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List of the most influential people in Biology,

#16001

Anne Elvey

#79788

Overall Influence

Anne Frances Elvey is an Australian academic, editor, researcher and poet. Education Elvey has completed at Bachelor of Science with Honours, a Graduate Diploma in Education , a Bachelor of Theology, a Master of Theology and a Doctor of Philosophy.

#16002

Aditi Shankardass

#180339

Overall Influence

Aditi Shankardass is a British neuroscientist. She has appeared in the media to discuss developmental disorders in children, including on CNN, ABC News, the Times of India, and the Financial Express. She discussed the topic in her talk in 2009 at the TED conference.

#16003

Aline Betancourt

#188988

Overall Influence

Aline M. Betancourt is an American biochemist, an associate professor of medicine and microbiology at Tulane University. Betancourt works on developing mesenchymal stem cell based therapies, and is the CSO and founder of two companies aimed at producing clinical products using this technology.

#16004

Robert C. Brunham

#185289

Overall Influence

Robert Conrad Brunham is a Canadian infectious disease specialist. He is the former Director of the UBC Centre for Disease Control and executive director and Scientific Director of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control.

#16005

Bill Oddie

#109847

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

William Edgar Oddie is an English actor, artist, birder, comedian, conservationist, musician, songwriter, television presenter and writer. He was a member of comedy trio The Goodies. A birder since his childhood in Quinton, Birmingham, Oddie has established a reputation as a naturalist, conservationist, and television presenter on wildlife issues. Some of his books are illustrated with his own paintings and drawings. His wildlife programmes for the BBC include Springwatch and Autumnwatch, How to Watch Wildlife, Wild in Your Garden, Birding with Bill Oddie, Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie a...

#16006

Patrick Fitzgerald

#189601

Overall Influence

#16007

Rogério Bertani

#93883

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Rogério Bertani is a Brazilian arachnologist, active at the Butantan Institute. He is credited as one of the foremost specialists in Theraphosidae in the world. He has described several species.

#16008

Nurcan Tunçbağ

#164576

Overall Influence

Nurcan Tunçbağ is a Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Koç University. She works on computational models of complex biological systems. Tunçbağ is a 2019 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Rising Talent.

#16009

Edward Hawrot

#177031

Overall Influence

Edward Hawrot is an American medical scientist, and currently the Alva O. Way University Professor of Medical Science at Brown University. He was previously the Upjohn Professor from 2001 to 2008.

#16010

Grace Wyngaard

#189626

Overall Influence

Grace Wyngaard is an American biologist at James Madison University and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#16011

Peter Orlebar Bishop

#177264

Overall Influence

1917 - 2012 (95 years)

Peter Bishop FRS was an Australian neurophysiologist whose research involved study of the mammalian visual system. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1977.

#16012

Howard Stutz

#175158

Overall Influence

1918 - 2010 (92 years)

Howard Coombs Stutz was a geneticist and professor at Brigham Young University. Stutz was born and raised in Cardston, Alberta, Canada. He did his undergraduate studies at and then received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

#16013

Roland Kuhn

#29306

Overall Influence

1912 - 2005 (93 years)

Roland Kuhn was a Swiss psychiatrist who discovered that the drug imipramine had antidepressant properties. he was born in Biel and died in Scherzingen. In 1957, Kuhn published the results of his observations of the antidepressant properties of Imipramine in the Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift . More recently, it was discovered that he tested drugs on patients and children without informed consent and without proper approval by the authorities during his time at the psychiatric hospital in Münsterlingen , a practice that is highly unethical.

#16014

Peter von Bitter

#189665

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Peter von Bitter is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Toronto and he holds a post at the Royal Ontario Museum. His research has been wide-ranging but focused on conodonts. His most noted work was his examination of the well preserved fossil vent communities in Lower Carboniferous strata of western Newfoundland.

#16015

Annick Le Thomas

#173588

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Annick Le Thomas is a French botanist, best known for her work in the field of pollen analysis. She is a recognised expert on the Annonaceae family of flowering plants.

#16016

José Hipólito Monteiro

#185181

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

José Hipólito da Costa Monteiro , is a geologist and oceanographer who excelled as a Portuguese pioneer of marine geology. J. H. Monteiro main fields of scientific research were sedimentology dynamics of the continental shelf and coastal records, maritime geologic maps. Other scientific interests including Environmental marine geology, application of autonomous underwater vehicles, deep-sea polymetallic sandstones and the Law of the Sea.

#16017

Marguerite Evans-Galea

Marguerite Evans-Galea

#184941

Overall Influence

Marguerite Virginia Evans-Galea is the co-founder of Women in STEMM Australia. STEMM . Her research is focused on gene therapy and neurodegenerative diseases. Early life and education Evans-Galea grew up in Mackay, Queensland. She was raised by her mother after her parents separated. In High School she learned clarinet and discovered classical music. After school she planned to be a music therapist, but she was "bitten by the science bug" in her third year of university.

#16018

Robert Hall

#143156

Overall Influence

1949 - 2016 (67 years)

Robert Ward Hall was a Canadian citizen kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the Philippines on 21 September 2015, and beheaded nine months later near Patikul, Sulu. Early life and career Hall was born in Calgary, Alberta. One of five siblings, he grew up in the city's Midnapore district. A welder by trade, Hall was also an experienced pilot and an amateur actor.

#16019

David Suter

#189268

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

David Suter is a Swiss physician and molecular and cell biologist. His research focuses on quantitative approaches to study gene expression and developmental cell fate decisions. He is currently a professor at EPFL , where he heads the Suter Lab at the Institute of Bioengineering of the School of Life Sciences.

#16020

Elizabeth Adkins-Regan

#186255

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Elizabeth Adkins-Regan is an American comparative behavioral neuroendocrinologist best known for her research on the hormonal and neural mechanisms of reproductive behavior and sexual differentiation in birds. She is currently a professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University.

#16021

Rosie Trevelyan

#188416

Overall Influence

Rosie Trevelyan is a British biologist, and director of the Cambridge office of the Tropical Biology Association. She won the 2008 Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London. Life She earned a BA and DPhil. from Oxford University. She was co-founder of the Cambridge Conservation Forum. She lectures in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

#16022

Bo Dahlin

#78851

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Bo Dahlin is a Swedish educationalist. He is Professor of Education at Karlstad University and Professor II at Rudolf Steiner University College in Oslo. Dahlin's research is focused on didactics, especially philosophical and phenomenographic studies of learning in different contexts, e.g. how people in different cultures perceive learning, knowledge and understanding. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the international academic journal Research on Steiner Education.

#16023

Ave Suija

#189756

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Ave Suija is an Estonian lichenologist. The lichenicolous fungus species Capronia suijae was named in her honour in 2017. See also :Category:Taxa named by Ave Suija

#16024

Hideaki Ohba

#187614

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Hideaki Ohba is a Japanese botanist, pteridologist, and taxonomist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. Publications Books Flora of Japan. Several volumes. Kodansha, Ltd. Tokyo The Himalayan Plants, vv. 1-2-3 n.º 31 de Bull. . 174 pp.

#16025

Elizabeth McGraw

#183014

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Ann McGraw is an American biologist who is a professor in entomology at Pennsylvania State University. She is the Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and a Huck Scholar in Entomology. Her research investigates the bacterium Wolbachia as a strategy for biocontrol and to better understand the basis of its interactions with insects. She was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology.

#16026

Frederick T. Davies Jr.

#119289

Overall Influence

Frederick T. Davies Jr is an American scientist and Professor of Horticulture. He is best known for his work to improve the efficiency of horticulture practice in the United States and as a technique for poverty alleviation globally.

#16027

Darryl B. Hood

#188665

Overall Influence

Darryl B. Hood is an environmental neuroscientist at Ohio State University and the author of Multigenerational Effects of Inhaled BP on Development. Hood led the most successful Minority S11 NIEHS-sponsored initiative, known as Advanced Research Cooperation in Environmental Health Program. Additionally, Dr. Hood is currently a Dean's Fellow in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion research . He has also done work included in several articles on recalibrating reference concentrations for inhaled BP exposures in reproductive and neurotoxicity. As a co-architect, Darryl B. Hood has continued to work ...

#16028

Jan Bruell

#187641

Overall Influence

1920 - 1997 (77 years)

Jan Herbert Bruell was a Polish-born American psychologist and geneticist known for his work in behavioral and medical genetics. He was a professor in the psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin from 1968 until his death in 1997. He was a founding member of the Behavior Genetics Association, and served as editor-in-chief of its flagship journal, Behavior Genetics, from 1978 to 1986.

#16029

Andreas G. Heiss

#189793

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Andreas G. Heiss is an Austrian archaeobotanist and research group leader at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Originally from Schwaz, Tyrol, he studied at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna .

#16030

Wilfried Morawetz

#182023

Overall Influence

1952 - 2007 (55 years)

Wilfried Morawetz was an Austrian botanist. He made his doctorate 1980 at the University of Vienna.

#16031

Dianne Sika-Paotonu

#105189

Overall Influence

Dianne Sika-Paotonu is a New Zealand immunologist, biomedical scientist and academic in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Associate Dean at the University of Otago Wellington. She is of Tongan descent and is the first Pasifika biomedical scientist to receive the Cranwell Medal for science communication in 2020 and the 2022 Prime Minister's Science Communicator of the Year prize.

#16032

Creu Casas

#179175

Overall Influence

1913 - 2007 (94 years)

Creu Casas i Sicart was a Catalan biologist and botanist. After graduating from the University of Barcelona, she became a bryology specialist and started a large inventory of Catalan and European bryophytes. She wrote two important books on this subject Flora dels Briòfits dels Països Catalans and Handbook of mosses of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands .

#16033

Wen-ming Yang

#189817

Overall Influence

#16034

Clinton A. J. Duffy

#189839

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Clinton Anthony John Duffy is a New Zealand marine scientist, who works in the Marine Conservation Unit of the Department of Conservation. Duffy is a shark expert, whose work includes the taxonomy and conservation status of New Zealand's deepwater dogfishes, attaching GPS wildlife tracking devices to great white sharks, and surveying basking sharks.

#16035

Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds

#177257

Overall Influence

1912 - 2003 (91 years)

Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds was an American ecologist, biologist and author of Not Just Trees. She studied the Saddleback Mountain research site from 1935 to 1969. Early life Dirks-Edmunds was born in the Ozarks of Arkansas in 1912, the youngest of ten children. Her parents, Linda Gates and Peter B. Dirks traveled in 1924 to Puget Sound, Washington State, finally settling in the Umpqua Valley of Oregon. In the prologue of her book Not Just Trees: The Legacy of a Douglas-fir Forest, she notes an early love of the Northwest's forests; this admiration continued through her academic years. Dirks-Edmunds attended Linfield College from 1932 to 1937, where she received her B.S.

#16036

A. Hari Reddi

#189862

Overall Influence

#16037

Stanton Cohn

#186500

Overall Influence

1920 - 2008 (88 years)

Stanton H. Cohn was an expert in osteoporosis and the head of the Medical Physics Division at Brookhaven National Lab. Early life Cohn was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1920 to Harry and Ethel Cohn, parents of Eastern European Jewish heritage. He married Sylva May on March 20, 1949, and had five children. He served in the United States Army from June 1943 until April 1946 working as a biochemist in the 203rd General Hospital Division in France and England.

#16038

John Miles

#152932

Overall Influence

1913 - 2004 (91 years)

John Arthur Reginald Miles was a New Zealand microbiologist and epidemiologist. He was in charge of the Department of Microbiology at Otago Medical School from 1955 to 1978, and became an Emeritus Professor in 1979.

#16039

G. D. Farquhar

#189911

Overall Influence

#16040

Abdolmajid Mahdavi Damghani

#189913

Overall Influence

Abdolmajid Mahdavi Damghani is an Iranian agroecologist and associate professor at Shahid Beheshti University. His book Sustainable Production of Agricultural Products was praised in the ceremony for the Iran Book of the Year Award.

#16041

Ping Cheng

#189914

Overall Influence

#16042

Gunnar Henningsmoen

#185563

Overall Influence

1919 - 1996 (77 years)

Gunnar Henningsmoen was a Norwegian palaeontologist. He was born in Kristiania, as a son of the Colonel Nils H. Henningsmoen. In 1962 he married Kari Egede Larssen. He became a student in 1939 and graduated with the cand. real. degree from the University of Oslo in 1946. During the Second World War he had spent some time in exile in Sweden, after the University of Oslo was closed. He was hired as a curator at the Palaeontological Museum in 1948 and promoted to head curator in 1956. He took the dr.philos. degree in 1957 with the thesis The trilobite family Olenidae. He was the secretary-genera...

#16043

Michael Clegg

#107967

Overall Influence

1933 - 1995 (62 years)

Thomas Michael Clegg was a British museum curator, naturalist, and television presenter. Early life Clegg was born in Birdwell, in the then West Riding of Yorkshire and attended Ecclesfield School. Career Prior to 1952, Clegg worked as a laboratory technician under Hans Adolf Krebs at Sheffield University's biochemistry department. From 1952 to 1955 he was a Junior Assistant in Natural History at the Sheffield City Museum, which he left between 1955 and 1959 to work at the Woodend Museum in Scarborough as the Assistant Curator before returning to the museum at Sheffield as Natural History Assistant in October 1959.

#16044

Diana Hill

#101583

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Diana Florence Hill is a New Zealand academic, and a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in molecular genetics. Hill's team's work on the genetics of animal production was awarded a Silver Medal by the Royal Society in 1996. She has been a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi since 1997.

#16045

József Rácz

#158861

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

József Rácz is a Hungarian physician, psychiatrist, addiction doctor, full professor and the former Head of the Department of Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology at the Eötvös Loránd University and the Head of the Department of Addictology, Faculty of Health Sciences at the Semmelweis University, director at Blue Point Drug Counseling and Outpatient Centre. His books, papers and talks focus on qualitative social psychological research of the drug users.

#16046

Catherine Hayes Bailey

#125576

Overall Influence

1921 - 2014 (93 years)

Catherine Hayes Bailey was an American plant geneticist known for developing new varieties of fruit. She was honored by the National Peach Council for her contributions to the US peach industry. Early life and education Bailey was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey; her father was superintendent for the Rutgers Vegetable Farm. She received her bachelor's degree from Douglass College in 1942. She worked with Rutgers horticulturist Maurice Blake, and ran his stone-fruit growing program until 1948. Encouraged by Blake she entered the Ph. D. program at Rutgers University, and graduated in 1957 with a dissertation on aspects of growing peach cultivars.

#16047

Andreas N. Angelakis

#184154

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Andreas N. Angelakis is a Greek Civil Engineer of Water Resources and Agronomist . His wife is Kalliopi A. Roubelakis-Angelakis, Emeritus Professor of Biology, University of Crete. Studies He completed his undergraduate studies and holds a degree in agricultural sciences from the Agricultural University of Athens and a Bachelor of Sciences in civil engineering from the University of California, Davis, USA . He also completed postgraduate studies at the University of California, Riverside, USA, holding an M.S. in Soil Science and at the University of California, Davis, USA, from where he received an M.S.

#16048

Catherine Sole

#86280

Overall Influence

Catherine Lynne Sole is a South African entomologist. She leads the Invertebrate Biosystematics and Conservation Group in the department of zoology and entomology at the University of Pretoria. Sole completed her PhD in entomology in 2005, followed by post docs in Prof Scholtze’s group and she was appointed in 2013 as a senior lecturer in the department, promoted to associate professor in 2016 and to full professor in 2023. Sole has contributed significantly to the understanding of scarabaeoid and nemopterid systematics at both a local and international level. Sole is one of the African coo...

#16049

Joel Birman

#136478

Overall Influence

Joel Birman is a Brazilian psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He was born in Vitória, State of Espírito Santo of Romanian Jewish immigrant parents. He graduated in Medicine in the 1970s and pursued his post graduate studies in São Paulo and Paris. Birman is one of the most prolific Brazilian authors in the field of psychoanalysis and has written several books in Brazil and France. He is currently professor of Psychology in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and of Social Medicine in the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro .

#16050

Bill Harris

#177941

Overall Influence

1944 - 2014 (70 years)

Professor Bill Harris was a genetic scientist who specialised in antibody research. An author of about 70 scientific research papers, author, editor, and contributor to many books, and 15 patent applications, Bill was most notable for his work translating science from the lab in to industry. His recent academic research centred on engineering of antibodies for application in health care, management of environmental pollution, and the derivation and use of novel combinatorial libraries. In early 2015, Bill was celebrated as a pioneering bio-entrepreneur by the University of Aberdeen during a...

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