Top 100 Scientists in Chemistry

Top 2% Scientists List

The Top 2% Scientists List 2024, compiled by Stanford University, recognizes the world’s most influential researchers based on citations, h-index, and other bibliometric indicators. This prestigious list highlights scientists who have made significant contributions to their respective fields and have had a substantial impact on global research. You can read this article to learn more about this list. The TopResearchersList Website provides a searchable Database for the Top 2% of Scientists

Chemistry

In the chemistry field, the list showcases researchers who have made groundbreaking discoveries and advancements in areas such as organic synthesis, materials science, and analytical chemistry. These top-ranked chemists have demonstrated exceptional innovation and impact, contributing to our understanding of molecular structures, chemical reactions, and the development of new materials and technologies.

Chemistry is the science of substances – their structure, their properties, and the reactions that change them into other substances.

The table below presents the top 100 scientists in the chemistry field, showcasing their exceptional contributions to the advancement of chemical science and its applications. You can click on their names to check the TopResearchersList Profiles for more details.

Rank	Name	Institute	Country	Subfield 1	Subfield 2
1	Grimme, Stefan	Universität Bonn	Germany	Chemical Physics	Organic Chemistry
2	Neese, Frank	Max Planck Institute for Coal Research	Germany	Chemical Physics	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
3	Nørskov, Jens K.	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	Physical Chemistry	Chemical Physics
4	Yaghi, Omar M.	University of California, Berkeley	United States	General Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
5	Sheldrick, George M.	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
6	Whitesides, George M.	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	United States	General Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
7	Wang, Joseph	University of California, San Diego	United States	Analytical Chemistry	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
8	Corma, Avelino	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas	Spain	Physical Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
9	Sheldon, Roger A.	University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg	South Africa	Organic Chemistry	Physical Chemistry
10	Koper, Marc T.M.	Universiteit Leiden	Netherlands	Energy	Chemical Physics
11	Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.	Northwestern University	United States	Materials	General Chemistry
12	Jorgensen, William L.	Yale University	United States	Chemical Physics	General Chemistry
13	Weigend, Florian	Philipps-Universität Marburg	Germany	Chemical Physics	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
14	Peppas, Nicholas A.	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	Polymers	Pharmacology & Pharmacy
15	Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	Polymers	General Chemistry
16	Varma, Rajender S.	Universidade Federal de São Carlos	Brazil	Organic Chemistry	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
17	Hartwig, John F.	University of California, Berkeley	United States	General Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
18	Gulçin, Ilhami	Atatürk Üniversitesi	Turkey	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
19	Yu, Jiaguo	China University of Geosciences	China	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Physical Chemistry
20	Salavati-Niasari, Masoud	University of Kashan	Iran	Materials	Applied Physics
21	Shannon, Robert D.	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Geochemistry & Geophysics
22	Trost, Barry M.	Stanford University	United States	General Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
23	Pearson, Ralph G.	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	General Chemistry	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
24	Tang, Ben Zhong	The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen	China	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Polymers
25	Kamat, Prashant V.	University of Notre Dame	United States	Chemical Physics	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
26	Dufresne, Alain	Université Grenoble Alpes	France	Polymers	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
27	Schlögl, Robert	Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society	Germany	Physical Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
28	Binnemans, Koen	KU Leuven	Belgium	Organic Chemistry	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
29	Jin, Rongchao	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	General Chemistry
30	Andrady, A. L.	NC State University	United States	Polymers	Organic Chemistry
31	Ackermann, Lutz	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	Organic Chemistry	General Chemistry
32	Astruc, Didier	Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China	China	Organic Chemistry	General Chemistry
33	Supuran, Claudiu T.	Università degli Studi di Firenze	Italy	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
34	Ali, Imran	Jamia Millia Islamia	India	Analytical Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
35	Crini, Grégorio	Université de Franche-Comté	France	Polymers	Environmental Sciences
36	AlOthman, Zeid A.	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	Analytical Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
37	MacMillan, David W.C.	Princeton University	United States	General Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
38	Schreiber, Stuart L.	Broad Institute	United States	Organic Chemistry	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
39	Stephan, Douglas W.	University of Toronto	Canada	Organic Chemistry	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
40	Weckhuysen, Bert M.	Universiteit Utrecht	Netherlands	Organic Chemistry	Physical Chemistry
41	Jaroniec, Mietek	Kent State University	United States	Chemical Physics	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
42	Vyazovkin, Sergey	The University of Alabama at Birmingham	United States	Physical Chemistry	Polymers
43	Halgren, Thomas A.	Schrödinger, LLC	United States	Chemical Physics	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry
44	Gong, Jian Ping	Hokkaido University	Japan	Polymers	Chemical Physics
45	Bard, Allen J.	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	Energy	General Chemistry
46	Stoddart, J. Fraser	Zhejiang University	China	Organic Chemistry	General Chemistry
47	De Clercq, Erik	Rega Institute for Medical Research	Belgium	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Virology
48	Desiraju, Gautam R.	Indian Institute of Science	India	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
49	Würthner, Frank	Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg	Germany	Organic Chemistry	General Chemistry
50	Barcelo, Damia	CSIC – Instituto de Diagnostico Ambiental y Estudios del Agua (IDAEA)	Spain	Analytical Chemistry	Environmental Sciences
51	Naushad, Mu	College of Sciences	Saudi Arabia	Chemical Engineering	Environmental Sciences
52	Li, Yadong	Tsinghua University	China	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Organic Chemistry
53	Lehn, Jean Marie	Université de Strasbourg	France	Organic Chemistry	General Chemistry
54	Nocera, Daniel G.	Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences	United States	General Chemistry	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
55	Gupta, Vinod K.	DIT University	India	Chemical Physics	Analytical Chemistry
56	Crabtree, Robert H.	Yale University	United States	Organic Chemistry	General Chemistry
57	Arnold, Frances H.	California Institute of Technology	United States	Organic Chemistry	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
58	Flory, Paul J.	IBM Research – Almaden	United States	General Chemistry	Polymers
59	Thakur, Vijay Kumar	Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC)	United Kingdom	Polymers	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
60	Henkelman, Graeme	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	Chemical Physics	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
61	Abbott, Andrew P.	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	Organic Chemistry	Chemical Physics
62	Cooper, Andrew I.	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	Organic Chemistry	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
63	Liu, Juewen	University of Waterloo	Canada	Analytical Chemistry	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
64	Antonietti, Markus	Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung	Germany	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Organic Chemistry
65	Kim, Se Kwon	Hanyang University	South Korea	Food Science	Biotechnology
66	Spek, Anthony L.	Universiteit Utrecht	Netherlands	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
67	Wang, Xinchen	Fuzhou University	China	Organic Chemistry	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
68	Isogai, Akira	The University of Tokyo	Japan	Polymers	Forestry
69	Bell, Alexis T.	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Physical Chemistry	Chemical Physics
70	Férey, Gérard	Institut Universitaire de France	France	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
71	Gong, Jinlong	Tianjin University	China	Organic Chemistry	Physical Chemistry
72	Pauling, Linus	California Institute of Technology	United States	General Chemistry	General & Internal Medicine
73	Lipinski, Christopher A.	Melior Discovery	United States	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Pharmacology & Pharmacy
74	Maeda, Kazuhiko	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	Organic Chemistry	General Chemistry
75	Hutchings, Graham J.	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	Physical Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
76	Feringa, Ben L.	Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	Netherlands	Organic Chemistry	General Chemistry
77	Asiri, Abdullah M.	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia	Organic Chemistry	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
78	Schubert, Ulrich S.	Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena	Germany	Polymers	Organic Chemistry
79	Welton, Tom	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	Organic Chemistry	Chemical Physics
80	Beller, Matthias	Leibniz Institute for Catalysis	Germany	Organic Chemistry	General Chemistry
81	Kitagawa, Susumu	Kyoto University	Japan	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
82	Davis, Mark E.	California Institute of Technology	United States	Materials	Physical Chemistry
83	Zhou, Hong Cai	Texas A&M University	United States	General Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
84	Xu, Qiang	Southern University of Science and Technology	China	Organic Chemistry	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
85	Dong, Fan	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	China	Physical Chemistry	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
86	Abdelhamid, Hani Nasser	Assiut University	Egypt	Analytical Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
87	Xie, Yi	University of Science and Technology of China	China	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	General Chemistry
88	Zhang, Tao	Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	Physical Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
89	Pérez-Ramírez, Javier	ETH Zürich	Switzerland	Organic Chemistry	Physical Chemistry
90	Li, Chao Jun	Université McGill	Canada	Organic Chemistry	General Chemistry
91	Newman, David J.	NIH Special Volunteer	United States	Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry	Organic Chemistry
92	Zhao, Yanli	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Organic Chemistry
93	Kollman, Peter A.	University of California, San Francisco	United States	General Chemistry	Chemical Physics
94	Gascon, J.	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	Saudi Arabia	Organic Chemistry	Physical Chemistry
95	Maleki, Ali	Daneshgahe Elm va Sanat e Iran	Iran	Organic Chemistry	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
96	Hoffmann, Roald	Cornell University	United States	General Chemistry	Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
97	Bertozzi, Carolyn	Stanford University	United States	Organic Chemistry	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
98	Bro, Rasmus	Københavns Universitet	Denmark	Analytical Chemistry	Food Science
99	Ariga, Katsuhiko	National Institute for Materials Science	Japan	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	General Chemistry
100	Li, Can	Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	Physical Chemistry	Organic Chemistry