The 10 Most Influential People in Science

Larry Page & Sergey Brin; Cofounders, Google: Technological and Moral Vision How would we find out where our high school crush is working, 20 years after we last saw him, without the inventors of Google? But Google brings the world much more than cyberstalking: It allows us, second grader and Ph.D. alike, to mine information, expand our ideas about a subject, look up scholarly writings via Google Scholar, and even visually explore every inch of our planet with Google Earth. But Google creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted more and took another leap forward with Google.org, their groundbreaking philanthropic organization. Instead of filing for government-compliant not-for-profit status, Google.org (unlike most dot-orgs) is happy to solve problems in the “for profit” mode.