The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,
#4901
George I. Fujimoto
#39373
Overall Influence
1920 - Present (105 years)
George Iwao Fujimoto was an American chemist of Japanese descent. Life and career Fujimoto was born in Seattle, Washington on July 1, 1920. During his studies at Harvard his family was imprisoned in an American internment camp Minidoka in Idaho. He discovered the Fujimoto-Belleau reaction, which is named after him and Bernard Belleau.
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Suresh Kumar Bhatia
#121053
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1952 - Present (73 years)
Suresh Kumar Bhatia is an Indian-born chemical engineer and professor emeritus at the School of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland. He is known for his studies on porous media and catalytic and non-catalytic solid fluid reactions. He was awarded an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences , and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering . In 1993, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Indian government's peak agency for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize...
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Eiichi Kikuchi
#165371
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Jean-claude F. Meunier
#165384
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#4905
Rui Fausto
#165391
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1961 - Present (64 years)
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Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić
#110967
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Jadranka Travaš-Sejdić is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2018 is a professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After an undergraduate at the University of Zagreb in Croatia and a PhD titled 'Study of the interactions and structure in polyelectrolyte copolymer gel systems based on acrylamide monomers' at the University of Auckland, Travaš-Sejdić joined the staff, rising to full professor.
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Eli M. Pearce
#129672
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1929 - 2015 (86 years)
Eli M. Pearce was research professor at New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering and a past-president of the American Chemical Society. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Brooklyn College in 1949. Pearce earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn . He published more than 250 papers on his research. He designed fire-resistant polymers.
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Philippe Renaud
#165428
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1959 - Present (66 years)
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Thomas Clifford Alber
#165447
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#4910
Gianni. Astarita
#165455
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#4911
Stephanie Brock
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Stephanie Lee Brock is an American chemist who is professor of inorganic chemistry at Wayne State University. Her research considers transition metal pnictides and chalcogenide nanomaterials. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society.
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Gaurav Sharma
#165485
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Stefano Baroni
#165499
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Derin Orhon
#165513
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#4915
Claude P. Andrieux
#165572
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#4916
Ohyun Kwon
#153816
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Ohyun Kwon is a Korean-American chemist who is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research considers new methodologies for organic transformations and the development of chiral catalysts.
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Ichiro Okura
#165581
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#4918
Kazuo Soga
#165597
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#4919
Steven A. Soper
#154623
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Steven Alan Soper is an American biomedical engineer who currently serves as the director of the NIH-funded, Center of BioModular Multiscale Systems for Precision Medicine . He has served as a professor at the Universities of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Louisiana State University and is currently a Foundation Distinguished Professor in Mechanical engineering, Chemistry, and Bioengineering at the University of Kansas. He also holds adjunct positions in the Department of Cancer Biology and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology . He is t...
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John D. Chodera
#165612
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#4921
Seiichi Takano
#165620
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#4922
Victoria Samanidou
#93717
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (62 years)
Victoria F. Samanidou is a Greek analytical chemist. She is a professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Thessaloniki, Greece. Early life She was born in Thessaloniki in 1963. Career She is a professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Alex Avdeef
#165684
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#4924
Neil M. Hogg
#165703
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#4925
Alain Van Dorsselaer
#165704
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#4926
Piero Alberto Salvadori
#165708
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#4927
Francesc Teixidor
#165713
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#4928
Xiu-rong Yang
#165714
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#4929
Krystyna Pyrzyńska
#165784
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#4930
Yousif K. Kharaka
#165796
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#4931
Yan-wu Zhu
#165808
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#4932
Xin‐yong Li
#165822
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#4933
Shuji Kanemasa
#165831
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#4934
Katherine B. Hoffman
#112520
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1914 - 2020 (106 years)
Katherine "Kitty" Marie Blood Hoffman was an American chemist and academic administrator. Education and career Hoffman was born on August 1, 1914, in Winter Haven, Florida. She attended the Florida State College for Women for her undergraduate. She began her degree in 1932, and finished with a degree in bacteriology in 1936. She went on to Columbia University for a master's degree in chemistry, which she completed in 1938.
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Chih-chang Ithaca Chu
#165836
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#4936
Chan B. Park
#165838
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#4937
Ann-Sofie Sandberg
#151707
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1951 - Present (74 years)
Ann-Sofie Sandberg is a Swedish professor in Food and Nutritional Science at Chalmers University of Technology. Biography Sandberg got her PhD in 1982. Her dissertation was on the 'Effects of Dietary Fibers on Ileostomy Patients'.
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W. A. C. Kitching
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Philip D. Ross
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Parisa Mehrkhodavandi
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Parisa Mehrkhodavandi is a Canadian chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia . Her research focuses on the design of new catalysts that can effect polymerization of sustainably sourced or biodegradable polymers.
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Ashraf Brik
#129760
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (52 years)
Ashraf Brik is a full professor at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion Institute of Technology, Israel. His laboratory specializes in developing synthetic methods for chemical synthesis of proteins with post-translational modifications in quantities that allow for them to be studied thoroughly. Brik's group is developing novel modulators based on small molecules, peptides and peptidomimetics, to influence enzymes and proteins involved in various diseases. With the help of these tools, it is possible to understand how molecules and biological systems affect health.
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Jürgen Küppers
#165900
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Alain‐michel Boudet
#165923
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Donald Patterson
#165932
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Swelm Mohamed Helmy Wageh
#165941
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John Paul O'connell
#165969
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Panagiotis G. Smirniotis
#165982
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#4948
Dong-won Kim
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#4949
Ru¨diger Memming
#166024
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Andrea Armani
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Andrea Martin Armani is the Ray Irani Chair in Engineering and Materials Science and professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. She was awarded the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from Barack Obama and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
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