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List of the most influential people in Biology,

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Kåre Arnstein Lye

#139990

Overall Influence

1940 - 2021 (81 years)

Kåre Arnstein Lye was a Norwegian botanist and field biologist. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Lye when citing a botanical name. Lye was born in Bryne in south western Norway and studied at the University of Oslo. In 1968 he was employed as a scientific assistant at the former Agricultural University of Norway in the Department of Botany. In 1973 he was appointed to the Norwegian College of Agriculture and became a professor in 1994 and remained there until his retirement in 2010.

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John Katzenellenbogen

#105104

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

John Albert Katzenellenbogen is an American Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studies the development of novel agents for the treatment of hormone-responsive and non-responsive breast and prostate cancers and the design of estrogens and antiestrogens that have a favorable balance of beneficial versus detrimental effects.

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Anne Spurkland

#186116

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Anne Spurkland is a Norwegian anatomist and immunologist. She finished the cand.med. degree at the University of Oslo in the autumn of 1986. In 1993 she delivered the doctoral thesis HLA Associated Genetic Susceptibility to Multiple Sclerosis and Coeliac disease, gaining the dr.med. degree.

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Christian Thomsen

#186118

Overall Influence

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Patrick D. Schloss

#186133

Overall Influence

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André Schuiteman

#186141

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

André Schuiteman is a Dutch botanist in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London, United Kingdom, where he is the Research Leader for Asia in Plant Identification and Naming. Schuitemania, a genus of orchid, was named in his honour.

#15657

Helen Lee

#94502

Overall Influence

Helen Lee is a Chinese-born, British–French medical researcher who won the European Inventor Award 2016 in the Popular Prize category for inventing diagnostic kits for resource-poor regions of the globe. She is the CEO of Diagnostics for the Real World. She has been based at the University of Cambridge since 1996.

#15658

Divya Nag

#173576

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (35 years)

Divya Nag is an American stem cell biologist, biotechnology entrepreneur, and a leader of Apple's Health and Research initiatives. At the age of 20, Nag co-founded Stem Cell Theranostics which uses patient-specific stem cells in a drug discovery platform. Nag is also the founder of StartX Med, Stanford University's healthcare accelerator program. At Apple, Nag leads a team designing tools that help ease communication between healthcare professionals, researchers, and patients to guide scientific innovation and improve health outcomes.

#15659

B. K. Tikader

#111960

Overall Influence

1928 - 1994 (66 years)

Benoy Krishna Tikader was an Indian arachnologist and zoologist and a leading expert on Indian spiders in his time. He worked in the Zoological Survey of India and published the Handbook of Indian Spiders in 1987. The book describes 40 families and 1066 species of India, many of which were described by Tikader himself. The handbook is a guide to all arachnids including scorpions, and not just spiders. He was also a popular scientific author in his native language of Bengali, and was the author of Banglar Makorsha for the layman.

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Hillary Maddin

#184183

Overall Influence

Hillary Catherine Maddin is a Canadian paleontologist and developmental biologist known for her work on development in extinct and extant amphibians. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University.

#15661

Patricia Silveyra

#176742

Overall Influence

Patricia Silveyra is an Argentine-American lung physiologist and professor of Environmental Health at Indiana University School of Public Health. Her research interests include sex differences in innate immunity, lung disease, air pollution exposure effects, and mechanisms by which sex hormones control lung immunity.

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Mony J. De Leon

#186229

Overall Influence

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Zanna Chase

#168342

Overall Influence

Zanna Chase is an ocean-going professor of chemical oceanography and paleoceanography at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Science, University of Tasmania, Australia. She has undertaken over 20 voyages on research vessels, and her areas of expertise are Antarctic paleoclimate, marine carbon cycle, radionuclides in the ocean, sediment geochemistry, paleoceanography, and marine biogeochemistry. In 2013 she was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship.

#15664

Enikő Kubinyi

#176229

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Eniko Kubinyi is a Hungarian biologist who studies dog behaviour, cognition, ageing, and the relationship between dogs and humans. She completed her Ph.D. degree in animal behaviour from the Eotvos Lorand University, where she is the principal investigator of the Senior Family Dog Project and the Canine Brain and Tissue Bank.

#15665

Stephen Maxson

#184772

Overall Influence

Stephen Clark Maxson is an American behavior geneticist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Connecticut. He first joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in 1969 as an assistant professor. He is known for his research on the link between aggression and the Y chromosome in mice, for which he received the Dobzhansky Award from the Behavior Genetics Association in 1998.

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Stanley B. Mulaik

#184445

Overall Influence

1902 - 1995 (93 years)

Stanley B. Mulaik was an American zoologist and educator. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Lithuanian parents. He received a bachelor's degree in science education and worked as a school teacher for several years until commencing his PhD studies at the University of Utah in 1939. His dissertation presented several new species and genera of isopods and demonstrated that isopods were native to the Americas, rather than introduced from the Old World as previously thought.

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Julie A. Johnson

#172153

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Julie Ann Johnson is an American clinical pharmacist and translational scientist. She currently serves as associate dean for clinical and translational research and holds the Dr. Samuel T. and Lois Felts Mercer Professorship of Medicine and Pharmacology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She is also be associate vice president for research at Ohio State. Johnson comes to Ohio State from the University of Florida, where she was dean emeritus of pharmacy and a distinguished professor of pharmacy and medicine in the Department of Pharmacotherapy & Translational Research. For four ...

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Naercio Aquino de Menezes

#186106

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

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Mavis Agbandje-McKenna

#110037

Overall Influence

1963 - 2021 (58 years)

Mavis Agbandje-McKenna was a Nigerian-born British medical biophysicist, structural virologist, and a professor of structural biology, as well as the director of the Center for Structural Biology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Agbandje-McKenna studied parvovirus structures using X-ray crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy and did much of the initial work to elucidate the basic structure and function of adeno-associated viruses . Her viral characterization and elucidation of antibody binding sites on AAV capsids has led to the development of viral capsid deve...

#15670

Philip Green

#186285

Overall Influence

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Xing Wang Deng

#186289

Overall Influence

#15672

Daniel Fung

#43654

Overall Influence

Daniel Fung Shuen Sheng is a Singaporean psychiatrist and researcher who is the current chief executive officer of the Institute of Mental Health . Fung is also the president of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions and of the College of Psychiatrists in Singapore.

#15673

David Abrahamsen

#25599

Overall Influence

1903 - 2002 (99 years)

David Abrahamsen was a Norwegian forensic psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author who wrote analyses of Richard M. Nixon and David Berkowitz. He was the father of Inger McCabe Elliott. Early life and education Abrahamsen was born in Trondheim, Norway in 1903. He studied medical science at the Royal Frederick University in Oslo and graduated in 1929. He eventually relocated to England, taking positions at the Tavistock Clinic and the London School of Economics.

#15674

Olav M. Skulberg

#175320

Overall Influence

1930 - 2021 (91 years)

Olav Magnus Skulberg was a Norwegian limnologist. He was born in Spydeberg, and finished his secondary education in Askim in 1949. He studied at the University of Oslo as well as in Switzerland. In 1958 he was hired in the Norwegian Institute for Water Research, becoming a specialist on freshwater algae. He was a fellow of the Linnean Society of London. He died in January 2021.

#15675

Ulisses Caramaschi

#152187

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Ulisses Caramaschi is a Brazilian herpetologist specializing in neotropical frogs. He works at the National Museum of Brazil and is a professor at its Department of Vertebrates. Education Caramaschi possesses a bachelor's degree from the Botucatu campus of São Paulo State University and a master's from the University of Campinas in ecology, and a doctorate in biological science from São Paulo State University.

#15676

Kristin Carson-Chahhoud

#186071

Overall Influence

Kristin Carson-Chahhoud is an Associate Professor at the University of South Australia, heading a research group in the Adelaide Medical School. Specialising in respiratory medicine, tobacco control and management of tobacco-related illnesses, Carson aims to close the gap between clinical research trials and real-world patient care.

#15677

Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein

#186324

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Dr. Vera Lúcia Gomes-Klein is a Brazilian botanist and professor at the Federal University of Goiás. She specializes in plant taxonomy, particularly floristics and the classification of spermatophytes. She is manager of the Federal University of Goiás' Conservation Unit, which consists of an herbarium, the August Forest of Saint Hilaire, and the Serra Dourada Biological Reserve. She has described at least five species of melonleaf in the genus Cayaponia.

#15678

Norman Pace

#91990

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Norman John Pace is an English actor and comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Hale and Pace with his friend and comic partner Gareth Hale. Both former teachers, they fronted several television programmes jointly, most notably Hale and Pace, Pushing Up Daisies, h&p@bbc and Jobs for the Boys.

#15679

David A. Sack

#186377

Overall Influence

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Finn Skårderud

#168861

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Finn Skårderud is a Norwegian disgraced former psychiatrist, psychotherapist, author and professor. He was struck off the medical register by the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision due to a widespread pattern of professional misconduct in 2023.

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Pierre Quézel

#186406

Overall Influence

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Georg Brabant

#186423

Overall Influence

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Alexander L. Coon

#136172

Overall Influence

Alexander Coon is an American neurosurgeon who is the Director of Endovascular and Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery at the Carondelet Neurological Institute of St. Joseph's and St. Mary's Hospitals in Tucson, Arizona. He was previously the Director of Endovascular Neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and an assistant professor of neurosurgery, Neurology, and Radiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is known for his work in cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery and his research in neuroendovascular devices and clinical outcomes in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms, subarachnoid h...

#15684

Jane Green

#129870

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Professor Jane S. Green PhD, , Hon FCCMG, FCAHS is a Canadian medical geneticist. Life Green studied Zoology, obtaining a BSc in 1964, and Drosophila Genetics, obtaining an MSc in 1966, both from the University of British Columbia. She moved to Newfoundland in 1967.

#15685

M. R. W. Brown

#186430

Overall Influence

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Christopher P. Marquis

#183634

Overall Influence

Christopher P. Marquis is a bioprocess engineer and academic at the University of New South Wales , Sydney, Australia. His research covers the development of biotechnology products through the lens of a bioprocess engineer, focusing on Recombinant protein production and other bioproducts, including nucleic acids and bacteriophage. He is the academic director of the UNSW Recombinant Products Facility . He is the co-author of over 75 refereed journal articles. He also actively engages with industry.

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James B. Ranck Jr.

#182909

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

James B. Ranck Jr. is a distinguished professor of Physiology at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center. His research involves recording from single neurons in living animals for behavioral studies. He discovered head-direction cells in 1984.

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Richard J. S. Wise

#186472

Overall Influence

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Karen Stockin

#183342

Overall Influence

Karen Ann Stockin is a New Zealand academic marine ecologist, and as of 2021 is a full professor at Massey University. Her research focuses on animal welfare and the impacts of human activities on cetacean populations, including tourism effects, and persistent marine contaminants.

#15690

Yehia El-Gamal

#98837

Overall Influence

Yehia El-Gamal was an Egyptian Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Unit, and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Cairo, Egypt. He established the first specialized unit of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology in Egypt in February 1988, and was president of the Egyptian Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology which he founded in 2002, and editor-in-chief of the Egyptian Journal of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology.

#15691

Claudia Sousa

#149776

Overall Influence

1975 - 2014 (39 years)

Cláudia Maria Azenha Margato de Ramalho Sousa was a primatologist. She was the first Portuguese to work in the field with chimpanzees. Sousa discovered that chimpanzees would exchange tokens for food

#15692

Josef Svoboda

#181338

Overall Influence

1929 - 2022 (93 years)

Josef Svoboda was a Canadian Arctic tundra scientist and botanist, who was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada for his pioneering scientific contributions regarding the Arctic tundra ecosystems, and his lifelong mentorship of scientists.

#15693

W. R. Wayne Martin

#186518

Overall Influence

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Lance Barrett-Lennard

#186339

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Lance Barrett-Lennard is a Canadian biologist specializing in the behavioural ecology and population biology of Killer whales. A molecular geneticist, Barrett-Lennard uses DNA analysis to study the dispersal, mating habits, and group structure of killer whale sub-populations in the Pacific Northwest. He is best known for his research concerning the conservation of the Southern Resident killer whale sub-population. As of 2022, he is a Senior Scientist in the Cetacean Conservation Research Program at the Raincoast Conservation Foundation.

#15695

Lisa White

#150720

Overall Influence

Lisa D. White is an American geologist and director of Education and Outreach at the University of California Museum of Paleontology. White is a former professor of geosciences and associate dean of the College of Science and Engineering at San Francisco State University. She was elected to the California Academy of Sciences in 2000 and as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 2009. White was awarded her PhD in 1989 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2022 the National Center for Science Education presented White with the 2022 "Friend of Darwin" award.

#15696

Ali Rezai

#123051

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Ali R. Rezai is an American neurosurgeon and neuroscientist. His work and research has focused on neuromodulation treatments for patients with neurological and mental health conditions, including neuromodulation techniques such as deep brain stimulation through brain chip implants to treat Parkinson's disease tremors, obsessive–compulsive disorder, Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and addiction.

#15697

M. Gregg Bloche

#42785

Overall Influence

Maxwell Gregg Bloche is an American legal scholar and psychiatrist. He is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Health Law, Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. Biography Bloche received his B.A. from Columbia University, where he was editor-in-chief of Columbia Daily Spectator, J.D. from Yale Law School, and M.D. from Yale School of Medicine. He completed a residency in psychiatry at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.

#15698

Matthew Belmonte

#186579

Overall Influence

Matthew Belmonte is a reader in psychology at Nottingham Trent University who researches the behavior and neurophysiology of autistic individuals. He has studied the behavioral aspects of autism by providing subjects with videogames that measure several perceptual properties. Belmonte has received a $700,000 National Science Foundation grant to study this aspect, and uses MRI and EEG technology to measure brain activity of autistic and non-autistic individuals. He has an older brother with autism, and both have a fascination with order and regularity. In his essay 'Life Without Order: Lite...

#15699

Edward Groesbeck Voss

#142280

Overall Influence

1929 - 2012 (83 years)

Edward Groesbeck "Ed" Voss was an American botanist and expert on taxonomic nomenclature. Voss was born in Delaware, Ohio, received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1954 and spent his entire professional career at the University of Michigan, studying the plants and Lepidoptera of Michigan, his adopted state. He is best known for his three volume Michigan Flora , plus his work on botanical history, especially his Botanical Beachcombers, and for his long service to the International Association of Plant Taxonomy, serving as secretary of the editorial committee of the Internat...

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Folami Ideraabdullah

#182705

Overall Influence

Folami Ideraabdullah is an American geneticist and assistant professor in the Department of Genetics and the Department of Nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ideraabdullah explores how maternal nutrition and environmental toxin exposure affect development through exploring epigenetic changes to DNA. She has found that maternal Vitamin D deficiencies can cause genome-wide changes in methylation patterns that persist for several generations and impact offspring health. Her international collaboration with the University of...

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