The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people
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Robert Blair Kaiser
#16762
Overall Influence
1931 - 2015 (84 years)
Robert Blair Kaiser was an American author and journalist, best known for his writing on the Catholic Church. Biography Kaiser trained as a Jesuit from 1949 to 1959. He left the order and his intention to be ordained to the priesthood, to become a journalist and to marry.
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Morton N. Cohen
#16763
Overall Influence
1921 - 2017 (96 years)
Morton Norton Cohen was a Canadian-born American author and scholar who was a professor at City University of New York. He is best known for his studies of children's author Lewis Carroll including the 1995 biography Lewis Carroll: A Biography.
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John Makepeace Bennett
#16764
Overall Influence
1921 - 2010 (89 years)
John Makepeace Bennett was an early Australian computer scientist. He was Australia's first professor of computer science and the founding president of the Australian Computer Society. His pioneering career included work on early computers such as EDSAC, Ferranti Mark 1* and SILLIAC, and spreading the word about the use of computers through computing courses and computing associations.
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Diana Chapman Walsh
#16765
Overall Influence
Diana Chapman Walsh was President of Wellesley College from 1993 to 2007. During her tenure, the college revised its curriculum and expanded its programs in global education, internships and service learning, and interdisciplinary teaching and learning. The faculty established new majors in environmental studies, quantitative reasoning, cinema and media studies, neurosciences, and astrophysics. Japanese, Arabic and Korean languages were added to the curriculum as well, and a new department of East Asian Languages and Literatures was launched.
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Turgut Özal
#16766
Overall Influence
1927 - 1993 (66 years)
Halil Turgut Özal was a prominent Turkish politician, bureaucrat, engineer and statesman who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993. He previously served as the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey from 1983 to 1989 as the leader of the Motherland Party. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey in the military government of Bülend Ulusu between 1980 and 1982.
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Alan Smithers
#16767
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Alan George Smithers is an English academic psychologist and public policy advisor best known for his research and publications in the field of education. Early life Smithers was born in the East End of London, the son of a Billingsgate fish porter. His mother worked in a sweet factory, and he claims he lived on fish and Turkish delight during the war. He was educated at Barking Abbey Grammar School then King's College London, gaining a first class honours degree BSc and a PhD in plant physiology in 1966. He later gained an MSc in the psychology and sociology of education and a PhD in education in 1974 from the University of Bradford.
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Henry de Ferrers
#16768
Overall Influence
Henry de Ferrers , magnate and administrator, was a Norman who after the 1066 Norman conquest was awarded extensive lands in England. Origins He was the eldest son of Vauquelin de Ferrers and in about 1040 inherited his father's lands centred on the village of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire.
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Frank Webster
#16769
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Frank Webster is a British sociologist. His critical writing on the "information society" has been translated into many languages, widely discussed and criticized. In Theories of the Information Society, he examined six analytically separable conceptions of the information society, arguing that all are suspect, so much so that the idea of an information society cannot be easily sustained.
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Thomas Sutherland
#16770
Overall Influence
1931 - 2016 (85 years)
Thomas Sutherland , Dean of Agriculture at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad members near his Beirut home on June 9, 1985. He was released on November 18, 1991, at the same time as Terry Waite, having been held hostage for 2,353 days.
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Eric Dickerson
#16771
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Eric Demetric Dickerson is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League for 11 seasons. Dickerson played college football for the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University and was recognized as an All-American. He was selected in the first round of the 1983 NFL Draft and played professionally for the Los Angeles Rams, Indianapolis Colts, Los Angeles Raiders, and Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. During his NFL career, he rushed for over 13,000 yards. He holds the NFL's single-season rushing record with 2,105 yards, set in 1984. Dickerson was inducted into the ...
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Michael Karas
#16772
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Michael Karas is a German physical chemistry scientist and Professor, known for his researches on matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization , a technique in mass spectrometry. Michael Karas studied Chemistry at the University of Bonn, where he obtained a PhD in the field of physical chemistry in 1982. From 1983 to 1986, he was part of the Hillenkamp research group in the Institut für Biophysik at Goethe University Frankfurt. In 1987, he followed Hillenkamp at Münster and both formed a group in the Faculty of Medicine at University of Münster. He returned to Frankfurt in 1995 as a full profe...
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Diana Schaub
#16773
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Diana J. Schaub is professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland. Schaub received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She teaches and writes on a wide range of issues in political philosophy and American political thought. Schaub was also a member of The President's Council on Bioethics.
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Yujiro Kawamata
#16774
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Yujiro Kawamata is a Japanese mathematician working in algebraic geometry. Career Kawamata completed the master's course at the University of Tokyo in 1977. He was an Assistant at the University of Mannheim from 1977 to 1979 and a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from 1981 to 1983. Kawamata is now a professor at the University of Tokyo. He won the Mathematical Society of Japan Autumn award and the Japan Academy of Sciences award for his work in algebraic geometry.
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Denny Laine
#16775
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Denny Laine is an English musician, singer, and songwriter, known as a founder of two major rock bands: The Moody Blues, with whom he played from 1964 to 1966, and Wings, with whom he played from 1971 to 1981. Laine has worked with a variety of artists and groups over a six-decade career, and continues to record and perform as a solo artist. In 2018, Laine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Moody Blues.
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Patrick Michaels
#16776
Overall Influence
1950 - 2022 (72 years)
Patrick J. Michaels was an American agricultural climatologist. Michaels was a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute until 2019. Until 2007, he was research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, where he had worked from 1980.
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Diana Nyad
#16777
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Diana Nyad is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan in record time, and in 1979 when she swam from North Bimini, The Bahamas, to Juno Beach, Florida . In 2013, on her fifth attempt and at age 64, she succeeded in swimming from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida, completing the third known swim crossing of the Florida Straits after Walter Poenisch in 1978, and Susie Maroney in 1997. Both of those earlier efforts involved a shark cage and, in Poenisch's case, fins and several short rests on his escort craft.
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James May
#16778
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
James Daniel May is an English television presenter and journalist. He is best known as a co-presenter of the motoring programme Top Gear alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond from 2003 until 2015. He also served as a director of the production company W. Chump & Sons, which has since ceased operating. He is a co-presenter of the television series The Grand Tour for Amazon Prime Video, alongside his former Top Gear colleagues, Clarkson and Hammond.
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Alexandra Bellow
#16779
Overall Influence
1935 - Present (91 years)
Alexandra Bellow is a Romanian-American mathematician, who has made contributions to the fields of ergodic theory, probability and analysis. Biography Bellow was born in Bucharest, Romania, on August 30, 1935, as Alexandra Bagdasar. Her parents were both physicians. Her mother, Florica Bagdasar , was a child psychiatrist. Her father, , was a neurosurgeon. She received her M.S. in mathematics from the University of Bucharest in 1957, where she met and married her first husband, mathematician Cassius Ionescu-Tulcea. She accompanied her husband to the United States in 1957 and received her Ph.D.
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Nikolay Kradin
#16780
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Nikolay Nikolaevich Kradin is a Russian anthropologist and archaeologist. Since 1985 he has been a Research Fellow of the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Vladivostok. He was Head and Professor of the Department of Social Anthropology in the Far-Eastern National Technical University , and also Head and Professor of the Department of World History, Archaeology and Anthropology in the Far-Eastern Federal University . Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2011 and full Member of the Russian Academy of ...
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David Fromkin
#16781
Overall Influence
1932 - 2017 (85 years)
David Henry Fromkin was an American historian, best known for his interpretive account of the Middle East, A Peace to End All Peace , in which he recounts the role European powers played between 1914 and 1922 in creating the modern Middle East. The book was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Fromkin wrote seven books, ending in 2007 with The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners.
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James S. Voss
#16782
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
James Shelton Voss is a retired United States Army colonel and NASA astronaut. During his time with NASA, Voss flew in space five times on board the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. He also served as deputy of Flight Operations for the Space Station Program Mission Integration and Operations Office. While participating in ISS Expedition 2, he and Susan Helms conducted an 8-hour and 56 minute spacewalk, the longest to date.
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E. J. Lowe
#16783
Overall Influence
1950 - 2014 (64 years)
Edward Jonathan Lowe , usually cited as E. J. Lowe but known personally as Jonathan Lowe, was a British philosopher and academic. He was Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. Biography Lowe was born in Dover, England. His secondary education was at Bushey Grammar School, and he subsequently studied at the University of Cambridge, 1968–72 , and the University of Oxford, 1972–75 .
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James S. Fishkin
#16784
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
James S. Fishkin is an American political scientist and communications scholar. He holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, where he serves as a professor of communication and, by courtesy, political science. He also acts as the director of Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab. Fishkin is widely cited for his work on deliberative democracy, with his proposition of Deliberative Polling in 1988 being particularly influential. Together with Robert Luskin, Fishkin's work has led to over 100 deliberative polls in 28 co...
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Hsue-Chu Tsien
#16785
Overall Influence
1914 - 1997 (83 years)
Hsue-Chu Tsien, COL , was a Chinese-born American aeronautical and mechanical engineer who played important roles in aircraft building in both China and afterward the United States. Biography Tsien was born in 1915 in Hangzhou, Republic of China. Tsien was a 33rd-generation descendant of Qian Liu, King of Wuyue. Specifically, his line was descended from King Qian Hongzong. Tsien studied at Zhejiang Anding School and Hangzhou High School.
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Wolf Lepenies
#16786
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Wolf Lepenies is a German sociologist, political scientist, and author. Biography Lepenies was born near Allenstein, East Prussia , in 1945 his family fled from the Soviet Army's assault on East Prussia to Schleswig-Holstein and from there to North Rhine-Westfalia. He eventually grew up in Koblenz. He studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia and graduated with a promotion in 1967. In 1970 he habilitated at the Free University of Berlin. He traveled abroad, first to the Maison des sciences de l’homme in Paris, then to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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Gerald Stern
#16787
Overall Influence
1925 - 2022 (97 years)
Gerald Daniel Stern was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Raritan Valley Community College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. From 2009 until his death, he was a distinguished poet-in-residence and faculty member of Drew University's graduate program for a Master of Fine Arts in poetry.
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Laurie R. Santos
#16788
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Laurie Renee Santos is an American cognitive scientist and professor of psychology at Yale University. She is the director of Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Director of Yale's Canine Cognition Lab, and former Head of Yale's Silliman College. She has been a featured TED speaker and has been listed in Popular Science as one of their "Brilliant Ten" young scientists in 2007 as well as in Time magazine as a "Leading Campus Celebrity" in 2013.
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Chel Diokno
#16789
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Jose Manuel Tadeo Icasiano "Chel" Diokno is a Filipino lawyer, educator, and human rights advocate. He serves as chairman of the Free Legal Assistance Group , the founding dean of the De La Salle University College of Law , and the chairman of the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation. He has served as a special counsel of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee.
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Albert Wohlstetter
#16790
Overall Influence
1913 - 1997 (84 years)
Albert James Wohlstetter was an American political scientist noted for his influence on U.S. nuclear strategy during the Cold War. He and his wife Roberta Wohlstetter, an accomplished historian and intelligence expert, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan on November 7, 1985.
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Peter Voulkos
#16791
Overall Influence
1924 - 2002 (78 years)
Peter Voulkos was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. He established the ceramics department at the Los Angeles County Art Institute and at UC Berkeley.
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Robert Gerwarth
#16792
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
Robert Gerwarth is a German historian and author who specialises in European history, with an emphasis on German history. Since finishing a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford, he has held fellowships at Princeton, Harvard, the NIOD and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia. He teaches at University College Dublin , Ireland.
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Jürgen Ehlers
#16793
Overall Influence
1929 - 2008 (79 years)
Jürgen Ehlers was a German physicist who contributed to the understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. From graduate and postgraduate work in Pascual Jordan's relativity research group at Hamburg University, he held various posts as a lecturer and, later, as a professor before joining the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich as a director. In 1995, he became the founding director of the newly created Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany.
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Ian Haney López
#16794
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Ian F. Haney López is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He works in the area of racism and racial justice in American law. Life and career Haney López born on July 6, 1964, in Hawaii, where he was raised. His father, Terrence Haney, is from Washington. His mother, Maria López Haney, is from El Salvador. He changed his surname from Haney to Haney López while a graduate student at Princeton University to honor the Latino tradition of using both his parents' names, though also to resist the "honorary whiteness" that is sometimes offe...
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Rusi Taleyarkhan
#16795
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Rusi P. Taleyarkhan is a nuclear engineer and former academic fraudster who has been a faculty member in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University since 2003. Prior to that, he was on staff at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He obtained his Bachelor of Technology degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1977 and MS and PhD degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1978 and 1982 respectively. He also holds an MBA from RPI.
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William H. Baxter
#16796
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
William Hubbard Baxter III is an American linguist specializing in the history of the Chinese language and best known for his work on the reconstruction on Old Chinese. Biography Baxter earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1977 at Cornell University. In 1983 he joined the University of Michigan, where he is currently Professor of Linguistics and Asian Languages and Cultures.
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Dan Reeves
#16797
Overall Influence
1944 - 2022 (78 years)
Daniel Edward Reeves was an American professional football running back and coach in the National Football League . During his 38 years in the NFL, Reeves participated in nine Super Bowls, the third most for an individual. He was a head coach for 23 seasons, a position he held with the Denver Broncos from 1981 to 1992, the New York Giants from 1993 to 1996, and the Atlanta Falcons from 1997 to 2003. As a player, he spent his eight-season career with the Dallas Cowboys, who signed him as an undrafted free agent in 1965.
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John Szwed
#16798
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
John F. Szwed is the John M. Musser Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, African American Studies and Film Studies at Yale University and an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, where he previously served as the Center's Director and Professor of Music and Jazz Studies. Szwed is the author of many books on jazz and American music, including studies of Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, Alan Lomax, Billie Holiday and Harry Everett Smith.
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Marc Davis
#16799
Overall Influence
1913 - 2000 (87 years)
Marc Fraser Davis was a prominent American artist and animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, the famed core animators of Disney animated films, and was revered for his knowledge and understanding of visual aesthetics. After his work on One Hundred and One Dalmatians he moved to Walt Disney Imagineering to work on rides for Disneyland and Walt Disney World before retiring in 1978.
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Barbara Hambly
#16800
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Barbara Hambly is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. She is the author of the bestselling Benjamin January mystery series featuring a free man of color, a musician and physician, in New Orleans in the antebellum years. She also wrote a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln.
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Glenn Ford
#16801
Overall Influence
1916 - 2006 (90 years)
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford was a Canadian-American actor who often portrayed ordinary men in unusual circumstances. Ford was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, who had a career that lasted more than 50 years. Although he played in many genres of movies, some of his most significant roles were in the film noirs Gilda and The Big Heat , and the high school angst film Blackboard Jungle . However, it was for comedies or westerns that he received acting laurels, including three Golden Globe Nominations for Best Actor in a Comedy movie, winning for Pocketful of Miracles .
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Bang Wong
#16802
Overall Influence
Bang Wong is the creative director of the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard University. He is considered "one of the leading innovators at the interface of art and medicine" by Nature Medicine, and is a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow and board member of the Association of Medical Illustrators. He holds a master of science in immunology and a master of arts in medical and biological illustration from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he also serves as an adjunct assistant professor. In 2010, he launched a monthly column in Nature Methods about the visual presentation of sc...
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Lyudmila Chernykh
#16803
Overall Influence
1935 - 2017 (82 years)
Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh was a Ukrainian-Russian-Soviet astronomer, wife and colleague of Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets. Professional career In 1959 she graduated from Irkutsk State Pedagogical Institute . Between 1959 and 1963 she worked in the Time and Frequency Laboratory of the All-Union Research Institute of Physico-Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements in Irkutsk, where she did astrometrical observations for the Time Service.
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Mary Frances Berry
#16804
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Mary Frances Berry is an American historian, writer, lawyer, activist and professor who focuses on U.S. constitutional and legal, African-American history. Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought where she teaches American legal history at the Department of History, School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Previously, Berry was provost of the College of Behavioral and Social Science at University of Maryland, College Park, and was the first African American chancellor...
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Pete Souza
#16805
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Peter Joseph Souza is an American photojournalist, the former chief official White House photographer for Presidents of the United States Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama and the former director of the White House Photography Office. He was a photographer with The Chicago Tribune, stationed at the Washington, D.C., bureau from 1998 to 2007; during this period he also followed the rise of then-Senator Obama to the presidency.
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Taqi Yazdi
#16806
Overall Influence
1934 - 2021 (87 years)
Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi Giwachi was an Iranian Shia scholar, political theorist and philosopher who served as the spiritual leader of the Front of Islamic Revolution Stability. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for choosing the Supreme Leader, where he headed a minority faction. He had been called 'the most conservative' and the most 'powerful' clerical oligarch in Iran's leading center of religious learning, the city of Qom. Many of his students have gone on to "occupy sensitive administrative and security posts" in the Islamic Republic, serving as "guardian...
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Anton Kotzig
#16807
Overall Influence
1919 - 1991 (72 years)
Anton Kotzig was a Slovak–Canadian mathematician, expert in statistics, combinatorics and graph theory. The Ringel–Kotzig conjecture on graceful labeling of trees is named after him and Gerhard Ringel. Kotzig's theorem on the degrees of vertices in convex polyhedra is also named after him.
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David M. Schwarz
#16808
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
David M. Schwarz is an American architect. He is the President & CEO of Washington, D.C.-based David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc. and serves as the chairman of the Yale School of Architecture's Dean's Council.
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Charles S. Peskin
#16809
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Charles Samuel Peskin is an American mathematician known for his work in the mathematical modeling of blood flow in the heart. Such calculations are useful in the design of artificial heart valves. From this work has emerged an original computational method for fluid-structure interaction that is now called the “immersed boundary method", which allows the coupling between deformable immersed structures and fluid flows to be handled in a computationally tractable way. With his students and colleagues, Peskin also has worked on mathematical models of such systems as the inner ear, arterial pu...
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Antonio Lazcano
#16810
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Antonio Eusebio Lazcano Araujo Reyes is a Mexican biology researcher and professor of the School of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. He has studied the origin and early evolution of life for more than 35 years.
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Roger Maddux
#16811
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Roger Maddux is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic logic. He completed his B.A. at Pomona College in 1969, and his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1978, where he was one of Alfred Tarski's last students. His career has been at Iowa State University, where he fills a joint appointment in computer science and mathematics.
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