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List of the most influential people in Biology,

#7401

Edward J. Carpenter

#121603

Overall Influence

#7402

Cornelis Kluft

#121610

Overall Influence

#7403

Steven G. Younkin

#121617

Overall Influence

#7404

Betty Flint

#118330

Overall Influence

1909 - 2011 (102 years)

Elizabeth Alice Flint was a New Zealand botanist who specialised in freshwater algae. She co-authored the three-volume series Flora of New Zealand Desmids in the 1980s and 1990s. Early life and education Born in Edmonton, London, England, on 26 May 1909, Flint was raised in the London suburb of New Malden until she emigrated with her family to New Zealand in 1921. There, she was educated at St Margaret's College, Christchurch, and went on to study botany at Canterbury University College, graduating with a Master of Science degree in 1936. Her master's thesis was titled The periodicity of the...

#7405

H. Edwin Umbarger

#121637

Overall Influence

#7406

Nathan A. Berger

#121639

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

#7407

Fiona Brinkman

#101396

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Fiona Brinkman is a Professor in Bioinformatics and Genomics in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, and is a leader in the area of microbial bioinformatics. She is interested in developing "more sustainable, holistic approaches for infectious disease control and conservation of microbiomes".

#7408

Linda Chang

#88948

Overall Influence

Linda Chang is an American neurologist. She is a professor of diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine and the vice-chair for faculty development at University of Maryland School of Medicine. Education Chang completed a bachelor of science in biochemistry through the honors program at University of Maryland, College Park in 1981. Chang earned a master of science in physiology and biophysics from Georgetown University in 1982. Chang completed a medical doctorate at Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1986. Chang completed a residency in neurology at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in 1990.

#7409

Lonnie Dee Russell

#121685

Overall Influence

#7410

Hong Ling

#113930

Overall Influence

1966 - 2020 (54 years)

Hong Ling was a Chinese geneticist, professor and doctoral advisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Career Hong was educated at Wuhan University, majoring in biology, where he graduated in July 1987 and obtained a bachelor's degree. In December 1994, he graduated from the University of Arizona with a doctor's degree in biochemistry. After graduation, he started his career as a biochemist at Department of Molecular & Cell Biology of University of California, Berkeley. Since March 2007, he served as professor of molecular biology at the School of Life Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

#7411

Joaquim Radua

#64389

Overall Influence

Joaquim Radua is a Spanish psychiatrist and developer of methods for meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies. He has been named as one of the most cited researchers in Psychiatry / Psychology. Education Joaquim Radua studied Medicine as well as Statistics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and graduated in 2003 and 2010 respectively. He did his residency training at the Hospital Universitari of Bellvitge and became a specialist in Psychiatry in 2008. He subsequently received his PhD in biostatistics of brain imaging at King's College London and conducted a Río Hortega Research Training Program in 2013.

#7412

Hans‐hilmar Goebel

#121691

Overall Influence

#7413

Denise Galloway

#120627

Overall Influence

Denise A. Galloway is the associate director of the Human Biology Division and scientific director of the Pathogen-Associated Malignancies Integrated Research Center at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and a professor of microbiology and pathology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Her research focuses on human papillomavirus and its role in the development of cancer.

#7414

Cheryl a. Frye

#121695

Overall Influence

#7415

Jen Sheen

#96122

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Jen Sheen is a biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who is known for her work on plant signaling networks. She is an elected member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

#7416

Edward A. Adelberg

#117533

Overall Influence

1920 - 2009 (89 years)

Edward Allen Adelberg was a founder of microbial genetics and biochemist who spent much of his career at Yale University. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and co-author of influential textbooks.

#7417

Raina MacIntyre

#90641

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Raina MacIntyre is an Australian epidemiologist and academic. She is the Professor of Global Biosecurity within the Kirby Institute at University of New South Wales and a National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellow, who leads a research program on the prevention and control of infectious diseases. She is an expert media advisor and commentator on Australia's response to COVID-19.

#7418

Charles W. Gehrke

#121715

Overall Influence

#7419

Hans-Joachim Merker

#105531

Overall Influence

1929 - 2014 (85 years)

Hans-Joachim Merker was a German physician and anatomist. He was Professor of Anatomy at the Free University of Berlin from 1972 to 1998, and served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1980 to 1981. He was noted for his research on the fine structure of connective tissue, the morphology of hormone effects, and embryological and embryotoxic problems, and his research was central in the development of medical research utilising electron microscopy. Hans Georg Baumgarten noted on his death that he was "not only a chair-holder, but a philosopher, humanist, anthropologist, developmental biolog...

#7420

Britt Koskella

#82086

Overall Influence

Britt Koskella is an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She studies evolutionary biology, specialising in host-pathogen relationships. Education Britt Koskella was an undergraduate at University of Virginia, initially studying psychology. Part-time work as a technician with the research group of Janis Antonovics, where she saw experimental evolution laboratory studies of the movement of a plant pathogen between species, changed the direction of her degree and became the foundation of her research interests. She was awarded the degree of Ph. D. by the Indiana Un...

#7421

Bronwyn Gillanders

Bronwyn Gillanders

#107314

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Bronwyn May Gillanders is a marine scientist whose research spans freshwater, estuarine and marine waters while focusing on fish and fisheries ecology. Her studies of the Giant Australian cuttlefish of Northern Spencer Gulf in South Australia revealed the species' sensitivity to increases in salinity; a controversial aspect of the Environmental Impact Study for the expansion of BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam mine. Gillanders' discovery was published in the scientific journal Marine Environmental Research and prompted environmental activists to call for the relocation of the project's proposed s...

#7422

Donald Willson Roberts

#121779

Overall Influence

#7423

Asker Jeukendrup

#68510

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Asker Jeukendrup is a sports nutrition scientist and an Ironman triathlete. Academic career Following an MSc in Human Movement Sciences at Maastricht University in the Netherlands he completed his PhD in 1997 at the same university studying aspects of carbohydrate and fat metabolism during exercise. After postdoctoral research at the University of Texas in Austin, Jeukendrup became the youngest professor at the University of Birmingham at the age of 35. He was a Professor of Exercise Metabolism at the University of Birmingham for over 12 years. He also served as a Director of the Human Performance Lab at the same university.

#7424

John Russell Stothard

John Russell Stothard

#114230

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

John Russell Stothard is a British scientist, professor of parasitology at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and well known for his teaching and research into schistosomiasis and neglected tropical diseases. He was the recipient of the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society of London in 2004, and the C.A. Wright Memorial Medal of the British Society for Parasitology in 2019. He has previously held positions at London's Natural History Museum, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and at Imperial College London between 1992 and 2010.

#7425

Mark F. Leppert

#121811

Overall Influence

#7426

Tadaomi Takenawa

#121815

Overall Influence

#7427

Chiaho Shih

#89417

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Chiaho Shih is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Division of Infectious Disease & Immunology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His research is in the area of Molecular virology, Viral hepatitis and Hepatoma, and Cancer.

#7428

Reiner Siebert

#121871

Overall Influence

#7429

D. Wright Wilson

#121874

Overall Influence

#7430

Stefan S. Blankenberg

#121884

Overall Influence

#7431

Philippe Lemey

#121887

Overall Influence

#7432

Ulf Dieckmann

#121888

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

#7433

J. Aidan Carney

#121938

Overall Influence

#7434

Brunello Wüthrich

#121950

Overall Influence

#7435

Christopher F. Curtis

#121953

Overall Influence

#7436

Lionel Rosen

#121961

Overall Influence

#7437

Daniel C. Tosteson

#75144

Overall Influence

1925 - 2009 (84 years)

#7438

Michael J. Brody

#121979

Overall Influence

#7439

Iva Tolić

#94362

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Iva Marija Tolić is a Croatian biophysicist, known for her work on the microtubule cytoskeleton and associated motor proteins. She is currently Senior Research Group Leader and professor of Biology at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia.

#7440

Bing Ren

#122002

Overall Influence

#7441

Susan Weiss

#119760

Overall Influence

Susan R. Weiss is an American microbiologist who is a Professor of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds vice chair positions for the Department of Microbiology and for Faculty Development. Her research considers the biology of coronaviruses, including SARS, MERS and SARS-CoV-2. As of March 2020, Weiss serves as Co-Director of the University of Pennsylvania/Penn Medicine Center for Research on Coronavirus and Other Emerging Pathogens.

#7442

Steven A Benner

#122029

Overall Influence

#7443

Marom Bikson

#122034

Overall Influence

#7444

Anne D. Haffajee

#122038

Overall Influence

#7445

Heiko Enderling

#101867

Overall Influence

Heiko Enderling is a German-American mathematical biologist and mathematical oncologist whose research topics include radiotherapy, tumor-immune interactions, cancer stem cells, and dynamic biomarkers. He is a Senior Member in the Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center, editor of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, and president of the Society for Mathematical Biology .

#7446

Michael A. Jenike

#122048

Overall Influence

#7447

Mireille Dardenne

#122050

Overall Influence

#7448

Michel Delseny

#70829

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Michel Delseny is director of research emeritus at the CNRS and a member of the French Academy of sciences. Delseny initially focused on the study of gene expression in higher plants, mainly during seed development and germination, as well as in response to stress. He later contributed to the development of plant genomics and focused on the organization and evolution of plant genomes.

#7449

Takashi Akazawa

#122100

Overall Influence

#7450

Antonio Giorgio Scarpa

#122102

Overall Influence

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