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.
We also provide custom rankings of people by discipline as well as interviews with influential academics who are currently active.
To use this tool, select the discipline (and optional subdiscipline) relevant to your research, and specify influential academics by history, world, or US. Even results that are counterintuitive are often enlightening (our algorithm always picks up a signal).
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,
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L. Noodleman
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Rachel Ann Mills
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Rachel Ann Mills is a Professor of Ocean Chemistry at the University of Southampton. She is a deep-sea oceanographer who works on the chemistry of the seafloor and its impact on life in the sea. She has led research expeditions using submersibles and remotely operated vehicles to remote and deep, unexplored parts of the ocean.
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Sai-xi Gu
#154846
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Arnold R. Brody
#154852
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Ronald Richard Chance
#154865
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Masakazu Iwamoto
#154871
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Hervé Rochat
#154879
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Joseph H. Reibenspies
#154880
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Allen P. Jr. Mills
#154881
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Masamichi Kobayashi
#154953
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Tianfen Chen
#154960
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Kenji Uneyama
#154982
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Guy Dodson
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1937 - 2012 (75 years)
George Guy Dodson FRS FMedSci , was a British biochemist who specialised in protein crystallography at the University of York. Education Dodson graduated from the University of New Zealand where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. His doctoral thesis, completed in 1961, was titled An X-ray analysis of an alkaloid and some investigation into nickel bis-salicylaldahyde triethylene tetramine.
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Thorsten Reemtsma
#155010
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Ru‐ren Xu
#155014
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Hans Egbert Schoemaker
#155032
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Charles Edward Weaver
#155072
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Gorō K. Kikuchi
#155075
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Alexander J. Mckillop
#155080
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Caroline Chick Jarrold
#153414
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1967 - Present (58 years)
Caroline Chick Jarrold is a physical chemist who was named the Class of 1948 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor ats at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, in 2018. The research done by her group aims to alleviate issues with energy and the environment.
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Gopal Nath Tiwari
#155097
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Mariappan Parans Paranthaman
#155123
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Hiroki Kurihara
#155132
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Amie K. Boal
#120271
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Amie Kathleen Boal is an American chemist. She is an associate professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology at Pennsylvania State University. In 2020, Boal was the recipient of the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.
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Stephen Earl Stein
#155157
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Lawrence M. Mayer
#155169
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Hartmut Yersin
#155178
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1940 - Present (85 years)
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Bess Ward
#129546
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Bess Ward is an American oceanographer, biogeochemist, microbiologist, and William J. Sinclair Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University. Ward studies include marine and global nitrogen cycles, and how marine organisms such as phytoplankton and bacteria influence the nitrogen cycle. Ward was the first woman awarded the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography for her pioneering work on applying molecular methods for nitrogen and methane conversions as well as scaling up organismal biogeochemical rates to whole ecosystem rates.
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Jacques U. Baenziger
#155204
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Elspeth McLachlan
#84710
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1942 - Present (83 years)
Elspeth McLachlan , an Australian neuroscientist, is a world authority on neural pathways within the autonomic nervous system. Her work has included detailed analyses of transmission in autonomic ganglia to studies of the organisation of autonomic nervous pathways and their disorder in pathological states, particularly injuries to peripheral nerves and the spinal cord.
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Peter Comba
#155266
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1953 - Present (72 years)
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Pitt Supaphol
#155299
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Karen Goldberg
#118638
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Karen Ila Goldberg is an American chemist, currently the Vagelos Professor of Energy Research at University of Pennsylvania. Goldberg is most known for her work in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. Her most recent research focuses on catalysis, particularly on developing catalysts for oxidation, as well as the synthesis and activation of molecular oxygen. In 2018, Goldberg was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Choon Jim Lim
#155355
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Miguel A. Esteruelas
#155372
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Sangwong Kim
#155378
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John McGrady
#143415
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1968 - Present (57 years)
John Ewart McGrady is an English chemist and academic who previously played first-class cricket while a student at the University of Oxford. The son of the cricket administrator and minor counties cricketer Albert McGrady, he was born in April 1968 at Ryton, County Durham. He later read chemistry at St Catherine's College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, McGrady played first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1990, making six appearances. Playing as a wicket-keeper, he scored 15 runs in these matches and made two stumpings.
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Aja Y. K. Bose
#155411
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Eugene Stevens
#91380
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1938 - Present (87 years)
Eugene S. Stevens is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at Binghamton University. He is best known for his research in biodegradable plastics. He has been a quoted expert in articles published in the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the International Herald Tribune.
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William A. G. Graham
#155438
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Steven D. Townsend
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Steven D'Wayne Townsend is a professor of organic chemistry at Vanderbilt University. He investigates the chemistry of human breast milk. In 2019 Townsend was selected as one of Chemical & Engineering News Talented 12.
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Chong‐chen Wang
#155452
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Harvey J. Iii Clewell
#155456
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Alexander P. Tulloch
#155470
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Yitzhak Apeloig
#155484
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Ulrich Schwaneberg
#144047
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1969 - Present (56 years)
Ulrich Schwaneberg is a German chemist and protein engineer. He is the Chair of Biotechnology at RWTH Aachen University and member of the scientific board at the Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Aachen. He specializes in directed evolution of proteins for material science applications and on the development of its methodologies. The latter comprise methods for diversity generation , as well as high-throughput screening systems . His work group has elucidated general design principles of enzymes by analyzing libraries that contain the full natural diversity of a hydrolase with...
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Colin C. F. Blake
#155528
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Junzo Otera
#155557
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Russell R. Chianelli
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Donald Langmuir
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