The Most Influential People in History
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry, for the years 2000 – 2020
Mario Molina
#4183
Overall Influence
1943 - 2020 (77 years)
Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez , known as Mario Molina, was a Mexican chemist. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, and was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in discovering the threat to the Earth's ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon gases. He was the first Mexican-born scientist to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the third Mexican born person to receive the Nobel award.
Go to ProfileRichard Smalley
#2176
Overall Influence
1943 - 2005 (62 years)
Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. He was an advocate of nanotechnology and its applications.
Go to ProfileRoald Hoffmann
#1399
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (86 years)
Hoffman is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Emeritus, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Columbia University in 1958. He earned his Master of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1960. He also received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Hoffman won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981. Hoffman, a Holocaust survivor, has had an amazing academic and research career in chemistry in the United States. His primary focus has been on the important topic of molecular orbital theory, in particular of polyhedral molecules, which have important applications in a number of areas in physics and chemistry.
Go to ProfileJoachim Sauer
#9990
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (74 years)
Joachim Sauer is a German quantum chemist and professor emeritus of physical and theoretical chemistry at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He is the husband of the former chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. He is one of the seven members of the board of trustees of the Friede Springer Foundation, together with former German president Horst Köhler and others.
Go to ProfileArieh Warshel
#1828
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (83 years)
Arieh Warshel is an Israeli-American biochemist and biophysicist. He is a pioneer in computational studies on functional properties of biological molecules, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and holds the Dana and David Dornsife Chair in Chemistry at the University of Southern California. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus for "the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".
Go to ProfileEi-ichi Negishi
#3791
Overall Influence
1935 - 2021 (86 years)
Negishi is the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor and Director of the Negishi-Brown Institute at Purdue. Negishi received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 1958. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. Negishi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010, along with Richard F. Heck and Akira Suzuki. Negishi is known for his discovery of the “Negishi coupling,” an important reaction that forms carbon-carbon bonds. The Negishi coupling has important applications for the synthesis of natural products. Negishi coupling has been investigated also for its use in medical applications such as in the treatment of asthma.
Go to ProfileRichard R. Schrock
#6400
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (78 years)
Richard Royce Schrock is an American chemist and Nobel laureate recognized for his contributions to the olefin metathesis reaction used in organic chemistry. Education Born in Berne, Indiana, Schrock went to Mission Bay High School in San Diego, California. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Riverside and a Ph. D. from Harvard University under the direction of John A. Osborn .
Go to ProfileJames Watson
#188
Overall Influence
1928 - Present (95 years)
Areas of Specialization: Molecular Biology, Genetics James D. Watson is a zoologist, geneticist and molecular biologist. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Chicago and a PhD from Indiana University. He is most recently well-known due to his controversial comments about race and genetics, for which he has been largely ostracized. Prior to his unfortunate foray into racial genetics, he was highly regarded and famous for his work on molecular biology. He is credited for significant contributions to our understanding of cancer, neurological diseases and the genetic basis for cancer and other diseases.
Go to ProfileBen Feringa
#6875
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (72 years)
Feringa is Jacobus van ’t Hoff Distinguished Professor of Molecular Sciences at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, the University of Groningen, Netherlands. He is also Academy Professor and Chair of Board of the Science Division of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. Feringa shares the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Fraser Stoddart and Jean-Pierre Sauvage for work on molecular machines. Feringa has a master’s in science (MSc) in Chemistry from the University of Groningen in 1974. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Groningen in 1978. Feringa’s work on photochemistry has led to important advances in light-driven molecular motors.
Go to ProfileRichard F. Heck
#4734
Overall Influence
1931 - 2015 (84 years)
Richard Frederick Heck was an American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactionss that couple aryl halides with alkenes. The analgesic naproxen is an example of a compound that is prepared industrially using the Heck reaction.
Go to ProfileRobert H. Grubbs
#5568
Overall Influence
1942 - 2021 (79 years)
Grubbs is the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He received his bachelor of science in Chemistry at the University of Florida in 1963. He received his master’s degree from Florida in 1965. Grubbs got his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia University in New York City in 1968. Grubbs’s work in chemistry has focused on organometallic chemistry, a relatively new field at the time of his initial research efforts in the late 1960s. He is also a specialist in synthetic chemistry, an exciting field that studies the structure, properties, and reactions of organic compounds.
Go to ProfileCarl Djerassi
#1854
Overall Influence
1923 - 2015 (92 years)
Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American pharmaceutical chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is best known for his contribution to the development of oral contraceptive pillss, nicknamed the "father of the pill".
Go to ProfilePeter Atkins
#7472
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (83 years)
Peter William Atkins is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being.
Go to ProfileAda Yonath
#2053
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (84 years)
Areas of Specialization: Crystallography Yonath is Director of the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly of the Weizmann Institute of Science. She received her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1962, her master’s in biochemistry in 1964, and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1968. Yonath is a crystallographer, a branch of chemistry that studies the arrangement of atoms in crystalline solids. Yonath has applied crystallographic techniques to the study of the ribosome, which has resulted in pioneering research in that area.
Go to ProfileRobert Curl
#4514
Overall Influence
1933 - 2022 (89 years)
Curl, who passed away July 3, 2022, was the Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences Emeritus, and Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Rice University. Curl received his Bachelor of Science degree from Rice University (then the Rice Institute) in 1954. He got his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957. Curl won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for his groundbreaking work on nanomaterials. Curl’s research, especially his earlier work, focused on the use of microwave spectroscopy to analyze chemical compounds. This work led to his analysis of free radicals, an important area touching on many applications.
Go to ProfileKarl Barry Sharpless
#4095
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (82 years)
Karl Barry Sharpless is an American chemist and a two-time Nobel laureate in Chemistry known for his work on stereoselective reactions and click chemistry. Sharpless was awarded half of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions", and one third of the 2022 prize, jointly with Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Morten P. Meldal, "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry". Sharpless is the fifth person , to have twice been awarded a Nobel prize, along with Marie Curie, John Bardeen, Linus Pauling and Frederick Sanger, and the third t...
Go to ProfileFraser Stoddart
#5879
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (81 years)
Stoddart is Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University in the United States. He is also Head of the Stoddart Mechanostereochemistry Group in the Department of Chemistry. Stoddart received his bachelor’s degree as well as his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh in 1967. Stoddart’s research focuses on supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has entered popular culture because of its exciting possibilities for the fabrication of products at the molecular level, such as materials or miniature devices. Stoddart has performed core rese...
Go to ProfileJean-Marie Lehn
#2508
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (84 years)
Lehn is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg’s Institute of Advanced Study (USIAS), as well as Chair of Chemistry of Complex Systems. He is also a member of the Reliance Innovation Council of Reliance Industries Limited, India. Lehn studied philosophy and chemistry at the University of Strasbourg, receiving his undergraduate degree in chemistry, and later his Ph.D. Lehn’s interests are primarily in organic chemistry, where he has explored supramolecular chemistry, or the study of how multiple molecules can lock or combine—in fact, the term “supramolecular” is due to Lehn. ...
Go to ProfileCharles David Keeling
#11520
Overall Influence
1928 - 2005 (77 years)
Charles David Keeling was an American scientist whose recording of carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory confirmed Svante Arrhenius's proposition of the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to the greenhouse effect and global warming, by documenting the steadily rising carbon dioxide levels. The Keeling Curve measures the progressive buildup of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere.
Go to ProfileC. N. R. Rao
#3706
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (89 years)
Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao , is an Indian chemist who has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry. He has honorary doctorates from 84 universities from around the world and has authored around 1,774 research publications and 54 books. He is described as a scientist who had won all possible awards in his field except the Nobel Prize.
Go to ProfileRobert Samuel Langer, Jr.
#4172
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (75 years)
Robert Samuel Langer, Jr. is an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, faculty member of the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a chemical engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University, and an Sc.D. in chemical engineering from MIT. He runs the largest biomedical laboratory in the world at MIT and is the most cited engineer in history at an extraordinary 305,000 citations for 1,500 papers. His books include The Struggles and Dreams of Robert Langer (Shuguang Zhang, Ed.), which delves into his life and discoveries.
Go to ProfileMartin Karplus
#2819
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (93 years)
Karplus is Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, emeritus at Harvard University. He received his Bachelor of Arts (AB) degree from Harvard University in 1950, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1953, working with the famous Nobel laureate Linus Pauling. Karplus is also currently the Director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory, a joint laboratory between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Strasbourg, France. Karplus is a theoretical chemist. His interests include fields in physical chemistry, including chemical and quantum chemistry.
Go to ProfileHarry Kroto
#5089
Overall Influence
1939 - 2016 (77 years)
Sir Harold Walter Kroto , known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.
Go to ProfileGeorge M. Whitesides
#7665
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (84 years)
Whitesides is Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Harvard College in 1960, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1964. A prolific researcher, Whitesides earned the highest Hirsch index rating of all living chemists in 2011, an index that attempts to measure the productivity and impact of scholars by analyzing their publications. Whitesides focuses on organic chemistry, and has performed core research using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a powerful technique for investigating the nuclei of atoms.
Go to ProfileGerhard Ertl
#2692
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (87 years)
Gerhard Ertl is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. Ertl's research laid the foundation of modern surface chemistry, which has helped explain how fuel cells produce energy without pollution, how catalytic converters clean up car exhausts and even why iron rusts, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
Go to ProfileJohn Pople
#2414
Overall Influence
1925 - 2004 (79 years)
Sir John Anthony Pople was a British theoretical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Walter Kohn in 1998 for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry. Early life and education Pople was born in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, and attended the Bristol Grammar School. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1943. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1946. Between 1945 and 1947 he worked at the Bristol Aeroplane Company. He then returned to the University of Cambridge and was awarded his PhD in mathematics in 1951 on lone pair electrons.
Go to ProfileAhmed Zewail
#4243
Overall Influence
1946 - 2016 (70 years)
Ahmed Hassan Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry and became the first Egyptian to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, and the second African to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was the Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Physics, and the director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology.
Go to ProfileDonald Truhlar
#25461
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (79 years)
Donald Gene Truhlar is an American scientist working in theoretical and computational chemistry and chemical physics with special emphases on quantum mechanics and chemical dynamics. Education and early work Truhlar received a B.A., from St. Mary's College of Minnesota , and a Ph. D., from Caltech , under Aron Kuppermann. He has been on the faculty of the University of Minnesota from 1969–present.
Go to ProfileElias James Corey
#5105
Overall Influence
1928 - Present (95 years)
“E.J.” Corey is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest living chemists. He is Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry at Harvard University. After matriculating at MIT at the age of 16 to study mathematics and engineering, Corey switched his major to Chemistry, and received his degree in that field at MIT. He then completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at MIT. Corey is known world-wide for developing several exciting chemical reagents—substances or mixtures of substances used for chemical analysis and reactions—such as the Corey-Suggs reagent, and for completing many “total syntheses,” or the complete chemical synthesis of a complex molecule.
Go to ProfileJennifer Doudna
#2102
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (59 years)
Areas of Specialization: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology Jennifer Doudna is a Li Ka Shing Chancellor Chair Professor for the Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, she has been a professor at the University of California, San Francisco and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes. She earned a B.A. in biochemistry from Pomona College and a Ph.D. in biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology from Harvard Medical School. She is best known for her work with CRISPR.
Go to ProfileAllen J. Bard
#11204
Overall Influence
1933 - Present (90 years)
Allen J. Bard is a chemist and the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair Professor and director of the Center for Electrochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. He studied at the City College of New York before earning a Master’s degree and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Bard has spent his entire career at the University of Texas at Austin but has served appointments at Cornell University and as the Robert Burns Woodward visiting professor for Harvard University. Known as the “father of modern electrochemistry”, Bard has made substantial contributions to the field. He developed the scanning e...
Go to ProfileAaron Klug
#989
Overall Influence
1926 - 2018 (92 years)
Sir Aaron Klug was a British biophysicist and chemist. He was a winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes.
Go to ProfileHideki Shirakawa
#3818
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (87 years)
is a Japanese chemist, engineer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He was co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger.
Go to ProfileMichael Levitt
#2268
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (76 years)
Levitt is Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University. He is also known as a biophysicist. Levitt is widely recognized for his research in chemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013 (along with colleagues Martin Karplus and Arieh Warshel). He initially studied mathematics and physics, earning his bachelor’s degree in Physics in King’s College London in 1967. He received his Ph.D. in Computational Biology at the University of Cambridge, England. Levitt is known for being one of the first to develop “molecular dynamics” simulations of DNA and proteins using computation.
Go to ProfileKrzysztof Matyjaszewski
#13220
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (73 years)
Krzysztof "Kris" Matyjaszewski is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization , a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the way macromolecules are made.
Go to ProfileGeorge M. Sheldrick
#19712
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (81 years)
George Michael Sheldrick, FRS is a British chemist who specialises in molecular structure determination. He is one of the most cited workers in the field, having over 280,000 citations as of 2020 and an h-index of 113. He was a professor at the University of Göttingen from 1978 until his retirement in 2011.
Go to ProfileSumio Iijima
#4192
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (84 years)
Sumio Iijima is a University Professor at Meijo University, a physicist and inventor, best known for inventing carbon nanotubes. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Electro-Communications and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in solid-state physics from Tohoku University. His research and development work has focused on electron microscopy, crystalline and carbon materials, and ultra-fine particles. His discovery of carbon nanotubes occurred in 1991. Carbon nanotubes had been previously observed, but he was the first to understand what they were. In 2017, he was awarded the Inaugural Platinum Medal from Indian Association of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
Go to ProfileF. Sherwood Rowland
#8068
Overall Influence
1927 - 2012 (85 years)
Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion.
Go to ProfileFrederick Sanger
#554
Overall Influence
1918 - 2013 (95 years)
Frederick Sanger was an English biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. He won the 1958 Chemistry Prize for determining the amino acid sequence of insulin and numerous other proteins, demonstrating in the process that each had a unique, definite structure; this was a foundational discovery for the central dogma of molecular biology.
Go to ProfileMichael Grätzel
#11701
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (79 years)
Michael Grätzel is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic-materials and their optoelectronic applications. He co-invented with Brian O'Regan the Grätzel cell in 1988.
Go to ProfileWalter Kohn
#1135
Overall Influence
1923 - 2016 (93 years)
Walter Kohn was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials. In particular, Kohn played the leading role in the development of density functional theory, which made it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density . This computational simplification led to more accurate calculations on complex systems as well as many new insights, and ...
Go to ProfileHervé This
#12564
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (68 years)
Hervé This is a French physical chemist who works for the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique at AgroParisTech, in Paris, France. His main area of scientific research is molecular gastronomy, that is the science of culinary phenomena .
Go to ProfileWilliam Standish Knowles
#13537
Overall Influence
1917 - 2012 (95 years)
William Standish Knowles was an American chemist. He was born in Taunton, Massachusetts. Knowles was one of the recipients of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He split half the prize with Ryōji Noyori for their work in asymmetric synthesis, specifically for his work in hydrogenation reactions. The other half was awarded to K. Barry Sharpless for his work in oxidation reactions.
Go to ProfileAlexander Shulgin
#2337
Overall Influence
1925 - 2014 (89 years)
Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin was an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, organic chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author. He is credited with introducing 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine to psychologists in the late 1970s for psychopharmaceutical use and for the discovery, synthesis and personal bioassay of over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential.
Go to ProfileRoderick MacKinnon
#3996
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (67 years)
Roderick MacKinnon is an American biophysicist, neuroscientist, and businessman. He is a professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics at Rockefeller University who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Peter Agre in 2003 for his work on the structure and operation of ion channels.
Go to ProfileAkira Suzuki
#5853
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (93 years)
Suzuki has been Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University as well as Hokkaido University in Japan until he retired from university work in 2002. Suzuki studied chemistry at Hokkaido, receiving his bachelor’s degree and his Ph.D. in Chemistry. During his postdoctoral studies at Hokkaindo, Suzuki discovered what is now called the “Suzuki reaction,” an organic reaction known as “cross-coupled.” Suzuki won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010, together with Richard F. Heck and Ei-ichi Negishi. Though Suzuki discovered the eponymous Suzuki process, he has not sought a patent for the process, e...
Go to ProfileAaron Ciechanover
#3323
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (76 years)
Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for characterizing the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins using ubiquitin. Biography Early life Ciechanover was born in Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine on 1 October 1947. He is the son of Bluma , a teacher of English, and Yitzhak Ciechanover, an office worker. His mother and father supported the Zionist movement and immigrated to Israel from Poland in the 1920s.
Go to ProfileAkira Yoshino
#9713
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (75 years)
Akira Yoshino is a professor at Meijo University of Nagoya and a fellow of Asahi Kasei Corporation. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in engineering from Kyoto University and a doctorate from Osaka University. A future Nobel Laureate himself, Yoshino was a student of Kenichi Fukui, the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Yoshino has worked at Asahi Kasei since his early graduate work began at Kyoto University. He has devoted much of his research and development efforts to energy storage, particularly through lithium ion batteries. He assisted with the creation of rechargeable batteries, a ...
Go to ProfileKurt Wüthrich
#3342
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (85 years)
Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist/biophysicist and Nobel Chemistry laureate, known for developing nuclear magnetic resonance methods for studying biological macromolecules. Education and early life Born in Aarberg, Switzerland, Wüthrich was educated in chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the University of Bern before pursuing his PhD supervised by Silvio Fallab at the University of Basel, awarded in 1964.
Go to ProfileJames Tour
#22659
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (64 years)
