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List of the most influential people in Biology,

#16201

Jayashri Kulkarni

#87359

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Jayashri Kulkarni is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Alfred Health and Monash University who works in the area of women's mental health. She has written about Premenstrual syndrome. She has used hormones to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression in women. She founded and heads the Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, a clinical psychiatry research centre which currently has more than 160 staff and students.

#16202

Chen Wenxin

#144885

Overall Influence

1926 - 2021 (95 years)

Chen Wenxin was a Chinese biologist specializing in soil microorganisms and bacterial taxonomy, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Some English-language sources cite her as "Wen Xin Chen" or as "Wen-Xin Chen".

#16203

David Viscott

#76976

Overall Influence

1938 - 1996 (58 years)

David Steven Viscott was an American psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality. He was a graduate of Dartmouth , Tufts Medical School and taught at University Hospital in Boston. He started a private practice in psychiatry in 1968 and later moved to Los Angeles in 1979 where he was a professor of psychiatry at UCLA. He founded and managed the Viscott Center for Natural Therapy in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach and Pasadena, California.

#16204

Liu Yan

#188183

Overall Influence

Liu Yan is a Chinese Antarctic researcher best known for her work on iceberg calving. She is an associate professor of geography in the College of Global Change and Earth System Science and Polar Research Institute, Beijing Normal University.

#16205

Mohan Agashe

#43068

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Dr. Mohan Agashe is an Indian psychiatrist and actor. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1996 in theatre. Early life Agashe was born in Bhor, Maharashtra. He studied in B. J. Medical College, Pune for his MBBS and MD degree in Psychiatry. He later became a professor, before becoming an actor.

#16206

Barry Paw

#161424

Overall Influence

1962 - 2017 (55 years)

Barry Paw was a Burmese American biologist. He was notable for his role in discovering a new gene in humans that contributes to the production of hemoglobin. Paw worked in the United States as a researcher at Harvard Medical School and had undertaken research into how the gene mitoferrin transports iron to red blood cells to form hemoglobin. Hemoglobin carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body, including the muscles.

#16207

Nada Inada

#114144

Overall Influence

1929 - 2013 (84 years)

Nada Inada was the pen-name of a Japanese psychiatrist, writer and literary critic active in late Shōwa period and early Heisei period Japan. His pen name is from the Spanish language phrase "nada y nada".

#16208

Li Zuixiong

#104403

Overall Influence

1941 - 2019 (78 years)

Li Zuixiong was a Chinese conservation scientist. An expert in the conservation of ancient murals, cave temples, and architecture, he served as vice president of the Dunhuang Research Academy and as an adjunct professor at Lanzhou University.

#16209

Helm Stierlin

#28708

Overall Influence

1926 - 2021 (95 years)

Helm Stierlin , born as Wilhelm Paul Stierlin, was a German psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and systemic family therapist. From 1974 to 1991 he was the medical director and chairowner of the Department for psychoanalytic basic research and Family Therapy at the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg. Stierlin contributed significantly to the establishment and further development of systemic therapy in Germany.

#16210

Yves Aubry

#129362

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Yves Aubry is a Canadian ornithologist. He graduated from Université Laval. He is co-editor of the ornithology reference, "L'Atlas des oiseaux nicheurs du Québec méridional", published in 1995. He is a member of Centre d'Étude de la Forêt.

#16211

Villu Soon

#191816

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

#16212

Patrick Meenan

#163780

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Patrick Meenan was the president of the Medical Council of Ireland and dean of the faculty of medicine in University College Dublin . In his research work, he was involved with Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk in the development of the polio vaccine. He was educated in the Catholic University School, Clongowes Wood, and UCD, where he became auditor of the Literary and Historical Society. He died in June 2008

#16213

Sarah Pitt

#191860

Overall Influence

Sarah Jane Pitt is a microbiologist at the University of Brighton and fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science . She has published three books on biomedical science, parasitology, and clinical microbiology with an emphasis on laboratory practice. She is the IBMS's chief examiner in virology.

#16214

Danilo N. Tandang

#191861

Overall Influence

Danilo Tandang is a Filipino botanist , working in the National Museum of the Philippines, Philippines Danilo Tandang is a main contributor for Co's Digital Flora of the Philippines, by Leonard Co. He does research on the Philippine flowering plants.

#16215

Julia Stewart Lowndes

#187544

Overall Influence

Julia Stewart Lowndes is a marine ecologist and advocate for the open science movement and kinder, better science. The focus of her work is promoting openness to data in the scientific community, and helping fellow researchers learn how to work with open data and the processes surrounding it. She seeks to use this method to promote scientific communities and research.

#16216

Patrice Harris

#51235

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Patrice Harris is an American psychiatrist and the first African-American woman to be elected president of the American Medical Association. She was elected the 174th president in June 2019. Harris is a native of West Virginia and received her Doctor of Medicine degree at West Virginia University. Her practice in psychiatry and public health has been in Atlanta, Georgia.

#16217

Michaela Musilová

#131110

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Michaela Musilová is a Slovak astrobiologist. She is currently the HI-SEAS director. She has commanded over 30 simulated missions to the Moon and Mars. Biography Musilová was born on 11 October 1988 in Bratislava. Her father is a diplomat and her mother is an archeologist.

#16218

Jessie Oliver

#191882

Overall Influence

#16219

Nicolaas Duneas

#191662

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Nicolaas Duneas is a South African biochemist and developer of osteogenic biomaterials. He is the co-founder and CEO of Altis Biologics. The company developed the first injectable treatment for bone injuries that require grafting by using a pig-based growth material.

#16220

Klaus Klein

#191891

Overall Influence

Klaus Klein, Dr.rer.nat. is Professor of Biology and of Health Education and Director of the Health Education Research Unit at the University of Cologne in Cologne, Germany. He was the first faculty member at any European university to hold the title of professor of health education.

#16221

Mony Elkaïm

#186936

Overall Influence

1941 - 2020 (79 years)

Mony Elkaïm was a Moroccan-Belgian psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He was a part of the anti-psychiatry movement in the 1970s. Publications Réseau Alternative à la psychiatrie Formations et pratiques en thérapie familiale Les pratiques de réseaux : santé mentale et contexte social Si tu m’aimes, ne m’aime pas. Approche systémique et psychothérapie La thérapie familiale en changement Panorama des thérapies familialesÀ quel psy se vouer ? Psychanalyses, psychothérapies : les principales approches Comment survivre à sa propre famille ? Comprendre et traiter la souffrance psychique Entre résilience et résonance.

#16222

Koen Fraussen

#191922

Overall Influence

Koen Fraussen is a Belgian amateur malacologist, shell collector, and expert in the Buccinoidea. Biography Fraussen was born in Brussels. His interest in the ocean started during family holidays on the Adriatic Sea. He began collecting shells at the age of 2.

#16223

Thor Kvinge

#191908

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Thor Kvinge is a Norwegian oceanographer, polar explorer, scientist, and researcher of Antarctica. Kvinge Peninsula bears his name. He was an assistant professor at the University of Bergen until 1978 and Senior Scientist at Christian Michelsen Research until 1996.

#16224

Élodie Chabrol

#191958

Overall Influence

#16225

Linda Long

#120909

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Linda Long is a biochemist and musician, who has combined these two fields to create what she terms molecular music. Life Long worked as a biochemist and a Research Fellow in Complementary Medicine at Exeter University, specialising in the fields of homeopathy, herbal medicine and music therapy. Her work has been published in various medical journals, and she is an associate editor of the Journal Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies, published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. She has been working on molecular music since the 1990s.

#16226

Richard A. Gardner

#163637

Overall Influence

1931 - 2003 (72 years)

Richard Alan Gardner was an American child psychiatrist known for his work in psychotherapy with children, parental alienation and child custody evaluations. Based on his clinical work with children and families, Gardner introduced the term parental alienation syndrome , which is now "largely rejected by most credible professionals". He wrote 41 books and more than 200 journal articles and book chapters. He developed child play therapy and test materials that he published through his company Creative Therapeutics. Gardner was an expert witness in child custody cases.

#16227

Andras Nagy

#127740

Overall Influence

Andras Nagy is a research scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. He heads a team of 50 researchers on Project Grandiose, who study the process of creating stem cells. Nagy holds a Canadian Research Chair in stem cells and regeneration.

#16228

Mark Yeager

#192009

Overall Influence

Mark Yeager is an American biologist, focusing in cardiac gap junction membrane channels, integrin water channels, rotavirus, reovirus and retrovirus. Yeager is a professor at University of Virginia and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#16229

Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse

#109698

Overall Influence

1923 - 1999 (76 years)

Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse , also known by her married name Ruth Beuscher, was an American psychiatrist, theologian, and Episcopal priest. Best known for being the psychiatrist of Sylvia Plath, she corresponded with her since they met at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts following Plath's breakdown in 1953. Though Plath destroyed most of their letters, fourteen from Plath to Barnhouse remain .

#16230

Sue Sisley

#64732

Overall Influence

Suzanne A. Sisley is a psychiatrist and former clinical assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She was terminated from her position for her political activity, and her unethical involvement with a recall campaign against Arizona Senator Kimberly Yee in 2014. She is interested in research into potential medical uses of marijuana for profit through securing an FDA patent on its use, along with other natural remedies.

#16231

Quentin Van Meter

#89430

Overall Influence

Quentin Van Meter is a pediatric endocrinologist and president of the American College of Pediatricians, a socially conservative advocacy group which is known for opposing gay marriage, gender reassignment surgery, and abortion. He has advocated and referred his clients to conversion therapy and is known for rejecting the medical consensus on the efficacy and safety of transgender health care.

#16232

Lynika Strozier

Lynika Strozier

#186346

Overall Influence

1984 - 2020 (36 years)

Lynika Strozier was an American researcher and scientist who died from COVID-19 in June 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois. Early life Strozier was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but moved to Chicago, with her mother, when she was a toddler. Strozier's mother was a drug addict, who was not able to care for her properly, and her grandmother raised her from age 6. She was diagnosed with a learning disability at age 8 that profoundly affected both reading and math. According to The Chicago Tribune "when she read aloud, it was in such a halting manner that it sometimes sounded like she ...

#16233

Rebecca Lynn Stubbs

#192071

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

#16234

Jean-Paul Vincent

#191556

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Jean-Paul Vincent is a developmental biologist working at the Francis Crick Institute. Research Vincent has conducted work on the Wnt signalling pathways that help to regulate cell-to-cell interactionss.

#16235

Eleni Antoniadou

Eleni Antoniadou

#181100

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Eleni Antoniadou is a Greek public figure and scientist. Background Early life and education Eleni Antoniadou was born in 1988 in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Central Greece and received a master's degree in Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine from University College London.

#16236

Rosalina Berazaín Iturralde

#192093

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Rosalina Berazaín Iturralde is a Cuban botanist, plant collector, plant taxonomist, and professor at the University of Havana. She is one of the founders of the National Botanic Garden of Cuba, and a member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. The species Coccoloba berazainae and Coccoloba berazainiae were named in her honor.

#16237

Maria Orwid

#73557

Overall Influence

1930 - 2009 (79 years)

Maria Orwid was a Polish psychiatrist and pioneer of Child and Family psychiatry and of Family therapy in Poland. She was a professor of the Jagiellonian University. As a survivor of the Holocaust, she contributed to the literature.

#16238

Rebecca Dorman

#192128

Overall Influence

#16239

Carys Ann Roberts.

#192134

Overall Influence

#16240

Lino Businco

#117673

Overall Influence

1908 - 1997 (89 years)

Lino Businco was an Italian writer. His work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

#16241

Giuliana Furci

#188846

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Giuliana Furci OSI is a field mycologist, speaker, author, and founder and CEO of the Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University associate, National Geographic Explorer, Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy, deputy chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee, and author of several titles including a series of field guides to Chilean fungi and co-author of titles such as the 1st State of the World's Fungi and the publication delimiting the term “funga” and the 3F Proposal - Fauna, Flora & Funga. Giuliana has held consulting positions in U.S. philanthropic foundations as well as full-time positions in international and Chilean marine conservation non-profits.

#16242

Kathy Feng-Yi Su

#192148

Overall Influence

Kathy Feng-Yi Su is an entomologist and evolutionary biologist from Singapore. She is an academic researcher, whose work focusses on sexual dimorphism particularly in the family Sepsidae. Research Su is an expert in sexual dimorphism across species and her research in Diptera has shown how it is affected by ecological and molecular mechanisms. As an entomologist she is a leading expert in Sepsidae taxonomy. She is also interested in phylogeny, including the theoretical aspects of sequence data analysis.

#16243

Hiroshi Inoue

#176567

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Hiroshi Inoue was a Japanese lepidopterist. He studied a wide range of moths, in particular the families Zygaenidae, Geometridae, and Pyralidae. During his career Inoue authored 1042 taxa. Further reading

#16244

Richard C. Harrington

#177443

Overall Influence

1956 - 2004 (48 years)

Richard Charles Harrington was professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Manchester, England. His work on psychiatric disorders of children and adolescents, especially on children with depressive illness, is a milestone in this medical field.

#16245

Michael Scott VanNieuwenhze

#186889

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Michael Scott VanNieuwenhze is an American biochemist and Standiford H. Cox Professor at Indiana University at Bloomington. He leads a research group working on organic synthesis for problems regarding biological and medical interest.

#16246

Mahfuz Ullah

#170373

Overall Influence

1950 - 2019 (69 years)

Mahfuz Ullah was a Bangladeshi writer, journalist, television personality and environmentalist. He was notable for environmental journalism in Bangladesh. He was the founder Secretary General of the Center for Sustainable Development.

#16247

Jennie van Ackeren Dieterle

#192236

Overall Influence

1909 - 1999 (90 years)

Jennie van Ackeren Dieterle was an American botanist, plant collector, curator, university teacher and taxonomist. She collected more than 3,700 plant specimens and identified over 570 of them, the majority from the Cucurbitaceae family. Most of the plants collected came from Mexico and the United States. She identified and named nine previously undescribed species of Cucurbitaceae. She has been recognised for her expertise in this family of plants and had an entire genus of Cucurbitaceae from Mexico named after her, known as Dieterlea.

#16248

Céline Bon

#192243

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

#16249

Marc Wold

#192280

Overall Influence

Marc S. Wold is an American biochemist currently at University of Iowa and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research interests are eukaryotic cells and DNA and his high citations for this field is 1254, 547 and 471.

#16250

Peter F. C. Gilbert

#192264

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Peter Francis Cecil Gilbert is an English neuroscientist and biophysicist. He is known for his pioneering work on motor learning in the cerebellum. Early life and education Gilbert was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne. He went on to attend Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge on a college scholarship, graduating in 1966 with a degree in natural sciences. Remaining in Cambridge, he pursued a PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, under the supervision of Aaron Klug, researching the structure of tobacco mosaic virus protein.

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