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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Marco Chilosi
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Richard B. Root
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Barrie Marmion
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1920 - 2014 (94 years)
Barrie Patrick Marmion was an English microbiologist who spent the majority of his career in Australia. He is known for his work on Q fever, and led the team that developed the first vaccine against the bacteria that causes it.
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Leo Edmund Reichert
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Michelle R. Leishman
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Barry W. Glickman
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Zilton De Araújo Andrade
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Jonathan M. Scholey
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Peter Neville Williams
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Wolfgang Driever
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Ranulfo Romo
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Rolf Bjerkvig
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1953 - Present (73 years)
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Martin F. Yanofsky
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Jack E. Riggs
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Rémi Rabasa‐lhoret
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Kazuyoshi Taya
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Masaharu Tsuji
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Takeshi Tabira
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Hans‐dieter Flad
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Christine Goodale
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Christine Goodale is an ecosystem ecologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. Goodale conducts research that studies the cycling of water, carbon, nitrogen and other nutrients through forest ecosystems.
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Lechosław Turski
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Benedicto Crespo-Facorro
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Benedicto Crespo Facorro is a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry with the School of Medicine at the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Universidad de Sevilla, in Seville. Facorro is notable for his research work in the area of early psychosis and schizophrenia and for having led one of the first early psychosis early intervention programs in Spain for over two decades. Facorro is one of the only four researchers from Spain listed in the authors' collaborative network of the authors that published the greatest number of research papers on antipsychotics and schizophrenia over the ...
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Mikala Egeblad
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Barry C. Starcher
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Mary Pickford
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1902 - 2002 (100 years)
Lillian Mary Pickford was a pioneering British neuroendocrinologist. She was the first woman to be elected to the Pharmacological Society and the first woman appointed to a medical professorship at the University of Edinburgh.
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Elisabeth Mann Borgese
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1918 - 2002 (84 years)
Elisabeth Veronika Mann Borgese, was an internationally recognized expert on maritime law and policy and the protection of the environment. Called "the mother of the oceans", she received the Order of Canada and awards from the governments of Austria, China, Colombia, Germany, the United Nations and the World Conservation Union.
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Kent E. Wallner
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Ole Hindsgaul
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Francis-André Wollman
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1953 - Present (73 years)
Francis-André Wollman is a French biologist born on May 5, 1953. He is a research director at the CNRS and works at the Institut de biologie physico-chimique in Paris. He is a member of the French Academy of sciences.
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Takashi Okamoto
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1953 - Present (73 years)
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Christiane Binder
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Michael X. Cohen
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Ronald C. Conaway
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André‐bernard Tonnel
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Helen Matusevich Oujesky
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1930 - 2010 (80 years)
Helen Matusevich Oujesky was an American professor of microbiology at the University of Texas, San Antonio. In this capacity she actively pursued environmental research on pollution of soil and water, particularly of toxic wastes.
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Beatrice Singer
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Bronislaw L. Slomiany
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Edward Piers
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Thomas Anthony Sears
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Giovanna Viale
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1949 - Present (77 years)
Giovanna Viale is an Italian geneticist who was a professor for medical genetics and director of the Centre of the University and High School of Milan for Bioscience education . Life and career In 1972, Viale received a degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Genoa. She completed a specialization degree in microbiology in 1976 and another in medical genetics in 1982. In 1978, she worked in the lab of Alan Munro during an EMBO short-term fellowship at the Department of Pathology, Division of Immunology of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
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Wolfgang Baehr
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Mike Tipton
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Mike Tipton MBE is Professor of Human & Applied Physiology at the Extreme Environments Laboratory, School of Sport, Health & Exercise Science at the University of Portsmouth. He is also editor-in-chief of Experimental Physiology.
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Ronald Wilson Hart
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Luis Enjuanes
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1945 - Present (81 years)
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Outi Vaarala
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1962 - Present (64 years)
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Richard L. Lindstrom
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Keiichi Itakura
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Jan-willem Slot
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Claude Kordon
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O. James Reichman
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1947 - Present (79 years)
