynne Gut
#147485
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#3950
Mei Hong
#147504
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