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List of the most influential people in Biology,

#16151

Bing Yan

#191103

Overall Influence

#16152

Pat Cragg

#125649

Overall Influence

Patricia Ann Cragg is a New Zealand physiologist and full professor and former academic administrator at the University of Otago. Academic career Cragg graduated from the University of Bristol with a BSc and PhD titled "Respiration and body weight in the reptilian genus Lacerta: A physiological, anatomical and morphometric study".

#16153

John Callender

#113104

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

John Callender is a Scottish psychiatrist and philosopher born in 1954. Callender graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1977. He is a consultant psychiatrist at the Royal Cornhill Hospital in Aberdeen, the associate director of Grampian Medical Health Services and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. He was one of the four entry-points for transgender healthcare in Scotland, serving the Grampian, Orkney and Shetland areas, but has now retired.

#16154

Paul Kettl

#93612

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Paul Kettl is an American geriatric psychiatrist. He worked as the former chair of psychiatry at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. His work has contributed to media violence research.

#16155

Alexander Goldfarb

Alexander Goldfarb

#174597

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Alexander Davidovich Goldfarb is a Russian-American microbiologist, activist, and author. He emigrated from the USSR in 1975 and studied in Israel and Germany before settling permanently in New York in 1982. Goldfarb is a naturalized American citizen. He has combined a scientific career as a microbiologist with political and public activities focused on civil liberties and human rights in Russia, in the course of which he has been associated with Andrei Sakharov, George Soros, Boris Berezovsky, and Alexander Litvinenko. He has not visited Russia since 2000.

#16156

Paul Hubertus Hiepko

#191131

Overall Influence

1932 - 2019 (87 years)

Paul Hubertus Hiepko - was a German botanist and journals editor. Works Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie [Vol. 104 – vol. 125 ].Hiepko P. 1984. Opiliaceae. In: van Steenis CGGJ ed. Flora Malesiana. London: Martinus Nijhoff Garden. 31–52.Hiepko P. 1987. A revision of Opiliaceae, IV. Rhopalopilia Pierre and Pentarhopalopilia Hiepko gen. nov. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 108: 280–288.Hiepko P. 2008. Opiliaceae. In: Anderson CE, Marhold K eds. Species Plantarum: Flora of the World. Geneve: Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Geneve.

#16157

Richard Sykes

#177563

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Sir Richard Brook Sykes is a British microbiologist, the chair of the Royal Institution, the UK Stem Cell Foundation, and the trustees at King Edward VII's Hospital, and chancellor of Brunel University. As of June 2021, he is chair of the UK's Vaccine Taskforce, where he is responsible for overseeing the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccination programme, including preparations for booster programmes and encouraging vaccine innovation in the UK.

#16158

Yehuda Nir

#84854

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

Yehuda Nir was a Polish-born American Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and author of The Lost Childhood. Nir posed as a Roman Catholic and learned Latin to escape Nazi persecution in Poland during World War II. Nir's ordeal led him to a career as a psychiatrist, specializing in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and severely ill children. He immigrated to the United States in 1959 to complete medical residencies in New York City and Philadelphia. He served as the chief of child psychiatry of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 1979 until 1986.

#16159

Karen Bryan

#90026

Overall Influence

Karen Bryan OBE FRCSLT, is a speech therapist, and Vice Chancellor of York St John University since April 2020. Prior to this, Bryan was Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Greenwich. Career Bryan qualified as a speech and language therapist from the University of Newcastle and also gained her PhD there. Her research interests are in workforce development and the effectiveness of interventions for communication disorders associated with stroke, dementia and other neurological conditions.

#16160

Hans Silfverberg

#191182

Overall Influence

Hans Silfverberg is a Finnish entomologist. The beetle species Apion silfverbergi, Hyperaspis silfverbergi, and Sasajiscymnus silfverbergi are named in his honour. He has described the following taxon:Anatela Silfverberg, 1982Among his scientific contributions is a list of the Coleoptera present in the Baltic and Nordic countries, which he published in 1992.

#16161

Purity Ngina

#84730

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (36 years)

Purity Ngina is a Kenyan Academician and the Research and Assessment Manager at Zizi Afrique Foundation. Prior to joining Zizi Afrique Foundation Purity was a lecturer at Strathmore University in Nairobi. At age 28, she became Kenyan youngest Doctor of Philosophy graduate in Biomathematics from the same University

#16162

Henry Dissing

#110106

Overall Influence

1931 - 2009 (78 years)

Henry Dissing was a Danish mycologist and specialist in cup fungi. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen. Selected scientific works Dissing, Henry & Morten Lange Gasteromycetes of Congo. Bulletin du Jardin botanique de l'État à Bruxelles 32 : 325–416.Dissing, Henry The genus Helvella in Europe: with special emphasis on the species found in Norden. Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 25 : 1–172.Dissing, Henry Four new species of Discomycetes from West Greenland. Mycologia 73 : 263–273.Dissing, Henry Mycological studies dedicated to Morten Lange. Opera Botanica 100. 274 s.Dissing, Henry & Sigmund Sivertsen Lathraeodiscus arcticus gen.

#16163

Malcolm von Schantz

#191190

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Malcolm von Schantz FLS is a professor of chronobiology at the University of Surrey. His research relates to circadian rhythms and sleep in human beings and its molecular determinants. He is a Special Visiting Scientist at the University of São Paulo School of Medicine and a fellow of the Linnean Society. He is part of the international team that determined that urbanisation and electricity are not to blame for sleep loss.

#16164

Christian Miguel Pinto

#189904

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Christian Miguel Pinto Baez , often stated as C. Miguel Pinto or Miguel Pinto, is an Ecuadorian zoologist noted for his research work on rodents, small carnivora, and bats from the Neotropics and their parasites. He worked as a research scientist at the Department of Mammalogy of the American Museum of Natural History until he was banned from the Smithsonian because of sexual harassment findings, and , held a research position at the National Polytechnic School in Quito, Ecuador.

#16165

Porter W. Anderson Jr.

#189704

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Porter Warren Anderson Jr. is an American microbiologist best known for developing a vaccine that protects children from infections by Haemophilus influenzae type b , a leading cause of bacterial meningitis and epiglottitis. The techniques he and his colleague Ronald Eby invented were later utilized to develop a vaccine against Streptococcus pneumoniae. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

#16166

Clara Sousa-Silva

#78132

Overall Influence

Clara Sousa-Silva is a research scientist at Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. Sousa-Silva is an expert on phosphine. She has contributed to investigations of the possibility of life on Venus, working with Jane Greaves and others. Sousa-Silva also directs the Harvard-MIT Student Research Mentoring Program, which pairs high school students with astronomers to conduct research.

#16167

Michael Linden

#54082

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Michael Linden is a German psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy in the Charité University Hospital in Berlin. He was the first publishing on Post-traumatic embitterment disorders. Furthermore, he is editor of the journals Primary Care Psychiatry, Rehabilitation, Pharmacopsychiatry and the Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy. In 1997 he was the recipient of the Research Award in Psychogeriatrics of the International Psychogeriatric Association.

#16168

Susanne Kappeler

#72083

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Susanne Kappeler was a lecturer in English at the University of East Anglia and an associate professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al Akhawayn University, and now works as a freelance writer and teacher in England and Germany. Kappeler also taught 'The literary representation of women' in the Faculty of English at Cambridge while a research fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge and was a part-time tutor for the Open University Course, 'The Changing Experience of Women', and is part of a collective setting up the Cambridge Women's Resources Centre.

#16169

David Lodge

#190152

Overall Influence

David Lodge is a research fellow in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Bristol. Education Lodge was awarded a Bachelor of Veterinary Science degree in 1963 and worked in University of Bristol as a surgeon and anaesthetist, before doing postgraduate research with Tim J. Biscoe on the neuropharmacology of amino acids, he was awarded his PhD in 1974.

#16170

Walter Söhne

#171967

Overall Influence

1913 - 2011 (98 years)

Walter Söhne was a pioneer in research on soil mechanics and on improving the design of agricultural vehicles , and was a very successful teacher as a professor from 1965 to 1982 at the Technical University of Munich. He wrote many articles in German on related topics, and his Über die Historie der Bodenbearbeitungs- und Erntetechnik surveys the history of techniques of agricultural cultivation and harvesting. In the 1970s he served as president of the International Society for Terrain Vehicle Systems.

#16171

Elin Lerum Boasson

#169413

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Elin Lerum Boasson is a Norwegian environmentalist and was chairman of Natur og Ungdom in 2001 and 2002. She became active in the organisation in 1991, and joined the board in 1997 before she was elected deputy chairman in 1999. She has a Master of Political Science degree from the University of Oslo and has since 2005 worked at Nansen Institute as a researcher .

#16172

Patricia Weerakoon

#162470

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Dr Patricia Kamalini Weerakoon is an Australian Christian sexologist. Dr Weerakoon was born in a Tamil Christian family in Sri Lanka, and grew up on a tea plantation. She is married to Vasantha and they have a son, Kamal, who is a Presbyterian minister. She studied medicine at the University of Colombo, and after her marriage, she moved with her family to Hawaii, where she undertook postgraduate studies at the University of Hawaii. She later obtained a further degree from the University of New South Wales.

#16173

Indira Sharma

#70581

Overall Influence

Indira Sharma is an Indian psychiatrist specialising in child psychiatry and women's mental health. She is a professor and head of the psychiatry department at Banaras Hindu University. In January 2013, she was elected president of the Indian Psychiatric Society.

#16174

Cătălin Tănase

#191332

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Cătălin Tănase is a Romanian biologist , professor at the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iaşi. He is also director of the "Anastasie Fătu" Botanical Garden of Iaşi. He was elected a correspondent member of the Romanian Academy in 2018.

#16175

Galen McKinley

#186841

Overall Influence

Galen Anile McKinley is a professor at Columbia University and the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory known for her work in the carbon cycle, particularly in the use of models to study the interface between the ocean and the atmosphere.

#16176

Christian Heim

#171482

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Christian Heim is an Australian psychiatrist, composer and public lecturer. Early life and education Heim was born in Sydney. He studied under Peter Sculthorpe and finished a PhD in music under Anne Boyd at the University of Sydney. Further conducting and composition studies took him to Vienna, Paris and New York. Many of his works – mainly for orchestra, percussion and vocal ensembles – are of a spiritual or meditative nature and include Prayer Dances, Journey, and Transformation.

#16177

Jaan Viidalepp

#191366

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

#16178

Julian Schroeder

#190093

Overall Influence

Julian I. Schroeder is an American biologist. He is a Distinguished Professor and Novartis Chair at the University of California, San Diego. Schroeder's research involves identifying the basic molecular mechanisms by which plants respond to and mount resistance to environmental stresses, with a focus on drought, salinity, and the rising atmospheric concentration.

#16179

En Li

#191382

Overall Influence

#16180

Gil Nelson

#172831

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Gil Nelson is a botanist, naturalist, author and speaker in the Southeastern United States. Bibliography The Trees of Florida 2010 – 480 pagesBest Native Plants for Southern Gardens: A Handbook for Gardeners 2010 – 352 pagesNational Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Trees of North America with Bruce Kershner and Craig Tufts 2008 – 528 pagesAtlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers: A Guide to Common Wildflowers 2006 – 272 pagesEast Gulf Coastal Plain Wildflowers: A Field Guide... 2005 - 263 pages Florida's best native landscape plants 2003 – 411 pagesThe ferns of Florida: a reference and field gu...

#16181

Jean Garrabé

#174307

Overall Influence

1931 - 2020 (89 years)

Jean Garrabé was a French psychiatrist. Biography Born to a Spanish mother, Garrabé went to secondary school at the Lycée Français de Madrid. He then studied medicine in Paris. He first worked for the Institut Marcel Rivière.

#16182

Anthony Feinstein

#148469

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Anthony Feinstein is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a neuropsychiatrist. His research and clinical work focuses on people with multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury and Conversion Disorder. He has undertaken a number of studies investigating how front-line journalists are affected by their work covering war and man-made and natural disasters.

#16183

Jeffery Errington

#189416

Overall Influence

Jeff Errington FRS, FMedSci is a British microbiologist, and Director of the Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology , at Newcastle University. Life He was Professor of Microbiology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. He is a fellow of the Royal Society.

#16184

Giorgos Catsadorakis

#173622

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Giorgos Catsadorakis is a Greek biologist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001, for his contributions to the protection of the wetlands of Préspa, jointly with fellow biologist Myrsini Malakou. Their efforts resulted in an agreement between Greece, the Republic of Macedonia and Albania on establishing the Préspa Park as a protected area of the region.

#16185

Robert E. Gould

#162606

Overall Influence

1924 - 1998 (74 years)

Robert Emery Gould was clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College, and chief of adolescent services at Bellevue Hospital. Gould was known as outspoken advocate on social issues, including psychiatric treatment of homeless people, violence on television , homosexuality and AIDS. Gould successfully advocated removing homosexuality from the list of pathologies in the American Psychiatric Association treatment manual, but an article he wrote in Cosmopolitan in January 1988 claiming that women faced little risk of HIV infection through vaginal intercourse courted controversy. The...

#16186

Kalyar Platt

#190526

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Kalyar Platt is a Burmese herpetologist and turtle conservationist. She is the director of the Myanmar Program of the Turtle Survival Alliance and oversees conservation, breeding and reintroduction projects for some of Southeast Asia's rarest turtle species. She formerly worked for Wildlife Conservation Society and earned her PhD from Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University in 2007.

#16187

Zdzisław Jan Ryn

#178544

Overall Influence

1938 - 2022 (84 years)

Zdzisław Jan Ryn was a Polish diplomat. He served as Polish ambassador to Chile from 1991 to 1997 and Ambassador to Argentina from 2007 to 2008. Jan Ryn died in Kraków on 6 February 2022, at the age of 83.

#16188

Rachel Waema Mbogo

#191511

Overall Influence

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Lucía Spangenberg

#191527

Overall Influence

Lucía Spangenberg is a bioinformatician researcher in Uruguay at the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo and co-founder of the biotech startup GenLives. In 2016, she was named one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review. She also teaches at the Catholic University of Uruguay.

#16190

Karlheinz Senghas

#189324

Overall Influence

1928 - 2004 (76 years)

Karlheinz Senghas was a German botanist and orchidologist. He was a curator, scientific director, and academic director of the University of Heidelberg's Botanical Garden from 1960 until his retirement in 1993. He was also president of the Deutsche Orchideen-Gesellschaft in the 1970s and was the co-publisher and editor of several volumes of Die Orchideen, a continuation of the publication begun by Rudolf Schlechter.

#16191

Bill Stanley

#191364

Overall Influence

1957 - 2015 (58 years)

William T. Stanley was an American mammalogist who was a manager of the collections at one of the world's largest natural history museums and a student of the mammals of eastern Africa. He was an evolutionary biologist and mammalogist, and at the time of his death was the director of the Field Museum of Natural History's Collections Center and the Collection Manager of the Field Museum's Collection of Mammals. Stanley studied the biogeography, ecology, evolution, and systematics of shrews, bats and rodents that live on mountains within Tanzania and surrounding countries.

#16192

Chris Smith

#99327

Overall Influence

Chris Smith is an associate professor of biology at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, United States. In 2013 he received a grant for his work studying the relationship between yucca moths and yucca trees.

#16193

Floyd W. Shockley

#191607

Overall Influence

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Arne Løvlie

#181119

Overall Influence

1931 - 2014 (83 years)

Arne Mathias Løvlie was a Norwegian zoologist. He was born in Raufoss. He took the cand.real. degree at the University of Oslo in 1958 and the dr.philos. degree in 1964 with the thesis Genetic control of division rate and morphogenesis in Ulva mutabilis. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo in 1970. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

#16195

Shekinah Elmore

#191616

Overall Influence

Shekinah Elmore is an assistant professor in the department of radiation oncology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. As both a cancer doctor and a self-described "cancer person", she is known for her work in cancer patient advocacy among her fellow physicians and for her public speaking and writing. She has written and spoken publicly about surviving childhood rhabdomyosarcoma in the New England Journal of Medicine.

#16196

Mônica de Toledo-Piza

#191634

Overall Influence

#16197

Friedemann Pfäfflin

#143321

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Friedemann Pfäfflin is Professor of Psychotherapy and head of the Forensic Psychotherapy Unit at the University of Ulm. He was a trained as a psychiatrist at the University of Hamburg. He visited the Gender identity clinic at Johns Hopkins University in the 1970s and has worked in this field since then. He worked at from 1978 to 1992 at the Institute for Sex Research and Forensic Psychiatry at Hamburg University. He received his Privatdozent in Psychiatry in 1993. He then moved onto to work at Ulm again working in Gender Identity. His range of research interests include Gender dysphoria, research into psychotherapy, Forensic psychiatry, and History of psychiatry.

#16198

Bernard Glueck Jr.

#116672

Overall Influence

1914 - 1999 (85 years)

Bernard Charles Glueck Jr. was an American psychiatrist. He served as director of research at The Institute of Living, now part of Hartford Hospital. He is known for his work on transcendental meditation as part of preventive psychiatry.

#16199

Gerald Penn

#191450

Overall Influence

Gerald Penn is a clinical immunologist, and a pioneer in the field of clinical immunoelectrophoresis. He was a student of Henry Kunkel at Rockefeller University from 1968 to 1970, and holds both an M.D. and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. His research also includes one of the earliest studies on the negative effects of naturally occurring stressors on the response of the human immune system. He is a clinical associate professor of pathology at the Ohio State University.

#16200

Jacques Postel

#171499

Overall Influence

1927 - 2022 (95 years)

Jacques Postel was a French academic and psychiatrist. He was editor of the magazine from 1984 to 1991. Biography Postel was born on 1 January 1927. He earned a doctorate from the in 1955. After his degree, he began working as a neuropsychiatrist at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center in Paris. He also worked as a professor of clinical psychopathology at Paris Diderot University. In 1983, he published Nouvelle Histoire de la psychiatrie alongside Claude Quétel.

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