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,
#4501
Alexander T. Shulgin
#158201
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Timothy J. Deming
#158210
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#4503
Yasutaka Takatsuki-shii Ishii
#158232
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#4504
L. Harris Smith
#158234
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Hicham Idriss
#158259
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#4506
Michael J. Whiticar
#158293
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#4507
Prof. Pieter Stroeve
#158345
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#4508
Camille G. Wermuth
#92463
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1933 - 2015 (82 years)
Camille Georges Wermuth was a chemist in the Laboratoire de Pharmacochimie Moleculaire at the Universite Louis Pasteur in Illkirch, France. He is particularly known for his editing of The Practice of Medicinal Chemistry which has been issued in four editions.
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Tibor Braun
#158367
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#4510
Katja Lindenberg
#152328
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1941 - Present (84 years)
Katja Lindenberg is an Ecuadorian-American theoretical chemical physicist whose research concerns statistical mechanics, stochastic processes, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, and quantum thermodynamics. She is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.
Go to Profile#4511
Roger-st.c.smart Smart
#158379
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#4512
Michael J. Sailor
#137233
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Michael J. Sailor is a nanotechnology researcher and professor at the University of California, San Diego. Sailor is best known for his research on porous silicon, a nanostructured material that is prepared by electrochemical corrosion of crystalline silicon wafers.
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Mariusz Jaskólski
#158389
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1952 - Present (73 years)
#4514
Wolfgang Kroutil
#158401
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1972 - Present (53 years)
#4515
K. De Vrieze
#158415
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#4516
Gordon C. K. Roberts
#158441
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#4517
Ghaleb Husseini
#124713
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Ghaleb A. Husseini is a chemical-engineering professor in the College of Engineering at the American University of Sharjah . He is a member of the Mohammed bin Rashed Academy of Scientists in the United Arab Emirates.
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Malcolm Sainsbury
#158489
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#4519
Hubertus Fischer
#158503
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#4520
Paolo Melchiorre
#158505
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1973 - Present (52 years)
#4521
Mordecai Shelef
#158527
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#4522
Takao Fusayama
#158576
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#4523
Julian Eastoe
#147622
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1965 - Present (60 years)
Julian Grahame Eastoe is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bristol. His research interests span colloid and interface science, surfactant chemistry and applications of neutron scattering. He was educated at Solihull Sixth Form College and the University of East Anglia .
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Serge Lefrant
#158626
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#4525
Susan M. Lunte
#120581
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Susan M. Lunte is an American chemist who is the Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas. She also works as director of the NIH COBRE Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways. She was awarded the 2023 ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry.
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Vijayalekshmi Nair
#158645
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#4527
J. Bryan Jones
#158648
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#4528
Matthew Todd
#62394
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1973 - Present (52 years)
Matthew Houghton Todd is a British chemist and the Professor and Chair of Drug Discovery of the School of Pharmacy at University College London. He is the founder of Open Source Malaria and his research focuses on drug discovery and development for this disease. Recently, he has expanded to other areas, particularly neglected diseases such as tuberculosis and mycetoma in the Open Source Tuberculosis and Open Source Mycetoma project, through a collaboration with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative and Erasmus MC. In addition, he has some research activity in catalysis and methodolog...
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Robin L. Garrell
#98007
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Robin L. Garrell is an American chemist, academic and former president of The Graduate Center, CUNY. Until 2020, Garrell served as vice provost for graduate education and dean of graduate division at University of California, Los Angeles . Prior to this role, Garrell was assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh from 1984 to 1991, then joined the faculty in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, where she became full professor and held a joint appointment in bioengineering. Garrell assumed her current position at The Graduate Center on August 1, 2020. </ref> On August ...
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John William Vanderhoff
#158706
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Egbert Jan Boekema
#158710
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#4532
Zoltán Kónya
#158711
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1971 - Present (54 years)
#4533
Michiel Sprik
#158735
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1953 - Present (72 years)
#4534
Akira Tomita
#158745
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#4535
Rommie Amaro
#96992
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Rommie E. Amaro is a professor and endowed chair of chemistry and biochemistry and the director of the National Biomedical Computation Resource at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on development of computational methods in biophysics for applications to drug discovery.
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Brandi Cossairt
#148561
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1984 - Present (41 years)
Brandi Michelle Cossairt is an American chemist specializing in synthetic inorganic and materials chemistry. She is the Lloyd E. and Florence M. West Endowed Professor of Chemistry at University of Washington.
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Jeffrey L. Petersen
#158762
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Jay. B. Jeffries
#158789
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Robert I. Cukier
#158805
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Wolfram Koch
#158821
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1959 - Present (66 years)
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Sérgio Trindade
#91775
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1940 - 2020 (80 years)
Sérgio Campos Trindade was a Brazilian chemical engineer and researcher, specialist in renewable energies and consultant in sustainable business. Trindade was the coordinating lead author for a chapter of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, Methodological and Technical Issues in Technology Transfer ; the IPCC as an organization won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as a result of its contributors' work.
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Marcus Elstner
#158868
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Michael Oehme
#158870
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Michael D. Mcgehee
#158879
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Graham Kenneth Crompton
#158886
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Gretchen Keppel-Aleks
#62985
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Gretchen Keppel-Aleks is an American scientist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan in the College of Engineering's department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering. She primarily focuses on Earth's climate and the effects of greenhouse gasses on Earth's atmosphere. Keppel-Aleks has been named a Kavli Fellow by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
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G. Winifred Ford
#158991
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Consuelo Guerri
#159002
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Donna Huryn
#158209
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Donna M. Huryn is an American medicinal and organic chemist. She received her B.A. from Cornell University, and Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. She is on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh’s school of pharmacy, holds an adjunct appointment in the department of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, is the principal investigator of the University of Pittsburgh Chemical Diversity Center, and was a visiting fellow in the summer of 2017 at the University of Bologna. She is a fellow of the American Chemical Society, recipient of the ACS Philadelphia ...
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Jonathan M. M. Williams
#159018
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