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.
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,
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Michael Jerry Antal
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Elizabeth New
#103277
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1984 - Present (41 years)
Elizabeth Joy New is an Australian chemist and Professor of the School of Chemistry, University of Sydney. She won the 2018 Australian Museum 3M Eureka Prize. Early life and education New was born in Sydney in 1984. She represented Australia at the International Chemistry Olympiad in 2000 and 2001, winning bronze and gold medals respectively, and graduated from James Ruse Agricultural High School with a UAI of 100. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Sydney in 2005, where she completed her master's degree in 2006. During her graduate studies she worked on fluorescent tags to monitor the cellular uptake and metabolism of anti-tumor complexes.
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Dominique Bonvin
#156387
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Michinori Suginome
#156464
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1966 - Present (59 years)
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A. James Mcquillan
#156474
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Maxim D. Frank‐kamenetskii
#156482
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Wolfgang Seiler
#156501
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#4408
Gang Niu
#156518
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#4409
Marc J. Assael
#108366
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1954 - Present (71 years)
Marc J. Assael FIChemE CEng is a Greek Chemical Engineer and a professor of Thermophysical Properties. Career From 1995 to 1997 he was the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where he currently holds the position of Professor of Thermophysical Properties. In 1998 he was TEPCO Chair Visiting Chair in Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, and during 2007-2011 he was adjunct professor in Xi’an Jiaotong University, P.R. China. He is currently the Secretary of the International Association for Transport Properties, the Secretary of the Internati...
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Erich Prof Dr Fitzer
#156548
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Dieter Fenske
#156556
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Ajay Kumar Kakkar
#156584
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Bernard Kirtman
#156592
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Michael Oellerich
#156620
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Yuzo Fujiwara,
#156659
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Mark Chance
#156675
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Mark Chance is an American chemist currently interested in structural and cellular proteomics. He is currently the Charles W. and Iona A. Mathias Professor of Cancer Research at Case Western Reserve University.
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Hans Jørgen Jakobsen
#156698
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Reinhard H. H. Neubert
#156701
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Gaetano Guerra
#156729
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1953 - Present (72 years)
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Daniel L. Klayman
#156735
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Euan K. Brechin
#156809
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (25 years)
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Paitoon (p T) Tontiwachwuthikul
#156827
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Kay Severin
#156867
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Tibor Cserháti
#156906
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#4425
Paul J. Gemperline
#136183
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (70 years)
Paul J. Gemperline is an American analytical chemist and chemometrician. He is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at East Carolina University located in Greenville, North Carolina and has been the recipient of several scientific awards, including the 2003 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award in Chemometrics. He is author of more than 60 publications in the field of chemometrics. Dr. Gemperline served as Dean of the Graduate School at ECU from 2008 to 2022. He retired from ECU June 30, 2022 and is now professor emeritus.
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Norbert Sewald
#157033
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1961 - Present (64 years)
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Zita Martins
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Overall Influence
1979 - Present (46 years)
Zita Carla Torrão Pinto Martins , OSE, is a Portuguese astrobiologist, and an associate professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. She was a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Imperial College London. Her research explores how life may have begun on Earth by looking for organic compounds in meteorite samples.
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Derek Long
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1925 - Present (100 years)
Derek A. Long was a professor of structural chemistry at the University of Bradford, working in the field of Raman spectroscopy. Life Long was born on 11 August 1925 in Gloucester, England and was educated at Sir Thomas Rich's School and Jesus College, Oxford, where he studied chemistry with Leonard Woodward and obtained a first-class honours degree followed by a doctorate. His area of research was Raman spectroscopy. He then worked at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis for a year before returning to Oxford in 1950 as a research fellow, and then in 1956 moved to the University College of Wales, Swansea as a lecturer.
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Mark L. Rivers
#157078
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Antje Winkel
#157084
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Celeste Nelson
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1976 - Present (49 years)
Celeste M. Nelson is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Director of the Program in Engineering Biology at Princeton University. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and was a finalist in the 2017 and 2018 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.
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Perdita Barran
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2000 - Present (25 years)
Perdita Elizabeth Barran is a Professor of Mass Spectrometry at the University of Manchester. She is Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Collaborative Mass Spectrometry. She develops and applies ion-mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry to the study of molecule structure and is searching for biomarkers for Parkinson's disease. She is Associate Dean for Research Facility Development at the University of Manchester. In 2020 and 2021 she was seconded to work for the Department of Health and Social Care as an advisor on the use case for mass spectrometry as a diagnostic method for diagnosi...
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Martin F. Semmelhack
#157114
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Hugo Emilio Gottlieb
#157116
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Stephan Kempe
#157118
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Toshinari Ichihashi
#157119
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Orawon Chailapakul
#157149
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Allison Doerr
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Allison Doerr is an American chemist and the editor in chief of academic journal Nature Methods. Education Doerr has a bachelor's degree from Vassar College where she worked on polymer chemistry as well as a PhD in chemistry from Princeton University.
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Lubomir S. Hnilica
#157158
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Dieter Prof. Dr. Hoppe
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Jacques Glowinski
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1936 - 2020 (84 years)
Jacques Glowinski was a French pharmacist and biology researcher specializing in neurobiology and neuropharmacology for which he is considered one of the founding fathers in France. Glowinski was a professor at the Collège de France and was also its administrator. He was a member of the French Academy of sciences.
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Lars Bode
#157212
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Donald Bethell
#157258
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Andreas Brune
#157268
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Geoffrey William Tregear
#157305
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R. Leslie Thomas
#157311
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R. Kip Guy
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R. Kip Guy is an American pharmaceutical chemist. , he is the dean of the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy. Early life and education Guy was born in Alabama but was raised in various places including Jacks Creek, Tennessee, England, and Ohio. He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry from Reed College before working as a process development chemist in the process translation unit at IBM Research. Following this, he received his PhD in organic chemistry in 1996 based on the total synthesis of taxol from the Scripps Research Institute. His thesis was conducted under the guidance of K.
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Michio Murata
#157342
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Susumu Kuwabata
#157364
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Franklin Orr
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1946 - Present (79 years)
Franklin M. Orr, Jr. is an American chemical engineer and former Under Secretary for Science and Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy from 2014 to 2017. Prior to his government service, he was a professor of engineering at the Stanford Department of Energy Resources Engineering. He was elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for contributions to understanding of complex multicomponent flows in porous media and its applications to the design of enhanced oil recovery processes; and for superb academic leadership. He is married to Susan Packard Orr.
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