The Most Influential People in History
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List of the most influential people in Chemistry, for the years 2010 – 2022
Ei-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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ProfileMario 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ProfileJohn W. Huffman
#15446
Overall Influence
1932 - 2022 (90 years)
John William Huffman was a professor of organic chemistry at Clemson University who first synthesised novel cannabinoids. His research, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, was focused on making a drug to target endocannabinoid receptors in the body.
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 ProfileRichard R. Ernst
#4152
Overall Influence
1933 - 2021 (88 years)
Richard Robert Ernst was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate. Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy while at Varian Associates and ETH Zurich. These underpin applications to both to chemistry with NMR spectroscopy and to medicine with magnetic resonance imaging .
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 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 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 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 ProfileEdmond H. Fischer
#3156
Overall Influence
1920 - 2021 (101 years)
Edmond Henri Fischer was a Swiss-American biochemist. He and his collaborator Edwin G. Krebs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. From 2007 until 2014, he was the Honorary President of the World Cultural Council. At the time of his death at age 101 in 2021, he was the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate.
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 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 ProfileStefan Hell
#4869
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (61 years)
Stefan Walter Hell HonFRMS is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy", together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.
Go to ProfileKára McCullough Temple
#72972
Overall Influence
1991 - Present (32 years)
Kára McCullough Temple came to fame as Miss USA 2017. As Miss USA, Temple represented the United States at Miss Universe 2017, where she placed in the top ten. Prior to becoming Miss USA, Temple attended the HBCU South Carolina State University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry with a concentration in radiochemistry. After graduation Temple then worked as an emergency preparedness specialist in the United State’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response. The Miss USA title allowed Temple to found Science Exploration for Kids (SE4K).
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 ProfileHossam Haick
#32767
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (48 years)
Hossam Haick is an Arab-Israeli scientist and engineer, and the current dean of undergraduate studies at the Israel Institute of Technology. He is a pioneer known for inventing the Nano Artificial Nose for detection of disease from exhaled breath, by which he was highlighted as MIT's Innovators under 35; and which is widely used for sniffing out diseases' biomarkers in labs and industries. He has many contributions in multidisciplinary fields such as Nanotechnology, Nanosensors, , Volatile Biomarkers, and Molecular Electronics.
Go to ProfileChi-Huey Wong
#11009
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (75 years)
Chi-Huey Wong is a Taiwanese-American biochemist. He is currently the Scripps Family Chair Professor at the Scripps Research Institute, California in the Department of Chemistry. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry and the RSC Robert Robinson Award. and has published more than 700 papers and holds more than 100 patents.
Go to ProfileM. Stanley Whittingham
#10061
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (82 years)
Michael Stanley Whittingham is a British-American chemist. He is currently a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He also serves as director of the Northeastern Center for Chemical Energy Storage of the U.S. Department of Energy at Binghamton. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside Akira Yoshino and John B. Goodenough.
Go to ProfileOmar M. Yaghi
#39316
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (58 years)
Yaghi is the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Yaghi received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the State University of New York-Albany in 1985, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1990. He was then a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University for two years, working with the chemist Richard Holm. Yaghi is widely considered the pioneer of reticular chemistry, a branch of chemistry concerned with combining molecular building blocks together to synthesize new compounds and materials. S...
Go to ProfileBenjamin List
#11865
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (55 years)
Benjamin List is a German chemist who is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Cologne. He co-developed organocatalysis, a method of accelerating chemical reactions and making them more efficient. He shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David MacMillan "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis".
Go to ProfileStefan Grimme
#42614
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (60 years)
Stefan Grimme , is a German physical chemist; he completed a Ph.D. thesis on photochemistry at Technical University of Braunschweig in 1991; he is a professor at the Universität Bonn since 2011 who is active in the field of computational chemistry; he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2018.
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 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 ProfileYuan T. Lee
#2194
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (87 years)
Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate who, along with the Hungarian-Canadian John C. Polanyi and American Dudley R. Herschbach, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 "for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".
Go to ProfilePaul J. Crutzen
#2376
Overall Influence
1933 - 2021 (88 years)
Paul Jozef Crutzen was a Dutch meteorologist and atmospheric chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his work on atmospheric chemistry and specifically for his efforts in studying the formation and decomposition of atmospheric ozone. In addition to studying the ozone layer and climate change, he popularized the term Anthropocene to describe a proposed new epoch in the Quaternary period when human actions have a drastic effect on the Earth. He was also amongst the first few scientists to introduce the idea of a nuclear winter to describe the potential climatic effects ...
Go to ProfileMarijn Dekkers
#19599
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (66 years)
Marijn Emmanuel Dekkers is a Dutch-American former pharmaceutical businessman. He was CEO of Bayer AG from 2010 to 2016. He served as CEO of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. from 2002 to 2009. He served as Chairman of Unilever from 2016 to 2019. He is also Founder and Chairman of Novalis LifeSciences LLC, an investment and advisory firm for the Life Science industry.
Go to ProfileWalter Gilbert
#1033
Overall Influence
1932 - Present (91 years)
Walter Gilbert is an American biochemist, physicist, molecular biology pioneer, and Nobel laureate. Education and early life Walter Gilbert was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 21, 1932, the son of Emma , a child psychologist, and Richard V. Gilbert, an economist.
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 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 ProfileHisashi Yamamoto
#28633
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (80 years)
Hisashi Yamamoto is a prominent organic chemist and currently a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago and professor of Chubu University. Life Born in Kobe, Japan, Yamamoto earned a B.S. at Kyoto University in 1967 and a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1971.
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