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Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

1950 - Today

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Krzysztof "Kris" Matyjaszewski (Polish: [ˈkʂɨʂtɔf matɨjaˈʂɛfskʲi]; born April 8, 1950) 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 (ATRP), a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the way macromolecules are made. Matyjaszewski was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2019 for expanding the capabilities of controlled/living polymerizations and developing ATRP, a robust catalytic process for the radical polymerization of monomers. He received the prestigious Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2011, the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences in 2015, and the Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie, France in 2020, and the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences in 2023. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is the 566th most popular chemist (down from 549th in 2019), the 1,198th most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,169th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Polish Chemist. Learn more about Krzysztof Matyjaszewski's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski ranks 566 out of 602. Before him are Hans von Pechmann, Christian Ehrenfried Weigel, Anna J. Harrison, Wallace Smith Broecker, Barbara Askins, and Leslie Orgel. After him are Achim Müller, F. Albert Cotton, Mildred Cohn, Carol V. Robinson, Sergey Lebedev, and Faiza Al-Kharafi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski ranks 555. Before him are Gary Fisher, Jack Layton, Přemysl Bičovský, Goutam Ghose, Karl Rove, and Joseph Ruben. After him are Themba Dlamini, Howard Ashman, Momčilo Vukotić, Haim Ramon, Gennadi Manakov, and François Dupeyron.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski ranks 1,198 out of 1,694. Before him are Friedrich Scherfke (1909), Zbigniew Gut (1949), Tomasz Stankiewicz (1902), Teodor Kocerka (1927), Lesław Ćmikiewicz (1948), and Saliamonas Banaitis (1866). After him are Leon Kruczkowski (1900), Kamil Glik (1988), Heinrich Albertz (1915), Kazimierz Kmiecik (1951), Walter Migula (1863), and Agata Buzek (1976).

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Among CHEMISTS In Poland

Among chemists born in Poland, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski ranks 25. Before him are Alfred Stock (1876), Hugo Erdmann (1862), Karol Olszewski (1846), Johannes Thiele (1865), Heinrich Caro (1834), and Nikodem Caro (1871). After him are Sergey Lebedev (1874).

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