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,
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Stanley. Hartland
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Rebecca Jane Dearman
#163849
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#4803
Justin J. Mccormick
#163855
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#4804
Nasser Iranpoor
#163861
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#4805
Richard P. Messmer
#163862
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#4806
Hang-sik Koong-dong Shin
#163866
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#4807
Shou-xin Liu
#163867
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#4808
Lawrence D. Mayer
#163919
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Antony F. Mcdonagh
#163934
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#4810
Tadeusz Baranowski
#54297
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1910 - 1993 (83 years)
Tadeusz Baranowski was a Polish chemist. From 1965 to 1968 he was the rector of Wrocław Medical University. In 1933 he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, and then stayed at the university, under the supervision of Prof. Jakub Parnas, where he conducted research in the field of biochemistry, including studies on ammonia. In the years 1935–1937 he worked as a researcher at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, then until the outbreak of World War II at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv.
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Taijiro Matsushima
#163974
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#4812
Paul. Davidovits
#164004
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Erik L. Hewlett
#164008
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#4814
Fung‐lung Chung
#164015
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#4815
Harold Wesley Moore
#164026
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#4816
William E. Wallace
#87607
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1917 - 2004 (87 years)
William E. Wallace was a preeminent physical chemist whose career coincided with the golden age of chemistry. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Mississippi College in 1936, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 1941. As many prominent scientists of his era, he worked on the Manhattan Project during the Second World War, but he returned to the University of Pittsburgh as a faculty member in 1945. He remained there for the rest of his career, eventually becoming the fourth chairman of the chemistry department from 1963 to 1977, and then a Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus.
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Hiromichi Arai
#164042
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#4818
Adrian R. Ferré-d’amaré
#164059
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#4819
Rik R. Tykwinski
#164064
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1965 - Present (60 years)
#4820
Athina Anastasaki
#159108
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Athina Anastasaki is a Greek chemist who is a professor at ETH Zurich. Her research considers chemical synthesis and radical polymerisation. She was awarded the 2022 Ruzicka Prize in recognition of her research in chemistry.
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Milton J. Cormier
#164077
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#4822
Yoshihiro Kakeji
#164101
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#4823
Richard J. Sherins
#164104
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#4824
W. E. E. Smith
#164108
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#4825
Etsuo Akiba
#164118
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#4826
Jeffrey Yeenien Tsao
#164131
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#4827
Carlos Andrés Osorio Murillo
#164132
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#4828
Masahiro Hatano
#164143
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#4829
Ji-xiao Wang
#164150
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#4830
Thorn H. Dunning
#164155
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#4831
Olafs Daugulis
#164159
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Olafs Daugulis is an American chemist, currently the Robert A. Welch Chair of Chemistry at the University of Houston.
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Satoshi Sato
#164193
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#4833
Oleksandr Voznyy
#164202
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#4834
Henryk Ratajczak
#164206
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#4835
Kunio Arai
#164209
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#4836
Jonathan Pilbrow
#164213
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Lon J. Mathias
#164215
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Filipp Furche
#164231
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1974 - Present (51 years)
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Alamgir Karim
#128902
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Alamgir Karim, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after they were nominated by their Division of Polymer Physics in 2004, for pioneering research on polymer thin films and interfaces, polymer brushes, blend film phase separation, thin film dewetting, pattern formation in block copolymer films, and the application of combinatoric measurement methods to complex polymer physics.
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Staci Simonich
#98254
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Staci Simonich is an American environmental scientist who is a professor and dean for the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University. Her research considers how chemicals move through the environment. She was appointed Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021.
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Annia Galano
#164312
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Yoon‐bo Shim
#164332
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Benedetto Terracini
#164350
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Donald W. Brenner
#164354
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Henrik Koch
#160089
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1964 - Present (61 years)
Henrik Koch is a Danish scientist. His field is theoretical chemistry. He is Full Professor at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in Italy. Education and professional career Koch received his Lic.scient. in theoretical chemistry from Aarhus University in Denmark in 1991. In 2002 he was appointed professor at the Natural Science Faculty at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology . From 2018 onward he is Full Professor at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and Adjunct Professor at NTNU.
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Robert H. Wentorf Jr.
#154010
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1926 - 1997 (71 years)
Robert H. Wentorf Jr. was a staff scientist at General Electric Corporate Research and Development Laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y. and a professor of chemical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.
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Dmitrii Perepichka
#164389
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1972 - Present (53 years)
Dmitrii "Dima" F. Perepichka is the Chair of Chemistry Department and Sir William C. MacDonald Chair Professor in Chemistry at McGill University. His research interest are primarily in the area of organic electronics. He has contributed in the understanding of structural electronics effects of organic conjugated materials at molecular, supramolecular, and macromolecular levels via the study of small molecules, supramolecular assemblies, polymers, covalent organic frameworks, and on-surface assemblies/polymers.
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Andreas Kirschning
#164400
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1960 - Present (65 years)
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Peter Farmer
#155585
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1947 - Present (78 years)
Peter Farmer FRSC, CChem is a British toxicologist. Farmer spent most of his early career as a researcher with the Toxicology Unit at the Medical Research Council. In 2002 he was appointed joint Director of the MRC's Cancer Biomarkers and Prevention ESS Group at the University of Leicester. He was also an Honorary Professor in Biochemistry and Cancer Studies at Leicester, becoming emeritus on retirement.
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Naohiko Yoshikai
#164446
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2000 - Present (25 years)
