Developmental biologist and stem cell guru James Thomson recently made the Time 100 list of The World's Most Influential People.

He shares the honor with the likes of writer/director Judd Apatow, songstress Mariah Carey, "Brangelina," media mogul Rupert Murdoch, George W. Bush, the Dalai Lama, Facebook mastermind Mark Zuckerberg, Miley Cyrus, and the stars of the never-ending story, Campaign 2008: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

Wonder if he went to the party?  James Thomson and Miley Cyrus simultaneously reaching for the clam dip?  Priceless.  Thomson probably wouldn't recognize half these people since he's too busy toiling away in his bunker, oh, you know, changing the face of the medical world.

While Zuckerberg was hatching new ways to hypnotize the collegiate masses and Miley Cyrus was working to placate enraged soccer moms, Thomson was transforming skin cells into pluripotent stem cells with the potential to treat and prevent fatal disease, not to mention the potential to quell religious and political debates that have plagued the technology.

Could this man be any cooler?