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#13501

Maria Porges

#151334

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Maria Porges is an American visual artist and writer living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her artwork, drawing and three-dimensional works in a variety of media has been exhibited nationally in solo shows and group exhibitions. The work often focuses on the complex relationship of text and image.

#13502

Jamal Uddin Ahmed

#126826

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Jamal Uddin Ahmed is a Bangladeshi artist and professor. In recognition of his contribution to fine arts, the government of Bangladesh awarded him the country's second highest civilian award Ekushey Padak in 2019.

#13503

Glenn Gibson

#158110

Overall Influence

Glenn R. Gibson is professor of food microbiology at the University of Reading. He co-coined the term prebiotics in a 1995 scientific paper. He received his PhD in 1986 from the University of Dundee for a thesis on the subject of "The ecology and physiology of sulphate-reducing bacteria in anaerobic marine and estuarine sediments".

#13504

Jamel Akbar

#88653

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Jamel Akbar is an architect, educator, and theorist. His theoretical contributions are in the field of the built environment. His major contribution is in measuring the quality of the built environment through concepts such as responsibility, control, ownership and interventions. His work concentrates on humans' and properties’ rights among individuals, institutions and the State. By comparing such rights in different cultures he developed conclusions concerning economic and social settings and their ramifications on the quality of the built environment.

#13505

Vassilios Papadopoulos

#171702

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Vassilios Papadopoulos, DPharm, PhD, DSc , born February 18, 1961, in Athens, Greece, is a scholar, researcher, inventor, professor, and university administrator who has served as dean of the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California since 2016. Previously, he was the associate vice president and director of the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization at Georgetown University from 2005 to 2007, and the executive director and chief scientific officer of the Research Institute of the McGill University H...

#13506

Pranab Kumar Barua

#121512

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Pranab Kumar Barua is a Bangladeshi professor and academic. He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the government of Bangladesh in 2019 for his contributions in the field of education. He is one of the Advisors of Bangladesh Awami League.

#13507

Roby Douilly

#191993

Overall Influence

Roby Douilly is Assistant Professor of Seismology at University of California, Riverside. Douilly was born and rasied in a subburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Experiencing the 2010 7.0 magnitute Haiti earthquake, Douilly decided to study geophysics. He found his opportunity at Purdue University, where he received his master’s and PhD in Geophysics. He’s written on seismology, tomography, Earthquake source mechanisms, and dynamic rupture modeling related to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. At UC Riverside, Douilly’s research focuses on understanding the structure and dynamics of the Earth’s crust thro...

#13508

Michael Jenkins

#182640

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Michael Jenkins is an Australian writer, producer and film and television director. He is the creator of the crime drama television series Scales of Justice, Blue Murder and Wildside, all of which deal with corruption in the New South Wales police force. He also directed the cult film The Heartbreak Kid, and its spin-off series Heartbreak High.

#13509

James H. Price

#173964

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

James H. Price is an American academic who works in the fields of health education and public health. He is an emeritus professor of Health Education and Public Health at the University of Toledo, where he was the chair of the College of Graduate Studies from 1994–95 and 2000–01. He has served as the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Health Education and the Journal of School Health, and as the president of the American School Health Association. His research includes studies on the approval for concealed handguns on college campuses among college professors and students, and the heal...

#13510

Jonathan S. Raymond

#140402

Overall Influence

Jonathan S. Raymond is an American academic who serves as President Emeritus of Trinity Western University. He served as the third President Trinity Western University from 2006 to 2013. He earned his Ph.D. in Cross-Cultural Psychology and Master of Arts in Social Psychology from the University of Kentucky, in 1975 and 1972 respectively. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Asbury College in 1970. His doctoral research was conducted in Lima, Peru in the fall of 1973. He taught psychology as a doctoral student at the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University in Lexington,...

#13511

Daniela Philippi

#172216

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Daniela Philippi is a German musicologist with a research focus on Christoph Willibald Gluck, Antonín Dvořák and Czech music history and music of the 20th century. Life Born in Limburg an der Lahn, Philippi studied musicology, journalism as well as general and comparative literature at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 1985 to 1992. From 1985 to 1989, she also studied at the Episcopal Institute of Church Music of the Diocese of Mainz, where she graduated in 1989 with the church musician examination C. In 1992, she received her doctorate under Christoph-Hellmut Mahling at the Musico...

#13512

Arne Stollberg

#146391

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Arne Stollberg is a German musicologist and university professor. Career Born in Wetzlar, Stollberg studied musicology as well as theatre, film and media studies at the Goethe University Frankfurt. From 2001 to 2012 he worked first as an assistant, then as senior assistant and finally as a lecturer at the Institute for Musicology of the University of Bern. From 2012, he was professor at the University of Basel.

#13513

Alexander Wai

#84708

Overall Influence

Alexander Wai Ping-kong is a former Deputy President and Provost of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, who served from 1 March 2020. He had served the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for over 20 years since 1996. He assumed the position of President and Vice-Chancellor of the Hong Kong Baptist University on 1 February 2021.

#13514

Barbara Zipser

#181747

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Barbara Zipser is a Historian of Greek medicine from antiquity to the Middle Ages. She is currently Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research has been primarily funded by the Wellcome Trust.

#13515

Iwao Taka

#36366

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Iwao Taka is a professor of business administration and noted scholar of business ethics in Japan. He was born in 1956 in Ōita Prefecture, Japan. Taka graduated the College of Foreign Language, Reitaku University and completed a Ph.D. in 1985 at the Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University. He taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1994, and is now a professor at Reitaku University and guest professor at the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University. He is also a member of the Business Ethics and Compliance Research Center at Reitaku. Taka, who ...

#13516

Vidyavati

#149055

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Vidyavati, former Vice-Chancellor, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Telangana, India was born on 15 September 1939, in Goud community. She is President of Phycological Society of India. She was honored by Telangana State Government as Eminent Women on 8 March 2017, on the occasion of "International Women's Day" celebrations.

#13517

Tiffany Hamm

#192006

Overall Influence

#13518

Ching-Lai Sheng

#96059

Overall Influence

1919 - 2018 (99 years)

Dr Sheng Ching-lai or Sheng Qinglai was a Chinese-born Taiwanese electrical engineer, computer scientist, and philosopher. He served at the president of the National Chiao Tung University from 1972 to 1978.

#13519

Caroline Blanvillain

#188161

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Caroline Blanvillain is a French veterinarian and conservationist who works in French Polynesia for the Ornithological Society of Polynesia. Blanvillain was born in Paris. She studied veterinary science at the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, completing a thesis on Contribution à la compréhension de la stratégie de reproduction de l'oryx d'Arabie face aux conditions désertiques : application à la conservation de l'espèce. After working in zoos and the Museum of Natural History, she moved to French Polynesia in 1997. She worked on saving the Tahiti monarch and Ultramarine lorikeet.

#13520

Ilene Segalove

#119853

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Ilene Segalove is an American conceptual artist working with appropriated images, photography and video. Her work can be understood as a precursor to The Pictures Generation. Career Early life and education Segalove was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, United States. She studied Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968. While studying there she met Billy Adler and John Margolies, who became her collaborators and professors and introduced her to the concept that one's personal narrative could be strong material for art. She collaborated with them on Telethon...

#13521

Joseph Poon

#81244

Overall Influence

Joseph S. Poon is William Barton Rogers Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia. His research applies physics principles to design, synthesize, and investigate amorphous metals, nano-structured materials, and intermetallic compounds. For his advances in research on Amorphous metal, he was cited in the "Scientific American 50 Leaders" in 2004. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.

#13522

Rachel J Hrabal

#192011

Overall Influence

#13523

Julia Galloway

#138059

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Julia Galloway is a Montana-based studio potter and professor of ceramics at the University of Montana-Missoula. Early life and education Julia Galloway was raised in Boston, Massachusetts and started throwing pots in high school, buying her first wheel with babysitting money. She kept her wheel in her bedroom and carried her pots to school in a shoe box to be fired. She obtained MFA at the University of Colorado at Boulder and BFA at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

#13524

Brian Lewis Ragsdale

#192014

Overall Influence

Brian L. Ragsdale is program director of the M.S. Clinical Psychology program in the School of Psychology at Walden University. An MA and PhD graduate of the University of Rhode Island, Brian has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels for more than 14 years, covering psychology, social sciences, and education. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and an in-demand conference speaker. Academic Website Recent work: Practicing Listening and Mindfulness in Reducing Health Disparities

#13525

Yassine Kaddouri

#192015

Overall Influence

#13526

Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart

#43908

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Sharon Lockhart is an American artist whose work considers social subjects primarily through motion film and still photography, often engaging with communities to create work as part of long-term projects. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991 and her MFA from Art Center College of Design in 1993. She has been a Radcliffe fellow, a Guggenheim fellow, and a Rockefeller fellow. Her films and photographic work have been widely exhibited at international film festivals and in museums, cultural institutions, and galleries around the world. She was an associate professo...

#13527

Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler

Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler

#94370

Overall Influence

Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler is an American archivist who has served as the Chief of the Conservation Laboratory at the National Archives and Records Administration since 1985. Education Ritzenthaler received her undergraduate degree in English from Wayne State University. She also attended Wayne State for her Master's in Library Science, with a concentration in archives administration.

#13528

Lisa Corinne Davis

#132645

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Lisa Corinne Davis is an American visual artist known for abstract paintings and works on paper that suggest maps and other encoded forms of knowledge. She employs abstraction as a means of rendering the complexities of contemporary experience—including her own as an African-American woman—often questioning preconceived notions about identity, classification, and rationality versus subjectivity. Her densely layered, colorful work merges contrasting schemas, visual elements and formal languages, blurring distinctions between figuration and abstraction, real and fictive spaces and concepts, and microcosmic or macrocosmic reference.

#13529

Basit Bilal Koshul

#145889

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Dr. Basit Bilal Koshul is a Pakistani sociologist, and a member of the Rehmatul-lil-Alameen Authority. Bilal Koshal is an associate professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences . His areas of interest include the relationship between religion and modernity, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, the sociology of culture, and the competition between modern Islam and the West. He is particularly interested in combining the ideas of Muhammad Iqbal, Charles Peirce and Max Weber.

#13530

Chai Liyuan

#179938

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Chai Liyuan is a Chinese engineer specializing in metallurgical environmental engineering. He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and currently serving as dean of School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University and director of Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Control & Treatment of Heavy Metal Pollution .

#13531

Elizabeth Toomey

#169146

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Elizabeth Toomey is a New Zealand law academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Canterbury. Education Toomey completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Otago, followed by an LLM at the University of Canterbury.

#13532

Antoni Martí Monterde

Antoni Martí Monterde

#123728

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Antoni Martí Monterde is a Spanish writer and university teacher. He teaches Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at University of Barcelona. He writes both articles about literature and a creative work which was recognised by Crítica dels Escriptors Valencians Award in 2002 for L’erosió. He is a member of the Association of Catalan Language Writers.

#13533

Geraldine McGinty

#110887

Overall Influence

Geraldine McGinty M.D., MBA, FACR, is an Irish and American physician. She served as Chair of the American College of Radiology Board of Chancellors from 2019-2020. She is the first woman to hold this post. Previously, she served as Chair of the American College of Radiology Commission on Economics.

#13534

Makarena Dudley

#145744

Overall Influence

Makarena Diana Dudley, also known as Margaret Dudley, is a New Zealand clinical psychologist, neuropsychologist and academic, specialising in neuropsychology, dementia and Māori health psychology research. She is currently one of the co-directors of the clinical psychology programme at the University of Auckland. In 2016, Dudley became the first permanent Māori clinical psychology lecturer employed at the University of Auckland. Dudley's iwi include Te Rarawa, Te Aupōuri and Ngāti Kahu.

#13535

Beongcheon Yu

#122961

Overall Influence

1925 - Present (101 years)

Beongcheon Yu was a Korean-born translator of Natsume Sōseki's novel The Wayfarer and author of a critical study on Natsume. Yu was born in Korea on 29 December 1925, a twenty-eighth generation descendent in the Yu Clan of Chungju. He was selected to attend the Dai-Ichi-Koto Chugakko , now known as the University of Tokyo. He graduated with his BA in French literature from Seoul National University in 1948. He received his MA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1954 and his PhD in English from Brown University in 1958. Known for his critical analyses of Hemingway, Melville, Akuta...

#13536

David Aworawo

#146189

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

David Aworawo is a Nigerian Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies, and the Head of the Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, Nigeria. He specializes in strategic studies, international relations, political history and development studies. He has published widely in the areas of African politics and international relations.

#13537

Timo Leino

#188971

Overall Influence

1936 - 2014 (78 years)

Timo Leino founded the Department of Speech Technique in the University of Tampere in 1974. He was the head of Department from 1974 to 2001. Leino pioneered speech analysis in Finland. He worked to develop speech education in Finland.

#13538

Lygia Pape

#23165

Overall Influence

1927 - 2004 (77 years)

Lygia Pape was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, engraver, and filmmaker, who was a key figure in the Concrete movement and a later co-founder of the Neo-Concrete Movement in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s. Along with Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, she was an important artist in the expansion of contemporary art in Brazil and pushed geometric art to include aspects of interaction and to engage with ethical and political themes.

#13539

Paul Sylbert

#68019

Overall Influence

1928 - 2016 (88 years)

Paul Sylbert was an American Academy Award-winning production designer, art director, and set designer who directed on occasion. Born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a dressmaker, Sylbert grew up in the borough's Flatbush neighborhood and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1946. He fought in the Korean War and attended the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania with his identical twin brother Richard. Early in their careers, they collaborated on Baby Doll and A Face in the Crowd. Sylbert also attended the Hans Hoffman School of Art and The Actors Studio.

#13540

Ephraim Rubenstein

#183566

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Ephraim Rubenstein is a noted American representational painter and teacher. Early life and training Rubenstein was born to Seth Rubenstein, a Brooklyn-based trusts and estates lawyer. His grandfather, E. Ivan Rubenstein, was a judge on the Brooklyn Supreme Court.

#13541

Barbara Tate

#39657

Overall Influence

1927 - 2009 (82 years)

Barbara Tate was a British artist and writer, perhaps best known for her bestselling book West End Girls, which was published shortly after her death. Career in Art Born in Uxbridge as Barbara June Peddle, her father Charles Jonathan Peddle was a carpenter and lorry-driver. A violent man, he once tied a noose around her neck when she was aged 3 and balanced her on her toes until she was rescued hours later when her mother came home. Abandoned soon after by her mother Elsie Irene, née Williams , she was brought up by her maternal grandparents. In 1944 aged 17 she won a scholarship to Ealing S...

#13542

Suellen Rocca

#92219

Overall Influence

1943 - 2020 (77 years)

Suellen Rocca was an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. She exhibited with them at the Hyde Park Art Center from 1966 through 1969. She was curator of the art collection and director of exhibitions at Elmhurst College.

#13543

Izzy Jayasinghe

#95303

Overall Influence

Izzy Jayasinghe is a senior lecturer in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Sheffield and the leader of the Applied Biophotonics Group. Her research focuses on super resolution microscopy, biophysics, cardiac muscle and microscopy instrument development. In addition to her scientific research and teaching, she is a strong advocate for gender equality and diversity in academia.

#13544

Rebecca Morris

#135131

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Rebecca Morris is an abstract painter who is known for quirky, casualist compositions using grid-like structures. In 1994 she wrote Manifesto: For Abstractionists and Friends of the Non-Objective, a tongue-in-cheek but sincere response to contemporary criticism of abstract painting. She is currently a professor of painting and drawing at UCLA. Prior to that, she lectured at numerous colleges including Columbia University, Bard College, Pasadena City College, USC's School of Fine Arts, and the University of Chicago.

#13545

Luciano Rebay

#121688

Overall Influence

1928 - 2014 (86 years)

Luciano Rebay , known especially for his work on the poets Giuseppe Ungaretti, and Eugenio Montale, was one of the leading post-war critics of Italian literature in America. Rebay had a long affiliation with Columbia University, where he was the Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor of Italian and, from 2005 until his death, the Giuseppe Ungaretti professor emeritus.

#13546

Hannah E. Cabre

Hannah E. Cabre

#192036

Overall Influence

Hannah Cabré, PhD, RDN, CISSN, studies women’s endocrinology at Louisiana State University’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center. She holds a doctorate in Human Movement Science, specializing in exercise physiology, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Her undergraduate degree in Dietetics comes from the University of Georgia, and she earned her masters in sports nutrition and exercise physiology, along with her dietetic internship, from Florida State University. Dr. Cabré’s work centers on the effects of exercise and nutrition in women. Her research is sp...

#13547

Justin Cobb

#152514

Overall Influence

Justin Peter Cobb is a British professor of orthopaedic surgery at Imperial College London, known for introducing medical robotics into orthopaedic surgery. He is a member of the Royal Medical Household and was royal orthopaedic surgeon to the Queen. He is on the staff at King Edward VII's Hospital and is civilian advisor in orthopaedics to the Royal Air Force . His research has also included themes relating to designing new devices such as for ceramic hip resurfacing, 3D printing in orthopaedics, and training in surgical skills. He is a director of the MSk laboratory based in the Sir Michae...

#13548

Vernon D. Johnson

#192039

Overall Influence

Vernon D. Johnson was a professor of Political Science at Western Washington University from 1986-2021. He served as the Program Director for the Munro Institute for Civic Education for 6 years and was the founding editor in chief of the African Journal of Governance and Development for 7 years. Academic Website

#13549

Jackie Tileston

#186244

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Jackie Tileston is an American artist and painter. She is associate professor of fine arts in the School of Design at The University of Pennsylvania. She is the recipient of the 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in painting and the 2004 Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

#13550

Lucie Doležalová

#189190

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Lucie Doležalová is a Czech medievalist, philologist, literary scholar, and translator. She specializes in Latin literature and manuscript culture of the late Middle Ages, particularly the manuscripts by the Czech scribe Crux of Telč , mnemonics , colophons, and obscure texts.

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