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.
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List of the most influential people in Medical,
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Ignacio Melero
#127307
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Gordon F. Tomaselli
#127340
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Richard D. Moore
#127341
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#2054
Maria Teresa Landi
#84617
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Maria Teresa Landi is an Italian epidemiologist and oncologist who researches genetic and environmental determinants of lung cancer and melanoma. At the National Cancer Institute, she is a senior investigator in the integrative tumor epidemiology branch and a senior advisor for genomic epidemiology. Landi is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Pim J. De Feyter
#127359
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Roland. Seifert
#127397
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Kausik Kumar Ray
#127532
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#2058
Stephen B. Liggett
#127596
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#2059
Laurence Auzière-Jourdan
#73330
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1977 - Present (48 years)
Laurence Auzière-Jourdan is a French cardiologist and stepdaughter of French president Emmanuel Macron . She campaigned for Macron in the 2017 French presidential election. Early life and education Auzière-Jourdan was born in 1977 to André-Louis Auzière, a banker, and Brigitte Trogneux. Her family lived in Truchtersheim, a French city near the German border, until 1991. She was a classmate of Emmanuel Macron at the Lycée la Providence in Amiens, France. She has an older brother, Sébastien, an engineer, and a younger sister, Tiphaine, a lawyer.
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Barry Alan Siegel
#127757
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Cheryl A. M. Anderson
#48149
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Cheryl Ann Marie Anderson is an American epidemiologist. Anderson is a professor at and founding Dean of the University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science. Anderson's research focus is on nutrition and chronic disease prevention in under-served human populations.
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Michael H. Depledge
#127783
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#2063
Jean-Jacques Askenasy
#100621
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1929 - Present (96 years)
Jean-Jacques Askenasy is an Israeli neurologist. He is an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Biography Askenasy received his doctorate in medicine degree cum laude from the University of Cluj in Romania 1954. Appointed instructor of neurology in his 5 ler School of Medicine. Residence of Neurology- Neurological Institute of Academy 1956. Doctor in Science at the University C.I.Parhon Bucharest, 1969. Chairman of the dpt. of Neurology at the University Hospital CFR II Bucharest. In 1973 neurologist at Ichilov Hospital-Tel Aviv University. Researcher in Neuroscience at Weitzman Institute 1974–1975.In 1981 was appointed Associated Prof.
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Jocelyne Bloch
#91293
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1971 - Present (54 years)
Jocelyne Bloch is a Swiss neuroscientist and a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital and at EPFL . Life Bloch graduated in the Faculty of Medicine of Lausanne University in December 1994 and she obtained her neurosurgical degree in 2002. Her area of expertise is deep brain stimulation and brain repair in relation to movement disorders. In collaboration with EPFL, she is currently leading a clinical feasibility study that evaluates the therapeutic potential of this spinal cord stimulation technology, without a brain implant, to improve the walking ability in people with partial spinal c...
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Robert J. Biggar
#127999
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Camilo R. Gomez
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1960 - Present (65 years)
Camilo Ramiro Gomez, is an American neurologist, medical educator, and researcher. He is one of the first 100 vascular neurologists certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology , and one of the founders of the subspecialty of interventional neurology in the United States.
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Mark H. Drazner
#128015
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Kenneth A. Arndt
#128116
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Kent Vrana
#116962
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Kent Eugene Vrana is an American pharmacologist. He was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Vrana then enrolled at the University of Iowa, where he studied biochemistry, graduating in 1978. He pursued a doctorate in the subject from the Louisiana State University Medical Center, completing graduate study in 1983, followed by postdoctoral study at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Vrana began teaching at West Virginia University in 1986 as an assistant professor. He left for the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 1991, and became a full professor in 2001.
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Caitlin Rivers
#65012
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Caitlin M. Rivers is an American epidemiologist who as Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, specializing on improving epidemic preparedness. Rivers is currently working on the American response to the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on the incorporation of infectious disease modeling and forecasting into public health decision making.
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Pravin M. Shah
#128219
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Ivar Mendez
#86849
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Ivar Mendez is a neurosurgeon, neuroscientist and Professor of Surgery at the University of Saskatchewan. He is internationally known for his work in cell transplantation for Parkinson's disease and the use of remote presence robotics in neurosurgery and primary health care. In December 2022, Mendez was appointed an officer of the Order of Canada for his pioneering work in the use of remote telemedicine and robotics to revolutionize the delivery of health and patient care.
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Gaetano Di Chiara
#128284
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#2074
Thomas A. Pearson
#128300
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Monika Schäfer-Korting
#114680
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1952 - Present (73 years)
Monika Schäfer-Korting is a German Pharmacologist and Toxicologist. Life Schäfer-Korting studied Pharmacy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main from 1971 to 1975. In 1976 she was approved as a Pharmacist. In 1977 she obtained the degree of a PhD as a pupil of Professor Ernst Mutschler. In 1989 she obtained her post-doctoral degree .
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Joav Merrick,
#128383
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#2077
Maria Elena Bottazzi
#53067
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1966 - Present (59 years)
Maria Elena Bottazzi is an American microbiologist, currently Associate Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, as well as Distinguished Professor of Biology at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. She is editor-in-chief of Springer's Current Tropical Medicine Reports. She and Peter Hotez led the team that designed COVID-19 vaccine Corbevax.
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F. Frank Kadlubar
#128411
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Barbaraa J. M. Mulder
#128424
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Roberto C. Heros
#128425
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Maurice E. Enriquez-sarano
#128440
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Henry J. M. Barnett
#128477
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Mary Northridge
#111844
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Mary Evelyn Northridge is an American epidemiologist and the former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Public Health . She was the journal's first female editor-in-chief. Northridge obtained a BA at University of Virginia , an MPH at Rutgers University , and a PhD at Columbia University .
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Rena D'Souza
#89980
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2000 - Present (25 years)
Rena D'Souza is a clinician-scientist and the Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. She was formerly the assistant vice president for academic affairs and education for health sciences at the University of Utah where she was also a Professor of Dentistry in the School of Dentistry and a Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy in the School of Medicine.
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Donald A. Goldmann
#128685
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Mary Ellsberg
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1958 - Present (67 years)
Mary Carroll Ellsberg is an American epidemiologist whose research focuses on global health and violence against women. She is the director of the Global Women's Institute at George Washington University in Washington D.C. Ellsberg is the daughter of Carol Cummings and the American military analyst and whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, and sister to Robert Ellsberg, the editor-in-chief and publisher of Orbis Books, and author Michael Ellsberg.
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James E. Udelson
#128747
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Steven Michael Opal
#128750
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Arthur Lawrence Reingold
#128777
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#2090
Linda M. Zangwill
#128799
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Carles Muntaner
#128808
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1957 - Present (68 years)
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Jane Mills
#53509
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Jane Elizabeth Mills is an Australian-New Zealand academic and as of 2020 is the Dean and Head, La Trobe Rural Health School, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Academic career After a 2006 PhD titled 'Australian rural nurses' experiences of mentoring : a constructivist grounded theory study' at the Monash University, Mills moved to James Cook University, Cairns where she undertook a number of different roles before being promoted to Professor . After completing an MBA at Imperial College, London she moved to Massey University, as the Pro Vice Chancellor of the College of Health. Mills is currently employed at La Trobe University as the Dean and Head of the La Trobe Rural Health School.
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Cecil H. Rorabeck
#128878
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Jane C. Burns
#128885
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Allison E. Aiello
#122233
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1972 - Present (53 years)
Allison Elizabeth Aiello is an American epidemiologist. She is a professor of Epidemiology and a Carolina Population Center Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Aiello is an expert in influenza, investigating non-pharmaceutical interventions for flu prevention.
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Marney A. White
#89167
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Marney Ann White is an American psychologist and epidemiologist. Early life and education White completed her Bachelor of Science degree in 1991 from the University of Virginia and her Master's degree at James Madison University. She obtained her doctoral degree at Louisiana State University and published Development and validation of the food-craving inventory. Following her clinical internship, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. She then completed a second master's degree at Yale School of Public Health in Chronic Disease E...
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Andrew f Shorr
#128991
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Volker K. H. Sonntag
#129003
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Gerald J. Chader
#129046
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