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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#7101

James H. Moller

#138404

Overall Influence

#7102

Yngve T. Falck‐ytter

#138406

Overall Influence

#7103

Haile Debas

#12263

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Haile Debas is an Eritrean physician and academic administrator at the University of California, San Francisco. Life Haile T. Debas was born in Asmara, Eritrea, in 1937. Following undergraduate training at University College of Addis Ababa, he received his M.D. from McGill University in 1963, and completed his surgical training at the University of British Columbia. His postgraduate training included a year as a research fellow at the University of Glasgow/Western Infirmary in Scotland, and two years at UCLA as a Medical Research Council Scholar in gastrointestinal physiology.

#7104

Danilo Fliser

#138409

Overall Influence

#7105

Luke Bretherton

#75105

Overall Influence

Luke Bretherton is a London born, British author and theologian. His work addresses contemporary moral and political questions, particularly as these relate to the relationship between religion and democracy. He is currently Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Professor of Moral and Political Theology at Duke University in North Carolina . Previously he taught at King’s College London and St Augustine’s College . Alongside his scholarly work, he writes in the media on topics related to religion and politics, has worked with a variety of faith-based NGOs and churches around the world, and is actively involved in forms of grassroots democratic politics, both in the UK and the US.

#7106

Irvin Mark Modlin

#138416

Overall Influence

#7107

Alan Solomon

#138418

Overall Influence

#7108

K. N. Udupa

#59556

Overall Influence

Kodethur Narasimha Udupa was an Indian surgeon, medical administrator, a pioneer of integrative medicine and the founder director of the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University . Born in Udupi in the South Indian state of Karnataka, His father was Tamayya Udupa scholar in Sanskrit and Jyotish belonging to Shivalli brahmin community. He passed his bachelor's degree in Ayurvedic Medicine from Banares Hindu University, secured his master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1948 and passed FRCS examination from Canada.

#7109

Kwang‐hyub Han

#138460

Overall Influence

#7110

Mona Nemer

#31434

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Mona Nemer, is a Lebanese-Canadian scientist specializing in molecular genetics and cardiac regeneration. She was formerly a professor of pharmacology at the University of Montreal and the Director of the Cardiac Development Research Unit at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal where she held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Cell Differentiation. She is a professor of biochemistry at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine, and also served as Vice-President, Research at the University of Ottawa from 2006 to 2017.

#7111

Thomas A. Mustoe

#138473

Overall Influence

#7112

Peter Tippett

#25607

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Peter S. Tippett is an American physician, researcher, and inventor known for contributions to information security, clinical medicine, and technology. These contributions include the development of the anti-virus program "Corporate Vaccine". Tippett was Vice President of Verizon's Innovations Incubator and Chief Medical Officer for Verizon Enterprise Services from 2009 to 2015. He is currently the Founder and CEO of careMESH Inc.

#7113

Fiona Gilbert

#22575

Overall Influence

Fiona Jane Gilbert is a Scottish radiologist and academic. Background Gilbert graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1978. She trained in Radiology in Aberdeen, and became a consultant radiologist in 1989, then appointed Roland Sutton Professor of Radiology at the University of Aberdeen in 1996. She was assigned the role of professor of radiology and head of the Department of Radiology at University of Cambridge in 2011, where she now leads a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine in various fields of radiology. Prior to this she was head of t...

#7114

Constantine D. Mavroudis

#138477

Overall Influence

#7115

Mike Bartlett

#18269

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Michael Bartlett is an English playwright and screenwriter for film and TV series. His 2015 psychological thriller TV series, Doctor Foster, starring Suranne Jones, won the New Drama award from National Television Awards. Bartlett also won Best Writer from the Broadcast Press Guild Awards. A BBC TV Film of Bartlett's play King Charles III was broadcast in May 2017 and while critically acclaimed, generated some controversy.

#7116

Herbert H. Schaumburg

#138483

Overall Influence

#7117

Eleanor Barnes

#126265

Overall Influence

Eleanor Barnes is a British physician at the John Radcliffe Hospital and a Professor of Hepatology and Experimental Medicine at the University of Oxford. She has studied hepatitis C and the development of the development of HCV vaccines. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and serves as the lead for hepatology at the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network.

#7118

Calvin J. Hobel

#138502

Overall Influence

#7119

John Paul Kampine

#138506

Overall Influence

#7120

Leif Mosekilde

#138550

Overall Influence

#7121

Frederick L. Grover

#138556

Overall Influence

#7122

James R. Wright

#138564

Overall Influence

#7123

Andrew J. Saxon

#138567

Overall Influence

#7124

Neil Norman Finer

#138601

Overall Influence

#7125

Nancy L. Ascher

#138616

Overall Influence

#7126

Larry E. Kun

#138622

Overall Influence

#7127

Neil R. Macintyre

#138639

Overall Influence

#7128

Roland John Wiley

#90047

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Roland John Wiley is an American musicologist, instructor and consultant whose main area of focus is on 19th-century Russian music and ballet. He has written a biography and critical study on the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and contributed the entry on the composer in the 2001 edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. His current project is a study of choreographer Marius Petipa.

#7129

Lasse Kanerva

#138671

Overall Influence

#7130

Allan Edward Gross

#138712

Overall Influence

#7131

Grant N. Stemmermann

#138730

Overall Influence

#7132

André Senik

#65960

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

André Senik , is a French associate professor of philosophy and former communist activist. Biography Senik was born to Polish Jewish parents in the Sentier neighbourhood of Paris in 1938. He later joined a number of political groups, including MAPAM, the Union of Republican Youth of France, and the Union of Communist Students . He studied philosophy at the Parisian lycée in Janson-de-Sailly, where he met Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond. He was also editor-in-chief of Clarté, the press organ of the UEC.

#7133

Manuel Casanova

Manuel Casanova

#48451

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Manuel F. Casanova is the SmartState Endowed Chair in Childhood Neurotherapeutics and a professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville. He is a former Gottfried and Gisela Kolb Endowed Chair in Outpatient Psychiatry and a Professor of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology at the University of Louisville.

#7134

Norman G. Levinsky

#138752

Overall Influence

#7135

Paul David Brown

#138753

Overall Influence

#7136

Emad El-Omar

#88646

Overall Influence

Emad Munir El-Omar is a British physician and gastroenterologist who chairs the department of medicine at the University of New South Wales and is the editor in chief of The BMJ's Gut academic journal.

#7137

Joel D. Meyers

#138764

Overall Influence

#7138

Hans Foerstl

#138770

Overall Influence

#7139

Lester Asheim

#52744

Overall Influence

1914 - 1997 (83 years)

Lester Eugene Asheim was an American librarian and scholar of library science and film history. He was on the faculty of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School and the University of North Carolina and held positions in the American Library Association . He was included among the "100 most important leaders we had in the 20th century" by the American Library Association.

#7140

Arnold Jacobshagen

#105521

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Arnold Jacobshagen is a German musicologist. He has been teaching at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln since 2006. Career Born in Marburg, Jacobshagen studied musicology, history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin , the University of Vienna and Paris as well as culture and media management at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". In 1996 he received his doctorate at the Free University. He then worked as a music dramaturg at the Staatstheater Mainz. He later held a scholarship at the German Historical Institute in Rome and at the . From 1997 to 2006 he worked as a research assistant at the Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater of the University of Bayreuth.

#7141

John Mueller Anderson

#101655

Overall Influence

1914 - 1999 (85 years)

John Mueller Anderson was an American philosopher. He was known for his expertise on post-Kantian philosophy, philosophy of art and logic. Anderson was Evan Pugh Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University.

#7142

Hanna Pickard

#113864

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Hanna Pickard is a philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, moral psychology, and medical ethics. She is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University with appointments in the William H. Miller III Department of Philosophy in the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Berman Institute of Bioethics.

#7143

Floyd C. Rector

#138855

Overall Influence

#7144

Edward F. Mooney

#77781

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Edward F. Mooney is an internationally recognized Kierkegaard scholar. A retired professor of religion and philosophy, he taught at Syracuse University, and in Israel at Haifa and Tel Aviv Universities. As president of the International Kierkegaard Society, he lectured at n Vilnia, Frankfurt, Reykjavik, Jerusalem, Ber-Shiva, Tel Aviv, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Auburn, and elsewhere. 2013–2015 he was visiting professor at Tel-Aviv and Hebrew University, Jerusalem, teaching seminars in American Studies on Thoreau. He received his B.A. in philosophy from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of California, Santa Barbara .

#7145

Andrew G. Frantz

#138864

Overall Influence

#7146

J. Hume Adams

#138867

Overall Influence

#7147

Paul Calabresi

#138873

Overall Influence

#7148

Dariusz Dudek

#138885

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

#7149

Michael E. Farkouh

#138920

Overall Influence

#7150

Yadunandana Swami

Yadunandana Swami

#87153

Overall Influence

Yadunandana Swami, Principal of Bhaktivedanta College, is the first Spanish second generation sannyasi of ISKCON. He was approved by ISKCON's GBC body, in February 2009, as an ISKCON sannyasa. He is one of the original developers of VTE courses and is currently an Executive Member of Governing Body Commission Ministry of Educational Development.

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