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List of the most influential people in Biology,

#16251

Daniel Johnston

#192294

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Daniel Johnston is an American neuroscientist, having held the Karl Folkers Chair in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research at University of Texas at Austin.

#16252

Aleksander Pototski

#192303

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

#16253

María Amelia Torres

#192322

Overall Influence

1934 - 2011 (77 years)

María Amelia Torres was an Argentine botanist and agrostologist. She was an authority on the Poaceae family of grasses with an emphasis on the Nassella and the Stipa genera. The Amelichloa genus was named in her honour.

#16254

Sheritta A. Strong

#181848

Overall Influence

Sheritta A. Strong is an American adult psychiatrist and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Strong is a leader in education and advocacy at UNMC, and is the co-director of Medical Student Education in the Department of Psychiatry as well as the Interim Director for Inclusion at UNMC. As a psychiatrist, Strong focuses her clinical attention on treating patients with chronic and persistent mental illness. She is also dedicated to reducing barriers to healthcare access for marginalized populations and she mentors underrepresented scientists and physicians to increase their retention in healthcare.

#16255

Robin Rönnlund

#192328

Overall Influence

Robin Rönnlund is the Wenner-Gren fellow at the University of Thessaly for the department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology. Rönnlund is best known for his role as director of the survey at Thessalian Vlochos in Greece. The survey focused on mapping the ruins of the ancient city and determining when the city was established and why it was abandoned.

#16256

Josephine Kane

#184656

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Josephine Kane is a British academic and historian of architecture and the built environment. Publications The architecture of pleasure: British amusement parks 1900-1939 . Ashgate Press.

#16257

Davangere Devanand

#179024

Overall Influence

Davangere P. Devanand is Division Chief of Geriatric Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Neurology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

#16258

John Ascher

#190051

Overall Influence

John S. Ascher is an American entomologist. He specializes in the study of Apoidea and has been described as "one of the world's leading native bee taxonomists." While they get less publicity than the industrious honeybee, bees indigenous to the Americas play a crucial "role in pollinating crops such as tomatoes, cranberries, alfalfa and squash, experts say. They are often more effective than honeybees as pollinators, and more resistant to problems that have decimated honeybees in the U.S. and Europe, several studies show.”

#16259

John Ning-Yuean Lee

#177213

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Professor John Ning-Yuean Lee, KHS is a Taiwanese biologist and former president of Fu Jen Catholic University. At present, he is the chair professor of Beijing Normal University Zhuhai campus. He obtained the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree at National Taiwan University. Afterward, he served as professor at the National Taiwan Sport University, the 1st dean of College of Human Ecology and university president at Fu Jen, dean of College of Living Technology at Tainan University of Technology.

#16260

Maria Luisa Figueira

#90948

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Maria Luisa Figueira is a Portuguese Consultant psychiatrist, psychiatrist and academic known for her research in clinical and experimental psychopathology and psychopharmacology, particularly in relation to bi-polar disorders and schizophrenia. She is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Lisbon Faculty of Medicine and Head of the Psychiatric Department at the Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon.

#16261

George Traut Austin

#192392

Overall Influence

1943 - 2009 (66 years)

#16262

Frederick R. Maxfield

#160367

Overall Influence

Frederick R. Maxfield is a biochemist and Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, Biochemistry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is one of the top highly cited researchers according to webometrics.

#16263

Trond Berg

#190129

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Trond Berg is a Norwegian cell physiologist. He hails from Svensby in Ullsfjord. After attending Troms Landsgymnas and the University of Oslo, he took his PHD at Rutgers University in 1968. He became a professor at the University of Tromsø and the University of Oslo; professor emeritus from 2004. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and won the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Outstanding Research in 2008.

#16264

Odd Stokke Gabrielsen

#192426

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Odd Stokke Gabrielsen is a Norwegian biochemist. He studied at the University of Oslo, taking the cand.mag. degree in 1973 and cand.real. in 1977. He was a research fellow from 1977 to 1983 under Tordis Øyen, became an associate professor in January 1992 and professor in May 1993. He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

#16265

Vladimir Pyankov

#192450

Overall Influence

1954 - 2002 (48 years)

Vladimir Ivanovich Pyankov was a Russian phytophysiologist, professor of the Ural State University. Great contribution in studies of structural and functional methods of the ecological studies of photosynthesis has been made by V. I. Pyankov. He successfully developed the idea of academician Adolf Mokronosov about the unity of structure and function in the evolution of photosynthesis.

#16266

Robert Loftin

#187774

Overall Influence

1938 - 1993 (55 years)

Robert Wayne Loftin was an American environmentalist, ornithologist, and philosopher. He was a professor at the University of North Florida, where he founded the Sawmill Slough Conservation Club and designed the campus's nature trails. The trails on UNF's campus were subsequently renamed the Robert Loftin Nature Trails in his memory on August 31, 1993.

#16267

Karl Hermann Zahn

1865 - 1940 (75 years)

Karl Hermann Zahn was a German botanist who was a leading authority regarding the genus Hieracium . He received his education in Karlsruhe , and beginning in 1891, worked as a high school teacher in Heidelberg. He later taught high school classes in Freiburg im Breisgau and in Donaueschingen. In 1923 he was appointed professor of geometry, chemistry and material technology at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.

#16268

James D. Anderson

1930 - 1976 (46 years)

James Donald Anderson, Jr. was an American herpetologist with the American Museum of Natural History and professor of zoology at Rutgers University who did extensive fieldwork studying Ambystoma and other salamander species in Mexico. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, on August 16, 1930, and grew up in the nearby town of Belleville. He attended the Rutgers University–Newark College of Arts and Sciences and earned a B.A. in zoology in 1954. From 1954 to 1960 he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley, working under Robert C. Stebbins. Anderson returned to Rutgers University–Newark as a faculty member in 1960, and died from injuries sustained in a car accident on November 20, 1976.

#16269

Wilhelm Johannsen

Wilhelm Johannsen

1857 - 1927 (70 years)

Wilhelm Johannsen was a Danish pharmacist, botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist. He is best known for coining the terms gene, phenotype and genotype, and for his 1903 "pure line" experiments in genetics.

#16270

Gustav Wilhelm Müller

Gustav Wilhelm Müller

1857 - 1940 (83 years)

Christian Gustav Wilhelm Müller was a German zoologist specializing in Ostracoda. In 1895 he succeeded Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker as director of the zoological museum at Greifswald, a position he maintained until 1923.

#16271

Paolo Enriques

1878 - 1932 (54 years)

Paolo Enriques was an Italian zoologist of Portuguese-Jewish descent. He was the brother of mathematician Federigo Enriques and the brother-in-law of another mathematician Guido Castelnuovo who married their sister Elbina. He married Maria Clotilde Agnoletti Fusconi and was the father of Anna Maria Enriques Agnoletti and Enzo Enriques Agnoletti. Enriques taught Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Sassari , then in 1922 he became Professor of Zoology in the University of Padua University, and Director of the Institute of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. He was primarily interested in comparative cytology, physiology and genetics.

#16272

Carl Owen Dunbar

1891 - 1979 (88 years)

Carl Owen Dunbar was an American paleontologist who specialized in invertebrate fossils. He was a Professor of Geology at Yale University from 1920 until 1959. He was also Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University from 1942 until 1959. As editor of a textbook series on historical geology from the 1920s through the 1950s, his work was published and sold in over 1 million books.

#16273

Konstanty Janicki

1876 - 1932 (56 years)

Konstanty Stanisław Janicki was a Polish zoologist who specialized in parasitology. An influential teacher and professor at the University of Warsaw, he is considered as the founder of parasitology research in Poland.

#16274

Nils Holmgren

1877 - 1954 (77 years)

Nils Frithiof Holmgren was a Swedish zoologist and comparative anatomist. He was professor of zoology at Stockholm University from 1921 to 1944. In 1906 Holmgren defended his doctoral dissertation at Stockholm University. In 1912 he became a teacher there, and in 1919 assistant professor of zoology, and in 1921 full professor. His early work focussed on the biology, systematics and anatomy of insects, especially termites, as in and . In later work he focused on the structure of the brain in worms, arthropods and vertebrates, publishing , , , Points of view concerning forebrain morphol...

#16275

Friedrich Zschokke

1860 - 1936 (76 years)

Friedrich Zschokke was a Swiss zoologist and parasitologist. He was the grandson of writer Heinrich Zschokke. He studied zoology in Lausanne and Geneva, earning his doctorate at the latter institution in 1884. In 1889 he became an associate professor, and from 1893 to 1931 was a full professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Basel. In 1900 he was named university rector.

#16276

Marianne Plehn

1863 - 1946 (83 years)

Marianne Plehn was a German zoologist. She was the first woman to be awarded a doctorate at the ETH Zurich and the first woman to be appointed as professor in Bavaria in 1914. Plehn is commemorated in the names of three polyclads and 12 disease agents of fishes. The breadth of her research on diseases of fishes defined the scientific study in this area. She published 114 scientific papers on the subject. She worked with Bruno Hofer and has been honoured as one of the founders of fish pathology.

#16277

Marin Molliard

1866 - 1944 (78 years)

Marin Molliard was a French botanist. From 1888 he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he successively earned degrees in mathematics , physics and natural sciences . In 1892 he obtained his agrégation, and two years later became chef de travaux to the faculty of sciences at Paris. In 1922 he became a lecturer at the École Normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, and from 1923 to 1936 served as director of the laboratory of plant biology in Avon. In 1937 he received the title of honorary professor.

#16278

Ludwik Sitowski

1880 - 1947 (67 years)

Ludwik Sitowski was a Polish zoologist. In 1925-1926 he was rector of the University of Poznań during an economic crisis. Of his notable works, On the Inheritance of Aniline Dye is amongst them and was published on 3 September 1909.

#16279

Cyril A. Stebbins

Cyril A. Stebbins

1880 - 1953 (73 years)

Cyril Adelbert Stebbins was an American educator involved with nature and agricultural education. His publications in the early twentieth century were influential in promoting gardening in children's education, and he wrote much of the curriculum for the United States School Garden Army, a federal victory garden project during World War I. He wrote several publications with Ernest Brown Babcock and published several field guides to birds with his son Robert C. Stebbins.

#16280

Nikolai Maximov

1880 - 1952 (72 years)

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Maximov was a Russian-Soviet plant physiologist. He examined frost damage and looked at frost resistance and noted that damage was caused mechanically by ice crystals and that resistance involved osmotic control of cell sap. He also found that drought resistance was not achieved by plants merely through reduction of transpiration but by other stress tolerance mechanisms. He has been considered the founder of ecological plant physiology research in the Soviet Union.

#16281

Vladimir Palladin

Vladimir Palladin

1859 - 1922 (63 years)

Vladimir Ivanovich Palladin was a Russian and Soviet biochemist and botanist, a member of Saint Petersburg of Academy of Sciences. After graduating in 1883 from the Moscow State University, in 1886 he defended a PhD and in 1889 a habilitation on the role of oxygen in metabolism in plants. He later became professor of universities in Kharkiv , Warsaw and Saint Petersburg . Palladin is one of the founders of the theory of metabolism in plants and of a school of Russian scientists studying the associated processes. His son Aleksandr Palladin became president of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

#16282

Johan Erik Vesti Boas

Johan Erik Vesti Boas

1855 - 1935 (80 years)

Johan Erik Vesti Boas , also J.E.V. Boas, was a Danish zoologist and a disciple of Carl Gegenbaur and Steenstrup. During the beginning and end of his career, Johan Erik Vesti Boas worked at the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. However, during an intervening period of 35 years, Boas worked with the Veterinary and Agricultural University of Copenhagen, because Boas had felt ignored at the appointment of the museum curator post, which went, instead, to G.M.R. Levinsen .Trizocheles boasi Forest, 1987Paromolopsis boasi

#16283

Freda Detmers

1867 - 1934 (67 years)

Frederica "Freda" Detmers was an American botanist. Life and education Detmers was born in Dixon, Lee County, Illinois, on January 16, 1867, to Henry Detmers and Heimke. Her father was the founder of the Ohio State University Veterinary College. She studied at the University, graduating in 1887 with a B.S. She returned to graduate with an M.S. in 1891.

#16284

Hermann von Ihering

Hermann von Ihering

1850 - 1930 (80 years)

Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering was a German-Brazilian zoologist. He was the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering. Biography Hermann Friedrich Albert von Ihering was born in 1850 in Kiel, Germany, the oldest son of Rudolf von Jhering.

#16285

Johan Hjort

1869 - 1948 (79 years)

Johan Hjort was a Norwegian fisheries scientist, marine zoologist, and oceanographer. He was among the most prominent and influential marine zoologists of his time. The early years Johan Hjort was the first child of Johan S. A. Hjort, a professor of ophthalmology, and Elisabeth Falsen, of the Falsen family. Among his siblings was the engineer Alf Hjort, who became a leader of subwater tunnel constructions in New York City. Johan Hjort had wanted to become a zoologist since his early schooldays, but to please his father he took initial courses in medicine, before following Fridtjof Nansen's advice and his own wish, leaving for the University of Munich to study zoology with Richard Hertwig.

#16286

Detlev Müller

1899 - 1993 (94 years)

Detlev Müller was a Professor of Botany at the University of Copenhagen. He is best known for discovering the enzyme, glucose oxidase, in 1925. In 1928, he was experimenting with the common fungus, Aspergillus niger. Müller noted that this fungus prevented some bacteria colonies from growing. He eventually found that these bacteria could only thrive adjacent to Aspergillus niger if glucose was not present. He eventually isolated the factor that caused the curious effect. The factor was glucose oxidase. In the presence of glucose, the glucose oxidase produced hydrogen peroxide, which killed off...

#16287

Georg Klebs

1857 - 1918 (61 years)

Georg Albrecht Klebs was a German botanist from Neidenburg , Prussia. His brother was the historian Elimar Klebs. Life Klebs studied chemistry, philosophy, and art history at the University of Königsberg and became an assistant to Anton de Bary at the University of Strassburg. After his military service, Klebs became an assistant to Julius Sachs at the University of Würzburg and Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Tübingen. He became a professor at the University of Basel in 1887, the University of Halle in 1898, and the University of Heidelberg in 1907, where he founded today's botanical ga...

#16288

Franz Alexander

Franz Alexander

1891 - 1964 (73 years)

Franz Gabriel Alexander was a Hungarian-American psychoanalyst and physician, who is considered one of the founders of psychosomatic medicine and psychoanalytic criminology. Life Franz Gabriel Alexander, in Hungarian Alexander Ferenc Gábor, was born into a Jewish family in Budapest in 1891, his father was Bernhard Alexander, a philosopher and literary critic, his nephew was Alfréd Rényi, a Hungarian mathematician who made contributions in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory but mostly in probability theory. Alexander studied in Berlin; there he was part of an influential group of Germa...

#16289

Camille Sauvageau

1861 - 1936 (75 years)

Camille François Sauvageau was a French botanist and phycologist. Sauvageau was born in Angers. He studied at the University of Montpellier, receiving his degree in natural sciences in 1884. Afterwards he served as an assistant to Charles Flahault in Montpellier and to Philippe Van Tieghem in Paris. In 1891 he received his doctorate in Paris with the thesis "Sur les feuilles de quelques Monocotylédones aquatiques" . In 1892 he attained a professorship at the University of Lyon, later serving as a professor of botany at the Faculty of Sciences of Bordeaux .

#16290

Walther Wangerin

1884 - 1938 (54 years)

Walther Wangerin was a German botanist. He studied mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Halle, receiving his doctorate in 1906. Following graduation, he worked as an assistant to Adolf Engler at the botanical garden in Berlin-Dahlem. In 1909 he became a schoolteacher in Burg bei Magdeburg, and from 1913 taught classes at the technical school in Danzig. In 1920 he was appointed divisional director at the Danzig Museum of Natural History and Prehistory.

#16291

Léon Fredericq

1851 - 1935 (84 years)

Léon Fredericq was a Belgian physiologist. He conducted pioneering experiments on blood physiology, and discovered the copper-based hemocyanin of octopuses. He also examined gas-exchange, the working of the heart, and the transport of carbon dioxide and oxygen by blood. He served as a professor at the University of Liège from 1879.

#16292

Wilhelm Haacke

1855 - 1912 (57 years)

Johann Wilhelm Haacke was a German zoologist born in Clenze, which is now Lower Saxony, who served as Director of the South Australian Museum in Adelaide from 1882 to 1884. Career He studied zoology at the University of Jena, earning his doctorate in 1878. Afterwards he worked as an assistant of Ernst Haeckel in Jena and at the university of Kiel. In 1881 he emigrated to New Zealand, working at the museums in Dunedin, under Professor Parker, and Christchurch under Professor von Haast.

#16293

Ernest James Goddard

Ernest James Goddard

1883 - 1948 (65 years)

Ernest James Goddard , was an Australian professor of biology. Education Ernest James Goddard was born on 20 February 1883 in Newcastle, New South Wales, one of six sons born to Alfred and Elizabeth Goddard. He attended Maitland High School and then his family moved to Sydney for his and his brother's education at the University of Sydney where he studied first a B.A. in 1904, and then took a BSc in 1906, with honours in zoology and palaeontology.

#16294

Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein

Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein

1855 - 1936 (81 years)

Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein was a German zoologist. He specialized in echinoderms, particularly sea stars, sea urchins, and crinoids. He was one of the first European zoologists to have the opportunity to do research work in Japan from 1879 to 1881. Today, he is considered one of the most important pioneers of marine biological research in Japan.

#16295

Willy Kükenthal

Willy Kükenthal

1861 - 1922 (61 years)

Willy Georg Kükenthal was a German zoologist. He was the older brother of botanist and theologian Georg Kükenthal . Kükenthal specialized in the Octocorallia and on marine mammals. He edited, along with Thilo Krumbach, a landmark series of eight volumes in the Handbuch der Zoologie series which extensively reviewed and compiled the state of zoological knowledge of the time.

#16296

Heinrich Otto Wilhelm Bürger

1865 - 1945 (80 years)

Heinrich Otto Wilhelm Bürger was a German zoologist who specialised in Nemertea. He studied at several universities and at Stazione Zoologica in Naples. He gained his doctorate at the University of Göttingen under Ernst Ehlers. Between 1900 and 1908, he was Professor and Director of theZoology museum in Santiago de Chile. He later, still in South America, lived as a gentleman scientist, travel writer and economic geographer.

#16297

Carlos Bruch

1869 - 1943 (74 years)

Franz Karl Bruch or Carlos Bruch was a German-born Argentinian entomologist and archaeological collector. He worked at the La Plata Museum. Early life Karl was born in Munich to Christian Bruch. Christian ran a printing shop which he sold in 1887 and the family moved to Argentina to work with a South American Banknote Company in Buenos Aires. Karl, now Carlos, joined the Museum of La Plata which needed a photographic and printing assistant under Francisco P. Moreno. From 1888 to 1891, Christian and Carl helped set up the press in the Museum that allowed Moreno to produce scientific publicatio...

#16298

Victor von Ebner

Victor von Ebner

1842 - 1925 (83 years)

Anton Gilbert Victor von Ebner, Ritter von Rofenstein was an Austrian anatomist and histologist. Early life and education Victor von Ebner was a native of Bregenz. He was a student at the Universities of Göttingen, where he became member of Burschenschaft Hannovera , later Vienna , and Graz . In 1866 he earned his doctorate from the University of Vienna.

#16299

Odo Reuter

1850 - 1913 (63 years)

Odo Morannal Reuter was a Swedo-Finnish zoologist and poet. Early life He was born in Åbo on 28 April 1850, and died there on 2 September 1913. Reuter became a student at the University of Helsinki in 1867. He gained his master's degree in 1873, followed by a doctorate in 1877, when he became an associate professor of zoology.

#16300

Albert Jean Baptiste Marie Vayssière

1854 - 1942 (88 years)

Albert Jean Baptiste Marie Vayssière was a French scientist, a biologist, specifically a malacologist and entomologist, i.e. someone who studies mollusks, and insects. Within the Mollusca, Vayssière specialized in sea slugs and bubble snails, i.e. marine opisthobranch gastropods. He made significant contributions towards a better understanding of the general biology, phylogenetic relationships, biogeography and ecological distribution of the group.

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