The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.
Students and researchers now have a fast and reliable way to find influential thinkers from 24 disciplines and 300 sub-disciplines (and growing). If you want to find history’s most influential philsosophers, or the world’s most influential mathematicians currently, now you can.
We also provide custom rankings of people by discipline as well as interviews with influential academics who are currently active.
To use this tool, select the discipline (and optional subdiscipline) relevant to your research, and specify influential academics by history, world, or US. Even results that are counterintuitive are often enlightening (our algorithm always picks up a signal).
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List of the most influential people in Engineering,
#4001
Catherine Noakes
#85166
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Catherine Jane Noakes is a British mechanical engineer who is Professor of Environmental Engineering for Buildings at the University of Leeds. Noakes specialises in airborne infections and the transport of airborne pathogens. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Noakes served on the Government of the United Kingdom Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies .
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Jean E. Sealey
#123849
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Bernard Dan
#123864
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1967 - Present (59 years)
#4004
Niloy Kumar Dutta
#123884
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#4005
Emmanouil S. Brilakis
#123895
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#4006
Thomas Gerard Habetler
#123920
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#4007
Harry Wechsler
#123935
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#4008
Feng-rui Sun
#123957
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#4009
Pascale Carayon
#123964
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#4010
Yue Xiong
#123972
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#4011
T. Andrew Lister
#123992
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#4012
Willem H. Vanderburg
#109968
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1944 - Present (82 years)
Willem H. Vanderburg , is Professor Emeritus of the Departments of Civil Engineering, Sociology, and the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the Founding Director of its Centre for Technology and Social Development, past editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, past President of the International Association for Science, Technology and Society. In 2002 he was honoured by the Canada Foundation for Innovation as one of the 25 leading Canadian innovators. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Vanderburg is the author...
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Qiang Liao
#124030
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#4014
Hermann Kopetz
#106618
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Hermann Kopetz is a professor emeritus at Vienna University of Technology. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 1994 for contributions to fault-tolerant, real-time systems. He is a cofounder of the company TTTech.
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Thomas James Allen
#124105
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Chi-hsun Tien
#124122
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#4017
Joe G N Garcia
#124123
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Jianjun Zheng Yu
#124135
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#4019
Steven Dubowsky
#124153
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#4020
Jérôme Antoni
#124165
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#4021
Percy Johnson-Marshall
#80271
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1915 - 1993 (78 years)
Percy Edwin Alan Johnson-Marshall CMG was a British urban designer, regional planner and academic. Born in India, he was educated at Liverpool University, and worked initially with local authorities in the south of England. In 1959, he took a post as senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, and was appointed Professor of Urban Design and Regional Planning in 1964.
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Paul Dennis Miller
#124187
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Buddha Basnyat
#124197
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#4024
Zhishen S. Wu
#124218
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#4025
Michael Bustin
#121621
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Michael Bustin, NIH Scientist Emeritus, was a Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health . His research centers on the role of chromosomal proteins in chromatin function, epigenetic regulation, development, and disease.
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Kiichi Sagawa
#124248
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#4027
Jie Qiao
#124255
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#4028
Saeed Vaseghi
#99715
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Saeed Vaseghi is a British Iranian speech scientist. Professor Vaseghi is the professor of Communication Signal Processing at Brunel University. His PhD and postdoctoral research work at Cambridge led to the development of CEDAR Audio Ltd., one of the first commercial digital signal processing systems for restoration of degraded archived audio signals.
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Sakdirat Kaewunruen
#124309
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#4030
Fu-lei Chu
#124314
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#4031
Bruce B Duncan
#124361
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#4032
Wei Hua Gui
#124369
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#4033
Majid Sarrafzadeh
#124387
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#4034
Min Xiao
#124400
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#4035
James T Becker
#124404
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#4036
Angelo Avogaro
#124420
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Jean‐baptiste Michel
#124423
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David Muir Wood
#124438
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W. David. Kelton
#124441
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Karren More
#106034
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Karren L. More is an American materials scientist who is the Director of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her research considers advanced electron microscopy as a probe to understand the structure and chemistry of emerging materials. More is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and Microscopy Society of America.
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A. C. Heidebrecht
#124474
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1939 - Present (87 years)
Arthur C. Heidebrecht is a Canadian professor and civil engineer. He served as a faculty member at McMaster University from 1963 to 1997, dean of Engineering and Vice-president Academic . Born in Alberta, Canada, he studied at the University of Alberta and graduated with a B.Sc in Civil Engineering in 1960. He obtained his M.Sc and Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 1961 and 1963, respectively.
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Byron D. Tapley
#124480
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Gilbert H. Mudge
#124507
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Sandro Carrara
#83480
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1964 - Present (62 years)
Sandro Carrara is a Swiss scientist, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and he is mainly known for his pioneering work in the emerging area of co-design of bio/nano/CMOS interfaces as well as for his contributions to the design of nanoscale biological CMOS sensors. He is now the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Sensors Journal, one of the largest among more than 200 IEEE publications.
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John Campbell
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1938 - Present (88 years)
John Campbell is a British engineer and one of the world's leading experts in the casting industry with approximately 150 papers, and 20 patents. Campbell holds two Master's degrees from University of Cambridge and University of Sheffield, as well as two doctorates from University of Birmingham. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and he was appointed to the chair of casting technology at University of Birmingham. The Institute of Cast Metals Engineers has named the "John Campbell Medal" after him.
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Josephus J. Heijnen
#124558
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#4047
Sotirios Tsimikas
#124623
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Alexander V. Kildishev
#124630
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N. Ravishankar
#62915
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1970 - Present (56 years)
Ravishankar Narayanan is an Indian materials engineer and a professor at the Materials Research Centre of the Indian Institute of Science. He is known for his studies on Nanostructured Materials and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 2012.
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Xanthippi Markenscoff
#109184
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Xanthippi Markenscoff is a Greek-American mechanical engineer specializing in the dynamics of defects and dislocations in materials, including Eshelby's inclusion; other topics in her research have included grasping and fixturing, and the relation between strain and natural frequency. She is a distinguished professor emerita in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
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