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List of the most influential female people in Philosophy,

#2051

Petra Lewis

#149112

Overall Influence

Petra Lewis is a Professor of Radiology and Obstetrics at Dartmouth College. She is a leader in radiology education. Early life and education Lewis studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1987. After graduating, she was awarded a fellowship in nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

#2052

Valerie Montgomery Rice

Valerie Montgomery Rice

#45726

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Valerie Montgomery Rice is an American obstetrician, gynecologist, and college administrator. She is the president and dean of Morehouse School of Medicine. Early life and education Montgomery Rice is from Georgia. She completed a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1987, she earned a medical degree from Harvard Medical School.

#2053

Kerry Murphy

#183529

Overall Influence

Kerry Murphy is an Australian musicologist noted for her scholarship of colonial music history and French music. Murphy is Professor of Music and Head of Musicology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

#2054

Tetyana Pertseva

#77301

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Tetyana Oleksiivna Pertseva is a Ukrainian pulmonologist, physician-scientist, and academic administrator. She is the rector of the Dnipro State Medical University and editor-in-chief of Medičnì Perspektivi. Pertseva is an elected academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

#2055

Nalla Tan

#124433

Overall Influence

1923 - 2012 (89 years)

Nallammah "Nalla" Ruth Tan was a Singaporean physician, women's rights advocate and writer. She is known for her early advocacy of sex education and public health education in Singapore. She was also known for her poetry and short story writing.

#2056

Firdous Azim

#121442

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Firdous Azim is a professor of English at BRAC University, a literary critic, and a women's rights activist. She is the chairperson of the Department of English and Humanities at BRAC University. She is a member of Naripokkho.

#2057

Safra Catz

#123936

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Safra Ada Catz is an American billionaire banker and technology executive. She is the CEO of Oracle Corporation. She has been an executive at Oracle since April 1999, and a board member since 2001. In April 2011, she was named co-president and chief financial officer , reporting to founder Larry Ellison. In September 2014, Oracle announced that Ellison would step down as CEO and that Mark Hurd and Catz had been named as joint CEOs. In September 2019, Catz became the sole CEO after Hurd resigned due to health issues.

#2058

Türkan Saylan

#35800

Overall Influence

1935 - 2009 (74 years)

Türkan Saylan was a Turkish medical doctor in dermatology, academic, writer, teacher and social activist. She was famous for fighting leprosy, and for founding a charitable foundation called "Association for the Support of Contemporary Living" .

#2059

Franziska Grieder

Franziska Grieder

#38783

Overall Influence

Franziska B. Grieder is a Swiss-American veterinary scientist. She is the director of the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs at the National Institutes of Health. Grieder was a faculty member and researcher at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

#2060

Tula Giannini

#30267

Overall Influence

Prof. Tula Giannini is an American academic with subject expertise in musicology, digital culture, and digital heritage. Tula Giannini holds B.M. and M.M. degrees in Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, an M.L.S. degree in Library Science from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. degree in Musicology from Bryn Mawr College. Early in her career, she was a professional flautist. She taught at the Catholic University, Rutgers University, and the University of Hawaiʻi. Director of the Talbott Library at Westminster Choir College, and Head of Collection Management at Adelphi University. She j...

#2061

Helen O'Toole

#186994

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Helen O'Toole is an Irish-born painter based in the United States, who is known for abstract paintings suggestive of landscape. She has exhibited throughout Ireland and the United States, in Singapore, and at venues including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Portland Art Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, Tacoma Art Museum, and Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. Her work has been featured in the journals Artforum, Arts Magazine, New Art Examiner, and Zyzzyva, as well as the Chicago Tribune, The Irish Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and National Public Radio. Art writers frequen...

#2062

Pauline Atherton Cochrane

#111281

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (96 years)

Pauline Atherton Cochrane is an American librarian and one of the most highly cited authors in the field of library and information sciences. She is considered a leading researcher in the campaign to redesign catalogues and indexes to provide improved online subject access in library and information services as well as "a leading teacher and theorist in cataloging, indexing, and information access."

#2063

May Cohen

#142606

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

May Cohen, OC is a Canadian physician and educator. She is best known for initiating the creation of a women's health curriculum in Ontario medical schools and for her work as a women's health advocate.

#2064

Molly Antopol

#53905

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (47 years)

Molly Antopol is an American fiction and nonfiction writer. As of 2016, she is the Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her primary research interests include the Cold War and the Middle East. She is married to author Chanan Tigay and lives in San Francisco.

#2065

Allyson Carlyle

#183461

Overall Influence

1954 - 2020 (66 years)

Allyson Carlyle was a United States of America library and information science scholar, considered a leading scholar in the field of cataloging. Carlyle was one of the initial faculty members of the University of Washington Information School, and served as the school’s first Associate Dean for Academics under Dean Michael Eisenberg. Carlyle worked to increase the diversity of the library profession, and established the Sherman Alexie and Lethene Parks Endowed Fellowship in Tribal and Rural Librarianship at the iSchool.

#2066

Catherine Ellis

#181928

Overall Influence

1935 - 1996 (61 years)

Catherine Joan Ellis was an Australian ethnomusicologist. She co-founded the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music at the University of Adelaide in 1972. Early life and education Catherine Joan Caughie was born on 19 May 1935 at Birregurra in Victoria.

#2067

Chang Ching-wen

#181864

Overall Influence

Chang Ching-wen is a Taiwanese scientist and public official. Chang earned a master's of science at National Taiwan University's Institute of Public Health and a doctorate from the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati. Upon her return to Taiwan, Chang became a supervisor and director for the Taiwan Occupational Hygiene Association and Taiwan Society of Indoor Environmental Quality. She also held a professorship at NTU.

#2068

Ambika Bumb

#188171

Overall Influence

Ambika Bumb an American biomedical scientist and businessperson. Bumb is a nanomedicine specialist who uses nanotechnology for the detection and treatment of disease. Her discoveries using nanodiamonds while working as postdoctoral researcher at the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute led to the launch of the biotech Bikanta.

#2069

Cheryl

#132490

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (42 years)

Cheryl Ann Tweedy is an English singer and television personality. Born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, she rose to fame in late 2002 upon winning a place in Girls Aloud, a girl group created through ITV's Popstars: The Rivals. While still in the group, she began a solo career in April 2009, and between then and 2014, she released four studio albums – 3 Words , Messy Little Raindrops , A Million Lights and Only Human . Collectively, the albums included ten singles, five of which – "Fight for This Love", "Promise This", "Call My Name", "Crazy Stupid Love" and "I Don't Care" – reached the top position on the UK Singles Chart.

#2070

Nora Fisher McMillan

#169331

Overall Influence

1908 - 2003 (95 years)

Born Eleanor Fisher, the first of Ernest and Janet Fisher's two daughters, in Belfast on 16 March 1908, but known even then as "Nora", Nora Fisher McMillan, as she became, was a larger-than-life self-taught expert in natural history, especially conchology, specialising in post-glacial fresh-water Mollusca, but with broad academic interests in the history of natural history, geology and other areas, as well as being a keen amateur botanist, naturalist and local historian. She wrote prolifically, with over 400 publications to her name.

#2071

Ayoka Olufunmilayo Adebambo

#84641

Overall Influence

Ayoka Olufunmilayo Adebambo is a Nigerian scientist and professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics. She is the first female professor of Animal Breeding and Genetics. In September 2010, she was awarded the status of a Fellow of the Animal Science Association of Nigeria .

#2072

Uché Blackstock

#92467

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (48 years)

Uché Blackstock is an American emergency physician and former associate professor of emergency medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. She is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, which has a primary mission to engage with healthcare and related organizations around bias and racism in healthcare with the goal of mobilizing for health equity and eradicating racialized health inequities. During the COVID-19 pandemic Blackstock used social media to share her experiences and concerns as a physician working on the front lines and on racial health disparities and inequities exposed by the pandemic.

#2073

Norma Restieaux

#120239

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (91 years)

Dame Norma Jean Restieaux is a New Zealand physician, medical researcher, cardiologist and author. Early life Restieaux was born in the Dunedin suburb of St Kilda on 16 July 1934, the daughter of Frank Charles Restieaux and Florence Jean May Restieaux . She was educated at Otago Girls' High School.

#2074

Henci Goer

#70962

Overall Influence

Henci Goer is an American author who writes about pregnancy and childbirth. She is the author of The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth. Her previous book, Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities is a resource for childbirth professionals. Goer has written consumer education pamphlets and articles for magazines such as Reader's Digest, Birth, Journal of Perinatal Education, Midwifery today with international midwife, and the Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing. Previously appearing on ParentsPlace.com as the “Birth Guru,” she is currently a resident expert for the Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth Forum.

#2075

Maria T. Accardi

#149685

Overall Influence

Maria T. Accardi is an academic in the field of library science at Indiana University Southeast. She is the 2014 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries Award for Significant Achievement in Woman's Studies Librarianship for her book Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction. Published in 2013 by Library Juice Press, the work examines "the intersection of information literacy and feminist theory." The chair of the awarding committee, Jennifer Mayer of the University of Wyoming, hailed the book as a "must-read for any librarian with interests in feminist issues, pedagogy,...

#2076

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#126535

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Life and career MacDonald is the daughter of a member of Canada's military; she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany. She is of partial Lebanese descent through her mother.

#2077

Robin Peace

#82867

Overall Influence

Robin Peace is a social scientist from New Zealand. In 2018 she was appointed a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi for her contribution to the promotion and advancement of the social sciences in New Zealand.

#2078

Lisa Kahn

#186134

Overall Influence

1927 - 2013 (86 years)

Liselott Margarete "Lisa" Kahn was a German-American poet and scholar of psychology and German studies. She studied at the University of Heidelberg, where she obtained a PhD in psychology in 1953. She married the German-American scholar Robert L. Kahn and emigrated to the United States, where she was a teacher at The Kinkaid School from 1964 to 1968 and professor of German at Texas Southern University from 1968 to 1990, serving as head of the foreign language department from 1988.

#2079

Roganie Govender

#178818

Overall Influence

Roganie Govender is a British-South African speech and language therapist. She is a consultant clinical academic speech and language therapist at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

#2080

Angela Okolo

#68999

Overall Influence

Angela Okolo is a Nigerian professor of pediatrics and child health, neonatologist in the department of Pediatrics, Federal Medical Center, Asaba and President of the Nigerian Society of Neonatal Medicine .

#2081

Joyonna Gamble-George

#175981

Overall Influence

Joyonna Gamble-George is an American neuroscientist, innovator, and entrepreneur known for her research with the endocannabinoid system in stress-induced maladaptations of the brain. She is an Adjunct Professor at St. Petersburg College, Florida.

#2082

Barbara Stripling

Barbara Stripling

#191525

Overall Influence

Barbara Stripling is an American librarian and is the President of the Freedom to Read Foundation, a non-profit legal and educational organization affiliated with the American Library Association. Stripling served as president of the American Library Association from 2013 to 2014. During her term as president, she stressed that "Libraries Change Lives."

#2083

Saskia Popescu

#112836

Overall Influence

Saskia Popescu is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Senior Infection Preventionist in Phoenix, Arizona. She holds academic appointments at the University of Arizona and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, where she lectures on biopreparedness and pandemic and outbreak response. Since the start of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, Popescu has worked to prepare for and mitigate the spread of the disease. She has been recognized for her communication efforts around the pandemic, as well as her work on the front lines.

#2084

Adenike Akinsemolu

#174510

Overall Influence

1990 - Present (35 years)

Adenike Adebukola Akinsemolu is a Nigerian sustainability advocate, educator, author, and a social entrepreneur. She is a lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University . She is known as one of the country's leading experts on environmental sustainability.

#2085

Elsie McKee

#137473

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Elsie Anne McKee is an Archibald Alexander Professor of Reformation Studies and the History of Worship at Princeton Theological Seminary. She is famous for the Study of John Calvin.

#2086

Judith Poxson Fawkes

#171418

Overall Influence

1941 - 2019 (78 years)

Judith Poxson Fawkes was an American tapestry weaver based in Portland, Oregon, who exhibited her works nationally beginning in the 1960s. Early life and education The daughter of Elijah Goute Poxon and Helen Poxson, Judith Mary Poxson was born October 5, 1941, in Lansing Michigan. She earned a B.F.A. at Michigan State University and an M.F.A at Cranbrook Academy of Art. While at Cranbrook, she met Tom Fawkes, who became her husband of 52 years. In 1972 they moved to Portland, Oregon, and had two daughters. She taught weaving at four colleges in Portland, including Lewis & Clark College.

#2087

Rosa M. Abella

#100664

Overall Influence

1920 - 2007 (87 years)

Rosa Margarita Abella was an exiled Cuban librarian who worked at the University of Miami's Otto G. Richter Library.she was the one who started the Cuban Heritage Collection in 1962 Biography A native of Havana, Abella received her library technician degree in 1955, a professional publicist certificate in 1957, and a PhD in 1958. She served as the head of the circulation department for the National Library of Cuba from 1960 to 1961, at which point she left the island for Miami, Florida, as a political refugee. She worked as a librarian at Assumption Academy until she was hired as an acquisitions librarian for the Otto G.

#2088

Sharon Haynie

#138591

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Sharon Loretta Haynie is an American chemist who develops biocatalysis for green chemistry. She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. Haynie was the first woman to be awarded the NOBCChE Henry Aaron Hill Award in 2006 and the first woman to win the Percy L. Julian Award in 2008.

#2089

Janette Sherman

#74655

Overall Influence

1930 - 2019 (89 years)

Janette Dexter Sherman was a physician, toxicologist, author, and activist in the U.S. She researched pesticides, nuclear radiation, birth defects, breast cancer, and illnesses caused by toxins in homes and was a pioneer in the field of occupational and environmental health. Sherman was an expert witness or consultant in 5,000 workers' compensation cases about deadly chemicals, contaminated water, and toxic pesticides.

#2090

Kate Soper

#164985

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Kate Soper is a composer and vocalist. She was a recent Rome Prize winner American Academy in Rome and Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellow as well as a 2012–13 fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her chamber opera, Ipsa Dixit.

#2091

Ruth Zechlin

#169554

Overall Influence

1926 - 2007 (81 years)

Ruth Zechlin was a German composer. Life Ruth Oschatz was born in Grosshartmannsdorf, where she began piano lessons at the age of five years, and wrote her first composition at the age of seven. From 1943 to 1949 she studied music theory with Johann Nepomuk David and Wilhelm Weismann, church music and organ with Karl Straube and Günther Ramin and piano with Rudolf Fischer and Anton Rohden at the Music Academy in Leipzig. After she completed the state exam, she worked at the academy for a year as a lecturer and also worked as a deputy organist at the Nikolai Church in Leipzig.

#2092

Ruth Bodenstein-Hoyme

#186450

Overall Influence

1924 - 2006 (82 years)

Ruth Bodenstein-Hoyme was a German composer and piano teacher. Life Hoyme was born in Wurzen as the second daughter of the commercial gardener Walter Hoyme. She attended the elementary school and later for some years the state high school of the city. Against her father's will she took piano lessons. At the age of nine she had her first composition exercises. Through many countless performances, which she often reached overland on her own bicycle, she had saved up her own piano over the years. After high school she graduated from the Frauenfachschule für Hauswirtschaft in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswe...

#2093

Tsai-Fan Yu

#64112

Overall Influence

1911 - 2007 (96 years)

Tsai-Fan Yu was a Chinese-American physician, researcher, and the first woman to be appointed as a full professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She helped to develop an explanation for the cause of gout and experimented with early drugs to treat the disease which are still in use today.

#2094

Neda Alijani

#170087

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (44 years)

Neda Alijani is an Iranian infectious disease physician and assistant professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. She is a winner of International Prof Yalda Award.

#2095

Caitlin Bernard

#93498

Overall Influence

Caitlin Bernard is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and reproductive and abortion rights activist. Bernard is a practicing physician affiliated with Indiana University Health, as well as an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Indiana University School of Medicine. She also serves as associate medical director and director of ultrasound services for Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, and has provided abortion services at Planned Parenthood facilities in Indiana and Kentucky.

#2096

Victoria Leonard

Victoria Leonard

#163515

Overall Influence

Victoria Leonard is a British Classicist specialising in the study of religion, gender, and the body in Late antiquity. She is a Post-Doctoral researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London and a research fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies. She holds a PhD from Cardiff University. Leonard was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in July 2019.

#2097

Carol J. White

#191583

Overall Influence

1946 - 2000 (54 years)

Carol Jean White was an American philosopher who was an associate professor in the Santa Clara University philosophy department. She was known for her works on Heidegger's philosophy. Books Time and Death: Heidegger's Analysis of Finitude, Edited by Mark Ralkowski, Foreword by Hubert L. Dreyfus, Ashgate 2005 Faith in theory and practice: essays on justifying religious belief, Open Court 1993, edited with Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

#2098

Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent

#168672

Overall Influence

Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent OBE is England's first Chief Midwifery Officer and Professor of Midwifery at King's College London and London South Bank University. Early life and career Dunkley-Bent received her diploma in midwifery at the Royal College of Midwives, Her Masters degree at Middlesex University and her Doctorate at King's College London. She went on to complete her post-graduate teaching certificate at Surrey University before becoming a lecturer at Middlesex University. Dunkley-Bent has worked as a nurse and midwife, as well as in several management positions. She was the head of maternity, children and young people.

#2099

Amanda Lynch

#60231

Overall Influence

Amanda H. Lynch is an environmental and social scientist, and the Director of the Brown Institute of Environment and Society and Sloan Lindemann and George Lindemann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies at Brown University. She is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

#2100

Beatrix Borchard

#86381

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Beatrix Borchard is a German musicologist and author. The focus of her publications is the life and work of female and male musicians, such as Clara and Robert Schumann, Amalie and Joseph Joachim, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, and Adriana Hölszky. Also among her topics are the role of music in the process of Jewish assimilation, the history of musical interpretation, and strategies of .

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