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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#7951

Robert F. Siliciano

#39900

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Robert F. Siliciano is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Siliciano has a joint appointment in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins. Siliciano researches the mechanisms by which the human immunodeficiency virus remains latent in the human body.

#7952

Parviz Tanavoli

Parviz Tanavoli

#11347

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Parviz Tanavoli is an Iranian sculptor, painter, educator, and art historian. He is a pioneer within the Saqqakhaneh school, a neo-traditionalist art movement. Tanavoli has been one of the most expensive Iranian artists in sales. Tanavoli series of sculpture work are displayed in prestigious museums and public places, such as the British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hamline University, Aga Khan Museum, and as public art in the city of Vancouver. Additionally Tanavoli has written extensively on this history of Persian art and Persian crafts. Since 1989, Tanavoli has held dual nationali...

#7953

Jeffrey Shaman

#117776

Overall Influence

Jeffrey Shaman is an American climatologist and infectious disease specialist known for his modeling of COVID-19. He is a professor of environmental health sciences in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He was named interim dean of the Columbia Climate School in 2023.

#7954

Ernest Mathijs

#21369

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Ernest Mathijs is a professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches film. He has published several books on cult films. Career According to CTV News, his "specialties include movie audiences, the reception of alternative cinema and cult film." Mathijs is primarily known for his books on cult films, such as The Cult Film Reader and 100 Cult Films, which he co-edited and co-wrote, respectively, with Xavier Mendik; Cult Cinema, which he co-wrote with Jamie Sexton; The Cinema of David Cronenberg: From Baron of Blood to Cultural Hero and John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps. With Sexto...

#7955

L. Ennart Juhlin

#117933

Overall Influence

#7956

Lewis K. Dahl

#117944

Overall Influence

#7957

Thomas Hamilton

1789 - 1842 (53 years)

Thomas Hamilton was a Scottish soldier and author. Life He was born in Pisa, Tuscany, the second son of William Hamilton , professor of anatomy and botany at Glasgow. He was the younger brother of metaphysician Sir William Hamilton . Their father died a few months after Thomas was born.

#7958

Pavel Hamet

#95659

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Pavel Hamet is a doctor, researcher, editor, administrator and teacher in Quebec. Working in the medical field, he is the Canada Research Chair in Predictive Genomics of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Montreal, Adjunct Professor of Experimental Medicine at McGill University, and visiting professor at the First Faculty of Medicine at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. He is currently Chief of Gene Medicine and member of the Endocrinology Services at the University of Montreal's Research Centre . He was designated president of the International Society of Pathophysiology from 2010 to 2014.

#7959

Clive Kearon

#117980

Overall Influence

#7960

Realdo Colombo

1516 - 1559 (43 years)

Matteo Realdo Colombo was an Italian professor of anatomy and a surgeon at the University of Padua between 1544 and 1559. Early life and education Matteo Realdo Colombo or Realdus Columbus, was born in Cremona, Lombardy, the son of an apothecary named Antonio Colombo. Although little is known about his early life, it is known he took his undergraduate education in Milan, where he studied philosophy, and he appears to have pursued his father's profession for a short while afterwards. He left the apothecary's life and apprenticed to the surgeon Giovanni Antonio Lonigo, under whom he studied for 7 years.

#7961

Dirk Joan Gouma

#117986

Overall Influence

#7962

Nicholas L. Tilney

#117988

Overall Influence

#7963

Dan Gillmor

#11434

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Dan Gillmor is an American technology writer and columnist. He is director of News Co/Lab, an initiative to elevate news literacy and awareness, at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Dan Gillmor is also in the board of directors of The Signals Network, a non-profit organization supporting whistleblowers.

#7964

Marcella Nunez-Smith

#11165

Overall Influence

Marcella Nunez-Smith is an American physician-scientist. She is C.N.H Long Professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, where she serves as the inaugural Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and founding director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center. She also holds joint appointments at the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale School of Management. After co-chairing the Biden-Harris transition’s COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021, she was selected by President Joe Biden to serve as Senior Advisor to the White House COVID-19 Re...

#7965

Damon Young

#76198

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Damon Young is an Australian philosopher, writer and commentator, and author of the books Distraction, Philosophy in the Garden and How to Think About Exercise. He is an Honorary Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne.

#7966

Stephen F. Lowry

#118012

Overall Influence

#7967

Clarence J. Jr. Gibbs

#118033

Overall Influence

#7968

Ángel Carracedo

Ángel Carracedo

#118039

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

#7969

Oluf L. Gamborg

#118070

Overall Influence

#7970

Mir Shamsuddin Adib-Soltani

Mir Shamsuddin Adib-Soltani

1310 - Present (716 years)

Mir Shamsuddin Adib-Soltani was an Iranian philosopher, clinical psychiatrist, and translator. He is known for translating some classic philosophical works into Persian. Adib-Soltani was a winner of Farabi International Award. Adib-Soltani died on 12 October 2023, at the age of 92.

#7971

J. C. M. Hanson

J. C. M. Hanson

1864 - 1943 (79 years)

James Christian Meinich Hanson was a Norwegian born, American librarian. Background Jens Christian Meinich Hanson, now known as J. C. M. Hanson, was born on March 13, 1864, in Oppland, Norway, in the Nordre Aurdal district at Sørheim. He was the sixth child and second son of Gunnerius "Gunnar" and Eleonore Adamine Hansen. His first name was initially Jens, but in America, his playmates called him Jim, which was then turned into James, a change that he subsequently used. The change in the spelling of his name was incremental and inconsistent, but by 1897 he'd adopted the signature "J. C. M. Hanson" that he is known by today.

#7972

David. M. Nagorney

#118082

Overall Influence

#7973

John Formosa

1869 - 1941 (72 years)

John Formosa was a Maltese theologian, canonist, minor philosopher, and poet. In philosophy he mostly specialised in metaphysics. Life Formosa was born in Cospicua, Malta, on March 22, 1869. He studied at the University of Malta and at other universities abroad. These studies made him Doctor of Theology and Doctor of Canon Law. He was ordained a priest in 1893. He was also a Canon of the bishop’s Cathedral Chapter at Mdina. He died on March 29, 1941, at 72 years of age.

#7974

Torgny H. Svensson

#118091

Overall Influence

#7975

Gordon Lee Snider

#118095

Overall Influence

#7976

Jessica Pierce

#89886

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Jessica Pierce is an American bioethicist, philosopher, and writer. She currently has a loose affiliation with the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Denver, but is mostly independent, focussing on writing. Early in her career, her research primarily addressed ethical questions about healthcare and the environment. Since the 2000s, however, much of her work has focused on animal ethics. She has published twelve books, including multiple collaborations with the ecologist Marc Bekoff.

#7977

Guido Noel Jozef Tytgat

#118109

Overall Influence

#7978

Werner Neumann

#37444

Overall Influence

1905 - 1991 (86 years)

Werner Neumann was a German musicologist. He founded the Bach-Archiv Leipzig on 20 November 1950 and was a principal editor of the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second edition of the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

#7979

Santorio Santorio

Santorio Santorio

1561 - 1636 (75 years)

Santorio Santorio whose real name was Santorio Santori better known in English as Sanctorius of Padua was an Italian physiologist, physician, and professor, who introduced the quantitative approach into the life sciences and is considered the father of modern quantitative experimentation in medicine. He is also known as the inventor of several medical devices. His work De Statica Medicina, written in 1614, saw many publications and influenced generations of physicians.

#7980

David Butler Hoyt

#118131

Overall Influence

#7981

Anne Fagot-Largeault

#52892

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Anne Fagot-Largeault, born on September 22, 1938, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, is a French philosopher, honorary professor at the Collège de France , psychiatrist at the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, and a member of the French Academy of sciences since 2002.

#7982

Wylie Burke

#64004

Overall Influence

Wylie Burke is a Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington and a founding co-director of the Northwest-Alaska Pharmacogenomics Research Network, which partners with underserved populations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

#7983

John A. Mannick

#7984

Martha S. Linet

#93490

Overall Influence

Martha S. Linet is an American physician epidemiologist. She is a scientist emerita at the National Cancer Institute . Linet retired in January 2020 after 33 years at NCI. She was a senior investigator and branch chief in the NCI radiation epidemiology branch. Linet specialized in epidemiology, the etiology of pediatric and adult leukemia, lymphoma, and brain tumors, as well as the health effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and benzene exposure.

#7985

Christopher I. Shaffrey

#118174

Overall Influence

#7986

Russell W. Chesney

#7987

W. R. Wayne Martin

#118205

Overall Influence

#7988

Hideoki Ogawa

#118209

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

#7989

Nicholas Agar

#61192

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Nicholas Agar is a New Zealand professor of ethics at the University of Waikato. Agar has a BA from the University of Auckland, an MA from the Victoria University of Wellington, and a PhD from the Australian National University. He has been teaching at Victoria since 1996.

#7990

Beverly Wildung Harrison

#71064

Overall Influence

1932 - 2012 (80 years)

Beverly Jean Wildung Harrison was an American Presbyterian feminist theologian whose work was foundational for the field of feminist Christian ethics. She taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York City for 32 years.

#7991

Avraham Rivkind

#61626

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Avraham "Avi" Rivkind is an Israeli physician and surgeon. He is head of the department of general surgery and the trauma unit of Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Karem, Jerusalem. Biography Avraham Rivkind was born in 1949 and served in the Israel Defense Forces from 1967 to 1970. He completed his pre-medical studies at the University of Siena in Italy and received his doctorate in medicine from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1980. Dr. Rivkind has been a pioneer in using cell phone and computer technology to provide important information about a patient to the medical personnel even be...

#7992

Björn Dahlöf

#118229

Overall Influence

#7993

Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld

1742 - 1792 (50 years)

Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld was a German Enlightenment gardening theorist, academic in philosophy and art history in the service of Denmark and a writer, notable for several books. He advocated for sensitive Romantic gardens in the English landscape style.

#7994

Reidar Fauske Sognnaes

1911 - 1984 (73 years)

Reidar Sognnaes was Dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, founding Dean of the UCLA School of Dentistry and scholar in the field of oral pathology. Biography Reidar Fauske Sognnaes was born in Bergen, Norway. Sognnæs grew up in Bergen and took his final exams at Tanks gymnas in 1931. He took the first part of dental education in Leipzig, and concluded with an examination at the Norwegian Dental School in 1936. He participated in a Norwegian scientific expedition to Tristan da Cunha during 1937-38. Sognnaes came to America in 1938 as an intern at the Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children in Boston.

#7995

Ralph Strode

#76112

Overall Influence

Ralph Strode , English schoolman, and putative poet, was probably a native of the West Midlands. He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, before 1360, and famous as a teacher of logic and philosophy and a writer on educational subjects. He belonged, like Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, to that "School of the Middle" which mediated between realistss and nominalists.

#7996

Olivier Rascol

#118253

Overall Influence

#7997

Harry L. A. Janssen

#118259

Overall Influence

#7998

Ramakrishna R. Nemani

#118263

Overall Influence

#7999

Gregory Pence

#64313

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Gregory E. Pence is an American philosopher. Biography He graduated cum laude with a B.A. from William and Mary and a Ph.D. from New York University, writing under visiting Australian bioethicist Peter Singer. Professor Pence taught a required course in bioethics for thirty-four years to 165 medical students at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. In 2006, Samford University awarded him a Pellegrino Medal for achievement in medical ethics. In 2011, he switched from teaching in the medical school to chairing the UAB Department of Philosophy, which he did from 2012 to 2018, after which he continued to be a professor in the department.

#8000

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

1884 - 1980 (96 years)

Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth was an American writer and socialite. She was the eldest child of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt and his only child with his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt. Longworth led an unconventional and controversial life. Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth III, a Republican Party leader and 38th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shaky, and her only child, Paulina, was from her affair with Senator William Borah.

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