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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Henner Hollert
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Miquel Canals
#157430
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Fumie Sato
#157436
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Gunter Fischer
#157437
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Hans-joachim Dr Kleebe
#157452
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Helmut Münstedt
#157461
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
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Robert Watson
#123268
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Sir Robert Tony Watson CMG FRS is a British chemist who has worked on atmospheric science issues including ozone depletion, global warming and paleoclimatology since the 1980s. Most recently, he is lead author of the February 2021 U.N. report Making Peace with Nature.
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Andrey S. Klymchenko
#157486
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
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Sakae Katoh
#157524
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Kristala Jones Prather
#98724
Overall Influence
Kristala Jones Prather is an American professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research is focused on using novel bioprocesses to design recombinant microorganisms to produce small molecules.
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Jan Vermant
#157545
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Michael. Falk
#157548
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Kathryn Uhrich
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Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Kathryn Uhrich is Dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, at The University of California, Riverside, and founder of Polymerix Corporation. She has received many awards for her research and work including the ACS Buck-Whitney Award and the Sioux Award. She was a fellow at both the National Academy of Inventors and the American Chemical Society in 2014.
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Gerhard Ecker
#133886
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Gerhard F. Ecker is an Austrian medicinal chemist and expert in the fields of Pharmacoinformatics at the University of Vienna, where he is the Professor for Pharmacoinformatics and Head of the Pharmacoinformatics Research Group at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry. He also coordinates the research focus "Computational Life Sciences" of the Faculty of Life Sciences.
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Daniel Adzei Bekoe
#53037
Overall Influence
1928 - 2020 (92 years)
Daniel Adzei Bekoe was a Ghanaian chemist and academic. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana and also a former president of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. Early life and education Daniel Adzei Bekoe was born on 7 December 1928 to A.S. Adzete Bekoe and Jessie Nadu Bekoe at Abokobi. His father was then a teacher at the Abokobi Presbyterian School. His father was transferred to teach at the Teshie Presbyterian School, Salem in 1934 and a year later, Daniel Bekoe began his early education at the school. He completed his early education in December 1942 and was enrolled at Achimota College in January 1943 after passing his Cambridge examinations.
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Jürgen Rühe
#157592
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
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Yadollah Mortazavi
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Yadollah Mortazavi is a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Tehran and is a leading researcher in the field of reaction engineering and heterogeneous catalysis.
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Masatsugu Shimomura
#157610
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Costas Kiparissides
#157615
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James T. Dalton
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Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
James Tilmon Dalton is an American pharmacist and drug discovery scientist. He is Executive Vice President & Provost at the University of Alabama. Career As a pharmacy intern and then pharmacist, Dalton worked at Kettering Medical Center. After earning his PhD, Dalton was appointed as assistant professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Tennessee. As a professor at the University of Tennessee, Dalton led the research group that first reported selective androgen receptor modulators . In 1997, Dalton’s group published the first report on SARMs, which was used to research and create a class of potential drugs to treat age and disease-related muscle loss.
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Kullaiah Byrappa
#157628
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Gerasimos Lyberatos
#157646
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Carleton Hoover Seager
#157648
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Richard Stratt
#73632
Overall Influence
Richard Stratt is an American chemist and physicist, currently the Newport Rogers Professor and also formerly the Harrison S. Kravis Professor from 1999 to 2000, at Brown University, focusing with theoretical chemistry, molecular dynamics in liquids and ultrafast spectroscopy.
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Josephine Forbes
#102085
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Josephine Forbes is an Australian scientist specialising in the study of glycation and diabetes. She has been studying diabetes since 1999 and has worked at Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne and Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne Australia. Since 2012 she has led the Glycation and Diabetes team at Mater Research which is a world-class medical research institute based at South Brisbane, and part of the Mater Group. Josephine is program leader for Mater's Chronic Disease Biology and Care theme, building greater understanding of the biological basis of a broad range...
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Alfred Xaver Trautwein
#157673
Overall Influence
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Rebecca Goss
#41748
Overall Influence
Rebecca Jane Miriam Goss is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of St. Andrews who won the 2006 Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal. She is known for combining synthetic biology and chemistry for medicinal purposes.
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Mac E. Hadley
#157705
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Jan O. Korbel
#58924
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Jan O. Korbel is a German scientist working in the fields of Human Genetics, Genomics and Computational Biology. He is a tenured principal investigator and Head of Data Science at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany, senior scientist in the Genome Biology Unit, is leading a bridging research division at the German Cancer Research Center , and is an honorary professor at Heidelberg University. A particular focus of the Korbel group is on investigating a particular form of mutation, genomic structural variation, which includes deletions, inversions and more complex c...
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Florence Babonneau
#157754
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
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T. Randall Lee
#152873
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Thomas Randall Lee is an American chemist, currently the Cullen Distinguished University Chair at the University of Houston. Education NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Caltech, 1991–1993Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991B.A., Rice University, 1985
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Malcolm Stevens
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Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Malcolm Francis Graham Stevens OBE, FRS is an English chemist and Emeritus professor of the University of Nottingham, having previously worked at Aston University where he developed the cancer drug temozolomide.
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Kunio Yoshikawa
#157768
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Nina Berova
#154367
Overall Influence
Nina D. Berova is a Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. She is recognised as a world leader in stereochemistry and chiroptical spectroscopy. Her contributions include the development of porphyrin tweezers. She was the 2007 winner of the Società Chimica Italiana Chirality Medal.
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Jenny Zhang
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Overall Influence
Jenny Zhenqi Zhang is a Chinese-Australian chemist and BBSRC David Phillips Research Fellow of the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, where she is also a Fellow of Corpus Christi College . She was awarded the 2020 RSC Felix Franks Biotechnology Medal for her research into re-wiring photosynthesis to provide sustainable fuel sources.
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E. Gerald Meyer
#149303
Overall Influence
1919 - Present (107 years)
Edmond Gerald Meyer is emeritus professor of chemistry and former dean of the college of arts and sciences at the University of Wyoming. He is a past president of the American Institute of Chemists and an active member of the American Chemical Society, serving on the ACS National Council for 27 years.
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Werner Prof. Dr. Weppner
#157797
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Michael A. Butler
#157831
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Anthony J. Pearson
#157910
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Sadek K. Hilal
#157918
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Sheila A. Macneil
#157922
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Marcin Hoffmann
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Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Marcin Maciej Hoffmann is a Polish scientist and entrepreneur. He is a professor of chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Early years Hoffmann was born in 1972 in Godziesze Wielkie, a small town near Kalisz. He attended No. 30 Primary School in Poznań and the Karol Marcinkowski High School in Poznań; at that time, he succeeded as a laureate of Polish Physics Olympiad and twice as a laureate of Polish Chemistry Olympiad. In 1996, he was awarded the MSc in Chemistry title at the Faculty of Chemistry of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań; his thesis The...
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Leonard R. Macgillivray
#157994
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Louis Ricard
#158047
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C. F. Iii Barbas
#158070
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Malcolm Robert Mackley
#158072
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Emilio Gelpí
#158081
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Xiao-qing Huang
#158145
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Kazuyuki Morihara
#158156
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Hasse Eklund
#158190
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