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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#6601

Jeffrey D Rothstein

#104328

Overall Influence

#6602

Frank Cole Spencer

#104346

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#6603

George N. Schlesinger

#83537

Overall Influence

1925 - 2013 (88 years)

George N Schlesinger was a philosopher, rabbi, and author. He made major contributions in the areas of philosophy of religion, and philosophy of science. He taught and conducted research as a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from 1967 to 1999, and as a visiting professor at several other universities. His teaching and research interests included philosophy of time, philosophy of logic, and theism. He authored 10 books and more than 300 articles, earned many awards, and gave many presentations as a sought after speaker. His presentations at a summer conference resulted in the Philosophy of Time Society.

#6604

Anton Kržan

1835 - 1888 (53 years)

Anton Kržan was a Croatian philosopher, university professor and a rector. Born in Marija Gorica, he received his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1859 in Rome. He was ordained in 1862, and a year later receiving a Ph.D. in theology in Rome. After the return to Zagreb, he worked as a professor at the Archiepiscopal Seminary where he taught metaphysics and special dogmatics. He served as a full professor at the Faculty of Theology since 1874.

#6605

Hasan Özbekhan

#22567

Overall Influence

1921 - 2007 (86 years)

Dr. Hasan Özbekhan was a Turkish American systems scientist, cyberneticist, philosopher and planner who was Professor Emeritus of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He applied the field-of-systems theory to global problems, helped inspire the group of planners, diplomats, scientists and academics who came together as the Club of Rome.

#6606

James Oliver Curwood

James Oliver Curwood

1878 - 1927 (49 years)

James Oliver Curwood was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson Bay area, the Yukon or Alaska and ranked among the top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early and mid 1920s, according to Publishers Weekly. At least one hundred and eighty motion pictures have been based on or directly inspired by his novels and short stories; one was produced in three versions from 1919 to 1953. At the time of his death, Curwood was the highest paid author in the world.

#6607

Jacob Birger Natvig

#89543

Overall Influence

1934 - 2021 (87 years)

Jacob Birger Natvig was a Norwegian physician, a pioneer in the field of immunology in Norway. Career Born in Oslo, Natvig graduated as cand.med. in 1959, and as dr.med. in 1966. He worked as physician at the Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, from 1967 to 1977, and was then appointed director of the hospital from 1978 to 1986. From 1986 to 2004 he was professor of immunology at the University of Oslo.

#6608

Jeanine Basinger

#7449

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Jeanine Basinger is an American film historian who retired in 2020 as the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, and Founder and Curator of The Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.

#6609

Funda Meric–bernstam

#104442

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#6610

Isidore S. Edelman

#104448

Overall Influence

#6611

Ira Black

#42212

Overall Influence

1941 - 2006 (65 years)

Ira Barrie Black was an American physician and neuroscientist who was an advocate of stem cell research and was the first director of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School which was created to advance research in the field.

#6612

János Apáczai Csere

János Apáczai Csere

1625 - 1659 (34 years)

János Apáczai Csere was a Transylvanian Hungarian polyglot, pedagogist, philosopher and theologian, famous for his work The Hungarian Encyclopedia, the first textbook to be written in Hungarian. The Encyclopædia Britannica calls him "the leading Protestant scholar and writer" of 17th-century Hungary.

#6613

Otto von Gierke

Otto von Gierke

1841 - 1921 (80 years)

Otto Friedrich von Gierke, born Otto Friedrich Gierke was a German legal scholar and historian. He is considered today as one of the most influential and important legal scholars of the 19th and 20th century. In his four-volume magnum opus entitled Das deutsche Genossenschaftsrecht , he pioneered the study of social groups and the importance of associations in German life, which stood between the divide of private and public law.

#6614

Donald Nixon Ross

#104476

Overall Influence

#6615

Maria Rosa Antognazza

#85742

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Maria Rosa Antognazza was an Italian-British philosopher who served as professor of philosophy at King's College London. Life and career Antognazza was educated at the Catholic University of Milan. She held research fellowships and visiting professorships in Italy, Germany, Israel, Great Britain, Switzerland, and the US. Among these were a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, a two-year Leverhulme Trust research fellowship, and in 2016 she was the Leibniz-Professor at the University of Leipzig. She held the 2019–2020 Mind Senior Research Fellowship for work on her book Thinking with Assen...

#6616

Hent de Vries

#75495

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Hendrik "Hent" de Vries Selected bibliography Books Chapters in books Journal articles

#6617

Ulf Landmesser

#54605

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Ulf Landmesser is a German specialist for cardiology and internal medicine. He is professor at the Institute for Health Research in Berlin and Head of the Medical Clinic of Cardiology at the Charité in Berlin. Landmesser is known for his work on coronary interventions and modern methods of catheter-based heart valve therapy.

#6618

Frank J Kelly

#90913

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Frank J. Kelly is a British professor of community health and policy and Head of the Environmental Research Group at Imperial College London. He is an authority on the medical effects of air pollution.

#6619

Ananta Charan Sukla

Ananta Charan Sukla

#31261

Overall Influence

1942 - 2020 (78 years)

Ananta Charan Sukla was an Indian scholar of comparative literature, literary criticism, aesthetics, philosophy, and art history. He was the Founding Editor of Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics and edited and published the journal for over 40 years. He specialized in comparative aesthetics , literary theory, philosophy of art, philosophy of literature, religion, mythology, and cultural studies. He was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha.

#6620

Erica Benner

#67786

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Erica Benner is a political philosopher who has held academic posts at St Antony's College, Oxford, the London School of Economics and Yale University. She was awarded a DPhil by Oxford in 1993. She is the author of the books Really Existing Nationalisms , Machiavelli's Ethics , Machiavelli's Prince: A New Reading and Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom . Be Like the Fox was described by Terry Eagleton as "lively, compulsively readable biography", chosen by Julian Baggini as one of his picks for The Guardian's best books of 2017 list, and shortlisted for the 2018 Elizabe...

#6621

Hermann Rauhe

#35210

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Hermann Rauhe is a German musicologist. Life Rauhe was born in Wanna/Niederelbe. After he passed the Abitur at the in Cuxhaven in 1949, he studied music and music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg as well as musicology and literary criticism, pedagogy, philosophy, sociology, theology and phonetics at the University of Hamburg from 1951 to 1959. In 1955 he passed the First State Examination for the teaching profession at grammar schools with the combined subject music and German teaching. In 1959 he passed the Second State Examination and then the doctorate of philoso...

#6622

Olga Freidenberg

1890 - 1955 (65 years)

Olga Freidenberg was a Russian and Soviet classical philologist, one of the pioneers of cultural studies in Russia. She is also known as the cousin of the famous writer Boris Pasternak; their correspondence has been published and studied.

#6623

José-Alain Sahel

#65468

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

José-Alain Sahel is a French ophthalmologist and scientist. He is currently the chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, director of the UPMC Eye Center, and the Eye and Ear Foundation Chair of Ophthalmology. Dr. Sahel previously led the Vision Institute in Paris, a research center associated with the one of the oldest eye hospitals of Europe - Quinze-Vingts National Eye Hospital in Paris, founded in 1260. He is a pioneer in the field of artificial retina and eye regenerative therapies. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

#6624

Mashallah ibn Athari

Mashallah ibn Athari

740 - 815 (75 years)

Māshāʾallāh ibn Atharī , known as Mashallah, was an 8th century Persian Jewish astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician. Originally from Khorasan, he lived in Basra during the reigns of the Abbasid caliphs al-Manṣūr and al-Ma’mūn, and was among those who introduced astrology and astronomy to Baghdad. The bibliographer ibn al-Nadim described Mashallah "as virtuous and in his time a leader in the science of jurisprudence, i.e. the science of judgments of the stars". Mashallah served as a court astrologer for the Abbasid caliphate and wrote works on astrology in Arabic. Some Latin translations ...

#6625

Michael John Davies

#104600

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#6626

Klaus Mainzer

#25316

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Klaus Mainzer is a German philosopher and scientist. Mainzer is the president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the author of the widely translated, cited, and reviewed book Thinking in Complexity.

#6627

Wolf W. Zuelzer

1909 - 1987 (78 years)

Wolf William Zuelzer was a German-American pediatric pathologist. He worked at the Children's Hospital of Michigan for 35 years, where he oversaw a large amount of pediatric research, particularly in the field of hematology. He received the John Howland Award in 1985.

#6628

Andrew Baxter

1687 - 1750 (63 years)

Andrew Baxter was a Scottish metaphysician. Life Baxter was educated at King's College, University of Aberdeen. He maintained himself by acting as tutor to noblemen's sons. From 1741 to 1747 he lived with Lord Blantyre and Mr Hay of Drummelzier at Utrecht, and made excursions in Flanders, France and Germany. Returning to Scotland, he lived at Whittingehame, near Edinburgh, until his death in 1750. At Spa he had met John Wilkes, then twenty years old, and formed a lasting friendship with him.

#6629

Alexander Gerard

1728 - 1795 (67 years)

Alexander Gerard FRSE was a Scottish minister, academic and philosophical writer. In 1764 he was the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Life He was born on 22 February 1728, the son of Gilbert Gerard , at the manse in Garioch in Aberdeenshire. He attended Foveran Parish School then Aberdeen Grammar School.

#6630

Gary Hatfield

#93917

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Gary Carl Hatfield is an American philosopher and Adam Seybert Professor in Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a specialist in the history of modern philosophy up to Kant, as well as philosophy of mind.

#6631

Julie Kristeva

#104693

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#6632

Henk Braakhuis

#88887

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Henricus Antonius Giovanni "Henk" Braakhuis is a Dutch historian of philosophy. He was a professor of history of medieval philosophy at the Radboud University Nijmegen. His 1979 dissertation was titled: "Syncategoremata". Braakhuis was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1990. In 2002 Braakhuis became interim director of the Constantijn Huygens Institute.

#6633

Walter Boron

#28795

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Walter F. Boron is an American scientist and the 72nd president of the American Physiological Society . He was Secretary-General of the International Union of Physiological Sciences. Additionally, Boron is co-editor, along with Emile L. Boulpaep, of the textbook Medical Physiology and Concise Medical Physiology. He is a former editor-in-chief of two leading physiology journals, Physiological Reviews and Physiology.

#6634

Albína Dratvová

1892 - 1969 (77 years)

Albína Dratvová was a Czech philosopher, associate professor of philosophy at Charles University, one of the first few women to be habilitated during the First Czechoslovak Republic. She devoted herself to natural philosophy and methodology, the relationship between natural sciences and positivism. She also contributed significantly with her positions to the emancipation movement of modern women.

#6635

Oleg Khoma

#66235

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Oleg Khoma is Ukrainian translator and historian of European philosophy. His research focus is on 17th- and 20th-century French philosophy, particularly Blaise Pascal, Rene Descartes and Nicolas Malebranche.

#6636

Alfred Sorensen

1890 - 1984 (94 years)

Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen , also known as Sunyata, Shunya, or Sunyabhai, was a Danish mystic, horticulturist and writer who lived in Europe, India and the US. Early life and background Alfred Sorensen was the son of peasant farmer near Aarhus in central Denmark. His formal education ended after the family sold their farm when Sorensen was 14 years old. Sorensen then worked as a gardener on estates in France, Italy and finally England.

#6637

Marthe Gautier

#5555

Overall Influence

1925 - 2022 (97 years)

Marthe Gautier was a French medical doctor and researcher, best known for her role in discovering the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities. Education Marthe Gautier discovered a vocation for pediatrics at an early age. In 1942 she joined her sister Paulette who was about to complete her medical studies in Paris intending to become a pediatrician. She passed the entrance exam of the "Internat des hôpitaux de Paris" and spent the next four years as an intern gaining clinical experience in pediatrics.

#6638

Alfred Caldecott

Alfred Caldecott

1850 - 1936 (86 years)

Alfred Caldecott was an English philosopher. Early life Caldecott was born at Challoner House, Crook Street, Chester. His father, John Caldecott, was an accountant, twice married with 13 children. Caldecott was his sixth child by his first wife Mary Dinah . His older brother Randolph was an English artist and illustrator. In 1860 the family moved to 23 Richmond Place at Boughton, Cheshire just outside Chester. He spent the last five years of his schooling at The King's School, Chester.

#6639

Johann Gottlieb Buhle

1763 - 1821 (58 years)

Johann Gottlieb Buhle , German scholar and philosopher, was born at Brunswick and educated at Göttingen. He became professor of philosophy at Göttingen, Moscow , and Brunswick. Of his numerous publications, the most important are the Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie und einer kritischen Literatur derselben , and Geschichte der neuern Philosophie seit der Epoche der Wiederherstellung der Wissenschaften . The latter, elaborate and well written, is lacking in critical appreciation and proportion; there are French and Italian translations. He edited Aratus and part of Aristotle .

#6640

Guido Reifenberger

#104802

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#6641

Georg Erhard Hamberger

Georg Erhard Hamberger

1697 - 1755 (58 years)

Georg Erhard Hamberger was a German professor of medicine, surgery, and botany. Biography Hamberger was born in Jena, and received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Jena in 1721. He studied the physiology of respiration, especially with respect to breathing. He authored a textbook on physiology, covering the thorax muscles, intercostal muscles, and pleural sac. He also studied the reaction of camphor and nitric acid. His writings included the study of gravitation and the ascension of gases.

#6642

William Robert Barclay

#104834

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#6643

Andrea Natale

#52290

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Andrea Natale is an Italian-born American cardiologist and electrophysiologist, i.e. a heart rhythm specialist. Natale is known for his work in atrial fibrillation ablation, and he is currently the executive director at the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute.

#6644

Todd Dufresne

#35635

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Todd Dufresne is a Canadian social and cultural theorist best known for his work on Sigmund Freud and the history of psychoanalysis. He is Professor of Philosophy at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

#6645

Nasrollah Hekmat

#18414

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Nasrollah Hekmat is an Iranian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the Shahid Beheshti University. He first went to hawza and got the highest degree of Islamic studies. But in 1980, he came out from hawza and began to study philosophy. Finally, in 1994 Hekmat got his Ph.D. in Western Philosophy.

#6646

Aristo of Chios

300 BC - 300 BC (0 years)

Aristo of Chios , also spelled Ariston, was a Greek Stoic philosopher and colleague of Zeno of Citium. He outlined a system of Stoic philosophy that was, in many ways, closer to earlier Cynic philosophy. He rejected the logical and physical sides of philosophy endorsed by Zeno and emphasized ethics. Although agreeing with Zeno that Virtue was the supreme good, he rejected the idea that morally indifferent things such as health and wealth could be ranked according to whether they are naturally preferred. An important philosopher in his day, his views were eventually marginalized by Zeno's succe...

#6647

Stuart Kornfeld

#69892

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Stuart Arthur Kornfeld is a professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and researcher in glycobiology. Early life and education Kornfeld was born in St. Louis on October 4, 1936 to Ruth and Max Kornfeld. He graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1954. He received his A.B. in 1958 from Dartmouth College and his MD in 1962 from Washington University School of Medicine. In 1959, he married Rosalind Hauk, a PhD student at Washington University.

#6648

Joseph C. Pitt

#102735

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Joseph C. Pitt is an American Pragmatist, philosopher of science and technology who works at Virginia Tech in the Departments of Philosophy and Science and Technology in Society. He is a past editor-in-chief of Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology and the former editor of Perspectives on Science. He was founding director of the Center for Science Studies at Virginia Tech, which is now the Department of Science, Technology, and Society. He is a foundational figure in philosophy of technology and a past president of the Society for Philosophy and Technology.

#6649

Elad Levy

#33818

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Elad I. Levy is an American neurosurgeon, researcher, and innovator who played a major role in the development and testing of thrombectomy, which improved quality of life and survival of stroke patients. He has focused his career and research on developing evidence based medicine and literature showing the benefits of thrombectomy for the treatment of stroke. He is currently Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology, and the L. Nelson Hopkins, MD Professor Endowed Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the State University of New York at Buffalo .

#6650

Rudolph Nissen

1896 - 1981 (85 years)

Rudolph Nissen was a German surgeon who chaired surgery departments in Turkey, the United States and Switzerland. The Nissen fundoplication, a surgical procedure for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease, is named after him.

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