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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#5151

Horace Smirk

#113285

Overall Influence

1902 - 1991 (89 years)

Sir Frederick Horace Smirk was a notable New Zealand professor of medicine. He was born in Accrington, Lancashire, England, in 1902. In the 1958 Queen's Birthday Honours, Smirk was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

#5152

Henry A. Pitt

#117270

Overall Influence

#5153

David Bruce Ingram

#95122

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

David Bruce Ingram is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is a recipient of Casa Guatemala's Human Rights Award and a recipient of the Alpha Sigma Nu Award for Best Book. Ingram is married to the philosopher Jennifer Parks; she is from Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He has three children, the oldest named Sabina Simon , Maxwell and the youngest named Samuel .

#5154

Richard R. Facklam

#117285

Overall Influence

#5155

Béla Merkely

#25854

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Dr. Béla Merkely is a Hungarian interventional cardiologist and sports cardiologist, a university professor, director of Semmelweis University's Heart and Vascular Centre and the current rector of Semmelweis University since 1 July 2018.

#5156

Dick Menzies

#117311

Overall Influence

#5157

Hermann Wagner

#61661

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Hermann Wagner is a German scientist in the field of microbiology and immunology and past Dean of the Medical Faculty of the Technical University Munich . His massive number of published works, at over 370, makes him one of Europe's most cited immunologists.

#5158

Harvey M. Golomb

#117351

Overall Influence

#5159

Monty S. Losowsky

#117373

Overall Influence

#5160

Miriam Hansen

#60637

Overall Influence

1949 - 2011 (62 years)

Miriam Hansen was a film historian who made important contributions to the study of early cinema and mass culture. Career Born Miriam Bratu to Jewish parents, Arthur Egon Bratu and Ruth Bratu, in Offenbach, Germany, Hansen received a doctorate in American literature from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt. She worked at Yale University and Rutgers before moving to the University of Chicago, where she served as Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the time of her death. She founded the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at that university.

#5161

Leonard Calabrese

#48278

Overall Influence

Leonard Calabrese is an American rheumatologist, an osteopathic physician, and an internationally recognized HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C researcher at the Cleveland Clinic. Calabrese is the vice chair of the Cleveland Clinic's Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases and the co-director of the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research, while also serving as director of the Cleveland Clinic's RJ Fasenmyer Center for Clinical Immunology. He is also a medical professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Over the course of his academic research career, Calabrese has authored mo...

#5162

Stephen M. Prescott

#117396

Overall Influence

#5163

Gao Mobo

#24753

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Gao Mobo is a Chinese-Australian professor of Chinese studies. Biography Mobo Gao was born as the son of peasants in a village in Jiangxi that had no electricity at the time. As a child, he experienced a brief period of famine that followed the Great Leap Forward.

#5164

David J. Loskutoff

#117420

Overall Influence

#5165

Yuji Matsumoto

#99710

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

is a Japanese and American professor of information science who works at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology and also specializes in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. He has almost 450 peer-reviewed articles with the highest ranked one being Applying conditional random fields to Japanese morphological analysis, which was cited over 1100 times.

#5166

Peter K. Hepler

#78657

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Peter Klock Hepler HonFRMS is the Constantine J. Gilgut and Ray Ethan Torrey Professor Emeritus in the Biology Department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who is notable for his work on elucidating the roles of calcium, membranes and the cytoskeleton in plant cell development and cell motility.

#5167

Roger Garaudy

#65271

Overall Influence

1913 - 2012 (99 years)

Roger Garaudy was a French philosopher, French resistance fighter and a communist author. He converted to Islam in 1982. In 1998, he was convicted and fined for Holocaust denial under French law for claiming that the death of six million Jews was a "myth".

#5168

Kenneth L. Mattox

#117453

Overall Influence

#5169

Jan Sapp

#35092

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Jan Anthony Sapp is a professor in the Department of Biology, York University, Canada. His writings focus especially on evolutionary biology beyond the classical neo-Darwinian framework, and emphasize the fundamental importance of symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer in heredity and evolution.

#5170

Dieter Senghaas

#38568

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Dieter Senghaas is a German social scientist and peace researcher. Biography After studying political science, social science, philosophy and history from 1960 to 1967, Senghaas received his doctorate in Frankfurt in 1967. His dissertation, Kritik der Abschreckung , dealt with the field which has characterised his scientific activities since then: international relations, especially peace research, research on developing countries and conflict research. His studies were followed by work as an assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt until 1968, and then a research residency in the USA with Karl W.

#5171

Makis Solomos

#76345

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Makis Solomos was a Franco-Greek musicologist who specialized in contemporary music and particularly in the work of Iannis Xenakis. He is also one of the specialists of Adorno's thought. His work focuses on the issue of sound ecology and decay. He has published articles and books and participates in meetings and symposia. In 2005, he also participated in the creation of the magazine "Filigranes" which aims to broaden the field of musicology.

#5172

Caroline Joan S. Picart

#56161

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Caroline Joan S. Picart is a Filipino-born American academic who has written and edited numerous books and anthologies on philosophy and cultural studies, especially horror film. She is also a lawyer and had a radio show, The Dr. Caroline Picart Show. In 2011, she received the Lord Ruthven Award, non-fiction category, for the book Dracula in Visual Media Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010, co-authored with John Edgar Browning.

#5173

Patti Valkenburg

Patti Valkenburg

#90829

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Patricia Maria Valkenburg is a Distinguished Professor of Communication at the University of Amsterdam. She is the founder and director of Center for research on Children, Adolescents, and the Media . She is a fellow of the International Communication Association. In 2011, she received the Spinoza Prize, the highest Dutch award in science.

#5174

John J. Bergan

#117499

Overall Influence

#5175

Jan Gillquist

#117531

Overall Influence

#5176

David S. Ludwig

#117544

Overall Influence

#5177

Samiran Nundy

#33311

Overall Influence

Samiran Nundy is an Indian gastrointestinal surgeon, medical academic, writer and the President of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh. He is a former member of the faculty at the Cambridge University, London University and Harvard University, and is the founder editor of the National Medical Journal of India and Tropical Gastroenterology. The Government of India awarded him the fourth-highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Shri in 1985.

#5178

Elizabeth Flower

#102832

Overall Influence

1915 - 1995 (80 years)

Elizabeth Farquhar Flower was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-authored a standard textbook on the history of philosophy, History of Philosophy in America.

#5179

Xavier Estivill i Pallejà

#117611

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

#5180

William French Anderson

William French Anderson

#86599

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

William French Anderson is an American physician, geneticist and molecular biologist. He is known as the "father of gene therapy". He graduated from Harvard College in 1958, Trinity College, Cambridge University in 1960, and from Harvard Medical School in 1963. In 1990 he was the first person to succeed in carrying out gene therapy by treating a 4-year-old girl suffering from severe combined immunodeficiency . In 2006, he was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor and in 2007 was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He was paroled on May 17, 2018, for good behavior.

#5181

Allen M. Spiegel

#117652

Overall Influence

#5182

Gottfried Schlaug

#117657

Overall Influence

#5183

Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas

#70622

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas is an American author and educator. She is associate professor of ethics and society at Vanderbilt Divinity School and the Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Floyd-Thomas is a Womanist Christian social ethicist whose research interests include Womanist thought, Black Church Studies, liberation theology and ethics, critical race theory, critical pedagogy and postcolonial studies.

#5184

William Placher

William Placher

#66136

Overall Influence

1948 - 2008 (60 years)

William Carl Placher was an American postliberal theologian. He was Follette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Wabash College until his death in 2008. He was a leader at Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church.

#5185

Sarah Gilbert

#19022

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Dame Sarah Catherine Gilbert FRS is an English vaccinologist who is a Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford and co-founder of Vaccitech. She specialises in the development of vaccines against influenza and emerging viral pathogens. She led the development and testing of the universal flu vaccine, which underwent clinical trials in 2011.

#5186

Walter Orenstein

#72034

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Walter A. Orenstein served as the director of the United States' National Immunization Program, from May 1993 to January 2004. Education Orenstein has a bachelor's degree from the City College of New York. He went on to receive his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1972. He then completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, after which he completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Southern California Medical School. Orenstein then completed another residency, this time in preventive medicine at the Centers for Dise...

#5187

Alexander W. Clowes

#117677

Overall Influence

#5188

Mike Ashley

#11792

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Michael Raymond Donald Ashley is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy. He edits the long-running Mammoth Book series of short story anthologies, each arranged around a particular theme in mystery, fantasy, or science fiction. He has a special interest in fiction magazines and has written a multi-volume History of the Science Fiction Magazine and a study of British fiction magazines, The Age of the Storytellers. He won the Edgar Award for The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction. In addition to the books listed below he edited and prepared for publication the novel The Enchantresses by Vera Chapman.

#5189

Michael H. Davidson

#117679

Overall Influence

#5190

R. Kumar Bhaskar

#117704

Overall Influence

#5191

Samuel Donald Wright

#117711

Overall Influence

#5192

Suad Efendić

#117725

Overall Influence

#5193

Henry Silton Harris

#97715

Overall Influence

1926 - 2007 (81 years)

Henry Silton Harris was a British-Canadian philosopher, having been a Distinguished Research Professor at York University. He is best known for his work on the intellectual development of G. W. F. Hegel and for his writings and commentary upon The Phenomenology of Spirit.

#5194

Joseph Michael Lane

#117728

Overall Influence

#5195

Paulo Saldiva

#49993

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva is a Brazilian professor, physician, pathologist and medical researcher. He researches particularly on the academic area of pathophysiology of the lungs and the hazardous consequences of air pollution for human health. He is a member of the World Health Organization and is a researcher of the Department of Environmental Health of Harvard University, and has co-authored the book "Saúde e Meio Ambiente: o desafio das metrópoles" , released in 2011. Saldiva graduated and obtained a bachelor's degree by the department of Medicine of the Universidade de São Paulo in 1977 and a Doctor's Degree in Pathology in 1983, among other academic accomplishments.

#5196

Hubert Erich Blum

#117748

Overall Influence

#5197

Thomas S. Kupper

#96482

Overall Influence

Thomas S. Kupper is an American physician, academic, and clinician. His work with clinical and research experience spans dermatology, cutaneous oncology, and immunology. He is the Thomas B. Fitzpatrick Professor at Harvard Medical School, and chairs the Departments of Dermatology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He also leads the Cutaneous Oncology Disease Center at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

#5198

Euan Ashley

#15447

Overall Influence

Euan Angus Ashley is a Scottish physician, scientist, author, and founder based at Stanford University in California where he is Associate Dean in the School of Medicine and holds the Roger and Joelle Burnell Chair of Genomics and Precision Health. He is known for helping establish the field of medical genomics.

#5199

Thomas C. Gasser

#117803

Overall Influence

#5200

Benjamin Hale

#117805

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Benjamin S. Hale is an environmental philosopher and ethicist. He is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado–Boulder, as well as a faculty affiliate at the university's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research.

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