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,
#4101
Gustav E. Lienhard
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David Logan
#108737
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1956 - Present (69 years)
David Edwin Logan is a Northern Irish chemist, and has been Coulson Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Oxford since 2005. Early life He went to Gilnahirk Primary School in east Belfast. He attended the grammar school Sullivan Upper School in Holywood, County Down.
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D. Stuart Letham
#150687
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#4104
Mikiharu Kamachi
#150715
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#4105
William Graham Richards
#150716
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Frank Stuart Spring
#139056
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1907 - 1997 (90 years)
Frank Stuart Spring FRS FRSE FRIC was a 20th-century British organic chemist. Life He was born in Great Crosby, Lancashire on 5 September 1907, the fifth of six children of John Spring. He was educated at Waterloo Grammar School in Great Crosby. His father, a master mariner, was killed with his crew of 20 when his ship the Rhineland hit a German mine in the North Sea.
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Grietje Zeeman
#150771
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#4108
David Manolopoulos
#147698
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David Eusthatios Manolopoulos is a Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at University of Oxford. His research focuses on the computational modeling of the dynamics of elementary chemical reactions in the gas phase and quantum mechanical effects in chemical dynamics. His research highlights include work on path integral approach to molecular dynamics and chemical topics as diverse as fullerenes, ring polymers, reactive scattering, and more recently, the molecular and quantum mechanism of avian magnetoreception.
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Carlos‐josé Gómez‐garcía
#150795
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#4110
Dieter Wöhrle
#150812
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1939 - Present (86 years)
#4111
Jaime Wisniak
#150827
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#4112
Syed Muhammad Zubair
#150854
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#4113
Olle Korsgren
#150874
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#4114
Gehad Genidey Mohamed
#150908
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#4115
Renji Okazaki
#150919
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#4116
Dr D. Craig Brater
#150932
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#4117
Roger Sargent
#118574
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1926 - 2018 (92 years)
Roger William Herbert Sargent FREng FSA was an English chemical engineer who was Courtaulds professor of Chemical engineering at Imperial College London and "the father" of the discipline of Process Systems Engineering.
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Janna Sandström
#150959
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Yukio Yamaguchi
#150996
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Claire Anderson
#74802
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Claire Anderson is a British pharmacist who is a professor at the University of Nottingham. She investigates pharmacy practice research, and developed the first diploma in community pharmacy. Early life and education Anderson studied pharmacy at Cardiff University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1982. She then worked as a clinical pharmacist in hospital and a community pharmacist in Oxford. In 1989, she was appointed postgraduate tutor for the Oxford regional health authority and to the pharmacy faculty at King's College London. Whilst at King's, she worked toward a doctorate, where she investigated the role of community pharmacists in promoting health.
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Fikret Kargı
#151072
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Daniel Lincot
#151103
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#4123
A. Geoffrey Sykes
#151120
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Bill Charman
#74389
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William Neil Charman is an Australian pharmaceutical scientist and pharmacist whose work has developed medical treatments in a range of areas, including a new drug for the treatment of malaria. He was also the founder and director of biomedical sciences company Acrux Ltd. He has published more than 320 scientific papers on his research and has received tens of millions of dollars in funding to further his work. Prior to embarking on a career in academic research, he worked for a number of pharmaceutical companies in the USA.
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Sergey Piletsky
#122397
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Sergey Piletsky is a professor of Bioanalytical Chemistry and the Research Director for School of Chemistry, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. Education Sergey graduated from Kiev University, Ukraine, obtaining an MSc in chemistry in 1985 and researched on synthesis of the polymers selective for nucleic acids, for which he was awarded with a PhD in 1991. Cranfield University awarded Sergey with a DSc for his work on Molecularly imprinted polymers for diagnostics applications.
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Christoph Richter
#151193
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William W. Thomson
#151205
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Howard S. Taylor
#151206
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#4129
Itzhak Ohad
#151210
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#4130
Pedro Ro Gómez-romero
#151216
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#4131
Richard K. Brow
#151218
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#4132
Shinji Murai
#151229
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#4133
Fernando Javier Muzzio
#151261
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#4134
Vernon E. Steele
#151283
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#4135
Johannis Lugtenburg
#151286
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#4136
Yasushi Yamazoe
#151347
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#4137
Ute Resch‐genger
#151386
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#4138
Naoki Inamoto
#151388
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#4139
Jörg Behler
#151454
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Donald C. Mckean
#151475
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Kunio Esumi
#151479
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#4142
Alison Downard
#126832
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Alison Joy Downard is a New Zealand academic, and has been a full professor at the University of Canterbury since 2009. Her work focuses on surface chemistry, electrochemistry and nanoscale grafted layers.
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Brigitte Dr Wittmann-liebold
#151612
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#4144
Thomas Albrecht-Schönzart
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1971 - Present (54 years)
Thomas Albrecht-Schönzart is an American radiochemist specializing in the chemistry and physics of transuranium elements. He is jointly appointed as a University Distinguished Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, and Director of the Nuclear Science & Engineering Center and Idaho National Laboratory.
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Chong‐su Cho
#151663
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Julian R. Jones
#151670
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1977 - Present (48 years)
#4147
Toribio Fernández Otero
#151694
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1951 - Present (74 years)
#4148
J. J. Roberts
#151709
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#4149
Taichi Sato
#151712
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Wolfgang Linert
#151724
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