TOP 50 SCIENTISTS IN THE WORLD TODAY NAME
FIELD OF INFLUENCE
NAME
FIELD OF INFLUENCE
1. Alain Aspect
Quantum Theory
26. Martin Karplus
Quantum Chemistry
2. David Baltimore
Virology—HIV &Cancer
27. Donald Knuth
ComputerProgramming
3. Allen Bard
Electrochemistry
28. Robert Marks II
ComputationalIntelligence
4. Timothy Berners Lee
ComputerScience (WWW)
29. Craig Mello
Molecular Medicine
5. John Tyler Bonner
EvolutionaryBiology
30. LucMontagnier
Immunology—HIV
6. Dennis Bray
Molecular Biology
31. Gordon Moore
Physicist—Intel Corp.
7. SydneyBrenner
Biology—Genetics
32. KaryMullis
DNA Chemist
8. Pierre Chambon
Genetics&CellularBiology
33. C. Nüsslein Volhard
DevelopmentalBiology
9. SimonConway Morris
EvolutionaryPaleobiology
34. SeijiOgawa
fMRITechnology
10. Mildred Dresselhaus
CarbonScience
35. JeremiahOstriker
Astrophysics
11. Gerald M. Edelman
Neuroscience
36. Roger Penrose
Mathematics&Physics
12. Ronald Evans
Molecular Genetics
37. Stanley Prusiner
Neurodegeneration
13. Anthony Fauci
Immunology—HIV
38. Henry F. Schaefer III
Quantum Chemistry
NAME
FIELD OF INFLUENCE
NAME
FIELD OF INFLUENCE
14. Anthony Fire
Genetics—RNAi
39. Thomas Südhof
Neurotransmission
15. Jean Fréchet
Biotechnology
40. Jack Szostak
Genetics
16. Margaret Geller
Astronomy
41. James Tour
Nanotechnology
17. Jane Goodall
Primatologist
42. Charles Townes
Quantum Electronics
18. Alan Guth
InflationaryCosmology
43. Harold Varmus
Oncology
19. Lene VestergaardHau
Quantum Physics
44. Craig Venter
Human Genetics
20. Stephen Hawking
Physics&Cosmology
45. James Watson
Molecular Biology—DNA
21. Peter Higgs
Physics—HiggsBoson
46. Steven Weinberg
TheoreticalPhysics
22. Leroy Hood
SystemsBiology
47. George Whitesides
Chemistry—Spectroscopy
23. Eric Kandel
Neuroscience
48. Edward Wilson
Biology—Myrmecology
24. Andrew Knoll
Paleontology
49. Edward Witten
StringTheory
25. Charles Kao
FiberOptics
50. ShinyaYamanaka
StemCellResearch
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20 Most Influential Scientists Alive Today
Scientists are perhaps the most influential people in the world today. They are responsible not only for the great practical advances in medicine and technology, but they also give us a deep understanding of what the world is and how it works. Their role in shaping the worldview of our culture is unrivaled. Below is SuperScholar’s list of the twenty living scientists that we regard as having most profoundly influenced our world.
1. Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web by being the first to successfully implement the transfer protocols on which the Web depends. [
2. Noam Chomsky, who, though a linguist and philosopher, has fundamentally reshaped the field of psychology, not least by dethroning behaviorism through his ideas about the innateness of language.
3. Richard Dawkins, whose use of evolutionary biology has shaped the way we understand ourselves at the most fundamental levels.
4. PersiDiaconis, who in merging the mathematical theory of groups with statistics has radically reconfigured our understanding of randomness
5. Jane Goodall, whose work on primates has led the way and given us focus in understanding our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.
6. Alan Guth, whose idea of inflationary cosmology has revolutionized our understanding of the Big Bang and the large scale structure of the universe.
7. Stephen Hawking, whose work on the nature of space and time remains groundbreaking and whose story of personal triumph despite suffering a neuromuscular dystrophy has inspired millions.
8. Donald Knuth, whose work on the theory of the algorithm has transformed the field of computer science. (Photocourtesy of Will Robertson)
9. Lynn Margulis, whose ideas about symbiogenesis have vastly enriched conventional ways of understanding biological evolution.
10. Gordon Moore, who as founder of Intel merged business and science in bringing about the information technology revolution (“Moore’s Law” is named after him).
11. Roger Penrose, who has broken new ground not only in fundamental physics but also on its connections to human consciousness.
12. Allan Sandage, who continued the work of the legendary Edwin Hubble to become the world’s greatest living observational astronomer.
13. Frederick Sanger, whose research first revealed the structure of proteins, work for which he received the first of two Nobel Prizes in chemistry.
14. Charles Townes, who invented the laser, which is now ubiquitous in technology and ordinary life.
15. Craig Venter, whose completion of the Human Genome Project and continued work on synthetic genomes and artificially constructed cells is fundamentally challenging our understanding of life.
16. James Watson, whose codiscovery with Francis Crick of the structure of DNA has revolutionized all of biology and is a landmark of the 20th century.
17. Steven Weinberg, whose work on unifying the forces of physics and whose exceptionally well-written popular books on science have made him a key public intellectual for interpreting science to the wider culture.
18. Andrew Wiles, who in resolving the 300-year old Fermat Conjecture of mathematics decisively demonstrated how seemingly irresolvable problems may eventually yield to solution through creative insight.
19. Edward O. Wilson, whose work on sociobiology has propelled evolutionary thinking into ethics and psychology.
20. Edward Witten, whose work on the mathematical underpinnings of string theory has made it the theory of everything to beat.
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