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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Welton M. Gersony
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Richard Clark
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Richard A.F. Clark is a dermatologist and biomedical engineer currently at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in Stony Brook, New York. Clark co-edited, with Peter M. Henson, of The Molecular and Cellular Biology of Wound Repair and is a contributor to wound repair, dermatology, and angiogenesis research. In addition, he is also a member of the board of directors of the Society for Investigative Dermatology.
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Nobuhiro Harada
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Jeff Michael Michalski
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Guan Bee Ong
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1921 - 2004 (83 years)
Guan Bee Ong OBE, PSM, DSc was a Hong Kong academic surgeon who was professor of surgery at the University of Hong Kong. Born in Raj of Sarawak, he acquired a reputation as a skilled and innovative surgeon in British Hong Kong, who encouraged original research among surgical trainees. Originally a general surgeon whose practice included cardiac and neurosurgery, under his leadership surgical specialities and subspecialties were developed in Hong Kong.
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Natale Cascinelli
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Elaine Sanders‐bush
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Laurence M. Grummer‐strawn
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Luigi Barbara
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Christopher H. Boshoff
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Elbert P. Trulock
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Debra Bogen
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Debra L. Bogen is an American pediatrician and public health official who is the acting secretary of health of Pennsylvania. Life Bogen earned a B.A. in chemistry, cum laude, from the Columbia University in 1985. She completed a M.D. at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1992. From 1992 to 1995, she completed a pediatric residency and general academic pediatrics fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Bogen conducted postdoctoral research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 1996 to 1998. She became a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1992. She joined the American Pediatric Society in 1996.
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Ronald Feld
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Aron H. Lichtman
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Thomas D. Schiano
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1962 - Present (64 years)
Thomas D. Schiano is an American specialist in liver transplantation, intestinal transplantation and in the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic liver disease. He serves as associate editor for the journals Hepatology and Liver Transplantation and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts and more than 20 book chapters.
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Frederick A. Valeriote
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Francis T. De Dombal
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Ciro Indolfi
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Reinhard Dengler
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Norio Hayashi
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Hong‐hao Zhou
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Francis Gerry R. Fowkes
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John. V. Tyberg
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John L. Wallwork
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W. Douglas Weaver
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Susan D. Cochran
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Joan Miller
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1958 - Present (68 years)
Joan Miller may refer to: Joan Miller , Canadian-American ophthalmologist and scientistJoan Miller , American dancer, choreographer, and educatorJoan Miller Lipsky, American attorney and politicianJoan Miller , Canadian actressJoan Copeland , American actress
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Tetsuo Arakawa
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Antonio Uccelli
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1964 - Present (62 years)
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David Riches
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David Riches is a British anatomist. He is Emeritus Professor of Anatomy at Queen Mary University of London and a Fellow and Director of Studies at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is noted for research on dermatology, particularly the basement membrane zone and bullous disorders. He has formerly been Dean of Medical Sciences at the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur.
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Yogesh Kumar Chawla
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Michael Perry Marks
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Jay S. Magaziner
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Thomas A. Orszulak
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Laura Green
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Laura Elizabeth Green is a British epidemiologist and academic who is Pro-vice-chancellor and Head of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. She serves on the council of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council .
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Nicholas John Severs
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Harold Ellis
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Michel B. Vallotton
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Michel Ovize
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Michael H. Merson
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Paulo Caramelli
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John L. Rombeau
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Sana M. Al‐khatib
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Terumichi Nakagawa
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John Ross
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Reinhardt Kandolf
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Paolo Corradini
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1961 - Present (65 years)
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Sotirios A. Raptis
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Stephen D. Hursting
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Stephen D. Hursting is an American scientist and current professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the former Margaret McKean Love Chair in Nutrition, Cellular, and Molecular Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Robert Thomas Dorr
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