The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,
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Ian M. Head
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Richard E. Anderson
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Noel Bayliss
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1906 - 1996 (90 years)
Sir Noel Stanley Bayliss was an Australian chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Western Australia. He was a Rhodes Scholar and graduated as dux of the academically renowned Melbourne High School. He then attended the University of Melbourne before going to Lincoln College, Oxford. The mineral baylissite K2Mg2•4 is named for him.
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Joseph C. Touchstone
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John A. Rupley
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Bamin Khomami
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Bamin Khomami, the Granger and Beaman Distinguished University Professor from the University of Tennessee and former Francis F. Ahmann Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Illinois, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Fluid Dynamics in 2009, for his insightful application of novel numerical methods, molecular modeling, and experiments toward the physical understanding of elastic fluid flows including discovering and explaining novel aspects of their purely elastic and thermomechanical instability.
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Noriaki Wakao
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Kang-nian Fan
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Glen R. Nemerow
#163047
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Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern
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1956 - Present (69 years)
Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern is a German Process Engineer. He is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg and Chair of Chemical Engineering at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.
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Lorenz Biegler
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Lorenz Theodor Biegler is the professor of Covestro University Professor, in the Chemical Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. He was previously the department head of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon from 2013 to 2018. His research interests lie in optimization of differential and algebraic systems, computer aided process engineering , reactor network synthesis, and algorithms for constrained, nonlinear process control. He has written two widely used textbooks, and over 400 scientific publications.
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Kyu‐hwan Oh
#163062
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Katherine A. Lathrop
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1915 - 2005 (90 years)
Katherine Austin Lathrop was an American nuclear medicine researcher, biochemist and member of the Manhattan Project. Lathrop conducted pioneer work on the effects of radiation exposure on animals and humans.
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Yu‐guo Zheng
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Jan‐willem Bats
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Wen-shuai Zhu
#163121
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Susmita Bose
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Overall Influence
1969 - Present (56 years)
Susmita Bose is an Indian-American scientist and engineer, best known for her research on biomaterials, 3D printing or additive manufacturing of bone implants and natural medicine. She is the Herman and Brita Lindholm Endowed Chair Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University.
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Dominique Weis
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Ichiro Kudo
#163163
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Toshinobu Yoko
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Heinz Heimgartner
#163230
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1941 - Present (84 years)
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Adel. A. Ismail
#163269
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Yasunori Nagoya Taga
#163283
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Herbert Wieser
#163286
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Vincent L. Pecoraro
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (69 years)
Vincent L. Pecoraro, professor at the University of Michigan, is a researcher in bioinorganic chemistry and inorganic chemistry. He is a specialist in the chemistry and biochemistry of manganese, vanadium, and metallacrown chemistry. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Mario Comporti
#163369
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Paolo Carloni
#163375
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Chen‐guang Liu
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Lionel J. Goad
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Timothy J. Bunning
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Harald Jockusch
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1939 - Present (86 years)
Harald Jockusch is a German biologist and artist with the alias Hal Jos. Scientific career Scientific education as biologist Jockusch studied biology and chemistry in Frankfurt am Main, Tübingen and Munich. He did his thesis work at the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen in the group headed by Georg Melchers and finished 1966 with the doctoral thesis: Temperatursensitive Mutanten des Tabakmosaikvirus and an examination at the University of Tübingen in genetics, microbiology and organic chemistry. As a student and doctoral candidate Jockusch was a freelance scientific journali...
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Judit Puskas
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Judit Puskas is a Distinguished Ohio State University professor noted as co-inventor of the polymer used on the Taxus-brand coronary stent. She is the first woman to win the Charles Goodyear Medal, the highest honor conferred by the American Chemical Society's Rubber Division. Her research focuses on polymer engineering for breast reconstruction in cancer treatment, green polymer chemistry, biomimetic processes, biomaterials, living polymerization, polymerization mechanisms and kinetics, thermoplastic elastomers, polymer structure/property relationships, and polymer-bio interfaces.
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Petra Fromme
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Petra Fromme is a German-American chemist who is Director of the Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery and Regents Professor at the Arizona State University. Her research considers the structure-to-function relationship of the membrane proteins involved with infectious diseases and bio-energy conversion. In 2021, she was awarded the Protein Society Anfinsen Award.
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Timothy Holland
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Timothy John Barrington Holland is a petrologist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Education Holland was educated at the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1977 for research on eclogites in the Tauern region of the Alps supervised by Stephen W. Richardson.
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Rainer Wieler
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1949 - Present (76 years)
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Roberto Pellicciari
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David W. Murhammer
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1957 - Present (68 years)
David W. Murhammer is professor and former department chair of chemical and biochemical engineering at the University of Iowa, specializing in biochemical engineering. He is also a member of the Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing there. Murhammer received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Oregon State University, and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of Houston in 1989. Murhammer was a graduate student under Charles F. Goochee. He then joined the college of engineering in 1989 as assistant professor, becoming professor in 2003.
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Leo. De Galan
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Sue Brannon Clark
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1961 - Present (64 years)
Sue Brannon Clark is an environmental radiochemist. Since receiving her doctorate in inorganic and radiochemistry from Florida State University in 1989, Clark has worked at Washington State University where she leads a research team on the chemistry and chemical engineering of processing nuclear materials. She has also held various leadership roles at WSU, including serving as interim vice chancellor for academic affairs and interim dean of the college of sciences.
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René Csuk
#163648
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2000 - Present (25 years)
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Mark. G. Currie
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Arun Yethiraj
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2000 - Present (25 years)
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Paula Booth
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Paula Jane Booth is an English chemist who holds the Daniell Chair of Chemistry at King's College London and is Head of Department. Booth was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2003, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2008 and an ERC Advanced grant in 2012 for her novel work on investigating the mechanisms of biological self-assembly.
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Karlheinz Eberl
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Kazuo Kitaura
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Edoardo Garrone
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Manfred Metzler
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Lingyun. Wu
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Paul Augustus Prof Seib
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Gaorong R. Han
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