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#15501

Roberto Burioni

Roberto Burioni

#15512

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Roberto Burioni is an Italian virologist, physician, and academic. A Professor of Microbiology and Virology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, he runs there a lab developing human monoclonal antibodies against human infectious agents, the study of pathogen-host interplay, and the use of molecular tools in the early diagnosis of infectious diseases. A prominent virologist, Burioni has risen to fame in Italy for his strong stance against the antivaccination movement and has been described as the "most famous virologist in Italy".

#15502

N. G. L. Hammond

#15513

Overall Influence

1907 - 2001 (94 years)

Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, was a British historian, geographer, classicist and an operative for the British Special Operations Executive in occupied Greece during the Second World War. Hammond was seen as the leading expert on the history of ancient Macedonia. He was recognized for his meticulous research on the geography, historical topography and history of ancient Macedonia and ancient Epirus.

#15503

Reza Negarestani

Reza Negarestani

#15514

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Reza Negarestani is an Iranian philosopher and writer, known for "pioneering the genre of 'theory-fiction' with his book" Cyclonopedia which was published in 2008. It was listed in Artforum as one of the best books of 2009. Negarestani directs the critical philosophy programme at The New Centre for Research & Practice.

#15504

Marc Rotenberg

#15515

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Marc Rotenberg is president and founder of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, an independent non-profit organization, incorporated in Washington, D.C. Rotenberg is the editor of The AI Policy Sourcebook, a member of the OECD Expert Group on AI, and helped draft the Universal Guidelines for AI. He teaches the GDPR and privacy law at Georgetown Law and is coauthor of Privacy Law and Society and The Privacy Law Sourcebook . Rotenberg is a founding board member and former chair of the Public Interest Registry, which manages the .ORG domain.

#15505

Michael White

#15516

Overall Influence

1948 - 2008 (60 years)

Michael White was an Australian social worker and family therapist. He is known as the founder of narrative therapy, and for his significant contribution to psychotherapy and family therapy, which have been a source of techniques adopted by other approaches.

#15506

Derrick Rose

#15517

Overall Influence

1988 - Present (38 years)

Derrick Martell Rose is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association . He played one year of college basketball for the Memphis Tigers before being drafted first overall by his hometown Chicago Bulls in the 2008 NBA draft. Nicknamed "D-Rose", and sometimes referred to as "The Windy City Assassin" or simply "Pooh", he was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2009 and became the youngest player to win the NBA Most Valuable Player Award in 2011 at age 22.

#15507

Walter Afanasieff

#15518

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Walter Afanasieff , formerly nicknamed Baby Love in the 1980s, is an American record producer and songwriter. He was a collaborator with Mariah Carey on her first six studio albums. He won the 1999 Grammy Award in the Record of the Year category for producing "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion, and the 2000 Grammy Award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.

#15508

Harvey Silverglate

#15519

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Harvey Allen Silverglate is an American attorney, journalist, writer, and the co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression . Silverglate was a member of the board of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and also taught at Harvard Law School, the University of Massachusetts Boston, and at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

#15509

Phil Lesh

#15520

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Philip Chapman Lesh is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. After the band's disbanding in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of Grateful Dead family music with side project Phil Lesh and Friends, which paid homage to the Dead's music by playing their originals, common covers, and the songs of the members of his band. Lesh operated a music venue called Terrapin Crossroads. He scaled back his touring regimen in 2014 but continues to perform with Phil Lesh & Friends at select venues. From 2009 to 2014, ...

#15510

John Ross

#15521

Overall Influence

1926 - 2017 (91 years)

John Ross was a scientist in physical chemistry and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. Unraveling the mechanisms of complex chemical reactions, Ross opened new avenues in physical chemistry through the development of groundbreaking methods to study complex reactions within intact systems. His theoretical and experimental studies in statistical mechanics and chemical kinetics proved new means to reveal details of biochemical reactions taking place far from equilibrium and involving many chemical species.

#15511

Patri Friedman

#15522

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Patri Friedman is an American libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, and theorist of political economy. He founded The Seasteading Institute, a non-profit that explores the creation of sovereign ocean colonies.

#15512

Vandi Verma

#15523

Overall Influence

Vandana "Vandi" Verma is a space roboticist and chief engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, known for driving the Mars rovers, notably Curiosity and Perseverance, using software including PLEXIL programming technology that she co-wrote and developed.

#15513

Maria Tatar

#15524

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Maria Magdalene Tatar is an American academic whose expertise lies in children's literature, German literature, and folklore. She is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University.

#15514

Peter Temple

#15525

Overall Influence

1946 - 2018 (72 years)

Peter Temple was an Australian crime fiction writer, mainly known for his Jack Irish novel series. He won several awards for his writing, including the Gold Dagger in 2007, the first for an Australian. He was also an international magazine and newspaper journalist and editor.

#15515

Stanisław Krajewski

Stanisław Krajewski

#15526

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Stanisław Krajewski is a Polish philosopher, mathematician and writer, activist of the Jewish minority in Poland. Biography He is professor of philosophy at the University of Warsaw, author, leader of the Jewish community in Poland and co-chairman of the Polish Council of Christians and Jews.

#15516

Otfried Höffe

#15527

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Otfried Höffe is a German philosopher and professor. Academic career From 1964 to 1970, Höffe studied philosophy, history, sociology and theology at the universities of Münster, Tübingen, Saarbrücken and Munich. His 1971 dissertation was on the practical philosophy of Aristotle. In 1970 and 1971, he was visiting scholar at Columbia University.

#15517

Jim Steinman

#15528

Overall Influence

1947 - 2021 (74 years)

James Richard Steinman was an American composer, lyricist and record producer. He also worked as an arranger, pianist, and singer. His work included songs in the adult contemporary, rock, dance, pop, musical theater, and film score genres. He wrote songs for Bonnie Tyler and Meat Loaf, including Bat Out of Hell , and also wrote and produced Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell and Tyler's Faster Than the Speed of Night.

#15518

Rafael La Porta

#15529

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Rafael La Porta is the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney University Professor of Economics at Brown University. La Porta received his A.B. in economics at Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Argentina and his A.M. and Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. La Porta served as a professor of economics at Harvard and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College before accepting a position at Brown. His research is primarily in corporate governance and investor protections across the world. He is the coauthor of the influential article "Law and Finance," which appea...

#15519

Danielle Citron

Danielle Citron

#15530

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Danielle Keats Citron is a Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she teaches information privacy, free expression, and civil rights law. Citron is the author of "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" and "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace" . She also serves as the Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, an organization which provides assistance and legislative support to victims of online abuse. Prior to joining UVA Law, Citron was an Austin B. Fletcher Distingu...

#15520

Kevin Tebbit

#15531

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Sir Kevin Reginald Tebbit is a former British civil servant. Career He was educated at the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys and was a senior history scholar at St John's College, Cambridge. Tebbit joined the Ministry of Defence in 1969 and in 1972 became assistant private secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence. At the Ministry of Defence Tebbit was concerned with defence plans and policy for Britain's nuclear forces. Tebbit served as the first secretary to the United Kingdom's delegation to NATO, in Brussels between 1979 and 1982. A second posting abroad saw Tebbit join the Forei...

#15521

Parviz Jabehdar Maralani

#15532

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Parviz Jabehdar Maralani is an Iranian electrical engineering emeritus professor and fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Iran. He has contributed significantly to the education of electrical engineering in Iran and trained many students.

#15522

Tommy Lasorda

#15533

Overall Influence

1927 - 2021 (94 years)

Thomas Charles Lasorda was an American professional baseball pitcher and manager. He managed the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball from 1976 through 1996. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997.

#15523

Gagandeep Kang

#15534

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Gagandeep Kang FRS is an Indian microbiologist and virologist who is the Professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India and from August 2016 to July 2020 was executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad, an autonomous institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. Her major research focus is on viral infections in children, and the testing of rotaviral vaccines. She also works on other enteric infections and their consequences when children are infected in early life, sanitation and water safety.

#15524

Johann Rafelski

Johann Rafelski

#15535

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Johann Rafelski is a German-American theoretical physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of Arizona in Tucson, guest scientist at CERN , and has been LMU-Excellent Guest Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.

#15525

Brian Lumley

#15536

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Brian Lumley is an English author of horror fiction. He came to prominence in the 1970s writing in the Cthulhu Mythos created by American writer H. P. Lovecraft but featuring the new character Titus Crow, and went on to greater fame in the 1980s with the best-selling Necroscope series, initially centered on character Harry Keogh, who can communicate with the spirits of the dead.

#15526

Jonathan H. Adler

Jonathan H. Adler

#15537

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jonathan H. Adler is an American legal commentator and law professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He has been recognized as one of the most cited professors in the field of environmental law. His research is also credited with inspiring litigation that challenged the Obama Administration's implementation of the Affordable Care Act, resulting in the Supreme Court's decision in King v. Burwell.

#15527

Martin Garbus

#15538

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Martin Garbus is an American attorney. He has argued cases throughout the country involving first amendment, constitutional, criminal, copyright, and intellectual property law. He has appeared before the United States Supreme Court, as well as trial and appellate courts throughout the United States in leading First Amendment cases. His cases have established precedents there and in other courts throughout the country. He has argued and written briefs that have been submitted to the United States Supreme Court; a number of which have resulted in changes in the law on a nationwide basis, including one described by Justice William J.

#15528

Jerry Wexler

#15539

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Gerald Wexler was a music journalist turned music producer, and was a major influence on American popular music from the 1950s through the 1980s. He coined the term "rhythm and blues", and was integral in signing and/or producing many of the biggest acts of the time, including Ray Charles, the Allman Brothers, Chris Connor, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Wilson Pickett, Dire Straits, Dusty Springfield and Bob Dylan. Wexler was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and in 2017 to the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.

#15529

Method Man

#15540

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Clifford Smith, Jr. , better known by his stage name Method Man, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. He is a member of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan, and is half of the hip hop duo Method Man & Redman. He took his stage name from the 1979 film Method Man. In 1996, Method Man won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By", featuring R&B singer Mary J. Blige, with whom he currently stars in Power Book II: Ghost, a spin-off of Power.

#15530

Mandë Holford

#15541

Overall Influence

Mandë Holford is an associate professor in chemistry at Hunter College with scientific appointments at the American Museum of Natural History and Weill Cornell Medical College. Her interdisciplinary research covering 'mollusks to medicine' spans chemistry and biology and aims to discover, characterize, and deliver novel peptides from venomous marine snails as tools for manipulating cellular physiology in pain and cancer.

#15531

Salih Neftçi

#15542

Overall Influence

1947 - 2009 (62 years)

Salih Nur Neftçi was a leading expert in the fields of financial markets and financial engineering. He served many advisory roles in national and international financial institutions, and was an active researcher in the fields of finance and financial engineering. Neftçi was an avid and highly regarded educator in mathematical finance who was well known for a lucid and accessible approach towards the field.

#15532

Helmut Krcmar

#15543

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Helmut Krcmar holds the Chair for Information Systems in the Department of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich , Germany since 2002 with a joint appointment to TUM School of Management. Krcmar served as Dean of the Faculty of Informatics from 10/2010 until 09/2013. In July 2018 he was elected Vice Dean TUM School of Management and Founding Dean TUM Campus Heilbronn. He is academic director of the SAP University Competence Center @ TUM. Krcmar has supervised more than 100 Ph.D. students. He is also speaker of the directory board of Fortiss GmbH, Research Institute of the Free Sta...

#15533

Efren Abueg

#15544

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Efren Reyes Abueg is a well-known and recognized Filipino-language creative writer, editor, author, novelist, short story writer, essayist, fictionist, professor, textbook writer, and anthologist in the Philippines. His works appeared on magazines such as Liwayway, Bulaklak, Tagumpay, Mod, and Homelife.

#15534

Neil Leach

#15545

Overall Influence

Neil Leach is a British architect and theorist. He is also a licensed architect, registered to practice in the United Kingdom. Education Leach holds a Master of Arts degree and a Diploma of Architecture degree from the University of Cambridge, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Nottingham.

#15535

Kurt Flasch

#15546

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Kurt Flasch is a German philosopher, who works mainly as a historian of medieval thought and of late antiquity. Flasch was professor at the Ruhr University Bochum. He was / is a member of several German and international Academies. In 2000, he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.

#15536

Wilfred G. Lambert

#15547

Overall Influence

1926 - 2011 (85 years)

Wilfred George Lambert FBA was a historian and archaeologist, a specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology. Early life Lambert was born in Birmingham, and, having won a scholarship, he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He obtained two degrees, in Classics and Oriental Languages, at Christ's College, University of Cambridge.

#15537

Hans Tuppy

#15548

Overall Influence

1924 - Present (102 years)

Hans Tuppy is an Austrian biochemist who participated in the sequencing of insulin, and became Austria's first university professor for biochemistry. He was Austrian Minister for Science and Research from 1987 to 1989.

#15538

William J. Cook

William J. Cook

#15549

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

William John Cook is an American operations researcher and mathematician, and Professor of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for theoretical and computational contributions to discrete optimization.

#15539

Ivana Markova

#15550

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Ivana Marková FBA is a Czech born social psychologist known for her work on language and the constructss of communication. Education and Academic career She was born in Czechoslovakia and studied philosophy and psychology at Charles University in Prague. In 1967 she moved to the United Kingdom. She initially worked as Research Fellow at Industrial Training Research Unit, University of London before moving to the University of Stirling, from which she retired in 2003 as an emeritus professor. She is the mother of Professor Ivana S. Marková, a distinguished psychiatrist in her own right.

#15540

Joseph Grundfest

#15551

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Joseph Grundfest is an American academic. He is the William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School and co-director of the Rock Center on Corporate Governance at Stanford University. He joined Stanford's faculty in 1990 after having served for more than four years as a Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, a position to which he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

#15541

Wally Lamb

#15552

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Wally Lamb is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club. He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 and has taught Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Connecticut.

#15542

Liam Gallagher

#15553

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

William John Paul Gallagher , commonly known as Liam Gallagher, is an English singer and songwriter. He achieved fame as the lead vocalist of the rock band Oasis from 1991 to 2009, and later fronted the rock band Beady Eye from 2009 to 2014, before starting a successful solo career in 2017. Oasis had various line-up changes, and Gallagher and his elder brother Noel were the only constant members. One of the most recognisable figures in British rock music, Gallagher is noted for his distinctive vocal style and outspoken, arrogant, and volatile personality.

#15543

Ford Doolittle

#15554

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

W. Ford Doolittle is an evolutionary and molecular biologist. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is also the winner of the 2013 Herzberg Medal of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the 2017 Killam Prize.

#15544

Aviv Regev

#15555

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Aviv Regev is a computational biologist and systems biologist and Executive Vice President and Head of Genentech Research and Early Development in Genentech/Roche. She is a core member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and professor at the Department of Biology of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Regev is a pioneer of single cell genomics and of computational and systems biology of gene regulatory circuits. She founded and leads the Human Cell Atlas project, together with Sarah Teichmann.

#15545

Henri Berestycki

#15556

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Henri Berestycki is a French mathematician who obtained his PhD from Université Paris VI – Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1975. His Dissertation was titled Contributions à l'étude des problèmes elliptiques non linéaires, and his doctoral advisor was Haïm Brezis. He was an L.E. Dickson Instructor in Mathematics at the University of Chicago from 1975–77, after which he returned to France to continue his research. He has made many contributions in nonlinear analysis, ranging from nonlinear elliptic equations, hamiltonian systems, spectral theory of elliptic operators, and with applications to the description of mathematical modelling of fluid mechanics and combustion.

#15546

Ai Weiwei

#15557

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of "tofu-dreg schools" in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport on 3 April, for "economic crimes". He was detained for 81 days without charge.

#15547

David Laibman

#15558

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

David Laibman is an American economist. He is a professor emeritus of economics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He is the editor emeritus of Science & Society, a quarterly Marxist journal founded in 1936.

#15548

Barbara Olson

#15559

Overall Influence

1955 - 2001 (46 years)

Barbara Kay Olson was an American lawyer and conservative television commentator who worked for CNN, Fox News Channel, and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 en route to a taping of Bill Maher's television show Politically Incorrect when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11 attacks.

#15549

Joel D. Cooper

#15560

Overall Influence

Joel D. Cooper, F.A.C.S., a thoracic surgeon, is known for having completed the first successful lung transplant and the first successful double lung transplant. Career Cooper graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1964, completed his fellowship, and then obtained his first faculty appointment in 1972 at the University of Toronto. He performed the world's first successful lung transplant on pulmonary fibrosis patient Tom Hall on November 7, 1983 at Toronto General Hospital. He performed the world's first successful double lung transplant on emphysema patient Ann Harrison in 1986 at the same hospital.

#15550

Mike Siegel

#15561

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Mike Siegel is an American radio talk show host. Siegel is a native of New York. He has worked hosted the nationally syndicated radio program Coast to Coast AM, and worked at stations from Seattle's KVI to Boston's WRKO and hosted a webcast. He has substituted for nationally syndicated conservative talk show hosts, including Michael Reagan.

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