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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#8601

Ernest Amory Codman

Ernest Amory Codman

1869 - 1940 (71 years)

Ernest Amory Codman, M.D., was an American surgeon who made contributions to anaesthesiology, radiology, duodenal ulcer surgery, orthopaedic oncology, shoulder surgery, and the study of medical outcomes.

#8602

David Cockburn

#84096

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

David Cockburn studied philosophy at St Andrews and Oxford, and has taught at Swansea, the Open University, and, until 2010, has spent over 30 years at the University of Wales, Lampeter, where he teaches courses on the philosophy of mind, Spinoza, Wittgenstein among others. He held a British Academy Readership in 1994–96, during which he wrote Other Times. He also holds a deep interest and involvement in the human rights group Amnesty International.

#8603

Jean E. Sealey

#123849

Overall Influence

#8604

David Roochnik

#98666

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

David Roochnik is an American philosopher and the Maria Stata professor of philosophy at Boston University. Prior to completing his doctorate degree at Pennsylvania State University in 1995, Professor Roochnik taught at Iowa State University and Williams College. He joined the philosophy department at Boston University in 1995.

#8605

Brian E. Kendall

#123862

Overall Influence

#8606

Roberta M. Goldwyn

#8607

Gabriel Lopez‐berestein

#123887

Overall Influence

#8608

B. J. Kennedy

#47072

Overall Influence

1921 - 2003 (82 years)

Byrl James "B.J." Kennedy was an American physician who is considered to be the "Father of Medical Oncology." Born in Plainview, Minnesota, in 1921, B.J. Kennedy received his MD from the University of Minnesota Medical School. He served his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and received further training at McGill University and Cornell Medical College.

#8609

Helen Hobbs

#27600

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Helen Haskell Hobbs is an American medical researcher who is professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, who won a 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and the 2018 Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine. She and Jonathan C. Cohen found that people with hypomorphic PCSK9 mutations had lower LDL-cholesterol levels and were almost immune to heart disease. This finding led to the development of a new class of cholesterol-lowering drugs that mimic the effects of the PCSK9 mutations. She and Cohen also identified t...

#8610

Mitchell M. Levy

#123898

Overall Influence

#8611

Patrick Flandrin

#123904

Overall Influence

#8612

George Elder Davie

George Elder Davie

#93262

Overall Influence

1912 - 2007 (95 years)

George Elder Davie was a prominent Scottish philosopher whose well-received book, The Democratic Intellect , concerns the treatment of philosophy in 19th century Scottish universities. Life He was born at no. 4 Baxter Park Terrace, Dundee on 18 March 1912. His father, George Myles Davie was a pharmacist and chemistry teacher, and his mother was Isabella Calder Elder. He married Elspeth Mary Dryer, an art teacher, on 5 October 1944 at Bonnyrigg Church in Midlothian. Elspeth Davie later became a respected writer and was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Prize in 1978. They had one daughter with w...

#8613

Bill S. Hansson

Bill S. Hansson

#71910

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Bill S. Hansson is a Swedish neuroethologist. From June 2014 until June 2020, he was vice president of the Max Planck Society. Scientific career Hansson studied biology at Lund University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology in 1982. In 1988 he defended his PhD thesis in Ecology. From 1989 to 1990 he worked as postdoc at the University of Arizona and returned 1990 to a junior professorship in Lund. In 1992 he became Associate Professor and from 2000 until 2001 he was a Professor for Chemical Ecology at Lund University . From 2001 he was Professor and Head of the Chemical ...

#8614

Ronald D. G. Mckay

#123943

Overall Influence

#8615

William S. Dalton

William S. Dalton

#47071

Overall Influence

William S. Dalton is an American physician and oncologist, who is board certified in internal medicine and oncology. Since 2002 he has been the President, CEO, and Center Director of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at the University of South Florida . He served as dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, 2001–2002.

#8616

Meinhard Prof Dr Med Classen

#123952

Overall Influence

#8617

Ulf I. Ulmsten

#123954

Overall Influence

#8618

Havi Carel

#61960

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Havi Hannah Carel is a professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol. Education and career Carel studied for a BA and MA at Tel-Aviv University and was awarded her PhD by the University of Essex. She was lecturer at the University of the West of England then moved to the University of Bristol as a senior lecturer and was later promoted to professor. Carel also teaches at the Bristol Medical School.

#8619

T. Andrew Lister

#123992

Overall Influence

#8620

Friedrich Würzbach

1886 - 1961 (75 years)

Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf Würzbach was a Nietzsche scholar, Nazi sympathiser and convinced propagandist. He was born in Berlin in the summer of 1886 to a Polish-Jewish mother and German-Protestant father, and died in 1961 in Munich.

#8621

Diane R. Gold

#124005

Overall Influence

#8622

Peter Anthony Bertocci

1910 - 1989 (79 years)

Peter Bertocci was an American philosopher and Borden Parker Bowne professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Boston University. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America. Bertocci was an advocate of theistic finitism, proposing that "God is all-good but not all-powerful".

#8623

Herbert F. Oettgen

#124016

Overall Influence

#8624

Wiebke Arlt

#94453

Overall Influence

Wiebke Arlt is a German endocrinologist and William Withering Chair of Medicine at the University of Birmingham. She specialises in adrenal disease and disorders of sex development. Career Arlt studied medicine at the University of Cologne, completing a MBChB in 1990 and an academic MD in 1993. She trained in endocrinology at Universitätsklinikum Würzburg and finished her training in 1998. She then embarked on a research career, beginning in the University of California in San Francisco under the supervision of pediatric endocrinologist Walter L. Miller, with a fellowship grant from the German Research Council.

#8625

James W. Haviland

James W. Haviland

#83268

Overall Influence

1911 - 2007 (96 years)

James W. Haviland was an American medical doctor and specialist in Internal Medicine co-founder of the University of Washington School of Medicine and co-founder of the Northwest Kidney Centers. Haviland graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1936. Haviland married twice, to Marion Bertram ; Mary Katherine in 1997. Haviland had four children.

#8626

Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger

Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger

1719 - 1772 (53 years)

Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger was a German physician. He studied philosophy at the University of Tübingen and medicine at the Universities of Leipzig and Halle, obtaining his doctorate at the latter institution in 1739. He later practiced medicine in Stuttgart and Urach, and in 1760 was named an associate professor of medicine at the University of Tübingen. In 1762 he became a full professor of medicine at Tübingen.

#8627

Maura L. Gillison

#124041

Overall Influence

#8628

Peter Krustrup

#124047

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

#8629

Michael Stoker

#52694

Overall Influence

1918 - 2013 (95 years)

Sir Michael George Parke Stoker CBE FRS FRSE MD FRCP was a British physician and medical researcher in virology. Scientific career Stoker studied medicine at Clare College, Cambridge and St Thomas' Hospital in London, gaining his MD in 1947, after serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II. On return to civilian life he became a Fellow of Clare College from 1948 and an assistant tutor and director of medical studies from 1949 to 1958. Between 1953 and 1956, he researched the structure of Coxiella burnetii, the bacteria causing Q fever, with Paul Fiset.

#8630

Eric G. Neilson

#124067

Overall Influence

#8631

William Feindel

#39666

Overall Influence

1918 - 2014 (96 years)

William Howard Feindel was a Canadian neurosurgeon, scientist and professor. Born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, he received a B.A. in Biology from Acadia University in 1939, a M.Sc. from Dalhousie University in 1942, and an M.D., C.M. from McGill University in 1945. Attending Merton College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar he received his D. Phil in 1949.

#8632

Laurent Degos

#124082

Overall Influence

#8633

Peter Vajkoczy

#124085

Overall Influence

#8634

Masaki Kobayashi

Masaki Kobayashi

#57739

Overall Influence

1916 - 1996 (80 years)

Masaki Kobayashi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, best known for the epic trilogy The Human Condition , the samurai films Harakiri and Samurai Rebellion , and the horror anthology Kwaidan . Senses of Cinema described him as "one of the finest depicters of Japanese society in the 1950s and 1960s."

#8635

John J. Orloff

#124109

Overall Influence

#8636

Theodor von Brand

1899 - 1978 (79 years)

Theodor von Brand , full name Theodor Kurt Freiherr von Brand zu Neidstein, was a German American parasitologist. Theodor von Brand is a descendant of the German noble family von Brand. His mother Diana von Brandt was a née Freiin von Hirsch from a Jewish German noble family.

#8637

Robert William Rebar

#124121

Overall Influence

#8638

Arthur Edward Murphy

1901 - 1962 (61 years)

Arthur Edward Murphy was an American philosopher. Life and career Murphy was born in Ithaca, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley in 1923, then went on to earn a doctorate there. He took an appointment at University of Chicago in 1927, then went to Cornell University in 1928 before returning to Chicago in 1929. He took a position as full professor at Brown University in 1931.

#8639

Richard P. T. M. Grol

#124129

Overall Influence

#8640

Lloyd F. Mayer

#124155

Overall Influence

#8641

Michel Feher

#69058

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Michel Feher is a Belgian philosopher and cultural theorist who writes in English and French. He is the founding editor of Zone Books and the co-founder and president of Cette France-là, Paris, a monitoring group on French immigration policy. Feher writes for a number of outlets and has a semi-regular blog with the French journal Mediapart. He has held the positions of Professor and Visiting Lecturer at various universities, including École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently, Goldsmiths, University of London.

#8642

Carl Gustaf Bernhard

#44310

Overall Influence

1910 - 2001 (91 years)

Carl Gustaf Bernhard was a Swedish physician, neurophysiologist and academic. He was married to Gurli Lemon-Bernhard, opera singer and soprano. Together they had four children: Carl Johan, Pontus, Per and Blenda.

#8643

Buddha Basnyat

#124197

Overall Influence

#8644

Basil Hetzel

#14022

Overall Influence

1922 - 2017 (95 years)

Basil Stuart Hetzel was an Australian medical researcher who made a major contribution to combating iodine deficiency, a major cause of goitre and cretinism worldwide. Early life and education Hetzel was born in London to Elinor Hetzel and Kenneth Stuart Hetzel, an anaesthetist. Hetzel's parents were originally from South Australia but in London at the time while Kenneth worked at the University College Hospital. They returned to Adelaide in 1925. There he, along with his brother Peter , was schooled at King's College and St Peter's College, Adelaide.

#8645

Carla Hayden

#11193

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Carla Diane Hayden is an American librarian who is serving as the 14th librarian of Congress. Since the creation of the office of the librarian of Congress in 1802, Hayden is both the first African American and the first woman to hold this post. Appointed in 2016, she is the first professional librarian to hold the post since 1974.

#8646

Raul J. Busto

#124220

Overall Influence

#8647

Richard David Semba

#124222

Overall Influence

#8648

Mohamed Hamouda Bensai

#124236

Overall Influence

1902 - 1998 (96 years)

Mohamed Hamouda Hamouda Bensaï was an Algerian philosopher and essayist. He studied philosophy at Sorbonne, and was one of the major Algerian thinkers from the 1930s onwards. He chaired the circle of the Association of Franco-North Africa, founded by Marcellin Piel.

#8649

Frederick L. Brancati

#124250

Overall Influence

#8650

Robert Thompson

#38794

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Robert James Thompson is an American educator and media scholar. He is the Trustee Professor of Television and Popular Culture at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture. He is widely quoted in media.

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