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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Robert Alfred Laudise
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Doyle G. Graham
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Masayasu Inoue
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Richard Dean Piner
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Philip D. Bragg
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Trevor Douglas
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Stewart Parker
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Stewart F. Parker is a British scientist specialising in vibrational spectroscopy and catalysis. He works at the ISIS neutron source and is an Honorary Professor in the school of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow.
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Robert Adrian Rastall
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Edward James
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1947 - Present (78 years)
Edward Frederick James is a British scholar of medieval history and science fiction. He is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at University College, Dublin. James received the Hugo Award for his non-fiction book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction , and the Pilgrim Award for lifetime contribution to SF and fantasy scholarship.
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Christopher E. D. Chidsey
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Paul Dauenhauer
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1980 - Present (45 years)
Paul Dauenhauer , a chemical engineer and MacArthur Fellow, is the Lanny & Charlotte Schmidt Professor at the University of Minnesota . He is recognized for his research in catalysis science and engineering, especially, his contributions to the understanding of the catalytic breakdown of cellulose to renewable chemicals, the invention of oleo-furan surfactants, and the development of catalytic resonance theory and programmable catalysts.
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Ole Hassager
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Meenakshi Wadhwa
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1968 - Present (57 years)
Meenakshi Wadhwa is a planetary scientist and educator who studies the formation and evolution of the Solar System through the analysis of planetary materials including meteorites, Moon rocks and other extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft missions. She is director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.
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André Ménez
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John C. Dearden
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Robert Emerson Ireland
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David Lewis Mitchell
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Dan T. Major
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1973 - Present (52 years)
Dr. Dan Thomas Major is a Professor of Chemistry at Bar Ilan University specializing in Computational Chemistry. Biography Dan Major obtained his Ph.D. from the Chemistry Department at Bar-Ilan University in 2003, followed by three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota working with Prof. Jiali Gao. In 2007 he moved to the Chemistry Department at Bar-Ilan University, where he is now a full professor.
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Shoichiro Ikeda
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Karsten Meyer
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1968 - Present (57 years)
Karsten Meyer is a German inorganic chemist and Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg . His research involves the coordination chemistry of transition metals as well as uranium coordination chemistry, small molecule activation with these coordination complexes, and the synthesis of new chelating ligands. He is the 2017 recipient of the Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Award of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, the Ludwig-Mond Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the L.A. Chugaev Commemorative Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, among other awards.
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Supramaniam Srinivasan
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Erwin Sigel
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Yoshiteru Sakata
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Trevor Asher Kletz
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George Martel And J. R. Brock Hidy
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Brian P. Roberts
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Masahiro Hirama
#164855
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Derk J. Stufkens
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Naohiko Mikami
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Charles W. Gehrke
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1917 - 2009 (92 years)
Charles W. Gehrke was an American chemist, researcher and business entrepreneur. Biography and career Gehrke was born in New York City to a German immigrant mother and a laborer father . The family moved to Ohio when Charles was young. His father suffered from alcohol abuse, and when Charles was 10 years old, local police put the father on a train and told him that he would face jail for physically abusing his family if he ever returned. Left with five small children, the mother took cleaning jobs in the nearby town , and the two older boys worked as much as possible as field hands, ofte...
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Lihuang Zhu
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Ying Liang Bai
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Wei-ping Riley J.t. Pan
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Panos G. Georgopoulos
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Panos G. Georgopoulos is a Greek scientist working in the field of Environmental Health and specializing in Mathematical Modeling of Environmental and Biological Systems. He is the architect or the MOdeling ENvironment for Total Risk studies the DOse Response Information and Analysis system , and Prioritization/Ranking of Toxic Exposures with GIS Extension , all under continuing development at the Computational Chemodynamics Laboratory of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute .
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Wilfred F. Van Gunsteren
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Dong-yu Kim
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March S. Reisch
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Somsak Ruchirawat
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Yan-li Yao
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Timothy J. Richmond
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Diarmaid Hughes
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1956 - Present (69 years)
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Souheng Wu
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Muthanna H. Al‐dahhan
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Andre Gerald Buret
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Roger G. Finch
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Kristi Kiick
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1967 - Present (58 years)
Kristi Lynn Kiick is the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware. She studies polymers, biomaterials and hydrogels for drug delivery and regenerative medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and of the National Academy of Inventors. She served for nearly eight years as the deputy dean of the college of engineering at the University of Delaware.
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Hugo Kubinyi
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Stephan Förster
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1959 - Present (66 years)
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Sambasivarao Kotha
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Amolak Chand Jain
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1928 - Present (97 years)
Amolak Chand Jain is an Indian natural product chemist, academic and the head of the department of chemistry at Delhi University, University of Jammu and Himachal Pradesh University. He is known for his studies on polyphenols, flavonoids and isoflavonoids and their syntheses. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Sciences, India and a life member of the International Academy of Physical Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swar...
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