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#12801

Else Øyen

#153925

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Professor Else Øyen was educated as a sociologist. Education and career She became a professor of social policy in 1975 at the University of Bergen, Norway, and shifted her later research focus to comparative poverty studies within an interdisciplinary framework. She initiated the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty in 1991. In a few years, it became one of the major programmes under the International Social Science Council . The foremost aim of CROP was to provide a scientific framework for the understanding of the many facets of poverty and to create an international arena where pover...

#12802

Nikolai Timkov

#36665

Overall Influence

1912 - 1993 (81 years)

Nikolai Efimovich Timkov was a Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, and a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists . He lived and worked in Leningrad and is regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, worldwide known for his landscape paintings.

#12803

Naomi B. Lynn

#52264

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Naomi Burgos Lynn was the first Hispanic woman president of an American public university. She served as president of Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois, beginning in 1991 and through its entrance into the University of Illinois system as the University of Illinois Springfield. She retired as chancellor of UIS in 2001. At her retirement the Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair for Lincoln Studies was created at the University of Illinois Springfield, where Dr. Phillip Paludan served as its first recipient.

#12804

Ihsan Isik

#68720

Overall Influence

Ihsan Isik is a tenured professor of international banking and finance at the Department of Accounting and Finance, Rohrer College of Business, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ. He serves as the Director of International Affairs for the Rohrer COB since June 2013. Ihsan Isik received his B.S. in Management with high honors from the Middle East Technical University, , his M.S. in Finance from Texas Tech University, , his M.A. in Economics and his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from University of New Orleans .

#12805

Roy C. Craven

#130984

Overall Influence

1924 - 1996 (72 years)

Roy C. Craven was He was the founding director of the University Gallery at the University of Florida. Roy C. Craven authored, co-authored, and co-created numerous scholarly books and publications on art , including:Art: A Concise Historythe ocean of painting : India's popular paintings, 1589 to the presentcenters of the Mayacontemporary painters from Indiatreasury of Indian miniature paintingsPahari PaintingsConcise History of Indian Art, "The World of Art Library" seriesArt of India from Florida CollectionsOlmecas : the parent civilization of Mesoamericasculpture in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Artof India : selections from the Samuel P.

#12806

John M. Jacobus Jr.

#133628

Overall Influence

1927 - 2017 (90 years)

John Maxwell "Jake" Jacobus Jr. was Leon E. Williams Professor of Art History, emeritus, at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA. He was a specialist in modern art and architecture and particularly the art of Henri Matisse.

#12807

Nathaniel Stern

Nathaniel Stern

#108748

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Nathaniel Stern is an American/South African interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media, including photography, interactive art, public art interventions, installation, video art, net.art and printmaking. He is currently a Professor of Art and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

#12808

Stephen Robert Cotanch

#190071

Overall Influence

Stephen Robert Cotanch is an American physicist. Cotanch earned his doctoral degree in 1973 at Florida State University. After three years of postdoctoral study at the University of Pittsburgh, he joined the North Carolina State University faculty. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998 "[f]or sustained contributions to hadronic and electromagnetic studies of strangeness and theoretical advancements in nuclear and photonuclear reactions and hadron structure."

#12809

Jocelyn Robert

#179172

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Jocelyn Robert is a Canadian post-modern interdisciplinary artist from Quebec City, Quebec. In 1993, he co-founded the collective Avatar in Quebec City, which became the province's flagship in sound and electronic art. He was its first President and from 2004 to 2009 its artistic director. He also participated in the founding of the Méduse cooperative.

#12810

Rita Sanchez

#111471

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Rita Sanchez is an American academic in the field of Chicana/o studies. Sanchez' family roots are in Bernalillo, New Mexico, but her grandfather took a second home in San Bernardino in 1910 because of his work with the Southern Pacific Railroad, and sold the Bernalillo home in 1919. Rita Sanchez was born in San Bernardino on May 20, 1937, the seventh of eleven children. She graduated from San Bernardino High School in 1956 and studied journalism at San Jose State University as one of the first Mexican-Americans to attend college, but did not finish her degree. She returned to college in the 1970s as a single mother of two daughters, earning a B.A.

#12811

Janet Wilson

#95479

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Janet M. Wilson is a UK-based New Zealand academic who specialises in post colonial New Zealand literature. Academic career Janet Mary Wilson is Emerita Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, Faculty of Arts, Science and Humanities, University of Northampton and editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing and on the board of the Journal of New Zealand Literature.

#12812

Daniel Harkness

#92962

Overall Influence

Daniel Harkness is an author, professor, and licensed clinical social worker. Along with Alfred Kadushin, Harkness wrote Supervision in Social Work in 2002. Career Since 1993, Harkness has been a tenured professor at Boise State University within the Social Work department. His specialties are addictions; clinical social work; codependence; educating and credentialing social workers; evaluation and treatment of mental disorders; and social work supervision. He previously earned his Bachelors, Masters, and PhD from the University of Kansas.

#12813

Ivanka Popović

#72900

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Ivanka Popović is a Serbian professor and the incumbent rector of the University of Belgrade since October 1, 2018. She authored and co-authored more than 85 scientific documents. Biography She was born in Rio de Janeiro to a prominent family, her father was Yugoslav ambassador and diplomat and her grandfather was Daka Popović, a member of the . She studied chemical engineering at the University of Maryland, she finished her studies at Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy of the University of Belgrade, where she earned her doctorate. She became a professor at the University of Belgrade in 2001.

#12814

Pavel Dolukhanov

Pavel Dolukhanov

#110259

Overall Influence

1937 - 2009 (72 years)

Pavel Dolukhanov was a doctor of geographical sciences, professor, emeritus professor , Russian and British paleogeographer and archaeologist at the Institute of History of Material Culture , RAS and the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom , a specialist in archaeology and paleoenvironment of Northern Eurasia. He taught and made research at the Leningrad State University, the University of Newcastle , the Institute of Paleontology in Paris and the International Research Center .

#12815

Scott Shenker

#190142

Overall Influence

#12816

Wei Chu

#190153

Overall Influence

#12817

Ali Hossaini

#186148

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Ali Hossaini is an American artist, philosopher, theatrical producer, television producer, and businessperson. In 2010, The New York Times described him as a "biochemist turned philosopher turned television producer turned visual poet". In 2017 Hossaini published the Manual of Digital Museum Planning and subsequently became co-director of National Gallery X, a King's College London partnership that explores the future of art and cultural institutions. Prior to National Gallery X Hossaini worked with King's College to develop Connected Culture, an action research programme that tested cultural applications for 5G supported by Ericsson.

#12818

Yusuke Nakahara

Yusuke Nakahara

#92488

Overall Influence

1931 - 2011 (80 years)

Yusuke Nakahara was a renowned Japanese art critic, curator, scholar, lecturer, university president, art festival organizer, and cultural administrator. He is perhaps best known as the figure who spearheaded the influential 1970 Tokyo Biennale, Between Man and Matter at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. The exhibition was a watershed moment in Post-1945 Japanese art for its promotion of avant-garde Japanese and international art practices as demonstrated by disparate artists who worked in varying mediums within the then-underrepresented movements of Arte Povera, Conceptual Art, Minimalism, and Mono-ha.

#12819

Kindeya Gebrehiwot

#121951

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Kindeya Gebrehiwot is an Ethiopian academic who is currently Professor of Forestry at Mekelle University , undertaking research on forest regeneration, particularly frankincense trees. He studies the threats to this flagship species, particularly in relation to regrowth and tapping. He was also President of Mekelle University.

#12820

Russell Keanini

#50197

Overall Influence

Russell Keanini is an American mechanical engineer, mathematician, physicist, and academic. He is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science at the William States Lee College of Engineering of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the recipient of the 2020 Kirk Bryan Award for his contributions to the field of Quaternary geology.

#12821

Robert Holmes

#184905

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Robert E. Holmes Jr. is an American amateur astronomer and professional photographer. In 2002 Holmes founded Astronomical Research Institute , a non-profit organization offering students observation time from telescopes installed at the Astronomical Research Observatory originally in Charleston, Illinois and later at Westfield, Illinois.

#12822

John Poulakos

#27063

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

John Poulakos has worked in the field of rhetoric as a professor and author, contributing to the study of classical rhetoric. Biography Poulakos received his MA from California State University, San Jose in 1972 with a thesis "Toward an existential theory of dialogue". PhD in Communications from the University of Kansas in 1979 with a thesis "Gorgias on rhetoric". Poulakos moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is currently the associate professor of Communication and Rhetoric at the University of Pittsburgh.

#12823

Joseph Beckham

#91987

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Joseph C. Beckham is Professor Emeritus Florida State University. He served on the faculty at FSU for thirty-five years beginning in 1980, chaired the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies on three separate occasions, and was named Allen Tucker Professor of Higher Education during his tenure at the Institution. Beckham served a term as president of the National Organization on Legal Problems of Education in 1989. In 1991, he was awarded the McGhehey Award for contributions to the field of education law by the Education Law Association. He received teaching awards throughou...

#12824

Gerhard Dünnhaupt

#73397

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

Gerhard Dünnhaupt, FRSC is a German bibliographer, literary historian, emeritus professor of the University of Michigan, an honorary life member of the Modern Language Association of America, Elected Fellow and Life Member of the Royal Society of Canada . In September 1983, he chaired the international "Martin Luther Quincentennial Conference" in Ann Arbor, MI. He is the author of the only annotated bibliography of German Baroque literature.

#12825

Timothy J. Clark

#117109

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Timothy J. Clark is an American artist best known for his large watercolor paintings of urban landscapes, still lifes, and interiors, and for his oil and watercolor portraits. His paintings and drawings are in the permanent collections of more than twenty art museums.

#12826

Gonda Van Steen

Gonda Van Steen

#124454

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Gonda Aline Hector Van Steen is a Belgian-American classical scholar and linguist, who specialises in ancient and modern Greek language and literature. Since 2018, she has been Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, the first woman to hold this position, and Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London. She previously held the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, and taught at the University of Arizona and at Cornell University. She has also served as the President of the Modern Greek Studies Association...

#12827

David Klamen

#67461

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

David Klamen is an American artist and academic. He is known for visually diverse paintings that meld technical mastery with postmodern explorations of the processes by which humans understand and interpret experience. Klamen has exhibited across the United States, Europe and Asia, including individual shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago , the Chazen Museum of Art and the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, and major group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Crocker Art Museum.

#12828

Samuel Genensky

#111382

Overall Influence

1927 - 2009 (82 years)

Samuel M. Genensky was an American computer scientist, best known as an inventor for devices to assist sight-impaired persons. He was also well known for his advocacy on behalf of the blind. Early life and career When Genensky was born, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had a requirement that all newborn babies receive drops of dilute silver nitrate in both eyes, to prevent the possible passage of syphilis from mother to child. He received the required drops, but unfortunately the chemical had not been diluted, and both his eyes were badly burned. Three months later he was treated by Dr. Frederick H.

#12829

Rafael Jordana

#158048

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Rafael Jordana Butticaz is a Spanish scientist, Emeritus Professor of Animal Physiology and Zoology, and specialist in springtails . Biography Academic training and teaching work Jordana earned a bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Barcelona in 1964, with honors.

#12830

C. K. Gunsalus

#73790

Overall Influence

C. K. Gunsalus is the Director of the National Center for Principled Leadership and Research Ethics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in addition to being a Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and Professor Emerita in the College of Business.

#12831

Terry Eastwood

#114143

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Terence M. Eastwood is best known for his pioneering roles in archival education internationally and the creation of archival descriptive standards in Canada. He has published widely on a number of topics of importance to the development of archival theory and has lectured and presented throughout the world. His work supervising archival studies students helped craft a whole new generation of archivists who themselves have gone on to make important contributions to the field.

#12832

Richard Carlyon

#171005

Overall Influence

1930 - 2006 (76 years)

Richard Carlyon was an American artist who lived in Richmond, Virginia and taught at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts, where he became a professor emeritus. Carlyon gained national recognition for his teaching at VCU. He received the 1993 Distinguished Teaching of Art Award from The College Art Association of America; two professional fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; the 28th Annual Theresa Pollak multimedia prize by Richmond Magazine; and the 2005 VCU Presidential Medal of Honor.

#12833

Joe Scanlan

#77374

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Joe Scanlan is an American artist and educator. Education Scanlan was born in Columbus, Ohio. He holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Columbus College of Art and Design. Academic career Scanlan was assistant director of The Renaissance Society from 1987 to 1994. After moving to New York City in 1995, he was appointed an Assistant Professor and, later, an associate professor in the Sculpture Department at Yale University . He was appointed Professor of Art at Princeton University in 2009, where he served as Director of the Visual Arts Program from 2009 to 2017. He continues to teach a diverse ra...

#12834

Malcolm Jones III

#86781

Overall Influence

1959 - 1996 (37 years)

Malcolm Jones III was an American comic book artist best known as an inker on The Sandman, where he added his illustrative line and textures to the work of pencillers such as Mike Dringenberg, Kelley Jones, and Colleen Doran. He was also known for inking Denys Cowan's pencils on The Question.

#12835

Donald Q. Cannon

#112089

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Donald Quayle Cannon is a retired professor at Brigham Young University who specializes in Latter-day Saint history, particularly early Latter-day Saint history and international Latter-day Saint history.

#12836

Alejandro Armellini

Alejandro Armellini

#136089

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Alejandro Armellini is the Dean of Digital and Distributed Learning at the University of Portsmouth. Previously, he was the Dean of Learning and Teaching and Director of the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at the University of Northampton, England. His research focuses on learning innovation, online and blended pedagogy, course design in online environments, institutional capacity building and open practices.

#12837

Brandon Graham

#172225

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Brandon Graham is an American comic book creator. Biography Born in Oregon, Graham grew up in Seattle, Washington, where he was a graffiti artist. He wrote and illustrated comic books for Antarctic Press and Radio Comix, but got his start drawing pornographic comics such as Pillow Fight, Perverts of the Unknown and the initial issue of Multiple Warheads . In 1997, he moved to New York City where he found work with NBM Publishing and became a founding member of comics collective Meathaus. His book Escalator was published by Alternative Comics in January 2005, when he returned to Seattle. His book King City was published by Tokyopop in 2007 and was nominated for an Eisner Award.

#12838

Stefan Knapp

#28723

Overall Influence

1921 - 1996 (75 years)

Stefan Knapp was a Polish painter and sculptor, who worked in Great Britain. He developed and patented a technique of painting with enamel paint on steel, facilitating decorating public architectural structures.

#12839

Richard Cooper

#49790

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Richard Anthony Cooper , Master of St Benet's Hall, Oxford, from September 2018 until September 2022, is Emeritus Professor of French in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford University.

#12840

Peter Collins

#121923

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Peter Collins is a British academic who most recently worked at the University of Salford. Early life Educated at Harrow School, he obtained an Open Scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford where he studied between 1963 and 1966 obtaining BA Hons in modern languages; followed by an MA in 1968. He studied for a second bachelor's degree at the University of London between 1969 and 1971 obtaining a first class BA Hons in philosophy in 1971. He returned to Oxford for his BPhil and Doctorate.

#12841

Tim Sale

#100009

Overall Influence

1956 - 2022 (66 years)

Timothy Roger Sale was an American comics artist, "best known for his work on the DC Comics characters Batman and Superman and for influencing depictions of the Caped Crusader in numerous films." He is primarily known for his collaborations with writer Jeph Loeb, which included both comics work and artwork for the TV series Heroes. Sale's renditions of Batman influenced modern cinematic depictions of the character, with film directors and actors directly citing Sale's work.

#12842

Paul H. Kocher

#12558

Overall Influence

1907 - 1998 (91 years)

Paul Harold Kocher was an American scholar, writer, and professor of English. He wrote extensively on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien as well as on Elizabethan English drama, philosophy, religion, and medicine. His numerous publications include studies of Christopher Marlowe and Francis Bacon. He also authored books on the Franciscan missions of 18th- and 19th-century California.

#12843

Kostas Spiropoulos

#164380

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Kostas Spiropoulos is a Greek painter and doctor. Since the 2000s he has become a leading figure in the pop art movement in Greece. Early years Professor and artist Kostas Spiropoulos was born and raised in Patras. Since his childhood he admired the famous painters and scientists, because their common characteristic is the lust for constant amelioration of the spirit and the soul, as they eternally seek for the decryption of the world. In his early artistic steps, he studied the works of the greatest teachers of art, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. He was also keen on byzantine art and wa...

#12844

Ángel Cabrera

#190257

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#12845

Anna Van Meter

#160034

Overall Influence

Anna Van Meter is an American clinical psychologist. She is on the faculty of New York University Grossman School of Medicine in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She leads the Investigating Mood Pathology: Assessment, Course, Treatment Lab. Van Meter and her team conduct research on mood disorders and associated clinical phenomena, including suicide. They focus on innovative, technology-based approaches to improve the rapid identification of symptoms in youth and to facilitate access to evidence-based care.

#12846

Robert B. Bradley

#86740

Overall Influence

Robert B. Bradley is the Vice President for Planning and Programs at Florida State University. Bradley is in charge of the university’s budget and is responsible for academic planning. He also serves as Director of the Institute of Science and Public Affairs . He is also a professor at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy.

#12847

James E. McLean

#118990

Overall Influence

James E. McLean is the previous Dean of the University of Alabama College of Education. Prior to his position at University of Alabama he was a professor at East Tennessee State University. He received his bachelor's degree, Master's degree, and Doctorate all from the University of Florida.

#12848

Malcolm Ludvigsen

#89598

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Malcolm Ludvigsen is a British mathematician and plein air painter. He is a former research fellow and visiting lecturer in mathematics at the University of York and the author of a book on general relativity. Many of his paintings depict the beaches of the Yorkshire coast.

#12849

Darol Froman

#72087

Overall Influence

1906 - 1997 (91 years)

Darol Kenneth Froman was the deputy director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1951 to 1962. He served as a group leader from 1943 to 1945, and a division head from 1945 to 1948. He was the scientific director of the Operation Sandstone nuclear tests at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific in 1948, and assistant director for weapons development from 1949 to 1951.

#12850

Cynthia D

#190303

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