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#13001

Valentyna Melnyk

#180015

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Valentyna Melnyk is a New Zealand marketing academic. She is currently a full professor at Massey University. Academic career After a 2005 PhD titled 'Creating effective loyalty programs knowing what men want' from Tilburg University, Melnyk moved to Massey University, rising to full professor.

#13002

Kadri Mälk

#101369

Overall Influence

1958 - 2023 (65 years)

Kadri Mälk was an Estonian artist and jewellery designer. Life and career Mälk was born in Tallinn and began her studies at the Tartu Art School in 1977 and graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1986, studying under professor Leili Kuldkepp. Between 1986 and 1993, Mälk worked as a freelance artist. In 1993, she enrolled at the Lahti Design Institute in Finland, studying gemmology under the direction of Esko Timonen and completed her studies at Bernd Munsteiner's lapidary studio in Germany. Mälk was assigned to the Estonian Academy of Arts from 1989 and was also a professor in the jew...

#13003

Ravi Mahajan

#104701

Overall Influence

Ravi Prakash Mahajan of the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, was president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2018–21. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to anaesthesia.

#13004

Judy Brown

#188137

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Judy A. Brown is a New Zealand academic. She is currently a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington. Academic career Brown did a 1995 PhD thesis titled 'Accounting and Industrial Relations: a Critical Theory Perspective' at Victoria University of Wellington, before rising to full professor. Her research interests are the social and political context of accounting, including industrial relations, corporate governance, sustainability assessment, critical theory and social accounting.

#13005

Romi Mankin

#184925

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Romi Mankin is an Estonian physicist known for his work in the field of stochastic processes. Currently he holds a post in Tallinn University as a Professor of Theoretical Physics. He is well published having published many articles in both the Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and in the various sections of Physical Review . and other major journals.

#13006

Steven Kemenyffy

#64487

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Steven Kemenyffy is an American ceramic artist living and working in Pennsylvania. He is most recognized for his contributions to the development of the American ceramic raku tradition. Beginning in 1969, he served as a Professor of Ceramic Art at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania . He retired from teaching after forty years, but continues to produce artwork at his home studio in McKean, Pennsylvania.

#13007

Henry George Glyde

#116900

Overall Influence

1906 - 1998 (92 years)

Henry George Glyde was an English-born Canadian painter, draftsperson and art educator. Teaching career Born in Luton, England, Glyde attended the Royal College of Art in London, England was a student instructor at the school , then was an art instructor at other schools. He came to Canada in 1935 to teach drawing in Calgary at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art and in 1936 became head of the art department. From then on, he explored western Canada as a painting subject. He was also head of the painting division of the Banff School of Fine Arts where he met A.Y. Jackson and, in...

#13008

Carl Hjortsjö

#183605

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Carl Hjortsjö is a Swedish dentist. He became Head of Institute of Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, at University of Oslo in 2021. Doctorate He received his doctorate in 2010 at the University of Oslo, Norway. His thesis title was "Studies on the effect of hydrofluoric acid in prevention of early dental erosion".

#13009

Robert Slutzky

#68815

Overall Influence

1929 - 2005 (76 years)

Robert Slutzky was an American abstract painter and architectural theorist. He was the chair of the department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, and a critic of the International Style. His paintings were exhibited in museums on the East Coast.

#13010

Charles R. Embry

#113523

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Charles R. Embry is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Texas A&M University–Commerce, he joined then East Texas State University in 1969. Dr. Embry has just published The Philosopher and the Storyteller: Eric Voegelin and Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Missouri Press, . Dr. Embry previously edited the following two books; Robert B. Heilman and Eric Voegelin: A Friendship in Letters, 1944–1984 and coeditor of Philosophy, Literature, and Politics: Essays Honoring Ellis Sandoz.

#13011

Trevor Brown

#60104

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Trevor Brown is an English artist from London but based in Japan. His "occasionally shocking" work explores issues of paraphilia. Life and work Brown has been living and working in Japan since 1994.

#13012

Andrea B. Arcucci

#172989

Overall Influence

#13013

Douglas Huebler

Douglas Huebler

#24767

Overall Influence

1924 - 1997 (73 years)

Douglas Huebler was an American conceptual artist. Life and career Douglas Huebler grew up in rural Michigan during the Depression and served in the Marines in World War II. After the war, funded by the GI Bill, Huebler earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Michigan, and later went on to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. He worked for several years as a commercial art illustrator in New York as he established himself as an artist.

#13014

Peter Bunnell

#66659

Overall Influence

1937 - 2021 (84 years)

Peter Curtis Bunnell was an American author, scholar and historian of photography. For more than 40 years he had a significant impact on collecting, exhibiting, teaching and practicing photography through his work as a university professor, museum curator and prolific author.

#13015

Corey Postiglione

Corey Postiglione

#138005

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Corey Postiglione is an American artist, art critic and educator. He is a member of the American Abstract Artists in New York, and known for precise, often minimalist work that "both spans and explores the collective passage from modernism to postmodernism" in contemporary art practice and theory. New Art Examiner co-founder Jane Allen, writing in 1976, described him as "an important influence on the development of contemporary Chicago abstraction." In 2008, Chicago Tribuneart critic Alan G. Artner wrote "Postiglione has created a strong, consistent body of work that developed in cycles, now ...

#13016

Rentsen Enkhbat

#131468

Overall Influence

Rentsen Enkhbat is the current director of the Institute Mathematics at the National University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He is a professor of mathematics at the Business School of National University of Mongolia.

#13017

Jim O'Brien

#180992

Overall Influence

1947 - 2012 (65 years)

Jim O'Brien was a Scottish-born television and stage director. Born in Dundee, his mother worked as a jute weaver while his father was a building labourer with Communist sympathies, his family relocated to South London when O'Brien was two. Leaving Beaufoy’s Boys’ School in Lambeth at 15 without qualifications, he worked in casual jobs and became interested in acting. He trained as an actor at the Guildhall School and later as a film and television director at the National Film and Television School , in the early 1970s. "I was interested in the scale of the arena, the scale of story telling", he said later.

#13018

G. Pradeep Kumar

#146307

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Pradeep Kumar G. is an Indian cell biologist and a scientist at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology. Known for his studies in the field of disease biology, Dr Kumar is a life member of the Kerala Academy of Sciences. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2006. He has also been conferred with the prestigious Labhsetwar Award and the Dr. TC Anand Kumar Memorial Oration Award of the Indian Society for the Study of Reproduc...

#13019

Mahesh Viswanathan

#125528

Overall Influence

Mahesh Viswanathan is an engineer at IBM. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for his contributions to ubiquitous access to cloud computing and to vehicular speech communications.

#13020

Nabil Hegazi

#112511

Overall Influence

Nabil Hegazi is an Egyptian Emeritus Professor at Cairo University.

#13021

M Harunur Rashid

#134216

Overall Influence

1925 - 2010 (85 years)

M Harunur Rashid was a Bangladeshi archaeologist, educationist and museum curator, who excavated archaeological sites in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Education Rashid passed the matriculation in 1940 from Abu Torab High School in Chittagong and then passed IA in 1942 from Dhaka College. He obtained Bachelor of Arts in 1945 and Master of Arts in history in 1946 from the University of Dhaka. He earned his PhD from Cambridge University in 1968.

#13022

John Clibbens

#159461

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

John Clibbens FRSocMed is professor of Developmental Psychology at Birmingham City University, Head of Social sciences at Birmingham City University, a committee member of DASSH UK and an authority on language and cognitive development in children particularly deaf children and children with Down syndrome. Clibbens has published extensively and is a member of the Council of Deans of Health, the British Psychological Society, the Royal Society of Medicine, the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

#13023

Chen-Yuan Lee

#39480

Overall Influence

1915 - 2001 (86 years)

Chen-Yuan Lee , was a Taiwanese pharmacologist and political activist. He is famous for his research on snake venom. He was a recipient of the prestigious Redi Award from the International Society on Toxinology , and was also a former president of the society. He was a former dean of the National Taiwan University College of Medicine. After his retirement from researching, he focused on participating in the Taiwan independence movement and many democratic movement. Lee had founded many political organizations such as the "100 Action Union" , Foundation of Medical Professionals Alliance in Taiwan.

#13024

Ralph Kayser

#103982

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Ralph Kayser is a medical specialist in orthopedics and trauma surgery with a particular focus on spinal orthopedics. Furthermore, he is an associate professor at the medical department of the Greifswald Medical School. His particular scientific interest lies in the experimental ultrasound diagnostic and the special spinal surgery, especially in the conservative and minimal-invasive spinal indications.

#13025

Helen Perlstein Pollard

#99115

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Helen Perlstein Pollard is an American academic ethnohistorian and archaeologist, known for her publications and research on pre-Columbian cultures in the west-central Mexico region. Biography As an undergraduate Pollard studied at Barnard College, a women's liberal arts college in New York City affiliated with Columbia University, graduating in 1967. One of her contemporaries at Barnard, who graduated two years earlier, was Esther Pasztory, another Mesoamerican scholar who became renowned as an art historian and specialist in Teotihuacano art. Pollard obtained her PhD in anthropology in 1972...

#13026

Rajiv Ratan

#55431

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Rajiv Ratan is an Indian American academic, professor, administrator and scientist based in New York. He is the Burke Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine. Since 2003, he has served as the executive director of Burke Neurological Institute and as a member of the Council of Affiliated Deans of Weill Cornell Medicine.

#13027

Kevin Jerome Everson

Kevin Jerome Everson

#169832

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Kevin Jerome Everson is an artist working in film, painting, sculpture, and photography. He was born in Mansfield, Ohio and currently resides in Virginia. He holds an MFA from Ohio University, and a BFA from the University of Akron, and is Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

#13028

Douglas Steinbrech

#113724

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Douglas S. Steinbrech, MD, FACS, is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon affiliated with Lenox Hill Hospital, the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai and NYU Langone Medical Center. He left Gotham Plastic Surgery in 2022 to open the first male aesthetic plastic surgery practice in the US.

#13029

Elizabeth Stephens

#99885

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Elizabeth M. "Beth" Stephens is an American filmmaker, artist, sculptor, photographer, professor and two time Chair of the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz. Stephens, who describes herself as "ecosexual", collaborates with her wife since 2002, ecosexual artist, radical sex educator, and performer Annie Sprinkle.

#13030

Shannon Te Ao

#170159

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Shannon Te Ao is a New Zealand artist and writer. He won the 2016 Walters Prize. Education Te Ao completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Graduate Diploma of Teaching at the University of Auckland. He has a master's degree from Massey University.

#13031

Anthony Caruso

#118189

Overall Influence

1916 - 2003 (87 years)

Anthony Caruso was an American character actor in more than one hundred American films, usually playing villains and gangsters, including the first season of Walt Disney's Zorro as Captain Juan Ortega.

#13032

Oscar Mink

#92720

Overall Influence

1930 - 2004 (74 years)

Oscar Gorton Mink was professor of curriculum studies in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Professional education Mink held a doctorate in counseling psychology from Cornell University and degrees in mathematics and mining engineering from Brigham Young University and San Bernardino Valley College.

#13033

Heather MacNeil

#178716

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Heather MacNeil is a professor at the Faculty of Information of the University of Toronto, Canada. She teaches archives and record keeping related topics. She is a former General Editor of Archivaria and helped develop the concept of the Archival bond.

#13034

M Harunur Rashid

#49591

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

M Harunur Rashid is a professor, educational administrator, editor, and translator. He is a noted writer of Sufism and Sufi literature and a commentator of social, political, and literary texts. Early life and education Rashid was born on 28 December 1939, to a Bengali Muslim family in Tinsukia district, Assam Province in British Raj on 28 December 1939. On the eve of the Second World War, his father Rahimuddin Ahmed, an employee of the Assam Bengal Railway, was transferred to Chittagong. He spent his early childhood in the idyllic environment of the Pahartali and Chittagong hills. When the J...

#13035

Farzana Islam

#39601

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Farzana Islam is a Bangladeshi academic. She is a former vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University during 2014-2022. In 2014, she became the first female vice-chancellor of a public university in Bangladesh. She allegedly accused of different irregularities and corruption by both Students and Teachers. They also published a book. The 224-page book features reports on different irregularities and corruptions published in different newspapers.

#13036

Eran Kopel

#188813

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Eran Kopel is an Israeli epidemiologist. He is a senior lecturer at Sackler Faculty of Medicine’s School of Public Health and a sub-district health officer at the Petah Tikva office of the Ministry of Health . His areas of interest are the epidemiology of infectious diseases and cardiovascular epidemiology.

#13037

Jacob Schrum

#190899

Overall Influence

#13038

Hans Brügelmann

#55266

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Hans Brügelmann is a German professor of pedagogy. From 1971 until 1973, he has been assistant to the committee "strategies for curriculum reform" at the commission "Deutscher Bildungsrat," a commission for educational planning of the German federal and state governments. Before and after his conferral of a doctorate in 1975, he worked on several evaluation projects from preschool to college. In 1980, he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Bremen; in 1993, he was appointed professor for primary school pedagogics and didactics at the University of Siegen.

#13039

Benjamin J. Allen

#79209

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Benjamin Joseph Allen is an American academic who served as president of the University of Northern Iowa from 2006 to 2013. It was announced on March 24, 2017 that Allen would begin serving as interim president for Iowa State University on May 9 after former president Steven Leath announced he would be leaving for Auburn University.

#13040

Matthias M. Tischler

#113675

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Matthias Martin Tischler is a German palaeographer, philologist and historian, stemming from a multinational and -confessional family with Austrian, Bohemian, French and Hungarian origins. He is married to the Catalan philologist and linguist Eulàlia Vernet i Pons and lives with his family in L'Ametlla del Vallès, Barcelona and Münchberg.

#13041

Jean-Paul Brisson

#43430

Overall Influence

1918 - 2006 (88 years)

Jean-Paul Brisson was a French honorary professor of Latin language and civilisation at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. He devoted himself particularly to the social problems of antiquity, North Africa during Antiquity and classical poets.

#13042

David Rogers Andrews

#190913

Overall Influence

#13043

Herman Rose

#90705

Overall Influence

1909 - 2007 (98 years)

Herman Rose was the professional pseudonym of Herman Rappaport , an American painter and artist. He was best known for his depictions of cityscapes, including his painting "74th Street Rooftops From Studio."

#13044

Bisa Butler

#94657

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Bisa Butler is an American fiber artist who has created a new genre of quilting that has transformed the medium. Although quilting has long been considered a craft, her interdisciplinary methods -- which create quilts that look like paintings -- have catapulted quilting into the field of fine art. She is known for her vibrant, quilted portraits celebrating Black life, portraying both everyday people and notable historical figures. Her works now count among the permanent collections at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Art Institute of Chicago, Pérez Art Museum Miami and about a dozen other art museums nationwide.

#13045

Abiola Odejide

#170395

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Abiola Odejide is an Emeritus Professor of Communication and Language Arts at University of Ibadan. She was previously the Deputy Vice Chancellor at the university and was the first woman to attain such position at the 58 years old university.

#13046

Lee Sang-mook

#127276

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Lee Sang-Mook is a Korean marine geologist and computational scientist. He has worked as a researcher at the Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute from 1998 to 2003, and as a professor and researcher at Seoul National University since 2003. As an associate professor in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, he specializes in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He heads the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Program in Computational Sciences and the graduate program in Computational Science and Technology.

#13047

Michael Osborn

#61325

Overall Influence

Michael Osborn, FRCPath is the president of the Royal College of Pathologists since November 2020 He received his medical degree from Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals in London in 1995. In 2000, he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and in 2004, he was named a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. He was hired as a consultant in 2004 with a focus on postmortems, gastrointestinal pathology, and instructing undergraduate students. He is the department head at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London and a consultant histopathologist for North West London Pathology. He co...

#13048

John Parkinson

#137441

Overall Influence

1955 - 2004 (49 years)

John Edward Parkinson was Professor of Law at Bristol University and a key member of the Company Law Review Steering Group which worked towards the Companies Act 2006. He died prematurely at age 48, following a short illness. He was born in Prescot, Merseyside and educated at Prescot Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He graduated as joint top of his year, also winning the Martin Wronker University Prize for Law.

#13049

Alex Ma

#190938

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Wan-Chun Alex Ma is a Taiwanese software engineer. Ma was born in 1978. Ma became interested in visual effects at a young age, influenced by the Star Wars film series and Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger, a video game released in 1994. He completed his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees at National Taiwan University. With the help of the Graduate Student Study Abroad Program of Taiwan's National Science Council. Ma went to the University of Southern California in 2005, completing his studies under Paul Debevec at the Institute for Creative Technologies. Since obtaining his docto...

#13050

Ilona Bell

#186320

Overall Influence

Ilona Isaacson Bell is an American academic. She taught at Williams College as Samuel Fessenden Clarke Professor of English and is married to Robert Huntley Bell.

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