Harry Wiener
Harry Wiener was an American Chemist of Brooklyn College, and made important and fundamental contributions to the study of topological indices and established a correlation between the Wiener index and boiling points of the paraffins. In fact, he made the foundation of chemical graph theory, and made a bridge between group theory, graph theory, and chemistry.
He introduced the Wiener index; this index and its generalization, the Hyper-Wiener index, have been used in predicting antibacterial activity in drugs to modeling crystalline phenomena. The Wiener index plays an important role in sociometry and the theory of social networks which was developed by Christophe Soulé et al, as well as Gromov-Hyperbolicity Parameters. The Wiener index also plays an important role in Nanotechnology.
