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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#7851

Robert J. Heine

#116899

Overall Influence

#7852

Anna Dominiczak

#87626

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Dame Anna Felicja Dominiczak DBE FRCP FRSE FAHA FMedSci is a Polish-born British medical researcher, Regius Professor of Medicine - the first woman to hold this position, and the Chief Scientist for the Scottish Government. From 2010 to 2020, Dominiczak was the Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She is an Honourary Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist for the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board, and Health Innovation Champion for the Medical Research Council. From 2013 to 2015, Dominiczak was president of the European Society of Hypertension.

#7853

Marco Pahor

#116954

Overall Influence

#7854

Elena Topuridze

#102930

Overall Influence

1922 - 2004 (82 years)

Elena Topuridze was a prominent Georgian philosopher and writer. Born in Batumi, Georgia, her family moved to Tbilisi during her childhood. In 1945, she graduated from the faculty of philosophy of the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. As a postgraduate student, Topuridze studied at the Institute of History of Art of Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in Moscow. In 1951, she returned to Tbilisi and took a position of professor at the Shota Rustaveli Theatrical Institute of Georgia. From 1961 to the end of her life she worked at S. Tsereteli Institute of Philosophy of Georgian National Ac...

#7855

Per‐anders Mårdh

#116966

Overall Influence

#7856

Lawrence H. Kushi

#116972

Overall Influence

#7857

Constantijn Huygens

Constantijn Huygens

1596 - 1687 (91 years)

Sir Constantijn Huygens, Lord of Zuilichem , was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. He was also secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and William II, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens.

#7858

Constantin E. Orfanos

#116980

Overall Influence

#7859

Giovanni Rezza

#116991

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

#7860

Richard Phillip Dellinger

#117003

Overall Influence

#7861

Andrea Lenzi

#117015

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

#7862

George Jardine

1742 - 1827 (85 years)

Rev George Jardine FRSE was a Scottish minister of religion, philosopher, academic and educator. He was Professor at the University of Glasgow, of Greek from 1774, and then Professor of Logic and Rhetoric 1787 to 1824. He was a co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783 and co-founder of Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1792.

#7863

Joseph Gilbert Hamilton

Joseph Gilbert Hamilton

1907 - 1957 (50 years)

Joseph Gilbert Hamilton was an American professor of Medical Physics, Experimental Medicine, General Medicine, and Experimental Radiology as well as director of the Crocker Laboratory, part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Hamilton studied the medical effects of exposure to radioactive isotopes, which included the use of unsuspecting human subjects.

#7864

Troy Jollimore

#78305

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Troy Jollimore is a poet, philosopher, and literary critic. Career and education Troy Jollimore was born in 1971 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and attended the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University in 1999, under the direction of Harry Frankfurt and Gilbert Harman. He has lived in the U.S. since 1993 and is currently Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Chico. He has been an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center , the Stanley P. Young Fellow in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Confe...

#7865

Lester Breslow

#117081

Overall Influence

#7866

Kanta Subbarao

#99409

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Kanta Subbarao is an Indian virologist, molecular geneticist, and physician-scientist. She is director of the World Health Organization collaborating centre for reference and research on influenza. Subbarao is also a professor at the Doherty Institute.

#7867

Margaret R. Spitz

#117123

Overall Influence

#7868

John Elefteriades

#68179

Overall Influence

John Alex Elefteriades is a medical doctor and cardiac surgeon. He is the William W. L. Glenn Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital. He serves as the Director of the Yale Center for Thoracic Aortic Disease.

#7869

Gerd Prof. Dr. Dr. Geißlinger

#117135

Overall Influence

#7870

Michail Papageorgiou

1727 - 1796 (69 years)

Michail Papageorgiou was a Greek philosopher. He was born in Siatista in 1727. He studied philosophy in the Maroutsaia School of Ioannina under Eugenios Voulgaris. Later he visited Germany where he studied philosophy and medicine. He taught in his birthplace Siatista, and also in Selitsa, Meleniko, Vienna and Budapest. He died in Vienna on 1796.

#7871

Lars Bergström

#79051

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Lars Bergström is a Swedish philosopher and professor of practical philosophy at Stockholm University. Biography Bergström received his PhD in 1966. His dissertation The Alternatives and Consequences of Actions attracted considerable international attention and sparked a lively and extensive discussion in professional philosophical journals. He served as a professor of practical philosophy at the University of Uppsala from 1974 until 1987, when he assumed his current position as a professor of practical philosophy at Stockholms University.

#7872

Kyuya Kogure

#117184

Overall Influence

#7873

Togas Tulandi

#117185

Overall Influence

#7874

Ronald G. Tompkins

#62021

Overall Influence

1951 - 2022 (71 years)

Ronald G. Tompkins was an American physician and academic. He served as Sumner M. Redstone Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and chief of Surgery, Science and Bioengineering at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Division of Surgery. He was also the founding director of The Institute for Bioengineering and Biotechnology and of the Center for Engineering in Medicine & Surgery at MGH.

#7875

Jerome Segal

#69661

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Jerome Michael Segal is an American philosopher, political activist, and perennial candidate who resides in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was the founder of the socialist Bread and Roses Party, which achieved ballot access in Maryland, and which Segal ran from 2018 to 2021.

#7876

G. N. Devy

#24805

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Ganesh Narayandas Devy is an Indian cultural activist, literary critic and former professor of English. He is known for the People's Linguistic Survey of India and the Adivasi Academy created by him. He is credited with starting the Bhaashaa research and Publication Centre. He writes in three languages—Marathi, Gujarati and English. His first full-length book in English is After Amnesia . He has written and edited close to ninety books in areas including Literary Criticism, Anthropology, Education, Linguistics and Philosophy.

#7877

Leonard M. Fleck

#102885

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Leonard Michael Fleck is an American philosophy professor and medical ethicist. He earned his Ph.D. from St. Louis University in 1975 and taught courses at St. Mary's College before going on to teach and at Michigan State University where he currently holds a dual appointment with the philosophy department and the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences. Fleck was also a member of Hillary Clinton's Task Force on Health Reform in 1993 and the staff ethicist for the Michigan governor's task force on access to health care in 1989-1990.

#7878

Melvin Chris Fitting

#117246

Overall Influence

#7879

Dr David G. Shand

#117253

Overall Influence

#7880

Leslie Greengard

#13245

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Leslie Frederick Greengard is an American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist. He is co-inventor with Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. of the fast multipole method in 1987, recognized as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century.

#7881

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.

#7882

Henry A. Pitt

#117270

Overall Influence

#7883

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 .

#7884

Richard R. Facklam

#117285

Overall Influence

#7885

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.

#7886

Swami Satprakashananda

1888 - 1979 (91 years)

Swami Satprakashananda was an Indian philosopher, monk of the Ramakrishna Order, and religious teacher. Biography Swami Satprakashananda was born in Dhaka in April 1888 in what has been described as a "pious Hindu family". His premonastic name was Harish, and his father died when he was young. Harish joined the Ramakrishna Order in 1924 in Dhaka after postgraduate work at the University of Calcutta. He had been initiated by Swami Brahmananda in 1908, later receiving monastic orders from Swami Shivananda in 1927. Satprakashananda served for a time as an associate editor of Prabuddha Bharata...

#7887

Dick Menzies

#117311

Overall Influence

#7888

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.

#7889

Harvey M. Golomb

#117351

Overall Influence

#7890

Kenneth L. Melmon

#7891

Monty S. Losowsky

#117373

Overall Influence

#7892

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.

#7893

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...

#7894

Stephen M. Prescott

#117396

Overall Influence

#7895

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.

#7896

David J. Loskutoff

#117420

Overall Influence

#7897

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.

#7898

Joseé E. Leysen

#7899

Antonin Poncet

1849 - 1913 (64 years)

Antonin Poncet was a French surgeon. Son of Jean Joseph Poncet and Catherine Jeanne Chabalier, he was inspired by his grandfather Jean-Pierre Antoine Chabalier, surgeon in the Imperial Army. He studied medicine in Lyon, where he served as interne des hôpitaux. He was a member of the Lyon ambulance corps during the Franco-Prussian War, and in 1878 became a member of the surgical section of the Lyon faculty of medicine. In 1883 he attained the chair of operative medicine in Lyon.

#7900

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.

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