The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,
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Sally Brooker
#137941
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (25 years)
Sally Anne Brooker is a New Zealand inorganic chemist. She has been a full professor at the University of Otago since 2006. Education Brooker was educated at Hawarden Area School in North Canterbury from 1970 to 1982, and was dux of the school in her final year there. She went on to study chemistry at the University of Canterbury, first graduating Bachelor of Science with first-class honours, and then completing a PhD titled Synthesis and characterisation of polynuclear complexes with macrocyclic and related ligands under the supervision of Vickie McKee in 1989.
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Levent K. Toppare
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Nicolai Cramer
#153954
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (48 years)
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Sergei G. Kazarian
#153976
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (67 years)
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Judith Herzfeld
#89660
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (77 years)
Judith Herzfeld is Professor Emerita at Brandeis University. Known for her work in statistical thermodynamics, solid state NMR and chemical education, she is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences. She is the author or coauthor of more than 180 scientific papers and a book.
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Yusuke Yokoyama
#154031
Overall Influence
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Charles J. M. Stirling
#122646
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (95 years)
Charles James Matthew Stirling FRS, CChem, FRSC, FLSW is an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, at the University of Sheffield, in England. Stirling was born on 8 December 1930 to Brigadier Alexander Dickson Stirling and his wife Millicent Stirling
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Allan E. Underhill
#154084
Overall Influence
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Hiroyuki Hamada,
#154100
Overall Influence
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Giovanni Enrico Mann
#154112
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Toshihiro Nohara
#154125
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Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
#77365
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (55 years)
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen is director and Professor at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids , and a professor of the Chemistry & Biochemistry department at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on organic electronic devices, using optical, electrical, and structural techniques to understand materials and devices such as photovoltaics, LEDs, and field-effect transistors.
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Masaki Inagaki
#154141
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Charles F. Yocum
#154161
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Colin D. Bain
#154201
Overall Influence
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Maria Rosa Palacín
#154210
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (57 years)
#4267
Joseph B. Klemp
#59643
Overall Influence
Joseph Bernard Klemp is an American atmospheric scientist who collaborated in groundbreaking work advancing numerical simulation techniques and uncovering the dynamics of atmospheric convection, including supercell thunderstorms, tornadoes, squall lines, as well as mountain waves.
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Xiu Lin Zhu
#154272
Overall Influence
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Hans Brockerhoff
#154285
Overall Influence
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William Shotyk
#154328
Overall Influence
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Charis Galanakis
#105980
Overall Influence
1981 - Present (44 years)
Charis M. Galanakis is a Greek researcher, and food, agricultural and environmental scientist. Early life and education Galanakis was born on April 3, 1981, in Chania, Greece to a family of chemists. He earned his degree in chemistry in 2002 and his certificate for Oenology in 2004, both at the Patras University. He also finished his master's degree in Food Technology in 2004 from Patras University-University of Ioannina-Ulster University. In 2010, he finished his doctoral degree at the Technical University of Crete.
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Harry Edward Conrad
#154337
Overall Influence
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John M. Warman
#154357
Overall Influence
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Dietrich Schulte–frohlinde
#154384
Overall Influence
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Richard. S. Stolarski
#154393
Overall Influence
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David A. I. Goring
#154399
Overall Influence
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George V. Buxton
#154429
Overall Influence
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Scott D. Rychnovsky
#154437
Overall Influence
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Amanda Elizabeth Inn Proudfoot
#154464
Overall Influence
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Michael Barber
#97874
Overall Influence
1934 - 1991 (57 years)
Michael Barber, FRS was a British chemist and mass spectrometrist, best known for his invention of fast atom bombardment ionisation. Biography On 3 November 1934, Barber was born at his family's home in Manchester at 166 Lodge Lane in Newton. His family were working-class and underprivileged. Barber was one of two boys; his brother Peter was born in 1927. His father, Joseph Barber, was a carpenter.
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Takashi Sekiguchi
#154477
Overall Influence
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J. B. Legall
#154484
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Thomas Lectka
#129055
Overall Influence
Thomas Lectka is an American organic chemist, academic and researcher. He is Jean and Norman Scowe Professor of Chemistry and leads the Lectka Group at Johns Hopkins University. Lectka specializes in areas of catalysis in synthetic and mechanistic organic chemistry and has authored over 120 research publications. He has made contributions in the discovery of metal-catalyzed amide isomerization; the development of first practical method for the catalytic, asymmetric synthesis of beta-lactams; the synthesis of [C-F-C] fluoronium ions; and site-selective aliphatic fluorination.
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Ulf Hellman
#154520
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J. Michael Hollas
#154526
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Horst Tobias Witt
#154528
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Sankaran Sundaresan
#154571
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Thomas L. Gilchrist
#154572
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Eray S. Aydil
#154600
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Pietro Tundo
#154606
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (80 years)
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John M. Pawelek
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Overall Influence
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Mikiko Sodeoka
#154679
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (25 years)
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Zdeněk Matějka
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Overall Influence
1937 - 2006 (69 years)
Zdeněk Matějka was a Czech chemist known for his contributions to development of ion exchange. Zdeněk Matějka was born in 1937 in Teplice. In 1955 he moved to Prague, to study chemistry at Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague. He received his master's degree in 1960. While working in Water Research Institute of ČKD Dukla corp., he started external doctor course at Department of Heat Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague. His supervisor was Prof. František Karas, founder of the department. In 1967 he received his PhD degree for his research on electrodeionization of water.
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R. Ray Fall
#154695
Overall Influence
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Herbert Sixta
#154725
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Ari Ivaska
#154743
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (79 years)
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Eric M. Gaigneaux
#154757
Overall Influence
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Motowo Takayanagi
#154762
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Shmuel Yariv
#154783
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Vincent Jarlier
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