The Most Influential People Across History

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#22201

Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh

Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh
#22212
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh is an Iranian political scientist and historian. He is a prominent Iranologist, geopolitics researcher, historian and political scientist. He teaches geopolitics at the Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran. He has been the advisor of the United Nations University. Mojtahedzadeh has published more than 20 books in Persian, English and Arabic on the geopolitics of Persian Gulf region and modern discourses in international relations. Since 2004, he has been a member of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. He has been a member of the British Institute of Iranian Studies since 1993.
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#22202

Hiram Chodosh

#22213
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Hiram E. Chodosh is the 5th and current president of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. Early life and education Hiram Chodosh was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1962. Raised in nearby Hillside, he graduated from Hillside High School.
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#22203

Peter J. Woolley

#22214
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Peter J. Woolley is an American political scientist, pollster, and founding director of PublicMind—an independent public opinion research group at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His research in public opinion and his commentary have been cited on a range of public issues including the effect of cable news on voter information, the constitutionality of public prayer, traffic safety, drone warfare, measuring support for independent candidates, and televising the US Supreme Court, He is also cited on New Jersey's gubernatorial politics since Governor James McGreevey through Governors Richard Codey, Jon Corzine, and Chris Christie.
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#22204

Michelene Wandor

#22215
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Michelene Dinah Wandor , known from 1963 to at least 1979 as Michelene Victor, is an English playwright, critic, broadcaster, poet, lecturer, and musician. Birth and education She was born Michelene Samuels in Essex, England, in 1940. Her parents, Abraham Samuels and Rosalia Wander, were early 20th-century Russian Jewish émigrés.
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#22205

Faith Evans

#22216
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Faith Renée Evans is an American R&B singer, songwriter and actress known as "The Godmother of Hip Hop Soul". Born in Lakeland, Florida, and raised in New Jersey, she relocated to Los Angeles in 1991 for a career in the music business. After working as a backing vocalist for Al B. Sure! and Christopher Williams, she became the first female artist to contract with Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records in 1994 at age 20. On the label, she featured on records with several label mates such as 112 and Carl Thomas, and released three platinum-certified studio albums between 1995 and 2001: Faith ...
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#22206

Giovanni Franzoni

Giovanni Franzoni
#22217
Overall Influence
1928 - 2017 (89 years)
Giovanni Battista Franzoni was an Italian Christian communist and dissident theologian. A former Benedictine, he was Abbot of St. Paul's Outside the Walls from 1964 to 1973. Having become involved in activism and politics, he was laicized by Pope Paul VI in 1976.
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#22207

Warren Zevon

Warren Zevon
#22218
Overall Influence
1947 - 2003 (56 years)
Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician. His most famous compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner". All three songs are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy , the title track of which is also well-known. He also wrote major hits that were recorded by other artists, including "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Accidentally Like a Martyr", "Mohammed's Radio", "Carmelita", and "Hasten Down the Wind".
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#22208

Stanley Nider Katz

#22219
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
Stanley Nider Katz is an American historian specializing in American legal and constitutional history and the history of philanthropy. He is director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies and director emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies. He graduated from Harvard University with an AB , MA , and PhD in American colonial history . He taught at Harvard from 1961 to 1965, serving as Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Leverett House from 1963 to 1965. He went on to teach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison , the University of Chicago Law School , Princeton University , and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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#22209

Patricia Resick

#22220
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Patricia A. Resick is an American researcher in the field of post traumatic stress disorder. She is known for developing cognitive processing therapy. Biography After earning her doctorate from the University of Georgia in 1976, Resick served as Assistant to Associate Professor at the University of South Dakota, 1976-1980, and Associate to Full Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1981–2003.
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#22210

Vira Vovk

Vira Vovk
#22221
Overall Influence
1926 - 2022 (96 years)
Vira Ostapivna Selianska Biography Born in Boryslav in 1926, she grew up in the Hutsul region in the town of Kuty . Vira Vovk's secondary education was completed in Lviv and Dresden. She studied Germanicss, music history and comparative literature at the University of Tübingen. In 1945, she emigrated with her mother to Portugal and in 1949, further to Brazil. She went to Rio de Janeiro where she completed her university studies. Post graduate studies were completed at Columbia University and Munich University.
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#22211

Norden E. Huang

#22222
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Norden Eh Huang is a Taiwanese-American Fluid dynamist known for the Hilbert–Huang transform. Huang was born in Hubei, China in 1937. He attended National Hsinchu Senior High School in Taiwan and graduated from National Taiwan University in 1960 before earning a doctorate in fluid mechanics and mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1967. He completed postdoctoral research at the University of Washington, then held adjunct professorships at the University of Delaware and University of North Carolina while working for NASA. Huang returned to Taiwan and began teaching at National Central University in 2006, as K.
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#22212

Herb Goldberg

#22223
Overall Influence
1937 - 2019 (82 years)
Herb Goldberg was the author of the book What Men Still Don't Know About Women, Relationships, and Love, previously authored The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege , related to the formative men's movement. He was a professor emeritus of psychology at California State University, Los Angeles and a practicing psychologist in Los Angeles.
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#22213

Eric Bach

#22224
Overall Influence
Eric Bach is an American computer scientist who has made contributions to computational number theory. Bach completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and got his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1984 under the supervision of Manuel Blum. He is currently a professor at the Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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#22214

Ronald C Kessler

#22225
Overall Influence
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#22215

Muriel Lezak

#22226
Overall Influence
1927 - 2021 (94 years)
Muriel Elaine Deutsch Lezak was an American neuropsychologist best known for her book Neuropsychological Assessment, widely accepted as the standard in the field. Her work has centred on the research, assessment, and rehabilitation of brain injury. Lezak was a professor of neurology at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine.
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#22216

Richard B. Flavell

Richard B. Flavell
#22227
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Richard Bailey Flavell CBE, FRS is a British molecular biologist, Chief Scientific Officer of Ceres, Inc., and was director of John Innes Centre from 1987 to 1998. Life He was educated at the University of Birmingham and at the University of East Anglia . Following that he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1967–69 where he studied mitochondrial structure and function in Neurospora crassa. He then took up an appointment at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, in the Department of Cytogenetics under the leadership of Ralph Riley. In the following ...
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#22217

Andrew Sandlin

#22228
Overall Influence
P. Andrew Sandlin is a Christian minister, cultural theologian, and author; the founder and president of the Center for Cultural Leadership in Coulterville, California; De Yong Distinguished Visiting Professor of Culture and Theology at Edinburg Theological Seminary in Pharr, Texas; and core faculty at Evan Runner International Academy for Cultural Leadership of the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity in Grimsby, Ontario. He was formerly president of the National Reform Association and executive vice president of the Chalcedon Foundation.
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#22218

Noel Swerdlow

#22229
Overall Influence
1941 - 2021 (80 years)
Noel Mark Swerdlow was a professor emeritus of history, astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He was a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology. Career Swerdlow specialized in the history of exact sciences, astronomy in particular, from antiquity through the 17th century. He earned his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1968; his doctoral dissertation, Ptolemy's Theory of the Distances and Sizes of the Planets: A Study of The Scientific Foundations of Medieval Cosmology, was supervised by Asger Aaboe.
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#22219

Matthias Ettrich

Matthias Ettrich
#22230
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Matthias Ettrich is a German computer scientist and founder of the KDE and LyX projects. Early life Ettrich was born in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany, and went to school in Beilstein while living with his parents in Oberstenfeld. He passed the Abitur in 1991. Ettrich studied for his MSc in Computer Science at the Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science at the University of Tübingen.
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#22220

Leo Blair

#22231
Overall Influence
1923 - 2012 (89 years)
Leo Charles Lynton Blair was a British barrister and law lecturer at Durham University. He was the author of the book The Commonwealth Public Service. He was the father of Sir Tony Blair, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, and of Sir William Blair, a High Court judge.
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#22221

Christian Drosten

#22232
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Christian Heinrich Maria Drosten is a German virologist whose research focus is on novel viruses . During the COVID-19 pandemic, Drosten came to national prominence as an expert on the implications and actions required to combat the illness in Germany.
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#22222

John W. Boyer

#22233
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
John W. Boyer is an American historian and academic administrator. He is Senior Advisor to the President and the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He served as Dean of the College from 1992 until 2023, making him the longest-tenured dean in the College's history.
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#22223

Horst-Eberhard Richter

Horst-Eberhard Richter
#22234
Overall Influence
1923 - 2011 (88 years)
Horst-Eberhard Richter was a German psychoanalyst, psychosomatist and social philosopher. The author of numerous books was also regarded by many as the große alte Mann of the Federal German Peace movement.
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#22224

Mthuli Ncube

#22235
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Mthuli Ncube , is the Finance Minister in the Zimbabwe cabinet appointed by president Emmerson Mnangagwa and past chief economist and Vice President of the African Development Bank. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Finance from Cambridge University. On 7 September 2018, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced Zimbabwe's new cabinet where he named Professor Mthuli Ncube as the Finance Minister.
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#22225

Taylor Hardwick

Taylor Hardwick
#22236
Overall Influence
1925 - 2014 (89 years)
Taylor Hardwick was an American architect, interior designer, filmmaker, and educator who designed hundreds of buildings throughout northeast Florida, predominantly in and near the city of Jacksonville.
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#22226

Vojislav Koštunica

#22237
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Vojislav Koštunica is a Serbian former politician who served as the last president of FR Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003 and as the prime minister of Serbia from 2004 to 2008. Koštunica won the 2000 Yugoslav presidential election as a candidate of a broad alliance Democratic Opposition of Serbia , which led to overthrow of Slobodan Milošević and the withdrawal of international sanctions against Yugoslavia. He strictly opposed cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and his party left the coalition government in protest at the decision to extradite Slobodan Milošević to the ICTY.
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#22227

Nicky Hopkins

Nicky Hopkins
#22238
Overall Influence
1944 - 1994 (50 years)
Nicholas Christian Hopkins was an English pianist and organist. He performed on many popular and enduring British and American rock music recordings from the 1960s to the 1990s, most notably on songs recorded by the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, the Who, the Beatles, the Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Airplane, Rod Stewart, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Hollies, Cat Stevens, Carly Simon, Harry Nilsson, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Jerry Garcia, Jeff Beck, Joe Cocker, Art Garfunkel, Badfinger, Graham Parker, Gary Moore, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Donovan. He is...
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#22228

Peter K. Vogt

#22239
Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Peter K. Vogt is an American molecular biologist, virologist and geneticist. His research focuses on retroviruses and viral and cellular oncogenes. Education and academic appointments Vogt received his undergraduate education in biology at the University of Würzburg and in 1959 was awarded his Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen for work done at the Max Planck Institute for Virology in Tübingen. From 1959 to 1962 he was Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fellow in the laboratory of Harry Rubin at the University of California in Berkeley and started to work on Rous sarcoma virus. He taught microb...
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#22229

Joseph D. Kearney

Joseph D. Kearney
#22240
Overall Influence
Joseph Dinneen Kearney is Dean and Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a scholar of civil litigation practice and procedure. Biography Kearney graduated valedictorian at St. Ignatius College Prep and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1986 with a B.A. degree in Classics. He proceeded to Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. His 3L thesis was a study of the recusal of judges in medieval Europe. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals...
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#22230

Chas S. Clifton

#22241
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Chas S. Clifton is an American academic, author and historian who specialises in the fields of English studies and Pagan studies. Clifton currently holds a teaching position in English at Colorado State University-Pueblo, prior to which he taught at Pueblo Community College.
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#22231

Christian Hellwig

#22242
Overall Influence
Christian Hellwig is a German economic theorist and macroeconomist who did research in the field of global games. He is the editor of the Journal of Economic Theory. Biography Hellwig obtained a B.A. in Economics at the University of Lausanne in 1998, a M.Sc. in Econometrics and mathematical economics by the London School of Economics in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Economics at LSE in 2003 with his thesis entitled "Money, Intermediation and Coordination in Decentralised Markets". He spent the last two years of his doctorate as a visiting scholar at MIT. He became an assistant professor at UCLA in 2002 and became a tenured associate professor in 2007.
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#22232

Roland G. Fryer Jr.

Roland G. Fryer Jr.
#22243
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. is an American economist and professor at Harvard University. Following a difficult childhood, Fryer earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington, but once there chose to concentrate instead on academics. Graduating cum laude in years, he went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Pennsylvania State University in 2002 and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago with Gary Becker. He joined the faculty of Harvard University and rapidly rose through the academic ranks; in 2007, at age 30, he became the second-youngest professor, and the youngest African-American, ever to be awarded tenure at Harvard.
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#22233

Elina Svitolina

Elina Svitolina
#22244
Overall Influence
1994 - Present (32 years)
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and 108 in doubles by the Women's Tennis Association . Svitolina has won 17 WTA Tour singles titles and finished runner-up three times.
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#22234

Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon
#22245
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Los Angeles, California, where her father was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating from Los Angeles's Otis College of Art and Design, she moved to New York City to begin an art career. There, she formed Sonic Youth with Thurston Moore in 1981. She and Moore married in 1984, and the band released a total of six albums on independent labels before the end of the 1980s.
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#22235

Aziz al-Azmeh

#22246
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Aziz Al-Azmeh is a Syrian academic and professor at the Department of History, Central European University, Vienna, Austria. Among other books and papers, he published Islams and Modernities. In May 1993, he received the Republican Order of Merit, for services to Arab culture, from former President of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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#22236

Audrey Truschke

#22247
Overall Influence
Audrey Truschke is a historian of South Asia and an associate professor at Rutgers University. Her work focuses on inter-community relations in medieval South Asia, especially during the Mughal Empire. In 2017, she was conferred with the John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History by American Historical Association.
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#22237

Nidhi Eoseewong

Nidhi Eoseewong
#22248
Overall Influence
1940 - 2023 (83 years)
Nidhi Eoseewong was a Thai historian, writer, and political commentator. Biography Nidhi Eoseewong was born on 23 May 1940, to an ethnic Chinese family in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He studied at Assumption College Sriracha in Chonburi Province, and went on to earn bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Upon graduation, he accepted a position teaching history at Chiang Mai University, where he would go on to spend the majority of his professional career. He took temporary leave to continue his studies, completing a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1976.
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#22238

Edward J. Larson

Edward J. Larson
#22249
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Edward John Larson is an American historian and legal scholar. He is university professor of history and holds the Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University. He was formerly Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law and Richard B. Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia. He continues to serve as a senior fellow of the University of Georgia's Institute of Higher Education, and is currently a professor at Pepperdine School of Law, where he teaches several classes including Property for the 1Ls.
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#22239

Muhammed Şahin

#22250
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Muhammed Şahin is a Turkish academic. He is the former rector of Istanbul Technical University , and the founding rector of MEF University . He studied at Pazar Sivritepe Village Primary School, Pazar Secondary School and Pazar High School, He graduated from the Department of Geodesy and Photogrammetry Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Istanbul Technical University in 1987. Şahin received his master's degree from University College London 1991, and his PhD degree from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1994.
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#22240

Wayne S. Vucinich

#22251
Overall Influence
1913 - 2005 (92 years)
Wayne S. Vucinich was an American historian. Following World War II, he was one of the founders of Russian, Slavic, East European and Byzantine studies at Stanford University, where he spent his entire academic career.
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#22241

David Greenaway

#22252
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Sir David Greenaway DL is a British economist. He is professor of economics and was previously the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, having succeeded Sir Colin Campbell on 1 October 2008. In September 2016, he announced his decision to retire, and stepped down at the end of September 2017 with Shearer West succeeding Greenaway.
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#22242

Raymond Jeanloz

Raymond Jeanloz
#22253
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Raymond Jeanloz is a professor of earth and planetary science and of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Educated at the California Institute of Technology, Amherst College and at Deep Springs College, he has contributed research fundamental to understanding of the composition of the Earth and the behavior of materials under high temperatures and pressures. He is working with colleagues to investigate the conditions inside supergiant exoplanets. Jeanloz is also a prominent figure in nuclear weapons policy, chairing the Committee on International Security and Arms Control at the National Academy of Sciences.
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#22243

David Todd Wilkinson

David Todd Wilkinson
#22254
Overall Influence
1935 - 2002 (67 years)
David Todd Wilkinson was an American cosmologist, specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation . Education Wilkinson was born in Hillsdale, Michigan on May 13, 1935, and earned his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Michigan under the supervision of H. Richard Crane.
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#22244

Joseph R. Ecker

#22255
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Joseph R. Ecker is an American plant biologist and molecular biologist. He is Professor of Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory and Director of the Genomic Analysis Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He is also an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He holds the Salk International Council Chair in Genetics.
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#22245

William Melvin Kelley

William Melvin Kelley
#22256
Overall Influence
1937 - 2017 (80 years)
William Melvin Kelley was an African-American novelist and short-story writer. He is perhaps best known for his debut novel, A Different Drummer, published in 1962. He was also a university professor and creative writing instructor. In 2008, he received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. Kelley is credited with being the first to commit the term "woke" to print, in the title of a 1962 New York Times op-ed on the use of African-American slang by beatniks: "If You're Woke, You Dig It".
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#22246

Enrique Graue Wiechers

Enrique Graue Wiechers
#22257
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Enrique Luis Graue Wiechers is a Mexican ophthalmologist and academic who served as rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 2015 to 2023. Biography Graue Wiechers entered Preparatory School No. 4 in 1967 and was part of various committees and student groups in the student protests of the late 1960s, including being the student body president of the school in 1969. He graduated from the UNAM Faculty of Medicine in 1975 as a surgical doctor and then in 1978 with a specialty in ophthalmology. He later studied Biology and Surgery of Cornea Transplants at the University of Flor...
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#22247

Pierre Birnbaum

Pierre Birnbaum
#22258
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Pierre Birnbaum is a French historian and sociologist. Bibliography 1977: Les Sommets de l’État. Essai sur l'élite du pouvoir en France, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, .1979: .1982: La Logique de l’État, Fayard, 234 p. 1983: The Sociology of the State, University of Chicago Press1984: Dimensions du pouvoir, Presses Universitaires de France, 261 p. 1988: Un mythe politique : la « République juive ». De Léon Blum à Mendès France, Fayard.1992: Les Fous de la République. Histoire politique des Juifs d'État, de Gambetta à Vichy, Fayard, rééd. "Poche" Éditions du Seuil, 1994. 1994: L’Affaire Dreyfus : La République en péril, coll.
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#22248

Michael Resnik

#22259
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Michael David Resnik is a leading contemporary American philosopher of mathematics. Biography Resnik obtained his B.A. in mathematics and philosophy at Yale University in 1960, and his PhD in Philosophy at Harvard University in 1964. He wrote his thesis on Frege. He was appointed Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1967, Professor in 1975, and University Distinguished Professor in 1988. He is Professor Emeritus of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently resides in rural Chatham County, North Carolina.
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#22249

Faiza Al-Kharafi

#22260
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Faiza Mohammed Al-Kharafi is a Kuwaiti chemist and academic. She was the president of Kuwait University from 1993 to 2002, and the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East. She is the vice president of the World Academy of Sciences.
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#22250

George Papandreou

#22261
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
George Andreas Papandreou is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as an MP for Movement for Change. Belonging to a political dynasty of long standing, he served under his father, then-prime minister Andreas Papandreou as Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs . He served as Minister for Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Costas Simitis from 1999 to 2004. Papandreou was leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement party, which his father founded, from February 2004 until March 2012, and has been President of the ...
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