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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Rodger C. Haggitt
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Franco Bertoni
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Marc Joan Van De Vijver
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Ryoichi Takayanagi
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Donald H. Marx
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Anna Lembke
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1967 - Present (59 years)
Anna Lembke is an American psychiatrist who is Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University. She is a specialist in the opioid epidemic in the United States, and the author of Drug Dealer, MD, How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop. Her latest book, a New York Times bestseller, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, was released in August 2021.
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Henry Kennedy
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Mark Roth
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1958 - Present (68 years)
Mark Roth is an American biochemist, and director of the Roth Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is a professor at the University of Washington. Life He graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Science in 1979, and from the University of Colorado with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1984. He studies hibernation and suspended animation. This technology is not likely to be used for long term suspension of people or other mammals any time soon.
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Alan G. Brown
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David S. Nelson
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Brendan A. Larder
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Juha P. Kokko
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Reinhard Edmund Voll
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Karel G. Terbrugge
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D. L. Lee
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Richard Henry Baltz
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Claudine Junien
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David Philipp
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David P. Philipp is an American-born biologist known for his work on conservation genetics, reproductive ecology, and the effects of angling on fish populations. He is a conservation geneticist and Director of the Fisheries Genetics Lab at the Illinois Natural History Survey, an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois, and the Chair of the Fisheries Conservation Foundation. Philipp has supervised a number of graduate students including Steven J. Cooke, Cory Suski, Derek Aday, Jeff Koppelman, Jana Svec, Jimmy Ludden, Dale Burkett, Sascha Danylchuk and Jeff Stein.
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Julian Jack
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1936 - Present (90 years)
James Julian Bennett Jack is a New Zealand physiologist. Education Jack graduated from the University of Otago with a PhD in 1960. After his PhD, Jack was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1960 from Magdalen College, Oxford where he was awarded Master of Arts and Bachelor of Medicine degrees in 1963.
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Zlatko Trajanoski
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Mark. G. Currie
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Akira Yamaguchi
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1949 - Present (77 years)
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Malur R. Sairam
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Bertil Halle
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2000 - Present (26 years)
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Brett P. Monia
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Janet M. Oliver
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Kelly Falkner
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1960 - Present (66 years)
Kelly Kenison Falkner is an American chemical oceanographer and educator. She is the Director of the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs . Her work in the position led her NSF colleagues to name the Falkner Glacier, in Victoria Land, Antarctica, after her.
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Ulrich Schurr
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Gretta Pecl
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Gretta T. Pecl is an Australian marine ecologist, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and the Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology at the University of Tasmania. Her work focuses on species and ecosystem responses to climate change, as well as using socioecological approaches to adapt natural resource management for climate change. She is on the editorial board of Springer Nature's Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, and is a Subject Editor for Ecography.
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Leon E. Barnes
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Ioannis Xenarios
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Robert Mcculloch Herndon
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David Edgar Cartwright
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1926 - 2015 (89 years)
David Edgar Cartwright FRS was an oceanographer. Biography Edgar David Cartwright was born on 21 October 1926 in Stoke Newington, London. His father, Edgar Athelstan Canynge Cartwright ran a detective agency, while his mother Lucienne Eugenie Taranson was a schoolteacher and pianist from France. The family moved to Worthing in Sussex when Cartwright was two and took over a hotel. After primary school he attended Worthing High School for Boys
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Michel Baulac
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Hrvoje Lorković
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1930 - 2018 (88 years)
Hrvoje Lorković was a Croatian physiologist and writer. Biography Hrvoje Lorković was a prominent physiologist and writer. He was born in Zagreb on November 12, 1930. He completed his biology studies in Belgrade in 1953, and his doctorate in physiology in Zagreb in 1961. In 1962 he moved to Tübingen, then London, Minneapolis, and Iowa City where he engaged in scientific and pedagogical work. From 1978 until his retirement in 1995, he was a university professor in Ulm. He has written more than fifty scientific papers in the field of muscular physiology, and was a co-editor of a physiology textbook for physicians.
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T. Mitchell Aide
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Manfred Metzler
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Lingyun. Wu
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Saul J. Silverstein
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Peter Nigel Leigh
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Jeheskel Shoshani
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1943 - 2008 (65 years)
Jeheskel "Hezy" Shoshani was an evolutionary biologist who studied elephants and their relatives for over 35 years. Life and work Early life and career Shoshani was born in what is now Tel Aviv, Israel, but he held dual citizenship in the United States. His interest in elephants began in his youth after he read a Hebrew copy of Willis Lindquist's Burma Boy, which told the story of the relationship between a boy and an elephant. He began his career as a zookeeper at the Tel Aviv Zoo and became the head zookeeper in 1966. He went on to research elephants in Sri Lanka and Kenya before moving t...
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Katharina Domschke
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1978 - Present (48 years)
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Richard Poulsom
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Jacqueline Capeau
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Albert I. Farbman
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Andreas Keller
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Carl Alfred Burtis
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Daniel N. Wilson
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P. Read Montague
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César A. Blanco Arias
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