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.
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List of the most influential people in Biology,
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Curtis D. Mobley
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Yulia Kovas
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1973 - Present (53 years)
Yulia Kovas is a geneticist and psychologist - currently a professor of genetics and psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London , and a visiting professor at UCL, King's College, Sussex and New York universities - in the United Kingdom. Kovas received the British Academy Wiley Prize in Psychology in 2012. Kovas is the director of the International Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Investigations into Individual Differences in Learning at Goldsmiths, and leads the genetically-informative research into individual differences in mathematical ability and achievement as part of the Twins Early ...
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Tommy Earl Thompson
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Victor Muñoz
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Victor Muñoz is a biochemist whose focus has been on protein folding and design. He provided experimental evidence for a mechanism of protein folding called as "downhill folding". He has pioneered various computational and experimental techniques to study this mechanism as well as to gain insights into the general process of protein folding.
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Yoichi Kamagata
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Shôichi F. Sakagami
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Marcelo Tabarelli
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George W. Paulson
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Kevin Kane Mccully
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Akio Sugino
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Richard Stouthamer
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Nada A. Abumrad
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Aina Puce
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Aina Puce is the Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor of Social Justice and Ethics in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, US. Her research is on the brain basis of understanding the actions of others. She is the coauthor with Riitta Hari of MEG-EEG Primer , an introduction to magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography techniques for studying brain activity noninvasively.
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Shinji Naganawa
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Jonathan Rapp
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L. Nicholas Ornston
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Joon H. Uhm
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Jay Ross Kaplan
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Patrick Kestemont
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Andrzej Górski
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1946 - Present (80 years)
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Karen A. Holbrook
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John D. Jr. Shaughnessy
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Dimitrios Kontoyiannis
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1963 - Present (63 years)
Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis is the Robert C Hickey Chair in Clinical Care and Deputy Head for Research in the Division of Internal Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He received his medical degree as valedictorian Summa Cum Laude from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Kontoyiannis was trained in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he served as a Chief Medical Resident. He was subsequently trained as a clinical fellow in Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and obtained a master's degree in Clinical Sciences from Harvard Medical School in Boston.
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Pamela L. Schwartzberg
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Mario Comporti
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Luciana Migliore
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1955 - Present (71 years)
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Thomas Schwarz
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Thomas L Schwarz is an American neuroscientist and molecular biology researcher at Children's Hospital, Boston, and a professor of Neurology and Neurobiology in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.
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Petra Boukamp
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Robert F. Sturrock
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Joni Wallis
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Joni Wallis is a cognitive neurophysiologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Education and early career Wallis received her Bachelors of Science in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of Manchester in 1995. She received her PhD in Experimental Psychology and Anatomy from the University of Cambridge, where she worked in the laboratory of .
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Alan Carl Foster
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David G. Marsh
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Matthew C. Fisher
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B. Franklin Pugh
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Graham Le Gros
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Graham Stephen Le Gros is a New Zealand immunologist. He is currently Director of the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research in Wellington, New Zealand and leads its Allergic and Parasitic Diseases Programme. He is also Research Director of the Vaccine Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand – Ohu Kaupare Huaketo and a Research Professor at Victoria University of Wellington.
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Keiji Wada
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Costas N. Stefanis
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Stephen A. Roberts
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Amy Y. Rossman
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1946 - Present (80 years)
Amy Yarnell Rossman is an American mycologist and a leading expert in identifying fungi. Biography Born in Spokane, Amy Rossman moved with her family, when she was six months old, to Portland, Oregon, and considers herself to be a native Oregonian. Rossman graduated with a B.A. in biology from Grinnell College in 1968. She received her Ph.D. in mycology in 1975 from Oregon State University . Her Ph.D. thesis The genus Ophionectria was supervised by William C. Denison . As a graduate student she collected fungi in June 1970 in Puerto Rico's El Yunque National Forest and in Dominica and then in January 1971 in Jamaica.
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Leon w. Hoyer
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Norman F. Cheville
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Graham George Stewart
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John A. Musick
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Barbara Mazzolai
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Lionel J. Goad
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Jacques Maclouf
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Marek Rola‐pleszczynski
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Panayiota Poirazi
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1974 - Present (52 years)
Panayiota Poirazi is a neuroscientist known for her work in modelling dendritic computations. She is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization . Education and career Poirazi studied at the University of Cyprus from 1992 until 1996. She earned an M.S. from the University of Southern California in 1998, and went on to earn her Ph.D. from there in 2000. Following her Ph.D., she worked at the Alexander Fleming Instite of Immunology in Greece until 2001, when she moved to the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas in Crete, Greece in 2004. As of 2021, she is the direc...
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D. Alex Johnson
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Irving P. Crawford
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