The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people
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Roger Watson
#42214
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Roger Watson is a British academic. He is Academic Dean in the School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, China and Professor of Nursing, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong. Until 2022 was the Professor of Nursing at the University of Hull. He is the editor-in-chief of Nurse Education in Practice and an Editorial Board Member of the WikiJournal of Medicine. Watson was the Founding Chair of the Lancet Commission on Nursing, and a founding member of the Global Advisory Group for the Future of Nursing. Watson was elected Vice President of the National Conference of Universit...
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Riken Yamamoto
#42215
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
Riken Yamamoto, born 1945 Beijing, China is a Japanese architect. Education Yamamoto completed his bachelor's degree from Nihon University in 1967 and his master's degree from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1971, after which he continued his studies at the University of Tokyo under Hiroshi Hara.
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Jun-Muk Hwang
#42216
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Jun-Muk Hwang is a South Korean mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry and complex differential geometry. Personal life Hwang is the eldest son of gayageum musician Hwang Byungki and novelist Han Malsook.
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Bob Lemon
#42217
Overall Influence
1920 - 2000 (80 years)
Robert Granville Lemon was an American right-handed pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball . Lemon was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. Lemon was raised in California where he played high school baseball and was the state player of the year in 1938. At the age of 17, Lemon began his professional baseball career in the Cleveland Indians organization, with whom he played for his entire professional career. Lemon was called up to Cleveland's major league team as a utility player in 1941. He then joined the United States Navy during World War II and returned to the Indians in 1946.
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Clara Franzini-Armstrong
#42218
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Clara Franzini-Armstrong is an Italian-born American electron microscopist, and Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of Pennsylvania. Early life Clara Franzini was born on October 3, 1938, in Florence, Italy, along with her twin brother. As a child during World War II, she spent time in a hillside village. She lived with her mother, father and three brothers: Paolo, Carlo and Marco. The part of her childhood that occurred after the war consisted of competing with her brothers on exhausting mountain hikes, roller skating in Piazzale Michelangelo, observing the entire beautiful city and long relaxing times in scenic settings like the Dolomites.
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Cyril Offord
#42219
Overall Influence
1906 - 2000 (94 years)
Albert Cyril Offord FRS FRSE was a British mathematician. He was the first professor of mathematics at the London School of Economics. Life He was born in London on 9 June 1906 the eldest child of Albert Edwin Offord, a master printer, and his wife Hester Louise, a former opera singer. The family were Plymouth Brethren. He was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School. He then studied Mathematics at University College, London. He then went to St John's College, Cambridge as a postgraduate, working with Prof John Edensor Littlewood.
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Norton Garfinkle
#42220
Overall Influence
1931 - Present (95 years)
Norton Garfinkle is an American economist, writer, and businessman. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with honors from Columbia University and did his graduate work at Columbia University and Princeton University. He taught economics and economic history at Amherst College, where he was an editor the Journal of Economic History.
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Tom Rich
#42221
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Thomas Rich , generally known as Tom Rich, is an Australian palaeontologist. He is, as of 2019, Senior Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Museums Victoria. Education and career He was a student of Professor Ruben Arthur Stirton. This pushed him to become aware of potential in Australia to make fundamental discoveries about mammalian evolutionHe graduated in 1973 from Columbia University in New York City with a P.h.D. in Geology.
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Günter Altner
#42222
Overall Influence
1936 - 2011 (75 years)
Günter Altner was a German interdisciplanarily active scientist, biologist, Protestant theologian, ecologist, environmentalist, writer and lecturer. Altner had briefly been a professor of human biology at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, subsequently focussed on theology, his second area of education, and was a professor of protestant theology at the University of Koblenz and Landau for 22 years.
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Peter Schneider
#42223
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Peter Schneider is a German writer. Life Schneider is the son of a conductor and composer. He spent his early childhood in Königsberg and Saxony; from 1945 to 1950 he lived in Grainau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and from 1950 in Freiburg im Breisgau. After gaining his Abitur in 1959 he studied German, history, and philosophy at the universities of Freiburg and Munich. In 1962 he continued his studies at the Free University of Berlin. In the federal election campaign of 1965 he worked together with a number of well-known writers in the Wahlkampfkontor of the SPD.
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Lee Grant
#42224
Overall Influence
1927 - Present (99 years)
Lee Grant is an American actress, documentarian, and director. For her film debut in 1951 as a young shoplifter in William Wyler's Detective Story, Grant earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress and won the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. Grant won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Warren Beatty's older lover in Shampoo .
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Jan Sandee
#42225
Overall Influence
1919 - 2011 (92 years)
Jan Sandee was a Dutch economist, consultant and Professor of Econometrics at the Netherlands School of Economics, Rotterdam, who headed the Econometric Institute from 1966 to 1971. Sandee received his Engineering degree and was associated with the Statistics Netherlands late 1940s. In the 1950s he moved to the Dutch Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. He was Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963, and in 1965 was appointed Professor of Econometrics at the Netherlands School of Economics. In 1965 Sandee was elected fellow of the Econometric Society. From 1966...
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Rolf Faste
#42226
Overall Influence
1943 - 2003 (60 years)
Rolf A. Faste was an American designer who made major contributions to the fields of human-centered design and design education. He is best known for his contributions to design thinking which he advanced as a 'whole person' approach to problem solving centered on the perception of needs. He was professor of industrial design at the Syracuse University from 1971 to 1983, and professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Stanford Joint Program in Design from 1984 to 2003.
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Tatsumi Fujinami
#42227
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Tatsumi Fujinami is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to WWE on a legend's contract. Fujinami is most well known for his long tenure with New Japan Pro-Wrestling , where he was a six-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion. He was famously nicknamed "The Dragon", and is credited for inventing the dragon sleeper and the dragon suplex.
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Claire Deschênes
#42228
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Claire Deschênes is a Canadian mechanical engineer, an engineering professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering Université Laval, and a member of the Order of Canada. She is the first female professor of engineering at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Laval University, and is an expert in hydraulic turbine technology, hydrodynamics, and fluid mechanics.
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Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey
#42229
Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Margaret Omolola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey is a British actress, author, crossbench peer, and Chancellor of the University of Nottingham. Education and career Born in Kensington, Lola Young was educated at the Parliament Hill School for Girls in London and went then to the New College of Speech and Drama, where she received a diploma in dramatic art in 1975, and a teaching certificate one year later. In 1988 she graduated from Middlesex Polytechnic with a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Cultural Studies.
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John Stuart Archer
#42230
Overall Influence
1943 - 2007 (64 years)
John Stuart Archer was Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Heriot-Watt University from 1997 to 2006. Life Archer was born in London on 15 June 1943 and went to Chiswick County Grammar School. He obtained a BSc in Industrial Chemistry from City University London in 1965 and a PhD from Imperial College London. In 1969 he emigrated to Canada with his wife Lesley and got a job as a Petroleum Engineer. He returned to the UK in 1973, and worked in the European gas fields.
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Allan MacRae
#42231
Overall Influence
1902 - 1997 (95 years)
Allan Alexander MacRae was an evangelical Christian scholar who, with Harold S. Laird, Carl McIntire, Roland K. Armes, and several other conservative Presbyterians, helped found Faith Theological Seminary and, with Jack Murray, Biblical Theological Seminary. Because of his longevity, MacRae engaged in both the battles of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy and with the rise of Neo-evangelicalism in mid-20th century America, playing important roles in the establishment of three conservative American seminaries.
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Mitsuhiro Shishikura
#42232
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Mitsuhiro Shishikura is a Japanese mathematician working in the field of complex dynamics. He is professor at Kyoto University in Japan. Shishikura became internationally recognized for two of his earliest contributions, both of which solved long-standing open problems.In his Master's thesis, he proved a conjecture of Fatou from 1920 by showing that a rational function nonrepelling periodic cycles.He proved that the boundary of the Mandelbrot set has Hausdorff dimension two, confirming a conjecture stated by Mandelbrot and Milnor.For his results, he was awarded the Salem Prize in 1992, and th...
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Barbara Probst Solomon
#42233
Overall Influence
1928 - 2019 (91 years)
Barbara Probst Solomon was an American author, essayist and journalist. Her published works include two novels, two volumes of memoirs, and a book of collected essays. Solomon was the United States cultural correspondent for Spain's "newspaper-of-record", El País of Madrid. Solomon was awarded the 25th Francisco Cerecedo Prize by the Association of European Journalists in Spain. The prize, which comes with an award of $36,000, is the most prestigious journalism prize in that country, and Solomon was the first North American to receive it. She accepted the award from the future King of Spain ...
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Lasse Heje Pedersen
#42234
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Lasse Heje Pedersen is a Danish financial economist known for his research on liquidity risk and asset pricing. He is Professor of Finance at the Copenhagen Business School. Before that, he held the position of a Professor of Finance and Alternative Investments at the New York University Stern School of Business. He has also served in the monetary policy panel and liquidity working group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and is a principal at AQR Capital Management.
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Rhys Ifans
#42235
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Rhys Owain Evans , better known as Rhys Ifans, is a Welsh actor. He is best known for his roles in Notting Hill , Kevin & Perry Go Large , and Enduring Love as well as his portrayals of Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 , the supervillain Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home , and Grigori Rasputin in The King's Man . Other roles include Hector DeJean in the Epix thriller series Berlin Station, Mycroft Holmes in the CBS series Elementary, and Ser Otto Hightower in the HBO fantasy series House of the...
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Marco Antonio Solís
#42236
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Marco Antonio Solís Sosa is a Mexican musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. Born and raised in Ario de Rosales, Michoacán, Solís began his musical career at the age of six, performing with his brother Joel Solís as Los Hermanitos Solís. In 1975, he co-founded Los Bukis, of which he was the lead vocalist, songwriter and guitarist. The band split up after nearly two decades of success, with Solís pursuing a solo career. Solís released his debut solo album, En Pleno Vuelo, in 1996 by Fonovisa Records.
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Susan M. Collins
#42237
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Susan M. Collins is an American economist who has served as the 14th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston since July 1, 2022. She is the first African American woman and first woman of color to lead any of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. Collins previously served as the 16th provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the University of Michigan from 2020 to 2022.
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Hiranmay Sen Gupta
#42238
Overall Influence
1934 - 2022 (88 years)
Hiranmay Sen Gupta, , was a Bangladeshi physicist who specialised in nuclear physics. In a career spanning five decades he published over 200 research papers and was made a fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences in 1977.
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Helmut Sick
#42239
Overall Influence
1910 - 1991 (81 years)
Helmut Sick was a German-Brazilian ornithologist. Sick was born in Leipzig, Germany. He emigrated to Brazil in 1939. A prominent ornithologist in Brazil, Sick published more than 200 papers, including his most influential work: Ornitologia Brasileira, Uma Introdução , later translated into English as Birds in Brazil: A Natural History . He also led scientific expeditions in remote areas in Brazil and described several species of birds, including the Brasília tapaculo, long-tailed cinclodes, Stresemann's bristlefront and golden-crowned manakin.
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Mike Eruzione
#42240
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Michael Anthony "Rizz, Rizzo" Eruzione is an American former ice hockey player. He is best known as the captain of the 1980 Winter Olympics United States national team that defeated the Soviet Union in the famous "Miracle on Ice" game, in which he scored the game-winning goal. He is the author, with Neal E. Boudette, of the national bestseller, The Making of a Miracle: The Untold Story of the Captain of The Gold Medal-Winning 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team, published by HarperCollins.
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Renaud Dehousse
#42241
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Renaud Dehousse is a Belgian lawyer and professor, born on the 2 June 1960 in Liège, Belgium. He is currently President of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Biography Renaud Dehousse was born in Liège in 1960, the second son of Agnes Denis and Jean-Maurice Dehousse. He became a student of law at the University of Liège and then obtained a doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence. He later took up various positions at the EUI, including professor and head of the Department of Law, before being appointed ordinary professor at the University of Pisa.
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Lewis Siegelbaum
#42242
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Lewis H. Siegelbaum is Jack and Margaret Sweet Professor Emeritus of History at Michigan State University . His interests include 20th century Europe, Russia and Soviet Union. He has been with MSU since 1983.
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Iain Gordon
#42243
Overall Influence
Iain Gordon, FRSE, is a mathematician, currently Iain Gordon is Professor of Mathematics, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. His field of specialisation is representation theory and noncommutative algebra.
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Lee Ritenour
#42244
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Lee Mack Ritenour is an American jazz guitarist who has been active since the late 1960s. Biography Ritenour was born on January 11, 1952, in Los Angeles, California, United States. At the age of eight he started playing guitar and four years later decided on a career in music. When he was 16 he played on his first recording session with the Mamas & the Papas. He developed a love for jazz and was influenced by guitarist Wes Montgomery. At the age of 17 he worked with Lena Horne and Tony Bennett. He studied classical guitar at the University of Southern California.
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Felicity Huffman
#42245
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Felicity Kendall Huffman is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Lynette Scavo in the ABC comedy-drama Desperate Housewives and her performance as a transgender woman in the independent film Transamerica.
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Annette Kolodny
#42246
Overall Influence
1941 - 2019 (78 years)
Annette Kolodny was an American feminist literary critic and activist, held the position of College of Humanities Professor Emerita of American Literature and Culture at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her major scholarly writings examined the experiences of women on the American frontiers and the projection of female imagery onto the American landscape. Her other writings examined some aspects of feminism after the 1960s; the revision of dominant themes in American studies; and the problems faced by women and minorities in the American academy.
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Henrik Kleven
#42247
Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven is a Danish economist who is currently a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also co-editor of the American Economic Review. His research lies inside the domain of public economics and inequality, in particular questions about tax policy and welfare programs. He combines economic theory and empirical evidence to show ways of designing more effective public policies. His work has had policy impact in both developed and developing countries.
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Mary F. Eastman
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Overall Influence
Mary F. Eastman was an American educator, lecturer, writer, and suffragist of the long nineteenth century. A native of Lowell, Massachusetts, she resided in Tewksbury for many years. She taught in the high and normal school for girls in Boston, and was among the first to be thought competent to teach and control the students of a winter school in Lowell. Her later teaching was in Boston's Charlestown and also Somerville, Massachusetts. At the request of Horace Mann, she went to Ohio to aid in the work of education which he had undertaken at Antioch College. Eastman thought that suffrage was the highway to all other reforms.
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Jean Jolivet
#42249
Overall Influence
1925 - 2018 (93 years)
Jean Jolivet was a French philosopher and medievalist. He was an authority on Medieval philosophy and honorary director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. He was co-director of the publication series "Études de philosophie médiévale" for the Vrin Library of philosophy. Jolivet has been an influential mentor for, and collaborator with, Constant Mews, particularly in relation to Peter Abelard.
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Carl Morris
#42250
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Carl Neracher Morris was a professor in the Statistics Department of Harvard University and spent several years as a researcher for the RAND Corporation working on the RAND Health Insurance Experiment.
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Anna Marie Roos
#42251
Overall Influence
Anna Marie Roos is a historian of early modern English science, noted for her research on the early Royal Society. She is a professor in the School of History and Heritage at the University of Lincoln, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and the Editor-in-Chief of Notes and Records.
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Melle Mel
#42252
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Melvin Glover , better known by his stage name Grandmaster Melle Mel or simply Melle Mel , is an American rapper who was the lead vocalist and songwriter of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Career Glover began performing in the late 1970s. He may have been the first rapper to call himself MC . Other Furious Five members included his brother The Kidd Creole , Scorpio , Rahiem and Cowboy . While a member of the group, Cowboy created the term hip-hop while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army, by scat singing the words "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cade...
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Robert Young
#42253
Overall Influence
1907 - 1998 (91 years)
Robert George Young was an American film, television, and radio actor best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character, in Father Knows Best and the physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. . In 1978, Young produced a documentary that "stressed the importance of motorcycle training for teenagers." This film earned him the 1979 BAFTA Award for Best Specialised Film.
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Ray B. Browne
#42254
Overall Influence
1922 - 2009 (87 years)
Ray Broadus Browne , was an American educator, author, and founder of the academic study of popular culture in the United States. He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He founded the first academic Department of Popular Culture at BGSU in 1972, and is the founding editor of the Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of American Culture, and the Popular Press . He also founded the Library for Popular Culture Studies at BGSU , the Popular Culture Association, and the American Culture Association. His particular area of specializatio...
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Katherine Richardson Christensen
#42255
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Katherine Richardson Christensen is Professor in Biological Oceanography, leader of the Sustainability Science Centre and a principal investigator for the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate at the University of Copenhagen. She was the vice dean of the Faculty of Science from 2007–2012. Her research focuses on the importance of biological processes in the ocean for the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and how ocean biology, including diversity, contributes to ocean function in the Earth System.
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Manoj Bajpayee
#42256
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Manoj Bajpayee , also transliterated as Manoj Bajpai, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi cinema and has also done Telugu and Tamil language films. Widely regarded as one of the finest actors of Hindi cinema or Bollywood, he is the recipient of three National Film Awards, four Filmfare Awards, three Filmfare OTT Awards, and two Asia Pacific Screen Awards. In 2019, he was awarded India's fourth-highest civilian honour, the Padma Shri, for his contributions to art.
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Bruce Donald
#42257
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Bruce Randall Donald is an American computer scientist and computational biologist. He is the James B. Duke Professor of Computer Science and Biochemistry at Duke University. He has made numerous contributions to several fields in Computer Science such as robotics, Microelectromechanical Systems , Geometric & physical algorithms and computational geometry, as well as in areas of Structural Molecular Biology & Biochemistry such as Protein design, Protein Structure Determination and Computational Chemistry.
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Carlo Carraro
#42258
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Carlo Carraro is the chancellor of the University of Venice for the three-year period 2009–2012, with a two-year extension of his mandate in accordance to the Gelmini University Law bringing it up to summer 2014. He is also professor of environmental economics at the same university. He is director of the Sustainable Development Programme of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and director of the Climate Impacts and Policy Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change . In 2008, Carraro was elected vice-chair of the Working Group III and member of the bureau of the Nobel Laureate ...
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Frane Adam
#42259
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Frane Adam is a Slovenian sociologist, editor and former dissident political activist. During the early 1970s, he was one of the leaders of the student protest movement in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia.
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Michael Coey
#42260
Overall Influence
1945 - Present (81 years)
John Michael David Coey , known as Michael Coey, is a Belfast-born experimental physicist working in the fields of magnetism and spintronics. He is an Emeritus professor at the Trinity College Dublin .
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Noel Capon
#42261
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Noel Capon is an American organizational theorist, and the R.C. Kopf Professor of International Marketing at Columbia Business School. Biography Capon received his BSc and PhD in Chemistry from the University College London his PhD from Manchester Business School, his MBA from Harvard University and another PhD from Columbia University in 1975 with a thesis entitled "Experimental evaluation of alternative message variables in personal selling and direct mail advertising".
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Gretchen Gerzina
#42262
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is an American author and academic who has written mostly historically-grounded biographical studies. Her academic posts have included being the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of Biography at Dartmouth College, working as a professor at Vassar College, being a professor and a director of Africana Studies at Barnard College, and as at April 2019 being the Dean of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College. Gerzina was the host of WAMC's nationally-syndicated radio program The Book Show for fourteen years, where she interviewed authors.
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Tim Couch
#42263
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Timothy Scott Couch is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League for five seasons with the Cleveland Browns. He played college football at the University of Kentucky, where he set the Southeastern Conference record for single-season passing yards and won Quarterback of the Year as a junior. Selected first overall by the Browns in the 1999 NFL Draft, Couch was the franchise's first draft pick following their reactivation as an expansion team.
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