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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David Houle
#164894
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
David Houle is an evolutionary biologist who studies fruitflies as an experimental organism for understanding adaptation and behavior. He is a Professor of Biological Science at Florida State University.
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Frank Eisenhaber
#164901
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John Hyttel
#164912
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Renzo Galanello
#164914
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#13305
Mamadou Daffé
#164919
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#13306
Johanne Tremblay
#164928
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Albert M. Lerner
#164929
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Stephen H. Zinder
#164932
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Mariana Meerhoff
#145743
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1975 - Present (51 years)
Mariana Meerhoff is a Uruguayan researcher and Full Professor at the of the University of the Republic . She is also honorary associate researcher at Aarhus University and a member of the Advisory Board of the South American Institute for Research and Education in the Sustainability and Resilience Sciences . Likewise, she works as a Level 5 Full Professor of the , and is a Level 3 Researcher of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores of the National Research and Innovation Agency of Uruguay. She currently has more than 90 publications of scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. In 201...
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Donald John Pinkava
#102074
Overall Influence
1933 - 2017 (84 years)
Dr Donald John Pinkava was a botanist, specializing in cacti and succulents, and he is the discoverer of some of their varieties. He was Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University . He was married to Mary Klements Pinkava, and they have one daughter, Michelle Shaw, and two grandchildren.
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Hitoshi Dr. Kikutani
#164951
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Herbert J. Kayden
#164952
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Volker M. Vogt
#164955
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Terry Magnuson
#164953
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Terry R. Magnuson is an American developmental geneticist and academic administrator who is the Kay M. & Van L. Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor of Genetics. He was the founding chair of the department of genetics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2000 to 2016. From July 1, 2016, to 2022, he served as the vice chancellor for research.
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Stanko S. Stojilković
#164959
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Sussan Nourshargh
#145963
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Sussan Nourshargh is a British immunologist, pharmacologist, and professor of microvascular pharmacology and immunopharmacology. She founded the Centre for Microvascular research at Queen Mary University.
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Piotr Tryjanowski
#164976
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1970 - Present (56 years)
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Jonathan A. Sherratt
#164988
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Lawrence J. Burgart
#164989
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James S. Mccarthy
#164994
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Victor E. Koteliansky
#165002
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Michael J. Weber
#165005
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Paul Weatherley
#99410
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1917 - 2001 (84 years)
Prof Paul Egerton Weatherley FRS FRSE MIB was a 20th-century British botanist. In authorship he is usually known as P. E. Weatherley. Life He was born in Leicester on 6 May 1917, the son of Leonard Roger Weatherley and his wife, Ethel Maude Collin. He was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys.
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Ruth Bowden
#93071
Overall Influence
1915 - 2001 (86 years)
Ruth Elizabeth Mary Bowden OBE was an English anatomist. A professor of anatomy of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine for thirty years, she was best known for her work on peripheral nerve injuries and leprosy.
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Randy Showstack
#165021
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Douglas Brian Sawyer
#165023
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George Ile Cadieux Just
#165024
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Karl Forchhammer
#165060
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
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Jean Adams
#161910
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Jean Adams is an epidemiologist and Professor of Dietary Public Health at the MRC Epidemiology Unit based at the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. Education Adams earned a MSc in 2007 at the City, University of London in Health Psychology; in 2004, a Ph.D. at Newcastle University in Epidemiology and Public Health and a MBBS there in 2001 as well as a BMedSci in Health Psychology and Psychiatry in 1998.
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Robert David Nebes
#165068
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Drummond H. Bowden
#165069
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Timothy J. Richmond
#165073
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Minoru Ueda
#165076
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Leonila Vázquez García
#153636
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1914 - 1995 (81 years)
Leonila Vázquez García , known as Leonila Vázquez, was a Mexican entomologist and awardee of the Mexican Entomology Society's 1971 Entomological Merit medal. She is known for the study of the biology of the cochineal , an insect species used to create the red dye carmine. She was also a renowned butterfly researcher, contributing the first butterfly section to the Encyclopedia of Mexico and describing 39 new species to science throughout her career.
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François Galgani
#165082
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1958 - Present (68 years)
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Mark Joseph Franklin Haykowsky
#165083
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John Arthur Parsons
#165109
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Manabu Negishi
#165131
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Shao‐yao Ying
#165147
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Leisha Ann Emens
#165151
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Girish N. Vyas
#165164
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Andrea Mechelli
#165168
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Jan G. J. Van De Winkel
#165178
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Sheldon A. Magder
#165195
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Nobuyuki Udagawa
#165197
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Peter Roderick Donald
#165198
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William Scott Helton
#165201
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Oriol de Bolòs
#75119
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1924 - 2007 (83 years)
Oriol de Bolòs i Capdevila was a Spanish botanist, pteridologist, and phytosociologist. He was a specialist in the flora of Catalonia and Spain, and also of the Mediterranean regions, the North Atlantic islands of and also Brazil.
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Earl A. Zimmerman
#165217
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Sergei i. Grivennikov
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