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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Bogdan Marciniec
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Tadafumi Adschiri
#152832
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#4203
Philippe van Cappellen
#152850
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#4204
Stephan Link
#152856
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1970 - Present (55 years)
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Jean-claude Fischer
#152860
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Christophe Detrembleur
#152861
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Hershel Raff
#152866
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1953 - Present (72 years)
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Yona Chen
#152886
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Edwin Prof. Dr. Weber
#152887
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#4210
Ashok Kumar Gupta
#152898
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#4211
Gerd Prof. Dr.-ing. Brunner
#152972
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#4212
Malcolm D. Lilly
#152976
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#4213
Omer O. Van Der Biest
#152986
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#4214
Sanjay Mathur
#153023
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#4215
Geoffrey N. Richards
#153029
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#4216
Dimo Kashchiev
#153077
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#4217
Avraham Novogrodsky
#153099
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#4218
Jindřich Kopeček
#51101
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1940 - Present (85 years)
Jindřich Henry Kopeček was born in Strakonice, Czech Republic, as the son of Jan and Herta Zita Kopeček. He is distinguished professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and distinguished professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kopeček is also an honorary professor at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. His research focuses on biorecognition of macromolecules, bioconjugate chemistry, drug delivery systems, self-assembled biomaterials, and drug-free macromolecular therapeutics.
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Kazuhiro Takanabe
#153100
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#4220
Fuyuhiko Tamanoi
#153174
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Roman F. Nalewajski
#153203
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#4222
Takashi Kyotani
#153207
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#4223
Williamb O. Foye
#153209
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#4224
Arthur Schweiger
#153220
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Douglas James Millen
#153236
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#4226
Raul F. Lobo
#153304
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1966 - Present (59 years)
#4227
Joel E. Keizer
#153320
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#4228
Keith R. Jennings
#69671
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1932 - Present (93 years)
Keith Robert Jennings is a British chemist known for his contributions to mass spectrometry. Early life and education 1956 Ph.D. Queen’s College Oxford Research interests Structural studies on proteins of significant biological interest
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Michael Monsigny
#153441
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Lothar H. Brixner
#153457
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#4231
Hiroshi Maeda
#48558
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1938 - 2021 (83 years)
was a Japanese pharmacologist and chemist. He was known for his discovery of EPR effect. He published more than 650 papers in reputed journals; the h-index is 115 . Education and career Maeda studied at Tohoku University with a bachelor's degree in 1962, at the University of California, Davis with a master's degree in 1964, and a doctorate in 1967 at Tohoku. He was a post-doctoral at the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute of Harvard University from 1967 to 1971, he also acquired the medical doctorate there.
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Jeremy Stone
#30422
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1935 - 2017 (82 years)
Jeremy J. Stone was an American scientist who was president of the Federation of American Scientists from 1970 to 2000, where he led that organization's advocacy initiatives in arms control, human rights, and foreign policy. In 2000, he was succeeded as president by Henry Kelly. Stone continued his work at a new organization called Catalytic Diplomacy. Stone was the son of the journalist I. F. Stone.
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Stergios Pispas
#153505
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Ingo Pinnau
#153514
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Michel Pouchard
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1938 - Present (87 years)
Michel Pouchard is a French chemist specialising in the physico-chemistry of inorganic solids. Biography After studying at the David high school in Angers and at the faculties of science at University of Rennes and University of Bordeaux, Michel Pouchard specializes in the physico-chemistry of inorganic solids: oxides of transition metals, electronic properties and electrochemistry , nanocrystalline silicon
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Luis Castedo
#153591
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Juliane Hollender
#153593
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1964 - Present (61 years)
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Triantafyllos A. Albanis
#153615
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George J. Thomas
#153618
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Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos
#129113
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Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos is currently the Susan Dod Brown Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of Princeton University. Education and academic career Prof. Panagiotopoulos received his undergraduate degree from the National Technical University of Athens in 1982 and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, both in Chemical Engineering. He was a postdoctoral fellow in physical chemistry at the University of Oxford and a faculty member at Cornell University and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology of the Uni...
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Paul G. Mccormick
#153686
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Michael Schmittel
#153740
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2000 - Present (25 years)
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Greta Patzke
#153788
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1974 - Present (51 years)
Greta R. Patzke is Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Zurich. Life From 1993 to 1997 she studied chemistry at Leibniz University Hannover. Her diploma thesis dealt with solid-state chemistry and computational chemistry. From 1997 to 1999 she completed her dissertation at Leibniz University in the group of Michael Binnewies. This dissertation dealt with the synthesis, characterization and properties of mixed oxides. In the group of Reinhard Nesper at the ETH Zurich she worked on her habilitation from 1999 on. During this time she worked on inorganic structural chemistry, th...
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Stefan Bernhard
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1966 - Present (59 years)
Stefan Bernhard is recognized in the scientific community for his work in several applied fields pertaining to the interaction between light and transition metal complexes. His involvement in the prediction, generation, and spectroscopy of circularly polarized luminescence from synthesized chiral phosphors have significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in this relatively young sub-field of photophysical chemistry. Other contributions involve work in artificial photosynthesis and organic light emitting devices .
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Michel Keddam
#153801
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Alessandro Troisi
#153824
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Sabine Goldberg
#153833
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Andrea Ferrari
#153857
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2000 - Present (25 years)
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Nan Qing Zhang
#153874
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Cynthia Jameson
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Cynthia J. Jameson is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois. She works on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and quantum chemistry. Jameson dedicated her academic career to supporting women scientists. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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