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.
Students and researchers now have a fast and reliable way to find influential thinkers from 24 disciplines and 300 sub-disciplines (and growing). If you want to find history’s most influential philsosophers, or the world’s most influential mathematicians currently, now you can.
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry,
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James L. Kinsey
#121367
Overall Influence
1934 - 2014 (80 years)
James L. Kinsey was an American chemist, and D. R. Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor at Rice University. He won the 1995 Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy. He was a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Tang Youqi
#126991
Overall Influence
1920 - 2022 (102 years)
Tang Youqi was a Chinese physical chemist who was a professor at Peking University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the 6th, 7th and 8th Central Committee of Jiusan Society. He was a member of the 6th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Standing Committee of the 7th and 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Alvin Warren Czanderna
#166130
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Peter G. Pickup
#166166
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#4955
Heinz Oberhammer
#166177
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#4956
Ignasi Sirés
#166189
Overall Influence
#4957
David Griller
#166204
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#4958
Nai-yun Gao
#166225
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#4959
Mordechai Bixon
#166255
Overall Influence
#4960
Gregory H. Robinson
#158791
Overall Influence
Gregory H. Robinson FRSC is an American synthetic inorganic chemist and a Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Georgia. Robinson's research focuses on unusual bonding motifs and low oxidation state chemistry of molecules containing main group elements such as boron, gallium, germanium, phosphorus, magnesium, and silicon. He has published over 150 research articles, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
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Udo Buck
#166300
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#4962
Mark. W. Verbrugge
#166304
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#4963
Zhong‐yin Zhang
#166311
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#4964
Gian Franco. Ciani
#166314
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#4965
Ding-yu Peng
#166322
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#4966
Vladimír Hlavácěk
#166325
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#4967
R. P. H. Thompson
#166363
Overall Influence
#4968
Duncan W. Bruce
#166383
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (65 years)
#4969
M. M. Mcpartlin
#166385
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#4970
Thomas H. Kissel
#166478
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#4971
Geoffrey Alan Lawrance
#166483
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#4972
Dr. Dinesh Chandra Sharma
#166488
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#4973
Victor E. Henrich
#166516
Overall Influence
#4974
Man-on Lai
#166530
Overall Influence
#4975
Jean-Christophe Leroux
#126673
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (56 years)
Dr. Jean-Christophe Leroux is a French-Canadian full professor of Drug Formulation and Delivery at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich. His research is mainly focused on broadening the field of drug delivery, and the development of biodetoxification systems for the treatment of metabolite disorders. Additionally, he has made important contributions to the field of biomaterials for use in drug delivery.
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Mitsuo Miyazawa
#166579
Overall Influence
#4977
Rachel Evans
#66010
Overall Influence
Rachel Claire Evans FLSW is a Welsh chemist based at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. She works on photoactive polymer-hybrid materials for solar devices, including organic photovoltaics and stimuli-responsive membranes.
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Cristina Puzzarini
#166658
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (56 years)
#4979
Leopoldo López Escobar
#135158
Overall Influence
1940 - 2013 (73 years)
Ángel Leopoldo López-Escobar was a Chilean geochemistry academic. His scientific career begun by studying Biology and Chemistry at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Later he worked at the Austral University of Chile and the University of Chile. In 1996 he started a metallogeny research group at the University of Concepción.
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Ingmar Grenthe
#166686
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#4981
Edward Mccafferty
#166706
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#4982
Athanassia Athanassiou
#166733
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#4983
Valery N. Charushin
#166736
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#4984
Marcel Maeder
#166765
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#4985
Javier García Martinez
#163412
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (52 years)
Javier García Martínez is a Spanish inorganic chemist, who serves as the president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 2022–23. He was born in Logroño, and researches in the area of nanotechnology for the technological development and commercialization of catalysts that reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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Philip Pechukas
#166812
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#4987
Tashni-Ann Dubroy
#67294
Overall Influence
1985 - Present (40 years)
Tashni-Ann Dubroy is a Jamaican academic and university administrator in the United States. She has been executive vice-president and chief operations officer of Howard University since 2017, having previously served as president of Shaw University from 2015 to 2017.
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Venkataramanan Srinivasan
#166823
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#4989
Kenneth Kustin
#166833
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#4990
Mark Jackson Stevens
#166873
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Zhang Qian'er
#137860
Overall Influence
1928 - 2020 (92 years)
Zhang Qian'er was a Chinese chemist who was a professor and doctoral supervisor at Xiamen University. Zhang was a member of the 8th and 9th Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Zhang was a member of the 10th, 11th and 12th Standing Committee of the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party.
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Peter Karran
#166902
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#4993
Swapan Kumer Ghosh
#166907
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#4994
Somenath Mitra
#166926
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#4995
Claude F. Bernasconi
#166971
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#4996
You Xu
#167000
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#4997
Mewa Singh Dhanoa
#167005
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#4998
M. Mercedes Maroto‐valer
#167026
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#4999
Paola Dugo
#167040
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James Allen Olson
#167085
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