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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#9451

Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume

#33447

Overall Influence

Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume is a virologist with a primary research focus on herpes simplex virus, fusion and viral entry. She is a retired professor of virology from the University of Bologna, Italy.

#9452

Paris P. Tekkis

#131693

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#9453

D. Bruce Scott

#131699

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#9454

K. S. (kristin Sharon) Shrader-frechette

#131706

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#9455

Edwin Bryant

#70874

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Edwin Francis Bryant is an American Indologist. Currently, he is professor of religions of India at Rutgers University. He published seven books and authored a number of articles on Vedic history, yoga, and the Krishna tradition. In his research engagements, he lived several years in India where he studied Sanskrit and was trained with several Indian pundits.

#9456

Julie Battilana

#24412

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Julie Battilana is a scholar, educator, and advisor in the areas of social innovation and social change at Harvard University. She is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.

#9457

L. Barth Reller

#131730

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#9458

Joseph Maroon

#26263

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Joseph Maroon is an American neurosurgeon, author, and triathlon athlete. He is the professor and vice chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and is the current medical director of WWE. He is particularly known for his work studying concussions and concussion prevention as well as his hypothesis on the development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy .

#9459

Daryl K. Granner,

#131770

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#9460

Robert H. M. Christenson

#131777

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#9461

Bernard Kouchner

#16102

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Bernard Kouchner is a French politician and doctor. He is the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde. From 2007 until 2010, he was the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the center-right Fillon government under president Nicolas Sarkozy, although he had been in the past a minister in socialist governments. In 2010, The Jerusalem Post considered Kouchner the 15th most influential Jew in the world. Since 2015 Kouchner is workstream leader for the AMU , where he contributes his expertise in healthcare.

#9462

Jacques Marescaux

#131808

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#9463

Burne Hogarth

#7881

Overall Influence

1911 - 1996 (85 years)

Burne Hogarth was an American artist and educator, best known for his work on the Tarzan newspaper comic strip and his series of anatomy books for artists. Early life Hogarth was born in Chicago in 1911, the younger son of Pauline and carpenter Max He displayed an early talent for drawing. His father saved these efforts and some years later presented them and the young Hogarth to the registrar at the Art Institute of Chicago. At age 12, Hogarth was admitted, embarking on a formal education that took him through such institutions as Chicago's Crane College and Northwestern University, and New...

#9464

Muir Gray

#71592

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Sir John Armstrong Muir Gray is a British physician, who has held senior positions in screening, public health, information management. and value in healthcare. He is the Chief Knowledge Officer for EXI, a digital health therapeutic company prescribing exercise to people with or at risk of up to 23 long-term health conditions, and Chief Wellbeing Officer for Learning with Experts, a health related online learning company working with the NHS.

#9465

Christopher P. Ames

#131821

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#9466

J. Wai-kuoshihandjohn L. Gerin

#131849

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#9467

Michael Forsting

#131851

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#9468

Vincent Timmerman

#35039

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Vincent Timmerman is a Belgian scientist working at the VIB Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Antwerp of Christine Van Broeckhoven. His research is focused on inherited disorders of the peripheral nervous system, classified as hereditary motor and/or sensory neuropathies and the most common inherited peripheral neuropathy is Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease or Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathy .

#9469

Gilbert Thompson

#102354

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Gilbert R. Thompson is a British physician and researcher in lipidology. Thompson studied at St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1956. After National Service, he was at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School Hospital from 1963 to 1998, but including time at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Methodist Hospital, Houston and the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, as a researcher.

#9470

Sarah-Jane Leslie

Sarah-Jane Leslie

#87330

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Sarah-Jane Leslie is the Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy and former Dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University, where she is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Psychology, the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy, the Program in Cognitive Science, the Program in Linguistics, and the University Center for Human Values.

#9471

Daniel Rynhold

#80356

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Professor Daniel Rynhold is Dean at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University in New York City where he has worked since August 2007. He became the Shoshana Shier Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto's Centre for Jewish Studies in 2019. He was previously Lecturer in Judaism in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King's College, London.

#9472

Kyle Johannsen

#62189

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Kyle Johannsen is a Canadian philosopher who is the author of a A Conceptual Investigation of Justice and Wild Animal Ethics . He specialises in animal and environmental ethics, as well as political and social philosophy. He is presently affiliated with Trent University, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Queen's University.

#9473

Alan B. Sandler

#131901

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#9474

David J. Mayer

#131902

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#9475

Mortimer Jerome Adler

#131906

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#9476

Shlomo Shinnar

#131915

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#9477

Holger Ursin

#124246

Overall Influence

1934 - 2016 (82 years)

Holger Thorvald Ursin was a Norwegian physician and psychologist. He was born in Oslo. He lectured at the University of Bergen from 1967, and was appointed professor from 1974. His research interests focused on neurophysiological mechanisms related to behavior and coping with stress.

#9478

Walter T. Mcnicholas

#131926

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#9479

W. D. Hudson

#126794

Overall Influence

1920 - 2003 (83 years)

William Donald Hudson, who published as W. D. Hudson was an English Baptist minister and philosopher. He wrote on ethics, philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein.

#9480

Viktor Afanasyev

#113559

Overall Influence

1922 - 1994 (72 years)

Viktor Grigoryevich Afanasyev was a Soviet and Russian public figure, journalist and professor of philosophy who is remembered for his work as a philosophy academic, politician, and newspaper editor. Afanasyev was editor-in-chief of the journal Kommunist and deputy editor and editor-in-chief of Pravda.

#9481

Tom Coburn

#27803

Overall Influence

1948 - 2020 (72 years)

Thomas Allen Coburn was an American politician and physician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 2005 to 2015. A Republican, Coburn previously served as a United States representative from 1995 to 2001.

#9482

Alexander Marx

1878 - 1953 (75 years)

Alexander Marx was an American historian, bibliographer and librarian. Biography Born in Elberfeld, Germany, son of George Marx, a banker, and Gertrud Marx-Simon, a published poet. Alexander Marx grew up in Königsberg . He spent a year in a Prussian artillery regiment where he excelled in horsemanship. Later he studied at the University of Berlin and at the Rabbiner-Seminar , marrying in 1905 Hannah the daughter of R' David Zvi Hoffmann, rector of the Seminar. In 1903, Marx accepted Solomon Schechter's invitation to teach history at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and be its librarian.

#9483

Philip J. Rosenfeld

#131986

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#9484

Murray Barr

#64277

Overall Influence

1908 - 1995 (87 years)

Murray Llewellyn Barr was a Canadian physician and medical researcher who discovered with graduate student Ewart George Bertram, in 1948, an important cell structure, the "Barr body". Born in Belmont, Ontario, he was educated at the University of Western Ontario, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1930, M.D. in 1933, and Master of Science in 1938. He was an RCAF wing commander between 1939 and 1945. From 1936 to 1977, he served as a faculty member at the University of Western Ontario. He was a member of The Harvey Club of London, the oldest medical club in Canada, which consisted of o...

#9485

Bertram Myron Gross

#36187

Overall Influence

1912 - 1997 (85 years)

Bertram Myron Gross was an American social scientist, federal bureaucrat and Professor of Political Science at Hunter College . He is known from his book Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America from 1980, and as primary author of the [[HumphreyHawkins Full Employment Act]].

#9486

Yasuko Rikihisa

#132002

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#9487

Dennis Thomas Mangano

#132006

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#9488

Raimund Margreiter

#132012

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#9489

Monty Krieger

#132028

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#9490

Gilla Kaplan

#132029

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#9491

Glenn Jay Jaffe

#132033

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#9492

Hassan Kobeissi

Hassan Kobeissi

#70720

Overall Influence

1941 - 2006 (65 years)

Dr. Hassan Kobeissi was a prominent Lebanese writer, thinker and translator. He was born in Zebdine زبدين Lebanon, and is considered an important figure in the Lebanese intellectual circle. He is noted for writing publications such as "Rodinson and the Son of Islam", and for his award-winning translations of many prominent philosophical, sociological and anthropological writings.

#9493

David Himmelstein

#25584

Overall Influence

David U. Himmelstein is an American academic physician specializing in internal medicine. He is a distinguished professor of public health and health policy in the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, an adjunct clinical professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. He is the co-founder with Steffie Woolhandler of Physicians for a National Health Program, an organization advocating for single-payer healthcare in the United States.

#9494

Steven Robert Garfin

#132037

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#9495

Bernard R. Jr. Bach

#9496

Jaume Marrugat

#132045

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#9497

Marshall D. Lindheimer

#132047

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#9498

Harry Dym

#132051

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#9499

Stefan S. Fajans

#132064

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#9500

Murray B. Bornstein

#132077

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