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The Analytical Scientist / Power List / 2013

The Power List 2013

Who are the 100 most influential people in the analytical sciences?

That’s the question we posed to ourselves – and then to you – over two months ago, ahead of open nominations and a painstaking judging process. Here, without further ado, we celebrate the answer.

The 100 most influential people in TAS

1 John Yates III

Professor, Department of Cell Biology The Scripps Research Institute, California, USA

2 Ruedi Aebersold

Professor, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

3 George Whitesides

Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA

4 Jonathan Sweedler

Editor-in-Chief, Analytical Chemistry; James R. Eiszner Family Chair in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

5 Pat Sandra

Emeritus Professor, Organic Chemistry, Ghent University; Founder and President Research Institute for Chromatography, Kortrijk, Belgium

6 R. Graham Cooks

Henry B. Hass Distinguished Professor, Analytical Chemistry Purdue University, Indiana, USA

7 Peter Schoenmakers

Education Director COAST; Editor, Journal of Chromatography A; Professor, Analytical Chemistry/Forensic Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

8 Alexander Makarov

Director of Research, Life Science Mass Spectrometry, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bremen, Germany

9 Wolfgang Lindner

Professor Emeritus, Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria

10 Georges Guiochon

Distinguished Professor, Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

11 Janusz Pawliszyn

Professor; Canada Research Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

12 James W. Jorgenson

W. R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

13 Robert Kennedy

Hobart H. Willard Professor of Chemistry; Professor, Pharmacology, University of Michigan, USA

14 Richard Smith

Battelle Fellow, Chief Scientist, Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, USA

15 Barry Karger

Director, Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis and James L. Waters Chair in Analytical Chemistry, Northeastern University, Massachusetts, USA

16 Daniel Armstrong

Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

17 Andreas Manz

Professor, Microfluidics for the Life Sciences, Mechatronics Department; Head of research, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.

18 Jack Kirkland

Vice-President, Research and Development, Advanced Materials Technology (AMT), Delaware, USA

19 Frank Svec

Senior Scientist; Facility director at the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA

20 Fred Regnier

Founder, Perfinity Biosciences; John H. Law Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, Indiana, USA

Yoshinobu Baba

Professor, Department of Advanced Medical Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Japan

Allen J. Bard

Professor and Director, Center for Electrochemistry, University of Texas, USA

Douglas Berthiaume

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Waters Corporation, Massachusetts, USA

Lutgarde Buydens

Professor and Head, Analytical Chemistry/Chemometrics, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Marc N. Casper

President and Chief Executive Officer Thermo Fisher Scientific, Massachusetts, USA

Yi Chen

Professor and Laboratory Director, Institute of Chemistry. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Gary Christian

Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, USA

Andrew deMello

Professor of Biochemical Engineering ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Imperial College London, UK

Gert Desmet

Professor and Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Monika Dittmann

Principal Scientist, R&D Agilent Technologies, Germany

Frank Laukien

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. Bruker Corporation

Yukui Zhang

President, Chinese Chromatography Society; Professor, Applied Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Hanfa Zou

Professor; Vice Director of Biotechnology Division, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China

Norman Dovichi

Grace-Rupley Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Attila Felinger

Professor, Department of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry University of Pécs, Hungary

Catherine Fenselau

Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry Unviversity of Maryland, USA

Scott E. Fraser

Director, Biological Imaging Center Caltech, California, USA

John Justin Gooding

Scientia Professor; Co-Director of The Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, University of New South Wales, Australia

Christian Griesinger

Group Leader, NMR-Based Structural Biology; Director and Scientific Member Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, GermanyGroup Leader, NMR-Based Structural Biology; Director and Scientific Member Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

Davy Guillarme

Senior lecturer, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Detlef Günther

Head, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences; Group Leader: Trace Element and Micro Analysis, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Paul Haddad

Distinguished Professor, Chemistry; Director of the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS), and Director of the Pfizer Analytical Research Centre, University of Tasmania, Australia

William Hancock

Faculty Fellow, Bradstreet Chair in Bioanalytical Chemistry, Northeastern University, Massachusetts, USA (Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Proteome Research.)

Albert Heck

Head, Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Group, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Gary Hieftje

Distinguished Professor; Robert and Marjorie Mann Chair in Chemistry; and Group Leader, Laboratory for Spectrochemistry, Indiana University, USA

Emily Hilder

Professor and ARC Future Fellow, School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania, Australia

Michal Holcapek

Professor, Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

Gerald Hopfgartner

Full Professor, Analytical Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Pavel Jandera

Professor, Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

Klavs F. Jensen

Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical Engineering and Department Head, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Gui-bin Jiang

Director, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Michael Lämmerhofer

Professor, Pharmaceutical Analysis and Bioanalysis, University of Tuebingen, Germany

Hian Kee Lee

Professor, Department of Chemistry National University of Singapore, Singapore

Milton Lee

H. Tracy Hall Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Brigham Young University, Utah, USA

Charles M. Lieber

Mark Hyman Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA

Susan Lunte

Director Ralph N. Adams Institute for Bioanalytical Chemistry; Director COBRE Center Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways, The University of Kansas, USA

Mike MacCoss

Associate Professor, Genome Sciences; Group Leader, MacCoss Lab, University of Washington, USA

Brendan MacLean

Lead Developer, MacCoss Lab University of Washington, USA

Fasha Mahjoor

Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Phenomenex, California, USA

Ron Majors

Senior Scientist Agilent Technologies, Delaware, USA

Matthias Mann

Director, Department of Proteomics and Signal Transduction, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany

Alan G. Marshall

Robert O. Lawton Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry; Director, Ion Cyclotron Resonance Program, Florida State University, USA

Hans H. Maurer

Full professor, Toxicology and Pharmacology; Head, Department of Experimental & Clinical Toxicology, Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany

David McCalley

Professor, Bioanalytical Science University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Chad Mirkin

Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology; George B. Rathmann Professor, Chemistry; Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Medicine. Northwestern University, Illinois, USA

Luigi Mondello

Full Professor, Analytical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Messina, Italy

Royce W. Murray

Kenan Professor, Chemistry The University of North Carolina, USA

Akira Nakamoto

President and Chief Executive Officer Shimadzu, Kyoto, Japan

Michel Nielen

Project Manager, Professor, Special chair on Analytical Chemistry, RIKILT Wageningen UR (University & Research centre), The Netherlands

Milos Novotny

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Lilly Chemistry Alumni Chair, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

Ulrich Panne

President, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing; Professor, Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Jeanne E. Pemberton

Professor, Chemistry, The University of Arizona, USA

Colin Poole

Professor, Department of Chemistry Wayne State University, Michigan, USA

Michael Quilliam

Principal Research Officer, Measurement Science and Standards, National Research Council, Nova Scotia, Canada

Mike Ramsey

Minnie N. Goldby Distinguished Professor, Chemistry; Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Professor, Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Marja-Liisa Riekkola

Professor, Analytical Chemistry; Head, Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland

Peter Roepstorff

Professor, Protein Chemistry University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Gerard Rozing

Research fellow (retired: September, 2012) Agilent Technologies, Germany.

Wilhelm Schänzer

Head, Institute for Biochemistry, German Sport University Cologne, Germany

Claudio Soto

Professor of Neurology; Director, Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Brain Disorders, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, USA

Richard Stadler

Group Expert, Chemical Food Safety at Nestlé Quality Assurance Centres, Nestec Ltd, Vevey, Switzerland

William P. Sullivan

President and Chief Executive Officer Agilent Technologies, California, USA

Ulrich Tallarek

Full Professor, Analytical Chemistry Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

Koichi Tanaka

General Manager, Mass Spectrometry Research Laboratory, Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

Nobuo Tanaka

Technical Advisor, GL Sciences, Inc. (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto Institute of Technology)

Dianping Tang

Full Professor, Analytical Chemistry Fuzhou University, Fujian, China

Albert van den Berg

Professor, Nanotechnology and Lab-on-a-Chip systems; Chair, BIOS Lab-on-a-Chip Group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

Jean-Luc Veuthey

Vice-rector; Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Tuan Vo-Dinh

PR. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor; Professor, Chemistry; Director, The Fitzpatrick Institute for photonics, Duke University, North Carolina, USA

David Walt

Robinson Professor of Chemistry; Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA

Joseph Wang

Distinguished Professor; Vice Chair, Nanoengineering . University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA

Mark Wightman

W.R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Chemistry; Director of Undergraduate Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Ian Wilson

Professor, Drug Metabolism and Molecular Toxicology, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, UK

Nicholas Winograd

Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA

Mary Wirth

W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry Purdue University, Indiana, USA

Kurt Wüthrich

Professor of Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Professor of Structural Biology, Scripps Research Institute, California, USA

Guowang Xu

Director of Metabonomics Research Center; Deputy director of CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China.

Takeshi Yasumoto

Academic Advisor, Japan Food Research Laboratories (Inc. Foundation); Distinguished Research Fellow, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency; Professor emeritus, Tohoku University, Japan

Ed Yeung

Distinguished Professor, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University, USA

Richard Zare

Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science. Stanford University, California, USA

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The Power List 2013

Who are the 100 most influential people in the analytical sciences?

The 100 most influential people in TAS

1

John Yates III

2

Ruedi Aebersold

3

George Whitesides

4

Jonathan Sweedler

5

Pat Sandra

6

R. Graham Cooks

7

Peter Schoenmakers

8

Alexander Makarov

9

Wolfgang Lindner

10

Georges Guiochon

11

Janusz Pawliszyn

12

James W. Jorgenson

13

Robert Kennedy

14

Richard Smith

15

Barry Karger

16

Daniel Armstrong

17

Andreas Manz

18

Jack Kirkland

19

Frank Svec

20

Fred Regnier