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List of the most influential people in Biology,

#15801

Thomas Moore

#187667

Overall Influence

#15802

James Bloodworth Jr.

#147323

Overall Influence

1925 - 2006 (81 years)

James Morgan Bartow Bloodworth Jr., F.C.A.P. was an American physician, pathologist, and researcher on diabetes mellitus. He was born in Atlanta on February 21, 1925, to J. M. Bartow Bloodworth, Sr.—an attorney—and Elizabeth Bloodworth. Bloodworth died on September 22, 2006, in Madison, Wisconsin.

#15803

Margaret S. Morley

#187670

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

Margaret S. Morley , was a New Zealand malacologist, illustrator and museum curator. A self-trained researcher, Morley joined the Auckland Shell Club in 1980 and became one of the leading experts in the identification of New Zealand micromollusc species. A prolific researcher, Morley published over 119 papers, most of which featured her own illustrations, and in 2004 published A Photographic Guide to Seashells of New Zealand.

#15804

En Li

#187702

Overall Influence

#15805

Mark Elgar

#186054

Overall Influence

Mark Adrian Elgar is an Australian behavioural and evolutionary ecologist, based at the University of Melbourne since 1991. He established his reputation with research on bird foraging strategies and sexual cannibalism in spiders, but now explores a variety of evolutionary questions around sexual selection, social behaviour and chemical communication.

#15806

Suzanne M. De La Monte

#187739

Overall Influence

#15807

Christine Rollier

#186332

Overall Influence

Christine Rollier is a French-British immunologist who is a professor at the University of Surrey. She focusses on the development of viral vector vaccines to treat infectious diseases. In particular, Rollier has focussed on the development of vaccinations to eliminate the plague.

#15808

George B. Chapman

#179998

Overall Influence

1925 - 2016 (91 years)

George Bunker Chapman was a professor and a pioneer in research of cell biology and ultrastructure using transmission-light and transmission electron microscopy. He was the first person to see the interior structure of four bacterium species in electron micrographs he produced, described in his Ph.D. dissertation completed in 1953. As a professor, he changed the lives of hundreds of students, colleagues, and others through his mentorship.

#15809

Mira Zore-Armanda

#182038

Overall Influence

1930 - 2012 (82 years)

Mira Zore-Armanda was a Croatian oceanographer. She was a senior scientist at the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split, where her research focused on the Adriatic Sea. She published about 150 research papers before her retirement in 1989.

#15810

Vittorio Colizzi

#71330

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Professor Vittorio Colizzi is an Italian virologist and one of the most eminent HIV/AIDS researchers in Europe. He directs the Immunochemical and Molecular Pathology laboratory in the biology department of Tor Vergata University in Rome. With his French colleague Luc Montagnier he has participated in many conferences, particularly in Africa, to combat the propagation of HIV.

#15811

Shubha Tole

#187785

Overall Influence

#15812

Robert L. Stivers

#165601

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Robert L. Stivers is an American theologian, environmentalist, and Professor Emeritus of Ethics at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, known for his early works of environmental ethics and sustainable development. and as "long-time advocate of Presbyterian ecojustice concerns."

#15813

Melissa S. Cline

#178640

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Melissa Suzanne Cline is an American biologist. She is an Associate Research Scientist at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Between June 2001 and December 2004 she was a staff scientist at Affymetrix, Inc. in Emeryville, California where she was involved in developing ANOSVA, a "statistical method to identify alternative spicing from expression data," during which she "analyzed the effects of alternative splicing on protein transmembrane and signal peptide regions". Subsequently, she moved to UC Santa Cruz, where she wrote on genome browsing. According to the Thomson Reuters report, she wa...

#15814

Ludvig Sollid

#182017

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ludvig M. Sollid is a Norwegian physician-scientist whose laboratory has made discoveries in the pathogenesis of HLA associated human disorders, most notably celiac disease. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at the University of Oslo and a Senior Consultant at Oslo University Hospital.

#15815

Michael Walker

#112105

Overall Influence

Michael Mathew Walker is a biologist at University of Auckland notable for his work engaging with Māori students. He established a mentoring program called Tuākana in 1991, which pairs first year Māori students with more experienced students in an effort to reduce the previously-high drop-out rate. He is of Te Whakatōhea descent.

#15816

Izhar Bar-Gad

#186024

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Izhar Bar-Gad is a full professor at the Leslie and Susan Gonda Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University. Bar-Gad is a researcher in the field of neurophysiology and neural computation. His main areas of research are information processing in the basal ganglia in a normal state and in various pathologies, such as parkinson's disease and tourette's syndrome.

#15817

Walter E. Meshaka Jr.

#186898

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Walter E. Meshaka Jr. is an American herpetologist and natural historian. He was the supervisory curator for the four National Parks in southern Florida from 1995 to 2000. In 2000 he became the Senior Curator of Zoology and Botany at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His research has been covered by Lawrence Journal-World, among other news outlets.

#15818

Steven A. Rosenberg

#187851

Overall Influence

#15819

Eric W. Riddick

#187858

Overall Influence

Dr. Eric W. Riddick is a Research Entomologist at the National Biological Control Laboratory, ARS-USDA, Stoneville, Mississippi, USA. He completed his Ph.D. in Entomology at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA and has previously worked at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, in Washington DC, and served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Entomology at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. He is broadly interested in environmental health, protection of animal and plant biodiversity, sustainable pest management, conservation of natural resources, and urban agriculture.

#15820

Beth Kaplin

#151179

Overall Influence

Beth Kaplin is a Canadian conservation scientist, professor and researcher. She is professor of conservation science in the College of Science and Technology at the University of Rwanda. She is also a research professor in the School for the Environment and a senior fellow at the Centre for Governance and Sustainability, both at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

#15821

Sergio Antonio Vanin

#187875

Overall Influence

1948 - 2020 (72 years)

Sergio Antonio Vanin was an entomologist at the University of São Paulo. As student and professor, he served more than 50 years in that institution, being recognized as Professor Emeritus in 2018. During his career, he produced 108 publications and advised 16 graduate students, having a large influence in the adoption of phylogenetic systematics in Brazil.

#15822

Susan G. Conard

#177502

Overall Influence

Susan G. Conard is an American scientist whose expertise focuses on wildland fires in Northern California and Taiga. During the 1980s and 1990s, Conard worked as a research and project leader for the United States Forest Service, publishing pieces on fire management and carbon sequestration. She is currently the editor for the International Journal of Wildland Fire.

#15823

Charles A. S. Hall

#187922

Overall Influence

#15824

Leah J. Dickstein

#132258

Overall Influence

1934 - 2019 (85 years)

Leah Joan Dickstein was an American psychiatrist. She was the president of the American Medical Women's Association, Vice President of the American Psychiatric Association, and Founder and President of the Association of Women Psychiatrists.

#15825

Michael K. Brett-Surman

#167927

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

#15826

Shimon Rochkind

#52158

Overall Influence

Shimon Rochkind is an Israeli clinician and an operating neurosurgeon. His professional interests include surgery on the peripheral nerves, the lumbar and sacral spine, brachial plexus and cauda equina. Rochkind pioneered the use of the laser therapy for the treatment of injuries in the peripheral nervous system. Currently he dedicates a fair share of his time to the scientific work: developing the matrix for peripheral nerve and spinal cord reconstruction.

#15827

Michael Thomashow

#186891

Overall Influence

Michael F. Thomashow is an American plant biologist currently the University Distinguished Professor, MSU Foundation Professor and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2010. His current interests are Arabidopsis genes and biology. His highest cited paper is Plant cold acclimation: freezing tolerance genes and regulatory mechanisms at 2757 times, according to GoogleScholar.

#15828

Jacob Glanville

#184545

Overall Influence

Jacob Eli Gunn Glanville is an American computational immunoengineer and businessperson. He is co-founder and chief executive officer of the start-up company Distributed Bio and its spin-out, Centivax. Glanville was featured in the documentary series Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak. Glanville was born in The Dalles, Oregon and raised in Guatemala to American expatriate parents. His mother is an artist and his father an inn keeper. In 2007, Glanville graduated from University of California, Berkeley where he studied Genetics, Genomics, and Development in the Molecular and Cellular Biology ...

#15829

Larry Lemanski

#101533

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Larry F. Lemanski is 'Distinguished Research Professor' and Director of the Biomedical Institute for Regenerative Research at Texas A&M University-Commerce He is also a Regents' Professor of the Texas A & M System, the highest level recognition for Texas A & M System's faculties. He received a B.S. from University of Wisconsin, Platteville and then both M.S. and Ph.D. from Arizona State University, Tempe. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and worked there with Prof. Lee D. Peachey. He joined UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco in 1975 as served as an ...

#15830

Lynn McDonald

#99049

Overall Influence

Marilyn R. McDonald is an American academic and social worker. She works as a senior scientist at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is also a consultant for the United Nations.

#15831

Don Bacon

#142906

Overall Influence

1926 - 2020 (94 years)

Donald Frederick Bacon was a New Zealand microbiologist. In 1966, he was appointed the inaugural professor of microbiology at Massey University, where he remained until his retirement in 1989. Biography Born in Gisborne on 6 April 1926, Bacon was the son of Mabel Tui Bacon and Frederick George Bacon. He was educated at Gisborne High School, and in 1944 began training as a medical laboratory technician at Cook Hospital.

#15832

Mark Siddall

#180177

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Mark E. Siddall is a Canadian biologist and former curator at the American Museum of Natural History. Siddall has studied the evolution and systematics of blood parasites and leeches, and systematic theory. Siddall was hired as an assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History in July, 1999 and worked there as a curator until September, 2020, when he was terminated for allegedly having violated the museum's policy prohibiting sexual relationships between staff and mentees. Siddall denied the claim.

#15833

Hubert Lacey

#126876

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

John Hubert Lacey MD FRCPsych is a British psychiatrist who is professor of psychiatry at St George's, University of London. He specialises in eating disorders and he is Director of the St George's Eating Disorders Service.

#15834

M. Michael Cohen,

#187973

Overall Influence

#15835

Richard Isay

#24555

Overall Influence

1934 - 2012 (78 years)

Richard A. Isay was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author and gay activist. He was a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a faculty member of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Isay is considered a pioneer who changed the way that psychoanalysts view homosexuality.

#15836

Ferdinando Scala

#115235

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Ferdinando Scala is an Italian biologist, science and technology journalist and historian, specialized in strategy and military history. Biography Born in Portici, he spent his first year of life in Foggia, where his father was servicing as a warrant officer of the Italian Air Force, and then he moved to San Giorgio a Cremano, that he then always considered his hometown. Here he frequented elementary and middle school, and then he spent the first two years of high school at Liceo Classico Statale "Quinto Orazio Flacco" of Portici.

#15837

Mark Windham

#187984

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Mark Windham is an American pathologist, currently a Distinguished Professor in Ornamental Pathology at University of Tennessee.

#15838

Larry Goldenberg

#113777

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

S. Larry Goldenberg, is a Canadian researcher in the field of medicine and a pioneer in the treatment of prostate cancer. Goldenberg was born in Toronto, Ontario to survivors of the Holocaust who had immigrated to Canada after the Second World War. He completed his medical training at the University of Toronto in 1978. He is married to Paula Gordon, a pioneer in the diagnostic imaging of breast cancer and recipient of the Order of Canada. They have two sons. Goldenberg is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Urologic Sciences at the University of British Columbia. He holds adju...

#15839

Jan-Gunnar Winther

Jan-Gunnar Winther

#89365

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Jan-Gunnar Winther is Pro-rector for research and development at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Specialist Director at the Norwegian Polar Institute located in Tromsø. He served as Director of the Centre for the Ocean and the Arctic from 2018-2023, first affiliated with Nofima later at UiT.

#15840

Ning Qin

#188015

Overall Influence

#15841

F. Curtis Dohan Jr.

#177280

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Francis Curtis Dohan Jr. was an American physician and neuropathologist. He was the son of F. Curtis Dohan. Early life Dohan Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Francis Curtis Dohan, was a research physician and endocrinologist. His mother, Marie Postenrieder Dohan, was a sociologist .

#15842

T. Nakamura

#188035

Overall Influence

#15843

Christian Lüscher

#183900

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Christian Lüscher is a Swiss neurobiologist and full professor at the Department of Basic Neurosciences of the University of Geneva. He is also an attending in neurology at the Geneva University Hospital. Lüscher is known for his contributions in the field addiction, particularly for establishing links of causality between the drug-evoked synaptic plasticity and adaptive behavior in mice.

#15844

Sarah S. Richardson

#77106

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Sarah S. Richardson is an American philosopher and historian who is a professor at the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is the author of The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects and Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome.

#15845

James M. Murphy

#188089

Overall Influence

#15846

Lisa Robinson

#182567

Overall Influence

Lisa Robinson is a clinician-scientist. She is a University of Toronto professor in the Department of Paediatrics and the Vice Dean Strategy and Operations at the Faculty of Medicine, former Head of the Division of Nephrology at The Hospital for Sick Children, a Senior Scientist at the SickKids Research Institute, and the first-ever Chief Diversity officer for the Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto.

#15847

Manuel Corpas

#187463

Overall Influence

Manuel Corpas is an Anglo-Spanish biologist and entrepreneur known primarily for his contributions to the field of Bioinformatics and Genomics. Currently Corpas is Chief Scientist of Cambridge startup Cambridge Precision Medicine, a tutor at the Institute for Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge and a lecturer at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. Manuel worked on the human genome from the beginning of his career, being one of the first consumers to sequence and his own genome and that of close relatives, which he published as the Corpasome. He has held positions at the ...

#15848

Natalia Gomez-Ospina

#172928

Overall Influence

Natalia Gomez-Ospina is a Colombian physician-scientist who studies genetic disorders and lysosomal storage disorders. She was born in Medellín, Colombia. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and of Pediatrics at Stanford University and works at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. She is a member of Stanford Bio-X.

#15849

Suzanne Urverg-Ratsimamanga

#172720

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Suzanne Urverg-Ratsimamanga was a French-Malagasy Ashkenazi Jewish physician and biochemist. She was married to Albert Rakoto Ratsimamanga, with whom she founded the . Early life and education Suzanne was born in Paris, France, on 18 June 1928. She received her Bachelor of Science in 1953, Doctor of Medicine in 1954, and Diploma and Master of Science in Industrial Hygiene and Medicine in 1955, all from the University of Paris.

#15850

Leonard J. Cerullo

#35884

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Leonard J. Cerullo is a board-certified neurosurgeon and founder/medical director. Early life and education Cerullo was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania in June 1944. He was the middle child of the large family of Leornard Frank Cerullo, an electrical contractor, and Marion , a nurse; his parents met at Hazleton General Hospital.

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