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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Barbara Claire Tilley
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Carolyn M. Klinge
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Philipp Kanske
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1980 - Present (46 years)
Philipp Kanske is a German psychologist and neuroscientist. He is professor at Technische Universität Dresden. His research focuses on the neuronal foundations of emotion, emotion regulation and emotion understanding , as well as their changes in mental disorders. Philipp Kanske is speaker of the Junge Akademie.
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William E. Kunin
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Masa Shuwarejidense Hamada
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Samuel A. David
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Colin. Patterson
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Donald Lawrence Wickerham
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Mukesh Jain
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Mukesh K. Jain is an American physician-scientist specializing in cardiovascular medicine. Since March 2022 he has served as Dean of Biological Sciences at Brown University and Dean of Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School. Jain previously served as Chief Scientific Officer at University Hospitals Health System and Vice-Dean for Medical Sciences at Case Western Reserve University.
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José Lopéz‑barneo
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Stephan Ariyan
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Thaddeus Samorajski
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Paul Mcmaster
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Cai-xia Gao
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Tsvi Sachs
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Kenneth H. Cowan
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Dimitrios H. Roukos
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Baccio M. Baccetti
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Warren Abrahamson
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1947 - Present (79 years)
Warren G. Abrahamson is an American biologist, currently at Bucknell University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Merit Ester Cudkowicz
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Rudolf Meier
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1963 - Present (63 years)
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Karl S. Peggs
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Alan L. Buchman
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Janakiraman Ramachandran
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Michihiro Yoshimura
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Robert Ivan Demars
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Friedmund Prof Dr Neumann
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Helen Minnis
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Helen Minnis is a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow. She studies reactive attachment disorder and other developmental conditions. Early life and education Minnis earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry at the University of Glasgow in 1985. She remained there for her medical studies and completed a bachelor of medicine, bachelor of surgery in 1988. In the 1990s Minnis worked as a doctor in an orphanage in Guatemala. Here she worked with children that had been abused and neglected. It was whilst she was in Guatemala that she became interested in attachment disorder.
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Paavo J. Sr Riekkinen
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Takenobu Kamada
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Kenneth L. Casey
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Bryan K. Yamamoto
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Luiz Carlos Uchôa Junqueira
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Doyle G. Graham
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Karl P. Lederis
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R. M. Mckenzie Pratt
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Robert L. Jeanne
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Liliana Attisano
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Graham V. Goddard
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Karen Lips
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Karen R. Lips is a Professor of Biology at University of Maryland, College Park. Lips' work in the 1990s eventually contributed to the identification of the chytrid fungus as the primary cause of frog decline worldwide.
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Joseph R. Prohaska
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Rudi J. Planta
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Gregory B. Bulkley
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W. J. Mooi Mooi
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Kanwar Lal Sahrawat
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Dan Hultmark
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1949 - Present (77 years)
Dan Hultmark is a Swedish biologist currently Professor Emeritus, whose research focused on the mechanisms of innate immunity, using Drosophila as a model system, at Umeå University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Hultmark is also a member of the Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium, Tribolium Genome Sequencing Consortium.
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Sjoerd E. Wendelaar Bonga
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Philip D. Bragg
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Marjo S. Van Der Knaap
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Eystein Paasche
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1932 - 2016 (84 years)
Eystein Karl Mørner Paasche was a Norwegian botanist. He was born in Bærum as a son of literary historian Johan Fredrik Paasche. He was appointed professor of marine botany at the University of Oslo in 1973. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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