Hi, I’m Jed Macosko, President of Academic Influence. I’m a lifelong educator and current professor of physics at Wake Forest University. Students deserve to know that their investment in higher education is well-spent. I created Academic Influence in partnership with award winning expert in Machine Learning, Winston Ewert, to develop our trademarked Influence Ranking Engine.
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Dive into a world of knowledge and find inspiring figures from 24 academic fields and more than 300 sub-disciplines. Our approach draws on rich sources like Wikipedia and Semantic Scholar, perfect for spicing up research papers and building your bibliography. Whether you’re curious about legendary philosophers or leading mathematicians, we’ve got the insights to light up your research journey.
Influential People of the Day
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Tõnu Lehtsaar is an Estonian psychologist. In 1983, he graduated from Tartu State University in psychology. From 2000 until 2016, he was a professor of psychology of religion at the University of Tartu. From 2006 to 2007 and again from 2017 to 2018, he was the acting rector of the University of Tartu.
Ernst Weyden was a scholar and member of the Faculty at the University of Cologne. Publications All publications in German, unless otherwise noted.Cöln's Vorzeit: Geschichten, Legenden und Sagen Cöln's nebst einer Auswahl cölnischer Volkslieder. Cöln a. Rh: Schmitz, 1826. Aventures merveilleuses de Siegfried Sagas. Paris: L. Janet, 1833. Fréderic et Gela. Sagas. Paris: L. Janet, 1833. Drachenfels et Rolandsech. Sagas. Paris: L. Janet, 1833. Loreley Sagas. Paris: L. Janet, 1833. La dame Richmodis. Sagas. Paris: L. Janet, 1833. Germain Joseph. Sagas. P. 43-47: [1] f. de pl, 1833. Albertus Magnus. Sagas. Paris: L. Janet, 1833.Geschichte der Burgen, Rittergüter, Abteien und Klöster in den Rheinlanden und den Provinzen Jülich, Cleve, Berg und Westphalen, nach archivarischen und andern authentischen Quellen gesammelt und bearbeitet von F. E. von Mering und Ernst Weyden. II. Heft, mit der Abbildung der Schlossruine zu Andernach. Köln: H. A. Arend, 1834.Das Ahrthal ein Führer von der Mündung der Ahr bis zu ihrer Quellen ; historisch topographische Skizzen und naturhistorische Andeutungen; mit 6 Stahlstichen. Bonn: Habicht, 1835.Feierstunden. Köln: Renard und Dübyen, 1835.Kurzer Umriß der Geschichte der schönen Literatur Italiens. 1837.Godesberg, das Siebengebirge und ihre Umgebungen. Für den Fremden und Heimischen historisch-romantisch geschildert mit naturhistorischen Andeutungen. Bonn: T. Habicht, 1837. New edition 1838,Godesberg, das Siebengebirge und ihre Umgebungen. 1838.Kölns Legenden, Sagen, Geschichten, nebst Volksliedern, Schwänken, Anekdoten, Sprichwörtern. Köln: Tonger, 1839.Das Ahrthal: ein Führer von der Mündung der Ahr bis zu ihren Quellen ; nebst einem Abstecher nach dem Laacher-See und dem Brohlthale, historisch-topographische Skizzen und naturhistorische Andeutungen. Bonn: Habicht, 1839. Second edition, 1839Das haus Overstolz zur Rheingasse genannt Tempelhaus: Historische Skizze und Beschreibung seiner innere Ausschmückung. Köln: M. Du Mont-Schauberg, 1842.Die Erfindung des Schießpulvers und der Feuerwaffen, ihre Einführung und Verbreitung in den Hauptstaaten Europas. [Schulprogramme Köln, 1844]. Köln: Schlösser, 1844.Die neuen Dom-Fenster, ein Weihe-Geschenk des Königs Ludwig I. von Bayern: zum Besten der Dombau-Gasse. Köln: Eilen, 1848. Études étymologiques. Köln: J. P. Bachem, 1853.Die neuen Glasgemälde im Dome zu Köln: ein Weihe-Geschenk Sr. Maj. des Königs Ludwig I. von Bayern. Köln: Franz Carl Eisen, 1854. Third edition, 1854.Sängerfahrt des Kölner Männer-Gesang-Vereins nach London. Köln: F.C. Eisen, dc 1854, 1854.Rückblicke auf Köln's Kunstgeschichte. 1855.Köln am Rhein vor fünfzig Jahren Sitten-Bilder nebst historischen Andeutungen und sprachlichen Erläuterungen. Köln: DuMont-Schauberg, 1862.Die Schlacht bei Worringen am 5. Juni 1288. Koln: F.P. Bachem, 1864.Godesberg, das Siebengebirge, und ihre Umgebungen: Für den Fremden und Heimischen geschildert, mit naturhistorischen Andeutungen. Mit 1 Stahlstich und 1 Karte. Bonn: T. Habicht, 1864.Das Siegthal: ein Führer von der Mündung bis zur Quelle des Flusses und durch seine Seitenthäler. Zugleich Handbuch für Reisende auf der Deutz-Siegener Eisenbahn. Topographisch-historische Skizzen nebst statistischen und naturgeschichtlichen Andeutungen. Mit 1 Stahlstich und 1 Karte. Bonn: T. Habicht, 1865. Lesimple's Reisebücher, 2. Leipzig: Lesimple, 1865.Das Siegthal. Ein Führer von der Mündung bis zur Quelle des Flusses und durch seine Seitenthäler ... Mit 1 Stahlstich und 1 Karte. 1866.Geschichte der Juden in Köln am Rhein von den Römerzeiten bis auf die Gegenwart; nebst Noten und Urkunden. Köln: M. DuMont-Schauberg, 1867.
Michael L. W. Thewalt is a Canadian physicist. He received his BSc from McMaster University in 1972. His MSc and PhD were from the University of British Columbia in the mid-1970s. He teaches at Simon Fraser University and is known for researching semiconductors, especially isotopically enriched silicon.
Aleksander Bartłomiej Skotnicki is a Polish hematologist and transplantologist, specialist in internal medicine, professor of medical sciences, Head of the Hematology Clinic of the Jagiellonian University Medical College between 1993 and 2018, academic lecturer, social activist, member of the Polish Academy of Learning.
Monika Stanisława Płatek is a Polish legal scholar, criminologist, and politician. She is a professor at the University of Warsaw, and her research focuses on penal systems, criminal and civil law, gender studies, and feminist jurisprudence. She has been a candidate for the Senate of Poland and the European Parliament.
Corine Pelluchon is a French philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée . Education Corine Pelluchon received her agrégation in philosophy in 1997, then defended a thesis entitled at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 2003, and obtained a habilitation in philosophy entitled in 2010.
Israel Shatzman was an Israeli historian. He has been Professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , a Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and Director at the National Library of Israel .
Roland Josef Hardenberg is a German professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology. From 2009 to 2016 he was director of the Department of Ethnology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and from 2013 to 2017 deputy spokesperson of the CRC 1070 "ResourceCultures: Socio-cultural dynamics in the use of resources". In October 2016, he moved to a professorship for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and took over as director of the Frobenius Institute in 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he was also managing director of the Institute for Ethnology at the Goethe University. Together with Holger Jebens he publishes the scientific journal Paideuma: Journal of Cultural Anthropology.
