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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Lin Fritschi
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Thomas J. Merimee
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Susan L. Whitfield-gabrieli
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Jessika Weiss
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Friedrich G. Barth
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1940 - Present (86 years)
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Stephen D. Hursting
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Stephen D. Hursting is an American scientist and current professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the former Margaret McKean Love Chair in Nutrition, Cellular, and Molecular Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Liang Tong
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Liang Tong is a Chinese American biochemist, structural biologist, and the current chair of the Biological Sciences Department at Columbia University. Early life and education Tong, Liang was born on October 29, 1963, in Dalian, China. Liang studied at Peking University, Beijing, from 1979 to 1983, and earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry, working in Dr. You-Qi Tang's lab. During his four years at Peking University, he became interested in multiple fields of studies, such as computer science, mathematics, chemistry and biology. It was during the same time that he developed an interest in structural biology, which enabled him to combine his diverse interests to create knowledge.
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John Ferguson Macdonald
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Claus Hellerbrand
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Hey-Kyoung Lee
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Hey-Kyoung Lee is a neuroscience professor at Johns Hopkins University. She studies cross-modal plasticity between visual and auditory systems. Early life Lee's mother is a chemist and her father is a physicist. She completed her undergraduate degree in biology at the Yonsei University in Korea. During her junior year at Yonsei University, Lee participated in an exchange program at Brown University in New Providence, RI
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Ronald K. H. Liem
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William Kristan
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William B. Kristan, Jr. is an American biologist, currently a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Pennsylvania before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. He was awarded a 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship and was a Fellow of the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
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Richard L. Hauger
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Carl F. Weiner
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Jerry J. Buccafusco
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Alexander K. Knuth
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Dr. Donna G. Albertson
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Robert H. Rice
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Anne Croy
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1946 - Present (80 years)
Barbara Anne Croy is a Canadian reproductive immunologist and professor emerita in Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen's University. From 2004 until 2016, Croy was a Canada Research Chair in Reproduction, Development and Sexual Function. In 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research focus is on mice pregnancy and natural killer cells.
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Stephen Roger Holdsworth
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Jay A. Tischfield
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Mamoru Watanabe
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Bodo Grimbacher
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Maurice Harold Laughlin
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Ian Mcdonald
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David J. Hoffman
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Hiroshi Yamasaki
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Renqiang Martin Min
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Robert J. Cook
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Nancy Beckage
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1950 - 2012 (62 years)
Nancy Elizabeth Beckage was an American entomologist known for her work on host–parasitoid interactions. She held professorships in entomology and in cell biology and neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside.
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Joseph M. R. Furman
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Radhey L. Singhal
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Y. Antero Kesäniemi
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Richard P. Duncan
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Antonius g. Rolink
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Robert C. Roberts
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Gerhard P. Baumann
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Rosmarie Honegger
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1947 - Present (79 years)
Rosmarie Honegger is a Swiss lichenologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Zurich. Academic career Honegger was born in 1947 and grew up in Emmental, Switzerland. She graduated with a PhD in biology from the University of Basel in 1976. In 1977 she accepted a postdoctoral research position in the Institute of Plant Biology at the University of Zurich. After a time working at the University of California, Riverside she returned to Switzerland as professor in the Institute of Plant Biology of the University of Zurich. Honegger retired in 2009 as Emeritus Professor. From 2011 she wor...
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Thomas P. Dousa
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Eugenio Gaudio
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1956 - Present (70 years)
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Abdulla Abu-bakr Badawy
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Garry D. Peterson
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Charles Brenner
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1961 - Present (65 years)
Charles Brenner is the inaugural Alfred E Mann Family Foundation Chair of the Department of Diabetes & Cancer Metabolism at the Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope National Medical Center. Brenner previously held the Roy J. Carver Chair in Biochemistry and was head of biochemistry at the University of Iowa.
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Shoogo Ueno
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John R. Srigley
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Thomas Robert Osborn
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Peter Wilhelm Schiller
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Hans‐peter Zenner
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Subrata Adak
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Subrata Adak is an Indian biochemist and a senior scientist at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology. An alumnus of Jadavpur University from where he secured a PhD, Adak is known for his studies on Leishmania, the causative pathogen of Leishmaniasis. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 55 of them. Besides, he has published one monograph on Leishmania where he has also contributed chapters. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award fo...
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David J. Mladenoff
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