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List of the most influential people in Biology,

#9201

Elly Nedivi

#102690

Overall Influence

Elly Nedivi is an American neuroscientist. She is a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the William R. and Linda R. Young Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#9202

David Shaffer

#12352

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

David Percy Shaffer was a South African-born British-American physician and pediatrician. He was the Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, now the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Shaffer was also the chief of pediatric psychiatry at New York–Presbyterian Hospital and chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute. He was the former spouse of renowned British-American journalist Anna...

#9203

Jack David Cowan

#135133

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#9204

Joyce Van Eck

#120099

Overall Influence

Joyce Van Eck is a plant biologist and faculty member at the Boyce Thompson Institute in Ithaca, NY. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cornell University. Education Van Eck attended Pennsylvania State University as an undergraduate, receiving a bachelor's degree in plant breeding. She studied plant tissue culture at the University of Delaware with Sherry L. Kitto including the regeneration of mint species from culture. She completed her PhD at Cornell University in 1993. In 2008 she became the director of the Boyce Thompson Center for Biotechnology, a...

#9205

Marlena Fejzo

#63043

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Marlena Schoenberg Fejzo is an American medical scientist and professor of research on hyperemesis gravidarum and ovarian cancer. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University in Applied Math in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Genetics from Harvard University in 1995. Currently she has joint appointments in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Southern California and the department of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she works in the laboratory of Dennis J. Slamon.

#9206

Nan Bernstein Ratner

#54291

Overall Influence

Nan Bernstein Ratner is a professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. Ratner is a board-recognized specialist in child language disorders. Her primary areas of research are fluency development and disorder, psycholinguistics, and child language development. She has published numerous research articles, chapters, and edited texts, as well as co-authored textbooks in her areas of research.

#9207

Joseph L. Graves Jr.

#80367

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Joseph L. Graves Jr. is an American evolutionary biologist and geneticist. He is a professor of biological science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and a former associate dean for research at the Joint School for Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, which is jointly administered by North Carolina A & T State University and UNC Greensboro.

#9208

Bryce Kendrick

#112691

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Bryce Kendrick is an English-Canadian biologist, who spent the majority of his career in Canada, principally at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Biography Kendrick was born in Liverpool in 1933. After completing his bachelor's degree and Ph.D. at the University of Liverpool, he took an assignment as a postdoctoral fellow with the Plant Research Institute of Agriculture Canada in Ottawa, Canada, remaining there as a research officer until 1965, when he accepted a position as assistant professor in the biology department at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. The following year he became as associate professor, and in 1971 he was made a full professor.

#9209

Thomas Pape

#135190

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

#9210

Renato Pasquali

#135215

Overall Influence

#9211

Sukhamay Lahiri

#135222

Overall Influence

#9212

Erminio Costa

#87913

Overall Influence

1924 - 2009 (85 years)

Erminio "Mimo" Costa was an Italian-American neuroscientist. His research interests covered brain serotonergic activity in health and disease, benzodiazepine-GABA interactions, benzodiazepine action at GABAA receptors, neurophysiological role of neurosteroids, and GABAergic dysfunction and changes in the expression of reelin and GAD67 in schizophrenia. He published more than 1,000 articles. The June 2011 issue of the journal Neuropharmacology was dedicated to him.

#9213

Birger Blombäck

#135230

Overall Influence

#9214

Keith N. Frayn

#135235

Overall Influence

#9215

Klement Tockner

#135248

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

#9216

Roberto Refinetti

Roberto Refinetti

#110198

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Roberto Refinetti is a behavioral physiologist and higher-education administrator. He is best known for his book Circadian Physiology and is ranked in the top 2% of scientists in the world. Behavioral physiology Refinetti earned his doctoral degree in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1987 and has been a researcher or university professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, the University of South Carolina, Boise State University, and the University of New Orleans. He is the editor-in-chie...

#9217

Takaji Wakita

#135262

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

#9218

Philip Ph G. De Groot

#135269

Overall Influence

#9219

Henning Walczak

#135289

Overall Influence

#9220

Mohammed A.F. Al-Rawi

#68947

Overall Influence

1952 - 2003 (51 years)

Mohammed A. F. Al-Rawi was a Medical Specialist/Physician, the president of Baghdad University, the chairman of the Iraqi Doctors Union, and the Ex-dean of College of Medicine University of Baghdad at the time of his death. Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Al-Rawi was reinstated as president of Baghdad University by US Deputy Proconsul Robin Raphel in May 2003 but he opted not to serve in this position while the country is under foreign control.

#9221

Søren Løvtrup

#132304

Overall Influence

1922 - 2002 (80 years)

Soren Løvtrup was a Danish embryologist and historian of science in the Department of Animal Physiology at the Umeå University, Sweden. Løvtrup was known for his macromutation theory of evolution, which was in opposition to traditional neo-Darwinism. In 1987, Løvtrup published his controversial book Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth which challenged Charles Darwin's role as the intellectual founder of evolutionary theory and accused Darwin of plagiarism.

#9222

Randy R. Gaugler

#135299

Overall Influence

#9223

Alexandre Pouget

#87781

Overall Influence

Alexandre Pouget is a full Professor at the University of Geneva in the department of basic neurosciences. Background and education He received his undergraduate education at the École normale supérieure , before moving to the Salk Institute in 1988 to pursue a PhD in computational neuroscience in Terry Sejnowski's laboratory. After a postdoc at UCLA with John Schlag in 1994, he became a professor at Georgetown University in 1996, then at the University of Rochester in the Brain and Cognitive Science department in 1999 before moving to the University of Geneva in 2011.

#9224

Stefan Jansson

#135334

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

#9225

Daniel J. Hicklin

#135349

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#9226

Michael C. Scrutton

#135351

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#9227

Philip J. R. Goulder

#135365

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#9228

Bo Thamdrup

#135371

Overall Influence

#9229

Philip Awadalla

#113006

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Philip Awadalla is a professor of medical and population genetics at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, and the Department of Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He is the National Scientific Director of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow's Health , formerly the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project , and executive director of the Ontario Health Study. He is also the Executive Scientific Director of the Genome Canada Genome Technology Platform, the Canadian Data Integration Centre. Professor Awadalla was the Executive Scientific Director of the CARTa...

#9230

Richard John Harrison

#108012

Overall Influence

1920 - 1999 (79 years)

Sir Richard John Harrison was a professor of anatomy at the University of Cambridge. He was the Fullerian Professor of Physiology from 1961 until 1967, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973. He was elected President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland for 1977 to 1979.

#9231

Richard Anthony Mayou

#135389

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#9232

Jay O. Schulkin

#135390

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#9233

Dorothea Bartels

#135391

Overall Influence

#9234

Koenraad Devriendt

#135392

Overall Influence

#9235

Michael Taborsky

#135398

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

#9236

Ingrid Pabinger

#135399

Overall Influence

#9237

Felix Bast

#92968

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Felix Bast, born as Vadakke Madam Sreejith Nambissan , is an Indian phycologist, author, and public educator based at the Central University of Punjab. He is the member of the high-profile advisory council of International Science Council, Paris, and has discovered seven new species of plants from India and Antarctica.

#9238

Franz M. Enzinger

#135415

Overall Influence

#9239

William C. Merrick

#135425

Overall Influence

#9240

Timothy J. Schallert

#135433

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#9241

Reginald Hall

#135448

Overall Influence

#9242

Jan Stenlid

#135454

Overall Influence

#9243

Lucienne Chatenoud

#135466

Overall Influence

#9244

Louise Howard

#119971

Overall Influence

Louise Michele Howard is Professor of Women's Mental Health, King's College London. Howard's research includes medication in pregnancy, violence and health and the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of perinatal mental health services. She is an Honorary Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

#9245

Nicola Biagio Mercuri

#135468

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#9246

Jan Smit

#97749

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Jan Smit is a Dutch paleontologist. He was affiliated with the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from 2003 to 2013 as a professor of event stratigraphy, studying rapid changes in the geological record related to mass extinctions.

#9247

Leonard D. Kohn

#135493

Overall Influence

#9248

Thomas Pieber

#134171

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Thomas Rudolf Pieber is an Austrian clinical specialist in endocrinology and diabetes. He is Professor of Medicine, Head of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical University of Graz. He is also Director of the Institute of Biomedicine and Health Sciences at Joanneum Research.

#9249

Justine Germo Nzweundji

#116578

Overall Influence

Dr. Justine Germo Nzweundjiis a plant biotechnologist from Cameroon. She is the president of the Cameroon Academy of Young Scientists, and was a 2011 fellow of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards.

#9250

Christine Alewine

#105122

Overall Influence

Christine Campo Alewine is an American oncologist and biologist researching immunotoxin therapeutics in pancreatic cancer. She is an investigator at the National Cancer Institute. Education Campo completed a B.A. in chemistry and Asian studies at Dartmouth College. In college, she interned under chemist Karen Wetterhahn focusing on the environmental effects of toxic metals. It was in this lab that Alewine was introduced to MD–PhD programs and became interested in becoming a physician-scientist. She completed a postbaccalaureate program at the National Cancer Institute's laboratory of pathology from 1998 to 1999.

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