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List of the most influential people in Biology,

#5751

Stephen J. Suomi

#107578

Overall Influence

#5752

Haim Belmaker

#44893

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Prof. Robert Haim Belmaker , is an Israeli psychiatrist who has had major academic positions in Israeli psychiatry since 1974. He had a formative influence on biological directions in Israeli psychiatry. He was Hoffer-Vickar Professor of Psychiatry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva Israel until his retirement and is now Emeritus.

#5753

Torkel Mikael Wadström

#107603

Overall Influence

#5754

Stephen L. Mayo

#83846

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Stephen L. Mayo is a professor at the California Institute of Technology, where he is the William K. Bowes Jr. Leadership Chair in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, and the Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry. His research focuses on structural biology and the development of computational methods for protein design. Mayo was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2004 and was appointed to a six-year term on the National Science Board in 2013.

#5755

Thomas Rosswall

#106424

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Thomas Rosswall was Associate Professor in Soil ecology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Professor, Water in Environment and Society at the University of Linköping, Sweden, Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme , Director of the International START Secretariat , Rector of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Executive Director of the International Council for Science ; Rosswall took up the position after giving up his seat as the director of the International Foundation for Science in late 2001 . Rosswall is currently Chair o...

#5756

Beatrix Hamburg

#22121

Overall Influence

1923 - 2018 (95 years)

Beatrix A. Hamburg was an American psychiatrist whose long career in academic medicine advanced the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. Hamburg was the first known African-American to attend Vassar College, and was also the first African-American woman to attend Yale Medical School. Hamburg held professorships at Stanford, Harvard, Mt. Sinai and—most recently—at Weill Cornell Medical College. She was on the President's Commission on Mental Health under President Jimmy Carter. Hamburg was a president of the William T. Grant Foundation, and also directed the child psychiatry divisions at Stanford University and Mount Sinai.

#5757

Ramón Margalef

#107635

Overall Influence

#5758

Elizabeth A Phelps

#107651

Overall Influence

#5759

C. Keith Auteur Conners

#107659

Overall Influence

#5760

Tsoo E. King

#107670

Overall Influence

#5761

Alberto Piazza

#74510

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Alberto Piazza is an Italian human geneticist, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Turin. Biography Born into a Jewish family in Turin, professor of Medical statistics at the University of Turin, professor of Genetics at the University of Naples, and professor of Human Genetics at the University of Turin.

#5762

Jane Visvader

#99552

Overall Influence

Jane Visvader is a scientist specialising in breast cancer research who works for the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia. She is the joint head of the Breast Cancer Laboratory with Geoff Lindeman.

#5763

Ferric Fang

#100272

Overall Influence

Ferric C. Fang is an American microbiologist. He is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology, and Microbiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, as well as the director of the Harborview Medical Center's Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. Prior to joining the University of Washington in 2001, he taught at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. From 2007 to 2017, he was the editor-in-chief of Infection and Immunity, and he was the deputy editor of Clinical Infectious Diseases from 2016 to 2021. He is currently an editor of Clinical Microbiology Reviews. He has been...

#5764

Jayne Belnap

#104510

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Jayne Belnap is an American soil ecologist. Her expertise lies in desert ecologies and grassland ecosystems. In 2008, she was recognised by the Ecological Society of America as one of the most outstanding ecologists in the United States. In 2010 and 2013, she received awards from the United States Department of Interior as one of the most outstanding women in science. In 2015, she was elected as a fellow of the Ecological Society of America.

#5765

George Kollias

#63820

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

George Kollias is a Greek biologist, Member of the Academy of Athens and Professor of Physiology at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is renowned for providing the preclinical rationale for the development of anti-TNF therapies for rheumatoid arthritis. His research is highly cited for discovering disease pathways in animal models of chronic inflammation and autoimmunity . He is credited with the development of major national infrastructures of scientific and technological excellence in Greece.

#5766

Derek Parry Gastroenter Jewell

#107716

Overall Influence

#5767

Peter Malcolm Steinert

#107724

Overall Influence

#5768

William French Anderson

William French Anderson

#86599

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

William French Anderson is an American physician, geneticist and molecular biologist. He is known as the "father of gene therapy". He graduated from Harvard College in 1958, Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1960, and from Harvard Medical School in 1963. In 1990 he was the first person to succeed in carrying out gene therapy by treating a 4-year-old girl suffering from severe combined immunodeficiency . In 2006, he was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor and in 2007 was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He was paroled on May 17, 2018, for good behavior.

#5769

Martin Dichgans

#107743

Overall Influence

#5770

Lynne Boddy

#99674

Overall Influence

Lynne Boddy is a Professor of Microbial Ecology at Cardiff University. She works on the ecology of wood decomposition, including synecology and autecology. She won the 2018 Learned Society of Wales Frances Hoggan Medal.

#5771

Pierre Vassalli

#107770

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Anne Klibanski

#107777

Overall Influence

#5773

Stefano Del Prato

#107797

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

#5774

Bruce James Rounsaville

#107818

Overall Influence

#5775

Anne Ulrich

#88462

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Anne S. Ulrich is a German chemist. She is the director of the Institute of Biological Interfaces and Chair of Biochemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Education She studied chemistry at the University of Oxford - continued her doctoral work in the laboratory of Anthony Watts - held subsequent research positions as an EMBO-Fellow with Hartmut Oschkinat at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg and as a Liebig-Fellow with Felix Wieland at the University of Heidelberg - became Associate Professor at the University of Jena - until she moved her group in 2002 to th...

#5776

Boris Balinsky

#84113

Overall Influence

1905 - 1997 (92 years)

Borys Ivanovych Balinsky was a Ukrainian and South African biologist, embryologist, entomologist, professor of Kyiv University and University of the Witwatersrand. Pioneer researcher in the field of experimental embryology, electron microscopy and developmental biology. He was author of popular textbook in embryology An Introduction to Embryology.

#5777

Dianne Brunton

#31856

Overall Influence

Dianne Heather Brunton is a New Zealand ecologist, and head of the Institute of Natural and Computational Sciences at Massey University. Her research area is the behaviour and cultural evolution of animal communication, especially bird song in southern hemisphere species such as the New Zealand bellbird.

#5778

Jerzy Prószyński

#80062

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Jerzy Prószyński is a Polish arachnologist specializing in systematics of jumping spiders . He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, a long-term employee of the Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities and the Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

#5779

Maret G. Traber

#101618

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Maret Gillett Traber is an American research biochemist. She is the Ava Helen Pauling Professor at the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. Early life and education Traber was born in Stockton, California in 1950 to a milkman father and Estonian immigrant mother. She attended the University of California, Berkeley for her Bachelor of Science and PhD in nutrition during the 1970s. Upon graduating, she followed her husband Biff to New Jersey and accepted a part time position assisting graduate students at Rutgers University.

#5780

Ion Gresser

#107885

Overall Influence

#5781

Mohamad Mohty

#107896

Overall Influence

#5782

Margaret McFall-Ngai

#57530

Overall Influence

Margaret McFall-Ngai is an American animal physiologist and biochemist best-known for her work related to the symbiotic relationship between Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes and bioluminescent bacteria, Vibrio fischeri. Her research helped expand the microbiology field, primarily focused on pathogenicity and decomposition at the time, to include positive microbial associations. She currently is a professor at PBRC’s Kewalo Marine Laboratory and director of the Pacific Biosciences Research Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

#5783

Murray Epstein

#107910

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Arnold B. Rabson

#89288

Overall Influence

Arnold B. Rabson is an American physician-scientist. He is the director of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey and the Laura Gallagher Chair of Developmental Biology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Rabson is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#5785

Daniel M. Davis

#86794

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Daniel Michael Davis is Head of Life Sciences and Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London. Davis was previously Professor of Immunology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of The Secret Body, The Beautiful Cure and The Compatibility Gene. His research, using microscopy to study immune cell biology has helped understand how immune cells interact with each other. He co-discovered the immunological synapse and membrane nanotubes.

#5786

Friedemann Pulvermüller

#107958

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

#5787

Christine Mannhalter

Christine Mannhalter

#91394

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Christine Mannhalter is an Austrian molecular biologist and hematologist who is a Professor of Molecular Diagnostics at the Medical University of Vienna. She has been a vice-president at the Austrian Science Fund since 2010 and took over its interim presidency in 2015.

#5788

Nicholas Mrosovsky

#95219

Overall Influence

1934 - 2015 (81 years)

Nicholas Mrosovsky was a Canadian zoologist known for his research in the fields of homeostasis, chronobiology, and sea turtle biology. He spent his whole professional career at the University of Toronto. His laboratory was notable for its seminal investigations of the influence of behavioural arousal on circadian rhythms. He was also the founder, in 1976, of Marine Turtle Newsletter. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973, and in 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

#5789

Tyler Lyson

#92716

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Tyler R. Lyson is an American paleontologist. He is the discoverer of the dinosaur fossil Dakota, a fossilized mummified hadrosaur. He has done significant research on the evolution of turtles and on the rise of mammals after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

#5790

Walter Stephen Judd

#94829

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Walter S. Judd is an American botanist and taxonomist, and distinguished professor in the Department of Botany, University of Florida since 2009. Career Judd attended Michigan State University and Harvard University . He became an assistant professor in the Department of Botany at the University of Florida , associate professor and professor in 1991. He was president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists 2000–2001.

#5791

Marjolein Visser

#108000

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#5792

Mike Belosevic

#93989

Overall Influence

Miodrag "Mike" Belosevic, is a professor of immunology in the University of Alberta Department of Biological Sciences. In 2008, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. External links University home pageGoogle Scholar profile

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Rachel Tanner

#77972

Overall Influence

Rachel Tanner is an immunologist working at the University of Oxford. She won the UK 'Women of the Future' Award for Science in 2019. Research Tanner researches tuberculosis with a focus on immune correlates of protection and the host immune response to TB vaccination. She has worked extensively on in vitro functional assays for vaccine testing to reduce the number of animals used in 'challenge' or infection experiments, and has led an NC3Rs funded project to transfer one such assay internationally. Her research interests also include the specific and non-specific effects of the BCG vaccine across different populations, and development of a vaccine against Mycobacterium bovis in cattle.

#5794

Shi Yigong

#87685

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Shi Yigong is a Chinese biophysicist who serves as founding and the current president of Westlake University since April 2018. He previously served as vice president of Tsinghua University from 2015 to 2018 and dean of Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences from 2009 to 2016.

#5795

Primarosa Chieri

#43905

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Primarosa Rinaldi de Chieri is an Argentine-Italian geneticist and physician. In 1965, she obtained her medical degree, from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1978, she received a doctorate from the same university. She is a consultant and lecturer in genetics and serves as First Chair at the pediatrics department of UBA. She is also a director of the laboratory of genetic analysis at Primagen.

#5796

Rachel E. Klevit

#53597

Overall Influence

Rachel E. Klevit is professor of biochemistry, adjunct professor of chemistry, and adjunct professor of pharmacology at the University of Washington. She holds the Edmond H. Fischer-Washington Research Foundation Endowed Chair in Biochemistry. Klevit's research focuses on molecular interactions in human diseases and includes research on BRCA1, the protein ubiquitination system, and human heat shock proteins.

#5797

John Warham

#80933

Overall Influence

1919 - 2010 (91 years)

John Warham was an Australian and New Zealand photographer and ornithologist notable for his research on seabirds, especially petrels. Warham was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, in England, and educated at King Edward VI Grammar School at Retford, Nottinghamshire. From 1940 he served in the British Army during the Second World War in Europe, being demobilised in 1946. He moved to Australia from England in 1953. Following much photography and study of Australian birds, and the publication of illustrated papers on their biology in the Emu, he returned to England to take a BSc in 1965 and in 19...

#5798

Julian Chela-Flores

Julian Chela-Flores

#51593

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Julian Chela-Flores is a Venezuelan astrobiologist and physicist. He is known for his contributions to the field of planetary habitability. Biography His father, Raimundo Chela a mathematician of Lebanese family, encouraged his studies in science, while his mother raised his interest in the humanities. He lived in England where he studied in the University of London, obtaining a PhD in Quantum Mechanics in 1969. His field of research is astrobiology, in other words the science of the origin, evolution, distribution and destiny of life in the universe, especially life on Europa, the Jovian sat...

#5799

Gerard Evan

#70723

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Gerard Ian Evan FRS, FMedSci is a British biologist and, since May 2022, Professor of Cancer Biology at King's College London and a principal group leader in the Francis Crick Institute. Prior to this he was Sir William Dunn Professor and Head of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge .

#5800

Curtis A. Suttle

#97241

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Curtis A. Suttle is a Canadian microbiologist and oceanographer who is a faculty member at the University of British Columbia. Suttle is a Distinguished University Professor who holds appointments in Earth & Ocean Sciences, Botany, Microbiology & Immunology and the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. On 29 December, 2021 he was named to the Order of Canada. His research is focused on the ecology of viruses in marine systems as well as other natural environments.

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