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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.

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#2801

Wilfred D. Iwan

#137585

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#2802

Joseph T. C. Liu

#137676

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Joseph Tsu Chieh Liu is an engineer. Liu completed a bachelor's degree, followed by a Master of Science in Engineering, at the University of Michigan in 1958. He worked for a Convair for a year and was based in Fort Worth, Texas, before pursuing a doctorate at the California Institute of Technology in 1964. Liu subsequently worked for the Gas Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University's Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences. He joined the Brown University faculty in 1966, and upon his retirement, was granted emeritus status. Liu was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society...

#2803

Roger Hendrix

#137726

Overall Influence

1943 - 2017 (74 years)

Roger W. Hendrix was an American biologist, focusing in bacteriophage biology, and a Distinguished Professor at University of Pittsburgh. He studied biology at the California Institute of Technology and went on to obtain his Ph.D. from Harvard University under the supervision of James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. In 2009, he received the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing.

#2804

Jay Richmond Winkler

#137782

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#2805

Mark S. Goldman

#137818

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#2806

Fritz Manfred Neubauer

#138028

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#2807

Edward Kellenberger

#138094

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#2808

Zoltán Géza Soos

#138166

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#2809

Om P. Gandhi

#138212

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (90 years)

#2810

Russell S Phillips

#138370

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#2811

Robert W. Clayton

#138371

Overall Influence

#2812

Kenneth I. Kellermann

#138424

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#2813

Evgenia Zabolotskaya

#138484

Overall Influence

Evgenia Andreevna Zabolotskaya was a Russian-American physicist known for her contributions to nonlinear acoustics. The Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya equation and the Khokhlov–Zabolotskaya–Kuznetsov equation in nonlinear acoustics are named in part for her.

#2814

Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan

#138553

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#2815

John Bertram Adams

#138619

Overall Influence

#2816

Mark A. Pallansch

#138662

Overall Influence

#2817

Elizabeth D. Getzoff

#138716

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#2818

Jack Denney Griffith

#138771

Overall Influence

#2819

Ali Mortazavi

#138938

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#2820

Joseph A. Zasadzinski

#138939

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Joseph Anthony Zasadzinski , also known as "Joe Z" is an American chemical engineer from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by his Division of Biological Physics in 2008, for "applying physical principles of self-assembly, directed assembly and bio-mimicry to create well-controlled lipid structures such as unilamellar vesicles and "vesosomes" for biomedical applications such as targeted drug-delivery vehicles and treatments for respiratory diseases, and for developing new microscopies." Zasa...

#2821

Carmala Garzione

#139156

Overall Influence

Carmala Nina Garzione is an American geologist who is Professor of Geosciences and Dean of the College of Science at the University of Arizona. Previously, she was Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and prior to that she was a professor at the University of Rochester. She was awarded the 2009 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.

#2822

Timothy J. Brodribb

#139172

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#2823

Sudhir Agrawal

#139173

Overall Influence

#2824

Martin B. Einhorn

#139237

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (83 years)

Martin B. Einhorn is an American theoretical physicist. Education and career Einhorn received in 1965 his B.S. with honors from Caltech and in 1968 his Ph.D. from Princeton University under Marvin Leonard Goldberger. After postdoctoral positions at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory , he became a staff physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory . In 1976, he joined the faculty of the physics department of the University of Michigan where he was eventually promoted to full professor and retired as professor emeritus in 2004.

#2825

Joycelyn Harrison

#139309

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Joycelyn Harrison is an African-American engineer who is Associate Dean of the College of Aeronautics and Engineering at Kent State University. In 2006 she was awarded the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. Her research considers the development of novel piezoelectric materials.

#2826

Renyi Zhang

#139315

Overall Influence

Renyi Zhang is an American geoscientist, currently a university distinguished professor and Harold G. Haynes Chair at Texas A&M University and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Geophysical Union.

#2827

Michael C. Cross

#139370

Overall Influence

#2828

Brian Olshansky

#139385

Overall Influence

#2829

Herbert J. Meiselman

#139498

Overall Influence

#2830

Zdeněk Sekanina

#139500

Overall Influence

#2831

Howard Sachs

#139664

Overall Influence

1926 - 2011 (85 years)

Howard Sachs , was a biochemist who helped pioneer the study of neuroendocrinology. His discoveries concerning the production of the hormone vasopressin laid the foundation for the field of hormone biosynthesis.

#2832

Rene Hurlemann

#139676

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Rene Hurlemann is a German psychiatrist and Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oldenburg. Early career Rene Hurlemann completed his M.D. at the University of Bonn in 2001, with a doctoral thesis on intracranial recordings in epilepsy patients. Later, he focused on stress-related emotion-memory interactions and received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Maastricht University in 2006 and 2007 respectively. In 2003 he became a resident physician at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn and by 2013 became the head of the Medical Psychology Division at the same place.

#2833

Samuel Graham

#139682

Overall Influence

Samuel Graham, Jr. is an American engineer and currently the dean of the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. He was previously the Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair and Professor at Georgia Tech. Graham is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and serves on the Advisory Board of the Air Force Research Laboratory.

#2834

Charles Marcus

#139695

Overall Influence

#2835

James L. Leighton

#139830

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

James Lincoln Leighton is a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University. He is known for his non-aldol approaches to polyketides. As an undergraduate at Yale University , Leighton worked for synthetic chemist Samuel J. Danishefsky. After 2 years with Merck Research Laboratories, Leighton began his graduate studies with Abbott and James Lawrence Professor David A. Evans at Harvard University , culminating in the total syntheses of both Calyculin A and Zaragozic acid. Leighton continued his chemical studies as an NSF postdoctoral fellow with Sheldon Emery Professor Eric N.

#2836

Ned Goldwasser

#139852

Overall Influence

1919 - 2016 (97 years)

Edwin L. Goldwasser was an American physicist and Co-Founder of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the field of particle physics. He was a Professor of Physics Emeritus and former Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois, as well as the first Deputy Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. His interests were photons, cosmic rays, charged particles and elementary particles. He was Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Physical Society . He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1957–1958.

#2837

Clement Pryke

#139897

Overall Influence

Clement Laurence Pryke is an English-American physicist, focusing in astrophysics and cosmology, particularly on the cosmic microwave background. Education and career Pryke worked from 1988 to 1989 as a research assistant at Thorn EMI Central Research Labs in the UK. He graduated in physics from the University of Leeds in 1992 with a B.Sc. and in 1996 with a Ph.D. His Ph.D. thesis Instrumentation development and experimental design for a next generation detector of the highest energy cosmic rays was supervised by Alan Andrew Watson. At the Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago, ...

#2838

Genhong Cheng

#140009

Overall Influence

#2839

Markus Båth

#140213

Overall Influence

#2840

Amy Graves

#140326

Overall Influence

Amy Lisa Graves is a retired American physicist and physics educator, the Walter Kemp Professor Emerita in the Natural Sciences and Professor of Physics at Swarthmore College. Her publications include works on gender bias in physics, physics education, and computational simulations of phenomena in condensed matter physics, including jamming.

#2841

Valery Godyak

#140342

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Valery A. Godyak is a Russian-American physicist who specializes in plasma physics. As a scientist, he made fundamental contributions to the understanding of radio frequency induced discharges in plasmas as well as in associated nonlinear phenomena. As an industrial physicist, he developed induction lamps such as the Icetron-Endura RF lamp and received honors from companies such as Osram Sylvania and Siemens.

#2842

Sundaram Gunasekaran

#140364

Overall Influence

#2843

Coleman Dupont Donaldson

#140366

Overall Influence

1922 - 2009 (87 years)

Coleman Dupont Donaldson was a fluid physicist and aeronautical engineer who specialized in turbulent flow and computational fluid dynamics. He made broad contributions during his career in turbulent transport, supersonic flow, and armor.

#2844

William J. Tremaine

#140513

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#2845

Stephanie A. Majewski

#140610

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Stephanie A. Majewski is an American physicist at the University of Oregon researching high energy particle physics at the CERN ATLAS experiment. She worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Brookhaven National Laboratory prior to joining the faculty at UO in 2012. She was selected for the Early Career Research Program award of the U.S. Department of Energy , one of 35 scientists in all DOE-supported fields to receive this national honor in 2014.

#2846

Kim Border

#140709

Overall Influence

1952 - 2020 (68 years)

Kim C. Border was an American behavioral economist and professor of economics at the California Institute of Technology. Career Border received a bachelor's degree in economics from Caltech in 1974. Shortly after completing his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Minnesota in 1979, he returned to Caltech as a faculty member, where he remained for over forty years.

#2847

David H. Blankenhorn

#140714

Overall Influence

#2848

Samir Kumar Pal

#140752

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#2849

Dimitri A. Papanastassiou

#140784

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#2850

M. Amin Arnaout

#140933

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