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John Yates III


Ernest W. Hahn Professor, Departments of Molecular Medicine and Neurobiology, The Scripps Research Institute, USA

Raising the field’s profile… We need to hammer on the fact that our lives are touched by analytical science in everything we do. It keeps our water, food and air safe, it helps us diagnose disease, and it helps drive innovations and discoveries.  

The decade’s most important development? This is an easy one – the Orbitrap. This mass analyzer delivered high resolution, high mass accuracy to the masses (pardon the pun).  

Book for scientists? I’ve got two: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, by Mariana Mazzucato; and Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, by Stephen Johnson. The first book puts forth the idea that only governments have the stamina and patience to fund high-risk, long-term research – not venture capitalists or industry. The second book studies the process of innovation with both examples and stories. Innovations are often the product of past experiences and prepared minds.


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Welcome to our annual celebration of the world’s most influential analytical scientists!

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The Top 100

This year we’ve returned to our Top 100 format for The Power List, showcasing the tremendous range of talent, ingenuity and leadership present across all corners of analytical science on a global scale.

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The Magnificent Tens

The Magnificent Tens
After 2016’s celebration of women in analytical science, we return to the Top 100 for 2017.
But there’s a twist. This summer, we asked you to nominate scientists in ten categories – from the stars of separation science, to omics explorers, to the mentors training the next generation.

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100 reasons to be proud

Welcome to The Power List 2015 – our second foray into the Top 100 most influential people in the world of analytical science. Though we realize our list can (and should) never be definitive, who can argue that the faces within – both familiar and new – do not beautifully highlight the brilliance and diversity found within our sometimes undervalued field?

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100 most influential people

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.

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