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Beatrice Bruteau
1930 - 2014 (84 years)
Beatrice Bruteau was an American contemplative, philosopher and author. Early life and education Beatrice Bruteau was born on July 25, 1930, in Evanston, Illinois. According to her obituary, her parents were Frederick and Ruth Folgerstrum Bruteau, and she was raised in Jefferson City, Missouri. She was one of the first women to study philosophy at the graduate level at Fordham University, where she earned a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1954.
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Cressida Heyes
1970 - Present (54 years)
Cressida J. Heyes is a British and naturalized Canadian philosopher, currently employed as the Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and formerly as the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality. Educated at Oxford University and McGill University , Heyes has also taught at Michigan State University. Her latest book, Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge is the winner of the David Easton prize from the Foundations of Political Thought committee of the American Political Science Association, and a finalist for the 2020 Book Award from the North American Society for Social Philosophy.
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Irene Ghobrial
1990 - Present (34 years)
Irene Ghobrial is an American-Egyptian physician who is a professor at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, where her research investigates the progression of multiple myeloma. She is interested in why certain patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and smoldering multiple myeloma develop B cell malignancies. She leads the Stand Up to Cancer multiple myeloma dream team.
Go to ProfileElizabeth Nabel is an American cardiologist and Executive Vice President of Strategy at ModeX Therapeutics and OPKO Health. Prior to this role, she served as President of Brigham Health and its Brigham and Women's Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
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Glenda Gray
1962 - Present (62 years)
Glenda Elisabeth Gray MB BCh, FC Paeds, DSc , is a South African physician, scientist and activist specializing in the care of children and in HIV medicine. In 2012, she was awarded South Africa's highest honour, the Order of Mapungubwe . She became the first female president of the South African Medical Research Council in 2014, was recognized as one of the "100 Most Influential People" by Time in 2017 and was listed amongst "Africa's 50 Most Powerful Women" by Forbes Africa in 2020. Her research expertise involves developing microbicides for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV vaccines.
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María José Frápolli
1960 - Present (64 years)
María José Frápolli Sanz is a Spanish philosopher. As of 2022, she is professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Granada. Her work is focused on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of logic.
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Tatyana Kasatkina
1963 - Present (61 years)
Tatyana Aleksandrovna Kasatkina is a Russian philosopher, philologist, culture expert, religious scholar and writer. She is an expert in the field of theory of culture, theory of literature, philosophy, religious studies, the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Russian literature of the 19th-21st centuries. She is Doctor of Philology , Head Researcher at the Gorky Institute of World Literature RAS, Head of the Centre “Dostoevsky and World Culture” at the Gorky Institute of World Literature RAS, president of the Research Committee for Dostoyevsky's Artistic Heritage within the Scientific Council for the History of World Culture, RAS.
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Ellen Rosand
1940 - Present (84 years)
Ellen Rosand is an American musicologist, historian, and opera critic who specializes in Italian music and poetry of the 16th through 18th centuries. Her work has been particularly focused on the music and culture of Venice and Italian opera of the baroque era. She is an acknowledged expert on the operas of Handel and Vivaldi, and on Venetian opera. Her books include Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre and Monteverdi's last operas: a Venetian trilogy . She has also contributed articles to numerous publications, including The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians...
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Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is an American epidemiologist and physician. She is the 17th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association and the JAMA Network. She is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. She is a general internist and attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital.
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Heda Festini
1928 - 2018 (90 years)
Heda Festini was a Croatian philosopher who specialized in analytic philosophy and the history of Croatian philosophy. Academic career Festini was born in Osijek. She graduated from the University of Zagreb in 1952 and received her Ph.D. in 1965. She was a professor of philosophy at the University of Zadar where she taught theoretical philosophy, logic and methodology . She is the author of books on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Nicola Abbagnano, Antun Petrić and Juraj Politeo, as well as numerous articles on the philosophy of language, philosophy of science and the history of philosophy. She is also translator of works by Nicola Abbagnano and John Dewey into Croatian.
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Catharine Lumby
1961 - Present (63 years)
Professor Catharine Lumby is an Australian academic, author and journalist, currently Chair of the Department of Media and Communication at University of Sydney. Career Prior to her move to academia, Lumby was a feature writer and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald, a news writer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a columnist and senior writer at The Bulletin. She holds a BA LLB from the University of Sydney and was awarded a PhD by Macquarie University for her thesis "Life in a tabloid world: an analysis of key shifts in Australian and US print and television media".
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Rita Kothari
1969 - Present (55 years)
Rita Kothari is a Gujarati and English language author and translator from Gujarat, India. In an attempt to preserve her memories and her identity as a member of the Sindhi people, Kothari wrote several books on partition and its effects on people. She has translated several Gujarati works into English.
Go to ProfileSarah Coupland is an Australian-born pathologist and professor who is the George Holt Chair in Pathology at the University of Liverpool. Coupland is an active clinical scientist whose research focuses on the molecular genetics of cancers, with particular interests in uveal melanoma, conjunctival melanoma, intraocular and ocular adnexal lymphomas and CNS lymphoma. Coupland is also an NHS Honorary Consultant Histopathologist at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Since 2006, Coupland has been head of the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Research Group; from which she runs a multidisciplinary on...
Go to ProfileSusan M. Domchek is an oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania, Executive Director of the Basser Center for BRCA, the Basser Professor in Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine, and Director of the Mariann and Robert MacDonald Cancer Risk Evaluation Program at Penn Medicine. She has authored more than 250 articles in scholarly journals and serves on a number of editorial review boards. In 2018, Domchek was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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Dina Iordanova
1960 - Present (64 years)
Dina Iordanova is an educationalist and Professor of Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews. A specialist in world cinema, her special expertise is in the cinema of the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Europe in general. Her research approaches cinema on a meta-national level and focuses on the dynamics of transnational film; she has special interest in issues related to cinema at the periphery and in alternative historiography. She has published extensively on international and transnational film art and film industry, and convenes research networks on film festivals and on the Dynamics o...
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Ann McKee
1953 - Present (71 years)
Ann McKee is a neurologist and neuropathologist and expert in neurodegenerative disease at the VA Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center and is a Warren Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Pathology at Boston University School of Medicine. She is director of the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center. She is particularly known for her work studying Alzheimer's disease and the consequences of repetitive traumatic brain injury. In 2017, she was named "Bostonian of the Year" by The Boston Globe for her leading work in this area, and in 2018, T...
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Mary Dixon-Woods
1966 - Present (58 years)
Mary Dixon-Woods is a social scientist who researches quality and safety in healthcare. She is a professor of healthcare improvement studies at the department of public health and primary care at the University of Cambridge, where she is also director of the Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute , and a fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge. Dixon-Woods was the co-editor-in-chief of BMJ Quality & Safety from 2011 to 2020.
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Henriette Bie Lorentzen
1911 - 2001 (90 years)
Henriette Bie Lorentzen , born Anna Henriette Wegner Haagaas, was a Norwegian journalist, humanist, peace activist, feminist, co-founder of the Nansen Academy, resistance member and concentration camp survivor during World War II, and publisher and editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Kvinnen og Tiden .
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Bianca Weinstock-Guttman
Bianca Weinstock-Guttman is an American neurologist. She is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo. Early life and education Weinstock-Guttman completed her medical degree at the University of Bucharest in 1983 and her internship at Meir Hospital and Tel Aviv University.
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Emmie te Nijenhuis
1931 - Present (93 years)
Emmie te Nijenhuis is a Dutch ethnomusicologist of the music of India. She was an associate professor of Indian musicology at Utrecht University between 1964 and 1988. Life Te Nijenhuis was born in Bussum on 11 November 1931. She studied classical piano at the Utrechts Conservatorium from 1951 to 1955. From 1951 to 1964 she concurrently studied Western musicology, Sanskrit and Indian musicology at Utrecht University. From 1964 to 1988 she was an associate professor of Indian musicology at the same institute. She obtained her PhD at Utrecht University under Jan Gonda in 1970. After retiring in 1988 she founded a private music school in 1991.
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Gillian Hawker
1959 - Present (65 years)
Gillian Alexandra Hawker is a Canadian clinician-scientist. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Sir John and Lady Eaton Professor and Chair of Medicine at Women's College Hospital. Hawker's research focuses on causes and treatments for osteoarthritis.
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Edith Irby Jones
1927 - 2019 (92 years)
Edith Irby Jones was an American physician who was the first African American to be accepted as a non-segregated student at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the first black student to attend racially mixed classes in the American South. She was the first African American to graduate from a southern medical school, first black intern in the state of Arkansas, and later first black intern at Baylor College of Medicine.
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Catherine Wilson
1951 - Present (73 years)
Catherine Warren Wilson is a British/American/Canadian philosopher. She was formerly Anniversary Professor at the University of York and from 2009 to 2012 the Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is known for her interdisciplinary studies of visuality, moral psychology and aesthetics, and especially early microscopy and Epicurean atomism and materialism.
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Barbara Casadei
1959 - Present (65 years)
Barbara Casadei is British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford, based in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine. Education Casadei was awarded an academic scholarship to study medicine at the Collegio Nuovo of the University of Pavia, Italy. She graduated cum Laude in 1984 and then went on to a tenure-track training post in the University Department of Medicine in Varese, Italy. She moved to Oxford in 1989 to further her clinical and research training. She was awarded the Joan and Richard Doll Fellowship at Green College, Oxford in 1991, a Doctor ...
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Felicity Colman
1967 - Present (57 years)
Felicity Colman is a Creative Media Arts theorist. She is Professor of Film and Media Arts. She is the Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange for the London College of Fashion at University of the Arts London
Go to ProfileKristen Knutson is an associate professor of neurology, working at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. With researchers from the University of Surrey, she studied the mortality rate of half a million people over 6.5 years and concluded that people who self identify as "definite evening type" had a 10 percent higher mortality rate than those who identified as "definite morning type". It was the first study of its type to look into the mortality rate of night owls.
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Prudence Allen
1940 - Present (84 years)
Sister Mary Prudence Allen is an American philosopher who converted to Catholicism and joined the Religious Sisters of Mercy. In 2014 she was appointed to the International Theological Commission for a five-year term by Pope Francis. Her areas of specialization include the history of philosophy, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of woman, existentialism, and personalism. Areas of competence include metaphysics, philosophy of God, epistemology and logic.
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Effy Vayena
1972 - Present (52 years)
Eftychia Vayena is a Greek and Swiss bioethicist. Since 2017 she has held the position of chair of bioethics at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich, ETH Zurich. She is an elected member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.
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Jennifer Walden
1971 - Present (53 years)
Jennifer Lee Walden is an American plastic surgeon, author, and entrepreneur. She is one of the first doctors to use laser machines to do a "a high volume of labiaplasties and vaginoplasties." Harper’s Bazaar listed Walden as one of the Best Beauty Surgeons in 2014. Walden is a member of Modern Aesthetics’ and Plastic Surgery Practice’s editorial board of Directors, and one of the few women to be elected to serve on the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Board of Directors. She became the first female president of The Aesthetic Society in 2022.
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Rachel McCleary
1953 - Present (71 years)
Rachel M. McCleary is a lecturer in the Economics Department at Harvard University and a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Biography McCleary has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, a Master of Theological Studies from Emory University and a B.A. from Indiana University. Her work is interdisciplinary with theoretical grounding in the fields of political science, sociology and economics. Within these disciplines, she conducts research on the political economy of religion. Her research focuses on how religion interacts with economic performance and the political and social behavior of individuals and institutions across societies.
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Adèle Van Reeth
1982 - Present (42 years)
Adèle Van Reeth is a French philosopher, radio producer and columnist. Life Studies, family Van Reeth is the only daughter in a family of four children. She is of Flemish origin by her paternal grandfather. Daughter of an archivist, she moved a lot in her childhood due to her father's assignments.
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Carol J. Oja
1953 - Present (71 years)
Carol J. Oja is a musicologist and scholar of American Studies. Biography Since 2003, she has held the post of William Powell Mason Professor at Harvard University. She has served as the Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic. Her previous appointments have been at the College of William and Mary and the City University of New York , where she was professor of music at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, as well as director of the Institute for Studies in American Music . She attended St. Olaf College , the University of Iowa , and the Graduate School of ...
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Tilottama Rajan
1951 - Present (73 years)
Tilottama Rajan is a Canadian scholar and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario. She is Canada Research Chair and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Rajan is known for her research on Romantic literature, post-Kantian philosophy and contemporary theory. She is the daughter of Balachandra Rajan.
Go to ProfileJudith Ann Clements is an Australian academic and educator, specializing in Kallikrein proteases in prostate and ovarian cancers. Clements is the scientific director at the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre – Queensland and was head of the Cancer Research Program at the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation of Queensland University of Technology at the Translational Research Institute from 1997–2014.
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Blaženka Despot
1930 - 2001 (71 years)
Blaženka Despot was a Croatian philosopher, socialist feminist, and sociologist. After finishing high school in Zagreb in 1948 and graduating in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, she received her PhD in Ljubljana in 1970 with a thesis on humanity of the technological society. During the period 1956-64 she worked as a high school professor, and later as an assistant at the Department of Socialism at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. In 1974 she was appointed as an associate professor of sociology and political economy, receiving full professorship in 1980 as a Professor of Marxism, socialism and socialist self-management at the Veterinary Faculty in Zagreb.
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Eva Brann
1929 - Present (95 years)
Eva T. H. Brann is a former dean and the longest-serving tutor at St. John's College, Annapolis. She is a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Brann was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. She immigrated in 1941 to the United States and received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1950, her M.A. in Classics from Yale University in 1951, and her Ph.D. in Archaeology from Yale in 1956. She also holds an Honorary Doctorate from Middlebury College.
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Delphine Parrott
1928 - 2016 (88 years)
Delphine Mary Vera Parrott FRSE was a British endocrinologist, immunologist, and academic. She did research at the National Institute for Medical Research in the 1950s and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in the 1960s.
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Ana S. Iltis
1974 - Present (50 years)
Ana S. Iltis is an American philosopher and Carlson Professor of University Studies at Wake Forest College. She is known for her works on bioethics. Iltis is a co-editor of Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics and a former president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities .
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Özlem Türeci
1967 - Present (57 years)
Özlem Türeci is a German physician, scientist and entrepreneur. In 2008, she co-founded the biotechnology company BioNTech, which in 2020 developed the first messenger RNA-based vaccine approved for use against COVID-19. Türeci has served as BioNTech's chief medical officer since 2018. Since 2021, she has been Professor of Personalized Immunotherapy at the Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Türeci and her spouse, Uğur Şahin, have won a number of awards.
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Tamar Sovran
1948 - Present (76 years)
Tamar Sovran is an Israeli linguist and Hebrew Culture Studies researcher in the Language Department of Tel Aviv University. Biography Sovran was born in Rishon leZion, the second daughter of Lea and Gershon Mann , sister of Nira and Na'ama. She served in the Israel Defence Forces.
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Peggy Sullivan
1929 - 2020 (91 years)
Peggy Sullivan was an American librarian and educator. She was elected president of the American Library Association and was a scholar of the history of librarianship. Biography Throughout her career, Sullivan served as:Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University , River Forest, Illinois Executive director, American Library Association, Chicago, Illinois Director and professor, University Libraries, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois Dean and professor, College of Professional Studies, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois Assistant...
Go to ProfileMariana J. Kaplan is a rheumatologist and physician-scientist. She researches mechanisms of immune dysregulation, organ damage, and premature vascular disease in systemic autoimmunity. Kaplan is chief of the systemic autoimmunity branch at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
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Helena Cronin
1942 - Present (82 years)
Helena Cronin is a British Darwinian philosopher and rationalist. She is the co-director of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science and the Darwin Centre at the London School of Economics. Her 1991 book, The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today brought her public attention; she has published and broadcast widely since.
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Patricia Thompson
1926 - 2016 (90 years)
Patricia J. Thompson , also known as Yelena Vladimirovna Mayakovskaya , was an American philosopher and author of more than 20 books. She was one of the two known children of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, the other being Gleb-Nikita Lavinsky . This fact was kept a secret until 1991.
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