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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R. P. H. Thompson
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Kenneth Michael A. Welch
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Donald G. Payan
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Cees J. Cornelisse
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Karim Vahed
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Karim Vahed FRES is a British entomologist. He is a professor of entomology and England manager at invertebrate conservation charity Buglife, and is an expert in crickets and bushcrickets . Education and career Vahed has been fascinated by insects since childhood. He studied biological sciences at the University of Exeter and did a PhD at the University of Nottingham on the function and evolution of nuptial feeding in bushcrickets, focusing on the role of the spermatophylax. In 1993 he joined the University of Derby, eventually becoming Professor of Entomology. and Programme Leader for the masters programme in conservation biology.
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Hugh David Niall
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Grant James Anhalt
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Frederick C. Cooke
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Egbert Matzner
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Helene Polatajko
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1949 - Present (77 years)
Helene J. Polatajko is an occupational therapy scholar, and Professor Emerita in the department of occupational science and occupational therapy at the University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine.
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Hans J. Geuze
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H. W. Slabbekoorn
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Anthony B. Nesburn
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Kenneth J. Siddle
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Dominik Wodarz
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Dr. Dinesh Chandra Sharma
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Toshiyuki Yoneda
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Dharam P. Singal
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Martin Buck
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1955 - Present (71 years)
Martin Buck FRS is a British microbiologist. He is a professor at Imperial College, London. Studied at Royal Holloway, University of London External links http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_22-5-2009-11-51-2http://www.bio.ic.ac.uk/research/mbuck/mbuck.htmhttp://royalsociety.tv/rsPlayer.aspx?presentationid=434
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Rachel J Whitaker
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Rachel J Whitaker is a professor of Microbiology in the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her laboratory's research focuses on the evolution of Archaea, Bacteria, and Viruses in both natural and clinical environments.
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Natalia Dudareva
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Ulrich Robert Fölsch
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Anthony Meager
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Richard T. Roush
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Sjoerd S. H. Van Der Burg
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Page Wesley Morgan
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J∅rgen Gliemann
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France Javoy‐agid
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Arthur Ian Aronson
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Hermine Maes
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Hermine H. M. Maes is a Belgian behavioral geneticist and Associate Professor in both the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics. She received her Ph.D. from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1992. Maes' research focuses on the methodology of genetic epidemiology and the relationships between physical and mental health. Her husband and sometime research partner is Michael Neale.
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Markus Meister
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Charles Andrew Francis
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George Fein
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John D. Schuetz
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William Ted Brown
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Leila Pirhaji
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1986 - Present (40 years)
Leila Pirhaji is an Iranian computational biologist and tech entrepreneur. She is the CEO and founder of ReviveMed, a biotech company that started up in 2018. She previously worked on artificial intelligence at the Professor Ernest Fraenkel Lab at MIT and at ETH Zürich.
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Jack Edward Cooper
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Lourens J. D. Zaneveld
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Joachim Wittbrodt
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Maureen Coetzee
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Maureen Coetzee is a medical entomologist, specialising in African malaria vector mosquitoes for over 40 years. She is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Wits Research Institute for Malaria, School of Pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. She is a consultant in the World Health Organization 's Global Malaria Programme. She obtained her Doctorate from the University of the Witwatersrand. A subgenus of the Aedes mosquito, Coetzeemyia, was named after her. Also a genus of bacteria strongly associated with malaria mosquitoes, Coetzeea, was named after her.
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Gaétan Thibault
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Karel Sláma
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Axel Schleicher
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Lucyna Mirosława Falkowska
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1951 - 2021 (70 years)
Lucyna Mirosława Falkowska was a Polish scientist and oceanographer. She specialized in atmospheric chemistry, chemical oceanography and protection of the marine environment. Falkowska worked on the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography of University of Gdańsk.
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Françoise Barré-sinoussi
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Christian B. Grefkes
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Walther Helmut Wernsdorfer
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Craig Anthony Atkins
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Hiroshi Harada
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Steven A. Atlas
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