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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#5651

Graeme Catto

#29249

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Sir Graeme Robertson Dawson Catto FRSE, Hon FRCSE, FRCP, FRCGP, FFPM, FAoP, FMedSci FKC is a Scottish doctor who was president, later chair, of the General Medical Council until April 2009. He is also currently Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the Universities of London and Aberdeen and was an honorary consultant nephrologist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

#5652

H. Paul Grice

#123355

Overall Influence

#5653

Kong Ing Lie

#123358

Overall Influence

#5654

Osamu Yokosuka

#123363

Overall Influence

#5655

Bruce Perrin Lanphear

#123367

Overall Influence

#5656

Jeremy Chapman

#76562

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Jeremy Robert Chapman is a British–Australian nephrologist, renal physician and transplant surgeon. He has been the director of the Division of Medicine and Cancer at Westmead Hospital in Sydney since 2007.

#5657

Steven S. Gallinger

#123374

Overall Influence

#5658

Barbara J. Stoll

#123393

Overall Influence

#5659

Jon Hellesnes

#122203

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Jon Hellesnes is a Norwegian philosopher, novelist and essayist. He was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Tromsø in 1985. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

#5660

Lloyd M. Nyhus

#123402

Overall Influence

#5661

Marina Cavazzana

Marina Cavazzana

#77472

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Marina Cavazzana is a professor of Paediatric Immunology at the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital and the Imagine Institute, as well as an academic at Paris Descartes University. She was awarded the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2012 and elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.

#5662

Fatih Mehmet Uckun

#123420

Overall Influence

#5663

Brian M. Mercer

#123433

Overall Influence

#5664

Gunnar Jacks

#123435

Overall Influence

#5665

Kimball Atwood

#11869

Overall Influence

Kimball C. Atwood IV is an American medical doctor and researcher from Newton, Massachusetts. He is retired as an assistant clinical professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and anesthesiologist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

#5666

Petar Alaupovic

#123439

Overall Influence

#5667

Nida Vasiliauskaitė

#101350

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Nida Vasiliauskaitė is a Lithuanian philosopher and publicist. As of 2020, Vasiliauskaitė began to receive more widespread attention as a public figure for her views on political matters regarding freedom of choice, rising collectivism as well as the evergrowing influence of political correctness in the country's legal and cultural landscape. She positions herself as a conservative liberal and is the founder of a centre-left minor party Second Lithuania.

#5668

Brian M. Frier

#121666

Overall Influence

Brian M. Frier is a Scottish physician, diabetologist, clinical scientist, and an Honorary Professor of Diabetes at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known for his many scientific contributions to the pathophysiological understanding of hypoglycemia, a common adverse effect of insulin therapy in diabetic patients whose societal impact has deserved increasing media attention worldwide. His honors include the R.D. Lawrence Lecture of the British Diabetic Association in 1986, the Banting Memorial Lecture at Diabetes UK in 2009, the Camillo Golgi Prize and lecture at the 53rd annual EASD conference in 2017, and the Michael Somogyi Award from the Hungarian Diabetes Association in 2004.

#5669

Mahmut Gazi Yașargil

#123457

Overall Influence

#5670

Heather Zar

#85770

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Heather J Zar is a South African physician and scientist specialising in the care of children with respiratory diseases like asthma, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Career and impact Professor Zar is the Chair of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Cape Town and also serves as the President of the Pan African Thoracic Society.

#5671

Kai Kaarniranta

#123470

Overall Influence

#5672

N. J. Weidner

#123482

Overall Influence

#5673

Christopher James Mathias

#123484

Overall Influence

#5674

Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang

#106615

Overall Influence

1922 - 2014 (92 years)

Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang was a British professor of philosophy and hereditary peer. Life Strang was the only son of William Strang, 1st Baron Strang, a diplomat who served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1949 to 1953, and was subsequently the first Convenor of the Crossbench peers in the House of Lords from 1968 to 1974.

#5675

William R. Fair

#123513

Overall Influence

#5676

Osagie Obasogie

#74503

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Osagie Kingsley Obasogie is a law professor and bioethicist at UC Berkeley. He is the Haas Distinguished Chair, Professor of Law at Berkeley Law, and Professor of Bioethics in the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He studies bioethics, sociology, and law, in particular race in law and medicine.

#5677

Lucas Introna

#66330

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Lucas D. Introna is Professor of Organisation, Technology and Ethics at the Lancaster University Management School. He is a scholar within the Social Study of Information Systems field. His research is focused on the phenomenon of technology. Within the area of technology studies he has made significant contributions to our understanding of the ethical and political implications of technology for society.

#5678

Lisa Ginzburg

#83063

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Lisa Ginzburg is an Italian author, translator and philosopher. She currently lives in Paris. Biography The daughter of Carlo Ginzburg and Anna Rossi-Doria, she graduated in philosophy at the Sapienza University in Rome and further specialized her studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Tuscany. At first, she dedicated her studies to French mysticism from the Seventeenth century . She also worked as a translator . Moreover, she contributed to Italian newspapers and magazines, such as Il Messaggero and Domus. She edited, together with Cesare Garboli, È difficile parlare di sé, a multi...

#5679

George Karpati

#63432

Overall Influence

1934 - 2009 (75 years)

George Karpati, was a Canadian neurologist and neuroscientist who was one of the leading experts on the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disorders including muscular dystrophy research. Born in Debrecen, Hungary, Karpati was a Holocaust survivor who emigrated to Canada in 1957. He received an M.D. from Dalhousie University in 1960. Karpati spent 30 years in clinical practise, research and teaching of neurology. He was the Izaak Walton Killam Chair and Professor of Neurology at McGill University.

#5680

Yitzhak Melamed

#109167

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Yitzhak Y. Melamed is an Israeli philosopher and a leading scholar of Spinoza and modern philosophy. He is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a master's degree in history & philosophy of science from Tel Aviv University and a philosophy PhD from Yale University. Melamed has won numerous fellowships and grants, including the Fulbright , American Academy for Jewish Research , Mellon , Humboldt , NEH , and ACLS-Burkhardt Fellowships, and taught intensive masterclasses at the University of Toronto , École normale supérieure de Lyon , Peking Unive...

#5681

Harold Shipman

#3443

Overall Influence

1946 - 2004 (58 years)

Harold Frederick Shipman , known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English general practitioner and serial killer. He is considered to be one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history, with an estimated 250 victims. On 31 January 2000, Shipman was found guilty of murdering fifteen patients under his care. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order. Shipman hanged himself in his cell at HM Prison Wakefield, West Yorkshire, on 13 January 2004, aged 57.

#5682

David Aers

#62729

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

David Roland Aers is a James B. Duke Professor of English, historical theology and religion at Duke University. He has published widely on literature, sacramental culture and ideology in medieval and Renaissance England.

#5683

Volker Dr Ullrich

#123595

Overall Influence

#5684

Piotr Zawojski

#90927

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Dr. hab. Piotr Zawojski is a Polish media expert. He is a tenured professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Biography Teaching career Zawojski works in the fields of film, photography, new media and the area of cyberculture. He teaches history and theory of film and television, communication, digital photography, new media and cyberculture. Professor Zawojski is a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow and at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, one of the oldest universities in the world. He also frequently of...

#5685

Dorit Bar-On

#121703

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Dorit Bar-On is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and Director of the Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning Research Group. Her research focuses on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaethics. She previously held positions at the University of Rochester and UNC-Chapel Hill, where she was the Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professor of Research and Undergraduate Education from 2014 to 2015.

#5686

Helmut Loos

#84337

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Helmut Loos is a German musicologist and emeritus scholar. Life Born in Niederkrüchten, Loos studied music education from 1971 to 1974 and musicology, art history and philosophy from 1974 to 1980 at the University of Bonn. He received his doctorate in 1980 and was a research assistant at the Musicology Department of the University of Bonn from 1981 to 1989. In 1989 he completed his habilitation.

#5687

David J. Anderson

#123684

Overall Influence

#5688

Arthur J. Ammann

#77567

Overall Influence

1936 - 2021 (85 years)

Arthur J. Ammann was an American pediatric immunologist and advocate known for his research on HIV transmission, discovering transmission and the risk of contaminated transfusions and blood products, and his role in the development of the first successful vaccine to prevent pneumococcal infection in 1977. He founded Global Strategies for HIV Prevention and was Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the UCSF Medical Center.

#5689

Christine Rouzioux

#123694

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

#5690

Federico Celestini

#112180

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Federico Celestini is an Italian musicologist. Since 2011 he has been professor of musicology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Life Federico Celestini was born in Rome. He studied violin at the Musikhochschule Giulio Briccialdi in Terni, Italy, and musicology, aesthetics and literature at the Sapienza University of Rome. He received his doctorate in 1998 and the Habilitation in 2004, both in Musicology, at the University of Graz. At the same time, he worked as a member of the Special Research Project "Modern - Vienna and Central Europe around 1900" in the Musicology department at the university until 2005.

#5691

Per Soelberg Sørensen

#123713

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

#5692

Ignacio Ponseti

Ignacio Ponseti

#25921

Overall Influence

1914 - 2009 (95 years)

Ignacio Ponseti was a Spanish-American physician, specializing in orthopedics. He was born on 3 June 1914 in Menorca, part of the Balearic Islands, Spain, Ponseti was the son of a watchmaker and spent his childhood helping repair watches. This skill was said to eventually contribute to his abilities as an orthopedist. He served three years as a medic during the Spanish Civil War treating orthopedic injuries of wounded soldiers. He left Spain shortly after the end of the war and became a faculty member and practicing physician at the University of Iowa, where he developed his ground-breaking,...

#5693

Derald E. Brackmann

#123726

Overall Influence

#5694

J. Rodney Allen

#123727

Overall Influence

#5695

Théophile Godfraind

#123738

Overall Influence

#5696

Meena Dhanda

#31742

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Dr. Meena Dhanda is an Indian philosopher and writer, based in the United Kingdom. She is a Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics at the University of Wolverhampton, and is internationally recognised as a leading academic in the development of diaspora dalit studies. She conducts philosophy with a 'practical intent', and her work has confirmed existence of caste discrimination in Britain in areas covered by the Equality Act 2010, and pushed for more legal protections against caste-based discrimination.

#5697

Michael P. T. Leahy

#107512

Overall Influence

1934 - 2007 (73 years)

Michael Paul Tutton Leahy was an English conservative philosopher and opponent of animal rights and vegetarianism. Biography Leahy was born in Westminster. He was educated Salesian College in Battersea and Trinity College, Dublin. After he graduated he studied at Cornell University and Penn State University. He was as assistant lecturer in philosophy at Durham University during 1965–1968 and a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Kent where he became a senior lecturer in 1976. He was the university’s admissions officer from 1992–1999.

#5698

Leslie Zieve

#123745

Overall Influence

#5699

Paul G. Polakis

#123766

Overall Influence

#5700

Louis J. Tobian

#123768

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