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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Vadim Cherezov
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Gerrit Voordouw
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Steven Edward Ullrich
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Lars Thim
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John Tomaszewski
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John E. Tomaszewski is an American pathologist, a significant figure focusing in renal pathology, immunopathology and urological pathology, currently Distinguished Professor at University of Buffalo.
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Peter Neubauer
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1962 - Present (64 years)
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Hershel Raff
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1953 - Present (73 years)
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Hermann‐josef Gröne
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Gary S. Sachs
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Richard D. Law
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Sylviane Muller
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1952 - Present (74 years)
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Ernest Andrew Gould
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Albert B. Deisseroth
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Frank J. Longo
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Gaudenz Danuser
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Andrew G. Hendrickx
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Lester I. Binder
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Malcolm D. Lilly
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Reinhard Andreesen
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Katsuyoshi Hatakeyama
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1947 - Present (79 years)
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Job Kuijt
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1930 - Present (96 years)
Job Kuijt , is a Canadian botanist, with particular interest in Viscaceae, Loranthaceae and Eremolepidaceae. He is professor at the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island of British Columbia. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1964. He was awarded the George Lawson Medal in 1971 by the Canadian Botanical Association.
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Walter Keller
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1938 - Present (88 years)
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Heinz Gibian
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1916 - 1995 (79 years)
Heinz Rudolf Gibian was a German biochemist, who was noted for his research on steroid hormones. He was a senior researcher at the drug research department of Schering AG and was later a member of the company's senior management. He was also an honorary Professor of biochemistry at the Free University of Berlin.
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Flora Tassone
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Guido Verhoeven
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Anthony Howard Goldstone
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Tetsuo Noda
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James Burton Sinclair
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Peter A. Lewitt
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Roman Rouzier
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1971 - Present (55 years)
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Guy Laurent
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Lee J. Helman
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Stefano Sandrone
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1988 - Present (38 years)
Stefano Sandrone is an Italian neuroscientist, an educationalist and a Senior Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London. Life and works Stefano Sandrone was born in Canelli, Italy, on the 1st of February 1988, and obtained a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at King’s College London, United Kingdom, where he started his career as a Teaching Fellow. In 2014 he was selected as a young scientist for the 64th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Physiology or Medicine, which was attended by 37 Nobel Laureates, and appeared in Wired magazine's list of the ‘most promising Italians under 35’.
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Billy Neil Day
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Frank Lilly
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Jean‐pierre Kraehenbuhl
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James B. Mccarthy
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Alain Beaudet
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Han-fan Zou
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Robert F. Iii Todd
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Paul H. Silverman
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1924 - 2004 (80 years)
Paul Hyman Silverman was an American medical researcher in the fields of immunology, epidemiology, and parasitology. He was recognized for his research on stem cells and on the human genome. Early life and education Silverman was born on October 8, 1924, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Growing up, he became fascinated with reading, and he won a local prize for his reading comprehension ability. He attended the University of Minnesota as a pre-medical student while also working three part-time jobs. He went on to serve in a MASH in the United States Army during World War II. He received a bachelor's degree from Roosevelt University.
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Brendan Lepschi
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1969 - Present (57 years)
Brendan John Lepschi is an Australian botanist, whose interests include the taxonomy of the genus Melaleuca, the families Santalaceae and Goodeniaceae and how exotic species become naturalised. He is the curator of the Australian National Herbarium at the Australian National Botanic Gardens which currently hold 1.2 million plant specimens. Lepschi is one of 3 editors of Census of the Vascular Plants, Hornworts, Liverworts and Slime Moulds of the Australian Capital Territory and the author or co-author of many taxonomic papers.
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Oliver Stegle
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Zeger Debyser
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1965 - Present (61 years)
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Triantafyllos Chavakis
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Dariusz Szlachetko
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1961 - Present (65 years)
Dariusz Lucjan Szlachetko is a Polish botanist and orchidologist. Publications Garaya D.L. Szlachetko in Polish Bot. Stud., 5: 4 . Schiedeella schlechteriana D.L. Szlachetko & C.J. Sheviak in Rhodora, 92: 11 ."Systema orchidalium". In: Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica Polonica 3:1–152 .
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T. H. Lee
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Gregory D. Fink
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James R. Cole
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Gregory M. Brown
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