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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#8201

Hans‐jochen Heinze

#120153

Overall Influence

#8202

Vladimir Becić

1886 - 1954 (68 years)

Vladimir Becić was a Croatian painter, best known for his early work in Munich, which had a strong influence on the direction of modern art in Croatia. Becić studied painting in Munich at the prestigious Academy of Arts along with Oskar Herman, Miroslav Kraljević and Josip Račić. This group of Croatian artists are known as the Munich Circle or Munich Four, and are very important figures in Croatian art of the 20th century. After Munich, Becić spent 2 years studying and working in Paris before returning to Zagreb in 1910.

#8203

William Smellie

William Smellie

1740 - 1795 (55 years)

William Smellie was a Scottish printer who edited the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He was also a naturalist and antiquary. He was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, co-founder of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and a friend of Robert Burns.

#8204

Nancy J. Cox

#120168

Overall Influence

#8205

Allan Lucas

#120169

Overall Influence

#8206

János Szolcsányi

#120187

Overall Influence

#8207

Allan J. Collins

#120208

Overall Influence

#8208

Sidney J. Winawer

#120230

Overall Influence

#8209

Robert Holbrook Hawes

#120232

Overall Influence

#8210

Christiaan Eijkman

Christiaan Eijkman

1858 - 1930 (72 years)

Christiaan Eijkman was a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins . Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins.

#8211

Dharmakīrtiśrī

950 - Present (1076 years)

Dharmakīrtiśrī , also known as Kulānta and Suvarṇadvipi Dharmakīrti, was a renowned 10th century Buddhist teacher remembered as a key teacher of Atiśa. His name refers to the region he lived, somewhere in Lower Burma, the Malay Peninsula or Sumatra.

#8212

Andreas Weber

#63553

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Andreas Weber is a German biologist, biosemiotician, philosopher and journalist. Biography Andreas Weber studied biology and philosophy in Berlin, Freiburg, Hamburg and Paris. He became a PhD in philosophy in 2003 with the thesis Natur als Bedeutung. Versuch einer semiotischen Theorie des Lebendigen. He has worked as a journalist for publications such as Die Zeit, GEO, Merian and Greenpeace Magazin. He lives in Berlin and Italy with his wife and two children.

#8213

Max Wintermark

#111300

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Dr. Max Wintermark is a Swiss and American neuroradiologist who pioneered perfusion scanning of the brain. Wintermark is currently a Professor and the Chair of Neuroradiology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Center in Houston, Texas. Previously, he worked at Stanford and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. He trained in Lausanne, Switzerland and at the University of California, San Francisco . Max Wintermark serves as the chair of the American Society of Neuroradiology research committee.

#8214

W. Illiam E. Grizzle

#120268

Overall Influence

#8215

Tomás González

#89985

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Tomás González is a Colombian writer. He studied philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He is best known for his debut novel In the Beginning Was the Sea which was translated into English by Frank Wynne and published by Pushkin Press. The translation was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. González lived in the United States for twenty years before returning to his native Colombia in 2002.

#8216

Beat Knechtle

#120275

Overall Influence

#8217

Elaine Sisman

#36716

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Elaine Rochelle Sisman is an American musicologist. The Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music at Columbia University, Sisman specializes in music, rhetoric, and aesthetics of the 18th and 19th centuries, and has written on such topics as memory and invention in late Beethoven, ideas of pathétique and fantasia around 1800, Haydn's theater symphonies, the sublime in Mozart's music, and Brahms's slow movements. She is the author of Haydn and the Classical Variation and Mozart: The 'Jupiter' Symphony and editor of Haydn and His World. Her monograph-length article on "variations" appears in the r...

#8218

Manuel Mindán Manero

#108764

Overall Influence

1902 - 2006 (104 years)

Manuel Mindán Manero was an Aragonese philosopher and priest. Doctor of Philosophy in 1951, from the University of Madrid, he served as professor and civil servant at the Ramiro de Maeztu Institute in Madrid, being secretary of the Luis Vives Institute of Philosophy of the CSIC and director for 25 years of the Spanish Journal of Philosophy.

#8219

David Tuveson

#84871

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

David Arthur Tuveson is an American cancer biologist and is currently Roy J. Zuckerberg Professor of Cancer Research as well as The Cancer Center Director at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Dr. Tuveson is also the Chief Scientist for the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research. He is known for developing some of the first mouse models of pancreatic cancer and more recently, for his work developing pancreatic cancer organoids.

#8220

Emily Oken

#120309

Overall Influence

#8221

Andrew M. Kaunitz

#120317

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#8222

Charles E. Samuel

#120319

Overall Influence

#8223

Johan Mekkes

1898 - 1987 (89 years)

Johan Peter Albertus Mekkes was a Dutch philosopher. Having started his career as an officer in the Dutch army, he later studied law and philosophy. His active life as a publishing philosopher started around 1947. In 1949 he became a professor of philosophy at the University of Leiden. Due to a scarcity of translated works he is little known in the English-speaking world but he was influential for a number of other Dutch philosophers. He was one of the second generation of reformational philosophers arising from the Free University in Amsterdam, after the first generation of Herman Dooyeweerd and D.

#8224

Robert Christison

Robert Christison

1797 - 1882 (85 years)

Sir Robert Christison, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish toxicologist and physician who served as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and as president of the British Medical Association . He was the first person to describe renal anaemia.

#8225

Meyer‐michel Samama

#120344

Overall Influence

#8226

Eric A. Jaffe

#120347

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

#8227

Tracey Rouault

#93703

Overall Influence

Tracey Ann Rouault is an American rheumatologist and physician-scientist who researches mammalian iron-sulfur proteins. Rouault is a senior investigator at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and she heads the section on human iron metabolism.

#8228

Safiya Noble

#17247

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Safiya Umoja Noble is a professor at UCLA, and is the co-founder and co-director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. She is the author of Algorithms of Oppression, and co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture and Emotions, Technology & Design. She is a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. She was appointed a Commissioner to the University of Oxford Commission on AI and Good Governance in 2020. In 2020 she was nominated to the Global Future Council on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity ...

#8229

Frederick Chapman Robbins

Frederick Chapman Robbins

#5310

Overall Influence

1916 - 2003 (87 years)

Frederick Chapman Robbins was an American pediatrician and virologist. He was born in Auburn, Alabama, and grew up in Columbia, Missouri, attending David H. Hickman High School. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 along with John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller, making Robbins the only Nobel laureate born in Alabama. The award was for breakthrough work in isolating and growing the poliovirus in tissue culture, paving the way for vaccines developed by Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin. He attended the University of Missouri and Harvard University.

#8230

Karina W. Davidson

#105858

Overall Influence

Karina W. Davidson is senior vice president of research at Northwell Health and director of the Institute of Health System Science at the Feinstein Institutes of Medical Research.She was previously vice-dean of organizational effectiveness and executive director of the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health at Columbia University Medical Center. She was also Chief Academic Officer at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

#8231

Georg Mehlis

1878 - 1942 (64 years)

Georg Mehlis was a German neo-Kantian philosopher. Initially he was a philosopher of history in the style of Heinrich Rickert. He edited Logos, Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie der Kultur, from 1910 , with contributions by many leading German intellectual figures; which had an Italian stable-mate from 1914.

#8232

Sheldon Greenfield

#8233

Gaspare Tagliacozzi

Gaspare Tagliacozzi

1545 - 1599 (54 years)

Gaspare Tagliacozzi was an Italian surgeon, pioneer of plastic and reconstructive surgery. Biography Tagliacozzi was born in Bologna. Tagliacozzi began his medical studies in 1565. He studied at the University of Bologna under Gerolamo Cardano for medicine, Ulisse Aldrovandi for natural sciences and Julius Caesar Aranzi for anatomy. At the age of twenty-four, he earned his degree in philosophy and medicine.

#8234

Abraham Bos

#81515

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Abraham P. Bos is a retired professor in Ancient and Patristic philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, specializing in the philosophy of Aristotle His doctoral thesis in 1971 was "Een onderzoek naar de kosmologie van Aristoteles in de eerste jaren van zijn wijsgerige activiteit" His inaugural lecture in 1976 was "Providentia Divina: The Theme of Divine Pronoia in Plato and Aristotle"

#8235

Seth Love

#120398

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

#8236

Eckhard Thiel

#120415

Overall Influence

#8237

Patrick Hwu

#120427

Overall Influence

#8238

René A. Adam

#120430

Overall Influence

#8239

Alicja Gescinska

#107471

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Alicja Anna Gescinska is a Polish-Belgian philosopher. Academic career Alicja Gescinska obtained a master's degree summa cum laude in Moral Sciences at Ghent University. She became Doctor of Philosophy at the same university in 2012, having written a dissertation on the philosophy of Max Scheler and Karol Wojtyla: Freedom and Persons: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Meaning of Human Agency in the Thought of Max Scheler and Karol Wojtyla.

#8240

T. C. Chao

1888 - 1979 (91 years)

Tzu-ch'en Chao , also known as T. C. Chao, was one of the leading Protestant theological thinkers in China in the early twentieth century. Life Chao was born on February 14, 1888, in Xinshi, Deqing County, Zhejiang, China. In 1903, at the age of fifteen, he chose to pursue a Western-style education, and enrolled in a secondary school affiliated with Soochow University. He was admitted to the university a few years later.

#8241

Gessius of Petra

Gessius of Petra was a physician, iatrosophist and pagan philosopher active in Alexandria in the late 5th and early 6th century. Gessius was a native of the region of Petra. According to Damascius, who is the main source for Gessius' biography in the Suda, he was from Petra itself. Stephanus of Byzantium, on the other hand, writes that he came from the agricultural region of el-Ji not far from Petra. His father's name is unknown. He may have been descended from the Gessius who was a student and correspondent of Libanius and was active in Egypt in the 4th century. He studied under Domnus, who was Jewish.

#8242

Anthony Seaton

#25067

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Anthony Seaton qualified in medicine from Cambridge University in 1962, and after training in Liverpool was appointed assistant professor of medicine at the University of West Virginia, USA in 1969. He became consulting chest physician at the University of Wales in 1971, and was named director of the Institute of Occupational Medicine at Edinburgh in 1978. Seaton became the head of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Aberdeen in 1988 and on retiring in 2003 became emeritus professor. He continues to write and teach and has active research interests ...

#8243

Ivo Pitanguy

#10865

Overall Influence

1923 - 2016 (93 years)

Ivo Hélcio Jardim de Campos Pitanguy was a plastic surgeon based in Rio de Janeiro. Pitanguy studied at the Bethesda North Hospital in Cincinnati, where he worked with John Longacre. Soon after, Pitanguy went to France and England where he studied plastic surgery.

#8244

Robert E. Brown

#49548

Overall Influence

1927 - 2005 (78 years)

Robert Edward "Bob" Brown was an American ethnomusicologist who is credited with coining the term "world music". He was also well known for his recordings of music from Indonesia. Many of these recordings, among the first widely distributed and commercially available in the United States, inspired a generation of musicians to study and perform Indonesian gamelan music.

#8245

Louise D. Mccullough

#120508

Overall Influence

#8246

Joseph P. Huston,

#120515

Overall Influence

#8247

María Pascuala Caro Sureda

1768 - 1827 (59 years)

María Pascuala Caro Sureda , was the second woman Doctor of Philosophy in Spain. She was born to the marqués de La Romana, Pere Caro Fontes, and Margalida Sureda de Togores. She was given a high education and taught Latin, which was not usual for women, and her mother arranged for all her children to be given a formal education. She was allowed to study at the University of Valencia, which was highly unusual for a woman, and was even allowed to graduate: she became a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Valencia in 1779, as the second of her sex in Spain, and published her work in physic...

#8248

Alan Bennett

#10945

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Alan Bennett is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter. Over his entertainment career he has received numerous awards and honours including two BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Tony Awards. He also earned an Academy Award nomination for his film The Madness of King George . In 2005 he received the Society of London Theatre Special Award.

#8249

Satyatma Tirtha

Satyatma Tirtha

#95684

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Sri Satyatma Tirtha , is an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru, scholar, spiritual leader, saint and the present pontiff of Uttaradi Math. He is the 42nd pontiff of Uttaradi Math since Madhvacharya, the chief proponent and the one who rejuvenated the Dvaita philosophy . Satyatma Tirtha founded Vishwa Madhwa Maha Parishat, a non-profit, religious and social organization in 1998.

#8250

Nakae Tōju

1608 - 1648 (40 years)

Nakae Tōju was a writer and Confucian scholar of early Edo period Japan popularly known as "the Sage of Ōmi". Biography Nakae was the eldest son of a farmer in Ōmi Province. When he was nine years old, he was adopted by his grandfather, Yoshinaga Tokuzaemon, who was a samurai with a stipend of 150 koku serving Yonago Domain in Hoki Province. In 1617, the daimyō of Yonago, Kato Sadayasu was transferred to Ōzu Domain in Iyo Province and Nakae relocated to Shikoku with his grandparents. In 1622, his grandfather died and Nakae inherited a position with a stipend of 100 koku. However, in 1634, at...

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