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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M. A. R. T. I. N. A. Gorovsky
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Bianca Jones Marlin
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Bianca Jones Marlin is an American neuroscientist and the Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cell Research at the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University in New York City. Marlin studies the epigenetic mechanisms that enable trauma experienced by parents to be passed on to offspring in rodent models. Marlin's graduate work uncovered the fundamental role for the hormone oxytocin in maternal behavior, for which she was awarded the Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience for Outstanding Ph.D. thesis as well as the STAT Wunderkinds Award for her groundbreaking findin...
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Inger M. E. Björck
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Glenn Thurston Iii. Stebbins
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Victor A. Zammit
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Enrique Macpherson
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1951 - Present (75 years)
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Scott Kenneth Durum
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Robert W. Kerwin
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H. Russell Conrad
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Ian Malcolm Gould
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Atsushi Kumanogoh
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Judd Marmor
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1910 - 2003 (93 years)
Judd Marmor was an American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist known for his role in removing homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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Simon Benita
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John C. Hoak
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Leo T. Furcht
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David M. Segal
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Jagadeesh Bayry
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1973 - Present (53 years)
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Christopher D'Elia
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Christopher Francis D'Elia is an American marine scientist and biologist, known for his research on nutrient pollution by nitrogen. He is currently Dean and Professor at Louisiana State University College of the Coast and Environment and since 1992 has been an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Hiroshi Kida
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Raymond C. Boston
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Shou‐dong Lee
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Alessandro Giuliani
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1959 - Present (67 years)
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Ulf Henning
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Rolf Yngvar Berg
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1925 - 2018 (93 years)
Rolf Yngvar Berg was a Norwegian botanist. He was born in Oslo. He took the dr.philos. degree 1962 on the work Studies in Liliaceae, tribe Parideae. He was a curator at the Botanical Museum of Oslo from 1956 to 1962, professor of botany at the University of California, Davis from 1962 to 1965 and at the University of Oslo from 1965 to 1994. He has been a corresponding fellow of the American Botanical Society from 2003, and a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He died at the age of 92.
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Roger G. Deeley
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Robert a. Eisenberg
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Guido Cimino
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Karen Koch
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Karen Koch is a plant biologist in the horticultural science department in the University of Florida. She is a professor in the Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Horticultural Sciences Department, and Genetics Institute at University of Florida.
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Heiko Hermeking
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Ahmed Okasha
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1935 - Present (91 years)
Ahmed Okasha is an Egyptian psychiatrist. He is a professor of psychiatry at Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt. He wrote books and articles about psychiatry and mental disorders. He is the first Arab-Muslim to be president of World Psychiatric Association from 2002 to 2005.
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Redouan Bshary
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Charles F. Aquadro
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Lisa Saksida
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Lisa Marie Saksida is a Canadian neuroscientist. She is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Translational Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Western Ontario's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. Since 2000, Saksida has worked on the development of a touchscreen-based cognitive assessment system specifically for mouse models.
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Johan Coert Van Lenteren
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George Sugihara
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Bonnie Bartel
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Mark W. J. Ferguson
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Giovanni Cioni
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1951 - Present (75 years)
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Eduardo J. Calonje
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Johnxs C. Hutton
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Jack T. Pronk
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1963 - Present (63 years)
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Keith Anthony Seifert
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1958 - Present (68 years)
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Judith Schiebout
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1946 - 2020 (74 years)
Dr. Judith Schiebout was an American paleontologist, and was an Adjunct Associate Professor of Geology at Louisiana State University and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at LSU Museum of Natural Science.
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Barry Ache
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Barry W. Ache is an American neuroscientist currently a Distinguished Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida.
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James Pipas
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James M. Pipas is an American molecular virologist. He currently holds the Herbert W. and Grace Boyer Chair in Molecular Biology at the University of Pittsburgh. Pipas is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, and completed his Ph.D. in molecular biophysics at Florida State University in 1975, under the supervision of Robert H. Reeves. After postdoctoral research at Baylor College with John H. Wilson, and at Johns Hopkins University with Daniel Nathans, he joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 1980.
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Stefan Vieths
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Mary Jo Seller
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D. Shannon Howell
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Daniele Del Rio
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1976 - Present (50 years)
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Judith Blake
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Judith Anne Blake is a computational biologist at the Jackson Laboratory and Professor of Mammalian Genetics. Education Blake completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1974 at the University of Connecticut. She moved to Harvard University for postgraduate study where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1978 followed by a PhD in 1981. Her PhD investigated chromosomal variation in the Jamaican lizard Anolis grahami and was supervised by Ernest Edward Williams.
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