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#13101

Adrien Nocent

#131198

Overall Influence

1913 - 1996 (83 years)

Adrien Nocent, OSB was a Belgian monk and liturgical theologian. Biography Nocent was born in Charleroi and entered Maredsous Abbey at the age of 19, making solemn vows in 1933. He was ordained as a priest in 1938. He studied theology at Keizersberg Abbey near Leuven, Belgium, where the Liturgical Movement began. Among his teachers were Bernard Capelle and Bernard Botte .

#13102

Mavis Pusey

#117771

Overall Influence

1928 - 2019 (91 years)

Mavis Iona Pusey was a Jamaican-born American abstract artist. She was a printmaker and painter who was well known for her hard-edge, nonrepresentational images. Pusey drew inspirations from urban construction. She was a leading abstractionist and made works inspired by the constantly changing landscape.

#13103

David Lagourie Gosling

David Lagourie Gosling

#78647

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

David L. Gosling is an academic supervisor in the University of Cambridge. He trained in nuclear physics and has held positions in the universities of Hull, Delhi , the East-West Center in Hawaii, and at the World Council of Churches in Geneva, where he was director of Church and Society.

#13104

Markus Vater

#179190

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Markus Vater is a German artist. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Royal College of Art, London. From 2012 to 2016 he had been teaching at the Royal College of Art in London. In 2014 he had a guestprofessorship at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and from 2016 to 2019 at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe. Currently he is teaching at the Hochschule der bildende Künste Essen. His studio is at Studio Voltaire. Vater lives in London and works in London and Essen.

#13105

Sumedha Chandana Wirasinghe

#87467

Overall Influence

Sumedha Chandana Wirasinghe is a Sri Lanka born academic who currently lives in Canada. Education Wirasinghe received his primary and secondary education at Ananda College, Colombo, and gained admission to University of Ceylon where he graduated with a degree in civil engineering. Later he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at University of California, Berkeley. In 2001 University of Moratuwa honored Professor Chandana Weerasinghe with an honorary DSc degree.

#13106

Tom Otis

#176038

Overall Influence

Tom Otis is an American researcher, academic and author. He is the Chief Scientific Officer at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour and holds a Professorship in Neuroscience at University College London.

#13107

Emily Chenette

#106603

Overall Influence

Emily Chenette is an American biochemist and journal editor. She is the editor-in-chief of PLOS One. Career She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in biochemistry from Columbia University in 2000. Chenette received her doctorate in genetics and molecular biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and did her postdoctoral research at Duke University.

#13108

Jerome Witkin

#94515

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Jerome Witkin is an American figurative artist whose paintings deal with political, social and cultural themes, along with serious portraiture that melds the sitter's social position with a speaking likeness that reveals inner character. Witkin has been succinctly characterized as "a virtuoso figurative painter whose work mixes elements of the old masters, social realism and Abstract Expressionism ..."

#13109

Omar Guerrero

#52295

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Omar Guerrero Orozco , Ph.D. in Public Administration by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, is full-time professor at the same institution and National Researcher Level III, which is the maximum level. He was director of the magazine from 1980 to 1982. He was member of the Social Sciences Committee of the National System of Researchers , collegial body in which he served as president . He was recipient in 1979 of the “Public Administration Award” granted by the INAP. Guerrero is also member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1987 and of the Mexican Culture Seminar since 200...

#13110

Roberto Paci Dalò

Roberto Paci Dalò

#185899

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Roberto Paci Dalò is an Italian author, composer and musician, film maker and theatre director, sound and visual artist, radio-maker. He is the co-founder and director of the performing arts ensemble Giardini Pensili and he has been the artistic director of Wikimania 2016 Esino Lario. He won the Premio Napoli per la lingua e la cultura italiana in 2015.

#13111

Yungtaek Jang

#191138

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Yungtaek Jang is an electrical engineer at Delta Products Corporation in Fremont, California. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his contributions to efficiency optimization of AC-DC power supplies. He obtained BE from Yonsei University in 1988 in South Korea and then got his MS from the University of Colorado in 1991. In 1995, after four years of studying under mentorship from Robert W. Erickson and Dragan Maksimovic, Jang got his Ph.D. following successful defending of his thesis on "Application of Resonant Technique for Three-Phase Hi...

#13112

Soumia Fahd

#57258

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Soumia Fahd is a Moroccan herpetologist at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tétouan. Life and work In high school, Fahd studied experimental sciences. For her BSc, she studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Mons . She then returned to Morocco to study biology at the Mohammed V University and continued her education at the Faculty of Sciences of Tetouan, earning a degree in animal biology in 1986. Fahd initially joined the Faculty of Sciences of Tetouan in 1986 as an assistant. She is a full professor at that university where she heads the Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics, Biodiv...

#13113

Bernard Noble

#78728

Overall Influence

1928 - 2004 (76 years)

Bernard John Noble OBE was a teacher and university lecturer, a translator of works of philosophy and international jurisprudence, a senior ranking United Nations employee, first in Beirut, Lebanon and then in The Hague, Netherlands, and an author.

#13114

Jane Mulfinger

#168934

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Jane Mulfinger is an American conceptual artist and educator whose art includes installations, time-based works and sculpture. Mulfinger has been based in Berlin, London, and since 1994, at the University of California, Santa Barbara , where she is a professor. Her work collects and transforms human artifacts—ranging from found clothing or photographs to language to abandoned architectural spaces—in order to reflect on experience, perception, memory, and concealed histories. She has exhibited in the United Kingdom, the United States, Colómbia, Israel, and throughout Europe. Reviews and featu...

#13115

Joan Semmel

#54907

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Joan Semmel is an American feminist painter, professor, and writer. She is best known for her large scale realistic nude self portraits as seen from her perspective looking down. Education and political involvement Semmel was born in New York City. She began her artistic training at Cooper Union, where she studied under Nicholas Marsicano. She went on to study with Morris Kantor at the Art Students League of New York before earning a BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1963.

#13116

Calvin Thomas

#116822

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Calvin Thomas is an American academic who works in the fields of critical theory, modern and postmodern literature and culture. He is a professor at Georgia State University. His writings have focused on gender, sexuality and the body, with an especial interest in "straight" responses to queer theory.

#13117

Midori

#135943

Overall Influence

is a sexologist, educator, author, artist, speaker, and coach. Midori wrote the first English language book with instruction on Japanese rope bondage and continues to write on alternative sexual practices, including BDSM and sexual fetishism, bondage, erotic fiction, and more. She teaches classes, presents at conferences, coaches individuals and professionals, and facilitates in-depth weekend intensives. She is based in San Francisco, California.

#13118

Folarin Kolawole

#191146

Overall Influence

Folarin Kolawole is an upstream structural geologist whose research involves field observation, subsurface geophysical imaging, and geomechanics to investigate the early stages of continental rifts and faults. An Adjunct Associate Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, he’s studied rift evolution and interplate seismicity in various areas of the US, South America, and Africa. Specifically, Kolawale studies how new sedimentary bases form and discplace older basins, how industiral activities aggrevate ancient faults, interplate earthquakes. Education: Ba...

#13119

Jean Lacy

#185592

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Jean Lacy was an American museum education specialist and visual artist who works primarily in mixed media and collage. She was of African American heritage, and believes her family is descended from indentured Africans at Jamestown Colony. Her work is inspired by creation myths and religious stories, the Civil Rights Movement, and African American culture. From 1975-77 she held the position of Curator of Education and Exhibitions at the Museum of African-American Life and Culture in Dallas, Texas. From 1977-88 she served as the Director of the African American Cultural Heritage Center of the...

#13120

Jamie A Mitchell

#191152

Overall Influence

Jamie Mitchell is a faculty memeber at University of Michigan as the assistant director of clinical research participation at Michigan Medicine’s Rogel Cancer Center. She has done extensive research regarding patient-centered communication among African-American men. Alma Maters: Ph.D. in Social Work and B.A. in Psychology from Ohio State University, an M.S.W. from University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Academic Website Academic Website

#13121

Colin Percival

#191165

Overall Influence

#13122

Tage Frid

#50377

Overall Influence

1915 - 2004 (89 years)

Tage Frid was a Danish-born woodworker, educator and author who influenced the development of the studio furniture movement in the United States. His design work was often in the Danish-modern style, best known for his three legged stool and his publications.

#13123

Gong Li

#191168

Overall Influence

#13124

Joyce Scott

#122718

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Joyce Scott FRSASA 'is an Australian artist working in drawing, oil painting and ceramics.' 'She has held ten independent exhibitions, is represented internationally and has received five awards.' 'Scott, née Mottershead, was born in Poynton, Cheshire, England in 1938 and migrated with her family to Adelaide, South Australia in 1951.'

#13125

Mary S. Hartman

#41846

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Mary S. Hartman joined the Douglass History Department in 1968 and served as director of the Women’s Studies Institute from 1975 to 1977. She was named acting dean in 1981, and named dean in 1982. As dean, she instituted a number of nationally acclaimed programs for women, including the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science, and Engineering; the Center for Women's Global Leadership; the Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women's Studies; and the Institute for Women's Leadership. Further, she gathered the first organization of Faculty Fellows committed to the Douglass College mission within the context of the reorganized University.

#13126

Chris Swain

#189415

Overall Influence

Chris Swain is an American game designer, entrepreneur, and professor. He is the founder of two venture-backed game companies. He worked full-time as a professor at The University of Southern California from 2004-2011.

#13127

Cyprian C. Onyeji

#179096

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Cyprian O. Onyeji is a Nigerian academic, he is a professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and was the vice chancellor of Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu from 2010 to 2015. Early life Onyeji was born on August 26, 1957. He attended St. Theresa's College Nsukka where he earned his secondary school leaving certificate with Distinction in 1975 . He later attended University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University from 1976 to 1987 where he earned a B.Pharm. degree, MSc, and PhD degrees in Pharmaceutical Chemistry. He then went to the University of Connecticut for his post-do...

#13128

John Nagle

#191178

Overall Influence

#13129

Shifra Shvarts

#83888

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Shifra Shvarts, born in June 1949 , holds the position of Professor Emeritus at the Center for Medical Education within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University. In addition to her academic role, she is a dedicated researcher specializing in the field of medical history. Shvarts holds significant positions as the Deputy Director-General of the International Society for the History of Medicine and as the Deputy Secretary General of the World Organization for the History of Medicine. Her research focuses on the examination of healthcare services' history and evolution in Israel, a...

#13130

Scott Davidson

#141982

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

John Scott Davidson is a British legal scholar and academic administrator. He has served as Vice-chancellor of Newman University Birmingham since 1 January 2017. Early life Davidson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 24 September 1954, and educated at George Stephenson County Grammar School, Westmoor . He studied law at Downing College, Cambridge, graduating in 1977 with a BA that was converted into an MA in 1979. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on Davidson by the University of Canterbury in 2009.

#13131

Michael Parekōwhai

#171156

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Michael Te Rakato Parekōwhai is a New Zealand sculptor and a professor at the University of Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts. He is of Ngāriki Rotoawe and Ngāti Whakarongo descent and his mother is Pākehā.

#13132

Antonio Garzya

#131666

Overall Influence

1927 - 2012 (85 years)

Antonio Garzya was an Italian classical scholar, philologist, and university professor. Emeritus professor of Greek literature at the University of Naples Federico II, he was a specialist of ancient Greek and Byzantine studies.

#13133

Marie E. Johnson-Calloway

#157169

Overall Influence

1920 - 2018 (98 years)

Marie Edwards Johnson-Calloway was an American artist. She was born in Pimlico, Baltimore, Maryland to father, Sidney Edwards, a minister, and mother, Marie Edwards, a seamstress and an artist. She worked in the fields of painting and mixed-media assemblage.

#13134

Jože Ciuha

#106805

Overall Influence

1924 - 2015 (91 years)

Jože Ciuha was a Slovenian painter. Biography Jože Ciuha was born in Trbovlje. In 1950 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. During his career he traveled extensively, his artistic style influenced by time spent in Macedonia as a student, as well as Paris and the Far East in the 1950s, and North and South America during the 1960s. Ciuha taught at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg in the 1970s, as well as Western Michigan University, and the International Graphic School in Venice and Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana.

#13135

Mykola Storozhenko

#115102

Overall Influence

1928 - 2015 (87 years)

Mykola Storozhenko was a Ukrainian painter., author and academic. Storozhenko won the 1988 Shevchenko National Prize among other awards. His works were exhibited in Asia, Europe and the United States. He was a professor and department head at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kiev for several decades.

#13136

Christine A. Brantner

#191202

Overall Influence

#13137

Phoebe Liebig

#191203

Overall Influence

1932 - 2021 (89 years)

#13138

Joanne Dru

#81130

Overall Influence

1922 - 1996 (74 years)

Joanne Dru was an American film and television actress, known for such films as Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, All the King's Men, and Wagon Master. Career Born in Logan, West Virginia, Dru moved to New York City in 1940 at the age of eighteen. After finding employment as a model, she was chosen by Al Jolson to appear in the cast of his Broadway show Hold On to Your Hats. When she moved to Hollywood, she found work in the theater. Dru was spotted by a talent scout and made her first film appearance in Abie's Irish Rose . Over the next decade, Dru appeared frequently in films and on television.

#13139

Amanda M Ackermann

#191206

Overall Influence

#13140

Edda Sveinsdottir

#190086

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Edda Sveinsdottir was an Icelandic/Danish computer scientist, inventor, and professor. She is considered to be the first female Danish computer scientist and was the first female head of department at University of Copenhagen's Department of Computer Science.

#13141

Ronald Wraith

#71220

Overall Influence

1908 - Present (118 years)

Ronald Edwards Wraith was a British scholar on public and colonial administration. He was chairman of the Nigerian Federal Electoral Commission in the late 1950s. Wraith was head of the electoral commission that organized the registration and conduct of the 1959 parliamentary and regional elections.

#13142

Mariam Ghani

#31303

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Mariam Ghani is an Afghan-American visual artist, photographer, filmmaker and social activist. Biography Mariam Ghani was born in 1978 in Brooklyn, New York, of Afghan and Lebanese descent. Her father, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, was president of Afghanistan. Her mother, Rula Saade, is a Lebanese citizen. Ghani grew up in exile and was unable to travel to Afghanistan until 2002, at age 24. Her family lived in the suburbs of Maryland. Ghani earned her degrees from New York University and the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan in comparative literature and video photography and installation art. Ghani was an Eyebeam resident.

#13143

Robert M. Price

#188511

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Robert M. Price was an American computer scientist and business executive. After graduation from Duke University in 1952, he moved to California and worked as a computer programmer at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and the Convair division of General Dynamics Corporation. He and Mary Hope Walker were married on August 21, 1952. He gained a Master's degree in mathematics from Georgia Tech in 1958. He began his professional career for the Control Data Corporation in 1961 as a mathematician staff specialist. His responsibilities there expanded to software sales and services, international sal...

#13144

Eric V Patterson

#191210

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Kamden Strunk

#191211

Overall Influence

#13146

Germaine A. Hoston

#191214

Overall Influence

Germaine Hoston is a professor of Chinese and Japanese Politics, Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. She is well known for her work on the relationship between Chinese and Japanese thought and political and economic development. Alma Maters: PhD and MA in Government at Harvard University, AB in Politics from Princeton University

#13147

Samuel Hoi

#85039

Overall Influence

Samuel "Sammy" Hoi is the current president of Maryland Institute College of Art. He was previously the president of Otis College of Art and Design, a position he held for 14 years. Education Hoi was born and raised in Hong Kong. His father founded Cathay Arts, a company that specialized in fine traditional Chinese furniture and art objects. As a teenager he immigrated with his family to the U.S. where he attended Columbia College of Columbia University in New York City and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with a BA in French and psychology. He earned a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School and became a member of the New York State Bar.

#13148

Gennady Erlikhman

#191221

Overall Influence

#13149

Billy Morrow Jackson

#111896

Overall Influence

1926 - 2006 (80 years)

Billy Morrow Jackson was an American painter. Jackson was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1926. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, and later received an MFA from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he later taught. Over the course of his education, Mr. Jackson was taught by Max Beckmann, Fred Conway and Abraham Rattner. In addition to the Bureau of Reclamation's commission, Mr. Jackson received several other government commissions. These include paintings for NASA to record the Apollo space program, an...

#13150

Leigh Bowery

#177889

Overall Influence

1961 - 1994 (33 years)

Leigh Bowery was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, and fashion designer. Bowery was known for his flamboyant and outlandish costumes and makeup as well as his performances. Based in London for much of his adult life, he was a significant model and muse for the English painter Lucian Freud. Bowery's friend and fellow performer Boy George said he saw Bowery's outrageous performances a number of times, and that it "never ceased to impress or revolt".

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