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#5101

Benjamin Waterhouse

Benjamin Waterhouse

1754 - 1846 (92 years)

Benjamin Waterhouse was a physician, co-founder and professor of Harvard Medical School. He is most well known for being the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States, which he carried out on his own family.

#5102

Hans Pichler

1882 - 1958 (76 years)

Hans Pichler was an Austrian-born German philosopher. A student of Windelband and Meinong, he revived in his work the philosophy of Wolff contra the epistemologism of the Neo-Kantians, particularly in his Über Christian Wolffs Ontologie . Among those influenced by Pichler's turn to realist ontology was Nicolai Hartmann.

#5103

Tom Curran

#65334

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Thomas Curran FRS is a Scottish medical researcher. He is the Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Children’s Mercy Research Institute at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, where he is also the Donald J. Hall Eminent Scholar in Pediatric Research. He is also a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and a Professor of Cancer Biology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Before taking his current positions in 2016, he was a Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Sc...

#5104

David E. R. Sutherland

#86638

Overall Influence

#5105

Nadia Yala Kisukidi

#76611

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Nadia Yala Kisukidi is a French philosopher, writer and academic, who has re-examined the notion of "blackness" with its colonial implications in France and the rest of Europe. Also interested in contemporary art, she has been selected as one of two curators for the 2020 Yango Biennale in Kinshasa. Kisukidi, who has written widely on French and Africana philosophy, published Bergson ou l'humanité créatrice in 2013.

#5106

Vincent of Beauvais

Vincent of Beauvais

1190 - 1264 (74 years)

Vincent of Beauvais was a Dominican friar at the Cistercian monastery of Royaumont Abbey, France. He is known mostly for his Speculum Maius , a major work of compilation that was widely read in the Middle Ages. Often retroactively described as an encyclopedia or as a florilegium, his text exists as a core example of brief compendiums produced in medieval Europe.

#5107

Peter C. Burger

#86677

Overall Influence

#5108

Abdul Bari Nadvi

1886 - 1976 (90 years)

Abdul Bari Nadvi was an Indian Muslim scholar born in 1886 in the Barabanki district near Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. His father Hakim Abdul Khaliq was a student of Maulana Mohammad Naeem Farangi Mahli. His younger brother Saad-ud-Din Ansari was among the founding members of the Jamia Millia Delhi and taught there for a long time. Abdul Bari Nadvi died in Lucknow on 30 January 1976. He was survived by four sons and two daughters, all of whom are now deceased.

#5109

Frank Ebersole

#60173

Overall Influence

1919 - 2009 (90 years)

Frank B. Ebersole was an American philosopher who developed a unique form of ordinary language philosophy. Biography Frank B. Ebersole was born in Indiana. He majored in zoology at Heidelberg College . After years as a philosophy graduate student at Yale University, he transferred to the University of Chicago, where he worked with Rudolf Carnap, one of the founders of logical analysis, and with Charles Hartshorne, an advocate of process philosophy and a theorist of physiological psychology. Ebersole received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1947 . His dissertation wa...

#5110

Donald F. Steiner

#27686

Overall Influence

1930 - 2014 (84 years)

Donald Frederick Steiner was an American biochemist and a professor at the University of Chicago. Birth and education Donald F. Steiner was born in 1930 in Lima, Ohio. He completed his B.S. in Chemistry and Zoology from the University of Cincinnati in 1952. He completed his M.S. in biochemistry and his M.D. from the University of Chicago in 1956. He then completed his medical and research training – with an internship at King County Hospital and residency/post-doctoral research at the University of Washington – before returning to the University of Chicago as a faculty member in 1960.

#5111

Stephen Flowers

#13092

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Stephen Edred Flowers, commonly known as Stephen E. Flowers, and also by the pen-names Edred Thorsson, and Darban-i-Den, is an American runologist, university lecturer, and proponent of occultism, especially of Neo-Germanic paganism and Odinism. He helped establish the Germanic Neopagan movement in North America and has also been active in left-hand path occult organizations. He has over three dozen published books and hundreds of published papers and translations on a disparate range of subjects. Flowers is still an active representative of heathenry and Odinism, and has appeared online in s...

#5112

Willy Moog

1888 - 1935 (47 years)

Willy Moog was a German philosopher and educator. Life Willy Moog studied from 1906 to 1909 in Berlin, Munich and Gießen; his areas of primary focus were Germanic Studies and Philosophy. He was inspired by the Berlin lectures of Georg Simmel and studied Neo-Kantianism with the school around Wilhelm Dilthey. 1915-1918 he served, against his will, as soldier in World War I, at a customs office at the Prussian-Polish-Russian border. In 1919, Moog married Mathilde Buss , an artist painter and lyric. The couple had one daughter, Marianne Moog-Hoff , who during World War II emigrated to Oslo in No...

#5113

Dominic Bezzina

#48071

Overall Influence

Dominic Bezzina was a minor Maltese philosopher who mainly specialised in physics. He also dealt with logic. Life It seems that Bezzina was born around the mid-18th century. After becoming a priest, he taught philosophy and science at the Cathedral School at Mdina, Malta. He was also a Canon at the Bishop's Cathedral Chapter. Bezzina taught at Mdina at least since 1819. One of the courses he delivered concerned physics.

#5114

Martine Nida-Rümelin

#33886

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Martine Nida-Rümelin is a philosopher. Biography Nida-Rümelin studied philosophy, psychology, mathematics and political science at the University of Munich. In her doctoral thesis, she discusses the knowledge argument, by the Australian philosopher Frank Jackson, which is directed against a materialist conception of phenomenal consciousness. In it she presents one of the most important arguments, which is based on qualia, i.e., individual instances of subjective, conscious experience.

#5115

Hunter Davies

#4254

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Edward Hunter Davies is a British author, journalist and broadcaster. His books include the only authorised biography of the Beatles. Early life Davies was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, to Scottish parents. For four years his family lived in Dumfries until Davies was aged 11. Davies has quoted his boyhood hero as being football centre-forward, Billy Houliston, of Davies' then local team, Queen of the South.

#5116

Hilde Bruch

1904 - 1984 (80 years)

Hilde Bruch was a German-born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known foremost for her work on eating disorders and obesity. Bruch emigrated to the United States in 1934. She worked and studied at various medical facilities in New York City and Baltimore before becoming a professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1964.

#5117

Teles of Megara

250 BC - Present (2276 years)

Teles of Megara , was a Cynic philosopher and teacher. He wrote various discourses , seven fragments of which were preserved by Stobaeus. Life Nothing is known about Teles except for the limited information he reveals in his writings. In his discourse On Exile he refers to events in the Chremonidean War in the 260s BC, and he makes a specific reference to Hippomedon's governorship in Thrace under Ptolemy III Euergetes in the years following 241 BC, thus this discourse was written shortly after this date. His native city is uncertain: he makes various indirect references to Megara which show that he was living and teaching there, but it is possible that he originally came from Athens.

#5118

Norman Melchert

#34045

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Norman Melchert is a philosopher and author. He taught at Lehigh University from 1962 until his retirement in 1995. He is the author of several books, the most notable of which is his introduction to philosophy, The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy.

#5119

Peter Munz

#52946

Overall Influence

1921 - 2006 (85 years)

Peter Munz was a philosopher and historian, Professor of the Victoria University of Wellington; among the major influences on his work were Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Munz is one of two students who studied under both Popper and Wittgenstein.

#5120

H. Phillip Koeffler

#86859

Overall Influence

#5121

Agnieszka Kołakowska

#74013

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Agnieszka Kołakowska is a Polish philosopher, philologist, translator and essayist. She is the recipient of the 2012 for the essay collection Wojny kultur i inne wojny. She was born in 1960 to the family of philosopher Leszek Kołakowski and Tamara Dynenson. She defines herself as a Jew, as her mother is a Polish Jew.

#5122

M. D. Masatoshi Makuuchi

#86860

Overall Influence

#5123

Daryl Koehn

#70023

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Daryl Koehn is an American philosopher and the Wicklander Chair in Professional Ethics at DePaul University. She is the co-editor-in-chief of Business and Professional Ethics Journal and managing director of the Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. Koehn is known for her works on ethics and corporate governance.

#5124

Clemens Timpler

1563 - 1624 (61 years)

Clemens Timpler was a German philosopher, physicist and theologian. Along with Jakob Degen , he is considered an important Protestant metaphysician, establishing the Protestant Reformed Neuscholastik.

#5125

Theophilos Corydalleus

1570 - 1646 (76 years)

Theophilos Corydalleus was a Greek Neo-Aristotelian philosopher who initiated the philosophical movement known as Korydalism or Corydalism. He was also an Eastern Orthodox cleric , physician, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, author, educator and geographer. His philosophical thought kept influencing Greek education for two hundred years after its inception.

#5126

Emil Utitz

1883 - 1956 (73 years)

Emil Utitz was a Czech philosopher and psychologist of Jewish descent. He was educated in Prague, where he was a classmate of Franz Kafka. After studies in Munich, Leipzig, and Prague, he became a professor in Rostock, and from 1925 was Chair of Philosophy at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. After his forced retirement in 1933, he became a professor in Prague. In 1942, he was deported to Theresienstadt Ghetto, where he was head of the library. After the liberation of Theresienstadt in 1945, he returned to Prague. Utitz died in Jena in 1956, while travelling through East Germany to give lec...

#5127

John Richardson

#75562

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

John Richardson is a professor of philosophy at New York University. He is best known for his books on Heidegger and Nietzsche. Education and career A graduate of Harvard University in 1972, he earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981 under the supervision of Hubert Dreyfus. He has taught at New York University since 1981.

#5128

Inderbir Singh Gill

#86964

Overall Influence

#5129

Jeffrey M. Drazen

#10076

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Jeffrey M. Drazen was the editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine from 2000 to 2019. He currently holds the positions of senior physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Distinguished Parker B. Francis Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, professor of physiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and adjunct professor of medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from the University of Ferrara, the University of Athens, the University of Modena and the University of Paris-Sud.

#5130

Pierre Charron

1541 - 1603 (62 years)

Pierre Charron , French Catholic theologian and major contributor to the new thought of the 17th century. He is remembered for his controversial form of skepticism and his separation of ethics from religion as an independent philosophical discipline.

#5131

Julien Bogousslavsky

#86981

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#5132

Huda Zoghbi

#12757

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Huda Yahya Zoghbi , born Huda El-Hibri, is a Lebanese-born American geneticist, and a professor at the Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics, Neuroscience and Neurology at the Baylor College of Medicine. She is the director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute. She became the editor of the Annual Review of Neuroscience as of 2018.

#5133

David Hammons

#11028

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

David Hammons is an American artist, best known for his works in and around New York City and Los Angeles during the 1970s and 1980s. Early life David Hammons was born in 1943 in Springfield, Illinois, the youngest of ten children being raised by a single mother. This dynamic caused great financial strain on his family during his childhood; he later stated that he is uncertain how they managed to 'get by' during this time. Although not inclined academically, Hammons showed an early talent for drawing and art; however the ease at which these practices came to him caused him to develop disdain for it.

#5134

Fritz Medicus

1876 - 1956 (80 years)

Fritz Medicus was a German-Swiss philosopher. He was awarded his doctorate while studying in Jena, with the publication of his dissertation, Kant's transcendental aesthetics and non-euclidian geometry. He was the Chair of Philosophy at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and moved to ETH Zurich in 1911. Medicus wrote in the tradition of German idealism.

#5135

Sitting Bull

1831 - 1890 (59 years)

Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement.

#5136

Edward Bove

#28800

Overall Influence

Edward Bove is an American pediatric cardiac surgeon who has worked in the University of Michigan Health System most of his career. Bove was raised in New York City. He earned his undergraduate degree at the College of the Holy Cross, earned his medical degree from Albany Medical College in 1972, and went to University of Michigan for his residency. He completed that in 1980, then after a sojourn at Great Ormond Street Hospital as a fellow, spent five years as a surgeon at State University of New York in Syracuse before being recruited back to Michigan in 1985 to become head of the pediatric ...

#5137

Edward Boyse

#54143

Overall Influence

1923 - 2007 (84 years)

Edward A. Boyse FRS, AAAS, NAS was a British-born, American physician and biologist best known for his research on the immune system and pheromones. Life Boyse was born in Worthing, England, and studied medicine at the University of London.

#5138

Alta Charo

#30004

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Robin Alta Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a leading American authority on bioethics. She held appointments in both Wisconsin's law school and medical school.

#5139

Detlef Schuppan

#47621

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Detlef Schuppan is a German biochemist and physician. He focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of coeliac disease and wheat sensitivity, fibrotic liver diseases and the immunology of chronic diseases and cancer. He is the director of the Institute of Translational Immunology and a professor of internal medicine, gastroenterology, and hepatology at the Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. He directs the outpatient clinic for coeliac disease and small intestinal diseases. He is also a professor of medicine and a senior visiting scientist at Harvard Medical S...

#5140

Johann Christian Reil

Johann Christian Reil

1759 - 1813 (54 years)

Johann Christian Reil was a German physician, physiologist, anatomist, and psychiatrist. He coined the term psychiatry – Psychiatrie in German – in 1808. Reil was one of five children, and was the son of a Lutheran pastor in Northwest Germany. He married Johanna Wilhelmine Leveaux in October, 1788. Together they had two sons and four daughters.

#5141

Modjtaba Sadria

Modjtaba Sadria

#33637

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Modjtaba Sadria is an Iranian-born philosopher, socio-cultural theorist and international social policy development specialist. Professor Sadria has particular expertise in cross-cultural relations and East Asian studies. He has published many books and articles, including: "Global Civil Society and Ethics: Finding Common Ground" , "People Who Live on the Edge of the World" , "Realism: Trap of International Relations" , and "Prayer for Lost Objects: A Non-Weberian Approach to the Birth of Modern Society" . He has been the head of «Think Tank for Knowledge Excellence» since 2009, in Tehran, Iran.

#5142

Edward Joseph Dent

1876 - 1957 (81 years)

Edward Joseph Dent, FBA , generally known as Edward J. Dent, was an English musicologist, teacher, translator and critic. A leading figure of musicology and music criticism, Dent was Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge between 1926 and 1941.

#5143

Bernhard Siegert

#72254

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Bernhard Siegert is a German media theorist and media historian. Siegert was born in Bremen. He graduated in 1987 in Germanic Studies, Philosophy and History at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg/Germany. He followed Friedrich Kittler, with whom he had worked already in Freiburg, to the department of Germanic studies at the Ruhr University Bochum, where he received his doctorate in 1991. In 2001 he earned a Habilitation at the Humboldt University Berlin. In the same year he was appointed to the chair for Theory and History of Cultural Techniques at the department for Media Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar.

#5144

Marina Garcés

#81635

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Marina Garcés Mascareñas is a Spanish philosopher and essayist. She is a professor of philosophy at the University of Zaragoza and part of a collective project of critical and experimental thinking called Espai en Blanc . She has published several essays on contemporary politics and critical thought, including Filosofía inacabada , Fora de classe. Textos de filosofia de guerrilla , Nova il·lustració radical and Ciutat Princesa

#5145

Rodney James Rohrich

#87218

Overall Influence

#5146

Nicholas Burbules

Nicholas Burbules

#29763

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Nicholas C. Burbules is a Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership and an affiliate of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the director of the Ubiquitous Learning Institute and has served as Editor of the journal Educational Theory since 1991.

#5147

Sadayoshi Fukuda

#60396

Overall Influence

1917 - 2002 (85 years)

Sadayoshi Fukuda was a Japanese social philosopher and critic. Biography Fukuda was the pseudonym of Yukiari Segawa, born on 6 April 1917. He studied philosophy at Hosei University , graduating in 1940. In 1944 he was sent to Halmahera; he returned to Japan in 1946. Two years later he started teaching philosophy at his old university, where he would stay until 1970. Thereafter he supported himself by his writing.

#5148

Benedikt Paul Göcke

#72456

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Benedikt Paul Göcke is a German philosopher and theologian. He is University Professor for the Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Science at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum and an associate member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. His research includes theoretical, practical and historical philosophy and can be divided into three main areas: philosophy of science and metaphysics, transhumanism and ethics of digitization, and German Idealism, in particular the philosophy of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause .

#5149

Gianluca Bocchi

Gianluca Bocchi

#31471

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Gianluca Bocchi is an Italian philosopher. Life Gianluca Bocchi studied Philosophy at the University of Milan where he graduated in Philosophy of Science in 1978, discussing a dissertation entitled "Conditions and rules in the context of contemporary scientific epistemology" . From 1983 to 1988, he taught Philosophy and worked as a researcher at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Geneva, carrying on his research within the scientific team coordinated by Alberto Munari, one of the main exponents of the Piagetian school of genetic epistemology; and has worke...

#5150

Willem Johan Kolff

#5923

Overall Influence

1911 - 2009 (98 years)

Willem Johan "Pim" Kolff was a pioneer of hemodialysis, artificial heart, as well as in the entire field of artificial organs. Willem was a member of the Kolff family, an old Dutch patrician family. He made his major discoveries in the field of dialysis for kidney failure during the Second World War. He emigrated in 1950 to the United States, where he obtained US citizenship in 1955, and received a number of awards and widespread recognition for his work.

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