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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#451

Robert Schlögl

#40380

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

Robert Schlögl is a German chemist known for research in catalysis. Currently, he is the Director and Scientific Member of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr. He became president of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2023.

#452

Laura L. Kiessling

#26387

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Laura Lee Kiessling is an American chemist and the Novartis Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kiessling's research focuses on elucidating and exploiting interactions on the cell surface, especially those mediated by proteins binding to carbohydrates. Multivalent protein-carbohydrate interactions play roles in cell-cell recognition and signal transduction. Understanding and manipulating these interactions provides tools to study biological processes and design therapeutic treatments. Kiessling's interdisciplinary research combines organic synthesis, polymer c...

#453

Alan R. Battersby

Alan R. Battersby

#23038

Overall Influence

1925 - 2018 (93 years)

Sir Alan Rushton Battersby was an English organic chemist best known for his work to define the chemical intermediates in the biosynthetic pathway to vitamin B12 and the reaction mechanisms of the enzymes involved. His research group was also notable for its synthesis of radiolabelled precursors to study alkaloid biosynthesis and the stereochemistry of enzymic reactions. He won numerous awards including the Royal Medal in 1984 and the Copley Medal in 2000. He was knighted in the 1992 New Year Honours. Battersby died in February 2018 at the age of 92.

#454

Leroy Cronin

#25076

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Leroy "Lee" Cronin FRSE FRSC is the Regius Chair of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and appointed to the Regius Chair of Chemistry in 2013. He was previously the Gardiner Chair, appointed April 2009.

#455

Adam Bielański

#29593

Overall Influence

1912 - 2016 (104 years)

Adam Bielański was a Polish chemist and professor of Jagiellonian University. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was the author of several university-level books on inorganic chemistry, many of which are standard textbooks for students at most universities in Poland.

#456

David Milstein

#23207

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

David Milstein is an Israeli chemist studying homogeneous catalysis. Education and early life Milstein was born in 1947 in Ulm, Germany where his family took refuge after being displaced during the Holocaust. With his family, he immigrated to the newly founded state of Israel at the age of two. Milstein was first fascinated by chemistry when attending high school in the town of Rehovot where “an enthusiastic, old-fashioned chemistry teacher who didn’t care much about orbitals” inspired him “with vivid, thought-provoking experiments”. Pursuing his interest, Milstein received B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D.

#457

Jeremy M. Berg

#9796

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Jeremy Mark Berg was founding director of the University of Pittsburgh's Institute for Personalized Medicine. He holds positions as Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Science Strategy and Planning and Professor of Computational and Systems Biology at the University of Pittsburgh. From 2016 to 2019, Berg was editor in chief of the Science journals.

#458

Maria Forsyth

#29565

Overall Influence

Maria Forsyth is an Australian chemist. She is a research professor at the University of the Basque Country and an Alfred Deakin Fellow at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia where she holds the Chair in Electromaterials and Corrosion Sciences.

#459

Jonathan Clayden

#46479

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Jonathan Paul Clayden is a Professor of organic chemistry at the University of Bristol. Education In 1992 he obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge working with Dr Stuart Warren on asymmetric synthesis using phosphine oxide chemistry. He then carried out a postdoc with Prof Marc Julia and in 1994 became a lecturer in organic chemistry at the University of Manchester where he became a reader in 2000 and a Professor of Organic Chemistry in 2001. In 2015 he moved to a chair in chemistry at the University of Bristol.

#460

Klaus Biemann

#34795

Overall Influence

1926 - 2016 (90 years)

Klaus Biemann was an Austrian-American professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work centered on structural analysis in organic and biochemistry. He has been called the "father of organic mass spectrometry" but was particularly noted for his role in advancing protein sequencing with tandem mass spectrometry following pioneering work conducted in this area by Michael Barber.

#461

Artem Oganov

#26849

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Artem R. Oganov is a Russian theoretical crystallographer, mineralogist, chemist, physicist, and materials scientist. He is known mostly for his works on computational materials discovery and crystal structure prediction, studies of matter at extreme conditions, including matter of planetary interiors.

#462

Wolfgang Steglich

Wolfgang Steglich

#45519

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (92 years)

Wolfgang Steglich is a German chemist. Life Wolfgang Steglich was born in Kamenz and studied chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin and later at the Technical University of Munich where he received his PhD in 1960 for work with . Following a postdoc stay with Sir Derek H. R. Barton at the Imperial College London, Wolfgang Steglich completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Munich. After Weygand's death in 1969, Steglich was in charge of the Weygand chair until he became a full professor at the Technical University of Berlin in 1971. In 1975, he was appointed a professorship at the University of Bonn.

#463

Hongjie Dai

#33682

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Hongjie Dai is a Chinese–American nanotechnologist and applied physicist. He is the J.G. Jackson & C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. A leading figure in the study of carbon nanotubes, Dai is ranked as one of the top chemists in the world by Science Watch. He is currently the scientific advisor and co-founder to Nirmidas Biotech, Inc., which aims to commercialize his breakthrough research on NIR-II dyes and plasmonic gold to applications in healthcare and in vitro diagnostics.

#464

Sidney Loeb

#36869

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Sidney Loeb was an American-Israeli chemical engineer. Loeb made reverse osmosis practical by developing, together with Srinivasa Sourirajan, semi-permeable anisotropic membranes. The invention of the practical reverse osmosis membrane revolutionized water desalination. Loeb invented the power generating process pressure retarded osmosis --making accessible a rich previously unknown source of green energy, and a method of producing power by a reverse electrodialysis heat engine, among other inventions in related fields. The production of energy by PRO and RED, among others, is sometimes ca...

#465

Iván Gutman

#41487

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Iván Gutman is a Serbian chemist and mathematician. Life and work Gutman was born in Sombor, Yugoslavia in a Bunjevac family. In 1970 he graduated chemistry from the University of Belgrade where he worked a short time as an assistant at the chemistry department. From 1971 until 1976 he worked as research assistant and senior research assistant at Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, department of physical chemistry. In 1973 he received M.Sc. degree from the University of Zagreb, in the area of theoretical organic chemistry. In the same year he received a doctorate degree in chemistry from the University of Zagreb.

#466

Evert Jan Baerends

#40270

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Evert Jan Baerends is a Dutch theoretical chemist. He is an emeritus professor of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Baerends is known for his development and application of electronic structure calculations, which over time led to the development of the Amsterdam Density Functional. He worked extensively on density functional theory.

#467

Benjamin Widom

#17881

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (98 years)

Benjamin Widom is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. His research interests include physical chemistry and statistical mechanics. In 1998, Widom was awarded the Boltzmann Medal "for his illuminating studies of the statistical mechanics of fluids and fluid mixtures and their interfacial properties, especially his clear and general formulation of scaling hypotheses for the equation of state and surface tensions of fluids near critical points."

#468

Richard D. Smith

#23104

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Richard Dale Smith is a chemist and a Battelle Fellow and chief scientist within the biological sciences division, as well as the director of proteomics research at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory . Smith is also director of the NIH Proteomics Research Resource for Integrative Biology, an adjunct faculty member in the chemistry departments at Washington State University and the University of Utah, and an affiliate faculty member at the University of Idaho and the Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Oregon Health & Science University. He is the author or co-author of ap...

#469

Harry R. Allcock

#38926

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (93 years)

Harry R. Allcock is Evan Pugh Professor of chemistry at Pennsylvania State University. Allcock obtained his B.Sc. in 1953 and his Ph.D. in 1956, both at the University of London. He is notable for his work on the "inorganic rubbers" with a phosphorus-nitrogen backbone . With James E. Mark and Robert West, Allcock co-authored the book Inorganic Polymers . He also wrote Introduction to Materials Chemistry , Chemistry and Applications of Polyphosphazenes

#470

Siegfried Blechert

#49924

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Siegfried Blechert is a German chemist. Blechert studied chemistry at the University of Hannover, Germany and completed his PhD under the supervision of Ekkehard Winterfeldt in 1974. After a research stay with Pierre Potier in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in 1981, he finished his habilitation at the University of Hannover in 1982 and there became lecturer in organic chemistry. In 1986 he took up a professorship at the University of Bonn. In 1990 he accepted the Chair of the Organic Chemistry Department at the Technical University of Berlin.

#471

Bert Meijer

#28122

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Egbert Willem Meijer is a Dutch organic chemist, known for his work in the fields of supramolecular chemistry, materials chemistry and polymer chemistry. Meijer, who is distinguished professor of Molecular Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology and Academy Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, is considered one of the founders of the field of supramolecular polymer chemistry. Meijer is a prolific author, sought-after academic lecturer and recipient of multiple awards in the fields of organic and polymer chemistry.

#472

Sigrid D. Peyerimhoff

#28021

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Sigrid Doris Peyerimhoff is a theoretical chemist and Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, Germany. Education After completing her abitur, Peyerimhoff studied physics at the University of Gießen, completing her degree in 1961 and receiving her doctorate under supervision of Bernhard Kockel in 1963. After researching at the University of Chicago, the University of Washington, and Princeton University, she returned to Germany and gained her habilitation at the University of Gießen in 1967. She became professor for theoretical chemistry a...

#473

Mark S. Gordon

#49040

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Mark S. Gordon is a professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, and Ames Laboratory working in the area of computational quantum chemistry. He is a member of The International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

#474

Edward Cussler

#23267

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (85 years)

Edward L. Cussler is an American chemical engineer and professor in the department of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Minnesota. He is internationally known for his work in fluid mechanics, transport phenomena, and gas separations, especially in the areas of membranes and gas sorption. Cussler is an author of more than 250 academic papers, dozens of patents, and five books including the acclaimed text: “Diffusion” . He has served as director, vice president and president of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers , and he presented the AIChE Institute Lecture in 2014.

#475

Fred McLafferty

#14724

Overall Influence

1923 - 2021 (98 years)

Fred Warren McLafferty was an American chemist known for his work in mass spectrometry. He is best known for the McLafferty rearrangement reaction that was observed with mass spectrometry. With Roland Gohlke, he pioneered the technique of gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. He is also known for electron-capture dissociation, a method of fragmenting gas-phase ions.

#476

Susumu Kitagawa

#49252

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

is a Japanese chemist working in the field of coordination chemistry, with specific focus on the chemistry of organic–inorganic hybrid compounds, as well as chemical and physical properties of porous coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks in particular. He is currently distinguished professor at Kyoto University's institute for integrated cell-material sciences , of which he is co-founder and current director.

#477

Allene Jeanes

#25747

Overall Influence

1906 - 1995 (89 years)

Allene Rosalind Jeanes was an American chemical researcher, whose studies focused mainly on carbohydrates and the development of Dextran, a substance that replaced blood plasma in the Korean War. A member of the American Chemical Society, Jeanes published over 60 works, compiled 24 presentations, and received ten patents.

#478

Raymond Dwek

#19450

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Raymond Allen Dwek CBE FRS FRSC is a scientist at the University of Oxford and co-founder of the biotechnology company Oxford GlycoSciences Ltd. Biography Dwek was educated at Carmel College, and the University of Manchester, where he studied chemistry . He then went to Oxford University and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he completed his DPhil in physical chemistry in 1966. He became Professor of Glycobiology in 1988 in the Department of Biochemistry. He is an emeritus fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and co-director of the Oxford Glycobiology Institute, which he founded in 1991. From 2000 to 2006, he was also head of the Department of Biochemistry.

#479

Rainer Moormann

Rainer Moormann

#20511

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Rainer Moormann is a German chemist and nuclear whistleblower. He grew up in Osnabrück. After finishing highschool he studied physical chemistry in Braunschweig and received a doctor's degree with Raman spectroscopic and theoretical investigations on hydrogen bonds in liquids.

#480

Désiré Collen

#26771

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

Désiré, Baron Collen is a Belgian physician, chemist, biotechnology entrepreneur and life science investor. He made several discoveries in thrombosis, haemostasis and vascular biology in many of which serendipity played a significant role. His main achievement has been his role in the development of tissue-type plasminogen activator from a laboratory concept to a life-saving drug for dissolving blood clots causing acute myocardial infarction or acute ischemic stroke. Recombinant t-PA was produced and marketed by Genentech Inc as Activase and by Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH as Actilyse, and is c...

#481

Pier Luigi Luisi

Pier Luigi Luisi

#13298

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Pier Luigi Luisi is an Italian chemist and academic. He received the "professor emeritus" title from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology . He worked there as a scientist from 1970 until 2003, and as a Professor of Chemistry from 1980 until he departed. Luisi then moved to the Roma Tre University as a Professor of Biochemistry, where he worked until 2015.

#482

Eleftherios Diamandis

#21269

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Eleftherios Phedias Diamandis is a Greek Cypriot-Canadian biochemist who specializes in clinical chemistry. He is Professor & Head of Clinical Biochemistry in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is also Division Head of Clinical Biochemistry at Mount Sinai Hospital and Biochemist-in-Chief at the University Health Network, both of which are also located in Toronto.

#483

George Parshall

George Parshall

#41882

Overall Influence

1929 - 2019 (90 years)

George W. Parshall was an American organometallic chemist who made notable contributions to homogeneous catalysis. He was a senior scientist at E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company for many years.

#484

Richard J. Saykally

Richard J. Saykally

#28793

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Richard James Saykally is an American chemist. He is currently the Class of 1932 Endowed Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He has received numerous awards for his research on the molecular characteristics of water and aqueous solutions.

#485

Alan G. Marshall

#30540

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Alan G. Marshall is an American analytical chemist who has devoted his scientific career to developing a scientific technique known as Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry, which he co-invented.

#486

Tamejiro Hiyama

#43718

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Tamejiro Hiyama is a Japanese organic chemist. He is best known for his work in developing the Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi reaction and the Hiyama coupling. He is currently a professor at the Chuo University Research and Development Initiative, and a Professor Emeritus of Kyoto University.

#487

Paul Doughty Bartlett

Paul Doughty Bartlett

#31227

Overall Influence

1907 - 1997 (90 years)

Paul Doughty Bartlett was an American chemist. Life and career Bartlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and grew up in Indianapolis. He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1928. After his graduation from Harvard with James Bryant Conant, Bartlett worked at the Rockefeller Institute and the University of Minnesota. Most of his career was spent at Harvard. Among other achievements, Bartlett was co-author with Lawrence H. Knox of a classic paper on organic reaction mechanisms. After his retirement in 1972, he started his second career at Texas Christian University.

#488

Paul Knochel

#31006

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Paul Knochel is a French chemist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Biography Paul Knochel was born in Strasbourg. He studied chemistry at the IUT in Strasbourg, then at the ENSCS . From 1979 to 1982, he completed his thesis entitled "Nitroallyl-halogenide und -ester als effiziente Verknüpfungsreagenzien" at ETH Zurich in Prof. Dieter Seebach's group. He then spent 4 years at the CNRS at the Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris in the group of Prof. Jean-François Normant. During this period, he studied carbozincation reactions using allylic reagents and prepared bimetallic compounds bearing two different metals on the same carbon atom.

#489

Marta Catellani

#15827

Overall Influence

Marta Catellani is an Italian chemist known for her discovery of the eponymous Catellani reaction in 1997. She was elected to the European Academy of Sciences in 2016. Catellani earned her Ph.D. in chemistry in 1971 from the University of Parma, where, as of 2019, she is a professor and chairs the Department of Organic Chemistry.

#490

Stephen G. Davies

#36719

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Stephen Graham Davies is a British chemist and was, until his retirement, the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford. Education Davies obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973 from New College, Oxford, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1975 under the supervision of Gordon H. Whitham.

#491

Patrick Harran

#46231

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Patrick Harran is an American organic chemist who has held the D. J. & J. M. Cram Chair in Organic Chemistry, an endowed chair at the University of California, Los Angeles, since 2008. Prior to taking this position he was a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Harran was educated at Skidmore College graduating in 1990. He went on to Yale University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1995.

#492

Kathryn Beers

#19149

Overall Influence

Kathryn L. Beers is an American polymer chemist. Beers is Leader of the Polymers and Complex Fluids group in the Materials Science and Engineering Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her research interests include microreactors and microfluidics, advances in polymer synthesis and reaction monitoring, macromolecular separations, integrated and high throughput measurements of polymeric materials, degradable and renewable polymeric materials, and sustainable materials.

#493

Sabu Thomas

#25454

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Sabu Thomas is an Indian professor who is serving as the vice-chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. He is also a full professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences. He was the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala during the period of 31 August 2017 to 31 August 2018, Director of School of Chemical Science during the period of 1 November 2010 to 31 December 2013. Hon. Director of International & Inter-University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology during the period of 28 March 2009 to 11 September 2015, 2 February 2016...

#494

Philip Eaton

#33618

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Philip E. Eaton was an American chemist. He served as Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. Eaton and his fellow researchers were the first to synthesize the "impossible" cubane molecule in 1964.

#495

Rayson Huang

#12314

Overall Influence

1920 - 2015 (95 years)

Rayson Lisung Huang, , was a Hong Kong chemist, who was an expert on radicals. He was the first Chinese Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong, a position in which he served from 1972 until 1986.

#496

Baldomero Olivera

#9052

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Baldomero Olivera is a Filipino chemist known for discovery of many cone snail toxins important for neuroscience. These molecules, called conotoxins, led to a breakthrough in the study of ion channels and neuromuscular synapses. He discovered and first characterized E. coli DNA ligase, a key enzyme of genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology.

#497

M. Christina White

#37934

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

M. Christina White is a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research in the field of organometallic catalysis focuses on developing highly selective carbon–hydrogen bond activation methods to streamline the process of complex molecule synthesis.

#498

Hermann Lux

#46568

Overall Influence

1904 - 1999 (95 years)

Hermann Lux , was a prominent inorganic chemist from Munich, Germany. Lux studied chemistry in the University of Karlsruhe where he graduated with honors in 1928 and then completed his education in the University of Bonn in 1929. He returned to Karlsruhe and worked there until his move to Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1937, where he worked as an assistant until 1940, then as a lecturer until 1946 and then became the head of the analytical chemistry department. He became an associate professor in 1944 and a full professor in 1955. He moved to the Technical University of Munich in 1968 where he was a full professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry until his retirement in 1973.

#499

Esther M. Conwell

#14808

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

Esther Marley Conwell was a pioneering American chemist and physicist, best known for the Conwell-Weisskopf theory that describes how electrons travel through semiconductors, a breakthrough that helped revolutionize modern computing. During her life, she was described as one of the most important women in science.

#500

Yuri Zhdanov

#17479

Overall Influence

1919 - 2006 (87 years)

Yuri Andreyevich Zhdanov was a Soviet and Russian chemistry professor and rector of the University of Rostov. He was the son of Soviet politician Andrei Zhdanov and a former husband of Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva.

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