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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#9301

Christopher J. Mcdougle

#9302

Viola Cordova

#112405

Overall Influence

1937 - 2002 (65 years)

Viola Cordova , a philosopher, artist, and author, member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe, was one of the first Native American women to earn a PhD in philosophy. Early life Viola Cordova grew up in Taos, New Mexico; her father was a member of the Jicarilla Apache tribe, and her mother was Hispanic. She earned her bachelor's degree from Idaho State University, and her MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of New Mexico.

#9303

Dhardo Rimpoche

Dhardo Rimpoche

1917 - 1990 (73 years)

Dhardo Rinpoche , born Thubten Lhundup Legsang, was the 12th in a line of tulkus from Dhartsendo on the eastern border of Tibet who hailed from the Nyingma Gompa in Dhartsendo called Dorje Drak . The 11th tulku rose to the Abbot of Drepung and during the 1912 invasion of Tibet by China was the most senior of the retired abbots in the National Assembly. He died in 1916 and the 12th Tulku was born in 1917.

#9304

Rainer Landgraf

#130139

Overall Influence

#9305

Aram V. Chobanian

#130167

Overall Influence

#9306

David P. Wright

#35505

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

David Pearson Wright is an American theologian and the professor of Bible and the Ancient Near East at Brandeis University. He is a scholar in the field of the Hebrew Bible, especially the composition of the Pentateuch and inner-biblical exegesis, as well as Near Eastern and biblical ritual and law in comparative perspective.

#9307

Mahinda Deegalle

#68439

Overall Influence

Mahinda Deegalle is a scholar and writer who teaches at Bath Spa University. In 2000, he held the Numata Professorship in Buddhist Studies at McGill University. He writes both in Sinhala and English.

#9308

Roy Taylor

#128100

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Roy Taylor is a physician, diabetologist, and author who is currently the Director of Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre. His Scopus h-index is 54 . Taylor has worked on identifying the cause of type 2 diabetes and in furthering retinal screening for diabetic eye disease in the United Kingdom.

#9309

Anthony A. Romeo

#130220

Overall Influence

#9310

William Hamilton

#60673

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

William Hughes Hamilton III was a prominent theologian and proponent of the Death of God movement. Hamilton died in 2012 at age 87 in Portland, Oregon. Education and career Hamilton was born March 9, 1924, to William Hughes Hamilton II and Helen Hamilton . in Evanston, Illinois. In 1943 Hamilton graduated from Oberlin College. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, then earned a master's degree from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York in 1949. In 1952 Hamilton received a doctorate in theology from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

#9311

Édouard Schuré

1841 - 1929 (88 years)

Eduard Schuré was a French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature. Biography Schuré was the son of a doctor in the Alsatian town of Strasbourg, who died when Édouard was fourteen years old. Schuré mastered French as well as German, and was influenced by German and French culture in his formative years. He received his degree in law at the University of Strasbourg, but he never entered into practice. Schuré called the three most significant of his friendships those with Richard Wagner, Marguerita Albana Mignaty and Rudolf Steiner.

#9312

Oskar Fleischer

1856 - 1933 (77 years)

Oskar Fleischer was a German musicologist. Life Born in Zörbig Anhalt-Bitterfeld, after attending the Latin secondary school at the Francke Foundations in Halle, Fleischer studied ancient and modern languages, history of literature and philosophy at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1882 to 1886 and was promoted to Dr. phil. He then completed a four-year degree in musicology in Berlin. In 1888, he took over the management of the "Royal Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments" at the Berlin University of the Arts, whose holdings he was able to expand considerably with the acquisition of Snoeck's private collection.

#9313

Thomas J. Mathiesen

#49506

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Thomas James Mathiesen is an American musicologist, whose research focuses on Ancient music and the music theory of ancient and early periods. A leading scholar of the music of Ancient Greece, Mathiesen has written four monographs and numerous articles on the topic.

#9314

Adrian Covic

#55961

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Adrian Covic is a Romanian physician and specialist in nephrology. A native of Iași, his father Mircea is a geneticist, while his mother Maria is a nephrologist. He attended the local Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy, where he later joined the faculty. In 1999, he became head of the dialysis and kidney transplant section at the C. I. Parhon hospital, advancing to director in 2003. In 2005, he became president of the Romanian Society of Nephrology. He left as hospital director in 2012, becoming head of a nephrology clinic.

#9315

Stephen Anthony Boorjian

#130290

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#9316

Carl Victor Granger

#130295

Overall Influence

#9317

Francis C. Colpaert

#9318

Thomas M. Ulbright

#130305

Overall Influence

#9319

John S. Rumsfeld

#83731

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

John S. Rumsfeld is an American cardiologist. He is the Chief Innovation Officer for the American College of Cardiology, and Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He was previously the National Director of Cardiology for the U.S. Veterans Health Administration. Rumsfeld was named as Chief Innovation Officer for American College of Cardiology in 2015.

#9320

Alan R. Shuldiner

#130319

Overall Influence

#9321

Stephan Grupp

#116103

Overall Influence

Stephan A. Grupp is an American pediatric oncologist. He is the Chief of the Cell Therapy and Transplant Section in the Division of Oncology and Director of the Cancer Immunotherapy Program at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2019, Grupp was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.

#9322

Luigi Naldi

#130331

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#9323

H. Joel Laks

#130340

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#9324

Steven M. Cahn

#105722

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Steven M. Cahn is an American philosopher and academic administrator who served as Provost and Acting President of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Biography Cahn was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1942, performed extensively as a pianist and organist, graduated from Columbia College in 1963 and received his PhD from Columbia University in 1966.

#9325

Zhan Ruoshui

1466 - 1560 (94 years)

Zhan Ruoshui , was a Chinese philosopher, educator and a Confucian scholar. Biography Zhan was born in Zengcheng, Guangdong. He was appointed the president of Nanjing Guozijian in 1524. He was later appointed the Minister of Rites , Minister of Personnel , and then Minister of War at Nanjing of the Ming dynasty.

#9326

Daniel Druckman

#130355

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

#9327

Richard E. Kerber

#130362

Overall Influence

#9328

Stuart L. Weinstein

#130371

Overall Influence

#9329

James I. Ausman

#130379

Overall Influence

#9330

Harvey Jay Cohen

#130384

Overall Influence

#9331

José María Albiñana

1883 - 1936 (53 years)

José María Albiñana was a Spanish physician, neurologist, medical writer, philosopher and anti-republican right-wing politician. Born in Enguera, Valencia, he was a Doctor of Medicine specialising in mental health. He was also a doctor in law and philosophy and with Delgado Barreto founded the Partido Nacionalista Español.

#9332

Uroš Nestorović

1765 - 1825 (60 years)

Uroš Stefanović Nestorović also known as Uroš Stefan Nestorović was a writer, jurist, philosopher, and pedagogue who headed all Eastern Orthodox schools in the Habsburg Monarchy. Uroš Nestorović is considered one of the most prominent Serbian enlighteners and educators along with Teodor Janković Mirijevski, Stefan Vujanovski, Dimitrie Eustatievici and Avram Mrazović.

#9333

Jörg Prof. Dr. Kreuter

#130422

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#9334

Phillip Barron

#27365

Overall Influence

Phillip Barron is an American poet and philosopher who teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. His poetry has won the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award for philosophical literature and has been featured in many national journals including The Brooklyn Rail, New American Writing, and Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts. Barron also has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut.

#9335

Marius Nizolius

Marius Nizolius

1488 - 1567 (79 years)

Marius Nizolius was an Italian humanist scholar, known as a proponent of Cicero. He considered rhetoric to be the central intellectual discipline, slighting other aspects of the philosophical tradition. He is described by Michael R. Allen as the heir to the oratorical vision of Lorenzo Valla, and a better nominalist.

#9336

Elena Losina

#130493

Overall Influence

#9337

Léon Metchnikoff

1838 - 1888 (50 years)

#9338

Claudio Tiribelli

#113909

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Claudio Tiribelli is an Italian hepatologist best known for his studies on bilirubin and Kernicterus, a bilirubin-induced neurological condition. Scientific activity Since very early in his career, Tiribelli was fascinated by bilirubin. Expanding upon his research activity and expertise, he founded Bilimetrix together with Richard Wennberg. Bilimetrix developed the first point-of-care device for measuring bilirubin in newborns. Early detection of harmful bilirubin levels would prevent neonatal jaundice and allow the newborns to receive timely and proper treatment.

#9339

Fritz Schick

#130509

Overall Influence

#9340

Stefanie Schwab

#130511

Overall Influence

#9341

Klas Kärre

#47518

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Klas Kärre is a Swedish immunologist. Kärre received his doctorate in 1981 at Karolinska Institutet and is a professor of molecular immunology at Karolinska Institutet since 1993. In the mid-1980s Kärre discovered one of the mechanisms for how cells of the immune system, natural killer cells , identify their target cells and kill them. The findings were that the NK cells are inhibited by a transplantation antigen, the major histocompatibility complex class I, which prevents NK cells from killing their target cells. When MHC class I is removed from the target cells, they are killed by the NK cells.

#9342

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu

1911 - 1975 (64 years)

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu was a Turkish painter, mosaic-maker, muralist, writer and poet. His art work was inspired by Anatolian village scenes and folk literature, and included traditional handicraft folk patterns.

#9343

David Buckingham

#48782

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

David Dennis Buckingham, is a media, communications and education scholar and retired academic. Career David Dennis Buckingham was born on 6 October 1954. He completed his undergraduate studies at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating in 1975. He worked at the Inner London Education Authority from 1978 to 1984, during which time he also completed film studies master's degree at the Polytechnic of Central London . In 1984, he joined the Institute of Education as a lecturer, and completed a doctorate there in 1993 . Three years later, he was promoted to a readership at the institute, and in 1999 was promoted again to Professor of Education.

#9344

Kjell E. Öberg

#130573

Overall Influence

#9345

Tobias Kurth

#130587

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

#9346

Julia Alexis Wendon

#130599

Overall Influence

#9347

William p. Arend

#130613

Overall Influence

#9348

William T. Cefalu

#100345

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

William T. Cefalu is an American physician-scientist. Cefalu is the chief scientific and medical officer of the American Diabetes Association. Education Cefalu completed a B.S. from Southeastern Louisiana University and an M.D. from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans in 1979. He was a resident in internal medicine and chief resident at University of California, Irvine, Veterans Affairs Long Beach Healthcare System. He conducted a fellowship in endocrinology at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

#9349

Val J. Lowe

#130622

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#9350

Wolfgang Gerok

#130631

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