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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S. Shiosaka
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J. David Bristow
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Richard T. Wyatt
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Li-ding Chen
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Gary L. Wenk
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Kevin N. Gurney
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B. W. Poovaiah
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Philip B. Mcglave
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T. Takeyuki Kurata
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Susumu Nakae
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William J. Mcginnis
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Meredith Yeager
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2000 - Present (26 years)
Stella Meredith Yeager is an American geneticist who specializes in cancer genomics. She was the scientific director of the cancer genomics research laboratory at the National Cancer Institute. Yeager is an assistant professor of biology at Hood College.
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Alan D. M. Rayner
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Yoshikazu Ito
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Richard L. P. Custer
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Karin Musier-Forsyth
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Karin Musier-Forsyth, an American biochemist, is an Ohio Eminent Scholar on the faculty of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio State University. Musier-Forsyth's research involves biochemical, biophysical and cell-based approaches to understand the interactions of proteins and RNAs involved in protein synthesis and viral replication, especially in HIV.
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Arthur S. Kling
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Christopher Alan Squier
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Carla Koehler
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Carla M. Koehler is an American biochemist who is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research considers mitochondria and the processes which import proteins to their appropriate locations in the organelles. She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018.
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Zelig Eshhar
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James K. Wamsley
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Luis Martı́nez-martı́nez
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Iwao Kanno
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Karl‐heinz Grzeschik
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Colin F. Mills
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Neil John Mchugh
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Glaúcia Maria Pastore
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Daniel M. Dorsa
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Filip Raes
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Autin L. Taylor
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Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen
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1961 - Present (65 years)
Jorunn Kaiander Sundgot-Borgen is a Norwegian professor of sports medicine. She took the MSc degree at the Arizona State University in 1985, and the dr.scient. degree at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in 1993. She held a post-doctorate scholarship at Yale University from 1993 to 1997. She was a part-time consultant for Olympiatoppen, the Norwegian elite sports program, from 1995 to 2008. She was an associate professor from 1997 to 2002, and is a professor since 2002, of sports medicine at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. She is especially cited on her expertise in eating disord...
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Raymond Reeves
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Emma Elizabeth Furth
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Joy Hirsch
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Chuanbin Mao
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Anastassis Perrakis
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Robert K. Flamm
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Annika A. Lindblom
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Rosemary Boyton
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Rosemary Jane Boyton is a British immunologist who is Head of Lung Immunology and Adult Infectious Disease at Imperial College London. She works on the molecular immunology of infectious, allergic and autoimmune inflammation. She holds an honorary consultant position at the Royal Brompton Hospital, where she specialises in lung infection.
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Mario Vaneechoutte
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1959 - Present (67 years)
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Darryl T. Gwynne
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Claudia Scott
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1945 - Present (81 years)
Claudia Devita Scott is an American-New Zealand academic. She is currently an emeritus professor of public policy at Victoria University of Wellington. Career Scott completed her BA at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. This was followed by MA and PhD qualifications at Duke University. Scott's 1971 PhD thesis was titled Forecasting public outlays: an expenditure model for New Haven, Connecticut.
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Ruth M. Mcpherson
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Adil Hussain Haider
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Cormac Sheridan
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Ertan Mayatepek
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William H. Romme
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Franklyn G. Knox
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Akio Suzumura
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Stanley N. Salthe
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