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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#8251

Jørn Dyerberg

#120554

Overall Influence

#8252

Christian J. Lambertsen

Christian J. Lambertsen

#10545

Overall Influence

1917 - 2011 (94 years)

Christian James Lambertsen was an American environmental medicine and diving medicine specialist who was principally responsible for developing the United States Navy frogmen's rebreathers in the early 1940s for underwater warfare. Lambertsen designed a series of rebreathers in 1940 and in 1944 and first called his invention breathing apparatus. Later, after the war, he called it Laru and finally, in 1952, he changed his invention's name again to SCUBA . Although diving regulator technology was invented by Émile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943 and was unrelated to rebreathers, the current use of the word SCUBA is largely attributed to the Gagnan-Cousteau invention.

#8253

M. Roseann Diehl

#120558

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#8254

Kevin T. Mcvary

#120560

Overall Influence

#8255

Cosimo Boscaglia

1550 - 1621 (71 years)

Cosimo Boscaglia was a professor of philosophy at the University of Pisa in Italy. He is the first person known to have accused Galileo of possible heresy for defending the heliocentric system of Copernicus, in 1613.

#8256

Anne Schuchat

#120572

Overall Influence

#8257

Judah Messer Leon

1422 - 1498 (76 years)

Judah ben Jehiel, , more usually called Judah Messer Leon , was an Italian rabbi, teacher, physician, and philosopher. Through his works, assimilating and embodying the intellectual approach of the best Italian universities of the time, yet setting it inside the intellectual culture of Jewish tradition, he is seen as a quintessential example of a hakham kolel , a scholar who excelled in both secular and rabbinic studies, the Hebrew equivalent of a Renaissance man. This was the ideal he tried to instil in his students. One of his students was Yohanan Alemanno.

#8258

Jan Lötvall

#76609

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Jan Lötvall is a Swedish clinical allergist and scientist working on translational research primarily in the field of asthma. He is the former director of the Krefting Research Centre at the University of Gothenburg.

#8259

James D. Luketich

#120616

Overall Influence

#8260

Allīnūs

#99305

Overall Influence

Allīnūs or Alīnūs was an Alexandrian philosopher and commentator on Aristotle from the sixth or seventh century AD. He wrote in Greek, but is known only from Arabic sources, including some translated excerpts of his works.

#8261

Kimford J. Meador

#120619

Overall Influence

#8262

Adrastus of Aphrodisias

Adrastus of Aphrodisias was a Peripatetic philosopher who lived in the first half of the 2nd century AD. He was the author of a treatise on the arrangement of Aristotle's writings and his system of philosophy which was quoted by Simplicius, and by Achilles Tatius. Some commentaries of his on the Timaeus of Plato are also quoted by Porphyry, which was also used by Theon of Smyrna in the surviving sections of his On Mathematics Useful for the Understanding of Plato. and a treatise on the Categories of Aristotle by Galen.

#8263

Alexander of Aegae

Alexander of Aegae was a Peripatetic philosopher who flourished in Rome in the 1st century AD, and was a disciple of the celebrated mathematician Sosigenes of Alexandria. He was tutor to the emperor Nero. He wrote commentaries on the Categories and the De Caelo of Aristotle. He had a son named Caelinus or Caecilius. Attempts in the 19th century to ascribe some of the works of Alexander of Aphrodisias to Alexander of Aegae have been shown to be mistaken.

#8264

Robert A. Guyton

#120621

Overall Influence

#8265

Nikifor Vilonov

Nikifor Vilonov

1883 - 1910 (27 years)

Nikifor Efremovic Vilonov was a Russian revolutionary affiliated to the Bolsheviks who was imprisoned and then forced into exile, dying in Davos, Switzerland in 1910. He wrote philosophical tracts which influenced Alexander Bogdanov and was secretary of the Capri Party School established by Bogdanov, Lunacharsky and Gorky in 1909. Nevertheless, he sided with Lenin during the Bogdanov-Lenin philosophical dispute.

#8266

Peter Choong

Peter Fook Meng Choong is an Australian doctor and professor who specializes in orthopaedics. He is the Director of Orthopaedics at St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne and the Hugh Devine Chair of Surgery at the University of Melbourne. In 2014, he became the first surgeon to perform a 3D-printed heel transplant.

#8267

Robert Smith

1689 - 1768 (79 years)

Robert Smith was an English mathematician. Life Smith was probably born at Lea near Gainsborough, the son of John Smith, the rector of Gate Burton, Lincolnshire and his wife Hannah Cotes. After attending Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Gainsborough he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1708, and becoming minor fellow in 1714, major fellow in 1715 and senior fellow in 1739, was chosen Master in 1742, in succession to Richard Bentley. From 1716 to 1760 he was Plumian Professor of Astronomy, and he died in the Master's Lodge at Trinity.

#8268

Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi

Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi

1863 - 1936 (73 years)

Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi was a prominent Iraqi poet and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the greatest contemporary poets of the Arab world and was known for his defence of women's rights. Biography Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi was born on 18 June 1863 in Baghdad. He descended from a prominent family of Kurdish origin, His father was the Mufti of Iraq and a member of the scholarly Baban clan. His parents separated soon after the children were born and the children's mother returned to her family, taking her children with her. His father, who was partial to Jamil's intelligence and quick temper, decided to raise the boy himself.

#8269

Nicholas Culpeper

Nicholas Culpeper

1616 - 1654 (38 years)

Nicholas Culpeper was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer. His book The English Physitian is a source of pharmaceutical and herbal lore of the time, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick one of the most detailed works on medical astrology in Early Modern Europe. Culpeper catalogued hundreds of outdoor medicinal herbs. He scolded contemporaries for some of the methods they used in herbal medicine: "This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, and , and took a voyage to visit my mother , by whose ...

#8270

D. C. S. Oosthuizen

1926 - 1969 (43 years)

Daniel Charl Stephanus Oosthuizen was a South African philosopher, and an early Afrikaner voice against Apartheid. The main direction of his philosophical work lay in the field of epistemology and the philosophy of mind. He was more widely known in South Africa for his moral, political and religious essays, and was described by André Brink as a thorn in the flesh of the establishment. He was a confidant of Beyers Naude, who acknowledged him as having been one of the original group whose discussions and thoughts led to the founding of the Christian Institute of Southern Africa, of which he was both a founder member and a member of the Board of Management.

#8271

Peter Angermann

#35118

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Peter Angermann is a German painter based in Nuremberg. Education and career Initially, from 1966 to 1968, Peter Angermann, who was born in 1945 in Rehau, a small town in Upper Franconia in Bavaria, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, Then, in autumn 1968, he was drawn to the class run by Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Constantly showered with his teacher's praise, he nevertheless – or perhaps precisely for that reason – became co-founder of the legendary YIUP group, which from 1969 on attracted attention inside the academy, and above all in the Beuys class, through provocative actions that were directed even against Beuys himself.

#8272

Edgar G. Engleman

#98747

Overall Influence

Edgar G. Engleman is an American pathologist and physician-scientist who researches cancer immunology. He is a professor of pathology and of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also a co-founder of Vivo Capital, a Healthcare Investment firm.

#8273

Preeti N. Malani

#100895

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Preeti N. Malani is the Chief Health Officer in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Michigan and an associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association . Her research focus is on infectious disease control and prevention in older adults.

#8274

Zakir Mammadov

#93361

Overall Influence

1936 - 2003 (67 years)

Zakir Jabbar Bey oglu Mammadov was a correspondent member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences and Doctor in Philosophy. Mammadov specialized in Eastern philosophy, and focused mostly on the history of Azerbaijani philosophy. He had refuted the thesis ‘no professional philosopher lived in Azerbaijan in Middle Ages except for Bahmanyar’.

#8275

Henry Harris

#120732

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#8276

Anna Camaiti Hostert

Anna Camaiti Hostert

#64748

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Anna Camaiti Hostert is an Italian American philosopher and a scholar of Visual Studies. She lives and works between Italy and the United States. Biography She obtained her degree in Philosophy at the University of Pisa defending a dissertation with the philosopher Nicola Badaloni. Then she received a PhD in Literature and Film from the University of Chicago. She has taught at Loyola University of Chicago, at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the University of Rome La Sapienza . She was Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and the Florence campus of the New York University Tisch School of Cinema.

#8277

Leon Speroff

#120747

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#8278

Daniel Weinstock

#90440

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Daniel Marc Weinstock is a full professor at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. He holds a DPhil in philosophy , an MA in political philosophy, and a BA in French literature and political philosophy . Daniel Weinstock studied with Charles Taylor , and with John Rawls.

#8279

Samuel C. Silverstein

#120763

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#8280

Frank Muir

#5883

Overall Influence

1920 - 1998 (78 years)

Frank Herbert Muir was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with Denis Norden endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote BBC Radio's Take It from Here for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes My Word! and My Music for another 35. Muir became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC in the 1960s, and was then London Weekend Television's founding Head of Entertainment. His many writing credits include editorship of The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, as well as the What-a-Mess books...

#8281

Roman Krznaric

#39969

Overall Influence

Roman Krznaric is an Australian-born social philosopher, whose books focus on the power of ideas to create change and have been published in over 25 languages. His latest book is the international bestseller The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World. He is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing at Linacre College, University of Oxford and the founder of the world's first Empathy Museum. He is also a Research Fellow of the Long Now Foundation and member of the Club of Rome. He was named by The Observer as one of Britain's leading popula...

#8282

Jeffrey M. Liebmann

#120779

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#8283

Leon Birnbaum

#37416

Overall Influence

1918 - 2010 (92 years)

Leon Birnbaum was a Romanian mathematician and philosopher. He was born in Chernovtsy on June 18, 1918 to a family with an intellectual tradition. He studied at the Orthodox High School, then at the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1941 the war reached Chernovtsy and he was deported to Magilev-Podolsk in Transnistria until 1944.

#8284

Ferenc Andras Jolesz

#120805

Overall Influence

#8285

Eliza T. Dresang

#43735

Overall Influence

1941 - 2014 (73 years)

Eliza Timberlake Dresang was an American professor of Library Science who studied fundamental changes in children's literature because of digital format. Dresang was the Beverly Cleary Professor in Children and Youth Services at the University of Washington Information School. She died on April 21, 2014, in Seattle.

#8286

Dr Daniel T. Lackland

#120811

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#8287

John Robert Jones

1911 - 1970 (59 years)

John Robert Jones , was a Welsh philosopher. He was born in Pwllheli, and went to school there before going on to study philosophy at University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1929. He went on to take his D.Phil. at Balliol College, Oxford. He returned to Aberystwyth to lecture in philosophy, and in 1952 was appointed Professor of Philosophy at University of Wales, Swansea. In 1961 he was visiting professor at Chapel Hill University, North Carolina. On his return to Wales, he became more politically active, speaking out against the investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1969, resigning from...

#8288

Martha Bridge Denckla

#120833

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#8289

Bernardo Nadal‐ginard

#120882

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#8290

Lothar Prof Dr Kanz

#120891

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#8291

Nancy E. Kemeny

#120910

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#8292

Oliver Franks, Baron Franks

#31657

Overall Influence

1905 - 1992 (87 years)

Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks, , was an English civil servant and philosopher who has been described as 'one of the founders of the postwar world'. Franks was involved in Britain's recovery after the Second World War. Knighted in 1946, he was the British Ambassador to the United States of America from 1948 to 1952, during which time he strengthened the relationship between the two countries. He was given a life peerage on 10 May 1962.

#8293

Paul Bakker

#113031

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Paul Bakker is a professor in medieval and renaissance philosophy at Radboud University. Academic research Bakkers' research is mainly focused on medieval commentaries on Aristotle's Physics and De Anima and the complex relations between philosophical and theological arguments presented therein. He has also published within the discipline of the philosophy of mind on topics such as 'the relation between body, soul, and mind, theories of the soul's faculties, and views of sense perception'.

#8294

Joseph George Verbalis

#120952

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#8295

Jens Juel

1745 - 1802 (57 years)

Jens Juel was a Danish painter, primarily known for his many portraits, of which the largest collection is on display at Frederiksborg Castle. He is regarded as the leading Danish portrait painter of the 18th century.

#8296

Brenda R. Hemmelgarn

#120971

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#8297

Joseph P. Ornato

#120992

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#8298

John Lutterell

1250 - 1335 (85 years)

John Lutterell was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and university chancellor. Lutterell was a Dominican and a Canon of Salisbury Cathedral. He was Chancellor of Oxford University from 1317 to 1322. However, he was so disliked by the regent masters at Oxford that he was expelled as Chancellor there.

#8299

Ola Landgren

#121029

Overall Influence

#8300

Stefanie N. Vogel

#93571

Overall Influence

Stefanie Nucci Vogel is an American physician-scientist, microbiologist, and immunologist. She is a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Life Vogel was born October 16, 1951, in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Regina High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, in 1968. From 1969 to 1972, Vogel was a part-time research assistant in the University of Maryland, College Park computer science center and the department of chemistry under James McDonald Stewart. She completed a B.S. with honors in the department of microbiology at the University of Maryland, College Park in January 1972.

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