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List of the most influential people in Biology,

#7751

Hans-Peter Schultze

#123667

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Hans-Peter Schultze is a German-American paleoichthyologist. He has described the following taxon:Luckeus abudda Young & Schultze, 2005 See also IchthyolithPaleozoology

#7752

Ryuichi Kato

#124326

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#7753

Ralf Kaldenhoff

#124332

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Ralf Kaldenhoff is a German botanist and professor for applied plant sciences at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He is known for his work on the aquaporin protein class, where he detected facilitated diffusion of CO2 in plant tissue and cells and in chloroplasts respectively.

#7754

Michael 1. Zigmond

#124346

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#7755

Stanley A. Cain

#109353

Overall Influence

1902 - 1995 (93 years)

Stanley Adair Cain was a botanist and pioneer of plant ecology and environmental studies. Biography Cain graduated from Butler University with B.S. in 1924 and from the University of Chicago with M.S. in 1927 and with PhD in 1930. His doctoral dissertation on the heath balds of the Great Smoky Mountains was based upon field work in 1929 and 1930. His doctoral advisor was George D. Fuller . At Butler University's department of botany, Cain was an instructor from 1924 to 1927, an assistant professor from 1927 to 1930, and an associate professor from 1930 to 1931. At Indiana University, he was a...

#7756

Masayoshi Mishina

#124349

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#7757

Dolores Ramirez

#54889

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Dolores A. Ramirez is a Filipino geneticist. She specializes in plant breeding and plant cytogenetics. She was named a National Scientist of the Philippines in 1998. Early life and education Dolores A. Ramirez was born on September 20, 1931, in Calamba, Laguna to Leonor Altoveros and Augusto U. Ramirez. She was the oldest of eight children and her father died when she was young. She graduated from Laguna Institute in 1952 with a First Honorable Mention award.

#7758

Arvin R. Mosier

#124357

Overall Influence

#7759

Hartmut Beug

#124367

Overall Influence

#7760

Ab van Kammen

#112625

Overall Influence

1932 - 2023 (91 years)

Albert "Ab" van Kammen is a Dutch molecular biologist and virologist. He was a professor of molecular biology at Wageningen University and Research between 1972 and 1996. Life Van Kammen was born on 7 September 1932 in Amsterdam. He studied organic chemistry at the University of Amsterdam and followed a minor in plant physiology. In 1958 he started working on his doctorate at the laboratory of virology at the Landbouwhogeschool with research on the Tobacco mosaic virus. He obtained his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Amsterdam in 1963 under professor J.P.H. Want with a thesis titl...

#7761

Ralph Lainson

#86962

Overall Influence

1927 - 2015 (88 years)

Ralph Lainson OBE, FRS was a British parasitologist who studied leishmaniasis in Brazil. He was the first to publish a record of Chagas disease. Life Lainson was born in Upper Beeding, Sussex on 21 February 1927. His father, Charles Harry Lainson was a chemist for Portland Cement and his mother was Annie May née Denyer. He studied at Steyning Grammar School, before enlisting in the army for a short while.

#7762

J. Barry Mitchell

#124385

Overall Influence

#7763

Andrew N. J. McKenzie

Andrew N. J. McKenzie

#110072

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Andrew Neil James McKenzie is a molecular biologist and group leader in the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology . Education McKenzie was educated at the University of London where he was awarded a PhD for research on the immune response of the bluebottle fly , covering both humoral immunity and cell-mediated immunity.

#7764

Colin Bernard Reese

#124429

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#7765

Michael G. Rinaldi

#124430

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#7766

Harry R. Keiser

#124436

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#7767

Joseph A. Kuć

#124448

Overall Influence

#7768

John N. Whitaker

#72384

Overall Influence

1940 - 2001 (61 years)

John Nicholas Whitaker was an American neurologist and immunologist dedicated to multiple sclerosis research. He was a pioneer in the field of neuroimmunology and contributed with the identification of myelin basic protein production in urine.

#7769

Paula Traktman

#118980

Overall Influence

Paula Traktman is an American virologist and academic administrator at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology. From 2013 to 2014 she was the president of the American Society for Virology.

#7770

Pierre V. Vignais

#124465

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#7771

Mariana Wolfner

#117842

Overall Influence

Mariana Federica Wolfner is the Goldwin Smith Professor of molecular biology and genetics at Cornell University. Her research investigates sexual conflict in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019 in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

#7772

Hermann Prof Dipl Biol Sahm

#124472

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#7773

Peter Bramley

#75271

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Peter M. Bramley is a British biochemist and emeritus professor of biochemistry at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he was the Head of the School of Biological Sciences from 2006 to 2011. His research focuses on the biosynthesis of carotenoids in plants and microorganisms

#7774

Aleksander Konjajev

#124476

Overall Influence

1909 - 1995 (86 years)

Aleksander Konjajev was a Russian Empire-born Yugoslav agronomist and dean of the Biotechnology Faculty at the University of Ljubljana. He was an expert on microbiology of dairy farming. He wrote numerous scientific books and articles as well as popular science books. He won the Levstik Award twice, in 1984 for his book Nevidni živi svet and in 1991 for Nejc in drobnoživke .

#7775

David L. Pauls

#124477

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#7776

Thomas H. Haines

#64712

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Thomas Henry Haines is an American author, social activist, biochemist and academic. He was a professor of chemistry at City College of New York and of Biochemistry at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. Until recently he was a visiting professor in the Laboratory of Thomas Sakmar at Rockefeller University. He also recently served on the board of the Graham School, a social services and foster care agency in New York City. His scientific research has focused on the structure and function of the living cell membrane. He is the father of Avril Haines, the seventh Director of Natio...

#7777

Lori L. Altshuler

Lori L. Altshuler

#93175

Overall Influence

1957 - 2015 (58 years)

Lori Altshuler was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and held the Julia S. Gouw Endowed Chair for Mood Disorders. Altshuler was the Director of the UCLA Mood Disorders Research Program and the UCLA Women's Life Center, each being part of the Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA.

#7778

Peter J. Peters

#115952

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Peter J. Peters is a professor of nanobiology and a distinguished university professor at Maastricht University. Peters is best known for his work in electron microscopy and cellular immunology. He is the founder and director of the Institute of Nanoscopy.

#7779

Anthony Fiorillo

#93755

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Anthony Ricardo Fiorillo is Executive Director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, as well as a senior fellow at the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at Southern Methodist University. For many years he was vice president of research & collections and chief curator at the Perot Museum of Nature & Science. A native of Connecticut, he received his bachelor's at the University of Connecticut, his master's at the University of Nebraska and a Ph.D. in Vertebrate Paleontology from the University of Pennsylvania.

#7780

Laurence Edward Becker

#124498

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#7781

Lloyd H. Michael

#124508

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#7782

Andrew E. Skodol

#93269

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Andrew E. Skodol is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona and Columbia University. Skodol is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, American College of Psychiatrists, and the World Psychiatric Association. He was also the President of the Association for Research on Personality Disorders and, in 2017, the American Psychopathological Association. He graduated from Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. Skodol received his psychiatric training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he worked as an assistant professor until 1979, when he transferred to Columbia.

#7783

Michael Schulzer

#124520

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#7784

Guido I. Marcucci

#124526

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#7785

Fathollah K. Mostofi

#124537

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#7786

Patricia Lindop

#67325

Overall Influence

1930 - 2018 (88 years)

Patricia Joyce Lindop FRCP was British professor of radiation biology at the University of London and the organiser of at least 100 "Pugwash" meetings at which scientists met to discuss their campaign for nuclear disarmament.

#7787

Michiel Kleerebezem

#124555

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#7788

Britta Engelhardt

#124581

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

#7789

Paul Jolicoeur

#105603

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Paul Jolicoeur is a Québecois professor and doctor. He has been a teacher since 1976 at the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in infectious and parasitic diseases. His principal specialisms are the detection of new oncogenes, the study of degenerative neurological illnesses and research into AIDS.

#7790

Tracy K. Mcintosh

#124594

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#7791

Ádám Miklósi

#117802

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ádám Miklósi is a Hungarian ethologist, expert on dog cognition and behavior. He holds the position of professor and the head of the Ethology Department at the Faculty of Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. In 2016 he was elected as a corresponding member, in 2022 as a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is the co-founder and leader of the Family Dog Project, which aims to study human-dog interaction from an ethological perspective. In 2014 he published the 2nd edition of an academic volume entitled Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition by Oxford ...

#7792

Llewellya Hillis

Llewellya Hillis

#112907

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Llewellya Williams Hillis , later Llewellya Hillis-Colinvaux, was a Canadian-born American marine biologist. Early life Llewellya Hillis was born in Windsor, Ontario and raised in Walkerville. She graduated from Walkerville Collegiate Institute. Her father Llewellyn Hillis worked at an automotive plant, and her mother Pearl Evelina Hillis was a teacher. She earned her bachelor's degree at Queen's University in 1952. In 1957 she completed her doctoral work in botany at the University of Michigan; her thesis titled "A Revision of the Genus Halimeda " was published in 1959. As a graduate student,...

#7793

Bland Finlay

#115380

Overall Influence

Bland J. Finlay FRS was a British biologist. Career Finlay received his bachelor's and PhD degrees from the University of Stirling. He worked as a lecturer at University of Jos for a year, before moving to the Freshwater Biological Association's laboratory at Windermere where he was based from 1978 to 2003. Many of his research studies were conducted at the nearby pond of Priest Pot in the Lake District. He then worked at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology from 2003 to 2007. In 2007 he was appointed Professor of Microbial Ecology, Queen Mary, University of London, before retiring in 2012. ...

#7794

Jorge Eduardo Wright

#94132

Overall Influence

1922 - 2005 (83 years)

Jorge Eduardo Wright was an Argentinian mycologist. Born in Buenos Aires, he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1949. He was awarded a Latin American Guggenheim Fellowship and studied under Alexander H. Smith at the University of Michigan, under whom he received his Master of Science degree in botany in 1955. A year later he was awarded his doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires based on his research on the gasteromycetes and other basidiomycetes. Wright became a full professor in systematic botany at this university in 1960, a position he held until his retirement in 1988.

#7795

Jesús E. Maldonado

#118806

Overall Influence

Jesús E. Maldonado is an American research geneticist from the Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics at the Smithsonian Institution. Career Maldonado graduated to Bachelor of Science at the Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and to Master of Science at the same university in 1985. In 2001, he promoted to Ph.D. in Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution at the University of California Los Angeles. In 1998, he joined the Smithsonian Institution where he worked at the Genetics Program for the National Zoological Park and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

#7796

Walton T. Roth

#101772

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Walton Thompson "Tom" Roth is an American psychiatrist and psychophysiological researcher. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and was Chief of the Psychiatric Consultation Service at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System for over 40 years.

#7797

Vicki Huff

#119634

Overall Influence

Vicki D. Huff is an American geneticist and cancer researcher. She is a professor in the department of genetics and the director of the Sequence and Microarray Facility at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Huff is also a professor at UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She completed a doctor of philosophy in human genetics at University of Michigan in 1987. From 1987 to 1990, Huff was a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry and molecular biology at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

#7798

Graeme Hays

#124635

Overall Influence

Graeme C. Hays is a British and Australian marine ecologist known for his work with sea turtles and plankton. He is the Alfred Deakin Professor of Marine Science at Deakin University, Australia. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya and works in the area of marine ecology researching animal movements and impacts of climate change. His work has helped reveal navigational abilities of sea turtles., the impact of global warming on sea turtles and the factors controlling zooplankton diel vertical migration, the largest animal migration on Earth.

#7799

John Alan Elix

#117601

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

John Alan Elix emeritus professor in chemistry at the Australian National University, is an organic chemist who has contributed in many fields: lichenology, lichen chemotaxonomy, plant physiology and biodiversity and natural product chemistry. He has authored 2282 species names, and 67 genera in the field of mycology.

#7800

N. Gautham

#50980

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Namasivayam Gautham is a retired Professor Emeritus at the Centre of Advance Study in Crystallography and Biophysics, University of Madras. He is known for his work on DNA Crystallography, protein structure prediction and molecular docking.

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