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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Dirk W. Lachenmeier
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David Neil Mcmurray
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Brian Horsfield
#155634
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Ju-ming Yao
#155653
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Pierre‐alain Carrupt
#155658
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Nathalie Gontard
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Suresh Valiyaveettil
#155686
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Lisa Pratt
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Lisa Pratt is a biogeochemist and astrobiologist who previously served as the 7th Planetary Protection Officer for NASA from 2018 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. Her academic work as a student, professor, and researcher on organisms and their respective environments prepared her for the position, in which she is responsible for protecting the Earth and other planets in the solar system from traveling microbes. Originally, Pratt did not see a place for herself in science, but with encouragement from her academic mentors and family members along the way, she has been able to accomplish much work as a scientist.
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Zaida Luthey-Schulten
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Zaida Ann "Zan" Luthey-Schulten is the William and Janet Lycan Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was promoted to professor in 2004. She is also involved with the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
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Nikos K. Karamanos
#155733
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Emily A. Weiss
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Emily A. Weiss is the Mark and Nancy Ratner Professor of Chemistry and director of the Photo-Sciences Research Center at Northwestern University. Her research considers the optical and electronic properties of nanostructures, including hybrid organic–inorganic quantum dots. She was a two-time finalist in the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
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Francesco Minisci
#155742
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Ralph B. Arlinghaus
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Albert Hodgkinson
#155773
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James Harold. Weber
#155818
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Niranjan Karak
#155845
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2000 - Present (25 years)
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Con Cambie
#155200
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1931 - Present (94 years)
Richard Conrad "Con" Cambie is a New Zealand natural products chemist known for his research into bioactive compounds. Born in 1931 in Tauranga, Cambie was educated at Tauranga College. He attended Auckland University College, graduating with an MSc with first-class honours in 1955 and a PhD in 1958. Appointed to the staff of chemistry department at Auckland in 1958, Cambie then studied at the University of Oxford, where he was awarded a DPhil in 1963. He was awarded a DSc, on the basis of publications submitted, in 1964.
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Richard John Farris
#155880
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Paul Smaglik
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Eva Harth
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1968 - Present (57 years)
Eva M. Harth FRSC is a German-American polymer scientist and researcher, and a fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society. She is a full professor at the University of Houston and director of the Welch Center for Excellence in Polymer Chemistry.
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Azzedine Bousseksou
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1964 - Present (61 years)
Azzedine Bousseksou is a Franco Algerian physical chemist. Career Azzedine Bousseksou attended high school in Algiers, where he received a diploma in Material Physics from the Université de Bab Ezzouar. He also received a DEA in Materials Science from the University of Nantes in 1988 and then obtained a PhD in Materials Science from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris in 1992, completing his doctoral internship at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz .
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Phillip H. Geil
#155936
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Karen Kidd
#58327
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1968 - Present (57 years)
Karen Ann Kidd is a Canadian aquatic ecotoxicologist. She is the Jarislowsky Chair in Environment and Health and Professor of Biology at McMaster University and member of the International Joint Commission.
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Mark Cushman
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Mark S. Cushman is an American chemist, whose primary research is in the area of medicinal chemistry. He completed his pre-pharmacy studies at Fresno State College in 1965. He then attended the University of California San Francisco , earning a Pharm.D. in 1969 and a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 1973. Thereafter, he performed postdoctoral training in the laboratory of George Büchi, Ph.D., at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . There, his research focused on the discovery and development of new synthetic methodologies, and the isolation and structural characterization of mycotoxins from Aspergillus niger.
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Gordon M. Crippen
#155985
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Masaru Ichikawa
#156013
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Gary A. Kendrick
#156027
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Roberta Hamme
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Roberta C. Hamme is a Canadian chemical oceanographer at the University of Victoria. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Ocean Carbon Dynamics . Education, research and career She did her Phd and MSc at University of Washington and BA at Pomona College.
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Cheng Rongshi
#137485
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1927 - 2021 (94 years)
Cheng Rongshi was a Chinese physical chemist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography Cheng was born in Yixing, Jiangsu, on 18 October 1927. In 1945, he was admitted to the University of Nanking, where he studied chemistry under . After graduating in 1949, he did his postgraduate work at Peking University.
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Marcus Textor
#156060
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Scott R. Wilson
#156107
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Ward Thomas Robinson
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Malcolm Kelland
#155701
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1963 - Present (62 years)
Malcolm Andrew Kelland is professor of chemistry at University of Stavanger in Norway, known for inventing environmentally friendly chemicals for the oil industry. He was educated at Whitgift School in Croydon, London. He went on to study chemistry at Oxford University from 1983 to 1990 and was awarded a DPhil in Organometallic chemistry. He undertook postdoctoral research with Rinaldo Poli at the University of Maryland. From 1991 to 2000 he worked at Rogalandsforskning, a Norwegian research institute located in Stavanger . Since 2000 he has worked at Stavanger College, which since 2004 has b...
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James Logan Merz
#156208
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Victor A. Zammit
#156212
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Ramanathan Chandiramouli
#156219
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Martin Kumar Patel
#156227
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Robert F. Bryan
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Kalipada Pahan
#156240
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Edmund R. Malinowski
#156245
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Theodore W. Randolph
#156247
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Takeshi Nakai
#156250
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Maciej Radosz
#156268
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Robert M. Sweet
#156276
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Joseph A. Zasadzinski
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1958 - Present (67 years)
Joseph Anthony Zasadzinski , also known as "Joe Z" is an American chemical engineer from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by his Division of Biological Physics in 2008, for "applying physical principles of self-assembly, directed assembly and bio-mimicry to create well-controlled lipid structures such as unilamellar vesicles and "vesosomes" for biomedical applications such as targeted drug-delivery vehicles and treatments for respiratory diseases, and for developing new microscopies." Zasa...
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Ranwel Caputto
#153183
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1914 - 1994 (80 years)
Ranwel Caputto was an Argentine biochemist. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on January 1, 1914, and died on April 19, 1994. He is best known for winning the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry under Dr. Luis Leloir.
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Scott Milner
#155368
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Scott T. Milner is an American chemical engineer, currently the Joyce Chair and professor of chemical engineering at Pennsylvania State University and also a published author, being widely cited and widely held in libraries.
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Simon Gaisford
#156343
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1971 - Present (54 years)
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Siew‐hwa Chan
#156346
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Toshio Honda
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