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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#5551

John Henry Cardinal Newman

#5552

Peter Agre

#2611

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Peter Agre is an American physician, Nobel Laureate, and molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. In 2003, Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes." Agre was recognized for his discovery of aquaporin water channels. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane. In 2009, Agre was elected president of ...

#5553

Keizoh Sugimachi

#92712

Overall Influence

#5554

Malcolm A. S. Moore

#92717

Overall Influence

#5555

Ronald h. Schwartz

#92718

Overall Influence

#5556

Alessio Fasano

#24151

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Alessio Fasano is an Italian-born medical doctor, pediatric gastroenterologist and researcher. He currently holds many roles, including professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and professor of nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, both in Boston. He serves as director of the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and co-director of the Harvard Medical School Celiac Research Program. In addition, he is director of the Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center at MGHfC, where he oversees a research program with approximatel...

#5557

Amos D. Korczyn

#92741

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

#5558

Detlev Bronk

1897 - 1975 (78 years)

Detlev Wulf Bronk was a prominent American scientist, educator, and administrator. He is credited with establishing biophysics as a recognized discipline. Bronk served as president of Johns Hopkins University from 1949 to 1953 and as president of The Rockefeller University from 1953 to 1968. Bronk also held the presidency of the National Academy of Sciences between 1950 and 1962.

#5559

Lars Klareskog

#72335

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Lars Klareskog is a Swedish physician, immunologist, and rheumatologist, known for research into the genetics of autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis . Klareskog received his medical degree from the University of Uppsala in 1974 and received his doctorate in 1978 with thesis On the structure, function and tissue distribution of HLA-DR and Ia antigens. From 1990 to 1993, he held the chair of clinical immunology at Uppsala University. He then held the chair of rheumatology at the Karolinska Institute and the Karolinska Clinic until 2012 and was head of the Rheumatology Clinic and Research Group.

#5560

Richard Allan Soref

#92751

Overall Influence

#5561

Alan Mittleman

#61342

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Alan Mittleman is a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Education Mittleman received his BA from Brandeis University and his MA and PhD from Temple University.

#5562

Christiaan Barnard

Christiaan Barnard

#1080

Overall Influence

1922 - 2001 (79 years)

Christiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-year-old Louis Washkansky, with Washkansky regaining full consciousness and being able to talk easily with his wife, before dying eighteen days later of pneumonia, largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed his immune system. Barnard had told Mr. and Mrs. Washkansky that the operation had an 80% chance of success, an assessment which has been criticised as misleading.

#5563

Karlina Leksono Supelli

Karlina Leksono Supelli

#30242

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Karlina Leksono Supelli is an Indonesian philosopher and astronomer. One of Indonesia's first female astronomers, she received her bachelor's degree in Astronomy at ITB and MSc in Space Science from the University College London, and completed her doctorate in Philosophy at Universitas Indonesia in 1997.

#5564

Mnesarchus of Athens

160 BC - 85 BC (75 years)

Mnesarchus or Mnesarch , of Athens, was a Stoic philosopher, who lived c. 160 – c. 85 BC. Biography Mnesarchus was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus. Cicero says that he was one of the leaders of the Stoic school at Athens together with Dardanus at a time when Antiochus of Ascalon was turning away from scepticism . He was the teacher of Antiochus for a time, and he may also have taught Philo of Larissa. After the death of Panaetius , the Stoic school at Athens seems to have fragmented, and Mnesarchus was probably one of several leading Stoics teaching in this era. He ...

#5565

Hanneke Canters

#87010

Overall Influence

1969 - 2002 (33 years)

Wilhelmina Johanna Canters , known as Hanneke Canters, was a Dutch feminist philosopher and academic. Canters studied Theology and Philosophy at the University of Groningen. She went on to study the philosophy of religion with feminist philosopher and theologian Professor Grace Jantzen at King's College, London University. Canters was awarded a Master of Arts degree. Following this Canters won a scholarship to study for a doctorate at the University of Sunderland under the supervision of Dr. Pamela Sue Anderson and Dr. John Mullarkey.

#5566

Guðmundur Finnbogason

Guðmundur Finnbogason

1873 - 1944 (71 years)

Guðmundur Finnbogason was an Icelandic philosopher, the son of Guðrún Jónsdóttir and Finnbogi Finnbogason. He was one of the first Icelandic psychologists. His work "Sympathetic Understanding" inspired Jean Piaget's development stages model.

#5567

John Bascom

1827 - 1911 (84 years)

John Bascom was an American professor, college president and writer. Life He was born on May 1, 1827, in Genoa, New York, and was a graduate of Williams College with the class of 1849. He graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1855. Aside from the degrees he received in those places, he held many other scholarly and honorary degrees. He was professor of rhetoric at Williams College from 1855 to 1874, and was president of the University of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1887. He retired in 1903 and died in Williamstown, Massachusetts, on October 2, 1911.

#5568

Vincenzo Botta

1818 - 1894 (76 years)

Vincenzo Botta was an Italian-born politician and professor of philosophy, and later, in the United States, of Italian language and literature. Biography Botta was educated at the University of Turin, and became professor of philosophy there. In 1849 he was elected to the Sardinian parliament, and in 1850 commissioned, in association with Dr. Parola, another deputy, to examine the educational system of Germany. Their report on the German universities and schools was published at the expense of the government. In 1853, he met Anne Lynch, a writer from the United States then traveling in Europe...

#5569

Solomon A. Berson

#92828

Overall Influence

#5570

Oliver Friggieri

#31215

Overall Influence

1947 - 2020 (73 years)

Oliver Friggieri was a Maltese poet, novelist, literary critic, and philosopher. He led the establishment of literary history and criticism in Maltese while teaching at the University of Malta, studying the works of Dun Karm, Rużar Briffa, and others. A prolific writer himself, Friggieri explored new genres to advocate the Maltese language, writing the libretti for the first oratorio and the first cantata in Maltese. His work aimed to promote the Maltese cultural identity, while not shying from criticism: one of his most famous novels, Fil-Parlament Ma Jikbrux Fjuri , attacked the tribalistic divisions of society caused by politics.

#5571

David H. Van Thiel

#92850

Overall Influence

#5572

Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra

Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra

1816 - 1880 (64 years)

Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann, Ritter von Hebra was an Austrian Empire physician and dermatologist known as the founder of the New Vienna School of Dermatology, an important group of physicians who established the foundations of modern dermatology.

#5573

Martin Bunzl

#68322

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Martin Bunzl is professor of philosophy emeritus at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, where he directed the Rutgers Initiative in Climate and Social Policy from 2007 to 2011. Biography Bunzl graduated from the University of Minnesota, from which he obtained a BA and a Ph.D. His early work dealt primarily with causation, in which he developed a deflationary account of causal overdetermination; what David Lewis called "Bunzl events".

#5574

Michael Weisberg

#23530

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Michael Craig Weisberg is an American philosopher of science, currently Bess W. Heyman President's Distinguished Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as Interim Director of Perry World House, directs the Galápagos Education and Research Alliance, and is a Non-resident Senior Advisor for the International Peace Institute.

#5575

Elizabeth Wolgast

#85051

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

Elizabeth Hankins Wolgast was an American philosopher. Wolgast was born in New Jersey. She died following complications from a stroke. Education Wolgast graduated from Cornell University in 1952, studying modern literature at both undergraduate and masters level. She then moved to the University of Washington, where she completed her PhD, focusing on skepticism.

#5576

Brian Klug

#36265

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Brian Klug is Honorary Fellow in Social Philosophy at Campion Hall, Oxford and an emeritus member of the philosophy faculty at Oxford University. He is also an honorary fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton and fellow of the College, Saint Xavier University, Chicago.

#5577

Tamara Hundorova

Tamara Hundorova

#33747

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Tamara Ivanivna Hundorova is a Ukrainian literary critic, culturologist and writer. She is a professor and head of the Theory of Literature Department at the Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and a professor and dean at the Ukrainian Free University.

#5578

Edward J. Hall

#85890

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Edward J. Hall, also known as Ned Hall, is an American philosopher and Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is known for his expertise on philosophy of science and epistemology.

#5579

Angelo Tremblay

#92944

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#5580

Morris F. White

#92945

Overall Influence

#5581

Dexippus

350 - 350 (0 years)

Dexippus was an Ancient Greek Neoplatonist philosopher from the 4th century AD, whose wrote a commentary on the Categories of Aristotle which is partially extant. Dexippus was likely a pupil of the Neoplatonist Iamblichus, but little else in known about his life. Like many other neoplatonists, Dexippus advocated harmony between the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. In his work, Dexippus explains the categories to a student named Seleucus, and endeavors at the same time to refute the objections of Plotinus. His work was known to the later Neoplatonist Simplicius of Cilicia, who mentions his...

#5582

Valentin Goranko

#66579

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Valentin Feodorov Goranko is a Bulgarian-Swedish logician, Professor of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University. Education and academic career Goranko studied mathematics and obtained Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" in 1988. Before joining Stockholm University in 2014, he has had several academic positions at universities in Bulgaria , South Africa , Denmark and Sweden and has taught a wide variety of courses in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Logic.

#5583

Tullio Pozzan

#54661

Overall Influence

1949 - 2022 (73 years)

Tullio Pozzan was an Italian biochemist who was professor at the University of Padua and head of the department of biomedical sciences of the Italian National Research Council. Early life Pozzan was born in Venice on 22 February 1949. He was born into a family associated with the medical profession, including a grandfather whom he was named after. Pozzan studied Medicine at the University of Padua and received a doctor of medicine degree in 1973.

#5584

Hershel Schachter

#24422

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Hershel Schachter is an American Orthodox rabbi, posek and rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary , part of Yeshiva University in New York City. Schachter is an halakhic advisor for the Orthodox Union, and has rendered notable decisions in a number of contemporary topic areas.

#5585

George B. McClellan

George B. McClellan

1826 - 1885 (59 years)

George Brinton McClellan was an American military officer, politician, engineer, businessman and writer who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey. A West Point graduate, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican–American War before leaving the United States Army to serve as a railway executive and engineer until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. Early in the conflict, McClellan was appointed to the rank of major general and played an important role in raising the Army of the Potomac, which served in the Eastern Theater; he also served as Commanding General of the ...

#5586

Joseph Torrey

1797 - 1867 (70 years)

Joseph Torrey was an American professor of philosophy at the University of Vermont and acting president of that university for five years. Biography Torrey was born in Rowley, Massachusetts on February 2, 1797. He received his education at Dartmouth College and Andover Seminary; later in his life he was honored by Harvard University with a Doctor of Divinity degree. Torrey joined the faculty of the University of Vermont in 1827, and remained there for the rest of his life, serving as its acting president from 1862 until his death.

#5587

Russell K. Portenoy

#93010

Overall Influence

#5588

Ramachandra Dattatrya Ranade

Ramachandra Dattatrya Ranade

1886 - 1957 (71 years)

Ramchandra Dattatray Ranade was an Indian scholar-philosopher-saint of Karnataka and Maharashtra. Biography He was born on 3 July 1886 in Jamakhandi, in Bagalkot District of Karnataka. After completing his schooling he studied at Deccan College, Pune. In the year 1914 he passed M.A. with full honours and for a very brief period joined the teaching staff of Fergusson College, Pune. He taught at Willindon College, Sangli, on a regular basis before being invited to join Allahabad University as Head of Department of Philosophy where he rose to be the Vice-Chancellor. After retirement in 1946 he ...

#5589

William Mitchell

William Mitchell

1861 - 1962 (101 years)

Sir William Mitchell was an Australian philosopher and academic. He was Professor of English Language, Literature, Mental and Moral Philosophy at the University of Adelaide from 1894–1922, Vice-Chancellor 1916–1942 and Chancellor 1942–1948.

#5590

Michel Marcel Navratil

Michel Marcel Navratil

#42941

Overall Influence

1908 - 2001 (93 years)

Michel Marcel Navratil, Jr. was a French philosophy professor who was one of the last survivors of the sinking of Titanic on 15 April 1912. He, along with his brother, Edmond , were known as the "Titanic Orphans", having been the only children rescued without a parent or guardian. He was three years old at the time of the disaster.

#5591

Katalin Bimbó

#65047

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Katalin Bimbó is a logician and philosopher known for her books on mathematical logic and proof theory. She earned a Ph.D. in 1999 at Indiana University, under the supervision of Jon Michael Dunn, and is a professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta after having earned tenure there in 2013.

#5592

Kazuaki Chayama

#93072

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

#5593

Jan Holmgren

#72968

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Jan Roland Holmgren is a Swedish physician, microbiologist, immunologist, and vaccinologist, known for his research on cholera and mucosal immunology, specifically, for his leadership in developing "the world's first effective oral cholera vaccine".

#5594

Donald Jay Grout

1902 - 1987 (85 years)

Donald Jay Grout was an American musicologist. He is best known as the author of A Short History of Opera, first published in 1947. The fourth edition was published by Columbia University Press in 2003.

#5595

Charles Tator

#53616

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Charles H. Tator is a Canadian physician. Born in Toronto, he studied medicine at the University of Toronto. He interned at the Toronto General Hospital and returned to graduate studies in the neuropathology division at the University of Toronto, completing an MA and PhD and continuing his training in neurosurgery. In 1969, Tator became a fellow in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Neurosurgery. In the same year, he became an assistant professor at the university and he became a Professor in 1980. He was head of the neurosurgery division at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and served as director of the Toronto Hospital Neurosciences Centre from 1983 to 1988.

#5596

Patricia Altenbernd Johnson

#80216

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Patricia Altenbernd Johnson is Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. She has written books about contemporary philosophers. She is a specialist in philosophy of religion, hermeneutics and 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, and on the works of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer.

#5597

Snorri S. Thorgeirsson

#93147

Overall Influence

#5598

Ömer Özkan

#14821

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Ömer Özkan is a Turkish plastic surgeon. An associate professor at the Akdeniz University in Antalya, he led the team that performed in 2012 the first full face transplant in Turkey. Education He finished in 1988 Cumhuriyet High School in Ankara. After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine at the Hacettepe University in 1995, he completed his special studies in plastic and reconstructive surgery between 1995 and 2001 at the same university.

#5599

Ray H. Rosenman

#93179

Overall Influence

#5600

Angelica Kauffman

Angelica Kauffman

1741 - 1807 (66 years)

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann , usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was, along with Mary Moser, one of two female painters among the founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.

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