The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.
Students and researchers now have a fast and reliable way to find influential thinkers from 24 disciplines and 300 sub-disciplines (and growing). If you want to find history’s most influential philsosophers, or the world’s most influential mathematicians currently, now you can.
We also provide custom rankings of people by discipline as well as interviews with influential academics who are currently active.
To use this tool, select the discipline (and optional subdiscipline) relevant to your research, and specify influential academics by history, world, or US. Even results that are counterintuitive are often enlightening (our algorithm always picks up a signal).
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List of the most influential people in Biology,
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Jasti S. Rao
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Gerald Wisler Esch
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Jiři Balik
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1953 - Present (73 years)
Jiři Balik is a Czech Agroscientist, University Professor and Rector of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague . Biography Balik was born in Tábor on November 30, 1953; he is married and has two children. The Professor of Agrochemistry and Plant Nutrition was 2010 until January 2018 Rector of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague .
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E. Richard Stiehm
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Andrea Manica
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Jeremy Yoder
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Jeremy B. Yoder is an American evolutionary biologist, science communicator and LGBTQIA+ advocate. He is an assistant professor of biology at California State University, Northridge. Education Yoder completed a B.S. at Eastern Mennonite University in 2004. He earned a Ph.D. from University of Idaho in 2011. His doctoral advisor was Olle Pellmyr. Yoder's dissertation was titled Species interactions and the origins of biological diversity. He completed a postdoc at University of Minnesota with Peter Tiffin. Yoder conducted further postdoctoral studies at University of British Columbia under Sall...
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William Lay Thompson
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1930 - 2016 (86 years)
William Lay Thompson was an American ornithologist, naturalist and educator. He was Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at Wayne State University, an expert on bird vocalizations, past President of the Michigan Audubon Society, and past Editor of the Jack Pine Warbler.
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Walter H. Adey
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1934 - Present (92 years)
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Tatsuo Miyamura
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Johnathan Proctor
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Peter J. M. Rottier
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Mary C Waters
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Larry L. Butcher
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John Desmond Ward
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Francisco J. Barrantes
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Anthony Feinstein
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Robert Kühner
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1903 - 1996 (93 years)
Robert Kühner was a French mycologist most notable for reviewing many forms of agaric genera. He studied at the Sorbonne, afterwards from 1921 until 1932, he was working as a high school teacher in Lille. Then from 1938 till 1973, he was associated with the Faculty of Sciences at Lyon.
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David Earl Cummings
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Nuzhat Husain
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Nuzhat Husain is an Indian pathologist. She is former director of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow. Education She completed her MBBS at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University in 1985 and MD from King George Medical College, University of Lucknow in 1989 with high merit and several awards including the President of India’s silver medal for best woman student at the University in 1985 and the KB Kunwar Gold medal for best thesis in 1989, She also worked as a post doctoral fellow at Molecular Neuro-oncology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University during 1997.
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Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao
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1927 - 2016 (89 years)
Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao was an Indian geneticist and plant breeder, known for his efforts in developing hybrid varieties of sorghum, which earned him the moniker, the Father of Hybrid Sorghum. He was the vice chancellor of Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agricultural University and chaired the Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He was a recipient of several national honors including Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Award and the VASVIK Industrial Research Award. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India...
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Jean‐pierre Vaerman
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David Harrow Gelfand
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Masa-aki Mori
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Carl E. Frasch
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Hermann Otto Handwerker
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Sune Rosell
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1932 - Present (94 years)
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Ernst Hafen
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Huan-chun Chen
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Christer Köhler
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Frank Leonard Margolis
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Julia Koricheva
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1967 - Present (59 years)
Julia Koricheva is an ecologist in the UK. She is professor of ecology at Royal Holloway, University of London and she researches ecosystem services in forests, the interactions between insects and plants and is an expert in meta-analysis.
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Johan B. Steen
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1934 - 2015 (81 years)
Johan B. Steen was a Norwegian biologist. He grew up in Nordberg, Oslo. He took his degree at the University of Oslo, and after being appointed as a professor of physiology at the University of Tromsø in 1972, he later returned to the University of Oslo as professor. Among many specialities, his most visible contributions came within Lagopus research. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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Olivier Beauchet
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Olivier Beauchet is a physician, Professor of Medicine, and Joseph Kaufman Chair in Geriatric Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was also appointed Director of the Centre of Excellence on Longevity at McGill University and is a senior investigator at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research.
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Sudhansu Chokroverty
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Walther Vogt
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Byoung-tak Zhang
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Yoram Yom‐tov
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Gerard Hornstra
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Lewis W. Oring
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Michihiko Tada
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Zodwa Dlamini
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2000 - Present (26 years)
Zodwa Dlamini is a South African biochemist and Ex-deputy Vice Chancellor for Research at the Mangosuthu University of Technology. She researches molecular oncology. She is a former Vice President of the South African Medical Research Council and is a member of the Council for Scientific Advisers for the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.
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Dr.donald O. Walter
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Roland H. Ingram
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John Michael Daly
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Michele Muggeo
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Richard H. Goodman
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Paolo Bianco
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Stanley M. Gartler
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David M. Eissenstat
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Rosario Pivonello
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