The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people
#31101
Scott Vanstone
#31113
Overall Influence
1947 - 2014 (67 years)
Scott A. Vanstone was a mathematician and cryptographer in the University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics. He was a member of the school's Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research, and was also a founder of the cybersecurity company Certicom. He received his PhD in 1974 at the University of Waterloo, and for about a decade worked principally in combinatorial design theory, finite geometry, and finite fields. In the 1980s he started working in cryptography. An early result of Vanstone was an improved algorithm for computing discrete logarithms in binary fields, which inspired Don Coppe...
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Alain Deneault
#31114
Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Alain Deneault is a French Canadian author from Quebec. He is known for his book Noir Canada: Pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique and the legal proceedings that followed its publishing. Biography Deneault was born in Outaouais, Quebec. He has a research doctorate from Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, and a PhD in philosophy from Paris 8 University under the supervision of Jacques Rancière. His studies focused on philosophy from nineteenth-century Germany and twentieth-century France, particularly the work of Georg Simmel. He lives in Petite-Rivière-de-l’Île, and he teaches philosophy at t...
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Matthew Restall
#31115
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
#31104
Tererai Trent
#31116
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Tererai Trent is a Zimbabwean-American woman whose unlikely educational success has brought her international fame. Background and career Trent was born in the village of Zvipani in Karoi District, Mashonaland West Province. She was not allowed to go to her local school, Matau Primary School, as a child due to poverty as well as being female, although her brother Tinashe, an indifferent student, was given the opportunity to attend. She later recalled the men in the village including her father "pointing to the boys in the village and saying 'These are the breadwinners of tomorrow. We need to educate them.
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J. Clay Smith Jr.
#31117
Overall Influence
1942 - 2018 (76 years)
John Clay Smith Jr. was a lawyer, author, and American educator. He served as dean of Howard University School of Law. He wrote The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844–1944. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He graduated from Creighton University in 1964 and his master's and doctorate's degree from George Washington University. Smith received his law degree from the Howard University School of Law and was admitted to the Nebraska bar.
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Zachary Lieberman
#31118
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Zachary Lieberman is an American new media artist, designer, computer programmer, and educator. Early life and education Born in 1977, Lieberman holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from Hunter College and both a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.
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Donald Winch
#31119
Overall Influence
1935 - 2017 (82 years)
Donald Norman Winch, was a British economist and academic. He was Professor of the History of Economics at the University of Sussex from 1969 to 2000, and its Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1986 to 1989.
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Sarah, Duchess of York
#31120
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Sarah, Duchess of York , also known by the nickname Fergie, is a British author, television personality, and member of the British royal family. She is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, a younger brother of King Charles III.
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Mark Phillips
#31121
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Mark Anthony Peter Phillips is an English Olympic gold medal-winning horseman for Great Britain and the first husband of Anne, Princess Royal, with whom he has two children. He remains a leading figure in British equestrian circles, a noted eventing course designer, and a columnist for Horse & Hound magazine.
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Neil Finn
#31122
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Neil Mullane Finn is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for being a principal member of Split Enz, of which he shared lead duties with his brother Tim, and the lead singer, guitarist, and a founding member of Crowded House. He has also been a member of Fleetwood Mac since 2018. Ed O'Brien of Radiohead has hailed Finn as popular music's "most prolific writer of great songs".
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Maria Bueno
#31123
Overall Influence
1939 - 2018 (79 years)
Maria Esther Andion Bueno was a Brazilian professional tennis player. During her 11-year career in the 1950s and 1960s, she won 19 major titles , making her the most successful South American tennis player in history, and the only one to ever win Wimbledon. Bueno was the year-end No. 1 female player in 1959 and 1960 and was known for her graceful style of play.
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Pinaki Majumdar
#31124
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Pinaki Majumdar is an Indian condensed matter physicist and the director of the Harish-Chandra Research Institute. Known for his research on correlated quantum systems, Majumdar is a recipient of the Global Indus Technovator Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2007.
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Shia LaBeouf
#31125
Overall Influence
1986 - Present (40 years)
Shia Saide LaBeouf is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker. He played Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, a role for which he received Young Artist Award nominations in 2001 and 2002 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2003. He made his film debut in The Christmas Path . In 2004, he made his directorial debut with the short film Let's Love Hate and later directed a short film titled Maniac , starring American rappers Cage and Kid Cudi.
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Naftali Tishby
#31126
Overall Influence
1952 - 2021 (69 years)
Naftali "Tali" Tishby was a professor of computer science and computational neuroscientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Early life and education Tishby was born in 1952. His father Yeshaya Tishby is a researcher of Kabbalah and Jewish thought.
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Mark Waer
#31127
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Mark Jozef Albert, Baron Waer is a Belgian physician, biomedical scientist, and former Rector of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Biography From 1969 to 1976, Waer studied medicine at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven. In 1981, he was qualified the Specialist of Internal Medicine in nephrology. In 1983, he obtained PhD in medical sciences.
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Paolo Marcellini
#31128
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Paolo Marcellini is an Italian mathematician who deals with mathematical analysis. He was a full professor at the University of Florence, actually Professor Emeritus, who works on partial differential equations, calculus of variations and related mathematics. He was the Director of the Italian National Group GNAMPA of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica and Dean of the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Florence.
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Dorit S. Hochbaum
#31129
Overall Influence
Dorit S. Hochbaum is a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work on approximation algorithms, particularly for facility location, covering and packing problems, and scheduling, and on flow and cut algorithms, Markov random fields, image segmentation and clustering.
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Mark Martin
#31130
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Mark Anthony Martin is an American retired stock car racing driver. He has the second most wins all time in what is now the Xfinity Series with 49. He scored 40 Cup Series wins. He finished second in the NASCAR Cup Series standings five times, third in the NASCAR Cup Series standings four times, and has been described by ESPN as "The best driver to never win a championship." Martin also failed to win the Daytona 500 during his career. Martin has five IROC Championships, more than any other driver. Also, during the 2005 season, he took over the all-time record for IROC wins, with 13. Martin is...
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Rodney Croome
#31131
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Rodney Peter Croome AM is an Australian LGBT rights activist and academic. He worked on the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality in Tasmania, was a founder of Australian Marriage Equality, and currently serves as the spokesperson for the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group and a spokesperson for LGBT advocacy group Just.Equal.
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Gregor Tomc
#31132
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Gregor Tomc also known as Grega Tomc is a Slovenian sociologist, musician and activist. In the late 1970s and 1980s, he was the founder and member of the Slovenian punk rock band Pankrti. Biography Tomc was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is the younger half-brother of the columnist and historian Alenka Puhar. Their mother Helena Puhar was a renowned pedagogue and a partisan veteran from Kranj, who was a grandnephew of the photographer Janez Puhar, inventor of a process for photography on glass.
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Albrecht Goes
#31133
Overall Influence
1908 - 2000 (92 years)
Albrecht Goes was a German writer and Protestant theologian. Life Albrecht Goes was born in 1908 in the Protestant rectory in Langenbeutingen. He spent his childhood there, but his mother died in 1911 and in 1915 he went to live with his grandmother in Berlin-Steglitz. He went to school there until 1919, when he moved to a school in Göppingen. In 1922, he entered the theological seminary in Urach, and from 1922 to 1923 he attended the seminary in Schöntal. His room-mate there was Gerd Gaiser. He passed his university exams and in 1924 entered the advanced seminary in Urach.
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Évelyne Pisier
#31134
Overall Influence
1941 - 2017 (76 years)
Évelyne Pisier was a French writer and political scientist. Biography Pisier was born in Hanoi on October 18, 1941. She was the daughter of a French senior civil servant, Georges Pisier , who was a Maurrassien supporter of the Vichy regime and was stationed in Hanoi. Pisier was interned for four years in a Japanese concentration camp after the Japanese invasion of French Indochina. She then moved to Nouméa, where her father was transferred and where her brother Gilles Pisier was born. Her parents subsequently separated, so Évelyne Pisier settled in Nice with her mother and her sister, future actress and director Marie-France Pisier.
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Ross Clifford
#31135
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Ross Richard Clifford AM is an Australian Baptist theologian, political commentator, radio personality and author. A former lawyer who later joined the ministry, Clifford became a campaigner on moral issues while a suburban Sydney pastor in the 1980s. He has served as head of several religious organisations and as an occasional media spokesperson. He unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Council in 2003 for the Christian Democratic Party. Until mid-2010 he had a radio program on Sydney station 2CH.
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Bernard Landry
#31136
Overall Influence
1937 - 2018 (81 years)
Bernard Landry was a Canadian politician who served as the 28th premier of Quebec from 2001 to 2003. A member of the Parti Québécois , he led the party from 2001 to 2005, also serving as the leader of the Opposition from 2003 to 2005.
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Fons Hickmann
#31137
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Fons Hickmann is a German graphic designer and professor of Communication Design at the Berlin University of the Arts. He is the founder and director of the design studio Fons Hickmann m23. Life and career Hickmann was born in the German city of Hamm and studied photography and communication design combined with philosophy at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, and aesthetics and media theory in Wuppertal. In 2001 Hickmann and Gesine Grotrian-Steinweg founded the design studio Fons Hickmann m23 in Berlin. Hickmann serves as its director. The emphasis of the studio's work is on the ...
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Piet Lemstra
#31138
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
P.J. Lemstra , nicknamed Plem, is a Dutch professor of chemistry. Prof. Lemstra received his PhD from the University of Groningen in 1975. He then post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bristol under Professor Andrew Keller FRS. In 1985 Professor Lemstra became professor of Polymer Technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology . From 1990 to 1995 he was the first Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Technology. From 1994 to 1997 had been director of the graduate school and in 1997 he founded together with Professor Leen Struik the Dutch Polymer Institute , where he worked until 2004 as scientific director.
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Glayde Whitney
#31139
Overall Influence
1939 - 2002 (63 years)
Glayde D. Whitney was an American behavioral geneticist and psychologist. He was professor at Florida State University. Beyond his work into the genetics of sensory system function in mice, in his later life he supported David Duke as well as research into race and intelligence and eugenics.
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Norv Turner
#31140
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Norval Turner is a former American football coach in the National Football League . An offensive assistant for the majority of his coaching career, Turner was the Dallas Cowboys' offensive coordinator during their consecutive Super Bowl victories in Super Bowl XXVII and Super Bowl XXVIII. In addition to his assistant coaching, Turner was head coach of the Washington Redskins from 1994 to 2000, the Oakland Raiders from 2004 to 2005, and the San Diego Chargers from 2007 to 2012.
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Garth Fagan
#31141
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Gawain Garth Fagan, CD is a Jamaican modern dance choreographer. He is the founder and artistic director of Garth Fagan Dance, a modern dance company based in Rochester, New York. Biography Early years Fagan was born in Kingston, Jamaica to Oxford educated S.W. Fagan, former Chief Education Officer of Jamaica, and Louise I. Walker. It was a gymnastics class that initially drew his attention to dance early on. While attending Excelsior High school, he studied with Ivy Baxter at the Jamaica National Dance Company and performed at the inauguration of Cuban President Fidel Castro in 1959. Fagan ...
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Eugenio Corecco
#31142
Overall Influence
1931 - 1995 (64 years)
Eugenio Corecco was a Swiss bishop of the diocese of Lugano. He was a notable 20th century canonist who wrote about the theology of canon law. Biography Son of Peter, born in Bodio and Margaret Beffa of Airolo, he was ordained priest on October 2, 1955, studied in Rome, at the Pontifical Gregorian University to Munich, where he received his PhD in canon law and Fribourg, where in 1969 was appointed professor of canon law.
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Murray Weidenbaum
#31143
Overall Influence
1927 - 2014 (87 years)
Murray Lew Weidenbaum , was an American economist and author. He was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor and Honorary Chairman of the Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. He served as the first Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1969 to 1971, and he was chairman of President Ronald Reagan's first Council of Economic Advisors from 1981 to 1982.
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Leslie Wagner
#31144
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Leslie Wagner, CBE is a British academic, who has been Vice-Chancellor of two universities and as the second Chancellor of the University of Derby. Wagner was educated at Salford Grammar School and obtained a BA and MA at Manchester University. He worked for the British government until 1970, when he became a lecturer in economics at the Open University. He was later Head of Economics at the Polytechnic of Central London, becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of North London in 1987. From 1994 to 2003, he was Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University.
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Helen Bee
#31145
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Helen L. Bee is a psychologist and author of several books on the subject of human development, including both child development and adult development. Education Bee was one of the two daughters of Austin Bee, who influenced her deeply. She received her BA from Radcliffe College in 1960 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1964, under the tutelage of Robert Sears and Eleanor Maccoby.
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John Williams Mellor
#31146
Overall Influence
1928 - Present (98 years)
John Williams Mellor is a French-born American economist, known for his work in the field of economic and agricultural development in third world countries. In 1985, he was awarded the Wihuri International Prize, for his “constructive work that has remarkably promoted and developed the security of nutrient supply for mankind.” A Fulbright Scholar, he spent most of his academic career at his alma mater, Cornell University. In the early 1970s, he became an economist for USAID, eventually becoming their chief economist in 1976. After leaving USAID, he became the second director-general of the International Food Policy Research Institute in 1977, where he remained until 1990.
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Claude Hagège
#31147
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
Claude Hagège is a French linguist. Biography He was elected to the Collège de France in 1988 and received several awards for his work, including the Prix de l'Académie Française and the CNRS Gold medal. Famous for being a polyglot, he speaks fifty languages, including Italian, English, Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Greek, Guarani, Hungarian, Navajo, Nocte, Punjabi, Persian, Malay, Hindi, Malagasy, Fula, Quechua, Tamil, Tetela, Turkish and Japanese.
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Aharon Shabtai
#31148
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Aharon Shabtai is an Israeli poet and translator. Biography Aharon Shabtai studied Greek and philosophy in Jerusalem, at the Sorbonne and at Cambridge, and he teaches literature in Tel Aviv University. He has published some 20 books of poetry in Hebrew, and English translations of his work have appeared in the American Poetry Review, the London Review of Books, and Parnassus: Poetry in Review.
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Albert Aguayo
#31149
Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
Albert Juan Aguayo is a Canadian neurologist at McGill University. Albert Juan Aguayo is a Canadian neurologist at McGill University. Hailing from the Bahia Blanca in Argentina, Dr. Aguayo graduated in medicine from the National University of Córdoba. After graduating from Argentina, Aguayo continued to train in neurology, working as an assistant physician in Neurology University of Toronto and McGill University. In the year 1967, McGill University appointed Aguayo as assistant professor in the department of Neurology and Neurosurgery. From the years 2000 to 2005, Aguayo served as the Secr...
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Stephen J. Pyne
#31150
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Stephen J. Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University, specializing in environmental history, the history of exploration, and especially the history of fire. Education Pyne received his bachelor's degree at Stanford University after graduating from Brophy College Preparatory, a Jesuit high school, in Phoenix, Arizona. He later attained his master's and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a MacArthur Fellowship in 1988. He also received a Fulbright Fellowship to Sweden, was awarded two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, and had two tours at the National Humanities Center.
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Glanmor Williams
#31151
Overall Influence
1920 - 2005 (85 years)
Sir Glanmor Williams was one of Wales's most eminent historians. Sir Glanmor was born in Dowlais, into a working-class family, and was educated at Cyfarthfa Grammar School in Merthyr Tydfil. He studied at Aberystwyth alongside Alun Lewis and Emyr Humphreys, becoming a specialist in the early modern period of Welsh history. His long academic career included 37 years at the University of Wales, Swansea, between 1945 and 1982, and ten as vice-president of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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Armand Marie Leroi
#31152
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Armand Marie Leroi is a New Zealand-born Dutch author, broadcaster, and professor of evolutionary developmental biology at Imperial College in London. He received the Guardian First Book Award in 2004 for his book Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body. He has presented scientific documentaries on Channel 4 such as Alien Worlds and What Makes Us Human , and BBC Four such as What Darwin Didn't Know , Aristotle's Lagoon , and Secret Science of Pop .
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Katsuma Dan
#31153
Overall Influence
1904 - 1996 (92 years)
Katsuma Dan was a Japanese embryologist and cell biologist. He was born in 1904 in Tokyo, the youngest son of Baron Dan Takuma, president of the Mitsui Gomei Kaisha Corporation. Takuma Dan was educated in the United States, graduating from MIT in 1878. He was one of the first foreign students to be educated at MIT and later, as president of the Japan Steel Works, he initiated and maintained close research ties with The Institute.
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Edward H. Kaplan
#31154
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Edward H. Kaplan is the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research at the Yale School of Management, Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, and Professor of Engineering in the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Masao Ogaki
#31155
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
is a Japanese economist. He is a professor at Keio University. Career He received a B.A. from Osaka University in 1982 and a Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1988. Bibliography Books Journal articles
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William Peter Blatty
#31156
Overall Influence
1928 - 2017 (89 years)
William Peter Blatty was an American writer, director and producer. He is best known for his 1971 novel, The Exorcist, and for his 1973 screenplay for the film adaptation of the same name. Blatty won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Exorcist, and was nominated for Best Picture as its producer. The film also earned Blatty a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama as producer.
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Corinne Le Quéré
#31157
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Marie Corinne Lyne Le Quéré is a Canadian scientist. She is Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science at the University of East Anglia and former Director of Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. She is the chair of the French High Council on Climate and member of the UK Climate Change Committee. Her research focuses on the interactions between the carbon cycle and climate change.
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Judy Pfaff
#31158
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Judy Pfaff is an American artist known mainly for installation art and sculptures, though she also produces paintings and prints. Pfaff has received numerous awards for her work, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2004 and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Major exhibitions of her work have been held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Denver Art Museum and Saint Louis Art Museum. In 2013 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Video interviews can be found on ...
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Wai-Chi Fang
#31159
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Wai-Chi Fang is a Taiwanese engineer. Education He received his B.Sc. from the Electronics Engineering Department at National Chiao Tung University in 1978. He completed his M.Sc. in 1982 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his Ph.D. in 1992 at the University of Southern California. He is currently the TSMC Chair Professor of National Chiao Tung University.
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Burt Totaro
#31160
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Burt James Totaro, FRS , is an American mathematician, currently a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology. Education and early life Totaro participated in the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth while in grade school and enrolled at Princeton University at the age of thirteen, becoming the youngest freshman in its history. He scored a perfect 800 on the math portion and a 690 on the verbal portion of the SAT-I exam at the age of 12. He graduated in 1984 and went on to graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D.
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Benny Carter
#31161
Overall Influence
1907 - 2003 (96 years)
Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career in the 1920s, he worked as an arranger including written charts for Fletcher Henderson's big band that shaped the swing style. He had an unusually long career that lasted into the 1990s. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, which included receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Alexander Sergeev
#31162
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sergeyev is a Russian physicist. In 2017-2022 he was the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Sergeev was born in Buturlino, Gorky Oblast and studied physics at Gorky State University, graduating in 1977. After the graduation, he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Gorky, currently Nizhny Novgorod. He received his PhD in 1982, and spent his whole scientific career at the same institute. In 2015, he became the director of the institute.
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