The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people
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Mikhail Fedonkin
#41214
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Academician Mikhail Aleksandrovich Fedonkin is a Russian paleontologist specializing in documentation of the earliest animals' body fossils, tracks, and trails. He has also described numerous Vendian-aged fossils including Hiemalora, Cephalonega, and Nimbia occlusa.
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Soumya Swaminathan
#41215
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Soumya Swaminathan is an Indian paediatrician and clinical scientist known for her research on tuberculosis and HIV. From 2019 to 2022, she served as the chief scientist at the World Health Organization under the leadership of Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Previously, from October 2017 to March 2019, she was the Deputy Director General of Programmes at the World Health Organization.
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Edward Herrmann
#41216
Overall Influence
1943 - 2014 (71 years)
Edward Kirk Herrmann was an American actor, director, and writer. He was known for his portrayals of Franklin D. Roosevelt in both the miniseries Eleanor and Franklin and 1982 film musical Annie, Richard Gilmore in Amy Sherman-Palladino's comedy-drama series Gilmore Girls , and a ubiquitous narrator for historical programs on The History Channel and in such PBS productions as Nova. He was also known as a spokesman for Dodge automobiles in the 1990s.
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Robbie Collin
#41217
Overall Influence
Robbie Collin is a British film critic. Collin studied aesthetics and the philosophy of film at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He edited the university's student newspaper, The Saint. Collin has been the chief film critic at The Daily Telegraph since 2011. From 2007 to 2011 he wrote a weekly film column for the News of the World until the newspaper's closure. That year he was shortlisted for Critic of the Year at the British Press Awards, and was shortlisted again in 2017, when he was highly commended by the jury.
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Cathy H. Wu
#41218
Overall Influence
Cathy H. Wu is the Edward G. Jefferson Chair and professor and director of the Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology at the University of Delaware. She is also the director of the Protein Information Resource and the North east Bioinformatics Collaborative Steering Committee, and the adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Medical Center.
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Akinwumi Ogundiran
#41219
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Akinwumi Ogundiran is the Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Northwestern University. He is an archaeologist, anthropologist, and cultural historian, whose research focuses on the Yoruba world of western Africa, Atlantic Africa, and the African Diaspora. He was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, and migrated to the United States in 1993. He was Chancellor's Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology & History at UNC Charlotte.
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Brad Ausmus
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Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Bradley David Ausmus is an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager. He is the bench coach for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball . In his 18-year MLB playing career, Ausmus played as a catcher for the San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, and Los Angeles Dodgers. He also managed the Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, and Israeli national baseball team.
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Jeff Flake
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Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Jeffry Lane Flake is an American politician and diplomat who is the United States ambassador to Turkey. A member of the Republican Party, Flake served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013 and in the United States Senate from 2013 to 2019, representing Arizona. He was nominated by Democratic president Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate for his ambassador post on October 26, 2021. He presented his credentials to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Presidential Complex of Turkey in Ankara on January 26, 2022.
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Jay Kappraff
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Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Jay Kappraff is an American professor of mathematics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and author. Biography Kappraff was trained in engineering, physical sciences and mathematics, earning a B.Ch.E. in chemical engineering at New York Polytechnic in 1958. He went on to be awarded a PhD in applied mathematics in 1974 from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, New York University and a M.S. in chemical engineering in 1960 from Iowa State University. He began work for DuPont DeNemours as a chemical engineer from 1961 to 1962 going on to teach mathematics for a brief period before obtaining a position at NASA as an aerospace engineer from 1962 until 1965.
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Henry J. M. Barnett
#41223
Overall Influence
1922 - 2016 (94 years)
Henry Joseph Macaulay Barnett was a Canadian physician, a leading stroke researcher and pioneer of the use of aspirin for stroke prevention. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, he graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and received his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1944.
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Danny Lange
#41224
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Danny B. Lange is a Danish computer scientist who has worked on machine learning for IBM, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Uber, and Unity Technologies. Early life and education Lange was born in Denmark. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from the Technical University of Denmark.
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Timothy Spall
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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Timothy Leonard Spall is an English actor and presenter. Spall gained recognition for his character actor roles on stage and screen. He is known for his collaborations with director Mike Leigh, acting in six of his films: Home Sweet Home , Life is Sweet , Secrets & Lies , Topsy-Turvy , All or Nothing , and Mr. Turner . He was nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role in Secrets and Lies, and received the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award for his portrayal of J. M. W. Turner in Mr. Turner. In 2000, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire by...
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Jennifer Gordon
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Overall Influence
Jennifer Gordon founded the Workplace Project in 1992, a non-profit worker center in Hempstead, New York, which organizes immigrant workers, mostly from Central and South America. The Workplace Project lobbied for and won a strong wage enforcement law in New York state. Gordon was the executive director of the Workplace Project from 1993 to 1998. Gordon was a MacArthur Fellow from 1999 to 2004. She is the author of Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights, as well as several articles on immigrants, politics, and labor unions. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1987 and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1992.
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Randall Beer
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Overall Influence
Randall D. Beer is a professor of cognitive science, computer science, and informatics at Indiana University. He was previously at Case Western Reserve University. His primary research interest is in understanding how coordinated behavior arises from the neurodynamics of an animal's nervous system, its body and its environment. He works on the evolution and analysis of dynamical "nervous systems" for model agentss, neuromechanical modeling of animals, biomorphic robotics, and dynamical systems approaches to behavior and cognition. More generally, he is interested in computational and theoretical biology, including models of metabolism, gene regulation and development.
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Yoshihide Kozai
#41228
Overall Influence
1928 - 2018 (90 years)
Yoshihide Kozai was a Japanese astronomer specialising in celestial mechanics. He is best known for discovering, simultaneously with Michael Lidov, the Kozai mechanism, for which he received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy in 1979. He was the first Japanese president of the International Astronomical Union from 1988 to 1991, and was director of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan from 1981 to 1994. He was professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and The Graduate University for Advanced Studies.
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Lesley Fallowfield
#41229
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Professor Dame Lesley Jean Fallowfield DBE is a British cancer psychologist and a professor of psycho-oncology at the University of Sussex. The main outcomes of her research have been the establishment of assessment tools to measure quality of life in clinical trials of cancer patients and the design of educational programmes to improve oncologists' communication with their patients.
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Franz W. Seidler
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Overall Influence
1933 - Present (93 years)
Franz Wilhelm Seidler is a German historian, author and expert on German military history. From 1973 to 1998, he was a professor of Modern History at the Bundeswehr University Munich. Since retirement, he has published works of revisionist nature in extreme right-wing publishers, such as Pour le Mérite Verlag.
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David Lichtenstein
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Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
David Lichtenstein is an American billionaire, entrepreneur, and real estate investor. He is the founder and CEO of The Lightstone Group, which he founded in 1988. During the early years of the Lightstone Group, Lichtenstein focused on investing in multifamily properties. He rapidly grew his portfolio in the 1990s, before diversifying his portfolio and moving into retail. In 2003, Lichtenstein acquired Prime Retail for $638 million. Since 2007, Lichtenstein has been responsible for some of the largest acquisitions and sales in the retail and hospitality sectors. In 2007, The Lightstone Group acquired Extended Stay Hotels for $8.1 billion.
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Michaela DePrince
#41232
Overall Influence
1995 - Present (31 years)
Michaela Mabinty DePrince is a Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer, currently dancing with the Boston Ballet. She rose to fame after starring in the documentary First Position in 2011, following her and other young ballet dancers as they prepared to compete at the Youth America Grand Prix. With her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, she authored the book Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina. DePrince formerly danced with the Dance Theatre of Harlem as the youngest dancer in the history of the company and was a former soloist with the Dutch National Ballet. Since 2016, Michaela is...
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Brian J. Enquist
#41233
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Brian Joseph Enquist is an American biologist and academic. Enquist is a Professor of Biology at the University of Arizona. He is also external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a biologist, plant biologist and an ecologist. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012 and the Ecological Society of America in 2018.
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Mina Teicher
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Mina Teicher is an Israeli mathematician at Bar-Ilan University, specializing in algebraic geometry. Teicher earned bachelor's, masters, and doctoral degrees from Tel Aviv University in 1974, 1976, and 1981 respectively. Her dissertation, Birational Transformation Between 4-folds, was supervised by Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro. Since 1999, she has directed the Emmy Noether Research Institute for Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University. In 2001–2002 she was the inaugural Emmy Noether Visiting professor at the University of Göttingen, where she lectured about braid groups.
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Marc Raeff
#41235
Overall Influence
1923 - 2008 (85 years)
Marc Raeff was a Soviet-born American historian. For most of his career he taught at Columbia University in New York, where he held the Bakhmeteff chair in Russian Studies. Harvard University historian Richard Pipes says, "He was very much interested in the Western aspect of Russian culture. He was a pillar of Russian historical studies in this country."
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Mike Woodson
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Michael Dean Woodson is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team. With coach Bob Knight's Indiana Hoosiers, Woodson played collegiately from 1976 to 1980. As a junior team captain, his Hoosiers won the 1979 NIT Tournament and he was named to first team All-Big Ten. That summer Woodson won a gold medal as captain of the United States basketball team at the 1979 Pan American Games. His senior year, Woodson and Isiah Thomas led the 1979–80 Hoosiers to a conference title and a berth in the NCAA Tournament's Sweet Sixteen.
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Tim Thomas
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Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Timothy Thomas Jr. is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender who mainly played in the National Hockey League , most notably with the Boston Bruins. He was born in Flint, Michigan and is a graduate of Davison High School. Thomas played college hockey for the University of Vermont for four years, from 1993–1997, during which he was drafted 217th overall by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. He played for several years in the minor leagues and Europe, before making it to the NHL at age 28, with the Boston Bruins. He finally emerged as the Bruins' starting goaltender at age 32.
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Lena Headey
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Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Lena Kathren Headey is an English actress. She gained international recognition and acclaim for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister on the HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones , for which she received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination, and Queen Gorgo in 300 .
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John C. Wilkinson
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Overall Influence
1934 - Present (92 years)
John Craven Wilkinson is a scholar of Islamic studies specializing in Ibadi studies. He is a British expert in the field of Ibadi studies. Biography Prior to his career in Islamic studies, he worked for international oil companies throughout the Middle East. He then returned to the UK to obtain his PhD at Oxford, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the Ibadi Imamate of Oman. In 1969, he finished his PhD thesis titled Arab settlement in Oman: the origins and development of the tribal pattern and its relationship to the Imamate. Wilkinson then began a prolific career publishing on Ibadi Islam and Omani history.
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Richard Whittington
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Richard Whittington is an academic in the area of Corporate Strategy. Currently, he is a Professor of Strategic Management at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. Whittington has been influential in the Strategy-as-Practice approach, a more sociological and less managerial approach to the study of business and corporate strategy. He was previously an Associate Editor at the Strategic Management Journal.
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Gil Masters
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Overall Influence
Gilbert 'Gil' Masters is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. Though he officially retired in 2002, he continues to teach two classes at the university. He is the author of six books, including the leading environmental science textbook Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science , now in its third edition. He also recently published Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems and Energy for Sustainability: Technology, Planning, Policy .
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Sucheng Chan
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Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Sucheng Chan is a Chinese-American author, historian, scholar, and professor. She established the first full-fledged autonomous Department of Asian American Studies at a major U.S. research university and she was the first Asian American woman in the University of California system to hold the title of provost.
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Nicholas Read
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Nicholas Read is an American physicist, noted for his work on strongly interacting quantum many-body systems. Biography Read was born in Britain in 1958 and did his undergraduate education at Cambridge University. He completed his PhD at the Imperial College, London after which he moved to the United States. Read worked as a post-doctoral researcher, first at Brown University, and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Yale University as an assistant professor in 1988, where he has been ever since.
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Ghulam Murshid
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Ghulam Murshid is a Bangladeshi author, scholar and journalist, based in London. He won a number of awards, including Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1982 for his contribution to research.; Prothom Alo Book Award in 2007; IFIC literary prize 2018; the Ekusey Padak for language and literature in 2021 and the Vidyasagar Endowments Lectures 1973 at Calcutta University. Besides being a prolific author, Dr. Murshid is a distinguished lexicographer. He edited a three-volume Bengali dictionary, called 'Bibartonmulak Bangla Abhidhan', published in 2013–2014, by the Bangla Academy. In the two ...
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Stanislav Prokofiev
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Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Stanislav Evgenievich Prokofiev is a Russian economist. In 2021, he became rector of Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. International sanctions Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the government of Ukraine has introduced sanctions against Prokofiev as well as against the Financial University, and its president Mikhail Eskindarov. In March that year, Prokofiev and Eskindarov had signed an open letter of Russian university rectors supporting the invasion.
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Tasso Katselas
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Overall Influence
1927 - Present (99 years)
Tasso Katselas is an architect in the United States known for his modernist concrete buildings especially in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His work includes Pittsburgh International Airport, public housing, and mansions. His firm was known as Tasso Katselas Associates and became TKA when he semi-retired in 2005 while continuing to consult for the firm.
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Lee Rainwater
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Overall Influence
1928 - 2015 (87 years)
Lee Rainwater was an American sociologist. He was a professor of sociology at Harvard University for 23 years and was a co-founder of the Luxembourg Income Study, for which he was research director between 1983 and 2005. He was the author, co-author, or editor of over twenty books, including Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Families in a Federal Slum , a study of the notorious St Louis, Missouri, housing development Pruitt–Igoe. A series of memorial lectures has been founded in his name at CUNY and began in 2017.
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Gustavo Zagrebelsky
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Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Gustavo Zagrebelsky is an Italian judge and constitutionalist. Zagrebelsky was born in San Germano Chisone, brother of Vladimiro Zagrebelsky, judge at the European Court of Human Rights. He was appointed as a judge on Constitutional Court of Italy by the President of Italy on 9 September 1995, swearing on his honour on 13 September 1995. He was elected President of the Italian Constitutional Court on 28 January 2004 and ceased his President office on 13 September 2004.
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Sophien Kamoun
#41249
Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Sophien Kamoun is a Tunisian biologist. He is a senior scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory and professor of biology at the University of East Anglia . Kamoun is known for contributions to our understanding of plant diseases and plant immunity.
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Joshua Parens
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Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Joshua S. Parens is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas. He is the dean of Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts. Parens is known for his expertise on Islamic and Jewish medieval philosophy.
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Tino Martinez
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Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Constantino "Tino" Martinez is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball for the Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays from 1990 through 2005. He also served as a hitting coach for the Miami Marlins in 2013. He is known as "Tino", a shortened version of his first name, but was also nicknamed "The Bam-tino" after his home run in game 1 of the 1998 World Series. Formerly a third baseman, Martinez was the first round draft pick for the Seattle Mariners in out of the University of Tampa, where he starred during his time on campus.
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Wolt Fabrycky
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Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Wolter Joseph Fabrycky is an American systems engineer, Lawrence Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, and Principal of Academic Applications International. Biography Wolter Fabrycky studied Industrial Engineering, receiving his BS in 1957 from Wichita State University and his Industrial Engineering MS in 1958 from the University of Arkansas. In 1962 Fabrycky received his PhD in engineering from Oklahoma State University where he was awarded an Ethyl Corporation Doctoral Fellowship.
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Gari Ledyard
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Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Gari Keith Ledyard was Sejong Professor of Korean History Emeritus at Columbia University. He is best known for his work on the history of the Hangul alphabet. Biography Ledyard was born while his family happened to be in Syracuse for work during the Depression. He grew up in Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and moved with his family to San Rafael, California, in 1948. After high school, he attended the University of Michigan and San Francisco State College, but did not do well, and in 1953 he joined the army to avoid the draft. Luckily, he missed so much basic training due to illness that he...
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Stefan Gierowski
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Overall Influence
1925 - 2022 (97 years)
Stefan Gierowski was a Polish painter and an avant garde artist of post-war Poland. For many years he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where he earned numerous distinctions. He abandoned representational and realist painting midway through the 1950s and devoted himself entirely to abstract and optical effects. Acknowledging the concreteness of materials and colors, the artist, by his own admission, is mostly intrigued by the dual nature of light, how light is enclosed within a painting and yet somehow escapes it. According to the artist, each painting has a structure and...
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Jean-François Berdah
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Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Jean-François Berdah is associate professor at the Department of History at the University of Toulouse II - Le Mirail . Biography Jean-François Berdah was born in Paris in 1961. He first studied at the University of Paris X Nanterre , at the University of Göttingen , at the European Institute of High International Studies in Strasbourg and finally at the Casa de Velázquez . He held DAAD scholarships in 1983–1984 and 1988, and promoted in 1996 at Paris 12 Val de Marne University. He was elected at the University of Toulouse II - Le Mirail in 1998. His lectures are focused on Modern European ...
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Enrico dal Covolo
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Enrico dal Covolo SDB is a Catholic bishop and Italian theologian, Assessor of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences from 15 January 2019. He previously served as the rector of the Pontifical Lateran University from his appointment on 30 June 2010 until 2 June 2018. In addition he was also the postulator of the cause of canonization of Pope John Paul I from 2003 until 2016.
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Taketani Mitsuo
#41257
Overall Influence
1911 - 2000 (89 years)
Taketani Mitsuo was a prominent Japanese physicist and Marxist. He published his Doctrine of the Three Stages of Scientific Development in 1936. This was the first Japanese contribution to the philosophy of science.
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Catherine J. Murphy
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Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Catherine "Cathy" J. Murphy is an American chemist and materials scientist, and is the Larry Faulkner Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . The first woman to serve as the head of the department of chemistry at UIUC, Murphy is known for her work on nanomaterials, specifically the seed-mediated synthesis of gold nanorods of controlled aspect ratio. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
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Mel Smith
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Overall Influence
1952 - 2013 (61 years)
Melvyn Kenneth Smith was an English comedian, actor and filmmaker. He worked on the sketch comedy shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones with his comedy partner, Griff Rhys Jones. Smith and Jones founded Talkback, which grew to be one of the United Kingdom's largest producers of television comedy and light entertainment programming.
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Martyn Thomas
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Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Martyn Thomas CBE FREng FIET FRSA is a British independent consultant and software engineer. Overview Martyn Thomas founded the software engineering company Praxis in 1983, based in Bath, southern England. He has a special interest in safety-critical systems and other high integrity applications. He has acted as an expert witness involving complex software engineering issues.
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Molly Shoichet
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Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Molly S. Shoichet , is a Canadian science professor, specializing in chemistry, biomaterials and biomedical engineering. She was Ontario's first Chief Scientist. Shoichet is a biomedical engineer known for her work in tissue engineering, and is the only person to be a fellow of the three National Academies in Canada.
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Sukanta Chaudhuri
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Sukanta Chaudhuri is an Indian literary scholar, now Professor Emeritus at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He was educated at Presidency College, Kolkata and the University of Oxford. He taught at Presidency College from January 1973 to December 1991 and at Jadavpur University thereafter till his retirement in June 2010. At Jadavpur, he was founding Director of the School of Cultural Texts and Records, a pioneering centre of digital humanities in India. His chief fields of study are the English and European Renaissance, translation, textual studies and digital humanities. He has held visiting ...
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Dan Friedman
#41263
Overall Influence
1945 - 1995 (50 years)
Dan Friedman was an American educator, graphic and furniture designer. He was a major contributor to the postmodern and new wave typography movements. Early life and education In 1945, Dan Friedman was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. After that, he studied at the Ulm School of Design. There, he studied graphic design. He also studied at Schule für Gestaltung Basel. There, he studied under Wolfgang Weingart and Armin Hofmann. In 1969 he moved back to the United States.
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