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,
#4001
George T. Bryan
#148487
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#4002
Henrique Eisi Toma
#148488
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (76 years)
#4003
Andreas Walther
#148526
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (45 years)
#4004
Rosalind Rickaby
#93879
Overall Influence
Rosalind Emily Majors Rickaby is a professor of biogeochemistry at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at University College, Oxford. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford.
Go to Profile#4005
Neil C. Sturchio
#148614
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#4006
Bradley S. Moore
#148647
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#4007
Qi-sheng Huo
#148648
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#4008
Carl I. Steefel
#148674
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#4009
Timothy D. Lash
#140205
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (72 years)
Timothy D. Lash is an English-born chemist. He moved to the United States and began teaching at Illinois State University in 1984. Lash is known for his contributions to synthetic porphyrin chemistry.
Go to Profile#4010
John. A. Nairn
#148774
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#4011
Henning Bockhorn
#148775
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#4012
Hui-zhou Liu
#148790
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#4013
Ji-cai Feng
#148821
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#4014
Alfred Rudin
#148822
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#4015
H. e. Junginger
#148873
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#4016
Ann M. Valentine
#63773
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Ann M. Valentine is an American bioinorganic chemist whose research focuses on biomineralization, the uptake and transport of metals and their medical applications in areas such as cancer research. She has received awards including the 2014 AICChemical Pioneer Award "for her outstanding contributions towards advancing the science of chemistry and impacting the chemical profession" and the 2009 Paul D. Saltman Award for Metals in Biology for "outstanding contributions to the field of metals in biology" and "groundbreaking work on the structures and reactions of complexes containing titanium."
Go to Profile#4017
Kamil Klier
#148933
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#4018
Gui-ling Wang
#148970
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#4019
Duncan Graham
#148980
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#4020
Robert L. Last
#68196
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Robert L. Last is a plant biochemical genomicist who studies metabolic processes that protect plants from the environment and produce products important for animal and human nutrition. His research has covered production and breakdown of essential amino acids, the synthesis and protective roles of Vitamin C and Vitamin E as well as identification of mechanisms that protect photosystem II from damage, and synthesis and biological functions of plant protective specialized metabolites . Four central questions are: how are leaf and seed amino acids levels regulated, what mechanisms protect ...
Go to Profile#4021
Jordi Burés
#123640
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Jordi Burés is a Reader in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester. His research in general is on the areas of organic and physical chemistry, specializing in Mechanistic Studies, nuclear magnetic resonance and catalysis.
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Krishna C. Majumdar
#149046
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#4023
J. W. Ii Fenton
#149110
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#4024
Carla Ghelardini
#149143
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#4025
Francis Wilkinson
#149181
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#4026
Lorenzo Tomatis
#149191
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#4027
Abdeltif Amrane
#149201
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#4028
John Eland
#127529
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (84 years)
John Hugh David Eland FRS is a British chemist, and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Eland was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead and University College, Oxford. He is the son of Rev. Thomas Eland and Verna Prosser Eland .
Go to Profile#4029
Wilfried Α. König
#149242
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#4030
Ronny Neumann
#149261
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#4031
Sílvia Osuna Oliveras
#148889
Overall Influence
1983 - Present (42 years)
Sílvia Osuna Oliveras is a researcher in the field of computational chemistry at the Institute of Computational Chemistry and Catalysis at the University of Girona. Osuna obtained her PhD in 2010 at the University of Girona under the supervision of Miquel Solà and Marcel Swart. Upon graduation, she moved to the University of California, Los Angeles for a two-year postdoctoral position at the group of Prof. K. N. Houk. In 2013, she was awarded the Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral position, and in 2015 the Ramón y Cajal position. In 2015, she was awarded an ERC-StG project for developing a new...
Go to Profile#4032
Signe Kjelstrup
#130199
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (76 years)
Signe Helene Kjelstrup is a Norwegian professor of physical chemistry at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She is a principal investigator at PoreLab, a Center of Excellence at NTNU.
Go to Profile#4033
Gerard Charles Dismukes
#149343
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#4034
Shin‐ichi Nakao
#149365
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#4035
James C. Powers
#149371
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#4036
Shi-qing Xu
#149398
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#4037
Ali Mohammad Iranmanesh
#149412
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#4038
Kenneth B. Tomer
#149417
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#4039
Robert Eugene Carlson
#149463
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#4040
Ann R. Kennedy
#149473
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#4041
Robert B. Best
#149488
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#4042
Richard P. Wayne
#149515
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#4043
W. T. Carnall
#149524
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#4044
Finn Wold
#149566
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#4045
Susan Weintraub
#38739
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Susan Weintraub is an American scientist. She is a professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio . She received a BS in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, MS in chemistry from Trinity University in 1970 and a PhD in biochemistry from UTHSCSA in 1979. She was the president of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry for the period of 2012-2014. In 2017 she was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . She is an associate editor of the Journal of Proteome Research.
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Nicki Packer
#90267
Overall Influence
Nicki Packer FRSC is a distinguished professor of glycoproteomics in the School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University and principal research leader at Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics. Packer is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and in 2021 received the Distinguished Achievement in Proteomic Sciences Award from the Human Proteome Organization. Her research focuses on biological functional of glycoconjugates by linking glycomics with proteomics and bioinformatics.
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Vural Gökmen
#149676
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#4048
Gunter Meister
#149682
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#4049
Bengt A. Kihlman
#149691
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#4050
Dimitri Coucouvanis
#149695
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (85 years)
