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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Warren J. Strittmatter
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Daniel W. Bradley
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Christopher K. Mathews
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Nissim Benvenisty
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Colin B. Seymour
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John F. Bol
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Achim A. Jungbluth
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Masafumi Tsujimoto
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Mitchell Glickstein
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Thomas Stewart Whittam
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Thomas T. Struhsaker
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Peter Farmer
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1947 - Present (79 years)
Peter Farmer FRSC, CChem is a British toxicologist. Farmer spent most of his early career as a researcher with the Toxicology Unit at the Medical Research Council. In 2002 he was appointed joint Director of the MRC's Cancer Biomarkers and Prevention ESS Group at the University of Leicester. He was also an Honorary Professor in Biochemistry and Cancer Studies at Leicester, becoming emeritus on retirement.
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Torkel Klingberg
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Trevor John Mcdougall
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Yupa Hanboonsong
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Yupa Hanboonsong is a Thai entomologist, specializing in entomophagy . Hanboonsong received her PhD in insect systematics from Lincoln University in New Zealand, and currently works as an associate professor in the entomology department at Khon Kaen University.
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Eric Berlow
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Eric L. Berlow is an American ecologist and data scientist. He co-founded a visual data interface company, which was acquired by Rakuten Inc. in 2016. He now runs Vibrant Data Labs, a social impact data science group currently focused the building on an open-source framework for tracking the flows of money to climate mitigation and resilience efforts on the ground. Prior to Vibrant Data Labs, Berlow was the founding director of the University of California's first science and education institute inside Yosemite National Park which facilitated efforts to leverage data for informing conservation policy and natural resource management.
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Lisa Giocomo
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Lisa Giocomo is an American neuroscientist who is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Giocomo probes the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying cortical neural circuits involved in spatial navigation and memory.
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Judith King
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1926 - 2010 (84 years)
Judith Eveleigh King was a British zoologist who specialised on seals. After graduating with honours from the University of London in 1948, she worked for 20 years in London at the Natural History section of the British Museum, and from 1969 to 1984 in the zoology department of the University of New South Wales. As well as publishing scholarly papers on taxonomy, her books Marine Mammals with Richard Harrison, and Seals of the World are standard reference works.
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Jong Seung Kim
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Takayuki Ezaki
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Oh. Young Bang
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Paolo Preziosi
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Sydney S. Jr. Schochet
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Hanno Millesi
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Jacques Hanoune
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David C. Teller
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Andrej Hasilik
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Dr. Donald G. Ahearn
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Niels Tommerup
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Deborah Kay Armstrong
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Robert W. Massof
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Nobuyuki Enomoto
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Ho-and Keung Ng
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Alan J. Gelenberg
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Helle Krogh Johansen
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Scott J. Montain
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Joni L. Rutter
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Joni L. Rutter is an American geneticist and director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences . Rutter was previously director of the scientific programs in the All of Us initiative and served as the neuroscience and behavior division director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Her scientific experience includes clinical research in human genetics and environmental risk factors focusing on the fields of cancer and addiction.
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Roland Wollast
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Takeshi Honda
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John Henry Elder
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Joel E. Gallant
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John J. M. Bergeron
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Mary P. Lechevalier
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Gordon C. Grigg
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Hajime Ohigashi
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Edward A. Meighen
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George Katsushi Iwama
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Keith D. Wilkinson
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Gerald L. Denardo
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Stuart Fullerton
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1940 - 2014 (74 years)
Stuart M. Fullerton was an American entomologist and academic. Fullerton was the founder of the "Bug Closet", officially known as The Stuart M. Fullerton Collection of Arthropods at the University of Central Florida, which houses a collection of more than 500,000 mounted specimens of insects and other arthropods.
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