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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Norman Epstein
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Karl Seff
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Hendrik Albert Lambertus Kiers
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Guy T. McBride
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1919 - 2011 (92 years)
Guy Thornton McBride was an American chemical engineer who was a professor at Rice University, president of the Colorado School of Mines and as an executive of a major American corporation. McBride earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas in 1940, where he was valedictorian, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology , in 1948.
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Zijian Guo
#147570
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Shigehiro Yamaguchi
#147582
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David W. Dyrssen
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Xin-wen Guo
#147585
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Masanori Tachiya
#147587
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Shaoqing Zhang
#147618
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#3961
Detlef Schröder
#147631
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Erwin Reisner
#147669
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Byung Chan Eu
#147685
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Thomas J. Mccarthy
#147690
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Tatsuya Shono
#147717
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Raymond H. Colton
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Ángel Linares-solano
#147758
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Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk
#147761
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Allen David Gosman
#147797
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Luisa De Cola
#147809
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1960 - Present (65 years)
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Tomasz Ganicz
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1966 - Present (59 years)
Tomasz Ganicz, ps. Polimerek , is a Polish chemist, doctor habilitas of chemical sciences and professor extraordinarius at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw. He was the president of Wikimedia Polska .
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Erwin Di Cyan
#147871
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Hironobu Fujii
#147896
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Martin Schütz
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1963 - 2018 (55 years)
Martin Schütz was a Swiss theoretical chemist and quantum chemist. Life Martin Schütz was born at Burgdorf in Middle Switzerland, the son of Jakob and Sylvia Schütz. His first year of university level education was spent studying Electrical Engineering at Zürich's ETH during 1983/84. He then switched to the University of Bern where he studied Physical Chemistry between 1984 and 1989, receiving his first degree on 25 May 1989 in exchange for a dissertation entitled "Laser spectroscopy and Monte Carlo simulations of molecular solvent clusters". He stayed on at Bern undertaking research for his doctorate which he received on 13 May 1993.
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Kenneth Noel Corbett Bray
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Gordon Beveridge
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1933 - 1999 (66 years)
Sir Gordon Smith Grieve Beveridge was a Scottish chemist. He served as president and vice-chancellor of Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1986 to 1997. He was knighted in 1994 for his services to higher education and died in Belfast.
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Lester R. Morss
#147934
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Seiichi Tagawa
#147977
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Liliana Quintanar Vera
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1975 - Present (50 years)
Liliana Quintanar Vera is a Mexican chemist. She works on proteins and neurodegenerative diseases. Early life and education Quintanar Vera was born in Mexico City in 1975. She took part in the Mexican Academy of Sciences Chemistry Olympics, representing the country in the International Chemistry Olympiad in 1993. She studied chemistry at National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1998. She was awarded the Gabino Barreda medal. She took part in an exchange program with the University of California, Santa Barbara. She worked on Neurochemistry with Stanley Parsons. Quintanar Vera joined Stanford University for her PhD, working on metalloproteins under the supervision of Edward I.
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Gerd Gleixner
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Gustaaf Borghs
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Manfred Scheer
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Hans Lischka
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1943 - Present (82 years)
Hans Lischka is an Austrian computational theoretical chemist specialized on development and application of multireference methods for the study of molecular excited states. He is the main developer of the software package Columbus for ab initio multireference calculations and co-developer of the Newton-X program.
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Kim Renee Dunbar
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Kim R. Dunbar is an American inorganic chemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University. Her research concerns inorganic and coordination chemistry, including molecular magnetism, metals in medicine, supramolecular chemistry Involving anions and anion-pi interactions, and multifunctional materials with organic radicals.
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Thomas J. Bruno
#148115
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Cameron Jones,
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Kathy Martin
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1949 - Present (76 years)
Kathy Martin is a Canadian ornithologist who is an expert on arctic and alpine grouse and ptarmigan, and on tree cavity-nesting vertebrates. She is a professor in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia and was a senior research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.
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Jean‐pol Dodelet
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Timothy Noël
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1982 - Present (43 years)
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Hiromu Sakurai
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Nikola Getoff
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Edward S. Rubin
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Gerard H. De Haas
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Unni Olsbye
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1964 - Present (61 years)
Unni Olsbye is a Norwegian chemist. A professor at the University of Oslo, she has specialized in catalysts for the petrochemical industry. Career Born in Hamar, Olsbye graduated in industrial chemistry from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1987, and as dr.scient. in organic chemistry from the University of Oslo in 1991. She was appointed professor at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oslo in 2002. Her research focus has been catalytic reaction mechanisms in the petrochemical industry.
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John E. Dutrizac
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James R. Halpert
#148369
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William A. Lanford
#148377
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Loran Lamoine Bieber
#148381
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Joseph T. DiPiro
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2000 - Present (25 years)
Joseph T. DiPiro is professor and Associate Vice President of Health Sciences for Faculty Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University From 2014 to 2022 he was Dean and Archie O. McCalley Chair, School of Pharmacy.
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Shozo Yanagida
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