The Most Influential People Across History

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#31201

Peter Wagner

#31213
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Peter Wagner is a German social and political theorist. His research brings together social and political philosophy and theory with the comparative-historical sociology of modern societies in Europe, Latin America and southern Africa. He has done comparative research in the history of the social sciences and has contributed to debates about the so-called Axial Age, while his recent work has addressed questions of historical progress and social and political transformations. He is a former Professor of Social and Political Theory at the European University Institute, Florence, and a former Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick.
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#31202

Martin J. Beckmann

#31214
Overall Influence
1924 - 2017 (93 years)
Martin Joseph Beckmann was a professor for Economics and Applied Mathematics. He was professor at the University of Chicago, Yale University and Brown University, as well as the University of Bonn and Technische Universität München. He received honorary degrees from the University of Karlsruhe, the Umeå University and the University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg. He was president of the European Regional Science Association and received the Regional Science Founders Medal in 1983. His research spans a wide field in spatial analysis and regional economics, with a special focus on transport economi...
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#31203

Oliver Friggieri

#31215
Overall Influence
1947 - 2020 (73 years)
Oliver Friggieri was a Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and philosopher. He led the establishment of literary history and criticism in Maltese while teaching at the University of Malta, studying the works of Dun Karm, Rużar Briffa, and others. A prolific writer himself, Friggieri explored new genres to advocate the Maltese language, writing the libretti for the first oratorio and the first cantata in Maltese. His work aimed to promote the Maltese cultural identity, while not shying from criticism: one of his most famous novels, Fil-Parlament Ma Jikbrux Fjuri , attacked the tribalistic divisions of society caused by politics.
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#31204

Harland G. Wood

#31216
Overall Influence
1907 - 1991 (84 years)
Harland Goff Wood was an American biochemist notable for proving in 1935 that animals, humans and bacteria fixed carbon from carbon dioxide in the metabolic pathway to succinate. Awards and honours Wood was a recipient of the National Medal of Science. He was on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon. He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Biochemical Society of Japan. He was also first director of the department of biochemistry at the School of Medic...
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#31205

Richard J. C. Atkinson

#31217
Overall Influence
1920 - 1994 (74 years)
Alternative meaning: Richard Atkinson Richard John Copland Atkinson CBE was a British prehistorian and archaeologist. Biography Atkinson was born in Evershot, Dorset, and went to Sherborne School and then Magdalen College, Oxford, reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics. During the Second World War, his Quaker beliefs meant that he was a conscientious objector. In 1944, he became Assistant Keeper of Archaeology at the Ashmolean Museum. In 1949, he was appointed a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh
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#31206

Robert A. Corrigan

#31218
Overall Influence
1935 - Present (91 years)
Robert Anthony Corrigan is an American academic who served as the 12th president of San Francisco State University from 1988 to 2012. Before that, Corrigan served nine years as chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston from 1979 to 1988.
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#31207

Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell
#31219
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Sam Rockwell is an American actor. He is known for appearing in independent films and portraying a wide variety of roles both comedic and dramatic in films such as Lawn Dogs , The Green Mile , Galaxy Quest , Charlie's Angels , Confessions of a Dangerous Mind , Matchstick Men , The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , Moon , Frost/Nixon , Iron Man 2 , Conviction , Cowboys & Aliens , Seven Psychopaths , The Way, Way Back , Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri , Vice , Jojo Rabbit , Richard Jewell , and The Best of Enemies .
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#31208

David Cohen

#31220
Overall Influence
1930 - Present (96 years)
David Cohen made many of the first pioneering measurements in the area of biomagnetism , although he was initially trained as a nuclear physicist. Early life and education Cohen was born of immigrant parents in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was raised there and earned a B.A. degree at the University of Manitoba. Then, he attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where he gained a Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics.
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#31209

Marshmello

#31221
Overall Influence
1992 - Present (34 years)
Christopher Comstock , known professionally as Marshmello, is an American electronic music producer and DJ. His songs "Silence" , "Wolves" , "Friends" , "Happier" , and "Alone" have received multi-platinum certification in several countries including the US, and charted within the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. His musical style includes groove-oriented, synth and bass-heavy electronic dance music.
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#31210

Marie Françoise Ouedraogo

#31222
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Marie Françoise Ouedraogo is a Burkinabé mathematician. She has previously served in government as permanent secretary of the national policy of good governance. Biography Born in December 1967, Ouedraogo was raised in Ouagadougou. She was drawn to the study of mathematics at a young age as she received good grades without putting forth much effort. She was educated at the University of Ouagadougou, where she wrote her first thesis on Lie superalgebras in 1999. Akry Koulibaly served as her doctoral adviser. From 2005 to 2008 Ouedraogo served as the permanent secretary of the national policy of good governance.
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#31211

Alexander Bird

#31223
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Alexander James Bird is a British philosopher and Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Career In 2020, Bird was elected to the Bertrand Russell Professorship of Philosophy, succeeding Huw Price. Previously he was Peter Sowerby Professor of Philosophy and Medicine at King's College London and the professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol . Bird was lecturer then reader and head of department at the University of Edinburgh . Bird has also taught at Dartmouth College and at Saint Louis University and was a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
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#31212

Youssef Chahine

Youssef Chahine
#31224
Overall Influence
1926 - 2008 (82 years)
Youssef Chahine was an Egyptian film director. He was active in the Egyptian film industry from 1950 until his death. He directed twelve films that were listed in the Top 100 Egyptian films list. A winner of the Cannes 50th Anniversary Award , Chahine was credited with launching the career of actor Omar Sharif. A well-regarded director with critics, he was often present at film festivals during the earlier decades of his work. Chahine gained his largest international audience as one of the co-directors of 11'9"01 September 11 .
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#31213

Fumihiko Imamura

#31225
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Fumihiko Imamura is a Japanese academic, civil engineer, and Director of the International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. After the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Imamura was prominent amongst those who proposed that December 26 should be an international day of commemoration. He argued that the simple idea could be effective in preparing people for the giant waves.
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#31214

Deborah Persaud

#31226
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Deborah Persaud is a Guyanese-born American virologist who primarily works on HIV/AIDS at Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Biography Persaud was born on 23 August 1960 in Port Mourant, East Berbice-Corentyne, Guyana. At age 16 she moved to Brooklyn. Persaud attended the New York University School of Medicine after receiving her undergraduate degree from York College CUNY. She also earned a master's degree at the New York University School of Medicine. She started residency at the Babies Hospital of New York and finished her chief residency at the same hospital. Persaud later was a fellow at the New York University School of Medicine.
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#31215

Paul Doughty Bartlett

Paul Doughty Bartlett
#31227
Overall Influence
1907 - 1997 (90 years)
Paul Doughty Bartlett was an American chemist. Life and career Bartlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and grew up in Indianapolis. He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1928. After his graduation from Harvard with James Bryant Conant, Bartlett worked at the Rockefeller Institute and the University of Minnesota. Most of his career was spent at Harvard. Among other achievements, Bartlett was co-author with Lawrence H. Knox of a classic paper on organic reaction mechanisms. After his retirement in 1972, he started his second career at Texas Christian University.
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#31216

John Dossetor

#31228
Overall Influence
1925 - 2020 (95 years)
John Beamish Dossetor, was a Canadian physician and bioethicist who is notable for co–coordinating the first kidney transplant in Canada and the Commonwealth. Biography Born in Bangalore, India, Dossetor attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire before receiving a B.M. and B.Ch. from St John's College, Oxford in 1950. In 1955, he immigrated to Canada to accept a position at McGill University. From 1960 to 1969, he worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital.
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#31217

Rick Mears

Rick Mears
#31229
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Rick Ravon Mears is a retired American race car driver. He is one of four men to win the Indianapolis 500 four times and is the current record-holder for pole positions in the race with six . Mears is also a three-time Indycar series/World Series champion .
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#31218

Susan Gelman

Susan Gelman
#31230
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Susan A. Gelman is currently Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of psychology and linguistics and the director of the Conceptual Development Laboratory at the University of Michigan. Gelman studies language and concept development in young children. Gelman subscribes to the domain specificity view of cognition, which asserts that the mind is composed of specialized modules supervising specific functions in the human and other animals. Her book The Essential Child is an influential work on cognitive development.
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#31219

Jian Ma

#31231
Overall Influence
Jian Ma is an American computer scientist and computational biologist. He is the Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a faculty member in the Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department. His lab develops machine learning algorithms to study the structure and function of the human genome and cellular organization and their implications for evolution, health and disease. During his Ph.D. and postdoc training, he developed algorithms to reconstruct the ancestral mammalian genome. His research ...
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#31220

Wu Ningkun

#31232
Overall Influence
1920 - 2019 (99 years)
Wu Ningkun was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of International Relations in Beijing, where he had taught since 1956. During the 1980s, he held Visiting Fellowships at Cambridge University, Northwestern University and the University of California. In 1990, he was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters from Manchester University, Indiana. In 1992, he was Mansfield Visiting professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Montana. He has frequently lectured at Cambridge, Columbia, Stanford, Harvard and other universities. His publications include the memoir, Single Tear - A Family'...
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#31221

Edward C. Holmes

Edward C. Holmes
#31233
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Edward Charles Holmes is a British evolutionary biologist and virologist. Since 2012, he has been a fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia and professor at the University of Sydney. He was an honorary visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, from 2019-2021.
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#31222

Helen Hardacre

#31234
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Helen Hardacre is an American Japanologist. She is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at the Departement of East Asian Languages and Civilization, Harvard University.
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#31223

Constance Backhouse

#31235
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Constance Barbara Backhouse, is a Canadian legal scholar and historian, specializing in gender and race discrimination. She is a Distinguished University Professor and University Research Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. In addition to her academic publications, Backhouse is the author of several books on feminist- and race-related legal rights topics. Backhouse is President of the American Society for Legal History, and is the first non-US scholar to hold this position.
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#31224

Kiyoko Murata

#31236
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Kiyoko Murata is a Japanese writer. She has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Noma Literary Prize, and the Yomiuri Prize, among other literary prizes. The Government of Japan has awarded her the Medal with Purple Ribbon and Order of the Rising Sun, and she has been appointed to the Japan Art Academy. Her work has been adapted for film by Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Onchi.
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#31225

Mariano Artigas

Mariano Artigas
#31237
Overall Influence
1938 - 2006 (68 years)
Mariano Artigas was a Spanish physicist, philosopher, and theologian. He wrote The Mind of the Universe: Understanding Science and Religion and fifteen other books on science and religion. He was a member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Theology and the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. He was Consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Dialogue with Non-believers.
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#31226

Lance Storm

Lance Storm
#31238
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Lance Timothy Evers , known professionally by his ring name Lance Storm, is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to Impact Wrestling where he works as a Producer. He is best known for his work in World Wrestling Entertainment , Extreme Championship Wrestling , and World Championship Wrestling , where he held a combined 13 total championships .
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#31227

Elizabeth A. R. Brown

Elizabeth A. R. Brown
#31239
Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Elizabeth Atkinson Rash Brown is a professor emerita of history at Brooklyn College, of the City University of New York, a scholar and published author, known for her writings on feudalism. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and A.M. and PhD. from Radcliffe College and Harvard University. In 2009 Elizabeth A. R. Brown was elected the Second Vice-President of the Medieval Academy of America and in 2010-2011 served as its president.
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#31228

Robert M. Carter

Robert M. Carter
#31240
Overall Influence
1942 - 2016 (74 years)
Robert Merlin Carter was an English palaeontologist, stratigrapher and marine geologist. He was professor and head of the School of Earth Sciences at James Cook University in Australia from 1981 to 1998, and was prominent in promoting climate change denial.
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#31229

Erich Goode

#31241
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Erich Goode is an American sociologist specializing in the sociology of deviance. He has written a number of books on the field in general, as well as on specific deviant topics. He was a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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#31230

Irving Bernstein

#31242
Overall Influence
1916 - 2001 (85 years)
Irving Bernstein was an American professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles and a noted labor historian. Childhood and education Bernstein was born in 1916 in Rochester, New York. His parents were Latvian immigrants, and his father was a baker.
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#31231

Ed Castillo

#31243
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Edward D. Castillo, of the Luiseño-Cahuilla tribes, is a Native American activist who participated in the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz in 1969. Former professor and director of Native American Studies at the Sonoma State University in California, he wrote several chapters in the Smithsonian Institution's Handbook of North American Indians and in Mission Indian Federation: Protecting Tribal Sovereignty 1919-1967, published in the Encyclopedia of Native Americans in the 20th century. He is editor of Native American Perspectives on the Hispanic Colonization of Alta California and The Pomo, A Tribal History.
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#31232

Michael Kopelman

#31244
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Michael David Kopelman is a British researcher of memory disorders, having contributed for more than 30 years to the development of cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive neuropsychiatry. Until his retirement in 2015, he was lead clinician at the Neuropsychiatry and Memory Disorders Clinic at St Thomas' National Health Service teaching hospital in Central London. Beginning in 1981, he also served as an expert witness in legal proceedings, including high-profile cases.
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#31233

Rawi Abdelal

#31245
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Rawi E. Abdelal is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. In 1993, Abdelal earned a B.S. in economics at Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1997, he earned a M.A., and in 1999 a Ph.D., in Government from Cornell University.
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#31234

Bruce Chilton

#31246
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Bruce D. Chilton is an American scholar of early Christianity and Judaism, and an Episcopalian priest. He is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College, formerly Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament at Yale University, and Rector of the Church of St John the Evangelist He holds a PhD in New Testament from Cambridge University . He has previously held academic positions at the Universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, and Münster.
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#31235

Robert J. Alexander

#31247
Overall Influence
1918 - 2010 (92 years)
Robert Jackson Alexander was an American political activist, writer, and academic who spent most of his professional career at Rutgers University. He is best remembered for his pioneering studies on the trade union movement in Latin America and dissident communist political parties, including ground-breaking monographs on the International Communist Right Opposition, Maoism, and the international Trotskyist movement.
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#31236

Vladimir Mazya

#31248
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Vladimir Gilelevich Maz'ya is a Russian-born Swedish mathematician, hailed as "one of the most distinguished analysts of our time" and as "an outstanding mathematician of worldwide reputation", who strongly influenced the development of mathematical analysis and the theory of partial differential equations.
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#31237

Siedah Garrett

Siedah Garrett
#31249
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Deborah Christine "Siedah" Garrett is an American singer and songwriter who has written songs and performed backing vocals for many recording artists in the music industry, such as Michael Jackson, the Pointer Sisters, Brand New Heavies, Quincy Jones, Tevin Campbell, Donna Summer, Madonna, Jennifer Hudson among others. Garrett has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Song, and won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards for co-writing "Love You I Do" for the 2006 musical film, Dreamgirls.
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#31238

Belding Hibbard Scribner

#31250
Overall Influence
1921 - 2003 (82 years)
Belding Hibbard Scribner was an American physician and a pioneer in kidney dialysis. Biography Scribner received his medical degree from Stanford University in 1945. After completing his postgraduate studies at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, he joined the faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of Washington in 1951. Scribner was married to Ethel Hackett Scribner, and had four children from a previous marriage: Peter, Robert, Thomas and Elizabeth.
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#31239

Rashid Ahmed Ludhianvi

#31251
Overall Influence
1922 - 2002 (80 years)
Rashid Ahmad Ludhianvi , was a Pakistani Islamic scholar and Faqīh, who founded the Al Rashid Trust and the Jamia Tur Rasheed in Karachi. He served as the head of Darul Ifta Wal Irshad, a jurisprudential institute of the Darul Uloom Karachi and authored books such as Anwaar-ur-Rasheed, Jawahir-ur-Rasheed and Allah Ke Baghi Musalman. His religo-legal edicts were compiled and published as Ahsan ul-Fatawa in ten volumes.
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#31240

Kameshwar C. Wali

Kameshwar C. Wali
#31252
Overall Influence
1927 - Present (99 years)
Kameshwar C. Wali was an Indian-born American theoretical physicist who was the Distinguished Research Professor of Physics Emeritus at Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences. He was a specialist in high energy physics, particularly symmetries and dynamics of elementary particles, and the author of Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar and Cremona Violins: a physicist's quest for the secrets of Stradivari.
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#31241

Nathaniel R. Jones

Nathaniel R. Jones
#31253
Overall Influence
1926 - 2020 (94 years)
Nathaniel Raphael Jones was an American attorney, judge, and law professor. As general counsel of the NAACP, Jones fought to end school segregation, including in the northern United States. From 1979 until 1995, he served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit before assuming senior status, and in 2002 retired to resume a private legal practice.
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#31242

Bernard MacLaverty

#31254
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Bernard MacLaverty is an Irish fiction writer and novelist. His novels include Cal and Grace Notes. He has written five books of short stories. Biography MacLaverty was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and educated at Holy Family Primary School in the Duncairn district and then at St Malachy's College. After school, he worked as a medical laboratory technician and studied at Queen's University Belfast. He lived in Belfast until 1975, when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children . He initially lived in Edinburgh and then the Isle of Islay before settling in the West E...
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#31243

Carol Fowler

#31255
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Carol Ann Fowler is an American experimental psychologist. She was president and director of research at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut from 1992 to 2008. She is also a professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut and adjunct professor of linguistics and psychology at Yale University. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1971, her M.A University of Connecticut in 1973 and her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Connecticut in 1977.
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#31244

Roland Clift

#31256
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Roland Clift is a chemical engineering professor widely known for his work and media contributions on the topic of sustainability. Career Clift was born 19 November 1942 and studied Chemical Engineering at Cambridge , achieving first class honours in 1964. He received a PhD from McGill University in 1970 for work on particle-fluid interactions, and this was his main research area in subsequent years. He became Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Surrey in 1981. His growing interest in the application of engineering principles to environmental issues led him in 1992 to establish...
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#31245

Monroe Price

#31257
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Monroe Edwin Price was director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London.
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#31246

Dennis Showalter

#31258
Overall Influence
1942 - 2019 (77 years)
Dennis Edwin Showalter was a professor emeritus of history at Colorado College. Showalter specialized in German military history. He was president of the American Society for Military History from 1997 to 2001. In addition, Showalter was an advising fellow of the Barsanti Military History Center at the University of North Texas.
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#31247

Jane Maienschein

Jane Maienschein
#31259
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Jane Maienschein is an American professor and director of the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University. Education Maienschein was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later transferred to Yale University in 1969 where she was a member of Manuscript Society. In 1972, she graduated with honors in History, the Arts, and Letters. She then attended Indiana University to conduct her Ph.D work. Her mentor, Dr. Frederick Churchill, was interested in historical embryological research. Maienschein was awarded a Fellowship at the Smithsonian, to study the history of microscopy.
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#31248

Elizabeth Fee

Elizabeth Fee
#31260
Overall Influence
1946 - 2018 (72 years)
Elizabeth Fee , also known as Liz Fee, was a historian of science, medicine and health. She was the Chief of the United States National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division. Early life and education Fee was born in Belfast to Deirdre and John Fee, Methodist missionaries. From the age of five months, she began travelling with her parents to destinations including China, Malaysia, India, Egypt and throughout Europe. After contracting scarlet fever in China, Fee lost her hearing in one ear. In her teen years, the family returned to Northern Ireland where Fee attended school.
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#31249

Ananta Charan Sukla

Ananta Charan Sukla
#31261
Overall Influence
1942 - 2020 (78 years)
Ananta Charan Sukla was an Indian scholar of comparative literature, literary criticism, aesthetics, philosophy, and art history. He was the Founding Editor of Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics and edited and published the journal for over 40 years. He specialized in comparative aesthetics , literary theory, philosophy of art, philosophy of literature, religion, mythology, and cultural studies. He was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha.
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#31250

Steven Sample

Steven Sample
#31262
Overall Influence
1940 - 2016 (76 years)
Steven Browning Sample was the 10th president of the University of Southern California . He became president in 1991 and was succeeded by C. L. Max Nikias on August 3, 2010. Prior to his presidency at USC, Sample was the 12th president of the University at Buffalo in the State University of New York system from 1982 to 1991. He was succeeded at UB by Bill Greiner.
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