The 50 Most Influential Scientists in the World Today

From neuroscience, genetics, biotechnology and digital media to sustainable energy and cloud computing, almost everything today is somehow affected – and sometimes entirely reshaped – by scientific and technological advances.

By science in this article we mean the natural and engineering sciences (we thus exclude pure mathematics as well as the social sciences). Thus, in this article, we focus on scientists in the biological, medical, and physical sciences as well as those concerned with technology and especially computers.