An algorithm-driven investigation of Wikipedia has found a Swedish botanist from the 18 th century to be more influential than Aristotle, Hitler and Jesus. Research published by the University of ...

The most influential person on Wikipedia has been revealed, but rather than Jesus or Barack Obama taking the top spot, it has strangely gone to a Swedish botanist. Carl Linnaeus, who topped the list ...

Move over, Jesus. Step aside, Hitler. Neither of you has got anything on Carl Linnaeus, inventor of the scientific naming scheme for plants and animals, who has been crowned the most influential ...