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 Virology,
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Gueh-djen Hsiung
#158682
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#302
Nathaniel R. Landau
#158890
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Luis Enjuanes
#159361
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1945 - Present (81 years)
#304
Craig E. Cameron
#125888
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1966 - Present (60 years)
Craig E. Cameron is the chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Society for Microbiology.
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Jacob A. Nelson
#160212
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Johng Sik Rhim
#160259
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Leor Weinberger
#94540
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Leor S. Weinberger is an American virologist and quantitative biologist. He is credited with discovering the HIV virus latency circuit, which provided the first experimental evidence that stochastic fluctuations in gene expression are used for cell fate decisions. He has also pioneered the concept of therapeutic interfering particles, or “TIPs”, which are resistance-proof antivirals. His TED talk on this novel antiviral approach 20 years in the making has been called a "highlight" of TED and received a standing ovation from the live audience.
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Dennis E. Hruby
#160436
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#309
Roger J. Th. Jef. Uni. Div. Infec. Dis. Pomerantz
#161041
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#310
Peter E. Palukaitis
#161093
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#311
Daniel W. Bradley
#161346
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#312
Alexander Kekulé
#88535
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1958 - Present (68 years)
Alexander S. Kekulé is a German physician and biochemist. Since 1999 he has held the chair for Medical Microbiology and Virology of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and Director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology of the Universitätsklinikum Halle .
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Nobuyuki Enomoto
#161574
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#314
Makoto Mayumi
#161703
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#315
T. Takeyuki Kurata
#162161
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#316
Yoshikazu Ito
#162198
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#317
Emma Elizabeth Furth
#162293
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#318
Paula Traktman
#118980
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Paula Traktman is an American virologist and academic administrator at the Medical University of South Carolina. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology. From 2013 to 2014 she was the president of the American Society for Virology.
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Christopher Daniel Hillyer
#162734
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#320
Glen R. Nemerow
#163047
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#321
Sikhulile Moyo
#71773
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Sikhulile Moyo is a Zimbabwean virologist working as the laboratory director of the Botswana–Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership and a research associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In November 2021, Moyo and his laboratory were the first to identify the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. In 2022, Moyo was listed in the Time 100 list.
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Brendan A. Larder
#163619
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#323
Saul J. Silverstein
#163776
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#324
Michael A. Mayo
#164673
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#325
Marc Tardieu
#164728
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#326
Cladd E. Stevens
#164784
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#327
Frances M. Gotch
#164820
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#328
Girish N. Vyas
#165164
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#329
Nancy Cox
#76248
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1949 - Present (77 years)
Nancy J. Cox is an American virologist who has served as the director of the Influenza Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2006 to 2014 and as director of the CDC's World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Control of Influenza from 1992 to 2014. Cox served as the Chair and Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council of GISAID, between the years 2008 and 2017 and is frequently recognized for having played an instrumental role in the success of GISAID.
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Subrat Kumar Panda
#55276
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1954 - Present (72 years)
Subrat Kumar Panda is an Indian virologist, professor and Head Department of Pathology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. Known for his researches in viral hepatitis, Panda is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Medical 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 Medical Sciences ...
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Eng Eong Ooi
#165364
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Thomas D. Schiano
#165528
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#333
Norman P. Salzman
#165876
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#334
Hans Will
#165887
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#335
Dominique Stéhelin
#165958
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#336
Bernhard Dietzschold
#166010
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#337
William S. M. Wold
#166063
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#338
Anthony B. Nesburn
#166461
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#339
Françoise Barré-sinoussi
#166807
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#340
Peter J. Richardson
#166992
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#341
Nikolaus Osterrieder
#167009
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1965 - Present (61 years)
#342
Laure Aurelian
#167263
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#343
John H. Mills
#167724
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Alice S. Huang
#167991
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Lionel Crawford
#32244
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1932 - Present (94 years)
Dr Lionel Vivian Crawford is a British cancer expert and virologist. He was educated at Rendcomb College between 1941 and 1950 before being called up for National Service. After demobilization in 1952 he studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge with a State Scholarship, graduating with a first class degree in Botany, Zoology, Organic Chemistry and Biology in 1955. after graduate work at the Cambridge Department of Chemical Microbiology he completed his PhD in 1958 in biochemistry. Until 1960 he worked as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology, at which point he became a researcher at the Glasgow Institute of Virology.
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Eui-Cheol Shin
#33849
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Eui-Cheol Shin is a Korean medical immunologist, academic, and author. He is a professor at the Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology , and director of The Center for Viral Immunology at the Institute for Basic Science , a Korean government-funded research institute.
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Tian Bo
#118232
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1931 - 2019 (88 years)
Tian Bo was a Chinese virologist and professor at the School of Life Sciences, Wuhan University. Biography Tian was born in Huantai County, Shandong, Republic of China on December 25, 1931. In 1950 he entered Beijing Agricultural University, majoring in plant protection, where he graduated in 1954.
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Karen Mossman
#129994
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Karen Louise Mossman is a Canadian virologist who is a professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University. Mossman looks to understand how viruses get around the defence mechanisms of cells. She was part of a team of Canadian researchers who first isolated SARS-CoV-2.
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James Q. Del Rosso
#169666
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#350
Tao Dong
#154046
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Tao Dong is a Chinese-British immunologist who is Professor of Immunology at Oxford University. Her work focuses on the study of T-cells which respond to viral infections and viral associated cancer. She is a founding director for both the CAMS-Oxford joint International Center for Transnational Immunology and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Oxford Institute .
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