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,
#4601
Hans Herbert Brintzinger
#159824
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#4602
Shaomeng J. Wang
#159855
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#4603
Michael D. Mcgehee
#159875
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#4604
Dimitris Vlassopoulos
#159885
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#4605
Filippo Cademartiri
#159886
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (72 years)
#4606
Tsutomu Ohzuku
#159927
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#4607
László Zsolnai
#159943
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#4608
Zuzanna S. Siwy
#133607
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (53 years)
Zuzanna Stefania Siwy is a Polish–American chemist at the University of California, Irvine. Her research considers synthetic nanopores and their application in ionic devices. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Foundation for Polish Science.
Go to Profile#4609
Peter F. Green
#92478
Overall Influence
Peter F. Green is a materials scientist and the Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Education Green earned BA and MA degrees in physics at Hunter College in 1981, and MS and PhD degrees in materials science and engineering at Cornell University in 1985.
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Peter Wilhelm Schiller
#160064
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#4611
Maciej Kubicki
#160079
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (75 years)
#4612
H»kon Hope
#160080
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#4613
Neil G. Connelly
#160140
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#4614
Ran Ran
#160209
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#4615
Jennifer Roizen
#59456
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Jennifer Lyn Roizen is an American chemist who is a professor at Duke University. Roizen studies C-H functionalization, antibiotics and selective ion channel inhibitors. She joined the International Advisory Board of Angewandte Chemie in 2021.
Go to Profile#4616
Lulu Qian
#47499
Overall Influence
Lulu Qian is a Chinese-American biochemist who is a professor at the California Institute of Technology. Her research uses DNA-like molecules to build artificial machines. Early life and education Qian is from China. She completed her bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering at Southeast University in Nanjing. Qian moved to Shanghai for her doctoral research, where she worked at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on biochemistry. She then moved to the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow. At Caltech, she worked alongside Erik Winfree on biochemical circuits. She used a rev...
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A. Courtney Williams
#160225
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#4618
Thomas Weyhermüller
#160227
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (63 years)
#4619
Leslie M. Hicks
#115742
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Leslie Hicks is an American associate professor of analytical chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work primarily focuses on the study of proteomics and protein post-translational modifications using mass spectrometry, and identifying biologically active peptides in plants.
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Patrick Drogui
#160274
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#4621
David Smith Horne
#160296
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#4622
Keiji Yamamoto
#160317
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#4623
Gunnar Aksnes
#101150
Overall Influence
1926 - 2010 (84 years)
Gunnar Aksnes was a Norwegian chemist and poet, the brother of the astronomer Kaare Aksnes, married to Milly Aksnes Career Aksnes started his studies in 1945 at the University of Oslo where he completed Mag.Scient exam in 1951. He was then employed by the Norwegian Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt , and where he worked with problem related to chemical warfare agent until 1960. Then turning his Heimatt to the West Coast, to assistant professor of organic chemistry at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bergen . In 1962 Aksnes defended his Dr.Philos. degree, and was appointed Profes...
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Haijiang Henry Wang
#160412
Overall Influence
#4625
Shmaryahu Hoz
#102875
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (80 years)
Shmaryahu Hoz is a Professor Emeritus specializing in physical organic chemistry and computational nanotechnology. Biography Shmaryahu Hoz was born in Jerusalem in 1945. He received a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Physics and an M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Hebrew University. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Bar Ilan University and did post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz with Prof. Joseph F. Bunnett. He joined the Chemistry Department at Bar Ilan University in 1975. His major research areas are: physical organic chemistry, the chemistry of SmI2, computational n...
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Masaakia Yoshifuji
#160440
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#4627
You-quan Deng
#160443
Overall Influence
#4628
Michael Bühl
#71308
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (63 years)
Michael Bühl is a professor of Computational and Theoretical Chemistry in the School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews. He has published work on the performance of various density functionals, modelling thermal and medium effects, transition-metal NMR of metalloenzymes, modelling of homogeneous catalysis, and molecular dynamics of transition metal complexes.
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Mason B. Tomson
#160455
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#4630
Gordon F. Kirkbright
#160490
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#4631
Victor A. Kabanov
#160499
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#4632
Martin. A. Hubbe
#160505
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#4633
Thomas Hankemeier
#160529
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#4634
Flower Msuya
#62551
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (66 years)
Flower Ezekiel Msuya is a Tanzanian phycologist. She specialises in algaculture and integrated aquaculture. Early life and education Flower Ezekiel Msuya was born in 1959 in Kifula , a division of Mwanga District in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. She earned her BSc in botany and statistics from the University of Dar es Salaam. She received an MSc in fisheries and aquaculture from the University of Kuopio in Finland. Based on a course in phycology , she developed an interest in seaweed farming. She earned her PhD in seaweed-integrated aquaculture from Tel Aviv University in 2004. Her the...
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Keisuke Kurita
#160571
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#4636
Alain Mauger
#160628
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#4637
Thilo Hofmann
#160640
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1967 - Present (58 years)
#4638
Patricia E. Phelan
#160642
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#4639
Roberto Paolesse
#160649
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#4640
Christopher D. Lima
#85601
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Christopher David Lima is an American biologist. He is currently Chair and Member at the Sloan Kettering Institute of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and National Academy of Sciences.
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Giuseppe Etiope
#160682
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#4642
Dhevalapally B. Ramachary
#74243
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (52 years)
Dhevalapally B. Ramachary FTAS, FRSC, FASc, FNASc, also known as D. B. Ramachary , is an Indian chemist and professor at the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad. He has made numerous contributions in various fields of chemical science.
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Kevin C. Marshall
#160689
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#4644
Geoffrey E. Coates
#107134
Overall Influence
1917 - 2013 (96 years)
Geoffrey Edward Coates was an English organometallic chemist and academic. He developed the basics for new materials in plastics, semiconductors and pharmaceuticals. During his career, he was a professor at Durham University, the University of Bristol, and head of the chemistry department at the University of Wyoming. Coates is known for contributions to the organometallic chemistry of beryllium, as well as authorship of the seminal textbook Organometallic Compounds.
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Shinji Yokoyama
#160711
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#4646
Harukuni Tokuda
#160729
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#4647
J. Duncan Young
#160742
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#4648
Alberto Ciferri
#160774
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (95 years)
#4649
Hitoshi Fujisawa
#160778
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#4650
Feliu Maseras
#160781
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