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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,

#4701

Roland Wollast

#161617

Overall Influence

#4702

Rachel McKendry

Rachel McKendry

#95946

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Rachel Anne McKendry is a British chemist. She is Director of i-sense, a UK-based interdisciplinary research collaboration developing early warning sensing systems for infectious diseases, and was part of the UK's Cross Council Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance. McKendry is also Professor of Biomedical Nanoscience at University College London, holding a joint appointment in the Division of Medicine and the London Centre for Nanotechnology.

#4703

Nicholas D. Barber

#161760

Overall Influence

#4704

Ned D. Heindel

#118521

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Ned D. Heindel was an American chemist. He was the Howard S. Bunn Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Lehigh University, where he continued to do research. Heindel also worked as a medical research consultant. Heindel's research focused on diagnostic and therapeutic drug development. He served as president of the American Chemical Society in 1994, and has twice chaired the ACS Division for the History of Chemistry. He died on June 27, 2023.

#4705

Sung Chul Kim

#161773

Overall Influence

#4706

Gojko Lalic

#87530

Overall Influence

Gojko Lalic is an American chemistry professor and head of a university research lab. Biography Lalic is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle, having joined the faculty in 2008. He also heads the Lalic Research Group which addresses the synthesis of complex organic molecules used in the pharmaceutical industry.

#4707

Jyh‐ping Hsu

#161817

Overall Influence

#4708

Uzi Kaldor

#161872

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (86 years)

#4709

Brett A. Sexton

#161886

Overall Influence

#4710

Alexander Barnes

#141460

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Alexander Benjamin Barnes is an American chemist. Educated at Whitman College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has taught at Washington University in St. Louis and ETH Zurich. Career Alexander Barnes earned his undergraduate degree in chemistry in 2003 from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. After earning his Ph.D. in chemistry in 2011 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under advisor Robert G. Griffin, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Stanford University. He was an assistant chemistry professor of chemistry at Washington University in St.

#4711

Michael L. Seibert

#161948

Overall Influence

#4712

Richard D. Suenram

#161971

Overall Influence

#4713

José Luis Torero

#162030

Overall Influence

#4714

John E. Bertie

#162037

Overall Influence

#4715

Albert Weller

#162040

Overall Influence

#4716

Frank A. Podosek

#162043

Overall Influence

#4717

Andrei Tokmakoff

#162047

Overall Influence

#4718

David Max Roundhill

#162057

Overall Influence

#4719

Jürgen Rullkötter

#162068

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

#4720

Jorge H. Capdevila

#162079

Overall Influence

#4721

Stanisław Biniecki

#125523

Overall Influence

1907 - 1999 (92 years)

Stanisław Biniecki was a Polish doctor, pharmacist, and chemist. He discovered Todralazine and Gapicomine . Life He graduated from Państwowe Gimnazjum im. Bolesława Chrobrego w Gnieźnie where he passed his secondary school-leaving examination in 1927. In 1933, he finished his pharmaceutical studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 1945–1947 he headed the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Poznań, in 1947, after moving to Warsaw, he took a similar position at the Medical Academy, he also became a member of the Main Board of the Polish Pharmaceutical Society.

#4722

Vicki Wysocki

#143409

Overall Influence

Vicki Wysocki is an American scientist. She is a professor and an Ohio Eminent Scholar at Ohio State University, and also the director of the Campus Chemical Instrument Center. Education Vicki Wysocki received a BS in chemistry from Western Kentucky University in 1982. She received a PhD in chemistry at Purdue University in 1987, under the supervision of R. Graham Cooks. She did post-doctoral work at Purdue University and at the US Naval Research Laboratory as a National Research Council Fellow.

#4723

Kiyoshi Otsuka

#162162

Overall Influence

#4724

Mary Jo Ondrechen

Mary Jo Ondrechen

#50215

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Mary Jo Ondrechen is an American chemist, educator, researcher, community leader and activist. She serves as Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Principal Investigator of the Computational Biology Research Group at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

#4725

Jacques Robert Fresco

#48771

Overall Influence

1928 - 2021 (93 years)

Jacques Robert Fresco was an American biochemist. Fresco earned a dual chemistry and biology bachelor's degree from New York University, completed a master's degree in biology followed by a doctorate in biochemistry. Prior to joining the Princeton University faculty in 1960, he worked for the American Heart Association. Fresco was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968, and retired from Princeton as Damon B. Pfeiffer Professor in the Life Sciences, Emeritus.

#4726

Xiaoye Source Zhang

#162187

Overall Influence

#4727

Zelig Eshhar

#162216

Overall Influence

#4728

Margaret-Ann Armour

#121526

Overall Influence

1939 - 2019 (80 years)

Margaret-Ann Armour was a Scottish-born Canadian chemist based at the University of Alberta. She is best known for her expertise in developing guidelines for hazardous lab waste disposal, and for being a vocal advocate for women in science. Armour founded the Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science and Technology program, and served as the first and only Associate Dean of Science for Diversity at the University of Alberta. Among her many honors, she was named a member of the Order of Canada , a 3M Teaching Fellow and a Canada 150 ambassador .

#4729

Sigeru Torii

#162269

Overall Influence

#4730

Richard C. Willson

#162274

Overall Influence

#4731

Taiji Imoto

#162279

Overall Influence

#4732

Anastassis Perrakis

#162298

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

#4733

Malcolm Hooper

#91086

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Malcolm Hooper is a British pharmacist and emeritus professor of medicinal chemistry at the University of Sunderland. He is best known for his advocacy related to Gulf War syndrome. Gulf War Syndrome advisor Hooper is the Chief Scientific Adviser to the British Gulf War Veterans Association.

#4734

Todd F. Dupont

#162333

Overall Influence

#4735

Joseph Kost

#103890

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Joseph Kost is an Israeli academic, currently holder of The Abraham and Bessie Zacks Chair in Biomedical Engineering and the past Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

#4736

Michel Primet

#162398

Overall Influence

#4737

Louis Giglio

#162402

Overall Influence

#4738

Mohammad Golam Rasul

#162436

Overall Influence

#4739

Xin-hai Li

#162441

Overall Influence

#4740

Mario Ruben

#151907

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Mario Ruben is a German chemist and university professor. Since 2013 he holds the research unit chair „Molecular Materials“ and is director at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and at the University of Strasbourg.

#4741

Xiao‐chun Han

#162447

Overall Influence

#4742

Cather Simpson

#101966

Overall Influence

Miriam Cather Simpson is a New Zealand-American physics/chemistry academic and entrepreneur. She is currently a professor at the University of Auckland, a joint appointment between the physics and chemistry departments. She is the founder of the Photon Factory laser lab at the University of Auckland and the chief science officer for two spin-off companies, Engender Technologies and Orbis Diagnostics. She is an Associate Investigator for the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies and an Emeritus Investigator for the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

#4743

Joseph Alan Frank

#162618

Overall Influence

#4744

Noel A. Hampson

#162647

Overall Influence

#4745

Heather Sheardown

#132070

Overall Influence

Heather Sheardown is a professor in the Chemical Engineering department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and holder of a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Ophthalmic Biomaterials and Drug Delivery System from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council . Her research has focused on biomaterials and eye health, including bioengineered contact lenses, and eye drops that can be used for targeted drug delivery. She was the student of Professor John Brash.

#4746

C. Judson King

#90985

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

C. Judson King is an American chemical engineer, researcher, administrator and educator. He is professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley, and UC universitywide provost and senior vice president of academic affairs, emeritus, at University of California. He is the former director of Center for Studies in Higher Education and the former dean of College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley.

#4747

Arthur L. Robinson

#162754

Overall Influence

#4748

Julia Chan

#93300

Overall Influence

Julia Y. Chan is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Baylor University. Chan is an expert in the area of intermetallic crystal growth with a focus on new quantum materials. Early life and education Chan moved to New York City at the age of eight and spent her childhood in North America. Chan studied at Baylor University and graduated in 1993. Initially a music majorspecialising in the violinshe soon became interested in chemistry. At Baylor, Chan worked under the supervision of Carlos Manzanares and Marianna Busch. She earned her doctoral degree under the supervision of Susan M. Kauzlarich at the University of California, Davis in 1998.

#4749

Johannes Leonardus Ger Hermens

#162853

Overall Influence

#4750

Morton Z. Hoffman

#162905

Overall Influence

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