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List of the most influential people in Philosophy,

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Luc Djoussé

#135743

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Leonardo Fogassi

#135752

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Ray Huang

#7055

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1918 - 2000 (82 years)

Ray Huang was a Chinese-American historian and philosopher who was an officer in the National Revolutionary Army and fought in the Burma Campaign. In 1964, Huang earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan. He worked with Joseph Needham and was a contributor to Needham's Science and Civilisation in China. Huang taught history at universities in the US and the UK, and he is best known in his later years for the idea of macro-history.

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Jim Peacock

#28339

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1937 - Present (89 years)

William James Peacock, is an Australian molecular biologist who was Chief Scientist of Australia , President of the Australian Academy of Science and Chief of CSIRO Plant Industry . Peacock was born in Leura, New South Wales and educated at the University of Sydney, where he studied botany and zoology and gained a PhD in genetics. He followed this with post-doctoral positions in genetics at the University of Oregon in Eugene and molecular biology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, before returning to Australia to work with the CSIRO.

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Johannes Nobel

1887 - 1960 (73 years)

Johannes Nobel was a German indologist and Buddhist scholar. Early life and education Johannes Nobel was born on 25 June 1887 in Forst . He studied Indo-European languages, Arabic, Turkish and Sanskrit at the University of Greifswald from 1907, then from 1908 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University Berlin. In 1911 he completed his PhD thesis on the history of the Alamkãraśāstra, and decided to work as a librarian. In 1915 he passed the library examinations and found employment at the Old Royal Library in Berlin. In the First World War, Nobel joined the Landsturm and was temporarily employed by t...

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Joel Gelfand

#133971

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Joel M. Gelfand is an American dermatologist and epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He currently serves as the James J. Leyden Professor in Clinical Investigation, the Vice Chair of Clinical Research, the director of the Psoriasis and Phototherapy Treatment Center, and the medical director of the Clinical Studies Unit in the Department of Dermatology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies systemic comorbidities of psoriasis and much of his research has centered on the connection between cardiovascular diseas...

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Dong‐wan Kim

#135816

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#9958

Johann Nepomuk Oischinger

1817 - 1876 (59 years)

Johann Nepomuk Paul Oischinger was a German Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher who was a native of Witzmannsberg, Bavaria. Oischinger studied theology and philosophy at the University of Munich, where he had as instructors Franz Xaver von Baader , Joseph Görres , Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , Ignaz von Döllinger , Heinrich Klee , Johann Adam Möhler and Franz Xaver Reithmayr . In 1841 he received his ordination in Regensburg, and shortly afterwards returned to Munich, where he worked as a private scholar and journalist for the remainder of his career.

#9959

Bongani Mayosi

#47409

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1967 - 2018 (51 years)

Bongani Mawethu Mayosi BMedSci, MB ChB, FCP, DPhil, was a South African professor of cardiology He was the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town and an A-rated National Research Foundation researcher. Prior to this, he was head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital. his research interests included rheumatic fever, tuberculous pericarditis and cardiomyopathy. He was a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and a former President of the College of Physicians of South Africa and he headed numerous other ...

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Tomasz Guzik

#72673

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1974 - Present (52 years)

Tomasz Jan Guzik is a Polish physician scientist. Since 2012, he has been the Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow. He is a member of the American Heart Association and scientific societies of Poland, United Kingdom and the United States of America.

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Michael W. Austin

#120366

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1969 - Present (57 years)

Michael W. Austin is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University. He is known for his works on moral philosophy and philosophy of religion. Books Football and Philosophy: Going DeepGod and Guns in AmericaWise Stewards: Philosophical Foundations of Christian ParentingBeing Good: Christian Virtues for Everyday LifeCycling - Philosophy for Everyone: A Philosophical Tour de ForceCoffee - Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for DebateRunning and Philosophy: A Marathon for the MindFatherhood - Philosophy for Everyone: The Dao of DaddyConceptions of Parenthood: Et...

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Claude C. Schulman

#135834

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Noopur S. Raje

#135844

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Loren George. Hepler

#135851

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Michael A. Lemp

#135854

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Helmuth Gadner

#135872

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#9967

Hilary Lawson

#92594

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1954 - Present (72 years)

Hilary Lawson is an English philosopher and founder of the Institute of Art and Ideas. His theory of "closure" puts forward a non-realist metaphysics arguing that people close the openness of the world with thought and language. Lawson has also had a broadcasting and documentary film-making career and founded Television and Film Productions, now known as TVF Media.

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Prudence Allen

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1940 - Present (86 years)

Sister Mary Prudence Allen is an American philosopher who converted to Catholicism and joined the Religious Sisters of Mercy. In 2014 she was appointed to the International Theological Commission for a five-year term by Pope Francis. Her areas of specialization include the history of philosophy, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of woman, existentialism, and personalism. Areas of competence include metaphysics, philosophy of God, epistemology and logic.

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Ming Cho Lee

#32663

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1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Ming Cho Lee was a Chinese-American theatrical set designer and professor at the Yale School of Drama. Personal life Lee was born on Oct. 3, 1930, in Shanghai, China to Lee Tsu Fa and Tang Ing. Lee, whose father was a Yale University graduate , moved to the United States in 1949 and attended Occidental College.

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Raffaele Lattes

#135916

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Cees G. M. Kallenberg

#135920

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James Richard Neely

#135923

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Roberta A. Hauser

#135927

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Stacey E. Mills

#135938

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Francis Saviour Farrugia

#70017

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Francis Saviour Farrugia was a minor Maltese philosopher, doctor of law, and legislator. He specialised in jurisprudence . Life Unfortunately it is yet not known in what year Farrugia was born or died. Nor from which town or city in Malta he hailed.

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Constance Naden

Constance Naden

1858 - 1889 (31 years)

Constance Caroline Woodhill Naden was an English writer, poet and philosopher. She studied, wrote and lectured on philosophy and science, alongside publishing two volumes of poetry. Several collected works were published following her death at the young age of 31. In her honour, Robert Lewins established the Constance Naden Medal and had a bust of her installed at Mason Science College . William Ewart Gladstone considered her one of the nineteenth century's foremost female poets.

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Effy Vayena

#111086

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1972 - Present (54 years)

Eftychia Vayena is a Greek and Swiss bioethicist. Since 2017 she has held the position of chair of bioethics at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich, ETH Zurich. She is an elected member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.

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Hans‐jürgen Wester

#136002

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Masahiro Hiraoka

#136014

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Nelson Michael

#50356

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Nelson L. Michael is an American infectious disease researcher. He has served for nearly 30 years in the United States Army and been directly involved with significant advancements in understanding the pathology of and vaccine development for diseases like HIV, Zika, Ebola and more. Much of his career has been spent at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

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Mark Caulfield

#71244

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1960 - Present (66 years)

Sir Mark Jonathan Caulfield MD, FRCP, FESC, FPharm, FBHS, FMedSci is a British genomic medicine researcher and Warden of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is the professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the William Harvey Research Institute in Queen Mary University of London. He was awarded a knighthood in the 2019 Birthday Honours.

#9982

Ansgar Torvik

#126109

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1925 - 2019 (94 years)

Ansgar Torvik was a Norwegian physician. He was born in Lesja and finished his secondary education in 1945. He took the dr.med. degree ar the University of Oslo in 1958. He also studied in Sweden, and was a research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He was assistant chief physician at Ullevål Hospital, docent and professor of neuropathology at the University of Oslo. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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David Fraser

#136045

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Austin Duncan-Jones

1908 - 1967 (59 years)

Austin Ernest Duncan-Jones was a British philosopher, with a primary focus on meta-ethics. He was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham from 1951 until his death. He was president of the Aristotelian Society for 1960-61.

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Harold J. Wanebo,

#136058

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Bruce Molitoris

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Bruce Molitoris, MD, FASN, is a past President of the American Society of Nephrology . He is Professor of Medicine, Director of Nephrology and Director of the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy at Indiana University.

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Glyn Garfield Jamieson

#136077

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Richard John Kryscio

#136091

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Godfrey S. Getz

#136096

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Herbert Lochs

#33914

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1946 - 2015 (69 years)

Prof. Herbert Lochs, MD was a prominent German and Austrian medical doctor and scientist. After graduating from the University of Innsbruck Medical School, Austria he completed his residency at the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Innsbruck. Then he moved to Vienna for the internship in internal medicine and became Assistant professor for internal medicine and gastroenterology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna in 1973. He received Board Accreditation for Internal Medicine by the Austrian Medical Association.

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Doron Lancet

#72069

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1948 - Present (78 years)

Doron Lancet is an Israeli human geneticist. He is the Ralph D. and Lois R. Silver Professor of Human Genomics and head of the Crown Human Genome Center at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is known for researching the genetic basis of olfaction, and for developing the human genetics database GeneCards.

#9992

Stephanie J. Schrag

#136135

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Donald D. Evans

#116333

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1927 - 2018 (91 years)

Donald Dwight Evans was a Canadian educator, psychotherapist, and spiritual counsellor. Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Evans obtained a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1950, following which he earned a B.Phil. from Oxford University and a B.D. from McGill University. He was ordained as a pastor in the United Church of Canada in 1955. He was a professor of divinity at the University of Toronto from 1960 to 1964 , an associate professor of philosophy from 1964 to 1968, and full professor from 1968 until 1993.

#9994

Wang Gen

1483 - 1541 (58 years)

Wang Gen , was a Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher who popularized the teachings of Wang Yangming. Wang gen was the founder of the Taizhou School .

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Peter L. Lantos

#136158

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Antoninus

400 - 400 (0 years)

Antoninus was a Neoplatonist philosopher who lived in the 4th century. He was a son of Eustathius and Sosipatra, and had a school at Canopus, Egypt. He was an older contemporary of Hypatia who lived and worked nearby in Alexandria. He devoted himself wholly to his pupils, but he never expressed any opinion upon divine matters, and although Eunapius attributes this to Antoninus' piety, he also points out that Antoninus refrained from theurgic rites "perhaps because he kept a wary eye on the imperial views and policy which were opposed to these practices." His moral conduct is described as exemplary.

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Eustathius of Cappadocia

300 - 362 (62 years)

Eustathius of Cappadocia , was a Neoplatonist and Sophist, and a pupil of Iamblichus and Aedesius, who lived at the beginning of the 4th century CE. When Aedesius was obliged to quit Cappadocia, Eustathius was left behind in his place. Eunapius, to whom alone we are indebted for our knowledge of Eustathius, declares that he was the best man and a great orator, whose speech in sweetness equalled the songs of the Sirenss. His reputation was so great, that when the Persians besieged Antioch, and the empire was threatened with a war, the emperor Constantius II was prevailed upon to send Eustathius...

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Peter Dunn

#87464

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1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Peter MacNaughton Dunn, FRCP, FRCOG, FRCPCH was an English paediatrician. Dunn was most notable for introducing into the UK the Gregory box in 1971, that provides Continuous positive airway pressure in the treatment of infant respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn and conducting research into Hip dysplasia and fetal adaptation to extrauterine life. Dunn was also notable for being known for founding the charity association British Association of Perinatal Medicine.

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Steven D. Glassman

#136166

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Akiko Tamakoshi

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