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List of the most influential people in Biology,

#6601

Mohan k. Raizada

#115019

Overall Influence

#6602

Ivette Perfecto

Ivette Perfecto

#54998

Overall Influence

Ivette Perfecto is an ecologist and professor at the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on complex ecosystem dynamics and the application of ecological theories to agricultural systems. Early life and education Ivette Perfecto was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As a child, she was fascinated by the environment of the Caribbean. She enjoyed the outdoors, particularly the underwater world she could explore while snorkeling. The interactions she observed between organisms sparked her original interest in biology. However, the contamination of many of Puerto Rico's ecosystems that resulted ...

#6603

Harry S. Jacob

#115026

Overall Influence

#6604

Michael J. Hill

#115027

Overall Influence

#6605

Mariano Sanz

#115039

Overall Influence

#6606

Montserrat Vilà

#95924

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Montserrat Vilà i Planella is a Spanish ecologist who primarily studies the biological and environmental factors that determine the presence and success of invasive plants, as well as their ecological and economic impacts.

#6607

Charles E. Palm

#115060

Overall Influence

1911 - 1996 (85 years)

Charles Edmund Palm was an entomologist and Dean of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University for 13 years from 1959 to 1972. Palm was born in Austin, Texas, and grew up on a fruit and vegetable farm in northwest Arkansas. He graduated with honors from the University of Arkansas and then earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1935.

#6608

Esra Battaloğlu

#111257

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Esra Battaloğlu is a Turkish geneticist researching the human genetics of inherited peripheral neuropathies. She is an assistant professor at Boğaziçi University. Education Battaloğlu graduated from High School TED Ankara Koleji in 1982. She completed a B.S. in the department of biology at the Middle East Technical University in 1986. Battaloğlu earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in the department of biology at Boğaziçi University.

#6609

Devra G. Kleiman

Devra G. Kleiman

#109765

Overall Influence

1942 - 2010 (68 years)

Devra Gail Kleiman was an American biologist who helped create the field of conservation biology. She is known for her work to conserve endangered species, especially the golden lion tamarin of Brazil. Her efforts to use zoos to manage genetics of rare species was "one of the greatest success stories in the history of modern zoos," according to Steven Monfort, director of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. She is also known for her efforts to breed pandas at the National Zoo.

#6610

Jenefer Blackwell

#110149

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Jenefer Blackwell is a Professor of Molecular Parasitology at the Telethon Kids Institute in the University of Western Australia. She studies host susceptibility and resistance to infectious diseases.

#6611

Susan R. Barry

#42154

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Susan R. Barry is a Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience and Behavior at Mount Holyoke College and the author of two books, Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions and Coming to Our Senses: A Boy Who Learned to See, A Girl Who Learned to Hear, and How We All Discover the World. Barry was dubbed Stereo Sue by neurologist and author Oliver Sacks in a 2006 New Yorker article with that name. Barry's first book greatly expands on Sacks' article and discusses the experience of gaining stereovision through optometric vision therapy, after a lifetime of being stereoblind.

#6612

Günter Tembrock

#92924

Overall Influence

1918 - 2011 (93 years)

Günter Tembrock was an East German zoologist who pioneered the field of bioacoustics and biorhythms. He studied vocal communication in red foxes and birds. He was also a science popularizer and presented a television series.

#6613

Emily Steinberger

#115105

Overall Influence

#6614

Jennifer Stow

#107219

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jennifer Lea Stow is deputy director , NHMRC Principal Research Fellow and head of the Protein Trafficking and Inflammation laboratory at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience , The University of Queensland, Australia. She received a PhD from Monash University in Melbourne in 1982., postdoctoral training at Yale University School of Medicine in the Department of Cell Biologyand first faculty position as an assistant professor at Harvard University in the Renal Unit, Departments of Medicine and Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

#6615

William L. Epstein

#115113

Overall Influence

#6616

Anne Warner

#86941

Overall Influence

1940 - 2012 (72 years)

Anne E. Warner was a British biologist and a professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London. Her major field of research was morphogenesis. Warner was known for her work and leadership in a variety of research projects and organisations. She is perhaps most well known for her roles as a cell electrophysiologist, politician of science, and founder of the organisation UCL centre CoMPLEX.

#6617

Yngve Olsson

#115127

Overall Influence

#6618

E. Regis Mcfadden

#115132

Overall Influence

#6619

Ann Linnea Sandberg

Ann Linnea Sandberg

#55277

Overall Influence

1938 - 2009 (71 years)

Ann Linnea Sandberg was an American immunologist and the acting director of the Center for Integrative Craniofacial Research at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research . Previously, Sandberg was a lab chief and researcher for 23 years in the NIH Intramural Research Program at NIDCR.

#6620

Abraham I. Braude

#115172

Overall Influence

#6621

Steven Lanier Mcknight

#115201

Overall Influence

#6622

Dominique de Quervain

#63659

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Dominique de Quervain is a Swiss neuroscientist. He is professor of neuroscience and director of the Division of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is known for his pioneering research into the use of glucocorticoids in the treatment of PTSD and phobias. He is understood to have found a link between cortisol and forgetting, specifically that cortisol can inhibit memory retrieval. Furthermore, he is known for his contributions to the field of genetics of human memory.

#6623

Ian M. Kerr

#80824

Overall Influence

Ian Macpherson Kerr is a scientist whose research interests include the mechanism of action of the interferons, signal transduction and protein synthesis to viral infection and double-stranded RNA.

#6624

Egon Hynek Kodicek

#115212

Overall Influence

#6625

Lucina Uddin

#70540

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Lucina Q. Uddin is an American cognitive neuroscientist who is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research investigates the relationship between brain connectivity and cognition in typical and atypical development using network neuroscience approaches.

#6626

Beatrice Hahn

#85483

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Beatrice H. Hahn is an American virologist and biomedical researcher best known for work which established that HIV, the virus causing AIDS, began as a virus passed from apes to humans. She is a professor of Medicine and Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In November 2002, Discover magazine listed Hahn as one of the 50 most important women scientists.

#6627

Anthony. H. Barnett

#115263

Overall Influence

#6628

Mireille Chinain

#43443

Overall Influence

Mireille Chinain is a marine scientist from French Polynesia. Life Chinain is a graduate of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the University of French Polynesia. From 1990 to 2000, Chinain was a scientist in the medical oceanography unit at Louis Malardé Institute in Tahiti, French Polynesia. In 2000 Chinain was appointed head of the ciguatera research program at the institute. Research in her laboratory focuses on the ecology, biodiversity, taxonomy and systematics of the ciguatera-causing dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus, and developing of methods for toxin detection. Chinai...

#6629

Michael Zuker

#115271

Overall Influence

#6630

Kenneth Zaret

#113472

Overall Influence

Kenneth S. Zaret is a Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at UPenn. He is a recipient of the Hans Popper Basic Science Award from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the American Liver Foundation, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Association of Arts and Sciences, the European Molecular Biology Organization, and the National Academy of Sciences.

#6631

Nicholas W. Read

#115287

Overall Influence

#6632

Chris Freeman

#64236

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Professor Chris Freeman is a British environmental scientist at the University of Wales, Bangor. Freeman is Professor of Aquatic Biogeochemistry in the College of Natural Sciences in Bangor. Freeman's research focuses on carbon cycling, with an emphasis on peatland carbon storage and dissolved organic carbon dynamics. His work is best known for its description of a mechanism known as the "peatland enzymic latch" and observation of a rising trend in aquatic dissolved organic carbon concentrations. His work has been recognised with awards from the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography...

#6633

Stefan R. Nahorski

#115294

Overall Influence

#6634

Kristen Eik-Nes

#74989

Overall Influence

1922 - 1992 (70 years)

Kristen Borgar Dahler Eik-Nes was a Norwegian medical scientist, known for his contributions to androgen research. Biography Eik-Nes was born at the village of Sparbu in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. He was the son of Nina Eik-Nes and Knut Eik-Nes. As a young boy he suffered from serious illness which delayed his education. During the German occupation of Norway he was a member of Milorg, and eventually a regional Milorg leader.

#6635

Richard Matthews

#102375

Overall Influence

1921 - 1995 (74 years)

Richard Ellis Ford Matthews was a New Zealand plant virologist. Biography Matthews was born in Hamilton in 1921. He grew up in Mount Albert, and was educated at Owairaka School and Mount Albert Grammar School in Auckland. He then attended Auckland University College, graduating with a Master of Science degree with second-class honours in 1942.

#6636

Thomas G. Barnes

#66949

Overall Influence

1911 - 2001 (90 years)

Thomas G. Barnes was an American creationist, who argued in support of his religious belief in a young earth by making the scientific claims that the Earth's magnetic field was consistently decaying.

#6637

Ian Orme

#104069

Overall Influence

1952 - 2018 (66 years)

Ian Orme was a British-American microbiologist who was a Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University.

#6638

Christopher Garrett

#90835

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Christopher John Raymond Garrett FRS, FRSC is a British oceanographer, and Lansdowne Professor of Ocean Physics, at University of Victoria. He was a 1981 Guggenheim Fellow. Education He earned a B.A. in 1965, and Ph.D. in 1968 from University of Cambridge.

#6639

Munis Dundar

#96941

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Munis Dundar is a professor of Medical Genetics and Head of the Medical Genetics Department at Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey. He is founder and head of the Medical Genetics Department at Erciyes University and has carried out various administrative tasks since 1996. He defined genetic syndromes in the medical literature: the “Dundar Syndrome”, “Dundar Acropectoral Syndrome”, “Scoliosis, Blindness and Arachnodactyly Syndrome” and “Multiple Congenital Abnormalities and Mental Retardation Syndrome”. He has taken part as project coordinator and assistant investigator in many research projects and has prepared articles published in international journals since 1995.

#6640

N. Michael Green

#115376

Overall Influence

#6641

John Crump

#31433

Overall Influence

John Andrew Crump MB ChB, MD, DTM&H, FRACP, FRCPA, FRCP is a New Zealand-born infectious diseases physician, medical microbiologist, and epidemiologist. He is Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Global Health at the University of Otago and an adjunct professor of medicine, Pathology, and Global Health at Duke University. He served as inaugural co-director of the Otago Global Health Institute, one of the university's research centres. His primary research interest is fever in the tropics, focusing on invasive bacterial diseases and bacterial zoonoses.

#6642

Catherine H. Graham

#108931

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Catherine H. Graham is an American team leader and senior scientist working on the Biodiversity & Conservation Biology, and the Spatial Evolutionary Ecology research units at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. From 2003 to 2017 she was an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the Stony Brook University, and since her appointment at the WSL in 2017 she has maintained adjunct status there. She received both her M.S. degree and her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri at St. Louis, and did post-doctoral training at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley.

#6643

David Barker

#69899

Overall Influence

1923 - 2009 (86 years)

David Barker was a British zoologist and neurologist specialising in animal neuroanatomy. He was professor emeritus of zoology at the University of Durham and is honoured by the annual award of the David Barker Prize in Zoology. In February 1963, he published Zoology and Medical Research.

#6644

T. J. Hamblin

#67862

Overall Influence

1943 - 2012 (69 years)

Terence John Hamblin was a British academic and scientist who was professor of Immunohaematology at the University of Southampton from 1987 until his death. Life and career Born in Worcester, England, Hamblin's early years were spent in Aldershot in Hampshire where he and his family lived on Cambridge Road; he was educated at Farnborough Grammar School and the University of Bristol.

#6645

Manfred Schartl

#115407

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#6646

Andrzej Elżanowski

#107547

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Andrzej Elżanowski is a Polish paleontologist and vertebrate zoologist specializing in bird phylogeny. Together with Peter Wellnhofer he described a coelurosaur theropod Archaeornithoides in 1992. He works also on Mesozoic birds, especially Archaeopterygiformes – he is author of the chapter "Archaeopterygidae" in book edited by Luis Chiappe and Lawrence Witmer entitled Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. In 2001 he determined that Solnhofen specimen of Archaeopteryx represents new species and genus and coined new specific name – Wellnhoferia grandis – for it. He works now in the Fac...

#6647

Tobias Böckers

#97998

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Tobias M. Böckers is the head of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Ulm. The focus of his work is translational protein biochemistry as it applies to neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS.

#6648

James L. Manley

#47042

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

James Manley is the Julian Clarence Levi Professor of Life Sciences at Columbia University, where his laboratory studies gene expression in mammalian cells. Manley and colleagues identified and characterized the key factors responsible for polyadenylation of mRNA precursors, and elucidated how this remarkably complex machinery functions in gene regulation, for example during cell growth and differentiation. He has also studied the mechanism and regulation of the process by which introns are removed from mRNA precursors, mRNA splicing. Manley and his coworkers codiscovered the first alternative...

#6649

Robert Lyndsay Sutherland

#115440

Overall Influence

#6650

Rob van Soest

#113945

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Robertus Wilhelmus Maria van Soest, born in 1946, is a Dutch marine biologist. He works at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center and is also affiliated with the University of Amsterdam. He co-authored with John N. A. Hooper Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges, a standard reference for sponge classification.

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