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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#8001

Lyn Chitty

#126685

Overall Influence

Dame Lyn Susan Chitty is a British physician and Professor of Genetics and Fetal Medicine at University College London. She is the deputy director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre. She is the 2022 president of the International Society for Prenatal Diagnosis. Her research considers non-invasive prenatal diagnostics. She was made a Dame in the 2022 New Year Honours.

#8002

Peter Ingwersen

#147523

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

#8003

Robyn Guymer

#114622

Overall Influence

Professor Robyn Guymer was awarded an Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship from the NHMRC, and works in ophthalmology at Melbourne University. Guymer is a senior retinal specialist within the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, and is the deputy director, Centre for Eye Research Australia. She works in age-related macular degeneration as a clinician, academic, and researcher, and has used nano-lasers to treat Age-related Macular Degeneration.

#8004

Michael Ristow

#53579

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Michael Ristow is a German medical researcher who has published influential articles on biochemical aspects of mitochondrial metabolism and particularly the possibly health-promoting role of reactive oxygen species in diseases like type 2 diabetes, obesity and cancer, as well as general aging due to a process called mitohormesis.

#8005

Prof. Peter Schwandt

#147569

Overall Influence

#8006

Stephen H. Miller

#147571

Overall Influence

#8007

Sven Schinner

#147578

Overall Influence

#8008

J. Avila Marrero

#147592

Overall Influence

#8009

Sigvard T. Hansen

#147602

Overall Influence

#8010

A. Mcgehee Harvey

#147607

Overall Influence

#8011

Shkëlzen Maliqi

#71535

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Shkëlzen Maliqi is a Kosovar philosopher, art critic, political analyst and intellectual. During the early 1990s, Shkelzen was also directly involved in politics. He was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Kosovo and served as its first president from 1991 to 1993. He also held leading positions in civil society organisations such as the Kosovo Civil Society Foundation and the Kosovo Helsinki Committee .

#8012

Jean‐claude Bystryn

#147633

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#8013

Roger Henriksson,

#147634

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#8014

John G. Hunter

#147636

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#8015

Robert Michael Kacmarek

#147646

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#8016

Carl‐gerhard Gottfries

#147648

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#8017

Jerzy W. Kupiec‐weglinski

#147659

Overall Influence

#8018

Daniel Heller-Roazen

#80740

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is one of the translators into English of work by Giorgio Agamben. He was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. His father was the historian of psychoanalysis, Paul Roazen.

#8019

Theoklis E. Zaoutis

#147695

Overall Influence

#8020

Jay R. Lieberman

#147712

Overall Influence

#8021

Bent Weeke

#147726

Overall Influence

#8022

Michelle Murphy

#63269

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Michelle Murphy is a Canadian academic. She is a professor of history and women and gender studies at the University of Toronto and director of the Technoscience Research Unit. Murphy is well known for her work on regimes of imperceptibility, the ways in which different forms of knowledge become visible or invisible in the scientific community and broader society. Murphy has published several books, including Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers which won the Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of S...

#8023

Henry Bugbee

#134351

Overall Influence

1915 - 1999 (84 years)

Henry Bugbee was an American philosopher and professor. In his writing he explored a strain of existentialist thought with a distinctive emphasis on wilderness. In his best known work, The Inward Morning: A Philosophical Exploration in Journal Form, Bugbee addresses the nature of consciousness and the meaning of place through reflections on his encounters with the natural world and his readings of past philosophers. Through these personal meditations, Bugbee presents a moving and urgent account of the way toward the integrated moral life.

#8024

Iris F. Litt

#97276

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Dr. Iris F Litt is a doctor, professor, and medical director that specializes in pediatrics and adolescent health. She has achieved multiple honors through her teaching and research in different areas of adolescent and pediatric health.

#8025

Paul D. Stolley

#147804

Overall Influence

#8026

Luis Felipe Fajardo

#147820

Overall Influence

#8027

Andrei Marga

#93438

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Andrei Marga is a Romanian philosopher, political scientist, and politician. Rector – for the second time – of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, he was a member of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party , serving as Minister of Education in the Democratic Convention coalition governments of Victor Ciorbea, Radu Vasile, and Mugur Isărescu . In January 2001, he replaced Ion Diaconescu as PNŢCD president, but resigned from this position in July 2001, amid political tensions within the party. He subsequently formed a new political party, more specifically the Popular Christian Party later during the same year.

#8028

Rafael Rubio

#147832

Overall Influence

#8029

Abdu Al Rahim Damavandi

#122018

Overall Influence

Molla Abdul Rahim Damavandi was an Iranian shia philosopher and one of the leading of Zahabiyyah Tarighah. Life He was the son of Muhammad Yunes Isfahani. He is believed to have come from the city of Damavand, and also resided in Karbala. His ancestors were from Damavand, Iran but his father went to Isfahan. Molla Abdul Al Rahim's education occurred in Isfahan, where he was a pupil of Muhammad Sadiq Ardestani. He mentioned the name of his teacher many times in the Hosseinian mysteries.

#8030

Gösta Gahrton

#147842

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

#8031

Nancy L. R. Bucher

#94597

Overall Influence

1913 - 2017 (104 years)

Nancy Leslie Rutherford Bucher was an American physician who was a pioneering scholar in the fields of liver cell regeneration and hepatocyte cultures. Bucher attended Bryn Mawr School and Bryn Mawr College, and was one of the first women to receive an MD degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

#8032

Rudolph Krejci

#49929

Overall Influence

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

Rudolph Krejci was a Czechoslovak-American philosopher and professor, who was the founder of the Philosophy and Humanities Programs at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and founder and first dean of the university's College of Arts and Sciences in 1975. In 1997, after 37 years at the university, Krejci became Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Humanities.

#8033

David Morritz De Kretser

#147861

Overall Influence

#8034

Dan G. Mcnamara

#147867

Overall Influence

#8035

Christopher John Gostout

#147874

Overall Influence

#8036

Józef Życiński

#38276

Overall Influence

1948 - 2011 (63 years)

Józef Mirosław Życiński was a Polish philosopher, publicist, the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Lublin and a Professor of the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Rome, Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow and Catholic University of Lublin.

#8037

Daniel Dhumeaux

#147887

Overall Influence

#8038

Cathie Martin

#52229

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Catherine Rosemary Martin is a Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of East Anglia and project leader at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, co-ordinating research into the relationship between diet and health and how crops can be fortified to improve diets and address escalating chronic disease globally.

#8039

Reza Ramezani Gilani

#75613

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Reza Ramezani is a Twelver Shia Muslim cleric with the religious Rank Ayatollah. He has been a member of the Expert Council in the Islamic Republic of Iran since 2006. From 2009 to August 2018, he was head and director of the Islamic Center Hamburg, the center of Shiite Islam in Germany. Before working in Hamburg, he headed the Islamic Center Imam Ali Vienna. He is the Secretary-General of the Ahl Al-Bayt World Assembly and the representative of Gilan in the Assembly of Experts. Between 2001 and 2005, he represented the Supreme Leader and the Friday Imams in Karaj.

#8040

Dick van Bekkum

#127362

Overall Influence

1925 - 2015 (90 years)

Dirk Willem "Dick" van Bekkum was a Dutch medical-radiobiologist. Van Bekkum was founder and head of the Radiobiological Institute of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research for thirty years. At Leiden University he was professor of experimental transplantation biology and at the Erasmus University Rotterdam he was professor of radiobiology. In the late 1960s he was one of the first to perform bone marrow transplants.

#8041

Pekka A. Saikku

#147914

Overall Influence

#8042

Sidney L. Goldfischer

#147944

Overall Influence

#8043

Kyung Soo Lee

#147949

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

#8044

Anis Ahmad

#50405

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Anis Ahmad is a Pakistani social scientist, an educationist, and professor of Islam. He is recipient of award, by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, awarded fellowship by the University Science Malaysia, also earned meritorious professorship at the International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. As first Vice-President of International Islamic University, Islamabad, he visualised and founded the Da’wah Academy of the I.I.U.I. He was the first Dean of the Faculty of Usul al-din and Faculty of Social Sciences of the IIU at Islamabad. He was first Dean of the Faculty of Islamic R...

#8045

Harald Ofstad

#126537

Overall Influence

1920 - 1994 (74 years)

Harald Frithjof Seiersted Ofstad was a Norwegian moral philosopher. He was Professor in Applied Philosophy at Stockholm University for more than 30 years. Born in Bergen, the youngest son of a high-ranking police officer, Ofstad passed the examen artium in 1939 and completed a degree in law in 1945 before changing to philosophy, which he studied under Arne Næss; he was part of the "Bergen group" and one of the most prominent exponents of Næss' "empirical semantics" approach. He became a cand. mag. in philosophy in 1946, studied in the United States at Yale University and other institutions as a Rockefeller Fellow in 1947–49, and was a University Fellow at the University of Oslo in 1949–54.

#8046

Carl W. Gottschalk

#95804

Overall Influence

1922 - 1997 (75 years)

Carl William Gottschalk was the Kenan Professor and Distinguished Research Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gottschalk made important discoveries about the function of the kidneys, and helped set government policies that provided dialysis to patients with kidney failure.

#8047

Irena Lasota

#61406

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Irena Lasota is a Polish philosopher, publicist, publisher, social and political activist, and president/co-director of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe. Lasota began her political activism as a student in Poland during the 1968 Polish political crisis, which pitted protesting students against the then-Communist government. Soon after the so called March events, Lasota would emigrate to the United States, eventually returning to Europe in the first half of the 1980s to settle down in France. Lasota is to this day a frequent commentator on Polish and American political affairs, an...

#8048

Herbert Johannes Pfister

#148036

Overall Influence

#8049

David A. Fiellin

#148040

Overall Influence

#8050

Paolo Barone

#148066

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

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