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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

#9951

Robert R. Sciacca

#167696

Overall Influence

#9952

Sergei Pitirimovitch Sorokin

#167740

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#9953

Menachem Miodovnik

#167749

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#9954

Barry J. Gurland,

#167759

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#9955

Emilio Bajetta

#167760

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#9956

Katrina Armstrong

#111213

Overall Influence

Katrina Alison Armstrong is an American internist. She is the chief executive officer of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Armstrong is the first woman to lead Columbia's medical school and medical center. She was the first woman to hold the position of Physician-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

#9957

Howard A. Ozmon

Howard A. Ozmon

#115188

Overall Influence

1929 - 2014 (85 years)

Howard Augustine Ozmon Jr. was an American philosopher who was a professor emeritus of Virginia Commonwealth University. Ozmon lived in Portsmouth, Virginia, and received an A.A. degree from St. Bernard College in Alabama, a B.A. from the University of Virginia Alumni 1954 in Philosophy, a Master of Arts in International and Comparative Education, and an Ed.D. in Philosophy of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He taught in the public schools of New York and New Jersey, and at several colleges and universities, including the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University.

#9958

William DeVries

William DeVries

#9566

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

William Castle DeVries is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, mainly known for the first transplant of a TAH using the Jarvik-7 model. Early years and Medical School William DeVries was born December 19, 1943, in Brooklyn Navy Yard. His father, Henry DeVries, was a Dutch immigrant who died in combat on the destroyer in 1944 during the Battle of Hollandia, where he had enrolled as a naval surgeon. When his father died William was only six months old. He was raised by his grandmother and his mother who was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints until he was five. After hi...

#9959

Verity Harte

#150640

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Verity Harte is a British philosopher and George A. Saden Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Yale University. Books Plato on Parts and Wholes: the Metaphysics of Structure, Oxford: Clarendon 2002Aristotle and the Stoics Reading Plato, co-edited by Harte, M.M. McCabe, R.W. Sharples, A. Sheppard, London: Institute of Classical Studies 2011Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy, co-edited by Harte and Melissa Lane, Cambridge: CUP 2013Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows, co-edited by Harte and Raphael Woolf, Cambridge University Press 2018

#9960

Egbert Schuurman

#105040

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Egbert Schuurman is a Dutch engineer, philosopher, politician for the Christian Union, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the Netherlands. Biography Born in Borger, Schuurman attended the Protestant primary school in Drenthe Nieuwbuinen, and the HBS-b in Stadskanaal, where he received his diploma on 18 June 1955. After studying civil engineering at the HTS in Groningen, Schuurman continued his studies at Delft University of Technology. After his graduation in 1964 Schuurman began to study philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, a study which he completed in 1968. In 1972 Schu...

#9961

Kate Bowler

#23266

Overall Influence

Kate Bowler is a Canadian academic and writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Bowler is currently an associate professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School. Career Bowler is the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel . She then wrote Everything Happens for a Reason , which was a New York Times hardcover nonfiction best seller.

#9962

Takanori Fukushima

#99628

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

is a Japanese neurosurgeon, a prominent world authority in the treatment of brain tumors. He graduated from Tokyo University and is currently performing surgeries at WakeMed Raleigh and Duke University Hospital, North Carolina, USA.

#9963

Stephen W. Hwang

#68955

Overall Influence

Stephen Wesley Hwang is an American-born Canadian internal-medicine physician and population health epidemiologist. He is a professor in the Department of Medicine and director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto. Hwang is also the St. Michael's Hospital's inaugural chair in Homelessness, Housing, and Health and director of the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions.

#9964

Anne Harrington

#38360

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Anne Harrington is an American science historian and the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her primary research area is the history of psychiatry, neuroscience, and cognitive science.

#9965

Elselijn Kingma

#113555

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Elisabeth Marjolijn Kingma is a Dutch philosopher. She is a professor at King's College London where she holds the Peter Sowerby Chair in Philosophy and Medicine. Career She received her undergraduate degrees in Medicine and Psychology from Leiden University, and her MPhil and PhD in History & Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. She did post-doctoral research in the Department for Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health .

#9966

Ruth HaCohen

#105548

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Professor Ruth HaCohen is an Israeli musicologist and a cultural historian. She holds the Artur Rubinstein Chair of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ruth HaCohen is the recipient of the 2022 Rothschild Prize in the Humanities. In 2017, she was elected as Corresponding member by the American Musicological Society "for outstanding contributions to the advancement of scholarship in music."

#9967

Miroslav Djordjevic

Miroslav Djordjevic

#52537

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Miroslav L Djordjevic is a Serbian surgeon specializing in sex reassignment surgery, and an assistant professor of urology at the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Early life and education Djordjevic completed his medical studies, including his urology residency, at the University of Belgrade's School of Medicine, in Serbia, in 1991. His PhD thesis, completed in 2003, was titled "A New Approach for Surgical Treatment of Peyronie's Disease".

#9968

Sanjay Asthana

#32544

Overall Influence

Sanjay Asthana is Chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and holds the Duncan G. and Lottie H. Ballantine Endowed Chair in Geriatrics. Since 2009, Asthana has also served as Director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.

#9969

Hans-Helmuth Knütter

#30921

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Hans-Helmuth Knütter is a German political scientist and politician . He habilitated with the work “Die Juden und die deutsche Linke in der Weimarer Republik 1918-1933”. Knütter was one of the many doctoral students of Karl Dietrich Bracher. From 1972 on, Knütter worked as professor at the University of Bonn und until 1996 managed the Seminar of Political Science there. Knütter was given the emeritus status in 1997. From 1985 to 1989, Knütter was a member of the Advisory Council of the Federal Agency for Civic Education . From 1989 to 1994, he acted as a rapporteur for the Interior Ministry o...

#9970

Jayanta Debnath

#122131

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Jayanta Debnath is an American physician who specializes in pathology. His research focuses on autophagy as it relates to cancer. He is the chair of the University of California, San Francisco department of pathology and a co-editor of the Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of Disease.

#9971

Jane Davies

#143764

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Jane C. Davies is a British physician who is Professor of Paediatric Respirology at Imperial College School of Medicine. She is an Honorary Consultant at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.

#9972

Humayun Chaudhry

Humayun Chaudhry

#22312

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Humayun Javaid Chaudhry, D.O., MACP, FRCP , FRCP is an American physician and medical educator who is president and chief executive officer of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States, a national non-profit organization founded in 1912 that represents the 70 state medical boards of the United States and its territories and which co-sponsors the United States Medical Licensing Examination . From 2007 to 2009, he served as Commissioner of Health Services for Suffolk County, New York, the state's most populous county outside New York City. In 2016, he was listed by Modern He...

#9973

Roberto Agramonte

#92195

Overall Influence

1904 - 1995 (91 years)

Roberto Daniel Agramonte y Pichardo was a philosopher and Cuban politician. Education and Career He graduated from the University of Havana School of Law. Dr. Agramonte was also the Dean of School of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Havana. From 1947 to 1948, he was the Ambassador of Cuba to Mexico. In 1948, he returned to Cuba to run for Vice-President of Cuba with Dr. Eduardo Chibás , but the election was won by Carlos Prio Socarras.

#9974

André Briend

#46114

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

André Briend is a French pediatric nutritionist best known for his 1996 co-formulation of Plumpy'nut, a Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food , with Dr. Mark Manary. Starting in 1994, Briend, who at the time worked at Institut de recherche pour le développement, worked with Michel Lescanne to develop variants of renutrition products in solid form. At the time, the WHO-recommended diet for the treatment of severe malnutrition required clean water, a commodity only available in hospitals in most developing countries. These trial products were ultimately discarded for not meeting the requirements of good shelf-life, pleasant taste, or logistic simplicity.

#9975

Henry Scholberg

#40892

Overall Influence

1921 - 2012 (91 years)

Henry Cedric Scholberg was director and librarian of the Ames Library of South Asia at the University of Minnesota. His works include bibliographies on Indian encyclopedias, on manuals and gazetteers of India, and on the Portuguese in India. He also authored other scholarly works, plays and novels, as well as his own memoirs.

#9976

Suzanne Ildstad

#113927

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Suzanne Tollerud Ildstad is an American physician and medical researcher. She is the Chief Scientific Officer and founding CEO of Talaris Therapeutics . She also serves the Board of Directors. She is also the Jewish Hospital Distinguished Professor of Transplantation Research, Director of the Institute for Cellular Therapeutics, Professor in the Department of Surgery with associate appointments in the Departments of Physiology & Biophysics and Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

#9977

Wiep van Bunge

#160298

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Louis van Bunge is a Dutch historian of philosophy. He has published mainly on the early Enlightenment in the Netherlands, on Spinoza and on his influence on other thinkers. Life Van Bunge was born at The Hague on 22 May 1960. He graduated B.A. and M.A. in philosophy at Utrecht University. He obtained his doctorate at Erasmus University in Rotterdam with a dissertation on Johannes Bredenburg.

#9978

Bruce Bugbee

#57310

Overall Influence

Bruce Bugbee is an American scientist. His work includes research into space farming with NASA and at Utah State University, where he is the Director of the Crop Physiology Laboratory. Academic career Bugbee is the Director of the Crop Physiology Laboratory at Utah State University in their Plants, Soils & Climate Department. He is also the President of Apogee Instruments. He was named a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy in 2018. Bugbee has also provided TEDx Talks on his work, and has been awarded the Utah Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology.

#9979

Ailsa A. Welch

#68024

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Ailsa A. Welch is a British medical researcher who is professor of nutritional epidemiology at Norwich Medical School in the UK. Her research focuses on the impact of human nutrition on health, disease and aging. She is listed as a notable scientist in Thomson Reuters' Highly Cited Researchers 2014, ranking her among the top 1% most cited scientists.

#9980

Denis Collins

#47940

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Denis Collins was an American business ethicist and tenured professor of business at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. Biography Denis Collins was born in the Bronx and raised in Carlstadt, New Jersey. He received a B.S. in business administration from Montclair State University in 1977, an M.A. in philosophy from Bowling Green State University in 1987, and a PhD in business environment and public policy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. He specialized in business ethics, teaching it at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Bridgeport, and Edgewood College.

#9981

Robert Wedgeworth

Robert Wedgeworth

#38203

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Robert Wedgeworth is an American librarian who was the founding President of ProLiteracy Worldwide, an adult literacy organization. He is also a former executive director of the American Library Association, served as president of IFLA, served as Dean of the School of Library Service at Columbia University, and was university librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has also authored and edited several major reference works, and has won many awards over the course of his career. In 2021 the American Library Association awarded him Honorary Membership, its highest award.

#9982

Max Aebi

#117094

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Max Aebi is a Swiss-Canadian spine surgeon. Career Aebi is founder and former Chief of the University of Bern Spine Unit, the first academic spine unit in Switzerland. He is Chair of Orthopedic Surgery at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and Orthopedic Surgeon-in-Chief of the McGill University Health Center.

#9983

Jeanne Marrazzo

#105962

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Jeanne M. Marrazzo is an American physician-scientist and infectious diseases specialist. She is the director of the University of Alabama School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases and focuses on prevention of HIV infection using biomedical interventions. Marrazzo is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and Infectious Disease Society of America. On August 2, 2023 Lawrence A. Tabak, acting director for the National Institutes of Health, named Jeanne M. Marrazzo as director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

#9984

Ulrich Sigwart

#36863

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Ulrich Sigwart is a German retired cardiologist known for his pioneering role in the conception and clinical use of stents to keep blood vessels open, and introducing a non-surgical intervention, alcohol septal ablation for the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.

#9985

Vardit Ravitsky

#110644

Overall Influence

Vardit Ravitsky is a bioethicist, researcher, and author. She is president and CEO of The Hastings Center, a full professor at the University of Montreal, and a senior lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is immediate-past president and current vice-president of the International Association of Bioethics, and the director of Ethics and Health at the Center for Research on Ethics. She is a Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, where she chaired the COVID-19 Impact Committee. She is also Fellow of The Hastings Center and of the Canadian Academy ...

#9986

Dennis O'Keeffe

#47502

Overall Influence

1939 - 2014 (75 years)

Dennis O'Keeffe was an English professor of social science at the University of Buckingham and editor of the Salisbury Review. He was Education and Welfare Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs. In addition, he served on the advisory boards of both the Social Affairs Unit, and FOREST, the smoker's rights campaign. He died on 16 December 2014.

#9987

David Lalloo

#102858

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

David Griffith Lalloo is a British parasitologist, and the director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine since January 2019, and Professor of Tropical Medicine there. Lalloo trained as a doctor in Newcastle upon Tyne.

#9988

Louise Robinson

#126217

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Dame Ann Louise Robinson is a British medical doctor and academic. She is Regius Professor of Ageing at Newcastle University, and director of the Newcastle University Institute for Ageing. Robinson earned an MBBS in 1985 from Newcastle University, MRCGP in 1989, DFFP in 1991, DCH in 1998 from the University of London, and Dip ME 1992 from the University of Dundee.

#9989

Ignazio Marino

#61568

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Ignazio Roberto Maria Marino is an Italian transplant surgeon who was Mayor of Rome from 2013 to 2015. As a surgeon, he trained with Thomas Starzl, who had pioneered liver transplantion in humans. In 1992–1993, as a member of Thomas Starzl's team at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, he conducted two baboon-to-human liver transplants. He founded the ISMETT organ transplant center in Palermo, Sicily; Marino was the CEO and the Director of ISMETT from 1997 until 2002. In 2001 he performed the first organ transplant in Italy for a person with HIV. The patient lived for 18 years with full function of the transplanted organ.

#9990

Prasanta Pattanaik

#22689

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik , is an Indian-American emeritus professor at the Department of Economics at the University of California. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Along with Amartya Sen and Kenneth Arrow, Pattanaik is an advisory editor for the journal Social Choice and Welfare.

#9991

Marie-Eve Morin

#61079

Overall Influence

Marie-Eve Morin is a Canadian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. From 2012 to 2018 she was the editor-in-chief of Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy. Morin is known for her work on post-structuralism and post-phenomenology.

#9992

Lutz Wingert

#82154

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Lutz Wingert is a German philosopher who is sometimes identified as one of the "Third Generation" of the Frankfurt School of philosophy. He is a professor of philosophy focusing on practical philosophy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and a member of the Zentrum Geschichte des Wissens . He is a former student of, and a co-author with, Jürgen Habermas, a founding member of the Frankfurt School. Wingert is a former chair of practical philosophy at the University of Dortmund. Along with Wilfried Hinsch, he edits the Ideen & Argumente series.

#9993

James P. Carse

#56366

Overall Influence

James P. Carse was an American academic who was Professor Emeritus of history and literature of religion at New York University. His book Finite and Infinite Games was widely influential. He was religious "in the sense that I am endlessly fascinated with the unknowability of what it means to be human, to exist at all."

#9994

Michele K. Evans

Michele K. Evans

#56951

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Michele Kim Evans is an American internist and medical oncologist. She is a senior investigator and Deputy Scientific Director at the National Institute on Aging. Education Evans graduated from Barnard College in 1977 with an A.B. degree in biology. She received a medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 1981. Evans received postgraduate training in internal medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and fellowship training in medical oncology within the Medicine Branch of the Clinical Oncology Program at the National...

#9995

Noah Diffenbaugh

Noah Diffenbaugh

#90994

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Noah S. Diffenbaugh is an American climate scientist at Stanford University, where he is the Kara J Foundation Professor of Earth System Science and Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and an affiliate at the Precourt Institute for Energy. From 2015-2018, he served as editor-in-chief of the peer-review journal Geophysical Research Letters . He is known for his research on the climate system, including the effects of global warming on extreme weather and climate events such as the 2011-2017 California drought.

#9996

Peter Elsbach

#117302

Overall Influence

1924 - 2020 (96 years)

Peter Elsbach was a Dutch physician. He was professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. He specialized in biochemistry, infectious diseases and natural anti-bacterial host defense.

#9997

Peter Desbarats

#60029

Overall Influence

1933 - 2014 (81 years)

Peter Hullett Desbarats, OC was a Canadian author, playwright and journalist. He was also the dean of journalism at the University of Western Ontario , a former commissioner in the Somalia Inquiry and a former Maclean-Hunter chair of Communications Ethics at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario.

#9998

Supriya Gupta Mohile

#112183

Overall Influence

Supriya Gupta Mohile is an American geriatric oncologist specialized in clinical trials and genitourinary and gastrointestinal cancers. She is a professor of Medicine and Surgery at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center at the University of Rochester. Mohile holds the Philip and Marilyn Wehrheim Professorship. She completed a MD at the Thomas Jefferson Medical College in 1998. She completed a fellowship in oncology at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

#9999

Helaine Selin

#21063

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Helaine Selin is an American librarian, historian of science, author and the editor of several bestselling books. Career Selin attended Binghamton University, where she earned her bachelor's degree. She received her MLS from SUNY Albany. She was a Peace Corps volunteer from the fall of 1967 through the summer of 1969 as a teacher of English and African History in Karonga, Malawi. She retired in 2012 from being the science librarian at Hampshire College.

#10000

Frits van Oostrom

Frits van Oostrom

#27603

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Frits van Oostrom is university professor for the Humanities at Utrecht University. In 1999 he was a visiting professor at Harvard for the Erasmus Chair. From September 2004 to June 2005, he was a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study . He was awarded the Spinozapremie in 1995. In May 2005 he became president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for a three-year period. He had been member of the same institution since 1994.

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