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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Dietrich Prof Dr Dipl Ch Demus
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Stuart S. Licht
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Gerald J. Small
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Charles E. Hoyle
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Robert A. Creaser
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Young-kyu Han
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Katsuyuki Ogura
#149815
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Herbert Meier
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Carlos F. Barbas III
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1964 - 2014 (50 years)
Carlos F. Barbas III was chair professor of the Janet and Keith Kellogg II and a chemist at the Scripps Research Institute. Barbas developed new therapies that can target HIV-1 and some kinds of cancer which went into clinical trials.
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Carol J. Burns
#145966
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Carol Jean Burns is an American chemist who is Deputy Director of Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research is in actinide coordination and organometallic chemistry. She spent a term at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. She was awarded the American Chemical Society Garvan–Olin Medal in 2021.
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Jie Xiao
#149911
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Ove Christiansen
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1969 - Present (56 years)
Ove Christiansen is professor of chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University , Denmark. He is contributor to the DALTON program package and initiated the MidasCpp program for the accurate description of nuclear dynamics with means of Coupled Cluster Theory.
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Gottfried Huttner
#149958
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1937 - 2021 (84 years)
#4064
Karl Mechtler
#149973
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Yonglan Luo
#149992
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Peter Dipl Phys Pfeifer
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O. Hayes Griffith
#150007
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1938 - Present (87 years)
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David G. Armstrong
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Fabrizia Grepioni
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Paola Lettieri
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Paola Lettieri is a British-Italian chemical engineer who is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and Pro-Provost of UCL East at University College London. Her research considers fluidisation and life-cycle assessment. She has developed novel, sustainable fluid-bed processes.
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Raymond Gorte
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1954 - Present (71 years)
Raymond John Gorte is an American chemical engineer, currently the Russel Pearce and Elizabeth Crimian Heuer Endowed Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Throughout his career at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota, he has advanced the study of fuel cells and catalysts including heterogeneous metals and zeolite materials. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
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Olga Dontsova
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1959 - Present (66 years)
Olga Anatolyevna Dontsova is a Russian biochemist and an academician at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests includes: structure and functions of RNA-containing cellular machines, functional properties and mechanisms of regulation of Telomerase Ribonucleoprotein particle complexes and non-coding RNAs.
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Jos Oomens
#150089
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1968 - Present (57 years)
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Kevin T. Potts
#150121
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Brian John Alloway
#150130
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Russell T. Pack
#150156
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Tim Elliott
#106775
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Timothy Richard Elliott is a professor at the University of Bristol. Education Timothy Elliot was educated at the University of Cambridge and the Open University where he was awarded a PhD in 1991 for research investigating element fractionation in the petrogenesis of ocean island basalts.
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Neil R. Champness
#150210
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Kurt Einarsson
#150214
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Werner Schreyer
#150230
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Jong-min Lee
#150238
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Tadhg Begley
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1950 - Present (75 years)
Tadhg P. Begley is an Irish chemist and Distinguished Professor, Robert A. Welch Foundation Chair and Derek Barton Chair of Chemistry at Texas A&M University, and also a published author of books. His honors include Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Institutes of Health Merit Award, National University of Chemistry Honorary D.Sc.
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Tokuji Ikenaka
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Tansir Ahamad
#150355
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Parr
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Yoshihiko Moro-oka
#150405
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Antje Baeumner
#141603
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Antje Baeumner is a German chemist who is Professor and Director of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Chemo- and Biosensors at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Her research considers biosensors and lab-on-a-chip devices for the detection of pathogenic organisms.
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David Yarnitsky
#150431
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Eusebio Juaristi
#150437
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1950 - Present (75 years)
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Marcel Borgers
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Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus
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1951 - Present (74 years)
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus is a German chemist. Life Kohse-Höinghaus studied Chemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1970 to 1975. She finished her doctorate at the Ruhr University Bochum in 1978 and her habilitation at the University of Stuttgart in 1992. Since 1994, she is a professor for physical chemistry at the Bielefeld University. She founded one of the first hands-on laboratories for schools. She served as the President of The Combustion Institute between 2012 and 2016.
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Liu‐zhu Gong
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Wojciech J. Stec
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Donald A. Dahlstrom
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1920 - 2004 (84 years)
Donald Albert Dahlstrom was recognized by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers as one 100 prominent chemical engineers of the modern era, for his work on liquid-solids separation, particularly with respect to the hydrocyclone. He was a professor in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah, and served as President of the AIChE in 1964.
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Nathalie Tufenkji
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2000 - Present (25 years)
Nathalie Tufenkji is a Canadian chemical engineer. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Biocolloids and Surfaces and a professor of Chemical Engineering at McGill University. In 2022, Tufenkji was recognized by the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec with their Honoris Genius award in the Research or Teaching category.
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Johannes. G. Khinast
#150532
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Stefanie Hellweg
#150564
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1971 - Present (54 years)
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Noboru Hirota
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Michel R. Guisnet
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Pieter S. Steyn
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