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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#8801

George Ertl

#125645

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#8802

José Zalabardo

#124649

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

José Zalabardo is a Spanish-British philosopher who works on epistemology, metaphysics, and related areas. He is a professor of philosophy at University College London. He was Head of the UCL Philosophy Department from 2014 to 2018.

#8803

Patrick Connor O'brien

#125653

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#8804

Jacques de Champlain

#86358

Overall Influence

1938 - 2009 (71 years)

Jacques de Champlain, OC was a scientist, doctor and professor from the Province of Quebec. Jacques de Champlain was a graduate of the Université de Montréal and McGill University and a pioneer in research on the nervous system. He was also a member of the Royal Society of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada and an Officer of the Ordre national du Québec. He was a research professor in the Departments of Physiology and Medicine at the Université de Montréal. De Champlain died of a heart attack.

#8805

Donald Hopkins

#21927

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Donald R. Hopkins is a Bahamian American physician, a MacArthur Fellow and is the Vice President and Director of Health Programs at The Carter Center. He graduated from Morehouse College with a B.S., from the University of Chicago with a Doctor of Medicine, and from the Harvard School of Public Health with a Master of Public Health. He studied at the Institute of European Studies, University of Vienna.

#8806

Avan Aihie Sayer

#125730

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#8807

Dineshchandra Sircar

1907 - 1984 (77 years)

Dineshchandra Sircar , also known as D. C. Sircar or D. C. Sarkar, was an epigraphist, historian, numismatist and folklorist, known particularly in India and Bangladesh for his work deciphering inscriptions. He was the Chief Epigraphist of the Archaeological Survey of India , Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture at the University of Calcutta and the General President of the Indian History Congress. In 1972, Sircar was awarded the Sir William Jones Memorial Plaque.

#8808

Jerry Young Niederkorn

#125741

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#8809

Eric Winsberg

#76084

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Eric Winsberg is an American philosopher who is a professor of philosophy at the University of South Florida. From 2023 until 2027 he will hold a Global Professorship from the British Academy in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is known for his research in philosophy of science, in particular the philosophy of climate science, and the philosophy of physics. He is especially interested in the role of computer simulations in the physical sciences. His work in the philosophy of climate science specifically relates to its application in science policy and ethics.

#8810

James Roosevelt Bayley

James Roosevelt Bayley

1814 - 1877 (63 years)

James Roosevelt Bayley was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as the first Bishop of Newark and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore . Early life and education Bayley's paternal grandfather, Dr. Richard Bayley, was a professor at Columbia College who created New York's quarantine system. Dr. Bayley had three children by his first wife, among whom was Elizabeth Ann Seton, who was canonized in 1975 as the first American-born Roman Catholic saint. After his first wife's death, Dr. Bayley married Charlotte Amelia Barclay, a member of the Roosevelt family, and the couple had seven children, the sixth of whom was Archbishop Bayley's father, Guy Carleton Bayley, born in 1786.

#8811

Jacques Izopet

#125789

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#8812

Sidney Edward Mezes

Sidney Edward Mezes

1863 - 1931 (68 years)

Sidney Edward Mezes was an American philosopher. Biography He was born in what is now the town of Belmont, California, on September 23, 1863, to a Spanish-born father and Italian-born mother. He graduated in 1884 from the University of California, Berkeley in engineering and was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. After returning to university, he graduated in 1890 from Harvard University, in philosophy, being awarded a doctorate there in 1893. From 1893 to 1894 he taught philosophy at the University of Chicago. From 1894 he was for, 20 years, in positions at the University of Texas, becoming a professor there in 1906.

#8813

Allan Silverman

#112297

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Allan Jay Silverman is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University. He is also a Faculty Fellow at Mershon Center for International Security Studies. Silverman is known for his expertise on ancient philosophy.

#8814

Harold Willis Kohl

#125857

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#8815

Frank Miles Collins

#125881

Overall Influence

#8816

Philippe Rougier

#125884

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#8817

Paul Gerson Unna

Paul Gerson Unna

1850 - 1929 (79 years)

Paul Gerson Unna, was a German physician specialized in dermatology and one of the pioneers in dermatopathology. Biography Paul Unna was born to German Jewish parents Moritz Adolph Unna, a physician from Hamburg. Unna was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums and Ida Gerson, who descended from a long line of physicians. He began to study medicine at the University of Heidelberg, but had to interrupt it in order to fight in the Franco-Prussian war, where he was severely wounded. In 1871, he resumed his studies in Heidelberg and later went to the University of Leipzig, finally attaining a doctorate under Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer in Strasbourg.

#8818

Daniel P. Kelly

#82049

Overall Influence

Daniel P. Kelly is an American physician and Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania. He is known for his contributions to biomedical research.

#8819

David H. Chestnut

#125910

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#8820

Adrian Walsh

#107362

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Adrian J. Walsh is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of New England . He is known for his expertise on political philosophy, philosophy of economics and applied ethics. Walsh is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy.

#8821

Helen De Cruz

#80391

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Helen De Cruz is a Belgian philosopher and Danforth Chair of Philosophy at Saint Louis University who specialises in philosophy of religion, experimental philosophy, and philosophy of cognitive science. She is also an activist supporting the rights of EU citizens in the context of Brexit.

#8822

Francis Bonnici

1853 - 1905 (52 years)

Francis Bonnici was a Maltese educationist, philanthropist and a minor philosopher. In philosophy he mostly specialised in pedagogy. Life Bonnici was born in Cospicua, Malta, on July 14, 1853. However, when still very young, his family moved to Mqabba. He graduated as Doctor of Theology from the University of Malta in 1872 and was ordained priest in 1876. He taught languages for many years at the bishop’s major seminary at Mdina, and was Rector at the bishop’s minor seminary at Floriana. He was nominated a canon of the bishop’s cathedral chapter in 1882.

#8823

Michael Bernd Ranke

#125941

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#8824

Anita Chatarina Aperia

#125942

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#8825

Tsutomu Imaizumi

#125943

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#8826

Pietro d'Abano

1250 - 1315 (65 years)

Pietro d'Abano, also known as Petrus de Apono, Petrus Aponensis or Peter of Abano , was an Italian philosopher, astrologer, and professor of medicine in Padua. He was born in the Italian town from which he takes his name, now Abano Terme. He gained fame by writing Conciliator Differentiarum, quae inter Philosophos et Medicos Versantur. He was eventually accused of heresy and atheism, and came before the Inquisition. He died in prison in 1315 before the end of his trial.

#8827

Morton H. Maxwell

#125976

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#8828

Fu‐chan Wei

#125985

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#8829

Catherine Sherrington

#125987

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#8830

Rebecca Fitzgerald

#74695

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Rebecca Clare Fitzgerald is a British medical researcher whose work focuses on the early detection and treatment of oesophageal cancers. She is a tenured Professor of Cancer Prevention and Program Leader at the Medical Research Council Cancer Unit of the University of Cambridge. In addition to her professorship, Fitzgerald is currently the Director of Medical Studies for Trinity College, Cambridge, where she is also a Fellow. She is also an Honorary Consultant in Gastroenterology and General Medicine at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital. She is also the co-leader of the CRUK Cambridge Insti...

#8831

John Gay

1699 - 1745 (46 years)

John Gay , a cousin of the poet John Gay, was an English philosopher, biblical scholar and Church of England clergyman. The greatest happiness principle, Gay supposed, represented a middle ground between the egoism of Hobbes and Hutcheson's moral sense theory.

#8832

Stephanie Lee

#124216

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Stephanie J. Lee is an American haematologist and physician scientist who is Professor and Associate Director at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Lee works to improve the lives of blood stem cell transplant and bone marrow patients by better understanding the chronic form of graft-versus-host disease. Lee is the former President of the American Society of Hematology.

#8833

Adrian M. Di Bisceglie

#126039

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#8834

John Whenham

#67664

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John Whenham is an English musicologist and academic who specializes in early Italian baroque music. He earned both a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music from the University of Nottingham, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford. He is a leading expert on the life and works of Claudio Monteverdi, and is the author of the books Duet and Dialogue in the Age of Monteverdi Monteverdi, 'Orfeo' , Monteverdi, Vespers , and The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi . For five years he was co-editor of the journal Music & Letters. He currently serves on the board of the Birmingham E...

#8835

Daniel Federman

#49949

Overall Influence

1928 - 2017 (89 years)

Daniel David Federman, was an American endocrinologist and the Carl W. Walter Distinguished Professor of Medicine and the dean for medical education at Harvard Medical School. He helped change medical education at through its New Pathway curriculum around the early 1990s, and his work helped create the field of genetic endocrinology. Federman also worked for over thirty years at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area.

#8836

Mason Welch Gross

Mason Welch Gross

1911 - 1977 (66 years)

Mason Welch Gross was an American television quiz show personality, philosopher and academic. The namesake of Mason Gross School of the Arts, he served as the sixteenth President of Rutgers University from 1959 to 1971.

#8837

Liu Boming

1887 - 1923 (36 years)

Liu Boming was a Chinese educator and philosopher born in the late Qing Dynasty. Liu Boming is the first Chinese who received a doctor's degree in philosophy. He finished his work The Theory of Chinese Mind Nature in 1913, and The Philosophy of Taoism in 1915 when he was a Doctoral candidate at Northwestern University in the United States. He introduced western philosophy to China when he was a professor of Nanjing University. Under his influence, the scholars of Xueheng School translated a number of books of classic Greek philosophy into Chinese.

#8838

Miquel Porta

#45917

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Miquel Porta is a Catalan physician, epidemiologist and scholar. He has promoted the integration of biological, clinical and environmental knowledge and methods in health research and teaching, which he has conducted internationally; notably, in Spain, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Harvard, Imperial College London, and several other universities in Europe, North America, Kuwait, and Brazil. Appointed by the International Epidemiological Association , in 2008 he succeeded the Canadian epidemiologist John M. Last as Editor of "A Dictionary of Epidemiology". In the Preface to this book he argues for an inclusive and integrative practice of the science of epidemiology.

#8839

Usha Menon

#46052

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Usha Menon is Professor of Gynaecological Cancer at University College London, described as "one of Britain’s foremost specialists in gynaecological cancer". She has been a lead investigator on UK ovarian cancer screening trials and on studies of ovarian cancer symptoms notably the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening , which forms the evidence base for current ovarian cancer screening guidelines. UKCTOCS involved over 200,000 participants and 650,000 yearly screenings over a period of fourteen years with mortality as the endpoint.

#8840

Mikkael Aaron Sekeres

#126132

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#8841

Hirofumi Makino

#126135

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#8842

Leonard Leibovici

#8843

Douglas Gairdner

#41022

Overall Influence

1910 - 1992 (82 years)

Douglas Montagu Temple Gairdner FRCP was a Scottish paediatrician, research scientist, academic and author. Gairdner was principally known for a number of research studies in neonatology at a time when that subject was being developed as perhaps the most rewarding application of basic physiology to patient care, and later his most important contributions as editor, firstly editing Recent Advances in Paediatrics, and then of Archives of Disease in Childhood for 15 years, turning the latter into an international journal of repute with its exemplary standards of content and presentation.

#8844

Arthur K. Asbury

#126138

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#8845

Robert B. Salter

#22034

Overall Influence

1924 - 2010 (86 years)

Robert Bruce Salter was a Canadian surgeon and a pioneer in the field of pediatric orthopaedic surgery. Born in Stratford, Ontario, he graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1947, worked for two years at the Grenfell Medical Mission in Newfoundland, and spent one year as the McLaughlin Fellow in Oxford, England. Salter then returned to join the medical staff at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in 1955. He was later appointed surgeon-in-chief.

#8846

Minnie Earl Sears

Minnie Earl Sears

1873 - 1933 (60 years)

Minnie Earl Sears formulated the Sears List of Subject Headings, a simplification of the Library of Congress Subject Headings. In 1999, American Libraries named her one of the "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century."

#8847

Marcos Malumbres

#126149

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#8848

Stefan N. Willich

#126159

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#8849

John Stamatoyannopoulos

#107342

Overall Influence

John A. Stamatoyannopoulos a Greek-American physician-scientist in molecular biology and epigenomics. He is a professor of genome sciences and medicine at the University of Washington, where he heads the Stam Lab and led UW Medicine's participation in the ENCODE project. John is the son of Greek geneticist George Stamatoyannopoulos. Stamatoyannopoulos currently serves as scientific director at the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences.

#8850

Hans Rosling

#13150

Overall Influence

1948 - 2017 (69 years)

Hans Rosling was a Swedish physician, academic and public speaker. He was a professor of international health at Karolinska Institute and was the co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. He held presentations around the world, including several TED Talks in which he promoted the use of data to explore development issues. His posthumously published book Factfulness, coauthored with his daughter-in-law Anna Rosling Rönnlund and son Ola Rosling, became an international bestseller.

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