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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#13801

Emile Pin

#106065

Overall Influence

1921 - 2006 (85 years)

Emile Jean Pin was a French Jesuit priest, social activist, and scholar. He was known for his public opposition to the Catholic Church's attempts to block the legalization of divorce in Italy. Early life and education Pin entered the Jesuit order at the age of 16. Two years later, World War II broke out and, as a young Jesuit student Pin smuggled documents for the Resistance. He also served as an officer in the French Labor Service.

#13802

Masaya Imanishi

#192338

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Masaya Imanishi is a Japanese ceramic artist. Biography Masaya Imanishi was born in Nara, Nara, Japan, in 1947. He graduated from the Kyoto City University of Arts and then learned porcelain glazing from Yūzō Kondo（近藤悠三）who was Living National Treasure in Japan. He was certified as a Nihon Kogeikai regular member in 1979.

#13803

Byron Goldstein

#192339

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Byron B. Goldstein is an American scientist. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and was named a LANL Fellow in 2004. In 2011, Goldstein was selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

#13804

Jesse A Marks

#192340

Overall Influence

#13805

Ivan Rosenqvist

#96023

Overall Influence

1916 - 1994 (78 years)

Ivan Rosenqvist was an Austrian-born Norwegian geologist. He was born in Vienna. His research focus centered on marine sediments. He was appointed professor of mineralogy and geology at the University of Oslo from 1965 to 1984. During the German occupation of Norway, Rosenqvist had a central position in the clandestine intelligence organization XU.

#13806

Anthony Osei Tutu

#192344

Overall Influence

Dr. Anthony Osei Tutu is a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Arizona. Tutu has conducted research and taught at The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, which is the national research center for Earth Sciences in Germany. He’s also taught and conducted research at University of Potsdam and Regent University College of Science and Technology in Ghana. Education: BS in Geomatic Engineering at University of Science and Technology, Ghana; MS in Environmental and Geomatic Engineering from Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy; and PhD in Geophysics from University of Potsdam, German...

#13807

Emily Wick

#106821

Overall Influence

1921 - 2013 (92 years)

Emily Lippincott Wick was the first woman to reach the rank of tenured faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She taught in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science. Wick received her Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT in 1951 and became a tenured professor in 1963. She advocated on behalf of female students at MIT and was influential in getting coeducational residencies, so that with more living options more female applicants could be accepted.

#13808

Pierce Mullen

#76962

Overall Influence

1934 - 2022 (88 years)

Pierce Mullen was a professor of history at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana and was a participant in the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation and the Quest for Knowledge Club. Personal life Pierce Mullen was born on March 4, 1934, in Hastings, Nebraska to Neil Mullen and Ruth Pierce. Following his graduation at age 16 from St. Cecilia High School in Hastings, Mullen went on to study at St. Benedict College in Atchinson, Kansas. He completed his B.A. at Hastings College in 1957. A year later, in 1958, Mullen received his M.A. from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 1964, Mullen earned his PhD in history from the University of California-Berkeley.

#13809

Longus

#192345

Overall Influence

#13810

Thomas Wunderlich

#96290

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Thomas Alexander Wunderlich is a Professor of Geodesy at the Technical University of Munich.

#13811

Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel

#143726

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel is a German professor of English, literary critic, Shakespeare scholar and writer who claims to have found conclusive answers to many of the unresolved problems of Shakespeare's life and literary career using trans-disciplinary research methods. Among the answers she claims to have found are Shakespeare's religion, the identity of the 'Dark Lady' of his sonnets, and the authentic portraits.

#13812

Ligia Maura Costa

#78458

Overall Influence

Ligia Maura Costa is a full professor at Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo – Fundação Getulio Vargas . She received her habilitation degree in international law from Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo . She holds a PhD and a LL.M both in international trade law from the Université of Paris-X and a bachelor's degree in Law from FDUSP. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan Law School and was a postdoctoral fellow at Sciences Po, Paris. She is author of several books and articles published in Brazil and abroad, having worked at the WTO in the Legal Affairs Division.

#13813

Elissa Held Bradford

#192350

Overall Influence

#13814

Adam Robert Costanzo

#192351

Overall Influence

#13815

Evelyn Davidson White

#192354

Overall Influence

1921 - 2007 (86 years)

Evelyn Amanda Davidson White was an American author, vocal teacher and Howard University Choral Director. White was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Rev. William H. Davidson, a Baptist minister, and Florence Gidney Davidson. She was influential in the training of many students who went on to make their marks in the music world, including Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Jesse Norman, Samuel Bonds, and Richard Smallwood.

#13816

Mohammed Tharwat Hassan

#134033

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Mohammed Tharwat Hassan is a professor of physics and optical sciences at the University of Arizona in the United States. Early life Mohammed Tharwat Hassan was born on March 30, 1983, in Fayoum, Egypt. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Cairo University . Then in 2009, he received his master's degree from the National Institute of Laser Science -Cairo University. He joined the Max-Plank institute for Quantum Optics as a Max-Plank fellow where he received his PhD in attosecond Physics.

#13817

Victor Kord

#133037

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Victor George Kord is an American painter and educator. He currently maintains a studio and exhibits in New York City. He previously served as art department chair for several major universities, and remains professor emeritus of painting at Cornell University Department of Art.

#13818

Arun Midha

#76977

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Arun Daniel Midha is a British academic, who has sat as a lay member on the General Medical Council and currently sits on the Audience Council Wales and the Welsh Language Board, having learnt the language as an adult.

#13819

Maleka Begum

#54616

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Maleka Begum is a Bangladeshi feminist, author, academic. Biography Begum was born in 1944 to Abdul Aziz and Fahima Begum. Begum completed her secondary education from Sher-E-Bangla Girls' High School. She earned her B.A. and M.A. from University of Dhaka in Bengali literature and Sociology in 1965 and 1966 and in 1968 .

#13820

Leah Gilliam

#191322

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

L. Franklin Gilliam is an American filmmaker and media artist. Her work explores issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Gilliam was the director of projects and community catalyst at gamelab's Institute of Play and a visiting faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. They are currently vice president of strategy and innovation at Girls Who Code.

#13821

Peter Thoeny

#192358

Overall Influence

#13822

Geoffrey T Eldridge

#192360

Overall Influence

#13823

Helen Ramsaran

#176559

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Helen Evans Ramsaran is an American sculptor. Her work explores the primordial world of ancient rituals, mysterious fossilized remains, mystic forces, and African inspired architecture. Ramsaran's work was first inspired by a trip to Africa in 1981, and although her sculpture is inanimate, there is a lurking sense of humanity's presence. Her recent work explores the effects of climate change on life sustaining systems and resources, specifically marine ecosystems and plant and animal species.

#13824

Armen Vardapetyan

#184418

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Armen Vardapetyan , jeweler, artist, sculptor. Armenian folk artist of applied art. Biography Born on 23 January 1980 in Yerevan, Armenia, Armen graduated from the N. Stepanyan Yerevan secondary school of № 71 in 1996. Since 1990, studied in Genrih Igityan National school of aesthetics, as a sculptor of small forms.

#13825

Astrid Grouls

#192363

Overall Influence

#13826

Babak Farzaneh

#178850

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Babak Farzaneh is a researcher, author and a professor of the Arabic Language and literature born in 1964 in Tehran, Imperial Sate of Iran. Researcher and scholarly, author and professor of Arabic language and literature. After his college graduation, Farzaneh continued his university education and achieved BSc of Arabic Language and Literature at Isfahan University. In the middle of his career, in 2004, he achieved Associate Professor and at the apex of his educational profession in 2009, he achieved Full Professor. Dr. Farzaneh was invited to University of Toronto as a Visiting Research Associate in January 2011.

#13827

Ágústa Guðmundsdóttir

Ágústa Guðmundsdóttir

#163680

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Ágústa Guðmundsdóttir is a professor emerita in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Iceland, and was a co-founder of the biotechnology company Zymetech, where she also works in research & development.

#13828

Axel Bertram

#110035

Overall Influence

1936 - 2019 (83 years)

Axel Bertram was a German commercial artist, type designer, illustrator, magazine designer and medalist. During his later decades he became, in addition, a knowledgeable and dedicated expert on calligraphy. Confident in his judgements, he also contributed articles to newspapers and magazines, though this was motivated more by a personal drive to share his enthusiasm for his ideas on design than because he aspired to any sort of career as a journalist or commentator.

#13829

Ernestine Tina Cuellar

#192367

Overall Influence

Dr. Cuellar earned her nursing degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1990. She then went on to obtain her doctorate degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2006. She serves as a Continuing Nursing Education Consultant where she regularly contributes to the Journal of Holistic Nursing. Dr. Cuellar was an Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Admissions at University of Texas Medical Branch for five years and in the faculty role for seven years. She also served as President of the UTMB School of Nursing Alumni Association.

#13830

Cyrus Alai

#192368

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Cyrus Alai is a Persian-British engineer, map collector and the author of the book "General Maps of Persia". Alai was born in Tehran and studied at Technical University of Berlin. Before the 1979 revolution he was a lecturer at Tehran University. Shortly after the revolution he moved to London.

#13831

Eduardo Jorge Anzorena

#192369

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Eduardo Jorge Anzorena is a pioneer in collaborative search for humane and practical solutions to the housing crisis among Asia's urban poor.

#13832

George Longfish

#173675

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

George Chester Longfish is a First Nations artist, professor, and museum director. His art work blends Pop art with Indigenous motifs, and often features assemblage. Many of his works have been featured in major public museum exhibitions, including the Heard Museum, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. He was a professor of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis , for almost 30 years. He served as the museum director at the C.N. Gorman Museum at U.C. Davis, from 1974 to 1996.

#13833

Steve Heinemann

#174354

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Steve Heinemann is a Canadian artist working in ceramics. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Heinemann received an Honours diploma from Sheridan College School of Craft and Design, Oakville, Ontario in 1979, a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri in 1984, and an M.F.A. from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York.

#13834

Conny Restle

#100149

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Conny Restle is a German musicologist, Museum director and lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts. Life Born in Munich, Restle took her Abitur at the humanistic Wilhelmsgymnasium in 1980. From 1980 to 1985 she studied Musicology, Latin philology of the Middle Ages and German Philology of the same period at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. After graduating with a Magister Artium, she worked at the Gesellschaft für Bayerische Musikgeschichte from 1986 to 1989. In 1989 Restle received her doctorate in musicology with a thesis on Bartolomeo Cristofori and the beginnings of the ...

#13835

Douglas M. Sloan

#75541

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Douglas M. Sloan is a curriculum theorist and author. He was a professor of history and education at Teachers College, Columbia University for three decades. He is a proponent of anthroposophy-based education.

#13836

Ad Geelhoed

#109142

Overall Influence

1942 - 2007 (65 years)

Leendert Adrie "Ad" Geelhoed was a Dutch professor, civil service worker, and Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice. Biography Geelhoed was born in 1942 in Vught, he finished his study of Dutch law at Utrecht University in 1970. He stayed on at the university for one year to work as a scientific employee for the Europe Institute. Geelhoed then moved to Luxembourg to work as an assistant for the Dutch judge André Donner at the European Court of Justice. In 1974 he returned to the Netherlands and became an advisor to the Ministry of Justice. In 1983 he took his role as advisor to a higher level when he became member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy.

#13837

Jacob A Hill

#192373

Overall Influence

#13838

Andrey Korolev

#192374

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

#13839

Mykhaylo Yakubovych

#57981

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (40 years)

Mykhaylo Mykhaylovych Yakubovych is a translator and scholar of Islamic Studies from Ukraine. He received his PhD from the National University of Ostroh Academy where he worked as an Associate Professor and researcher in Islamic Studies. He later moved to Uni Freiburg, Germany. He conducted his research on the Medieval Islam during his fellowships in Poland , Italy , Saudi Arabia and United States . He published few books, numerous articles and translations in various scientific journals in Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Great Britain and Turkey . He completed the first full t...

#13840

Charlotte Pickles

#192377

Overall Influence

#13841

Ariel N Nikas

#192380

Overall Influence

#13842

Kent Lai

#106164

Overall Influence

Kent Lai is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah. Biography Lai was born in Hong Kong. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Bradford and his Ph.D from the University of Maryland. He also holds an MBA and an MHA, both from Georgia State University. After receiving his PhD, he completed a research fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine.

#13843

Jost Hochuli

#165087

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Jost Hochuli is a Swiss graphic designer known for his book designs. He is also the author of Detail in Typography, which has been translated into several languages. Early career Jost Hochuli attended the school of arts and crafts in St. Gallen from 1952 to 1954 and then worked from 1954 to 1955 as an apprentice with Rudolf Hostettler at the Zollikofer & Co. AG printing house, St. Gallen. He completed an apprenticeship as a typographer from 1955 to 1958 partly at the Zollikofer press and partly in typesetting class at the Zurich School of Applied Arts, where he also attended typesetting cours...

#13844

Christine Gardner

#66044

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Christine Joy Gardner is an American communication scholar and journalist. She is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Communication Arts at Gordon College. Early life and education Gardner was born in 1969. She has received degrees from Seattle Pacific University , the University of Washington , and Northwestern University .

#13845

Kathy Goodell

#160838

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Kathy Goodell is an American contemporary artist based in New York City. She works in sculptural objects, installation, drawing and photography. She is a professor of painting and drawing at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

#13846

Helen Taylor Greene

#192385

Overall Influence

#13847

Sophia Wisniewska

#179366

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Sophia Wisniewska is a university administrator and a former chancellor of University of South Florida St. Petersburg and Pennsylvania State Brandywine. Earlier in her career, she worked for her alma mater, Pennsylvania State University, and later served as the dean of Temple University Ambler.

#13848

Andrew Noakes

#147251

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Andrew Noakes is an Associate Senior Lecturer in journalism, specialising in automotive journalism, at the Coventry University Department of Media and Communication. Early career An award-winning motoring journalist, author and photographer, he originally trained as an engineer at Loughborough University. After two years of working as a freelance motoring journalist he joined Fast Car, where he concentrated on technical articles and in-depth product tests. He quickly rose to the position of Deputy Editor.

#13849

Aviel D. Rubin

#192386

Overall Influence

#13850

Arifin Bey

#93283

Overall Influence

1925 - 2010 (85 years)

Arifin Bey was an Indonesian diplomat. He was born in Padang Panjang, West Sumatra in the Minangkabau Highlands, one year before the Communist revolt in 1926, and three years before the participants of Youth Conference in 1928 avowed themselves to be one people, the Indonesian people, constituting one nation, Indonesia, with one language Bahasa Indonesia. They were years of growing political and social unrest during which Dutch rule became increasingly oppressive.

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