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List of the most influential people in Biology,

#15951

Kathleen Stafford

#185785

Overall Influence

Kate Stafford is the Senior Principal Oceanographer in the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington and an affiliate Associate Professor in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is also an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at Oregon State University in the Marine Mammal Institute. Her research focuses on the changing acoustic landscape and the impacts of declining sea ice and human industrial influences affect Arctic marine mammals.

#15952

Darron Collins

#114423

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Darron Asher Collins is an American human ecologist and academic administrator specialized in ethnobotany. He became president of the College of the Atlantic in 2011. Life Collins is from Morris Plains, New Jersey. His grandmother, Josephine Collins , was born in County Roscommon and immigrated to Morristown, New Jersey in May 1928. Collins was raised in nearby Parsippany–Troy Hills, New Jersey and graduated from Parsippany Hills High School in 1988. He was awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and graduated from College of the Atlantic in 1992. Collins completed a master's degree in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D.

#15953

Finn-Egil Eckblad

#180825

Overall Influence

1923 - 2000 (77 years)

Finn-Egil Eckblad was a Norwegian mycologist. He took the Dr.philos. degree in 1968, was hired as a lecturer at the University of Bergen in 1971 and as a professor at the University of Oslo in 1979. He retired in 1990.

#15954

Alison Hester

#186384

Overall Influence

Alison Hester is an ecologist in the UK, a professor at the Aberdeen site of the James Hutton Institute, Scotland, and an expert in the effects of land management on biodiversity. Education and career Hester was educated at King's College London, she then did a PhD at the University of Aberdeen and was a Royal Society Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO Western Australia.

#15955

Sarah Rowland-Jones

#120675

Overall Influence

Sarah Rowland-Jones is a British physician who is a Professor of Immunology at the University of Oxford. She works on immune responses to HIV infection. She has focussed her research on problems caused by HIV in Africa, with a hope to create a successful HIV vaccine. She is the former president of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

#15956

Willi Hennig

#189120

Overall Influence

#15957

Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt

#185524

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt is a German microbiologist. She is a full professor and holds the Chair of the Department for Microbial Bioactive Compounds at the Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine, University of Tübingen, Germany.

#15958

Stephen Nadeau

#175936

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Stephen E. Nadeau is an American behavioral neurologist, researcher and academician. He is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He is also the Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the Malcolm Randall Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

#15959

Vernon M. Stern

#103273

Overall Influence

1923 - 2006 (83 years)

Vernon Mark Stern was an American professor of entomology at the University of California, Riverside considered as one of the founding figures of integrated pest management. Stern along with Ray F. Smith, Robert van den Bosch and Kenneth Hagen established the concept of integrated control in 1959. Another of his ideas was the use of strip-cropping between the main crop to maintain populations of beneficial insects. He demonstrated this with the use of alfalfa strips in cotton to manage lygaeid bugs. He also developed the concept of economic injury level and other economic thresholds about which he wrote an influential review paper in 1973.

#15960

Don Pinnock

#133551

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Donald Pinnock is a South African writer, investigative journalist, and photographer. He was born in 1947, in Queenstown, South Africa, and educated at Queens College. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town, a former editor of Getaway magazine in Cape Town, and writes for Daily Maverick. He has been a lecturer in journalism and criminology, consultant to the Mandela government, a professional yachtsman, explorer, travel and environmental writer and photographer. His passions are species conservation in Africa and the relationship between early social and ...

#15961

Peter J. Hansen

Peter J. Hansen

#173104

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Peter J. Hansen is an American animal scientist and physiologist who serves as distinguished professor and L.E. "Red" Professor of Animal Sciences in the Department of Animal Sciences at University of Florida

#15962

Hanna Margońska

#187737

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Hanna Bogna Margońska, born 1968 is a Polish botanist known for her work on orchids. Dr. Hanna Margońska is a botanical researcher and faculty member at Gdańsk University, Department of Plant Taxonomy and Conservation.

#15963

Nikki Turner

#51216

Overall Influence

Nicola Mary Turner is a New Zealand public health advocate who is a Professor at the University of Auckland and Medical Director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre, an organisation that advises the New Zealand medical profession and the New Zealand Government. She has contributed to advisory committees for the New Zealand Ministry of Health, is a spokesperson for the Child Poverty Action Group and works in general practice. Much of her research and outreach has focused on improving immunisation coverage and closing equity gaps for the national schedule vaccine delivery in New Zealand and sh...

#15964

Henry Noltie

#188361

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Henry Noltie is a British botanist. He worked as a curator and taxonomist at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Life and career Education and work Noltie studied botany at the University of Oxford, and Museum Studies at Leicester. He joined RBGE in 1986. For 14 years he worked on the Flora of Bhutan project, leading the team for its concluding years. He wrote two of the volumes of the Flora, relating to the monocots, for which he received a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.

#15965

Michael G. Rix

#166659

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Michael Gordon Rix is an Australian arachnologist, whose publications mainly concern spiders. , he was Principal Curator of Arachnology and Research Fellow in the Biodiversity and Geosciences Program at the Queensland Museum. He has held numerous professional appointments including President of the Society of Australian Systematic Biologists and Associate Editor of the Journal of Arachnology. He is widely published and cited. The World Spider Catalog lists 166 species names and 22 genus names authored or co-authored by Rix, . Pseudoanyphaena michaelrixi, discovered in 2003, was named after him...

#15966

Ingrid Eftedal

#184989

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Ingrid Eftedal is a Norwegian molecular biologist and barophysiologist who is employed at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology . At NTNU, she has been a senior researcher and head of the barophysiology research group. She has also been a dean and associate professor at the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences at Nord University. Eftedal holds a PhD in molecular genetics.

#15967

Hao Yan

#173987

Overall Influence

Hao Yan is a Chinese-American chemist, a molecular designer, programmer and engineer. Hao Yan graduated from Shandong University, and completed doctoral study in the subject of DNA nanotechnology at New York University, under the direction of Nadrian Seeman in 2001. Yan began his career as an assistant research professor at Duke University, before assuming an assistant professorship at Arizona State University in 2004. He was directly promoted to full professor with early tenure in 2008. In 2012, Yan was named ASU's first Milton D. Glick Distinguished Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The next year, Yan became director of ASU's Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics.

#15968

Christofer Clemente

#189250

Overall Influence

Christofer J. Clemente is an Australian scientist specialising in biomechanics. He is a Research Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland and in 2011 was awarded a grant of A$375,000 for "Design of a biologically inspired running and climbing robotic lizard" by the Australian Research Council.

#15969

Mary Lou Guerinot

#182287

Overall Influence

Mary Lou Guerinot is an American molecular geneticist who works as Ronald and Deborah Harris Professor in the Sciences at Dartmouth College. Her research concerns the cellular uptake and regulation of metal ions.

#15970

Rosalind Morris

#178638

Overall Influence

1920 - 2022 (102 years)

Mary Rosalind Morris was a professor of plant cytogenetics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1947 to 1990. She was one of the first women to earn a doctoral degree in genetics and plant breeding from Cornell University, was the first female faculty member in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at UNL, and was the first woman fellow of the American Society of Agronomy. Her pioneering work on "misbehaving chromosomes" in wheat cytogenetics was internationally recognized. In 1980, she served as president of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. She was awarded a fellowship with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

#15971

Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp

#189284

Overall Influence

Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp is a computational biologist with the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service. She works in the Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit and is stationed on the North Carolina State University campus in Raleigh, North Carolina.

#15972

Fiona McDonald

#120342

Overall Influence

Fiona Jean McDonald is a New Zealand physiologist, professor and head of the McDonald Lab and the Department of Physiology at the University of Otago. Academic career McDonald was born in Roxburgh, New Zealand. After graduating from St Hilda's Collegiate School in Dunedin she completed a BSc at the University of Otago. She then studied at the University of Oxford for a DPhil for her thesis, "Studies on the role of FGF-4 in mouse development". In 2011 McDonald was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study the function of a protein named COMMD10 at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

#15973

Craig Marshall

#188951

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Craig J. Marshall is a New Zealand biochemistry academic, and as of 2021 is an associate professor at the University of Otago. Academic career After a 1988 PhD titled 'Structures of the haemoglobins of the brine shrimp, Artemia: an examination of their properties and synthesis' at the University of Otago, Marshall joined the staff, rising to associate professor.

#15974

Hinemoa Elder

#27253

Overall Influence

Hinemoa Elder is a New Zealand youth forensic psychiatrist and former television presenter. She is a professor in indigenous research at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, and sits on the Māori Advisory Committee of the Centre for Brain Research.

#15975

Ijad Madisch

#177429

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Ijad Madisch is a German virologist, founder and CEO of the research network ResearchGate and member of the Digital Council of the Cabinet of Germany . Personal life Ijad Madisch was born in Wolfsburg to a Syrian family who immigrated to Germany. His elder brother is Ahmed Madisch, a professor and chief physician at Siloah hospital in Hannover. In 2000, Ijad got his Abitur from Gymnasium in Celle.

#15976

Claude-Henri Chouard

#101526

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

Claude-Henri Chouard is a French surgeon born on in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, this Otologist has been a full member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine since 1999. He was director of the AP-HP Laboratory of Auditory Prosthesis and director of the ENT Research Laboratory at Paris-Saint-Antoine University Hospital from 1967 to 2001. He was also head of the institution's ENT Department from 1978 to 1998. In 1982, he was elected a member of the International Collegium ORL-AS. He achieved worldwide recognition in the late 1970s thanks to the work completed by his Paris laboratory's multidisciplinary team on the multichannel cochlear implant.

#15977

Jean Cohen

#107388

Overall Influence

1941 - 2004 (63 years)

Jean Cohen was a French scientist, known for his studies on rotaviruses. Publications

#15978

Wei Yan

#188288

Overall Influence

Wei Yan is a Chinese-American reproductive biologist, currently Professor of Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Senior Investigator at The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is also University Foundation Professor at University of Nevada, Reno, United States and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is Director of National Center for Male Reproductive Epigenomics and served as the editor-in-chief of the journal Biology of Reproduction.

#15979

Marybeth Daucher

#188345

Overall Influence

Mary Elizabeth Daucher is an American biologist serving as the acting chief of the vaccine production program laboratory at Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

#15980

June Andrews

#96777

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

June Andrews, , is a Scottish nurse who is an expert in dementia studies and aged care. She was the professor of dementia studies at the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling. She is now Professor Emeritus. She has written many publications on the topics of dementia, care homes and geriatric care.

#15981

Hermann Wagner

#189412

Overall Influence

#15982

Isabel Dorado Liñán

#189203

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Isabel Dorado Liñán is a Spanish researcher and Doctor in Ecology. Her research focuses on forest ecology and the study of tree rings in the context of climate change. Education Isabel Dorado graduated in biology, specializing in Environmental Biology from the University of Alicante. At this university Dorado started her doctoral thesis, in the Department of Ecology, focused on the study of tree rings. She studied the changing activity in a pine species from different locations and with different age categories, to better understand the influence of climate and aging on the formation of wood.

#15983

Julio Lamilla

#188555

Overall Influence

1954 - 2016 (62 years)

Julio Francisco Lamilla Gómez was a Chilean biologist, researcher and conservationist. Lamilla was a former student of Liceo Armando Robles Rivera in Valdivia before graduating from the Austral University of Chile in Biology and Chemistry in which he majored in Zoology.

#15984

Renato M. E. Sabbatini

Renato M. E. Sabbatini

#181222

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Renato Marcos Endrizzi Sabbatini is a retired professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and at the State University of Campinas Institute of Biology. He received a B.Sc. in Biomedical Sciences from Medical School of the University of São Paulo and a doctorate in behavioral neuroscience in 1977, followed by postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry's Primate Behavior Department. He founded the Center for Biomedical Informatics, and helped create the Brazilian Society for Health Informatics.

#15985

Rosie Alegado

#175457

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Rosanna "Rosie" ʻAnolani Alegado is a Kanaka ʻōiwi/Native Hawaiian Associate Professor of Oceanography at the Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography as well as director of the Hawai‘i Sea Grant’s Ulana 'Ike Center of Excellence at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Alegado studies the evolution of host–microbe interactions and the microbial ecology of coastal estuarine systems.

#15986

David McDowell

#72376

Overall Influence

1963 - 2014 (51 years)

David M. McDowell was an American psychiatrist, author and creative consultant. He co-founded the Substance Treatment and Research Service at Columbia University and served as its medical director. He also founded Columbia's Buprenorphine Program, the first such treatment program for opiate addiction in the United States, which according to The New York Times had an 88% success rate. His scholarly work has focused on co-occurring psychiatric disorders and substance abuse problems, particularly club drugs and marijuana. McDowell's book Substance Abuse: From Principles to Practice, is one o...

#15987

Isabel Castro

#189459

Overall Influence

Isabel Castro is professor of wildlife biology at Massey University in New Zealand. Her research focuses on conservation biology, primarily of birds and native ecosystems, but also including invertebrates and introduced mammals. She is a principal investigator in the Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre of Research Excellence.

#15988

Kathleen Lavoie

#141334

Overall Influence

1949 - 2022 (73 years)

Kathleen Hoey Lavoie was an American microbiologist and explorer who was Professor of Biological Sciences at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Lavoie was a Fellow of the National Speleological Society and the Cave Research Foundation. She was a specialist in biospeleology, and, in particular, the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.

#15989

A. M. Lozano

#189506

Overall Influence

#15990

Leif Aarvik

#188580

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

#15991

George Bosl

#130279

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

George Bosl is an American cancer researcher, holder of the Patrick M. Byrne Chair in Clinical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and is a professor of medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College. In 1997, he was appointed chair of the Department of Medicine at Sloan-Kettering, a position which he held until 2015. In 2019, he was named Memorial Sloan Kettering's first ombudsperson.

#15992

Sabina Brennan

#184409

Overall Influence

Sabina Brennan is an Irish neuroscientist, psychologist, and former television actress. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor working at Trinity College Dublin. Early life and family Brennan is the youngest of five children. Her father worked for Irish Life and she followed him into this business after finishing school. She is married and has two sons.

#15993

Visitación Conforti

#186495

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Profª. Dra. Visitación Teresa Dora Conforti de Marconi is an Argentine biologist, algologist, botanist, taxonomist and ecologist. She is a professor in the Department of Biodiversity and Experimental Biology in the University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires. She is noted for her numerous taxonomic studies of Euglenophyta, including in polluted rivers in Argentina. Camaleão Lake in Brazil in 1994 and the Caura River in Venezuela in the late 1990s.

#15994

Ida Theilade

#189539

Overall Influence

Ida Theilade is a Danish botanist. She is a professor of at the University of Copenhagen. Education Theilade has a PhD in tropical botany from the University of Copenhagen. Ida Theilade is chair of the board of the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. She is a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission on threatened trees.

#15995

Margaret Frame

#94149

Overall Influence

Margaret Frame is Professor of Cancer Biology and Science Director of Cancer Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh. She is also Director of MRC Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine. She has made seminal contributions to understanding mechanisms of cell adhesion and motility. She previously served as deputy-director of the Beatson Institute in Glasgow.

#15996

Charles A. Morgan III

#105224

Overall Influence

Charles A. Morgan III is an American psychiatrist who has studied post-traumatic stress disorder. He is a researcher with the National Center for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder who has worked on how stress interacts with the neurobiological basis of hardiness and resilience.

#15997

Christopher J. Marshall

#189548

Overall Influence

#15998

Colette St. Mary

#189380

Overall Influence

Colette Marie St. Mary is a professor and associate chair of the biology department at the University of Florida. Her research focuses include behavioral and evolutionary ecology, speciation, sexual selection, and evolutionary aspects of cancer. Working mainly with fish model organisms, St. Mary is also interested in marine fisheries management and reproduction and evolution in hatchery settings. St. Mary received her Bachelor's degree in Biology from Harvard Radcliffe College before earning her Ph.D from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994. She is the first African-American woman to ever receive a Ph.D.

#15999

Leroy Lowe

#47734

Overall Influence

Leroy James Lowe is a Canadian biologist best known for his “Low Dose Theory of Carcinogenesis”, the “Broad-spectrum approach to Cancer Therapy”, and for his efforts to define “The Human Affectome” in the field of neuroscience. He is the Co-Founder and President of Getting to Know Cancer, the Founder and President of Neuroqualia, and a faculty member at the International Business at the Nova Scotia Community College.

#16000

Tim McKnight

#167681

Overall Influence

Timothy Eric McKnight is an American biologist. He has been a key developer of a cell transfecting method using vertically aligned carbon nanofibers. Arrays of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers are modified with DNA and pressed into cells and tissue. Surviving cells can express DNA that is delivered during the penetration event, even when the DNA is covalently bound to the penetrant nanofiber element. This gene delivery technique has been termed Impalefection.

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