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.
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List of the most influential people in Medical,
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Rodger L. Bıck
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Rainer Gruessner
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1957 - Present (69 years)
Rainer W.G. Gruessner is a German-born American general surgeon and transplant surgeon, most noted as a surgical pioneer for his clinical and research innovations. Gruessner was the first transplant surgeon to perform all types of abdominal transplants from living donors.
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Giulio Bertaccini
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Renaud Piarroux
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1960 - Present (66 years)
Renaud Piarroux is a French pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and tropical medicine. From 2008 to 2017, he has been a full professor of parasitology and mycology at the University of Aix-Marseille in Marseille, France, and head of parasitology and mycology at Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille. Since 2017, he has been a full professor of parasitology and mycology at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, and Head of Parasitology and Mycology at Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris. Over the years, Piarroux has taken part in several missions and research projects i...
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Ian R. Dohoo
#142476
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Lawrence M. Blendis
#142524
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Stuart M. Cobbe
#142532
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Hutan Ashrafian
#142541
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Johan M. J. Fevery
#142563
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Suresh H. Moolgavkar
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1943 - Present (83 years)
Suresh H. Moolgavkar is an Indian mathematician and epidemiologist who was at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He is a Senior Fellow and Research Scientist at Exponent, a consulting firm. Among his many scientific contributions is the development of the two-stage clonal expansion model of carcinogenesis, also known as the Moolgavkar-Venzon-Knudson model, a stochastic cell-level description of carcinogenesis based on Alfred G. Knudson’s two-hit hypothesis. In its original development the TSCE model represents tumor initiation as the first hit, followed by cell proliferation and malignant transformation as the second hit.
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Malcolm R. Law
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Darrell S. Rigel
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Frits W. Prinzen
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Takeshi Hirayama
#142739
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David Reed Flum
#142746
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Isaac R. Francis
#142760
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David O. Wiebers
#142786
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Curtis Lester Mendelson
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1913 - 2002 (89 years)
Curtis Lester Mendelson was an obstetrician and American cardiologist. Mendelson's syndrome was named after him in 1946.
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Irène Juhan‐vague
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David Robert Holtgrave
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James Chen-tson Fang
#142836
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Jan B. M. J. Jansen
#142837
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Alan R. Kristal
#142842
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Clay J. Cockerell
#142857
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Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir
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1972 - Present (54 years)
Unnur Anna Valdimarsdóttir is a professor in epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Iceland. Her research focuses on the role of trauma and other life adversities in health and disease development.
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Gérard Krause
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1965 - Present (61 years)
Gérard Krause is a German epidemiologist. He is currently based at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig. Career After obtaining a doctoral degree in tropical medicine at the University of Heidelberg and several stints as medical doctor and specialist in tropical medicine, Krause moved in 2000 to the Robert Koch Institute, where he worked as an epidemiologist. In 2005 he obtained his habilitation at the Charité in the fields of epidemiology and hygiene. He participated in the successful containment of the Western African Ebola virus epidemic of 2014/2015. As of 2017, he led the SORMAS project at the HZI.
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Robert Clayton Robbins
#142872
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Vera Regitz–zagrosek
#142941
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R. A. Von Mann
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Gustavo Saposnik
#142955
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Pedro J. Del Nido
#142965
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J. Michael Lane
#109431
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1936 - 2020 (84 years)
John Michael Lane was an American epidemiologist who was a director of the Epidemic Intelligence Service's Global Smallpox Eradication program from 1973 to 1981, and who played a leading role in the eradication of smallpox in 1977.
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Gérard Bréart
#142986
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Frank M. Torti
#143032
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Jacob Charles Langer
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Anthony David Dayan
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Benjamin G. Covino
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Leif Svanström
#127190
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1943 - 2023 (80 years)
Leif Svanström was a Swedish doctor and a specialist in Social medicine. Beginning from 2010 Svanström was professor emeritus in Social Medicine at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm where he worked since 1980. He was former prefect for the department of Public Health Sciences at Karolinska Institute and the former leader of the scientist group of accident prevention and work in safety promotion. Professor Svanström devoted about forty-five years of his life to the Social Medicine and Health and Safety Promotion. His research and teaching focused on Injury Epidemiology and Safety Promotion. In...
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Clyde Hertzman
#143271
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Domenico M. Cucinotta
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Sharon Friel
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Michael D. Fox
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Michael D. Fox is an American neurologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts where he holds the Raymond D. Adams Distinguished Chair in Neurology and directs the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women's Hospital. His research has focused on resting state brain fMRI which uses spontaneous fluctuations in blood oxygenation to map brain networks including the default mode network. He developed the technique lesion network mapping to study the connectivity patterns of brain lesions to help understand the neuroanatomy of a diverse range of processes including addiction, criminality, blindsight, free will and religiosity.
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Keith Deans Buchanan
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Seymour H. Levitt
#143405
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Benjamin Movsas
#143452
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Giels Nijpels
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Wolfgang König
#143476
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Lemuel A. Iii Moyé
#143481
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Ursula A. Matulonis
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Christopher Leclercq
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