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.
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List of the most influential people in Biology,
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Uri Hasson
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Thomas William Wakefield
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Andrea Antal
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1967 - Present (59 years)
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Thomas C. G. Bosch
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1955 - Present (71 years)
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Thierry Candresse
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Karel Frederik Liem
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John B. Hogenesch
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1967 - Present (59 years)
John B. Hogenesch is an American chronobiologist and Professor of Pediatrics at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The primary focus of his work has been studying the network of mammalian clock genes from the genomic and computational perspective to further the understanding of circadian behavior. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Center for Chronobiology, an Ohio Eminent Scholar, and Professor of Pediatrics in the Divisions of Perinatal Biology and Immunobiology at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
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Roman Pavela
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1970 - Present (56 years)
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D. Michael Benson
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Michael S. Levine
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1944 - Present (82 years)
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Harold D. Hafs
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Manfred L. Gahr
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Robert John Owen
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Yu Myeong-Hee
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1954 - Present (72 years)
Yu Myeong-Hee is a South Korean microbiologist, currently serving as the president of Korea Federation of Women's Science & Technology Associations and a principle researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology. In July 2010, under President Lee Myung-bak, she was appointed as an inaugural Chief Secretary to the Future Strategy Planning Office, and served until February 2013.
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Walter Ritter
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Wise Young
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Shu‐ichi Ikeda
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Brian R. Silliman
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1972 - Present (54 years)
Brian Reed Silliman is a marine conservation biologist. He is currently the Rachel Carson Distinguished Professor of Marine Conservation Biology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Silliman received an A.B. and M.Sc. from the University of Virginia. He completed his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University in 2004.
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Michael D. Ehlers
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Ahmed Sulaiman Al-harrasi
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Brigitte Dr Wittmann-liebold
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Gianfranco Donelli
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A. Gerald Shaper
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Per Svenningsson
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1968 - Present (58 years)
Per Svenningsson is a neurologist specializing in the neuropharmacology of movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. He is a professor of neurology at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institutet and in the Department of Neurology at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the team leader of a research group that studies the underlying pathogenic process of PD. Svenningsson is also a member of many research councils and committee, including the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology .
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Stephan Lammel
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Dennis Douglass Focht
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Eugenia Brandt Böhlke
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1929 - 2001 (72 years)
Eugenia Brandt Böhlke was an American ichthyologist who published over thirty-five academic papers about moray eels. She was also an active collaborator with her husband James Erwin Böhlke, an ichthyologist who specialized in neotropical fishes. Both were associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and Genie Böhlke contributed research to the institution until her death in 2001.
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Nils Ryman
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Clayton Arthur Buck
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Peter K. T. Pang
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Kenneth E. Leslie
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Olayiwola Adeola
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Hinderk Meiners Emrich
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Kevin S. Labar
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
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1925 - 2006 (81 years)
Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener. Life Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas, to James Hamilton Finlay and his wife, Annie Pettigrew, both of Scots descent. He was educated at Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire and later at Glasgow School of Art. At the age of 13, with the outbreak of the Second World War, he was evacuated to family in the countryside . In 1942, he joined the British Army. Finlay was married twice and had two children, Alec and Ailie. He died in Edinburgh. He is buried alone in Abercorn Churchyard in West Lothian. The grave lies in the extreme south-east corner of the churchyard.
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Andrew Lack
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1953 - Present (73 years)
Dr Andrew John Lack is an English biologist and author, specializing in botany and based at Oxford Brookes University. Andrew Lack is the son of the ornithologist David Lack . He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford and Bryanston School, Dorset. He studied for an undergraduate degree in botany at Aberdeen University and obtained his doctorate, also in botany, from the University of Cambridge.
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Roger W. Turkington
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Pierre Mormède
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Mark Price Davies
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Joel C. Goldman
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James R. Feramisco
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Claudio Viscoli
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Winfried Boos
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David Melzer
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Yuji Ohtsuki
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Jean-louis Preud’homme
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Musibau Adewunmi Akanji
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1953 - Present (73 years)
Musbau Adewumi Akanji is a Nigerian academic, a biochemist and the former Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Minna. Early life and career Musbau Adewumi Akanji was born on 4 January 1953 his started his education at Offa Grammar School, Offa from 1965 to 1969 and proceed for his A-Levels at Olivet Baptist High School, Oyo from 1970 to 1971 got his first degree, BSc, from University of Ibadan, Ibadan from 1972 to 1975 he attained his MSc and PhD in University of Ife, Ile–Ife. from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1986 respectively.
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Conrad C. Labandeira
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1950 - Present (76 years)
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Paul Krack
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Raleigh J. Robertson
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